Preposterous. 'Just following orders' (or, 'Just following our directive', as it were) is no excuse. Every human being has an inalienable set of rights, and surveillance violates these rights; culpability for that violation exists regardless of the NSA's ostensibly-foreign 'jurisdiction'.

Except the article says the movies were clearly cam rips.

Well, we've had a good ride, guys.

Their endowment is about $1.4 billion already; they ran a $1 billion dollar campaign as recently as 2003. I'm sure they would find numerous uses for it.

A waterfall is very, very far from a 'vertical water surface'. I doubt it the polarization of the light coming off of a waterfall makes it look any more similar to a pool of water than the colored light coming off of it does (that is to say, not at all).

I've been spelling it "busses" my whole life. Very peculiar: I don't recall ever having noticed "buses" before, but noticing it now, it feels so wrong!

Except people do call pieces of paper (and, more commonly, things drawn on them) 'two dimensional'. With great frequency. It's entirely consistent to call something five atoms thick, where the axis perpendicular to its plane is pretty much entirely irrelevant to its design, 'two dimensional'.

The original article doesn't even make this mistake: it just says that Docs can handle ODF. Nice summarizing, Karashur.

You are precisely what is wrong with popular linguistics and copyright law.