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Just because it worked out well in the end doesn't mean it was a good idea to begin with

With Metro I think that Microsoft did something really unique, it had a digital design language that spoke to a lot of UI designers. Thats not to say they executed it particularly …

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur... and http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ It was hardly a conspiracy theory.

1984 was written about Russia... Your telling me that apparently that doesn't discredit his position. REALLY???

It really discredits any political position he was/is trying to take. Thats the real advantage of having him in Russia.

It would just give the defense even more evidence. The decision was about whether or not Zimmerman shot him in self-defense, NOT whether or not Zimmerman was responsible for creati…

Again... the key thing that makes it an Orwellian society is self-censorship, not just intimidation.

Sorry, instead of anyone, I should have said "average citizens". Yes after 9/11 the government has a "your with us or your against us" attitude, promoted by Bush. However, your exa…

While I agree that the government is trying to intimidate people with their treatment of Snowden and Manning, I think the goals of the intimidating are very different. In these cas…

Yes, but to be Orwellian the self-censorship must be borne out of government intimidation. In this case the government hasn't intimidated anyone, we were just leaked information. U…

No. OP is saying that he is not outraged because he wasn't surprised. He may not like the fact that it is happening, but he is not outraged. That was the point of the comment. A li…

Absolutely. Unlike computer science topics art does not transfer well onto the internet. While one could learn a number of techniques for drawing and painting online, none of these…

I'm not trying to say that its impossible, not by any means, but the RT article presents the statement as something that is assumed to be true, whereas the HuffPo article presents …

But it also doesn't make it true

You do realize that RT is a directly funded by the Russian Government don't you? There is a great incentive for them to paint the US in a bad light.

NSA probably just wants to look more approachable /s

Actually I thought the article put him in a better light than most of the other pieces about him. It makes him out to be more in tune with the ways the gov could track him. If they…

Not to say that this isn't a noble aspiration, but it is a glaringly naive point of view to say that organizations like the NSA and CIA don't need to exist.

He had also made an offer to foreign governments to sell the information, and judging by the fact that he was carrying classified documents with him when he was arrested, I'd say t…

If they didn't give Robert Hanssen the death penalty, I highly doubt Snowden is going to get it

Except the policy discussion takes place in the country scale not the territory scale.

I've understood that most people have been surprised by the surveillance just because its in an area not many people pay attention to, but for a well run government to A. Not know …

While these are all valid reasons to be concerned about future abuses, none of them are implications on the average internet user resulting from the uncovering of PRISM.

Except nothing has changed. This has been going on for enough time that if the average Internet user hasn't been effected by it yet then they don't have much to worry about in the …

Its really basic things like not lining the window management buttons with the rest of the icons that really piss me off as a designer. Is this really too much to ask for? http://i…