>What kind of thing could possibly be leaked, and how badly will it damage international relations?
Well it might be tricky politically for Germany to get behind the US if the leaks contain plans for a 'final solution' to the problem of muslims living in America.
Mostly it's just lots of governments that have opposed torture in public statements are going to be embarrassed when it's detailed how their security services stood there while the person was electrocuted then asked their questions.
The UK just made a big payout to lots of Gimto inmates to avoid this coming out in court.
Also those who are registered as software professionals with the British Computer Society or similar are least likely to be using SO - either because they know all the answers - or more likely - are too busy doing flow charts of what their perfect system would look like if they ever actually did any programming.
Thats why airport sniffer dogs are often beagles rather than the German Sheppard/Bloodhounds used for cargo.
Beagles are small cute and non-threatening, and they don't have to climb all over you to smell explosives.
By contrast the police here got German Sheppards to sniff for drugs on suspects on the street. It turns out the police didn't actually buy trained sniffer dogs - they just wanted something big and fierce looking to 'encourage' people to cooperate.
Personally I think the lesson to be learned from Northern Ireland is to avoid demonizing terrorists - it really doesn't achieve anything. Try and understand what it motivating them and you might stand a chance of working things out.
If you sell an ARM powered netbook that means no windows. So you can wave goodbye to being able to use OEM copies of windows on any other products that you make.
So anyone like Asus or Acer that have a PC business and launch a non-windows netbook soon learn the error of their ways.
They can sell one line of Windows-proof highly capable, futuristic computers while keeping and developing their legacy-ish, kludgy, virus-infested, Windows-bundled, 8080-descendant-based inefficient lines.
Of course, Microsoft will probably find a way to increase their OEM pricing, specially if the Windows-proof line ends up making a dent on the Windows-bundled lines. And they don't even need to increase, say, Asus's licensing prices. All they have to do is to lower Acer's.
MSFT tend not to increase pricing they tend to say - ship even one computer without Windows and you wont be buying OEM Windows for any of your other machines.
They've gotten in rather a lot of trouble for doing that in the past. Do you have any evidence that they have been doing it since the emergence of the netbook market?
But only a little bit - they are still sold for $200-$300 so you are selecting users who are likely to go out and buy games.
If you gave away XBox/PS3 for free the vast majority of users would just use them fro playing dvd/blueray or browsing - not enough people would buy ninja-killer-car-stealer-gold edition for $60 to pay them back.
You would need a lot of granularity - wipe business emails but not personal ones, wipe documents that were mentioned your employer, but not your CV, business calls/contacts but not personal ones to workmates?
The question is whether an Exchange wipe should wipe stuff that isn't managed by Exchange (mail / calendar / contacts). That seems like a reasonable level of granularity.
OTOH, a corporation really does want to wipe the whole thing if it's lost, which is why the Exchange level wipe works this way. It's listed as a business feature: http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/
There is a similar one of an SR71 tooling around over Cuba at god-knows-what 1000s of feet being asked to move to make way for another airplane.
A Concorde goes past, with people in shirt sleeves happily sipping their champagne.
There was a veritable Cambrian explosion of different personal computer designs in the late 70s early 80s before the PC came along that existed contemporaneously with the Apple II.
Pretty much all of these were evolutionary dead ends.
Yes and in 1995 one of them made an OS with pretty pictures and clicky mousey thing that looked very much like someones elses pretty pictures and clickey mousey thing.
Except theirs cost $99 or free with your costco computer - while the other guys meant you had to spend $1500+
Well it might be tricky politically for Germany to get behind the US if the leaks contain plans for a 'final solution' to the problem of muslims living in America.
Mostly it's just lots of governments that have opposed torture in public statements are going to be embarrassed when it's detailed how their security services stood there while the person was electrocuted then asked their questions. The UK just made a big payout to lots of Gimto inmates to avoid this coming out in court.