Good for you.
When I'm in the middle of the forest or out in a boat is it's because someone is paying me to do work out there. I often need to communicate with people back at the office in those situations, and texting is often the easiest way to do that.
Who would have even looked for the leaked cables without stumbling upon them first?
Is bringing attention to the cables a good thing or "a security risk that can get people killed?" You are simultaneously praising Lamo for informing on a whistle blower and bringing attention to leaked documents in question. As for the question of who would have looked for the leaked cables, I have a solid confidence the the U.S. government's ability to comprehensively monitor Wikileaks for potentially embarrassing material.
In essence he not only helped himself, but with the media attention also helped Manning's cause.
The positive impact of the media exposure given to Manning's cause by Lamo is easily outweighed by the evidence he turned over to the government.
If Manning's documents actually prove anything then none of this will have been in vain. If they unearth nothing then Manning leaked a bunch of garbage for nothing and is not only reckless but very, very stupid.
If Manning's documents prove anything, the many years he is about to spend in prison will have been in vain.
Well said.
If you think that the economy will fall back to gold after a collapse of the fiat currency, take a look at Zimbabwe: is gold the major currency of the informal economy there? No. They use American dollars and South African rand.
And just to mix a little irony into the situation, many of those rand are earned by digging up gold and selling it for dollars.
people who are not nerds are actually USING COMPUTERS!
Correct.
What they are not doing, however, is reading Slashdot.
If Microsoft
Yes. Generally speaking.
The only people I've had get bent have been the ones trying to use a stolen/loaned card.
False. Visa and MasterCard also got bent, but weren't there to show their displeasure. Most of those cards were loaned, and you cost the card companies money by your actions.
How do you square that with your self-righteousness?
Last and not least, USB is a terrible plug. You always have to try it both ways, you can't visually know if you have to plug it upwards or backwards.
The USB logo always faces upwards. On a desktop machine, "upwards" means "away from the motherboard." Hope this helps.
FFS, if you are an actual Mac user, surely you know that neither the company nor its users use all caps when writing the word "Mac."
In case you are as oblivious as you appear to be, "MAC" spelled in all caps is a bizarre pejorative used by Windows boosters.
There isn't any underlying meaning to the capitalization as used by haters , it's done to be annoying, and it is highly effective.
Type louder, please.
