Zero sympathy. Sorry. You picked spying on your countrymen as a job. We all have known what's going on. Now, it's time to live with the consequences.

Sucks, don't it?

Lumpy, you're an idiot.

I have servers running Windows NT 3.51 that still make more money an hour than 100% of the people here on Slashdot

Yea, what happens when that hardware quits? And who do you call when it stops working? Don't tell me it never stops working. I built my share of 3.51 servers, back when it was a supported OS. It is not by even the remotest account a more stable OS than the modern Windows servers.

You are one unexpected fuckup from being unemployed, Lumpy. You won't be back here to brag at all of us how your 3.51 install barfed on you and you got fired on the spot because you had absolutely no way to bring your antiquated gear back online. You have NOBODY to call. So when it goes bad, it will ALL BE ON YOUR HEAD.

I would not be feeling so fucking smug there, buddy.

Windows XP is one of the easier-to-pirate Microsoft OS'. Actually you just need to put in either all 1's or all 9's.

So, the premise is total horseshit.

I've always thought that if you rob somebody at gunpoint then death is a proportional response

Yea, I am kind of not cool with the gun in my face thing either, and if I ever find one there I will take the very first opportunity to end the gunman, and also these idiots stole radioactive waste, which put everyone around them in danger. I'm not cheering on the karma, but they did start the whole chain of events. It's just what is.

I was stalked and repeatedly attacked by a bully growing up. I talked to a friend who had known this guy later in life, and he was the kind of guy who would do any stupid thing if he was challenged, or dared to. It was just his thing.

So yea, I'm sure he ended up the muscle for some petty drug dealer or pimp, and likely has toured the inside of several prison facilities by now. He was on that path at age 10 when I ran into him for the first time. And my friend described this guy as fuckin' dumb. Would do anything, especially if it was DUMB.

I don't feel any sympathy for these guys. I don't think they deserved death, but death found them anyway because they are ill-considered people without a lot of common sense.

Well, I'll use this as a reason to never, ever, ever buy a Renault car, ever.

I don't just mean this car. I mean any car of theirs.

I think Snowden as a tool is about the picture that I'm getting too.

He's a very foolish young man, and he's totally fucking ruined his life and now is trying to regain some credibility. But the sad fact is, he's also betraying his country. I do not see anything noble in what he's done: I knew everything he was saying before he said it. All he's done is pull a great big LOOOK AT MEEEEEEEE and run streaking across the public square.

The implied equivalence between speech and money always bothered me

That's because it is a phony equivalence meant to enable a wealthy few to dominate the conversation of politics.

In other words, it's a god-damn dirty lie.

IT departments usually can only ask for money. If the business isn't concerned about april 2014, we can't make them get excited.

I find the people going "XP or nothing" are usually not very savvy with the tech. They're just lazy and hyper-conservative, and fear change and what they don't understand.

He continually says he "meant" for certain things to happen

I take that that he meant the story to turn into a turgid, cheap soap opera.

You should talk to Doctors

LOL. You should talk to whole sections of the healthcare industry if you want to know the true opinion of Medicare. I'll let you in on a secret, though: without it, there's no FUCKING healthcare industry at all. At least not one revolving around long-term care. You do want to die with some dignity, don't you?

Because sans medicare, you'd best start picking out what goddamn ice floe you want to die on.

Just before you get that big phat right-wing cock too far down your throat, I'll warn you that you're gonna choke on it.

Lest you forget, Obamacare is a Democrat invention. Lock, Stock, and Barrel

God, did mental retardation take a sudden spike over the last few weeks? There's some powerful fukin' STUPID folks clogging up the intertoobz these days.

I think it is fascinating how everyone's suddenly a fucking expert on web design these days.

It's kind of a relief to know that pretty soon China's economic model will evaporate once 3d printing becomes consumerized.

At least, the part where cheap labor is mercilessly exploited in an inhuman fashion by lazy, worthless douchebags.