It seems that "in a wake of protest"PayPal has unfrozen the Courage to Resist account.

Here's an excerpt from McGonigall's book that covers exactly how games are like hard work that we love.

Burrowing the base 100 feet under the surface should protect it from the meteor strikes. Burrowing it 1000 feet under the surface isn't much more difficult.

Low-contrast text??? Where? I can't see any! :)

Exactly this quest made me quit snooping the quest outcomes on the net.

Total transparency is neither practical nor desirable. There are things that every government needs to keep under wraps, at least for some time. But the current level of secrecy is both impossible to maintain and absolutely unnecessary. "I should suppose that moral, political, and practical considerations would dictate that a very first principle of that wisdom would be an insistence upon avoiding secrecy for its own sake. For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless, and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion. I should suppose, in short, that the hallmark of a truly effective internal security system would be the maximum possible disclosure, recognizing that secrecy can best be preserved only when credibility is truly maintained." From Justice Steward concurring opinion in the case of New York Times Co. vs United States. Thanks to this brilliant blogger for bringing this up. Go read the whole post, it's worth it.

A corporation consists of people in the same sense a car consists of parts. Every single one can be replaced at any moment. And the whole doesn't exist to cater to its parts. You described a cooperative.

Oh really? tl;dr: What we learned from Wikileaks, besides the extent to which the US military is ready to sacrifice civilian population to hit probable targets, is the total darkness in which the US administration helds its constituents and the bipartisan support this mode of operation enjoys. It's one thing to suspect something, another to have the evidence written black on white.

Wikileaks user profile contains news tidbits that link to wikileaks.org and are redirected to wikileaks.info, a site Spamhaus recently wrote about. I'll wait and see until I have some evidence that the money sent throught this account does really reach Wikileaks and not some clever Russian.

I have a distinct feeling I've heard about thisrecently.

Yeah, their press release also contains a link to Google Safe Browsing info that clears them of any wrongdoing. If I were them, I'd also wait some time for peoples defenses to come down, for them to add a NoScript exception for this page, before inserting anything malicious into the code. It might be they're simply rooting for WikiLeaks, but I wouldn't bet on it. This press release in which they come very close to impersonating the WikiLeaks team is rather damning.

Eat! Them! Eat! Them! Eat! Them!

The news reached me just after I finished reading an enlightening (for me) essay on the motivation behind WikiLeaks. In short, it explains, quoting from Assange's previous writings (pdf), that his goal is no less than creating a worldwide environment in which the costs of securing information exchange in a conspiracy, governmental, corporational or any other, are driven so high as to render it uncompetitive as an information processing entity. The increased transparency will have the effect of raising the government accountability and lowering the competitiveness of unethical companies (by raising the reputational costs, see also this Forbes interview). And, as the author of the essay writes: if the diplomats quoted by Le Monde are right that “we will never again be able to practice diplomacy like before,” he's already succeeding.