Something about a giant black monolith full of stars.

The customer wanted the employees to copy data from her phone to her phone. Looking at that data didn't have to happen. Copying pictures from her phone to a personal phone - particularly naked pictures - certainly violated trust and evidently some laws. Going on to redistribute those stolen pictures to other people without the knowledge of the original person pushes it even farther. The part that's nuts in all this is you thinking their actions were okay.

Finally, someone who gets it!

"Not likely but possible."

No, very possible, even very likely. The very fact that we don't know about it, that they haven't publicly admitted the existence and regular use of these saucers, is proof of their existence and their effectiveness. Why, just last night aunt Bertha saw one of them things hovering over the local Wal-Mart. It then went to the Piggly Wiggly and some strange creature came out of the store carrying a six pack. The government knows. They just aren't telling you. Which is how you can know that they know.

No, a battleship blew up their communications array so home base doesn't know where the alien pow's are.

You assume that the space craft is something other than the alien. What if it wasn't a ship but an actual alien that we mistook as spaceships? What if the lights are their means of communicating with one another?

And someone will make some lame tv show about the whole thing.

It's an ugly planet; a bug planet. A planet hostile to life as we know it.

Oh wait, I may have the wrong thing in mind...

Because every time there's a plane crash, a conspiracy is somewhere behind it.

Except the price went down, not up, so in your scenario, investors either got more shares, or spent less money.

Have you used Win8? Does your opinion differ? I tested the consumer preview and was astonished that Microsoft would consider this a serious OS for most people. They have made a terrible mistake, as most reviewers note.

I'm not someone to bash Microsoft whenever they come up. They've had good software and bad software, made good moves and bad moves, and Windows 8 strikes me as solidly in the bad move, bad idea column. I keep thinking they must have something else up their sleeve.

But it is still you on the social network, even if you aren't using your name. If an employer asked for your social network information and you don't tell them about Slashdot, then they would be correct to assume you had lied to them.

You won't feel so sorry for it when the *real* Information Revolution begins. Information Winter will make Muslim Spring look like Junior Field Day - once Information rises up in revolt, the world will never be the same.

We have to be ready in case we tick off the Martians.

"If you don't want them viewing the internet then tell them to stay away from the computers."

You must not know much about computer display technology? These monitors are fascinating gizmos that display images visible to a fairly wide region. While it is quite easy to completely ignore a random book on a shelf, it is a bit more difficult to ignore a publicly facing computer screen - and by ignore I don't mean just "pay it no attention" but "keep from seeing the images being produced on the screen." If I go into a library, I can easily ignore books that don't interest me, but computer monitors draw a lot more attention, whether or not one wants to pay attention. Add children into the mix and it becomes much easier: I can tell my kids they aren't allowed to read the hot and heavy romance novels, and I can easily ensure they do not do so. But how easy is it to ensure they do not look at the publicly facing computer monitor in the middle of the library?