Was his sole intent to damage the US or was it to damage those who are abusing their position?
Absolute right of Kings went out with King John. The NSA are not the US, only part of it, and should not have unquestionable power.

That word sorted out the people who've actually heard of the classics from those who have not even if it's a bit too extreme to apply to nearly every case.

In rare cases it fits precisely and in others simple nepotism (as you suggest) or a wish to promote keen youths "with the right stuff" applies far better. Of course I don't think it's new or I wouldn't use such an old word, but it's rife today when you look at situations like that kid put in charge of a big chunk of NASA that took on their climate scientists - despite being highly political from the start that was a new one for NASA.
Either way we've ended up with a situation where good looks and Spaniel style devotion to masters trumps all else. A handsome empty headed youth that says yes a lot who is on the political track is likely to be in a position of power before the age when an engineering graduate gets to be in charge of his first project with a small workforce. It's no way to run a country. The same stands with my comment about the political track to the head of the military - with plenty of conflict over the past few decades it's a hole in the system that someone can avoid all association with that and make it to the top ranks.

What is the penality for treason these days?

You have to do a photoshoot wrapped in a flag and run as a Republican candidate for Virginia.

Drive out with a phone on to meet a person with more information.

Thanks to the influence of such groups as the NSA your mobile phone transmits it's data in an easily readable format instead of something encrypted such as was first proposed for the devices. The performers "Negativeland" some years back demonstrated that very clearly with analogue phones, and apparently it's not much more difficult now with digital but it can land you in legal deep shit if you do it and you are not a government associated body. So organised crime could be listening in to that mobile call, and less organised crime with NSA or similar kids playing at James Bond can just get it via the exchange.

Is it a coincidence that this also happened around the same time that the educated class stopped reading the classics?

Maybe more because the educated class didn't get to run the place anymore and those that did get to run the place appointed their young catamites to run departments instead of people with the experience to operate effectively. I'm not sure when it happened but by the end of WWII the executive branch of the US government had the wool very effectively pulled over their eyes by Stalin despite potential access to a vast number of experts in European politics who knew it detail what sort of monster he was.
Look at the careers of people like Rumsfeld or the political Generals that somehow managed to avoid any association with Korea, Vietnam or Central America, or any conflict at all, before ending up on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Neither education or experience appears to be of value. Intimate contact with a Senator as a young intern is the more likely path to power, and to get to be an intern you have to study something, and those classics are too damned hard apparently.

So do those posters here calling Snowden a "traitor" now get how the only way he could get the message out to the people he worked for - the American people - was to tell it to the press?
Internal complaints just got buried.

Also I'm assuming because the replacement was a lot bigger - the XL has a much larger screen than the DSi.
I think you are being too critical of the product since the poster above didn't bother to try to maintain it so didn't get as far as finding if it was impossible to maintain. My DS is still in good shape, probably never used it enough to give it a hammering, so I've never done any repairs on it and only opened up the back to flash the firmware, but it doesn't look all that difficult to work on:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nintendo+DS+Lite+Buttons+Replacement/4787

Cool - would mod up that infernoDS post if I could. I ran DS Linux for a while but a lack of an external keyboard meant I didn't play with it much. Now there's an external keyboard.

The linux emulation environment was 32bit only last I looked - which is fine for running Adobe stuff or linux based email gateway virus scanning software of which there is still 32bit versions being produced.
So that's on the 64 bit systems. I'm also running FreeBSD on systems with 32 bit hardware (a netbook and a couple of relatively old file servers that are just online archives of rarely used stuff) - so yes, I'm still running 32bit binaries in some situations. Even LibreOffice on an early netbook.

I'm out of date with Virtualbox - a few months ago it wasn't working on FreeBSD, but from other posts here it appears the problems have been fixed.


Anyway, my major point is that with X you don't need one machine to do everything so long as you have enough machines that can do all you want networked together.

€10 says this is because you can't build 64-bit binaries with the free version of MSVS.

A/C? Are you kidding? It's 2 degrees and snowing here, they've got the heat shut down this afternoon while they're flushing the radiators, and I've got my space heater going. Why do they not do this in, say, August?

However there are still original DS's out there in use. Tough little things, seems it's main mode of failure is theft.

No it is an effort to make things usable

Why can't people read beyond the first sentence before writing a two paragraph reply?

Poettering's NetworkManager and Avahi

Wow, add that to systemd and pulseaudio and it's almost looking like he's on the MS payroll to break stuff in linux. However, the reality is likely to be that he has a vision to change linux into something different to what it is now which of course is not going to be painless and seamless - hence the annoyance with pulseaudio during the first few years of development and the annoyance with NetworkManager until relatively recently. NetworkManager may have pissed me off at times on fixed systems (and earlier in development) but it's now a pretty nice thing to have on laptops.
If you want to completety change the compartmentalised idea of linux (where you change settings and they stay changed) to something very interdependant there's going to be a pile of glitches on the way to pretending to be a Mac. Complaints about beta software going into distros are fairly pointless since it's not going to get much better without a lot of people hammering at it and finding the problems. It does however mean that there is a very large and widening gap between what's acceptable in an office environment (RHEL6 or Fedora13 from 2010) and the cutting edge (Fedora20).

A few things on that list are where BSD is lagging behind, just like linux is lagging behing on ZFS. Last I looked Virtualbox was not working at all. However with X you don't have to run the software on the same machine and the one you sit in front of.
There's plenty of stuff where there are linux binaries available but nothing for BSD - however so long as they are 32 bit there's an emulation layer that's pretty solid, even for flaky Adobe stuff or antivirus scanners written to be run on linux. I should get around to installing the old loki games on a netbook I've put FreeBSD10 on.