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The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-outside-my-house-right? dept.

harrymcc writes "Over at TIME.com, I rounded up the year's dumbest moments in technology. Yes, the launch of Healthcare.gov is included, as are Edward Snowden's revelations. But so are a bunch of people embarrassing themselves on Twitter, both BlackBerry and Lenovo hiring celebrities to (supposedly) design products, the release of glitchy products ranging from OS X 10.9 Mavericks to the new Yahoo Mail, and much more." I can't think of anything dumber than the NSA's claims that metadata isn't data.

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  1. Re:Snowden was a dumb moment in tech? by Solandri · · Score: 1, Troll

    Do not compare Manning to Snowden. Manning was a fool and most likely a traitor. He threw out the baby with the bathwater. Just because some of what he leaked turned out to have been leak-worthy does not justify leaking everything he could get his hands on. If you save a dozen people from a burning building but in the process doom a hundred to die, you are still culpable for the deaths of the hundred. He is correctly incarcerated and his rights justifiably curtailed.

    Snowden has been careful to leak only what he thinks was unconstitutional. I disagree with some of this definitions of what's unconstitutional, but I respect that he's trying to leak only the materials which are leak-worthy.