Great answer... didn't think of that. Completely agree, sometimes more would actually be less, certainly when it comes to media attention. I just hope he's watching all of this closely, and if he feels the Guardian isn't doing its job, he'll dump the entire data anyway, maybe with names/addresses striked out.
You also make another good point, about how he managed to keep a *relatively* low profile... quite different from our favorite activist slash attention seeker Assange. (by the way, I'd mod your comment insightful, but alas, got no mod points)

Sorry if the answer to my question is obvious/common knowledge, but is it known why Snowden didn't release the complete data set, e.g. via wikileaks? Why is the Guardian the "gatekeeper" to this information, I wonder?

I mean, I can think of one reason maybe: to protect his own safety perhaps. Maybe he set something up that releases the full data in case he's arrested, or worse. But anyway, that's speculation... anyone knows if there's some definite answer to the question why the complete data isn't torrented yet?

Hardly surprising. Even a patent troll should know better than going after a guy whose name translates to The Dark Man.

Okay, I admit, I added the definite article for effect, but the rest is true. Source: I'm German

You got to be kidding, right? I mean, I can understand the /sentiment/ behind your comment, but think about it for a second: it's a topic us tech/science people deeply care about (privacy, government control, etc), and as it turns out our worst fears were pretty much true. Now it's finally getting some exposure, so a broader public gets in on it, and maybe, just maybe some momentum will build and a larger number of people will say 'hey, I don't like this one bit.' ... And you want to read /less/ of it?

Okay, let me put it differently: I could see your point if every single submission, or maybe even just half of the submissions would be NSA themed. The way it is now, it's one or two submissions per day. If that's too much exposure for you, then you really don't care much if things change or not.

Oh, one day there will be a golden age where only people with actual knowledge will comment on a topic.

USD market, 3 largest exchanges combined, last 30 days: ~550 million USD

EUR market, 3 largest exchanges combined, last 30 days: ~36 million EUR = 46 million USD

Much smaller? Sure.

"In the .01% range"? Try "in the 8 to 9% range".

And I suspect it can only get bigger now ^__^

Falstein hired again by a big company! I think in the past decade or so he only worked on smaller titles, like educational games, just like many of the designers that had their big moment in the late 80s to late 90s. It would be fanstastic if he got another shot at a "big" game. Probably not going to happen at Google, but one can dream.

For those who forgot why the guy is a genius: he made several good games, but his work on 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis', together with Hal Barwood, is a high point of video game story development and writing in my opinion. Companies like BioWare today that are known for designing "well written" games built on their work.

I don't really see any obvious misogyny in the comments above yours (perhaps I've set my display threshold too high)

Then again, maybe the problem is not misogyny after all. If the astronaut would have been male, I'm pretty sure the comments on here would have been just as nasty (modulo the "grease in the toolbag, har har" stuff). But since the astronaut is female, ridiculing her seems to be equivalent to collectively ridiculing every single girl in science/engineering/basically everything outside the field of traditional jobs for women.

I would seriously hope that taking the piss out of a guy or a girl doesn't make a difference anymore.