outsourcing is how China got to dominate world trade. Knowingly outsourcing their manufacturing to somewhere else will destroy their manufacturing base like it did the USA. Science and Technology follow the Engineering, Engineering follows the Manufacturing.

The new canal won't compete with the Panama one, because it's wider. The larger ships will have to take the new one (at full fare) while the smaller ships can choose. Given that it's cheaper to use larger ships that means the Panama canal will see a massive drop in use.

The Skype servers already forward everything to the NSA, why would the OS you run make a difference? Now blocking older versions of the Skype software might cause problems for them, but that's not the story.

Doesn't Apple have all their stuff made in China? So it's just the software you're afraid of then. Still the saying is 'don't trust American companies!'

The NSA needs focus. They are trying to do too many conflicting actions and it just doesn't work. Spin off the foreign spying to the CIA, pass off domestic spying to the FBI, concentrate on securing the network to keep China/Isis etc out of America. Secondly bureaucrats are very good at doing dull repetitive work without making very many mistakes, and that works for security provided you hire the right people. Third: cooking is applied chemistry, so chefs make good bomb makers. There is a reason terrorists use the kitchen to make their home made bombs.

Or maybe they forgot to shut down Snowden's admin account? Maybe it was part of his job, to cancel his own accounts and return the door keys before he quit.

Available user bandwidth = total tower bandwidth / number of users. Given that total tower bandwidth is limited by spectrum allocation the easiest way to increase user bandwidth is to reduce the service radius of the towers (by having more towers, each cell smaller) so that the number of users per tower is smaller. The cheapest way is to throttle users. If the cell companies don't feel like spending to upgrade their network to be sufficient to handle what they are selling then they should find a way to get rid of those pesky unlimited contracts and meter everyone.

No, it's like the speed limit for sports cars is 20, everyone else can drive at 50. But only to ease congestion.

Those DC exit nodes probably connect directly to a secure government network, so CIA agents and spies can send reports and stuff without it ever going through insecure networks in plain.

Most people are not able to spend $20,000 to put solar/wind power on their house, and most apartment dwellers don't have that choice. Also most people would get a better return on investment by paying down their mortgage than installing solar or wind.

Services people need to live should start out as government run companies, and either stay government owned or be heavily regulated to ensure the "quest for profit" doesn't kill people. A perfect example is the US medical system. It's the best in the world if you are rich, but for the bulk of the people they may as well be living in Somalia. They privatized the electrical grid in California, and prices went up while reliability went down. If it's important, keep public control of it. Everything else you can allow private control.

Your ability to do your job requires trust. If they think you are spying on them they won't trust you. Ensure you don't say or do anything about anything you see, or your job will get harder.

Russian intelligence already knows who the bloggers are, they control the network. The goal here is intimidation.

There are two states in law, Guilty and Innocent. But that's inconvenient so let's make up a new one, "Don't care". The great thing about Don't Care is you can lock people up for as long as you wish because they're not Innocent. And they don't get a trial because they're not Guilty. Maybe this example will explain why "Enemy Combatant" is a bad idea.

Illegal means the government can't do it without consequences. Clearly warrant-less wiretapping and spying are legal in the USA.