Why not consult the Chicago Manual of Style? Because it's not the final authority - no style manual is. It was written for a specific purpose and it only applies to THAT purpose.

I'm a 2-spacer. My primary argument is that it eliminates all possible ambiguity about if the period is ending an abbreviation or ending a sentence. I frequently run into situations where text written with single-spaces produces ambiguity and I have to re-read the sentence(s) to figure out where they stop and start.

I also feel it makes for easier reading to have a bit more space between sentences. (The same reason I use 2 line feeds between paragraphs.) The primary argument against (e.g. creating "rivers" of white space in text) comes from crappy layout decisions such as using justified text in too-small columns.

FYI, I learned to type on a computer, not a typewriter.

The contract will expire, sooner or later. When that happens, if the school has been happily operating in a Windows-free environment the administration will clearly see that there is no need to renew the contract. The sooner they start using alternative, open source software, the better. Don't let the Windows contract stall or slow this process! Thinking; Oh, we won't save any money by not using Windows now, so we should go ahead and use it to "get our money's worth" is false economy. Even if Windows software were free, it's still not the best choice. It's bloated, it's buggy, by design it's insecure. If you have the IT staff that can support free Open Source OSs and applications, you will be better off than tying your organization to closed-source software, especially when it comes from Microsoft.

And hope that someone trying to do deep research doesn't decide to look at a timeline result to find the earliest posts that reference you.

In Facebook, go to:

Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Applications and Websites

You will find the following:

What your friends can share about you through applications and websites
When your friend visits a Facebook-enhanced application or website, they may want to share certain information to make the experience more social. For example, a greeting card application may use your birthday information to prompt your friend to send a card.

If your friend uses an application that you do not use, you can control what types of information the application can access. Please note that applications will always be able to access your publicly available information (Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages) and information that is visible to Everyone.

Personal info (activities, interests, etc.)
Status updates
Online presence
Website
Family and relationship
Education and work
My videos
My links
My notes
My photos
Photos and videos of me
About me
My birthday
My hometown
My religious and political views

So you CAN control what information your friends know about you that is "shared" with applications.

The anonymous reader who reported on TFA is not correct that you can no longer control the distribution of your most personal data on Facebook.

To test my theory, I searched Facebook for "mark smith" and found dozens of Mark Smiths whose privacy settings don't share any personal information (such as their city/hometown) with strangers. All I learn about these various Mark Smiths is that:

Mark only shares some of his information with everyone.
If you know Mark, send him a message or add him as a friend.

Then I created a test account on Facebook, and locked it down. See if you can find any info on facebook about the account I just created in the name of: Catherine Fiver.

I'd like to see someone in this thread give a concrete example of a setting they can't actually lock down to an acceptable privacy level, because I've gone over all the privacy settings and it looks like you can lock your account down to a level of uselessness (such as the Catherine Fiver account) where no one else on Facebook will know anything about you unless you connect to them as a friend, and even then they will know almost nothing about you. You can lock down how visible your account is - choosing if you want to allow indexing by search engines - and if your account is found by facebook user searches by non-friends. If you lock your account down to the limit (as I did with my test account), non-friends won't ever find or see you on facebook.

The default choices for each data field are "everybody", "friends of friends", "only friends" and "customize". Within the customize menu you can choose "just me", or allow or block specific people.

It's not Google that should sue them, it's the government. It's tantamount to price fixing which is illegal because it hurts consumers.

I use the customized CSS from www.floppymoose.com to block ads in Firefox. Works like a charm! I've been using it for about 5 years, and there hasn't been a single security incident associated with this solution.

I don't think you thought this one thru very carefully. Once the wallet is lost, how would he login to all his accounts to reset the passwords?

Most websites have a function to email you your password, or to reset and email you your new password. But that doesn't work if you don't remember your email password and you lost that slip of paper...