If this doesn't make you go donate $20 to WikiLeaks, I don't know what will.

Go to their web site now, scroll down to the PayPal form, and reply here once you've sent them a few bucks. Put Slashdot in your donation comment, so they understand how much normal people care.
http://www.wikileaks.com/

As someone that works for a blue-chip tech firm and has no connection whatsoever to them, I can tell you that I PayPal'd WikiLeaks $10 a couple weeks ago when I saw their full site was down due to lack of funds. Like others, I wondered if and when they'd come back. But after reading about the Collateral Murder release on Slashdot and Digg, I didn't think twice before sending another $100. WikiLeaks' unique ability to acquire and distribute information like this (and effectively promote it) is exactly why you should support them. Their own releases show that the US government (among others) is/was trying to bury them, but now it's going to be full-scale war -- they are sure to need your dollars more than ever. I got 5 minutes into the video before I felt sick and had to stop watching.

I truly believe the only reasonable action anyone can take to even have a chance at preventing future cover-ups like this is to send money to WikiLeaks. There is no other organization doing what they are at this level.

Yes, but important decisions at large organizations are made by CEOs or other key executives (CMO, CTO, etc.) with clear lines of responsibility and accountability, not by establishing several dozen committees. Only in government (and poorly-run, similarly-bloated conglomerates) is this kind of bureaucratic, process-obsessed operation characterized as "reinventing their approach".

Don't forget to separate execution of the plan from development of the plan. It will clearly take thousands of people collaborating to execute on the vision of "go to the moon by 2017" -- but deciding what the top priorities are while keeping in mind resources, timelines, and feasibility, simply does not require four more committees at NASA.

Getting into journalism "to do good" misses the point of journalism entirely.

Provide analysis to "do good". Be a journalist by reporting the damn facts.

Your Tauntaun'll freeze before you reach the first marker!

I would go further to say that if I rent an apartment. It is my space. Under the terms of the lease, the landlord and his employees have the right to periodically enter the apartment for the purpose of conducting maintenance and inspection of the property. Even still, the landlord cannot give the police permission to search my apartment without a warrant.

It's not the cheapest but the Phenom Quad Cores can actually rip a DVD and play hi-def off the hard drive at the same time. I put together a box based on one of these for around $400 (4 Gb RAM + 1 TB storage + DVD drive, used on-board everything else cause it was good 'nuf). If you've got a monster DVD collection you're looking to rip to HD it's all about how many DVDs you can feed it every night without cutting into "theater hours."

Committee: The only known form of life with 6 or more legs, and no brain.

(From the notebooks of Lazarus Long

More committees. Way to think outside the box.

If they want to reinvent their approach, perhaps they should start by not creating multiple committees every time they want to accomplish something ... or am I forgetting the long track record of success by new committees at already-bloated government organizations?

The analogy is very clear: you get benefits from storing your data in the cloud, just like you get benefits from storing your money in the bank -- but at the expense of some degree of control. Those benefits aren't completely identical (as evidenced by your nonsensical, literal interpretation of the analogy as "data earning interest"), nor is the degree of loss of control identical.

While it's still an early-adopter market, I stand by the point that people being afraid to put their money in a bank is similar to people being afraid to put their data in the cloud, though you're free to disagree.

Or burying your own money in your own yard.