Snowden could have chosen to leak his documents anonymously through a Congressman.

Sure, and two weeks later the NSA / CIA would have given him concrete boots to go talk to the fishies off the coast of Hawaii.

Rather than Ridgecrest, California. I can practically hear the discussion now...

Scientist 1: So, we need to test this thing. I suppose we could talk to the folks at China Lake. It's nearby and cheap. We can stay at the Motel 6 in Ridgecrest.
Scientist 2: Yeah, we could do that, or have the Pacific dudes fire it over HAWAII and we get to hang out in Kawaii!!!!
Scientist 1: But that's expensive.
Scientist 2: Fuck that - it's HAWAII!!! It's in the USA! Good enough!
Scientist 1: Yeah, but...
Scientist 2: But nothin' dude - have you even been to Kawaii?
Scientist 1: No, but....
Scientist 2: but nothin' it's awesome. And it beats the living fuck out of Ridgecrest. You ever been to Ridgecrest?
Scientist 1: Yeah. It's hot. Out in the desert.
Scientist 2: Yeah, AND IT SUCKS! They have earthquakes like every other day out there. It's a miserable hell hole that's only rivaled by Barstow and Needles.
Scientist 1: Well, its not pretty, but it is nearby, and I don't think the test cares if we shoot it over Kawaii or Death Valley, really.
Scientist 2: The test won't but everyone on the team will. Kawaii is fucking AWESOME DUDE!
Scientist 1: We can meet budget.
Scientist 2: We can SURF!
Scientist 1: OK, let's ask another team mate. What do you think?
Scientist 3: What, do I look stupid? Fuck Ridgecrest - YOLO baby - let's go to Hawaii!!!
Scientist 1: Sigh....

Agreed. But then all these Internet Addicts would have to actually SIT NEXT TO SOMEONE!!! Eeeew! The KOOTIES!!!!

Public transport is the answer, but the entitled class confused nature of the California Ideology squanders forward movement for the sake of narcissism. The collateral damage is massive. Example: the asshole renting a 2 BR apt at 19th and Valencia for $10,500 a month. That comes out to about $350 a day. Someone who has that kind of dosh isn't going to want to spend time rubbing shoulders with someone who pays $1000 a month to share a flat in the Sunset. It just isn't going to happen. They're both fucking peasants (one is an extremely well paid peasant) but the well paid peasant thinks he's something special. Besides, every racist knows poor people have kooties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Some anonymous coward with poor history skills wrote:

Any sane person would argue that the 5 important things they've done are the GUI computer, the laptop, the music player that people actually want, the touchscreen phone, and the tablet that people actually want.

I would also add the iMac. Why? back to a singular design that was very swishy for the times, but more importantly: implementation of USB and Firewire. With this came the arrival of major software development, such as Final Cut Pro and iMovie to support these machines and standards.

GUI Computer: 1984. year 0
laptop: 1991. 6 years
Jobs Returns - 1996
iMac 1998 - 7 years, 2 years post Jobs v2
ipod: 2001. 3 years, 5 years after Jobs v2
iphone: 2007. 6 years
ipad: 2010. 3 years.

Notice how the trend was one of accelleration, especially after Jobs Return (v2). So, no, you can't go totalling up the number of devices and divide them into the total number of years. I would also put the Newton in there as well, but it was a decade or two too soon... so, in short, fuck off Apple Fan Boi.

of Apple's cultural bankruptcy. Jobs died and they haven't come up with ANYTHING of importance. He's been gone for almost 3 years. He wasn't that active the last year or so, so technically he's been out of the picture for almost 5. Apple needs to do something big and smart. I don't see that happening with Cook at the helm. They could do something small and smart, like PUT COVER FLOW BACK INTO ITUNES. But I don't think that will happen. I think they'r just going to minimax themselves into triviality.

We'll get to watch the colonists in HD video as they die of radiation from a coronal mass ejection.

I am deeply skeptical of a moon colony. I really don't think it will ever happen.

than standard varieties? WOW! AMAZING! They made a form of lettuce that has even LESS nutritional value than regular lettuce! Which has practically none! Amazing!

FUCK YOU

You "record" a particle of energy (photon) doing something, but it takes energy (photons) to do it. So, in observing the process, photons are emitted and lost per 2nd law thermo?

Stop watching TV. It's amazing how much more productive and well informed I am once I cut the cable....

sudo apt-get install gimp

Fail. Gimp just doesn't cut it. It's very good, but it's not Photoshop. And Photoshop is the 900 lb gorilla in Adobeland.

Now that Apple blew its own dick off by ruining Final Cut Pro, Adobe is in the cat-bird seat. Unfortunately a cloud based Premiere and AfterEffects is bullshit. So sad...

FUCK YOU.

Clearly they've never been to or spent much time in, Sacramento. One of te dreariest most boringest cities EVER. Makes San Jose look like Amsterdam.

Yes, FLAC sounds better. But frankly, under 90% of my listening conditions I cannot tell the difference between FLAC and an mp3 ripped at 320. If I am listening on my "main kit" (audiophile gear costing thousands) I can hear the difference. But I don't usually listen to that kit. I'm usually listening to extremely good, but much smaller and less broadly ranged speakers ( (Genelec 5 inch) hooked up to my laptop and playing at fairly low volume. I've tested it, blind folded with a friend at the helm. The differences are impossible to tell. So, as a consequence, I ripped everything as FLAC to a drive for my audiophile kit, but I have more music on my mp3 drive, and it gets a lot more use.