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The best way to make a slave of a man is to throw him a bit of cash. The mere promise that there might be more brings out forlock-tugging cowardice. Someone at JHU saw some NSA cash disappearing, and so came down hard. Academic freedom HAH! The fact they fell for the "using the NSA logo" line...

Skype if it launched today would never fly. Drop outs are frequent, and they aren't fixing bugs people have been complaining about on forums for years. Entrepreneurs want to succeed and work hard to make sure customers are happy. Turn big and hire clockpunching chair warmers and this is what...

WHAT HAPPENED TO SPOILER ALERT? Thanks idiot author for telling me one of the main characters is dead YOU MORON. Hey, NSA, I saw the reporter of this piece taking information from a certain someone in a certain Moscow airport lounge. Just sayin'

> The Lavabit shut-down came just a few weeks after a particularly stupid human rights activist revealed that she was contacted by NSA leaker Edward Snowden using the service. Fix'd

Point is they are supposed to do that even when their constituents aren't looking.

I've seen one patent troll suit up close. The patent texts are obfuscated beyond belief. They are pure jibberish. They don't mean anything, but lawyers love ambiguity and makes a huge profit arguing this twaddle. The USPTO are a joke. They approve anything and "let the courts sort it out" at...

I've walked away from projects. Hard to do at the time, but I've never looked back and regretted it. You're glad the monkey is off your back. There have been a small number of customers affected, but they've never been paying anything which doesn't make them customers IMO and asked to pay for...

Snowden: It is also a serious violation of the law. The 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution of my country, Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Obama press spokesman Jay Carney: The man has been charged with three felonies and should be returned to his home country...

Be creative. Have a thousand volunteers in blonde wigs suddenly enter then emerge from the embassy. Then record and play back the ensuing mayhem to the Benny Hill theme. They could even do dry runs for laughs. The fuzz would be forced to treat every one of them as if it were real.

No one I think has a problem with it stopping genuine terrorism. The problem is PRISM data being used by corrupt government officials for the wrong reasons. The G20 intercepts are nasty. Time to manufacture a rape charge against the Guardian for reporting it.

As one of the 4 people using the Windows 8 store I welcome these changes. Oh. One said he bought his Surface by mistake. Well as one of 3 people I welcome these changes.

Was a fascinating article I read on "The Last Days of Infocom". Described how an arrogant CEO who never wanted to do interactive fiction shunned their incredibly successful interactive fiction line to pursue databases which they had no expertise in and for which they finally delivered a mediocre...

Our privacy is worth more than money to us, but it has a monetary value to Google. Eric sells our data every day, but freaks out at the possibility of someone flying a drone over one of his properties. Google Glass *is* creepy. On 4chan Pedobear endorses it.

Trouble is even in safe democracies like the US, UK and Australia there is corruption in government. Criminals, bent officials and people on the take. Not everyone, but they are there. Giving crooked officials access to your data is what worries me the most. If you are a nobody who veges out...

Well when you read the answers from lawyers realize they will justify *anything*. That is their job. A classic exam question is to defend one side of a case and then make them flip sides and defence the other. Here's my simple answer: The government can do whatever it wants, and wait for the...

If they read mine they'll waste a few megawatts to get... small business plans.

Hang on... I've written many applications with the flattened look. Release the lawyers! I'll sue Apple for all they are worth! Delicious irony in reading their own Look n' Feel submissions back at them.

8.1 should boot first time with a video of the idiots responsible for the Windows 8 mess being fired. Seriously. It was a major pain to our business. Forced us to drop our windows app because we knew customers wouldn't buy a windows PC with this piece of crap on it. So we've gone tablet and so...

It should do, but lawyers are notorious at covering up each others malfeasance. I know two legal review committees and both cover up even criminal conduct by fellow lawyers. Lawyers look after their own. If a lawyer is hung out to dry it's only because they don't have enough friends in the...

They should force judges to go out and try earning as living as software developers for a few years. Maybe then they would understand how badly they have failed the American public.