Sure Hitchens made a name for himself for his efforts against religion. But those pale in comparison to his greater achievement: helping to bring the world the Iraq war.

I will always remember the steadfastly careerist way Hitchens reached across the political divide to join hands with the neocons in the Bush administration to boldly hype up false intelligence to make the war in Iraq a reality. Thanks to Hitchens the Iraqi people no longer live in fear of Saddam Hussein's regime. Now they live in fear of torture and death at the hands of Iraqi government and/or various politico-religious militias. Always better when a government monopoly is replaced by a competitive market, eh?

The war also removed the burden of a functioning electrical grid or sanitation systems – facilities that would be superfluous for the 6% of the population, or 2 million Iraqis, who have been internally displaced by the war.

None of this would have been possible without the efforts of pro-war propagandists like Christopher Hitchens. I hope for his sake, that he's right and there is no god.

Me, too. Safari has an "Advanced Preference" for "Database Storage" to allow "none before asking". I always say "no". But so far only Twitter's website wants to store data on my machine.

Chrome and Firefox don't seem to have a similar preference. I see reference to cache but not local storage or database storage which I think are the relevant terms, here.

That link to a Google search you offer leads to a lot of articles discussing how WikiLeaks revealed evidence that Turkey, Pakistan and others may have helped al Queda, but there is only one among the first two pages of results that claims that WikiLeaks revelations are being used by al Queda against the US. The article, from a site called Ruthfully Yours , is titled "Al Qaeda Already Using WikiLeaks Material Against US". But this article itself offers no proof that the assertion in it's title is true. It only says that "al Qaeda's 'official' magazine" ... "advises Muslims who want to assist it to send 'anything useful from Wikileaks.'” This is evidence that al Queda may wish to find information on WikiLeaks that will be useful to them. It is not evidence that they have already done so.

So, you have no evidence that the diplomatic cables that Manning allegedly leaked have led to US deaths. You are assuming so, and you want me to look for the evidence for you. Nonetheless, you have decided to broadcast your unsupported fantasies as though they are truth. You have not even cited a single specific leak and explained how it could be useful to "al Queda" or whomever.

You're just making shit up to support your jingoistic daydreams. You are not serious, but you are done wasting my time.

The "enemy" he gave the information to was the US citizenry.

Name two. Citations please. If you cannot come up with any then I have to ask: What do you hope to accomplish by making things up? If your cause requires lies to defend it, is it really just?

My router, an Apple Airport Extreme (extreme!), allows for a guest network. Mine is unencrypted. There have been occasions when I've needed an open WiFi network to find where I'm going or quickly check an email, and I've found one. The same is true for everyone posting on or reading this thread. Now, I'm giving back, and if the police and the cable company don't like it that's too damn bad.

Don't be hypocritical. You've all taken, give back when you can.

If you're worried that a proprietary framework might be compromised by the Government threatening/bribing Apple into implementing a back door ...

"We can make that FCC investigation into the back-dating of executive stock options go away, Mr Jobs. If you'll cooperate with the government ..."

... or you just want a solution that works better with Time Machine than FileVault does, here is a How-To on getting EncFS full-disk encrytion working on Mac OS X.

Nota bene: I have not tried this yet myself.