We should extend it to cases like that, yes. Innocent people have had their lives ruined more than once due to accusations of child pornography because someone else was piggybacking on their connection. With the ubiquity of WiFi, more sophisiticated methods of determining who the culprit is are needed. The cops should not be allowed to conduct raids or make arrests based solely on an IP address.

It's not really all that unusual or all that difficult. A lot of less scrupulous moderators abuse the underrated/overrated mods because they're immune to meta-moderation. Also, Ibelieve the label on it is just the last moderation to be applied, so a +4, informative could become a +3, troll with a single troll moderation.

Why would they need to band together with others, though? In the social networking space you have Facebook on top, Google a distance second, and nobody else even worth mentioning. If there were a lot of mid-sized players out there who combined could equal a significant fraction of Facebook's user base it would make sense, but there aren't.

Yes, and then Google came along and Yahoo consistently failed to do anything to effectively meet that threat, despite plenty of opportunity to do so. Google was not always the massive behemoth it is today...had Yahoo been smarter, it could have easily pushed Google aside and remained the dominant search/portal company, but instead if took misstep after misstep until it became an afterthought.

Las Vegas and countless Indian casinos are built on games that range from entirely to almost entirely random chance. I, personally, don't get the charm of gambling at all, but obviously a lot of other people do. When the lottery gets big like this, and the national news starts to run stories on it, you also get the added incentive of peoples' innate desire to be part of something that everyone's talking about.

I've bought exactly one lottery ticket in my life, and spent a total of $1.25 gambling in Las Vegas. I find gambling in general insufferably dull and pointless, but I'm clearly in the minority based on how large and profitable an industry it is.

An automated vehicle would be able to detect the moose and apply the brakes far faster than any human possibly could. There already are rudimentary collision-avoidance systems in some cars, and they'll only get better over time.

When you "like" things, you get updates from those things. It is conceivable that someone would want to see updates from some organization while not wanting their friends to know they like that organization.

Having said that, it's been clear from Facebook's inception that your "likes" are public (at least to your friends) information. It would be nice if you could pick and choose who saw your likes similar to how you can pick and choose who sees your statuses, but Facebook isn't under any legal obligation to make that happen.

I'm surprised they even bothered to offer the gift cards. Most people will gladly give up their privacy for free.

As someone who is blind in one eye, the fact that 3D is becoming so ubiquitous does kind of suck. I don't care that movies are being made more in 3D, but lately it's becoming more difficult to find showings of those movies that aren't being projected in 3D. If you have some showings that are 3D and some that aren't, I can just go to the non-3D showing. If all of the showings are 3D, I either have to forgo watching the movie completely or watch a darker version of the movie that gives me a headache.

Hopefully they'll either figure out a way to make 3D at least equal to the 2D experience for those of us who can't experience 3D, or they'll continue to make standard 2D content available.

I'm not an expert, but I think if 3D TV is causing a pain in your ass you're definitely not doing it right.

MySpace and Friendster would like a word with you.

Obviously Facebook has been far more successful than any of its predecessors, but it's still an Internet property that could be replaced and fall virtually overnight at any moment. It may be a good buy now, but if you're caught holding the bag at the wrong time you could easily lose your shirt.

The best prospect for Facebook investors remains for it to be bought out by some large conglomerate so they can cash out before the bottom falls out. Young people are already abandoning it as they don't like hanging out where their parents and grandparents also hang out, and even some older people (not as many as Google had hoped) have likewise abandoned it for Google Plus. At some point, some other site will come along and eat Facebook's lunch, it's only a matter of time.

You already have a giant phallic bomb called a MASSIVE (ordnance) PENETRATOR and it's not good enough for you? Does everyone in the Pentagon have such a small penis or is it just the people in charge of purchasing?

It's also not in international waters in any meaningful sense. The British have pretty much let it be so far because it's basically harmless, but if they start posting embarrassing secrets about the US government from there, you can bet the US will put pressure on the UK to re-assert its territorial rights over it.

The only real way they could get into international waters these days would be to be mobile in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Even then, if they started putting out information the US considered truly dangerous, it would only be a matter of time before their floating fortress was "accidentally" sent to the bottom of the sea by a wayward torpedo.

This whole idea is a fantasy, of course. The only way to be safe from the US shutting it down would be to host it in a country willing to stand up against the US to protect it. I don't think there are very many countries on that list.

If the MPAA would get their heads out of their asses I would gladly stream everything I watched and pay 2 to 3 times more than I pay now for Netflix for the privilege. As it is, the selection is too small to take up more than a small percentage of my total viewing time.

That's what the overrated/underrated mods were intended for, but they've never ever been used for that purpose and probably ought to be removed. To my knowledge, the only reason people ever use them is because they're immune to meta-moderation. Well, that and so they can make posts +5, Troll or -1, Insightful.