Is this only for Americans, because we Canadians -- from the TRUE Land of the Free & the REAL Home of the Brave -- had Thanksgiving in early October..?!

adolf didn't say anything about 'minced beef', so I don't know where you got that idea from. Beef comes in many different cuts!

'...Supreme Court of the United States ruled such tactics valid...'

The SCUS may have ruled such tactics valid, but remember, they are only valid in the US, they cannot be enforced outside of the US!

Net Applications suck, StatCounter is so much better!:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201106-201206r

And:

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms

Does anyone remember Zero Knowledge, they had a product in the late '90s to early 2000s called Freedom, that basically did what Silent Circle is going to be doing, however, it was only for PCs.

There are other products as well, why do you think I told him/her to check out their apps!

Check out the apps from Whisper Systems:

http://www.whispersys.com/

Did you somehow miss the following: ...branches of, off-shoots of, or are just associated with...

Organisation on Earth is the Illuminati and the other ultra-secret societies that are either branches of, off-shoots of, or are just associated with the Illuminati!

The problem with that is, as soon as the media got hold of the word 'hacker' in the '80s, they turned it into a word that means something along the lines of "malicious intent", instead of what it meant, which was a programmer.

when the "unreleased" tracks of music will start showing up on torrent sites..?!

It turns out there is no black hole at the centre of the Milky Way?

I would really love to see what a file system actually looks like, basically would love to see the source code for it; anyone have any ideas where I can look?

US laws are not enforceable outside the US, but of course the US is trying to bully other countries!

The C64 was the second computer I ever used in my life, the first was of course the CVic-20, with it oh so glorious tape drive. I own a working C64, currently, I only own one game for it, will eventually have to approach the PET Computer Club of Toronto to buy some C64 games as well as a better controller.