This is not exactly freedom of expression. The guy was busted telling a lie. There is no reason to suppose there is an absolute human right to go around telling lies. You might think the lie is justified, or you might think telling lies is ok. Well that's fine as an opinion, but telling lies is not a noble pursuit, even if his end goal was worthy ( which in itself is questionable. What institution is beyond the reach of liers and scammers?). Pretty much ALL societies ban certain kinds of lies.

We should go find a more worthy subject off our pity.

How crappy is an OS that makes you run a hidden command from the terminal, with obscure lists of processes to turn off the bloat? At least in OSX there is an easy and intuitive way to see what is being started on login and turn it off if you want.

Declining quality? It always was this way I think.

You don't know for sure it never happened to you. You might have been pwned for the last 10 years.

I'm curious why if such huge quantities of water are required, how come fish manage to pull it off?

I don't know that anybody was saying C was better than C++. What they might have been saying is that C libraries are better as system libraries because they are easier to integrate into various languages. It's easier and more sensible to make a Python or Java or Scheme or whatever interface to a C library than a C++ one.

Good doesn't want you abandoning their mapping for.. oh say Apple maps. They want you coming for information from them. That's why this move makes little sense.

Has there been a revelation that the NSA sends US data overseas to avoid the rules? I don't remember that revelation coming out, although I wouldn't put it past them.

Aww come on, it was in a bond movie, and everything in Bond is true.

There was a slashdot article recently that most research is lost within 2 years, so expect the same discovery and story in another 2 years.

Yes there is, but nobody has ever been deemed worthy of winning.

There's at least 3 problems with your post. 1. The NSA doesn't obey the law. 2. You can't believe anything written about them. 3. You're probably NSA, because who else would defend those jokers?

Won't this require a 2nd copy of the shared libraries in memory, which will negate the benefit of a slightly smaller binary?

It should be the courts, which is why the idea of secret courts is an abomination.

Are they really complete rockets? Is the documentation available to verify that they are 100% complete?