1. Says so in your signature already.
2. I'm fully aware of your political beliefs which you rightly guessed that I do not espouse. "We" Greeks did jack shit, the ancient Greeks built the Parthenon along with a number of other really impressive feats. And the Telly Savalas thing was indeed funny, but that's not what prompted me to criticize your taking pride in an ancient civilization's accomplishments, just because you happen to share some traits, out of dumb luck.

Ran out of mod points but discussion is encouraged anyways, and it's not like my getting slightly off-topic can mess with the site's currently declining quality (even though this particular news article isn't half bad).

My political views (asked in Greeklish) are not relevant, it's best you judge my remarks on their merits.

The dude keeps mentioning his nationality at every chance, as if dumb-chance geographical placement at the time you pop out is somehow a point of pride. His choice of quote is the least of his problems.

Also, sharing some geography with a cool civilization that lived a few thousand years before your time, whose accomplishments had absolutely nothing to do with you, does not increase your cachet one iota. Yes, iota is Greek!

What the hell is wrong with the author, basing his proposition on a premise that was already proven to be wrong by reality? Wasn't the leak a probable negative? Didn't it outweigh the probable positives?

I'm working with Ruby code all day, and you were quite right to facepalm. That wasn't some convoluted one-liner, it was perfectly readable and didn't allocate space for an unnecessary lambda as the final "clean" iteration does. Anything more complicated than that and breaking it into pieces wouldn't hurt, the one-liner cleverness gets old ready fast if abused.
Ironically enough, the clever code of old that had to be creative to deal with low specs is one of the cleanest, clearest, most elegant code I've seen. I used to review ancient Linux, FreeBSD and Xenix source to pass the time on slow days at the office and it was beautiful. On the other hand, I guess it kind of had to be, because debugging anything complex back then would have probably been hell (I'm assuming, I'm not old enough to know).

You don't think cheap access to unlimited infrastructure can make a difference?

Did you just call me politically correct? You've gone too far mate...

The examples I gave ware successful in demonstrating a high-risk situation vs a low risk one, and that adults should be able to assess these sorts of situations properly.

Nowhere did I suggest that people be IT professionals, as it's not about the cloud nor any other intricate technicality, but I simply stated that you should flat out not create documents of any sort that can be damaging to your image, if that image is important to you. Someone hacking your account, someone stealing your phone or laptop, you forgetting your phone at a park bench, you accidentally sending them to the wrong person and a myriad of other reasons should discourage you from putting yourself at risk without any real benefits. Those people have spectacularly failed at that, so part of the blame goes to them, as well as to the people who violated their privacy, if we want to be realistic.

You called them hapless, you accounted them no responsibility, essentially treating them as non-people. Is that really the right way to treat healthy adults?

Finally, your post makes it sound like I'm on some sort of a crusade against them or as if I were defending the people who both broke valid laws and violated someone else's privacy, which I absolutely did not. Your excessive defensiveness and offensiveness stems from your own issues man, don't put that on me.

Quit with the black and white stuff, it's not that clearcut. If you walk past a neighborhood which is known for its high criminal activity wearing a Rolex, holding a $600 iPhone with one hand and a $2000 laptop with the other, then yes, it obviously is also your fault if you get mugged. The universe does not stand on principles.

The problem is that people (you being a prime example) fail to calculate risk effectively. For example, the risk of someone hacking a PCI compliant institution and stealing my credit card info (from a card with limited funds which I only use for on-line purchases) is low enough that doesn't dissuade me from making CC purchases -- also taking into account other safeguards.

However, if public image was important to me then I certainly wouldn't store embarrassing pictures of me anywhere. Especially not on a laptop I'd brazenly display while walking past a bad neighborhood -- or someone else's server.

Also, if you're looking to get rubbed[sic] then $1000 in cash would certainly help.

And what happens with the thousands of people who have the H1B visas?

Music is basically counting and patterns, something that should come naturally to most programmers. The music theory jargon can easily go over your head at the beginning but you don't need to dive into it to actually play music at a basic level, and after you get some practise and a feel for it, the more advanced stuff start to make sense.

The hard part is actually getting some level of technical proficiency over your instrument of choice, dexterity is rarely useful in real life but it's the basis of playing most instruments.

If you can whistle a tune you can play music, getting control over the new medium (the instrument in this case) is the biggest issue, as the learning curve is highly steep and the fact that you'll initially sound like crap doesn't provide adequate positive re-enforcement, something necessary to any learning process.

Also, the fact that the cheap learner instruments sound really bad and are much harder to play than the expensive awesome sounding stuff doesn't help either.

PS: I'm an amateur self-taught guitar player, maybe someone with actual training can provide a better perspective.

Everyone focused on the very personal concern I voiced, which is me being grossed out by the finger dipping approach. No-one touched on the very real issue of whether there were any compromises in accuracy for making this thing work as a nail-polish. For Pit's sake I've got a sister and plenty of female friends and I don't want them to get in trouble just because they trusted a product based on how popular it is, due to people drowning out valid criticisms, like mine.
I don't care if someone claims they've found the cure for cancer, show me the data, then I'll tattoo your name on my forehead.

Also, I don't have to have a better idea to voice concerns, just like I don't have to be a master chef to say that I don't like the food at a restaurant.