And get sued by Nestle for copying the Baby Ruth :).

And taking the trouble to find this journal and post your opinion about that isn't obsessive and unstable, AMIRITE?

Either one would be interesting news!

Correction to above -- "being able to block whole domains and/or TLDs"

On the right track, but requires URLs rather than being able to block whole domains (e.g. .info -- and yes, I know there are two or three legit sites with .info domains).

. . . they have a patent on censoring content farms and expert sexchange.

Thanks :)!

I bet he would have settled for being on the "Do Not Shoot" list.

Exactly -- while a mandatory "do not track" seems all well and good, I'm sure that compliance hurdles that shut out small players could be of benefit in certain quarters. That, and without a "Great Firewall of 'Merica," it would be unenforceable because the companies that wanted to track could just use offshore servers.

Still never post anything you dont your mother to see -Tony Weiner.

You mean he wanted his mother to see that?! :)

And they'll actually spend that money going after kids sharing whatever garbage the entertainment industry is putting out. What a country!

Interesting -- thanks! I have a FB profile that's pretty minimal, and have assiduously avoided friending those above me in the hierarchy although I know other folks who do not. I work in higher education (not a prof, a lowly staff person) and would have been aghast at having been told I needed to as a condition of employment--and am surprised that HR people would use a vehicle that might give them access to information like familial status, religion, etc. that could get them sued.

Specialization keeps people employed. For example, I know guys still doing SAP Basis administration. Unless the company they work for wants to completely chunk most of its internal workings, those guys are not going anywhere.

Isn't SAP Basis (and PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and the like) I administration fairly easily outsourced, especially with consolidated data centers and companies moving their databases to "the cloud"? I would be afraid of being commoditized and to that end be working on becoming a line-of-business expert (which the folks you know might already well be).

God, I wish I had points so I could mod you up for that Tandy Deskmate reference :).

I started this after I graduated college because virtually every employer I applied for demanded friend access to FB.

I find this utterly amazing. Can you say what career field this was happening to you in? And were they not savvy enough to know they weren't seeing your full profile?