I know it when I see it.

The police would answer that the arrest provides an example for future teens who want to publish demeaning content about their peers. But what makes you think that the police are interested in benefiting society? Fundamentally, they want more cases like this so they can justify their continued existence, and keep coercing more tax dollars.

Actually, it does. Free speech must not be restricted unless it presents a "clear and present danger [to others]." The founding fathers knew that democracies function only when people have a right to criticize freely. This means that governments cannot eliminate speech simply because the masses find it undesirable. For instance: what if, in the early 19th century, all talk about freeing the slaves were made illegal because most considered it an undesirable and offensive idea? We would still have slaves! Thus, all speech (even racist or sexist slurs) must be protected. Although I find the 17-year-old's content repulsive, he absolutely does have a right to free speech.

Innocent until proven guilty.

With all the complaints about the disrepair of contemporary roads, I think we need to ask what sort of alternative solutions exist to improve the quality of American highways/bridges/roads/etc.

Fundamentally, the problem is that the States maintain transportation infrastructure. Although they succeed (somewhat) at repairing the roads, State governments have the same problems as all governmental institutions; namely, inefficiency and lack of accountability. Private organizations, by contrast, do not suffer from these issues.

Before the 1950s, almost all roads were handled by private companies. They used a number of business models to profit; for instance, they established tolls (toll roads) to fund themselves. Instead of obtaining money through mandatory gas taxes or tax by mile systems, the organizations created systems that were voluntary, simple, and non-coercive: three qualities that the current and proposed governmental solutions do not have.

Now Islamic extremists have a martyr.

Don't worry, the Muskegon County Prosecutor has got you covered! He's already found one of those pesky child molesters, no wiretap required.

I think illegal activity will ultimately make BitCoin. Money laundering is easy with it. Also, botnets could begin using the service to convert CPU power into money; someone is gonna abuse this.

28% advanced for middle school math, and16% advanced for college math. So.. math somehow gets less 'advanced' from middle school to college?

... they would put their resources into investigating the source of the pornography. Rather, this is just a power grab by the French government to get the ability to censor the Internet.

the soldiers won't find this information in other ways? I'm sure the news is being spread verbally; What are the people in charge gonna do next? Prosecute people for simply knowing the info? No, this is simply a childish attempt to uphold a structure which Wikileaks has shown to be corrupt and misguided.

It's the same concept behind password cracking; passwords are supposed to be difficult to predict, however certain passwords (e.g. 123456) are used very frequently and so if I want to crack your account I'll try that first. Just because people try to be unpredictable doesn't mean they act in a way that cannot be predicted.

The "even ... still a little surprising" implies that the Australian Government study makes this news less surprising. However, the contradiction makes it more noteworthy; the summary should remove "even", and "it's still a little surprising that." Grammar Nazi ;)

I think Wikileaks made a grave mistake here. They are trusting all their information to foreign hosts; if these external people corrupt the data, Wikileaks will lose its credibility and people will ignore it.