You meant to comment about grain?

That's fine; but if the comparison is going to be made to Roku or Apple TV... this is one additional item they've got checked off and Chromecast doesn't.

Whether or not that matters to a potential buyer is the question - it certainly matters to me.

That'll work out well with the acid rain around here...

If the power to their own servers gets cut off - do they have a peering agreement with the NSA?

Take a look... Three fingers and a thumb. It's even been used in jokes in the show.

http://projectquinn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/homer-simpson.jpg

Another thing that's bogus about this - the statement that it didn't involve spying on Americans.

So all of these NSA officers have foreign girlfriends and wives? Isn't that maybe a trifle problematic?

So perhaps Homer Simpson might actually be well suited for working at, say, Fukashima?

I know I'm in the minority, but DS9 was my favorite Trek after the original - in part because they did a much better job developing the interpersonal relationships than other post-TOS Treks (which is part of the reason TOS stands up so well, even now).

And I actually enjoy long story arcs.

I'm curious about how this will work with regards to textbooks. Nowadays - at least at my university - many of the faculty use their self-authored textbook when they teach a course. Given that this seems to be done to generate income, I doubt they're going to discount their part of the cost just because the books weren't printed on paper. And what if the facility's publisher doesn't offer electronic versions of their books?

So, basically, guys who are apparently stupid enough to think this actually accomplished anything are the ones we're supposed to give the benefit of the doubt to when they say they're adequately protecting our data when they vacuum everything up?

No wonder they say they need to gather up every available piece of data they can - they're not bright enough to walk and chew gum at the same time.

These files were almost certainly from the NSA in the first place - they already have the unencrypted versions.

I imagine they also have a pretty good idea which specific files Snowden had access to.

On the old TV series "Get Smart", there was a robot agent named Hymie. There was a running gag where one of the human agents would say something along the lines of "kill the lights, Hymie", whereupon the robot would of course pull out his gun and shoot the light bulbs; or tell Hymie to "hop to it" (which led Hymie to start hopping), "get the door" (so he'd rip the door off its hinges and bring it over to Max), etc.

The municipal power plant isn't going anywhere.

Our house has all electric utilities - stove, oven water heater, dryer, home heating (in-wall heaters, no central furnace). I'm too lazy to add up the exact numbers, but we're probably paying $2000-2500 a year for electricity (Washington state).

Have you ever heard of any governmental organization disbanding itself because it was no longer necessary?

Argh. MARISSA.