My response to both of these is: Ever hear of “QA”? Hire some. For Brick, the loss of credibility is substantial. For Delta and Brick, the loss of dollars is quite high. As a QA professional, there have been many times that I’ve more than paid for my keep by finding critical bugs in developer code. However is this era of “ship it today, we’ll fix it tomorrow” (and they never do fix it); problems such as these abound. Don’t blame the customer for you being short sighted. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the oven. For these (and more) you should fire your QA managers (or may chance hire one in the first place?). Your software development process is broken, and you need to take this as a warning. How many times have people blamed the computer (“Computer error”); when the fault is with the business process (or lack)? How many business are connected to the internet that shouldn't be - or shouldn't have been (read: Target)?

You posted it before I did. Though the article cited above was okay, good for a commentary. The website "Starring the computer" has a much better lay-out, and more comprehensive information, including better images (screen caps) for many of the computers displayed.

Issues:
1. There is no proof that he hacked.
2. Again, hacking - copying.

I added the "(minor detail)" as it was just that, a minor detail. I listed it to show that our so-called "news" can't report the basic technical information correctly, much less the details of what happened.

Also note: I'm not holding up Snowden as a hero. I have strong reservations on what he's done -- there are better ways to be a whistle blower, You cannot un-ring a bell, and we've known for some time now that the NSA has been doing things illegally. My key point -- John Miller and 60 minutes lost an opportunity.

I could only watch the first part of the lies by the NSA, and the failure of 60 minutes -- John Miller to follow up.

For starters -- Snowden didn't steal anything: he copied it (minor detail).

What Snowden did was compared to killing 10 people. Snowden didn't kill anyone.

We were told that NSA can't access information unless they had a warrant: Again, false on many occasions, some documented here on /. (Do I *really* need to provide the references?) The NSA continually provides information to law enforcement agencies w/o warrant.

Anyone else notice: They have ACTUAL phone numbers, the REAL ones. Google your own phone number some time to see about so-called meta-data.

No mention of what the NSA had been doing - in violation of court orders (only a brief and casual mention of so-called accidental overstepping). I call BS on this one.

I had hoped that 60 minutes would do an insightful - investigation into NSA. What I heard from so-called reporter John Miller was a PR fluff piece that one would expect as a former national spokesman for the FBI.

Don't remove POTS. Some key reasons:
In case of incident (Natural / man made). Here in Seattle (area), several years ago we had a large wind storm that took out most of the power in the entire region. Many areas didn't have power for over a week. Cell phone - towers died after about three days. That's right: The TOWERS failed. Also, you couldn't get gasoline; no power at the pumps (Read local generators - at homes - started giving out).

In some areas of Seattle, people have their choice of which ISP they like (DSL, Cable, fiber optic, wireless) which is all fine and good for a VOIP carrier. Ask any of the phone companies what will happen when the power goes out? You can't call... 911, the power company, anyone for any emergency service, much less a call such as "I'm alive and okay", or "need food, shelter" (in case of some emergency).

I have family in north eastern WA. Where they are at, there is not viable alternative to dial-up. No VOIP, and spotty cell phone availability.

Cell phones... great sound unless you are in a dead area (there are a lot more of these than the phone company's are willing to admit); or as noted the power is out for an extended time.

Just because it (POTS) isn't as profitable as cell - or as well regulated, doesn't men it should be dismantled.

AC .. you beat me to it. How can we backup the skin / skin database before the web site shuts down?

I agree .. I have (retired) family in north-eastern WA. There are no viable options (propane/electric/gas) for them. They can't afford the comforts of so-called "clean" energy. The irony is: The particles in the burning are what are keeping the effects of green house gasses at bay.

I would love to know which gas / propane / electric company bought this rule....

Don't need to go that far. Just get a phone in their name. Go to the local library, sign in w/ their name, and look up some web sites that might be questionable - call them with the phone in their name. When you get tired of it, make sure the phone is "lost" at their house (or car).

Can't wait for new corporate security policies mandating that you change your fingerprints every 3 months.

There is so much that Paramount COULD have done but didn't.

In the first reboot by JJ; he crated an exciting movie, but why bother to call it ST? (The 2nd one really sucked - with the number of GLARING plot holes, errors and bad re-writes. It is the first ST move that I won't buy)

Movies that I would like to see that would require actual THOUGHT to write: The Constellation - and the the Dooms Day Device with Decker loosing his crew, Captain Kirk's Brother - when the planet they were on was invaded. One item that really tested Kirk's metal: The vampire cloud and watching Captain Garrovick die.
The list of possible good movies goes on...

I am looking forward to seeing this, by the people the care about ST!