Because the CIA is independent, would this even affect them at all?

Which I agree with, but in that case do you really need a device for this? It could easily just be written as software for your PC. (Maybe has been for all I know.) It loses its always-on status, but I'm not sure that's terribly vital if the syncing is quick.

Just so. The proposed law makes it illegal for software to share without your permission, but it hardly makes it impossible. People could perhaps claim that they were unaware that their software was distributing anything at all, then point at this law and claim the software was supposed to have warned them of this fact but failed to do so. Not that they would necessarily succeed with such a defence... IANAL.

If they were on Vista or 7 I would agree, but he's moving them from XP. I would suggest that Kubuntu isn't much (if any) closer to XP than Ubuntu is.

Nope... only stuff I have is a pair of "Join Our Team!" shirts originally mdant to advertise hiring that I got when the company gave them all away the same day it laid everyone off. I should consider donating them to street people actually. It'd be strangely fitting. >.>

Yet the pages portray it for all the world as though one is buying a book.

I doubt they expect anyone to go out of their way to use it. The idea is that they can get some companies to use it OEM in the hopes that a lot of customers using those devices won't bother to change their OS.

If you think about it, people said the same thing about the Wii, but the extra publicity only helped out Nintendo.

Ugh, what a terrible way of handling that. >.<

I mean, the function should obviously be boolean.

This is actually very true of some games that are so good the first time through that replay value is less of a factor. Off the top of my head, the Phoenix Wright series' success can back this up. So can any of the more successful story-based adventure games.

A very few of the simpler ones are alright. Anything sufficiently minimalistic. I like the Canucks one, and the Mahjong one isn't bad for instance. But yes, most of them try to treat it like a wallpaper, and plaster the browser with gaudy colours, making things on the menu bar, tab bar and/or status bar unreadable.

Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it.

I've worked for a call centre under a few contracts. That's pretty much the standard everywhere. First thing we were told before getting access to the CS tools was that yes, you could access pretty much anyone's account info you wanted, and that if you did so for any reason other than it being necessary for your work you would be fired on the spot. Only information such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers was not readily available. On one contract, we could log into anyone's account on the website and take any actions with it the user could (and then some), though this was done very rarely.

Honestly, it doesn't stress me out all that much; I put nothing on Facebook that I wouldn't want getting into others' hands. I expect that the things I set to "friends only" won't be available to the average Joe who happens by my profile, but at the same time it doesn't surprise or annoy me that Facebook employees can see it. Of course they can.