I can only hope. From your fingers to God's eyes.

If you continue to try and disaccosiate the lablel "stealing" because of the implication that its something that everyone agrees is wrong, I'm not going to believe that your motives have nothing to do with the fact that they are availible without charge.

It really looks like you are trying to say " Even though its illegal, and I'm doing it to get free stuff, don't think bad of me because I don't like thinking of myself as someone who does bad things". Its got all of the logic and reasoning of a three year old.

The story in question, reviewed how specific encryption programs have changed or failed to change in light of snowden. That is all it can speak to. We know nothing of the relative rates of use of these tools before and after snowden. Their use may have spiked dramatically post snowden, and we would never know.

  Snowden also revealed information on phone tapping and spying at the service provider level, and many, many other forms of communication. The article did not speak to the effect those had. Its entirely possible that the they have taken counter measures against these as well. Its also possible that they may have moved with the crackpots in our midst to more secure service providers that are believed to be outside the reach of US intelligence.

The Horror! Isn't the use of that bloatware banned by some UN Charter? Have they no sympathy for the plight of computers under the burden of that cpu hogging virus allowing software!

I don't get it.

Could you explain that some more? Explaining jokes always make them funnier.

Right, ultra violent games might be too controversial. So their next game they went with something safe like Nazis.

Wait are you saying that other things may influence boot time to significantly affect the comparison? They were running on the same hardware.

I don't understand your complaint about his comparison. It would be better perhaps, if it was a comparison of centos 6 with and without systemd. But is pretty close to my benchmarking on debian. There really isn't an argument here. SystemD speeds up Boot and shutdown. People hate it for other reasons. No one in their right mind, would challenge this point.

Yeah, designing for safety also means designing against lazy behaviors by end users that compromise security. If the approved way is to remove 198 bolts, and the stupid, wrong, but seemingly possible way to do it is to remove three pins, well people will do it the stupid way.

Well, this is slashdot. Expecting there to be any news for nerds, is just stupid at this point.

Fool me 10,234 times shame on me, Fool me 10,235 times, shame on me.

I thinkyou mean:

"It isnot exactlyEnglish, but definitelyin theGermanic family."

It isokay noteveryone is goodat grammar.

Well, we are, on the aggrigate, delusional and self aggrandizing.

Very, very delusional and very, very self aggrandizing. You see it in every topic.

I've heard Apple uses it....

Damn, it Carl! Do you job or you won't get my recommendation for your post doc!

Can they print a car body as quickly as the company did in the article? Have they?

If not, then that's the point.
If they have, then well the story sucks as much as everyone says it does.

Step back from the myopic meaningless look at the details, and see how the small dots form the larger picture.

No one said you couldn't. But no one has previous printed such a large piece, so precise, and so fast. Its an engineering milestone, not the discovery of radioactivity.

If todays geeks were alive to see the first model t the'd be bitching about how much better other cars were, and how it was nothing new. The new-ness is how it was made and how cheaply it was made.