First Moscow or anyone else might want to focus on Wikileaks now, and probably Assange will be killed to set an example. However there will be always surpressed minority groups etc, who will copycat this kind of journalism for their own interests. So the Rubicon has been crossed already. This is the spirit of the internet, people will always find ways to circumvent all kinds of government control to get the real stories out in the open. So as it is unevitable that a murder of Assange will bhe used to set an example and demotivate such copycats, but despite that people with enough motivation van't be stopped. Also this is also a foreign intelligence weapon (that may backfire) which will be used by foreign intelligence services of countries witch have the intrest to stir things up in their own sovereign interest. And the latter can't be stopped in anyway.
Secondly Assange is not an American, so American laws do not apply to him. If the American government doesnt like these thing to leak outside their jurisdiction, they should not made all of these documents accessable by a normal soldier (and also the US army treat their soldiers a bit better, or at least account for disgruntled employees). Secondly if there were no double speak and meddling in others foreign affairs such documents wouldn't be so dangerous. The latter is not on the account for Assange but to the US itself. Third if the security is so crap, it's the US responsibility that seems to be lacking as well (at a laughable level). Fourth Assange has the rare honor to be on the interpol list for rape, which by itself is very questionable too. Of course it is a smear campaign.
The biggest achievements for all mankind have been driven by unreasonable people with a extreme drive to achieve something for the greater good. I think he fits into that picture. If he is willing to put his life at stake for this kind of transparency, I think such thing is honorable! He has balls of steel.
There are a lot of companies talking about quality and innovation, while making more or less the shame shit as the competition. What makes a company shine these days, is not doing something different (some detail that no real person actually cares about) is the "wow" factor and Apple still has it, Microsoft is just as sexy as porridge. HP, Acer, Microsoft, etc. No excellence in imagination in a constant way.
So how does Apple has that? They have been about design of their products for decades. The old days when people where only still saying "wow" by seeing a computer. Now that we are past seeign those dull grey boxes that they called pc's, when companies act as if they have forgotten what the first p (personal) means. So why a grey dull box in the living room, working exactly the same way as we would use them on their work? Why not something that blends in nice with what people do in their lives, also besides working? Why not something that has a very good user experience and in some caes is even fashionable? Apple thought of that decades ago. Now it seems to work.
But now I see an Apple drunk of its success during their last presentations. I really lost the count of all the superlatives they used in their keynotes to appraise their own products. People will eventually get tired all these superlatives. When superlatives are used to decribe things that people don't care anymore about, then Apple becomes porridge too, maybe not grey but apple white. I don't care about some AA battery from Appel with included loader, and even less to hear superlatives about that.
I only hope the money and the power doesn't kick out the imagination, fantasy and innovation of Apple. That they will not become porridge. I rather see them making products with some technological child deseases than becoming a design company for AA cell batteries
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard
