No, the guy who made the petition was way out of line for calling Linux "an approved partner of the NSA", and way out of his depth because he had no idea what the hell he was talking about.

Linus was just responding to an asshat, and went pretty easy on him.

There was no negotiation going on. There was a single obnoxious guy calling Linux "an approved partner of the NSA" and complaining about something he knew nothing about. He deserved what he got. In fact, Linus went pretty easy on him.

I thought the current fashion among self-important people was to constantly talk about how little they care about iPhones.

Doesn't matter. AES is not going to fall to a few ASIC chips in the first place. Doesn't matter how many the NSA builds, and they wouldn't waste their money on that in the first place.

h.264 is massively patented, and it is huge success. JPEG2000 was a failure because it wasn't actually good enough to be worth dealing with the patents for, unlike h.264.

Rafael Vinoly, apparently.

The Arctic is floating, so a melt will not affect sea levels. Greenland is not, though, so it does have an effect. Same goes for the Antarctic, and much more so because it is huge.

No, I mean that all Tor exit nodes can spy on you. And anybody can run an exit node, not just the NSA. Private companies can do so too and collect data on you.

And by using Tor carelessly, you open yourself up to more spying of that kind, too.

I'm sure the NSA will be happy to provide some.

People need to remember that if you access the regular internet through Tor, and don't very carefully make sure to encrypt everything, you are actually opening yourself up to more spying.

Since you have three data points, the correct model is clearly a parabolic function, which gives us the next Nintendo handheld as the -2DS.

I have made no "earlier point".

The point was that such a family could be known of by a friendly government, who then has their information leaked. The effort to redact information from leaks before publishing them is to prevent that kind of thing from happening, because nobody wants that.

I doubt you would have the time to shit yourself in that situation. You'd be too busy getting vaporized in a gigantic explosion.

I have never seen any evidence whatsoever that this actually happens.

It has been suggested many times that it could be done, but not once have I seen anyone point to it actually happening in the wild.