in the US Military-Industrial Complex for most of the last 35 years.

If that doesn't match your ethics, that's OK.

Or 127.0.0.1 :-)

That throws them off-script. I say, "If you're telling me my computer has viruses, you must know the IP address of the infected computer."

And then when they give me some Windows mumbo-jumbo, I'll say, "But all the computers here are Macs."

Not sure why this was rated 'Troll'. I could see it as 'irrelevant to the topic', but what I reported here is what I saw on LH 414, 16 NOV 2013.

The entertainment system on the LH A340-300 I flew yesterday wasn't booting. We could see the Windows CE console boot sequence where it would hang. The pilot came on the loudspeaker and told us he had to power-cycle the entire aircraft. (I'm pretty sure he meant just the cabin power.) Several people said, "Makes sense if it's running Windows," and another asked, "They aren't using Windows in the cockpit, are they?"

(Once it did boot up, touch panel performance was poor, and video playback had a fair amount of stutter.)

Do you really think a French MEP's re-election will be impacted by a terrorist strike in the UK, or vice versa?

Well, there have been indications to that effect. But my response is not -predicated- on the prior existence of such agreements.

Rather it asserts the willingness of the US to share -in the future- would be impacted by an European unwillingness to share.

Well, until there's an Edward Snowden equivalent from UK, France, Germany, etc; I'm not sure I believe there are no reciprocal data sharing agreements.

Why should the US share data with Europe, if Europe closes TFTP? That's my point (albeit perhaps not particularly well made.)

Europe is a lot closer to, and has been more impacted by, terrorist strikes than the US. A reduction in data sharing will impact both sides of the Atlantic.

Of course, MEPs aren't really -accountable- to anyone for their decisions, it's the European sovereign governments who will be left holding the bag if terrorist strikes increase.

I have no problems reading PDFs without Adobe Acrobat on my Mac using Preview.app. And I need to enable Java maybe once or twice per month, if at that. Your mileage may vary.

Guess I'm an old fart, I let very few applications self-update. To me, the frequency of these updates is an indication of code quality. I don't doubt that most applications are written so poorly that they need to update on a daily basis. Guess that's all part of being "agile" (as opposed to being "correct".)

Steam itself had a horrible memory leak for months before it got fixed, so it's not like bugs are getting fixed instantaneously...

Steam will have to get a much more stable product. Seems it tries to self-update on a weekly, occasionally daily basis on my machine. I can't see the average gameboy putting up with having to wait while his Steam Machine updates yet again. "Continuous Integration" may be good for a development/integration approach, but it is neither appealing nor particularly effective as a software delivery approach.

The one part of Blackberry's business that might be attractive to an outside buyer is its secure email hosting. If they can't even get that right with iOS & Android apps, what's left? Truly this is a zombie company with both of its arms falling off. The demise of BB hardware could be blamed in part to 'market forces,' but BB has no one to blame for the failure of its software developers and managers.

As someone who has been in the past subject to the UCMJ, i.e. I served in the military, I'm careful about using that word. In this case, I believe there would be sufficient cause for the charge. Whether that charge "sticks" is something for the Courts to decide.

But again, as someone who has actively served in the military (although not in either the current set of wars or in the first Gulf War of 20 years ago (but it was close - they called two units like mine), the more details that get disclosed, the more potential damage in terms of 'means and methods.'

On the other hand, I don't think the Top Secret Intelligence establishment had sufficient safeguards in place for someone who thought that the law was being violated to handle these kinds of complaints. That does not forgive Snowden, he could have, for instance, gone to a member of the Senate or House Intelligence Committees (selecting a Member that would have been particularly sympathetic to his position.) Or gone public inside the US, like Daniel Ellsworth did with the Pentagon Papers. Instead, he ran to China and then Russia. Those actions speak much louder to me than any protestations of 'morality.'