I like your use of "*sigh*" to start your arrogant "I don't care about anyone but myself" post. It didn't make you come across as either:

1) A bad troll
2) A little kid

If your need to exercise your freedom of expression overpowers your ethics, you probably have some serious social disorders. I can tell that you don't share my morals or ethics, because you put yourself ahead of people around you.

Thanks for your reply, this is exactly what I was anticipating in response.

I believe it was right around $1000, looked ridiculously like an iMAC and ran Win 7. I remember touching it at the store and being like "wow, now if this was only useful...."

During vietnam they made movies and tv shows about Korea, but not vietnam (as far as I'm aware). I think making a game about current conflict is stupid. Not only do we not really have the history to fully understand it, its a poor choice for those who are currently involved. Freedom of expression shouldn't overpower ethics they way some people think it should. If you wanna play this war game, go enlist in the Marine Corps. Otherwise, give them 20 years to deal with the trauma.

I did a little bioinformatics in the past, and we were using postgreSql to manage our results. It was nice because you can create meaningful fields to query in the future. It took some time developing the system, but it really helped out in the long run. We had to consider errors in the readings of the results and had to incorporate a little bit of fuzzy logic into the tools we used to run comparisons on the database.

If you are at a university or near a university, the computer science dept may give a few students credit to build you a system that can handle it, so you don't have to.

I don't think you're really disagreeing with me, I think you're presenting another scenario that I actually agree with you on. But I can only speak for myself.

I agree with you. Especially on the topic of the sense of full entitlement by people becoming disturbing. There's a crazy influx of narcissism and egotism in America. Everyone feels they deserve everything because they're so important.

Oh well, nice post.

I feel its a very sticky situation, because you're going to get a lot of people taking things like this very differently.

An extreme situation would be groups of troops revolting and ending up fighting other groups of our own troops. Unlikely, but in high stress situations, you can't tell.

I'm glad we agree for the most part.

I agree with you and I don't think anything I said actually disagrees with you. We just shouldn't be so willing to bring down their morale on purpose.

"So Johnny, you hate yourself for everything you've done over here right now. Well, sorry, but its time to go out again, so get your rifle. Ps, everything you're fighting for is a lie."

The troops know if any warcrimes are happening, they're living in it already. That doesn't warrant the release of documents that, as we're lead to believe, contain names of informants who can now be put at risk (as well as their families) or information that may otherwise get more of our troops killed by any means.

The fact is that wikileaks didn't do it for humanity, they did it for popularity. Warcrimes will be found out no matter what.

You demand immediate action, which is never going to happen. My standpoint is if we have to be there and for however long we have to be there the fewer people dying, for any reason, the better.

Lets pretend your conspiracy theory is correct and the war is a sham.

Lets also pretend that troops get ahold of these documents and lose morale.

Lets also assume that morale affects how well you focus while at war.

Troops will die from lack of morale, is that what you want? More people dying "for nothing."

Even if you don't like what's going on, you really need to think things through a little more thoroughly and think of what will happen as a consequence of your actions. Wikileaks didn't do that. They could easily have waited until the war was over and said "look at all these war-crimes." They want attention. They could have stayed anonymous in their fight against corruption, but they chose to give themselves a face and to get in front of a camera. The US government isn't going to just stop waging war because some guy posted a document.

Morale directly affects the safety of our troops and allies over there. So, its probably true that the military doesn't want them to lose morale, I don't either. I don't know any of the troops personally, but I don't want them to get hurt just as much as their families don't. I also don't want anyone who has helped us out over there to be harmed either. But that's just me talking.

Programming is not computer science. Computer science is pretty much applied mathematics. Some people call it "theoretical" computer science, but you can't call something science if you're not moving forward in the theory. Students who are taught that C++ programming is what CS is all about get to college and find out they're wrong and flunk out when they can't grasp complexity theory or even automata theory.

I've seen a number of students who have no idea what CS is all about come in thinking they're going to design video games by getting a degree in CS. By design I mean, "I think we should have this cool sword with magic powers in the game." The students just have no clue what CS really is. People who don't know what CS is think that we're masters of MS Office and expect us to know how to fix their OS when its full of malware, because that is what most people think we do. So before we blame curriculum for teaching basic computing skills instead of programming, we need to educate these kids on what CS really is and what a computer scientist will most likely do in the real world.

I was the ACM president at my university, and once during a meeting a kid rose his hand and asked, "What classes do they teach you how to hack in?" I laughed, but he was serious.

Sorry. Parents will sue.

"I just have to get a D to pass, so who cares?"

That's not true. When I was in high school in Oregon, my graduating class was the last class that was allowed to pass a class with a D, everyone after us now has to get Cs or better. No one sued and if they did, it never even made it to the news as far as I'm aware.

So Apple and Linux have fewer security holes than Microsoft?