What you call "United States"? The corporations, their puppet government, or the population? For the last option i'd say that is a hero, and others that work for NSA are the traitors. But you probably think that the ones that fought against England in 1776 or against slavery in 1860 were traitors too.

"The entire world charges US Government with espionage". Is time to UN and world organizations to show that have pants and stop being US government/corporations puppets. Or just everyone stop pretending, nothing of this have anything to do with justice, is just a wrong sign put on top of things that had nothing to do with that word.

The problem is the "small" amount of legacy code. Even with the big amount of deprecated features, a lot of unconsistent (to be generous) things is still there. And if there is not a smooth transition, will be hard that a mass migration happens. Even if the goal is to get a good, consistent language, with good object orientation for version 6, think how much time is taking for Perl 6.

Does it runs Linux? Does gets bricked if try something different from Windows 8, or even windows 8 itself? With that resolution and battery life even Linus could love it... if can run his own system on it, of course.

Is a big point anyway. Indepent auditing. That someone, somewhere, could say that the binary that my distribution gave me had a backdoor instead of the code they published (i.e. because forced by law to do and not disclose it), and that i even could check or rebuild it. With closed source you don't have that freedom, is even against the law to try to find that. And in current US pushed cyberwar state of things (they are trying this kind of things already), to have the possibility of independent auditing of the code you are running is what makes a difference against non open source software.

Is not that i actively will recompile all the software I use, but that if something wrong is happening, i will have the opportunity to know.

Unless NSA avoids it. Too bad for the UN or other contries, by the way, if they detected it, decided not to warn (or even promoted it).

Treating nations and organizations as a whole is unfair, like bombarding an entire city because an isolated terrorist is hidden in a particular building. But when those small components in big organizations or countries does massive damage, you blame the whole deal. If that is wrong, then you had been very deep in the wrong side for decades.

Why not starting at home? Someone had no tolerance for their beliefs, their way of life and their resources, and are invading them, with armies, global economy or/and factories. They just fight back the best they know, after the damage was done. But at home you have your big quota of religious extremists and people in power that see foreigners as tools with no rights, that even push their own governors on them to get easier to become even richer.

Is easier to believe in gods or devils than that complex multinationals controlling governments and international organizations to make money from them, or in intangible things like having a future or freedom.

The sytem must keep working, at all cost. If what you are doing could affect that goal, probably will take it as something bad.

As sysadmin I resent when i got ordered to do something that will hurt the systems i administer in a "wrong" way (specially if there is a right, but dismissed without knowledge, way, to do the same with no or minimal impact), is not about the power that you have as sysadmin, but the responsibility.

Ok, you are right. There are laws, and they must be followed at all cost. Now, pick your state here, select from the list the one you broke up today, and go to jail by yourself now. I.e. if you live in new york, and if you wore slippers after 10pm, then you broke the law. See? Is easy to break dumb, malicious, tricky or just unfair laws in your everyday life, realizing it or not. Slavery or english monarchy in US was law, where the ones fighting against them traitors?

So, how long till the adn of crabs is put into some microbes to industrially make those materials? 25+ years?

The only way to win is that no one plays it. But as there is a player (i.e. the elephant/donkey on the room that is US), everyone lose. And i don't mean government or citizens of some particular nation, i mean mankind as a whole.

I'm mostly ok with the watermarking of the ebook if there is no DRM involved, as it don't limit how/when/where i will use what i bought. But using the watermark to label criminal to someone (and WILL be used that way, knowing the trend even could put you in jail for decades) is dangerous, suddently not having perfect security or privacy becomes a liability, a stolen phone or tablet, a rooted/botnetted/shared pc, not understanding privacy on social networks or just rogue NSA agents could turn into a nightmare ever buying an ebook.

Also, a change in a GPL code don't enable you to change its licence. If you took a GPL program, and modified it, then the modified version must be GPL too. A new version of MySQL should still be GPL, unless you do a complete rewrite.