why has this story no comments? isn't it showing up on the mainsite of slashdot somehow?

I think its called the Windows updater...

For your information: I'm from The Neterlands myself, and indeed i should have said: "collecting as much personal data as possible of every citizen in the world, all the time"

"Organization Pirate Party Norway claims that spy accused Edward Snowden landed at Oslo Gardermon airport last night." http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3802-pirate-party-norway-snowden-passed-through-norway-to-iceland Stangely enough rt.com havent reported this yet.

"Organization Pirate Party Norway claims that spy accused Edward Snowden landed at Oslo Gardermon airport last night." http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3802-pirate-party-norway-snowden-passed-through-norway-to-iceland

Today i watched rt.com (russian television) and cnn.com for hours: rt.com was constantly reporting about the NSA spying, showing interviews with assange and CEO's of crypto companies, and showing interviews with other ex-NSA employers like Benning. (who was almost laughing hysterically about how absurt the whole situation in the US was) The focus was on both snowden and the spying the US government does. They even claim that the intelligence agencies are working together with the US news media to suppress the story.

On CNN on the other hand I only hear short stories about snowden and wether or not he can be extradited. There was ZERO information about the real issue: the government collecting all the data of all the US citicens all the time.

So this time rt.com seems to be the more complete source of information and CNN seems to be biased or at least not giving a full report and critical report. However i'm sure those roles are reversed when there is some big scandal in russia.

Is it a strange coincidence that this news comes out around the time of the next fork? http://mineforeman.com/2013/05/13/last-forking-warning/ Is there some evil government conspiracy going on to bring bitcoin down, or is it perhaps some kind of "crash and cash" scheme, or can i leave my tinfoil hat at home?

most senators are incompetent morons and we're all doomed

When the first gsm phones appeared, some people also called the users of these devices tards, assholes, yups and what not..

What do you mean with 'the domain' in this context? That sounds a bit like a Windows AD term..

What happend to the slashdot tagging system

If someone steals your computer, its still encrypted, assuming you've password protected your private key..

So what happens if you lose the encrytion keys in a crash?

You make it sound like being a contracter is a bad thing. Me and some of my friends are all independend contractors: We like it much better then actually working at those companies. We are treated with respect, are payed for overtime, and are our 'own boss'.
The difference in knowledge is stunning: The bigger the company, the more IT people they have, and the less they get done. Some of my friends are able to replace 5 'normal workers', that are of the kind that only have papers and zero actual knowledge.
Btw we're all in the unix, linux and storage business.

..gets a lot easier if you DONT care about people little problems and annoying secrets at all.