Actually over classification is a federal crime. The same law that set out the classification levels etc also made it illegal to knowing over classify material simply to keep it out of the public eye. Now that aside I still feel from what I know what Manning did was wrong and he should be punished to the full extent of the law.

Incent. The word is incent.

What do you propose then? Historically defense has been where any number of the innovations we currently take for advantage came from. It is often times extremely hard to value what they produce, especially from highly secretive portions of it, but they are there. The NSA has been working with colleges for years to beef up their security education. Now they probably only get a fraction of the graduates that go through these programs. How do you think the companies that get the remainder feel about getting developers that better understand how to create secure systems and software? How does that benefit the economy? While some of the cyber issues may be over hyped, I do not think to many people will disagree that we can do a hell of a lot better. How often do we hear about companies getting broken into or attacked? I also do not think there is really any group with as enough influence and resources to get us on better footing the the Federal Government. In order for that to happen they have to make a major investment, hence what is going on in this article.

It's not turned on for everyone yet. But you can go here to force it on.

I don't think the connection is tenuous. Is the theme intended to be run as part of Wordpess? Yes. Does the theme work without Wordpress? No. Sounds like a derivative work to me.

IMO there is a big difference between coding to an established interface (let's say POSIX) and writing an extension (theme/plugin/whatever) that is intended to run only as part of a specific piece of software (like Wordpress).

If you want to create your own non-GPL blogging software to run your own themes, go for it. If you want to save time by using someone else's work, you have to abide by their rules. I am pretty sure that this definition of derivative work has not been tested in court yet, but it really has nothing to do with the GPL specifically.

If the patient REALLY wants that head CT, even though it's unnecessary and expensive, what about that one in a million chance that there was really a problem that the doctor missed that the test would have caught? Can you say lawsuit? Over-medicating and over-testing are a big problem, but don't blame the doctors, blame the lawyers and the misguided notion among the public that more treatment is always better.

How is that a bad thing? You might feel differently when your car is totaled by an uninsured driver, who has no money to pay for your medical bills even if you sue him.

NAT requires jumping through all sorts of hoops to try to get back to the host-to-host connectivity that IP used to allow. It's slowing the adoption of things like IPSEC and makes any application that requires peer-to-peer connections a chore to set up. NAT is not a good thing.

While I agree that some organizations have many more addresses than they will ever use, firewalls have nothing to do with NAT. Every company *should* use a firewall, of course, but firewalls worked perfectly well before NAT, and they will continue to work after NAT dies a deserved death.