I would argue that many people do think about the money. The money it would cost them to buy an equivalent encyclopedia, or contribute a fraction of their time in an area they are good at to gain access. Or more likely to just read and not contribute anything.

Well google still provides a useful service while using ads and paid staff. Maybe the shitty websites are made by shitty organizations and the amount of advertising is only incidental. I could easily imagine a situation where google had flashy intrusive ads and while providing an amazing service no one wanted to use it because of the ads. maybe two or three little goodle context ads would provide the money they need while not intruding. hell make it optional, and if you opt in you aren't bombarded by requests for donations. it is not like they are paying for their content.

"I hope you're not in the US, otherwise you should get out of there, since if you are, you took the lands of native people forcibly as well." Sorry that wasn't me. That was my great great great... grandpa. Are you suggesting that I am eternally less of a person for something I didn't, by my race did? What I am doing now is living in a country that is supporting genocide RIGHT NOW, 1/3 of Israel's military budget comes from the U.S. We shield them from any UN resolution. I can't do anything about what my country did well before I was born, but I can do something about what they are doing now.

"Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group." From wikipedia. It includes any attempt to destroy their future or the demographics. That includes the destruction of workshops and factories even water sanitation facilities in the Gaza strip then refusing to allow the materials to repair them. You can't fish legally fish more than 3 miles off the coast and in practice you are often shot at even as close as on shore. Israel has admitted they are attempting to punish all Gazans to root out Hamas. They will suffer for years the affects of malnutrition. Government Rabbis the other day stated that it was immoral to give housing to Israeli Arabs. 1/3 of Gazan farmland is within the 'security zone' of the Gaza boarder and thus farmers are shot at for attempting to farm. Jerusalem is majority Arab and Israel is attempting to change it. Jews learned quickly that people don't like gas chambers but other methods were equally effective for genocide that wouldn't attract attention. On top of all that their entire justification for removing the Palestinians is a dusty old scroll says they above all other humans have the exclusive right based on ethnicity and religion to occupy the land.

"People making a hero of him are ignorant of the law and naive about the need for security." If you are American tell it to our founding fathers. Heroes aren't heroes because they do the easy thing. Hopefully it will be worth it for him.

You could have asked the same of civil rights sit ins. Why not just go somewhere where you are wanted. Also and it is unfortunate, try to get the average person to care about the freedom of any information besides the latest E! hair styles. Also you don't have to completely inhibit business to make an impact, the question should be why they didn't keep going. But they are breaking the law with this, the question is, is it worth breaking the law for. I hope everyone has throughly thought that out for themselves before participating in this some things are worth it others aren't.

"Massive acts of violence, like 9/11 or the devastating 1995 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, obey the same statistical rules as a small-scale IED attack that kills no one." So basically large attacks that kill a bunch of people at once but rarely happen affect the same proportion of the population that smaller attacks do since while they happen more often the number of people they affect is still insignificant compared to the world population?

Well if you are looking for 20 informative pages http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/secrecy/R41404.pdf that is a CRS report on how laws may or may not apply to wikileaks and Assange. I have not read it yet only found it a few min. ago. Important note for those who don't know Congressional research service (CRS) is a research service for Congress and their reports are not distributed to the public. They are not classified and you can receive copies by asking your Congressmen and are often available online. However there is no one source where you can get all reports. CRS is often described as Congress' thinktank.

"Online advertiser/marketers provide nothing for the tracking they do to us." So how much do you pay for your slashdot subscription? Ask yourself how much do you pay to see any single website. I bet it comes out pretty low, mostly because most sites don't offer a per view or even subscription service. You could say that you go to free websites knowing they have tracking/advertising as an expectation. Your very real price is not even having to pay for the site.

Hell, Abdul al Mutalab the christmas day bomber didn't even detonate successfully and he has already cost the U.S. over $300 million on these worthless scanners. The scanners were sold to us as devices that would protect our privacy by obscuring private areas and catch terrorists that hide explosives in their private areas. Tell me which one is it? Do they work and violate our privacy or do they not work and you are lying to us?

I had a professor who worked in intelligence who said that at Los Alamos they had a security breach from someone taking data off the site. It was found in a usb at drug bust. Turned out the method for securing the computers was to put plugs in the usb ports. After this incident they 'upgraded' their security by super gluing the plugs in.

Just leave him alone, he never gets any breaks. Whenever he posts a mistake everyone justs jumps all over it. Haven't you ever made a misprint, why can't we just leave him alone. /end Brittany Spears defender screaming.

Well then there are the costs of being felt up. Maybe I put a very high cost with that. The point really is that if you force everyone to accept the same level of risk they weigh those risks differently, there will not be a blanket solution that satisfies everyone.

That is more an issue of can't than won't. And there has always been an attempt to track at some level. Nielson, demographic info of subscribers or topic of magazine, geographic location etc.

It says at your residence. It may be that people are going to the internet cafe or work to post.