I believe Apple has retail stores located in Connecticut and I think Amazon might have some sort of presence (can't readily find anything but they could have distribution/data center there). Wouldn't the presence of these companies be enough for the AG to launch his own investigation?

I'm not arguing your point about the grandstanding, I think you're right on target. Investigating two large companies is sure to get some media attention and some "Ooo look! He's doing his job!" from voters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_(2005_film)

Looks like both allowed this one...

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I use XML over HTTP all the time. How is it hilarious?

I always have a link to the homepage at the top-left when I design the a site just because I like to click the site's logo to start over at the root. That's where I look first. The top-left corner of my screen has 80% of all clickable objects.

That's where our eyes go. When you read a book, first word is top left of the page. It's be interesting to see stats for that broken down by country to see if right-left language users go to the top-right more than left-right. Who knows, maybe multilingual sites should align to the right or do a horizontal swap when the user changes to a right-left language (or do they already?). Could easily be done in CSS too.

Good job slashdot, keep those javascript changes coming. I clicked the reply to on the above post, not this one. Time to noscript.

I always have a link to the homepage at the top-left when I design the a site just because I like to click the site's logo to start over at the root. That's where I look first. The top-left corner of my screen has 80% of all clickable objects.

That's where our eyes go. When you read a book, first word is top left of the page. It's be interesting to see stats for that broken down by country to see if right-left language users go to the top-right more than left-right. Who knows, maybe multilingual sites should align to the right or do a horizontal swap when the user changes to a right-left language (or do they already?). Could easily be done in CSS too.

"Just don't take your mobile phone anywhere." -Steve Jobs, paraphrased

I work in a computer lab on my university campus. I sit in the lab for 3-5 hours a few days a week. With this kind of time, I have noticed many people come in and read/post on facebook for at least an hour every day (I have seen people using facebook for my entire shifts).

When I notice a line starting for computers, I go around and ask the people I noticed spending too much time on facebook to let those in line have a chance. I always do this politely but even though they have spent an hour or two on facebook, I am always met with a look of disgust. Some of those people have even started yelling at me and others I've had to call campus police to escort out. It really seems as if many people have a mental addiction to social networks like facebook. They fear that they will miss something important if they aren't watching the news feed 24/7.

Those are the type of people that I see when I'm working the lab that lead me to believe these statistics just a bit. 16 billion seems too big but I can believe at least 3-5 billion minutes are spent on facebook a day just from the people I see in the labs.

Now something I do agree with you with respect to the pictures viewed is that facebook may also be counting the time people are logged into the facebook chat or just have a facebook window open. I know I leave firefox open all the time with facebook somewhere in my assortment of tabs.

For example, the Austrailian government and telcos.

He was just waiting for a [Citation Needed]. No harm.

Bringing it up to an average of 100.

That sir, is the suggested retail. I just bought an i7-930 for $199 (Microcenter). Just shop around and there will always be a good deal better than MSRP. The DDR3 and motherboard were what really killed me. But in all, I got a new top of the line i7 system with 6Gb of RAM for ~$750. I built a Phenom II X2(4) 555BE with the same specs and it came out to be only $100 cheaper in the end.

The spammers using this botnet most likely cut it off to work on enlarging another.

Why waste time(read money) repairing something broken when the new, harder to kill version does the same thing in the same time-cost?

to protect our children's education than a trusty old Remington.

Reminds me of another war. Something about terror?

Just because we don't fight a country doesn't mean we are not at war with another entity. Or even the war on terror was brought about on a country to justify Washington calling it a "war."