Wow. Prepare for some serious employee dissatisfaction once everyone is migrated to Bloated Goats.

Daimler switched from Exchange to Notes in 2008, just before the economy crashed. The ensuing deep hatred of Notes (at the frontline employee level) never, ever subsided. Some suit with a clue finally realized that Notes was a mistake and 6 years later (Q1 2014), the company switched back to Exchange and Outlook.

It seems inconceivable that a country where half the citizens cowered under the Stasi, would ever consider rolling over and asking the NSA for a tummy rub.

Worldwide cooperation with NSA seems rather extensive, does it not?

Mod parent up. Electric cars are a ton of fun to drive! We drive our Volt together all weekend long and marvel @ the gas we are not burning or buying. :-)

Umm, the Volt has a gas tank so that you can drive from one end of the country to the other. When the Volt is driven gas only, it's EPA MPG rating is about 35 MPG. Not bad...not great, either.

We paid a lot more than 40K for the car (before trade-in), but both my wife and I are environmentalists. We are committed to using less carbon in our lives and willing to pay for the privilege. Every time our Volt uses gas to charge the battery (when we drive outside it's electric range), we say that the "Volt had a sad."

My wife and I purchased a 2005 Prius (back when they were quite uncommon). Wife's car. She loved it. Very reliable. Great mileage in warm weather, decent mileage in winter (37 mpg).

I liked her Prius so much I bought a 2010 Prius. Better gas mileage than the 2005, plus the option to boost power on demand, made this car a dream to drive. The interior fit, though, is sad (annoying rattle under the glove box).

We recently upgraded my wife's 2005 Prius to a 2012 Chevy Volt. OMG. So quiet! And the initial torque when you step on the accelerator...wow, just wow. The 2012 Volt makes my 2010 Prius seem like a go cart. My wife's current game with the car is to see how little gas she can use. So far, 2 tanks consumed and both of those were mandatory burnoffs required by the Volt after the gas sat in the car (unused) for 12 months. Her current lifetime gas mileage (as recorded by Chevy) is 597 MPG.

My next car will not be a Prius...it will be an electric of some type.

Cisco could make life miserable for the NSA by warehousing its gear in countries that won't cooperate with the US. Non-US orders could be filled from the closest such warehouse.

Non-cooperating countries that spring to mind include Russia (for European orders), China (for Asia), Venezuela (for S. America) and maybe Palestine (for the Middle East and Africa). I don't believe there are any N. American countries that the US can't coerce, so maybe the affected countries should use other network vendors.

The downside is that delivery times for overseas orders might become quite long :-) and/or spendy.

Suppose SourceForge is/was vulnerable (I don't know that that's the case...I opened a ticket to find out).

Suppose a developer's login credentials were grabbed before SourceForge reacted and closed the hole.

Great. Now a bad character can upload malware as the latest release for any of the compromised developer's SourceForge projects.

Yeah...chew on that.

Me too. I also want to know what company Dreamchaser works for. Dreamchaser's infuriating condescension is why so many people despise picking up the phone and calling the IT dept. for help ("Yeah, sure, I'll call the helpless desk and they'll fix my problem. Ya, you betcha."

Or maybe Dreamchaser does all his banking with paper checks.