Why should the US share data with Europe, if Europe closes TFTP? That's my point (albeit perhaps not particularly well made.)

Europe is a lot closer to, and has been more impacted by, terrorist strikes than the US. A reduction in data sharing will impact both sides of the Atlantic.

Of course, MEPs aren't really -accountable- to anyone for their decisions, it's the European sovereign governments who will be left holding the bag if terrorist strikes increase.

I have no problems reading PDFs without Adobe Acrobat on my Mac using Preview.app. And I need to enable Java maybe once or twice per month, if at that. Your mileage may vary.

Guess I'm an old fart, I let very few applications self-update. To me, the frequency of these updates is an indication of code quality. I don't doubt that most applications are written so poorly that they need to update on a daily basis. Guess that's all part of being "agile" (as opposed to being "correct".)

Steam itself had a horrible memory leak for months before it got fixed, so it's not like bugs are getting fixed instantaneously...

Steam will have to get a much more stable product. Seems it tries to self-update on a weekly, occasionally daily basis on my machine. I can't see the average gameboy putting up with having to wait while his Steam Machine updates yet again. "Continuous Integration" may be good for a development/integration approach, but it is neither appealing nor particularly effective as a software delivery approach.

The one part of Blackberry's business that might be attractive to an outside buyer is its secure email hosting. If they can't even get that right with iOS & Android apps, what's left? Truly this is a zombie company with both of its arms falling off. The demise of BB hardware could be blamed in part to 'market forces,' but BB has no one to blame for the failure of its software developers and managers.

As someone who has been in the past subject to the UCMJ, i.e. I served in the military, I'm careful about using that word. In this case, I believe there would be sufficient cause for the charge. Whether that charge "sticks" is something for the Courts to decide.

But again, as someone who has actively served in the military (although not in either the current set of wars or in the first Gulf War of 20 years ago (but it was close - they called two units like mine), the more details that get disclosed, the more potential damage in terms of 'means and methods.'

On the other hand, I don't think the Top Secret Intelligence establishment had sufficient safeguards in place for someone who thought that the law was being violated to handle these kinds of complaints. That does not forgive Snowden, he could have, for instance, gone to a member of the Senate or House Intelligence Committees (selecting a Member that would have been particularly sympathetic to his position.) Or gone public inside the US, like Daniel Ellsworth did with the Pentagon Papers. Instead, he ran to China and then Russia. Those actions speak much louder to me than any protestations of 'morality.'

Good comment. When Mr Snowden is brought to trial, that's something for the courts to decide, as the Court-Martial did for Private Manning.

A HUGE difference between Ellsworth and the Pentagon Papers and Snowden is Ellsworth remained in the US to defend himself and his actions. Snowden ran first to China and then to Russia, two countries whose history over the last 70 years is antagonistic to the US. That alone would tend to support, if not fully justify, part of a Treason charge, along the grounds of "adhering" and/or "giving aid or comfort." But IANAL.

Treason against the government is morally bad. It can be mitigated if and only if the governed -in great majority-, concur with the action. I see no equivalent of a popular uprising supporting Snowden or Manning.

It's very clear that Washington and Jefferson would have been hung if the American Revolution hadn't succeeded.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_André and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold

The more that comes out, the more convinced I am that his actions were planned and deliberate, and even more than the-person-formerly-known-as-Bradley Manning, this constitutes something approaching treason.

It takes talent and/or training to lead a technical team, let alone larger groups. That's a skill that some companies are desperately searching for.

It's worth taking some training and trying the leadership/management track. If you're not good at it, or not happy at it, that should be OK. The problem, though, is that in many companies these days, experience as a developer is not valued. There's the view that developers/engineers are "plug replaceable resources" that they can get for lowest price.

If you're a senior tech person (and you're good at it,) you'll want to find companies that value experience. (Hint, if they do 'buzzword matching' on your resume for this year's "hot technologies" and that's all they ask about in an interview, it's probably not a god thing...) Or, you're going to have to establish a value proposition some other way, e.g. expanding to other kinds of engineering/roles within the company, sales/marketing/field engineering, etc.

Unfortunately, it's not a good world out there those with technical expertise and not much else on their resumes. (And a lot of the sh*tty software we have to put up with reflects the lack of experience by those that developed it....)

Are available at camera stores. I suspect we'll be able to read CD formats for quite a while longer.

It would be pretty easy to create PowerPoint with the requisite markings, logos, etc, on it and then peddle it to various newspapers.

Or even helped its reputation? And more generally, what's the impact of WikiXXX on WikiPedia?