Blame your phone battery on it too then - your sim card is more likely to run java than not (I'm not kidding, embedded java is actually fairly mature thing).

You know, if only there was a way for the government to clear this all up in a quick and efficient manner where public would trust their answers, none of this would have happened. Might be the chinese, might be not. The root of the problem is that you will be hard pressed to find a person that will trust anything that comes out of a mouth of government official (bush, obama, clinton, whatever).

I give you $100 a month for 10 years.

You suddenly decide you want to be nice and decide to give it all back.

You give me $100 and then another $100 next month. And announce that you are even.

Simple enough for you?

Sounds like a pretty good improvement on the existing track record!

Gnome is not the problem. X11 is.

You have never actually used MS SQL Server, haven't you?

At the other end of support contract you still only have hired bodies. They might be smart, they might be shit, when it comes to software nobody ever is going to give you a warranty that in case if you find a show-stopper bug it will be fixed within an hour (when it comes to hardware it's a bit easier - you are dealing with basic logistics, not the halting problem).

And you'd be surprised of the quality of the 'admins' you can hire on the market. Good ones (paid reasonable salary and looked after) will be more than happy to do a proper debug in case of issues and perhaps even pre-emptively go for the sources and verify the code paths that might be a problem in the future (here's one thinking of you, P.M. and A.I. ;))

They could try copying ribbon?

Well, maybe the admin in question got used to querying the /proc directly doing the maths in his head and simply never felt the need to look for the easy opt-out which doesn't really give all that much useful information in the first place? ;)

If you are an organisation in charge of fairly personal details of the upcoming generation and you somehow decide to put in on a public web server in nice sequential HTML pages (not even attempting to add any kind of authentication), plus, miss the traffic spike by somebody downloading the hell out of it from small subset of IP's...

There used to be laws that protected people that pointed out large scale incompetence by organisations that really should know better. If I found 20 boxes containing the tax records of most senior government officials while working in landfill, I wouldn't be the guilty party. Whoever failed to secure them properly would be looking at end of his career if not a criminal liability though.

There is NO expectation of privacy once you put something on a public server. There is no such thing as *private* server if it is accessible by public. Your server authorises access to the information when it responds to an ordinary request with 'yup, here you go'.

Stop mixing OSS with "source available" software...

Show me something comparable* to MacBook Air and I'll be more than happy to try it out.

*Price. Quality. Resale value. Longevity.

Apple have found a very interesting niche mass-producing high-end quality products. Nobody else has managed to come close quality wise and all that investment in taking a BSD kernel and sprucing it up for modern expectations has paid off quite nicely too. The cost is not absurd, in fact, for what I'm getting, I consider it surprisingly cheap.

Perhaps could have worded it better - as far as I'm concerned they have the hardware in question, they can help themselves to all they want to 'produce' the data whatever means they have at their disposal (and I'm sure NSA would be more than happy to oblige and disclose their true capabilities in public court).

Requiring/ordering anyone to provide their passwords is absurd and should be shot down with a big flamethrower outright. (irrespective of the particulars of this case or the obvious claims to think of the children, the terrorists and muslims coming shortly notwithstanding, the potential of abuse of such precedent in wide range of areas starting from journalism, activists and going all the way down to divorce cases or misdemeanours is ... unbelievably large.)

Uhm, yeah, touchy subject. Especially since original poster _is_ 100% spot on and the only reason why you are spewing filth is because we have learned to accept one and have chosen to find the other repulsive (at least for now, in the current social context).

In medical/psychological context there is no difference - both are straits of sexuality. Some might call both of them abnormal, some might classify them along heterosexuality, the fact remains though.

Gay guy having ideas is one thing, gay guy going out and raping random stranger he followed in the middle of the night is other, right? Now think of how this applies to other cases.

If they are established beyond reasonable doubts - surely that's all the prosecution needs. If they need to see them that doesn't sound like 'beyond reasonable doubts' to me at all.

Of course that is ignoring the fact that prosecution already have the storage devices in their possession. Rendering any 'producing' argument moot.