I am not familiar with Chelsea, but I am with Snowden. I would be for a pardon and here is why. I believe there is a difference between being a traitor to your government and being a traitor to your country. I see his actions as treasonous to the government but patriotic to the country. Also, by charging him with treason, the US government declared all the US citizens as the enemy. IMO

Would Obama do the same thing if it was the Republican National Convention?

and next it will be revealed that Truecrypt was shutdown for a similar purpose. Forced to create a backdoor for the government. I believe that is the reason behind the end of Truecrypt.

That is how Scientology works. "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is no authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, or course, ruin him utterly" - L. Ron Hubbard, The Scientologist, a Manual on the Dissemination of Material, 1955

Duh!

For those who keep saying RAID is not backup, read the question again. It says "data protection" not data backup. Yes, RAID is not a data backup option, but it is a data protection method in case a hard drive fails.

My family’s data protection plan involves and off-site backup to my parent’s home and vice versa. Each week, we establish a VPN between our homes and do an incremental backup of photos, home videos, and important documents to an external HDD at each home. This prevents loss in case of natural disaster or fire.

There is a difference. Downloading refers to saving a full copy on your local device for later use. Streaming copies the data to you system memory where it is accessible as long as you keep the streaming app open. Once closed, it is removed from memory.

I see this act no different than recording a radio broadcast onto a cassette tape or recording a TV broadcast on VHS or DVR’s. Now we record a video or audio stream from an online source onto your hard drive. The same principle applies to these activities, different source on different media. So I say Youtube has no legal basis to threaten the developers of these apps. This is how I get my music today. http://www.freemake.com/free_y...

Keyless keyboard has been around for a while. This article was posted 2/11/2007. http://www.gadgetgrid.com/2007...

Considering whats going on with Facebook in Germany and Brazil, if I was the CEO, I'd say release our execs (Brazil) and cease your draconian regulations (Germany) or we will block all access to Facebook from your country. When your citizens try to access Facebook, they will be redirected to a site stating to contact your government to release our execs and cease their draconian regulation or you will never see Facebook again.

If this is designed to flood a network with junk data to conceal the relevant data, could this be interpreted as a form of a denial of service attack if it decreases network performance?

Christians say we and all other life was created by God. Evolution states we started as amoebas and evolved over billions of years into what we are today. Personally though, I could care less. I am as I am now and will use it to my fullest abilities. Whether my species was created or evolved is irrelevant to me here and now and till I die.

As I said, drop the origin of life topic. Avoid the religious and scientific controversy all together. When I took biology in HS, my biology teacher skipped the topic altogether. Didn't even mention the controversy. Just skipped the chapter altogether. One student asked why she skipped it. Her response, "I will teach what can be reproduced in a lab or examined first-hand."

I say drop the origin of life topic all together from public education.