Absolutely. He had quite a bit of time to think this over before he handed Assange the data. There is also the issue of leaking the names of informants who worked with us. He put their lives in danger, and may have gotten some of them killed. Everyone seems to be ignoring THAT issue.

Right now, I get all of the mail from my gmail account forwarded though my company mail server with no ads, so I'm not so sure if they will.

Agreed. But the fact that software could load faster from a disk was a plus. I just wish it didn't take forever to fire up. This was my first experience with a GUI as well.

Except that in Windows 8 they didn't remove the click. The hot corner still makes a "button" appear, but you still have to click on it to get into the start screen.

He wasn't the only one who escaped from a North Korean prison camp. Kang Chol-Hwan escaped back in the early 90's and wrote a book called The Aquariums of Pyongyang. It's an enlightening read.

And then there is this incident where the guy got the scammer to pay DHL thousands in shipping costs before he caught on to what was going on.

Agreed. They were with 4.0, which was still better than Gnome 3, but they've made long strides since then.

While I agree that there has been progress on the unified notification, there has been 3D accelerated composited desktops (which IMO look better than Aero and Aqua) for a while now in the form of Compiz. Yeah, it may be tacked on, but in many ways, it can integrate well with Metacity and Kwin. I even still use it in KDE4 over it's built in compositing as it adds more options, and generally runs faster (for me anyways). I never really understood why neither desktop just didn't stick with that instead of reinventing the wheel.

They will have confidence until their raid goes south, or there's a fire the day before their yearly backup.

Crays were doing this decades ago with their supercomputers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2

It's not banned. Just regulated.

What do DNA sequencing costs have to do with transistors?

Even 11 trillion minutes in prison would be enough. And fair to boot, since it be send him to prison equal to the amount of time wasted by other people deleting said spam.

There is No Such Agency like that....