Dude is guilty, dude needs to stand trial and stay in prison if found guilty. Divulging secrets when you are in a position of trust is a serious matter, Manning did put lives in danger, might have directly had people murdered because of his actions. And if that is the case he needs to face the death penalty for his crimes. He very well may have decided to impose his own version of morality by his actions, the problem for him is that the world does not revolve around him and his decisions and actions will face the rules made for the rest of us.

Saying 'Multiverse Propaganda' is putting a judgment into the description thereby attempting to label the Theory you don't agree with as propaganda. This is Slashdot, not the Rush Limbaugh Comedy Show - most readers here can see that obvious bias and unsubstantiated claptrap on the face of it. It does not advance your argument nor does the 'more theory than fact' quip. It's a Theory dude, sorry if this theory is catching the imagination of people and is getting attention but that's how life goes. All that 'Black Hole' stuff was a theory as well and I do remember the folks whose brains had ossified objecting on much the same lines as you objecting. Very sad, especially when most folks will leave it as theory until something is proven one way or the other so all the ranting and slanted arguments on Slashdot you wish to engage in are pretty much a waste of time.

That sounds horribly condescending and dangerous to boot. By saying you need to have an advanced degree in physics to begin to understand this or that theory sounds an awful lot like religious claptrap. Your 'comforting lies' is religious based argument as well. Scientists aren't members of a Priesthood and shouldn't be treated as the only 'Holy Men with the Truth'. And I would say that people who wish to tell someone like Mr. Greene 'To tread carefully' are full of hooey. At least him and a few others are trying to take their knowledge and their theories to the general interested public. Theories and speculation are the name of the game, your game is orthodoxy and staying within the norms of whatever orthodoxy is in fashion at the moment.

Classified documents are still classified documents and if it's illegal to possess or look at them that's not going to change because one disaffected soldier leaks them to someone who makes it their business to harm the United States. The laws are very clear and here the Air Force is just making sure that some idiot doesn't put himself in trouble with the law. And it is blocking those sites from Air Force Computers! Not your computer, work computers used at work for work in the Air Force. Simple.

The more trouble these morons are able to do the worse it will be, there will a greater consensus to clamp down even further on the Internet and the RIAA and the MPAA and all those suckers will attach themselves to the next legislation even tighter and parachute even more control into the Internet. Great move. It's a lose lose situation.

It would be worth your effort to take a look at the ways in which various artists are learning to monetize their efforts. From the work that Trent Reznor does with giving his work away and charging for higher quality sound files to selling tee shirts to other merchandise to engaging the community of fans for him in ways that keep interest up and keep his work relevant to jazz guys like Larry Carlton who has a best selling Jazz album out right now and is a major music artist but who also sells Instructional Guitar videos through Truefire (dotcom) and through his own website and even to the point where he'll have online guitar instructional one on one or in groups - along with the rest of the artists at that Music Instructional company who teach, play live gigs, sell albums, sell 'how to' play their music videos, sell tab and sheet music of their music and do instructional courses and will have online instructional guitar courses and keyboard and bass courses - the point is, if you're smart and you have some hustle in you there is a way to translate your artistry into earning a living. It's not the way it has been, but you know, the guy who sold Horse Buggies in the old days either complained about the shortage of buyers or went out and got a Ford Dealership. Adapt dude. Adapt.

Prohibition - ever heard of it? It was the great idea of making something illegal that could be made in your bathtub. -Pot, making something illegal that grows in your backyard, your basement, your National Forest - easy to grow, easy to sell. Millions and billions in Court costs, incarceration costs, police costs and power to criminals - all for something you can't stop and is no worse than booze. So simple, so hard for people to understand.

What I'm reading here is a commercial from you friendly Windows company. When you try to denigrate people for using machines and OS's that work you're only illustrating how evil the companies are to design their software and the new OS's so that there is compatibility between versions. Except, it's not just really old versions and newer versions, it's this version and the last version. Last computer I built I built with XP, the newer versions are DRM laden bloat ware things that expect me and my computer to support their load of crap. If I upgraded right now I'd have to buy new software for most everything anyways. Now, me and 60 odd percent of my closest friends don't believe any of the hype, we know what works and whether you all put Jerry Seinfeld or shiny happy people all over the commercials telling how smart I am if I upgrade we are not buying that load of crap.

That's certainly a sad state of affairs when kids thing of Bing and they think of a search engine. Bing Crosby one of the greatest singers of all time playing second to a search engine. A nice Bing Crosby story out of the blue and a bit of sports history recovered. Reminds me of the recent discovery of the lost footage of Metropolis. Treasures are still out there it's nice to know.

Yah, I agree. I did pick up Civ 4 recently. I saw it advertised as DRM free which means less fiddling with my own computer by third party software etc. I can wait, I hear it's buggy and all that as well. Well, you know, get the kinks out, get the Steam out and we're in business.

His self righteous brainless disclosure of classified information that was stolen needs to be stopped. He is not some great hero for posting Classified Information. That material was deemed Classified by an American Government that was duly elected by American citizens, and anyone who thinks that Governments which are duly elected have no right to Classified Information from which they can make informed decisions and honestly record and report information to our elected decision makers is some sort of mindless Anarchist. He was not elected, he has no earthly right to be the one to expose information that he might think is worthy of being exposed. Lives have been lost, lives will be lost because of this Clown - the Taliban and Al-Queda are thanking this tool! It's a war for god's sake, people get killed in wars and sometimes the wrong people get killed in war. The United States military goes way out of it's way to keep from killing civilians even though the enemy has no problem blowing up civilians and shooting at allied soldiers while hiding behind women and children yet this Wikileaks Clown thinks our side is the problem. Should he be in charge of deciding the fates of American and Allied soldiers? Should he and some idiot brainless soldier who leaked this info be the one in charge of deciding how many other Afghan civilians get killed because their information was leaked as well? I don't think so. Put this guy in jail where he belongs.

When something is classified and you aren't supposed to view it, then you're not supposed to view it. Something doesn't become declassified because some idiots stole it and some other idiots published it. You say you are war veteran but since you don't seem to comprehend this simple fact you know and don't understand about Security clearances and the purpose of classified documents you know, your speechlessness is understandable. Crimes were committed to acquire these documents, people will go to jail for it. People have died because of this security breech and I do hope that the United States government is able to shut down Wikileaks and end their own disconnect from reality. To think that they will escape the consequences of their actions is the ultimate disconnect as far as I'm concerned.

You know, you come at this with one overriding point of view - US Military is Bad. Well I got news for you. These guys are out there risking their butts for folks like you who don't have the first clue about what those people are going through, how limited they are in how they can respond to the enemy who hides behind women and children and in Mosques and shoot at the good guys from those positions. Those folks are cowardly civilian bombing animals and all you got to say is that there is something wrong with our guys. Ours guys who are us, our kids, our brothers, our sisters and our fathers and mothers. They should arrest this clown if they can catch him and every American who helped put other Americans in danger should be sent to prison for a long long time.

Yah well, they may call the newer XBox 360's -' XBox 360's' but they aren't the same and the games being made now aren't the same either - I have an older XBox 360 and it flat out won't play the newer games. At least with computer games it gives some indication of which computers can play the game - here there is consumer fraud where the machines are represented as the same but that's not the case. The new consoles should be called XBox 365's and just freaking label the new games like Red Dead Redemption as exclusives for the 'New' XBox 365.

The guy had a classified job and a duty to perform that job. His actions jeopardized and continues to jeopardize the lives of American and Nato soldiers so there isn't a hole in the ground deep enough for him to be sent to. The videos he provided have been edited down and turned into propaganda to be used against the United States. The US Military needs to use some common sense security so that crap doesn't happen again.