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a)Archlinux

b) Love the package manager and user repository(AUR). Also the configurability to make it exactly how I want it. No bloatware that comes with the initial install. Great community and wiki.

c) As others have said, I sometimes find limitation with Libre and Open Office when compared to MS Office.

That there will be some restrictions on 'editorial independence' and the fact that Matt Taibbi has left the organization kind of supports this.

I guess I phrased my comment incorrectly. I am aware that other organization have the documents, but my problems is questioning journalist/news organizations as the gate keepers to what the public should know/should not know.

>"The idea was that the professional journalists would be better at figuring out what was both news-worthy and ethical to release"

I completely disagree with this.

Can you provide some a source for the claims about wikileaks?

Thanks for this.

I already had my suspicions about Firstlook Media, and this just reiterates them.

Secondly, I am not too impressed with the way Greenwald has been guarding the leaks and his organisation is the sole benefactor of their contents as he trickles them selectively to the public. The documents should be accessible to all. Having said that I am an admirer of his work, but would love to have seen the documents given to Wikileaks

Well according the the theorem there is no integer solutions when the exponent is greater than 2.

Am I missing something, doesn't this contradict Fermat's last theorem

> In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer value of n greater than two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem

Thanks you, I had to scroll down a fair bit to see someone point this out.

I am with you, I wouldn't wear one if they paid me. The data they are harvesting is a lot more valuable than the service they are providing.

I am sure health insurance companies are salivating at the opportunity to buy this data. Even if the data is anonymous.

You and me both... Sad state of affairs with ridiculous government propaganda, and major media outlets playing along.

This is the wikia page of the process http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/Uncovering_Cicada_Wi...

Doesn't it work the other way... Math provides clarity where as words can be ambiguous.

> Second, while IQ and mental illness actually don't correlate, creativity (which is very helpful for getting a PhD in many fields) is correlated with mental health issues.

Do you have any sources for this? I would like to read the some of the studies.

First he is the authority on speaking about poverty and now he is the authority on speaking about privacy. Oh the irony...

Interesting essay on this from the man himself. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

You just have to listen to a politician speak for a few minutes to see how language has been corrupted...

Bitcoin is a threat to the Chinese government's control over the populace so it's not surprising to see this...

Hard to believe that these talks are conducted in secret behind closed door. It is quite clear the some of the proposals are strictly designed to serve powerful interest groups. Great work by Wikileaks to put this in the public arena.

A few transactions went from one wallet to another and this is considered a link... give me a break

EDIT I am referring to the article not the yet to be published material

I just got mine on the weekend! I have it set as a home theater PC with Rasbmc, so far I am absolutely loving it.

While is support premise of the article, I have difficulty in accepting the fact that our democratically elected and funded government will continue to spy on us and is beyond our control.

Yes, cash is more anonymous. Though, large deposits and withdrawals of cash receive more scrutiny.

I think the anonymity of Bitcoin makes it tougher to regulate when compared to other currencies which generally pass through regulated intermediaries.

This is more about the government trying get its share of the pie and control and monitor bitcoin. Inherent in the philosophy of bitcoin is a society where no central authority can control the means of exchange. I think the more control the governments puts around bitcoin the more people will be driven to alternative crypto-currencies...

Yeah, while I have respect for Greenwald's work, I struggle with the notion that a news organisation with a billionaire as its backer can maintain a fully independent editorial policy.

Chomsky and Herman point to five distorting filters which I think are prevalent in most mainstream news organisations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...

Maybe I am cynical, but this seems more like a 'user privacy' PR stunt than Google actually caring about user privacy.

I am pretty much using DDG for most searches, with Google now being the exception. I did take a little while to get used too, but now it seems natural to search using DDG.

Closed source with a finger print scanner!! No thanks...

Communication needs to be decentralised...

I'm in Melbourne too... started thinking about this while browsing reddit on the weekend, had no idea there was a group

"To repurpose the famous A.J. Liebling statement, internet freedom is guaranteed only to those who own a connection. "And right now, you and me don't own the internet—we just rent the capacity to access it from the companies that do own it," Wilder says."

What do people think of I2P Email? http://www.wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Anleitung-i2p-Sus...