There is no evidence that the NSA has participated in any such thing. Snowden accused them of industrial espionage but I have yet to see a single leak that confirms it. If it were happening, Der Spiegel would have released it already.

FYI: watching videos or viewing images of people shot in the head would also be considered NSFW in the US.

The program was classified so there's no way in hell they would have known the program under which they were compelled to provide information is called prism. It's not lawyer, speak it's common sense. Additionally, Apple and the other companies mentioned have openly stated they had been compelled by court order to provide information about specific users. TL;DR: There's no smoking gun here.

I'm sure there will be a Snowden leak coming out about it in the near future.

I hate to break this to you but the vast majority of what the NSA does is perfectly legal. Don't blame the NSA for the PATRIOT act and other absurd privacy violating laws. And feel free to educate me on what treaties they've violated.

I would agree that gradle is far better than Maven and Ant when it comes to syntax and flexibility but it's not known for it's definitely not known for its fantastic performance.

As someone who has used IntelliJ since version 3, I can say without equivocation that it has always been well ahead of Eclipse. The only reason Eclipse was as popular as it was is that it's free and I've found programmers to be the cheapest mofos on the planet.

He doesn't have a source because he's full of shit.

You've clearly never used a language with a properties construct.

I passionately despise getters and setters.

Deprecation of Java APIs is irrelevant since Java never gets rid of old calls...ever.

I've been coding in Java for over a dozen years now and I can say without equivocation you're either a liar who's never actually worked with it or you're a fucking troll. Write once, run anywhere is is 100% real and is so common that it's a joke. Many places I've worked at the developer develop on Windows but the code runs on a linux server. At my current place of employment, we code on Macs and deploy on Linux. We never, ever get platform issues. It's rock-fucking-solid. Now, I'm not going to say that it's impossible to have a problem but you have to be a huge moron of a programmer to run into it. For example, building filesystem paths where the path separator is hard-coded. So if you're having a problem, it's you. Learn how to write code.

Java has supported threads for many years now.

They didn't endorse anything. They said they were investigating the situation.

lol...have you ever heard of FDIC? Consumer protections? None of these things apply to bicoin and never will. My bank can be vaporized out of existence and it wouldn't do shit to me.

They have less than a half trillion dollars in reserves...it's not gonna do much other than fuck themselves over. Plus, the west can enact sanctions that are far more economically devastating than anything Russia could hope to do. Net effect: the Russian ruble becomes nearly worthless. And really, that's just the start.