Or, more appropriately, the NSA is part of the executive branch.

Obama is the Chief Executive.

If he really wanted to stop this shit, he could issue an executive order stopping this shit.

You've made the assumption he's actually in charge. Look at how much he campaigned for, that he's now against in deed and action, and to a far greater degree of just a 'typical lying politician'. For all practical purposes (other than his tepid healthcare plaything), he is a Republican. Gitmo, Wall Street, on and on and on.

Knowing what they've already done (with more to come unless they kill Greenwald first), is it really tinfoilism to think the NSA threatened the POTUS and his family to retain all their limitless power?

the download compiliation 145 is transferred to the program data store 107 in the player 103.

Um, like me, I think most people use a podcatcher or iTunes to download the 'casts, not the actual player. I suppose phones can download them directly, but it doesn't explicitly mention phones, does it?

Did I write down 'acid'? I meant 'base'. I'm always getting those two confused!

Not just Glassholes, but stylish Glassholes.

Ironically, a lot of US customers are vehemently against metered Internet,

Because we US consumers know innately if such a billing method were come to pass, the 'minimum balance due' each month - even if no device was even hooked up - would be within 90-95% of our current three-figure cable bill.

#NewCoke

Next week, order some Chinese cars that look suspiciously like Bugatti Veyrons.

I seriously doubt this; it's all about getting better pricing from Microsoft, period.

The blogger Empty Wheel had a pretty good running account of this. Naturally, most of the time was taken up pinning the weasels down on their florid and disingenuous definitions of terms such as 'search' and 'query' and even 'bulk', FFS.

How the hell did they think they'd get away with lying about something that, if true, would be world-changing?

Short of them being allowed to stick their manifesto in his breast pocket during a press conference, jack-shit is going to happen, all justified by permanent war and 'National Security' - the same garbage they've increasingly used to stop FOIA requests (which will probably be repealed in a few years anyway).

No (or none worth considering) 3D CAD programs offer backward compatibility (i.e., 'save as') because added features and methods change the core file format.

on the weekend of March 21, 2009, a young man in his mid-twenties was killed in a car crash, and his organs were made available.

Accident. Sure it was.

"Screw comments! It was hard to write, it should be hard to read!"

Obviously, this researcher is holding it wrong.