The fact that Snowden claimed it happened isn't proof.

If your social revolution depends on Twitter, you've already lost.

And, Linux has no sense of humor.

Really no one has to make certain cultures hat the USA, they've been at war with everyone around them for centuries. In the US what is feeding the hate are pseudo news organizations who fan the flames of bigotry and xenophobia to draw viewers and sell more ads. Oh, and "polio" state?

Source please.

Rip them to your HDD and store them in the cloud(s) as a backup.

With a little additional training I'm pretty sure David Graebner could handle, "can I super-size that for you?".

The really need a more compelling reason for or use of the technology.

pointless.

Negotiating in public means absolutely nothing will get done because no one will dare cross the line and compromise. While in theory 100% transparency in gov't sounds like a good idea, in practice it's a recipe for gridlock.

The sun rose in the east, the sun set in the west, and a whiny-pants fugitive hiding out in Putin-land continues to cry for attention. There will be no film at 11.

They know how to sell themselves ... it involves large bags of unmarked currency and plausible deniability.

When you consider that Germany is doing the same to every country on the planet you begin to understand why this whole Snowden/NSA/Spying thing is not news except to those suffering from terminal naivete. Of course every other country is doing the same ... so at the end of the day it's all equal.

That covers the ads being served "at school" but not the saving of their surfing habits and the subsequent data mining and serving of ads when the kids get home and surf on their computers away from school. Anyone who thinks Google does this out of generosity is naive. Google is setting up profiles for later use and data mining; that's their business model.

The combination of quick boot time, instant data save to the cloud, low acquisition costs, no "obvious" ongoing costs, and targeted ads from Google to our kids simply can't be beat. FTFY