>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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.