Apparently college dropouts have a track record of messing up in their jobs (like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc). Indeed, shocking.

Thanks for the laugh.

He was already the enemy, outting himself or not. There is NO way he could hide. Sooner or later they would catch him and make him look as a criminal. Now he stands as a hero. There is no point in hiding/running from a government who invest trillions of dollars in the security system when you just one guy with a standard income. He had no choice but become public. I think you don't realize the imbalance in power between him and the government.

Generally agree. Look at Japan by the end of the WWII. The U.S. was destroying every city without even entering them, just with air bombers (and Afghanistan, Iraq, etc just prove the point). Of course if the army actually tries to invade a city by ground with troops, the citizens can fight them with whatever weapons they have.. but they'll lose and it'll be bloody, instead of just losing. So the "we ought to have guns to defend ourselves from the government" is a joke.

Now I know what all those webinars I get invited to are all about.

Mod points!

Do you see widespread use of cellphones and tablets running on FOSS? I don't so no worries there, the feds won't have much problem.

But Android is FOSS!. Hear you buddy, dream on. Even if you have the skills to compile Android from scratch, don't need any closed drivers and can manage to install it on your cellphone... even then you're just a few in a billion users market. For all practical purposes there is no FOSS getting in between the feds/govt and your privacy.

I salute your effort to have a rational conversation. Unfortunately this is Slashdot.

By the way, does anyone have suggestions for discussion sites that try to follow basic discussion rules (like forming sound arguments) as a philosophy?

Yeah, I'm sure there were none.

I have used Google Docs products for the last 3-4 years in various ways and I can say this: they suck.

Try to create a spreadsheet with a moderate number of rows and you're toasted, specially if you use any kind of formula.

BTW, everything done using the super Google Chrome browser so there would be no complaints.

As in everything has moved, is moving or should be moved to the cloud, right? Indeed.

Guns require brains to work properly. The later are in short supply. Good luck with your theory.

Because all the time the Linux distributions waste on crap seems to indicate so. Are they bored out of their mind that they need to focus on stupid things?

So Microsoft is right in focusing Windows 8 on the tablet market? Just making sure I understand /. because depending on the day it goes like this "Microsoft screwed Windows with all the touch stuff" and "Tablets and touchscreens are the future, the PC will die".

Your plan is sound, if you plan on producing sausages. Unfortunately memory chips aren't that tasty.