Actually, it was NOT right for him to tell that we were spying on other nations. That is treason. What is whistle blowing is speaking about spying on Americans, and showing proof that it occurred.

No, it has to do with his describing how we do things.

Look, I have no doubt that BOTH china and Russia have copied the disk drives, and without his know it either.
BUT, the real treason was not just when he stole drives, but when he speaks about how we do these things.

Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.

Right there, that is treason. He was not talking about spying on Americans. He was talking about how the NSA does its job. I can not stand MS. They are a very corrupt and inept company. However, they were doing the right things and will burn for it.
Snowden is a traitor in every sense of the word.

Wait, *how* is not allowing an agent who saw something suspicious to stop someone an *advantage*!?

"Sir, I just saw this guy typing a text message 'almost through - they'll never find it before I get on' - should I stop him?"
"No, that would be profiling. Just make sure he pushes the button."

It wouldn't have made a bit of difference, since nothing they did was illegal at the time. They were basically using a few (at the time allowed) X-Actos in their luggage and several months of training on how to fly the planes.

You assume the terrorists are all stupid enough to try to bring something *currently* illegal through screening, which will almost never be the case.

Are you for real? How did this morass of misunderstanding get modded up?

You're not too good at that whole "analogy" thing, huh?

Considering there still isn't a proper and official Mac distribution of WINE, I'm not sure this counts for all that much. It's an absurd problem to have in 2013 and should have been solved long ago.

I have worked on a similar concept for police back in the 90's and can prove it.

When he spoke about spying on Americans, he was a whistle blower. Had he been smart, he would have stopped right there.

Sadly, that idiot carried it into treason and has not only harmed America's interest, but his own: his life.

Snowden will never ever have a normal life. More importantly, no nation will trust a man that is such a traitor. Sure, they will USE him for a time, but he will not be allowed into any place in which he could damage that nation. And within 20 years, he will want to come back to the west, and will be willing to do his time.

He is a hard core republican, per his writing.
And now, based on his actions, I would say that he will fit right in with the current GOP.

No, Florida does have water shortages. You're right that drainage into the aquifer is a problem, but droughts do happen, and wasting water on lawns, golf courses, and sugarcane doesn't help. There have been major wildfires caused by drought in Flordia -- remember those?

There is so much wrong with this post it's kind of sad...

This statement makes no sense in any possible way I read it. I'm not even sure what "a C memory" is, but any normal executable requires memory, of course.

Not necessarily true at all. I work a lot in embedded systems and game consoles, where static linking is really common for C/C++ apps (to have better control over system libs, and for performance).

This statement doesn't make any sense either. A static library is just an archive that the linker pulls from to include code into another executable. Therefore it's NOT shared between "applications" (I assume you mean processes in this case). Shared/dynamic library code, on the other hand, is shared between processes on many (but not all) operating systems.

That generally wouldn't work since Javascript is a dynamic language, and by design the code can be self modifying.

All the fools who offered mortgages on houses no one needed to people who couldn't afford them wrecked the economy. That was started long before Bush. It came on top of the recession caused by the collapse of the dotcom bubble, which people hasten to forget was an artifact of St Bill "do-no-wrong" Clinton.

Bush did a horrible job, no doubt... but you're ignorant if you think he singlehandedly wrecked the economy.

And I'm doubly a fan knowing that so many of you whiners hate it. Makes me feel like I must be doing something right.

I'm sure the dozens of extant Estonians are amazingly proud. The world, however, has barely noticed.