Of course there's the caveat of revolution -- but such are popular movements -- not the an act of an individual.

Im sure there are some in government that would give him medals -- just no one in his own government.

And after the pinky swear there's jail time. At some point you have to either trust some people or use robots. It's like asking someone to watch your kid or your house -- you assume they wont kidnap your kid or steal your stuff - but in the end, you're running on faith once you're on down the road.

You don't fix government or the law by circumventing it, just like you don't fix murder by taking your own personal vengeance on the killer. Do you think Mr. Manning looked at each of those cables and decided which ones were bad and which ones were not bad? Or if they would hurt someone if they were released?

Sometimes the courts don't work -- sometimes your vote doesn't get counted -- sometimes people in the government are dishonest -- and there is no Santa Claus. Doesn't mean you stop going to work, and start learning chinese.

I meant whistleblowing via channels in the government -- those are the only ones that arent going to land you in jail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act

Usually if someone can download a document like that it's because there are legitimate procedures under which they do so. Those documents arent just being stored but are rather a part of workflows that are defined by the mission of the installation he was at.

This is why they try to check your background and make you take oaths.

Both Snowden and Manning took oaths with a clear understanding that they would be severely penalized if they violated that trust. It's unfortunate they didn't use a more legitimate whistle-blowing channel - they've thrown away their lives.

More like, "It would be convenient for us for this to apply to you, so now it does".

Man, i thought NY was bad, Mass is train wreck on top of a car crash.

Nice chart. Are we to assume that "potential GDP" is not some inflated economist machination used to make charts like this slant one way or another?

Why would one not just select the chart that has the actual amount spent each year by those two groups on those services? Perhaps they don't make the same story you're peddling here?

I think depending on the application, which garbage collector you're using, which JVM (client vs server), and any number of other facets... that you would have a hard time making the argument that one or the other was "faster". For any given application you will almost certainly have to micro-benchmark to figure out which makes more sense -- and only when you're targeting the windows platform, as mono appears to lose handily (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/).

I think the Dalvik bytecodes are nearly identical to normal JVM codes. It even accepts classes generated by the Scala compiler just fine. But you are correct it is a different VM -- just the same language. Then again there are more JVMs for windows/linux/etc than just the Oracle one too, so when does it stop being Java?

If you think it's implemented the same as J2EE and that it offers nothing new -- then its obvious you've never even spent 10 minutes on their site seeing what it does.

Node.js is asynchronous and event driven -- and when compared to the thread-pool J2EE approach it's actually quite innovative and has the potential to produce a lot more client throughput (as it's not sitting around with 10 blocked threads waiting to fetch data from a disk or database).

The only thing worse than churn is people running their mouths when they wont even take 15 minutes out of their precious day to evaluate something honestly.

Because V8 Javascript performance destroys Python all day and twice on sunday. Python is one of the slowest languages in regular use today.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=v8&lang2=python3&data=u64

It lost ME market share to Android which is... basically Java.

As far as performance -- I've not seen any serious benchmarks that show the CLR outperforming the JVM so handily. Got a link?

Their goals are in direct opposition to the maintenance of rights/privileges held by US citizens.

The only way to balance it out is to have an element in government with as much power as them who's job it is to maintain those rights. Basically you need the ACLU with enough juice to not be afraid of the president.

Or a president with enough nuts to do the job himself. Or a public who would vote him out if he didn't.

It all comes back to us being misinformed douchebags with no concept of what is important in government.

Assuming that he had a supercomputer to crunch the data, knew the algorithms the NSA/FBI uses, implemented them properly, and then understood the results and what conclusions we would come to -- then yes, your supposition is reasonable.

Otherwise, your nuts.

Exactly the reason you should be immersed in your field.

If we don't know the buzzwords and their real meaning/applicability -- we then leave it to our management to deal with them.

Thats why you see the word cloud on anything involving more than one computer these days.

If you are selling technology and you dont keep your product relevant, you company will soon be irrelevant -- if it isnt already.