Yeah but you know that now its been mentioned in /. some teenage code monkey who has yet to face the dream shattering realities of the modern I.T. world will give it a damn good go. In fact i'm watching the FFMPEG repository for a patch to encode to SMS in 3....2...1...

Nice argument but fallacious for the following reasons: 1) "It would be trivial for Assange to filter information and only display leaks that would damage the country of his choice" Of course, one would hope this is exactly what he does.
2) "Wikileaks has assumed a level of authority and trust that it has not earned nor that is remotely justified via its internal policies and structure" Incorrect. The Media has placed an air or authority on thier actions, Wikileaks has never made any assumptions or claimed any authourity.
3) "Who is Assange to judge and / or label corporations or individuals?" Who are you to claim he has no right or that his judgenment is not profound?
4) It was called wikileaks becuase the site was originally built on the open "Wiki" website technology freely abvailable (hence all the wiki on the internet)
5) He is not a governmental body nor is he affiliated with one, he can say and do what he god damn likes and there is nothing short of murder that any American can do. 6) The rest of the world is taking great pleasure in watching the last pathetic remenants of United States Culture wither away under the blazing light of truth.

Well ok the World's Largest Banks (except for the real big-ol-boys in Europe).

"People who have never suffred deserve no reparation." That's is quite possibly the most short sighted ignoble thing I have ever read on the subject. Ok, I look forward to the day when the Chinese invade the USA and exterminate the white & black folks and set up the Communist States of America and keep a few white boys on reservations for the tourists to go and take photos of: "Look Li-Yen, theres some real Americans. Yeah look they are just sitting watching TV stuffing there faces with fatty foods" "Daddy, daddy why are there only Americans left in reservations?" "They were an inferior culture that could not resist the Progress we offered them, look how much better off they are now than when they were a superpower - we can control how much food they stuff in there holes and stop them blowing up arabs." "Daddy daddy, why did the americans kill the arabs?" "Well Li-Yen the Americans wanted to destroy any culture that did not watch american gladiators, eat chipotel and slavishly venerate the Israelis." "What happened to them all dad?" "oh most died of cancer from the GM fast food, those that survived that were killed by the Innuit and Japanses, something about it being 'thier turn'."

actually blackmail is a concocation of black and mail so either is correct. Just as couldnt and shouldnt are merely the concocation of Could/Should and Not. Check up the root of the word and why black mail is called black mail before you berate people.

Okay so they give widely varying estimates of the crater's size - assuming the centre value of 120 Km a +/- 60 Km ia one hell of a margin of error. I imagine that the energy released from such an impact is orders of magnitude greater than any nuke we could ever throw at each other. The article metions the release of CO2, but i thought that by definition asteroids were just lumps of rock. So where does the CO2 come from after the impact?

Does it not depend entirely on how you have tuned the instrument? B# in a bizarre avente garde jazz tuning ("hey lets invent some new notes, after g... we could call them h and i. Oh shit! yeah lets decimalise the bastard!") is a significantly different tone to B# in a classically tuned instrument. Now if your talking indian and chinese instruments that opens up a whole world of weird takes on the concept of B#!

"enforced in most foreign nations" You evidently have not spent any time in Asia or Africa. Or most of the rest of the world for that matter. By and large most governments could not give a flying pigs penis for US copyright, we are well aware that it is simply a tool to force overpriced crap onto our domestic markets at the expense of local innovation and production.

"The consumer shouldn't need to sympathize with a company. It's not a person. It's a thing." Actually you will find out that Corporations (such as UBI soft) are legal PERSONS. They are NOT things. This was a piece of Machiavellian law introduced last century to give corporations carte blanche to do what ever they hell they liked. As they are persons criminal proceeedings are brought against the corporation not the board of directors etc. Also bare in mind that a corporations employees are legally constrained to fuck-you-in-the-ass IF it can provide an increased profit for stock holders. It is ILLEGAL for a corporation to knowingly not pursue an action that would increase profit.

/. tends to react to such comments in much the same was as a gastropoda reacts to a bath of sodium chloride.