Thank you, this summary is horribly written. News, sure, but this isn't a personal opinion piece. That's what the comment field is for.

That's odd, it still seems to be at full price on Amazon...

Oh how I wish users could be labelled "coworkers". But no, not only is my part of the I.T department outsourced (I work on-site, interestingly enough, the helpdesk is in-house), but the workplace (bank) is set up in a way so that the IT-department (even the in-house guys) technically is a separate corporation from the "main" bank. So our users are most definitely customers, and the customer is always right. This means that when a user screams and calls us "fucking idiots" because his 3G-module is delayed, we have to cower and lick his boots, rather than tell him that his module is delayed because half of the manufacturer's workforce died in the earthquake in Japan... I have no problem with common courtesy, but if "serviceminded" means to pamper these ~50 somethings like spoilt children, I'd rather not be.

Hey, at least it's not about Bitcoin...

I thought this had been known for quite a while? I remember seeing something about it in a documentary once. On a related note, I cannot see any logical reason why LSD should be illegal.

Well.... To be fair, this was inevitable, they screwed it up way too badly with the NGE business. Still, kinda sad to see it go... It was my first MMO, and I spent a few years on it, making online friends in the process, being part of the community.

Give your cynical side a cookie. Now I might be completely wrong here, but the above is really the only reason I can fathom, either that or complete and utter ignorance... Which of course isn't too far-fetched an option... Luckily, polygraphs are not used in court over here in Sweden.

I almost think the FSF published this only to spark a license-related flamewar on Slashdot... Personally, if I were inclined to do coding and release that code, I would probably go with the GPL; If I am to release my work for free (in both senses), I don't want some asshole taking that code and closing it up later on. But I can definitely see why some people might prefer a slightly less copyleft license, so I'm not going to bother trying to change other peoples viewpoints.

Isn't "Rapture" what Google is doing with their Chromebooks? Moving all the user data into the clouds?

Try convincing the big content bigwigs of that...

Whilst I agree (and I'd mod you up if I could), I think it is also important to be cautious that the measures taken to "prevent the leakers from "mysteriously disappearing" because someone at their organization found out what they leaked." is not also used to cover up Mr. Assange's hotel expenses and other luxuries. Donators have a right to know if their money is being used to combat wrongdoings and expose corruption, or if it's being used to give Mr. Assange a yacuzzi in his hotel room.

From the looks of it, you're also on MDMA... But hey, I don't judge.

Well that was a quick argument... Now what am I going to do with the rest of my day?

Whilst bypassing a proxy filter can be difficult, most browser-based and local filtering can easily be bypassed by a quick registry hack, or even just a hidden away option for example, my previous employer allowed access to Facebook and news-sites during lunch hours, using a combination of a registry entry to lock down IE6 settings, and obtaining the settings from a script hosted on the LAN. All you had to do was unlock the settings, and input the proxy address manually. And if I'm not mistaken, the proxy only filtered on a DNS basis, so IPs were cool.