I think a more common name (e.g. John Smith, Jim Jones) would be a more effective means of maintaining privacy in the face of the current and future mass personal information harvesting regimes than would an even more unique name.

Hey, it rained yesterday -- did you get sea pay? (Just kidding--tremendous respect for the USCG here!)

By your own argument, I assume you support government regulation on food intake and exercise, since those could also cause early deaths leaving widows and children for the poor insurance companies/the state to support? And no, I don't live with my parents, thank you very much.

The only thing the TSA (and our government as a whole in the same vein) has done is to encourage the terrorists even more.

While you can. The TSA has already set up shop at train and bus stations to test the waters. Driving is safe from groping and the nude-o-scope. For now.

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!