Google says they did the extra padding to create a "unified experience" for all. Meaning us normal users get to suffer because we somehow need to have the same interface as people using tablets. Like you, I'm going back to Firefox as my primary browser, or Waterfox to be exact.

France would probably be annoyed and hiss a lot about it, but unless the Rwandan dude has broken any local laws he goes free. France is free to vote in laws that allows them to block the domains and/or IPs of the Congolese host in France, but other than that they can't do much.

No, Sweden has no obligation to stop them - just like the US isn't obliged to stop an American from doing something in the US that would be illegal in Sweden.

Manning (or so the prosecutors say) leaked the information, not Wikileaks. That was illegal under US law, and the US has jurisdiction. Wikileaks, on the other hand, is not and has never been a US organisation, and are thus not under US jurisdiction. They are registered in Sweden, and I think their infrastructure is placed there as well, so the legality of whatever they have on their servers is a matter of Swedish law. After all, Sweden is a sovereign country, where US laws doesn't apply.

Caffeinated coffee? That's just "Coffee" - add words if you've taken away the good stuff, not when it's au naturel.

Is there ANYTHING a telnet/SSH client CAN'T do? :p

I was raised in a county in northern Sweden with just over 3000 inhabitants. The closest city with 50k+ people is 160km away. It's basically just forest, lakes, scattered villages and a small central town with about 1500 people. In town you can get cheap cable up to 30Mbit or fiber up to 100Mbit and in the villages ADSL up to 24Mbit. So no, it's not even about local population density.

What saddens ME is that some regard people of a different political persuation "enemies". Extreme political polarization, fed by talking-head whackos, makes people totally lose grip on reality and regard every single thought from the other side as wrong/facist/treasonous/whatever, even if they themselves held that position before.

First of all, as I'm writing this 667 out of 251,287 cables, or 0.27% of the total, have been released thus far. So we have a LONG time to go before we can summarize the leak and see "if it was worth it". They're doing the slow release so each piece is noticed, which I think is rather smart.

Second, I can't speak for all of the 667 released cables as I haven't had the time or patience to go through them, but one revealed the fact that CIA were still ferrying subjects of their "extraordinary renditions" over Sweden in 2006 without telling the Swedish government about it. The flights were tagged as private instead of official and was only discovered when the swedish secret service, dressed as flight staff, got into the plane and exposed them. This, of course, caused a serious diplomatic spat between Sweden and the US. Crimes against us poor swedes: 1, your argument that nothing has been found: 0.

I could be really mean and say one instance (concerning Sweden - again, I haven't had time to go through all the news from other countries) in 0,27% of the documents would indicate around 376 crimes against my country in the full batch, but that would be seriously absusing statistics.

Hopefully the remaining 250,620 documents will be as interesting as this first little teaser.

Indeed, a gazillion slashdotters on top of this will probably blow the hosting company out of its high security bunker. Slashdot links are, after all, one of the few legal ways to DDOS someone.