It doesn't work to do this with a democratic government. We need a monarchy :-(

It seems to me that SpaceX is on the path to a solution that might be affordable by a single administration, though.

Certainly not. These are very small satellites, probably will be launched something like 20 at a time. Maybe 9 orbital planes with 20 satellites each?

Faster boot? Faster shutdown? Less crapware? Less malware? Less rebooting? Less vendor lock-in? Longer battery life?

I don't really know, but those are possibilities. All of those things certainly apply to ChromeOS.

Kind of like a social network of satellites :)

Seriously, this makes a lot of sense. At the low altitudes that these will fly, the power necessary to reach the satellites will be much lower than geosynchronous or even Iridium satellites. Mass producing small satellites probably is cheaper than building a few big ones, as well.

> You forgot the one where he knowingly and intentionally violated the law.

So did Rosa Parks.

Maybe more relevant examples of such law breakers would be Ben Franklin, or Daniel Ellsberg?

Is Snowden in the same class as these patriots?

> Like Edward Snowden, Benjamin Franklin Was Called a Traitor For Informing the People About the Actions of its Government
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/like-edward-snowden-benjamin-franklin-was-called-a-traitor-for-informing-the-people-about-the-actions-of-its-government.html

> Pentagon Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg Praises Snowden, Manning
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/03/208602113/pentagon-papers-leaker-daniel-ellsberg-praises-snowden-manning

I have used several. Right now I have a quad-core AMD 64-bit. I am using CentOS 6.5.

Gotta think long term.

MS has been pulling the same scams for decades. Bottom line: you cannot trust Microsoft. Not now, not ever. MS is going to do everything it can to force people onto win8, everybody knows it.

Maybe China has finally wised up?

As soon as you reverse engineer windows, MS will change something so that your reverse engineered version is no longer compatible.

Look at MS does with it's ms-office formats.

In linux, the source code is visible, makes it harder to hide stuff.

In my experience - and I have quite a lot - linux is *far* more secure than windows.

Closing ports, or whatever, is ridiculously simple. Finding hidden code in a binary distribution is much tougher.

LibreOffice works for me.

BTW: MS's nasty vendor lock-in scam is just another very good reason to ditch windows.

Certainly not true in my case.

I think windows, especially after XP, is a total POS. Linux desktop blows it away in terms of speed, security, reliability, and everything else.

Although I hardly use it anymore, I constantly have to muck with win7 on my laptop. Badly behaved apps put crap in my start up - making the boot time even slower. Every time I boot up, or shut down, I have to wait for updates. Sound stopped working for no apparent reason, had to fix something in the registry. On and on, one thing after another.

Linux just works, and work well. After using windows, linux is like a breath of fresh air.

So we just kill anybody who might, someday, be a potential threat? And don't worry about collateral damage either?

We start doing that, and people with say, with some justification, that we are just a great bully. We start doing that and others will feel fully justified in attacking us in every possible way. Even our allies we snort that we are getting what we deserve.

This not like WW2 where we had soldiers fighting soldiers. We are not fighting a nation that can ever negotiate any kind of peace.

The more the US involves itself in mid-east affairs, the more they are motivated to attack the US. Nobody flew airplanes into building in Switzerland.

> FTFY, after all, only idiots think their goal is to 'terrorize' the US when it's actual fighting to not be oppressed under US 'freedom' and 'capitalism'.

I guess that explains why they kidnapped those 200 girls. No doubt those girls were going to oppress them.

I guess that explains why Muslims kill other Muslims in terrorists attacks so often.