I don't think you're really disagreeing with me, I think you're presenting another scenario that I actually agree with you on. But I can only speak for myself.

I agree with you. Especially on the topic of the sense of full entitlement by people becoming disturbing. There's a crazy influx of narcissism and egotism in America. Everyone feels they deserve everything because they're so important.

Oh well, nice post.

I feel its a very sticky situation, because you're going to get a lot of people taking things like this very differently.

An extreme situation would be groups of troops revolting and ending up fighting other groups of our own troops. Unlikely, but in high stress situations, you can't tell.

I'm glad we agree for the most part.

I agree with you and I don't think anything I said actually disagrees with you. We just shouldn't be so willing to bring down their morale on purpose.

"So Johnny, you hate yourself for everything you've done over here right now. Well, sorry, but its time to go out again, so get your rifle. Ps, everything you're fighting for is a lie."

The troops know if any warcrimes are happening, they're living in it already. That doesn't warrant the release of documents that, as we're lead to believe, contain names of informants who can now be put at risk (as well as their families) or information that may otherwise get more of our troops killed by any means.

The fact is that wikileaks didn't do it for humanity, they did it for popularity. Warcrimes will be found out no matter what.

You demand immediate action, which is never going to happen. My standpoint is if we have to be there and for however long we have to be there the fewer people dying, for any reason, the better.

Lets pretend your conspiracy theory is correct and the war is a sham.

Lets also pretend that troops get ahold of these documents and lose morale.

Lets also assume that morale affects how well you focus while at war.

Troops will die from lack of morale, is that what you want? More people dying "for nothing."

Even if you don't like what's going on, you really need to think things through a little more thoroughly and think of what will happen as a consequence of your actions. Wikileaks didn't do that. They could easily have waited until the war was over and said "look at all these war-crimes." They want attention. They could have stayed anonymous in their fight against corruption, but they chose to give themselves a face and to get in front of a camera. The US government isn't going to just stop waging war because some guy posted a document.

Morale directly affects the safety of our troops and allies over there. So, its probably true that the military doesn't want them to lose morale, I don't either. I don't know any of the troops personally, but I don't want them to get hurt just as much as their families don't. I also don't want anyone who has helped us out over there to be harmed either. But that's just me talking.

Programming is not computer science. Computer science is pretty much applied mathematics. Some people call it "theoretical" computer science, but you can't call something science if you're not moving forward in the theory. Students who are taught that C++ programming is what CS is all about get to college and find out they're wrong and flunk out when they can't grasp complexity theory or even automata theory.

I've seen a number of students who have no idea what CS is all about come in thinking they're going to design video games by getting a degree in CS. By design I mean, "I think we should have this cool sword with magic powers in the game." The students just have no clue what CS really is. People who don't know what CS is think that we're masters of MS Office and expect us to know how to fix their OS when its full of malware, because that is what most people think we do. So before we blame curriculum for teaching basic computing skills instead of programming, we need to educate these kids on what CS really is and what a computer scientist will most likely do in the real world.

I was the ACM president at my university, and once during a meeting a kid rose his hand and asked, "What classes do they teach you how to hack in?" I laughed, but he was serious.

Sorry. Parents will sue.

"I just have to get a D to pass, so who cares?"

That's not true. When I was in high school in Oregon, my graduating class was the last class that was allowed to pass a class with a D, everyone after us now has to get Cs or better. No one sued and if they did, it never even made it to the news as far as I'm aware.

So Apple and Linux have fewer security holes than Microsoft?

You have a false sense of security. Mac and Ubuntu are not nearly as secure as you think. You're just not a target. Once you become a target, you'll be dead in the water.

I believe you need itunes to upgrade your iphone and use the itunes store and update this and that. As far as I know, there's no native way to run itunes on linux. If there is, please let me know.

- Ubuntu User

I don't think this post was necessary.

Didn't they come out and say that it was a problem with the antenna? Didn't they encourage everyone to buy the bumper thing to fix this problem?

Now its a software problem? Are they going to refund all the people who bought bumpers because Apple said its the way to fix the issue?

I'm not an iphone user, or Apple user, but I don't know how you can release two statements that describe two completely different versions of what is going on.

If you wanna get even more nit-picky, Socrates was not Plato's teacher. Socrates was not a teacher, as he claimed. Plato was a follower of Socrates. Basically an intellectual stalker. There was no formal student-teacher relationship between them.