I spent all afternoon reading the leaked cables. I had things I should have been doing, but I'm naturally nosy and it was fascinating. I haven't read all the ones released so far, but I've read about 10%. For Wikileak's sake, I hope there's some bombshell to come, because I haven't seen any yet.

Pff. Art, science... meh.

Makes sense. How can you tell that you're walking in a straight line if you have no points of reference? There are an infinite number of 'almost straight' paths you can follow. All but one is actually a circle.

@Deekle: Well, it's easy to be principled when nobody gives a fuck what you think or do. I'm thinking of my own country here.

@hexidethoth: You could theoretically combine kinect and higher-resolution cameras. The kinect would determine the coarse 3D geometry and the higher resolution cameras would provide the finer resolution imaging.

@Stem_Sell: Nah, I spend too much time dreaming and reading gizmodo :P. The internet has ruined my productivity.

You'd need one of these.

@Snafu77: That's my point, he's hasn't pissed off the wrong people yet.

Damn, I wish I had the time to play with this.

@jnewman10: Despite what your college buddies tell you... no, no you aren't. America has done some nasty shit over the years, but taken in perspective you guys are the least douchey superpower in history.

@vinod1978:

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: If you weren't the good guys, Assange would be in a hospital with Polonium poisoning.

@vinod1978: Alexander Litvinenko disagrees with you.

No shit, countries spy on each other. Personally, I'm surprised by how tame this all is.

@giorgosmit: And the APEC, ASEAN and BRIC blocks hold another 60% of the World's population. While the level of development in that category ranges from limited to fully developed, they've all mostly solved the basic problems of hunger and endemic disease.

@giorgosmit: More like 3/4s. And America isn't going to solve them for the other 1/4s, unless you want to go Iraq on most of Africa.

@Joshua Bardwell: We did! We cured most childhood diseases. We ended the cold war. We brought most of the world out of staggering poverty and gave them access to education and health care.

@ryszard: Grr. I was curious what that patent's implementation was, so I did a search. I searched that name... nothing. I searched for anything relating to it from 2007... nothing. I expanded though 2009, because there was some references to it from 2009 and some mentioned that it was applied for in 2009.

@Valkyrie Ice: That does not sound like an informed rant.

@Arken: A publicized and consistently applied policy doesn't mean that the policy is not itself egregious, an example being TSA screening procedures.