Facebook is a really lame site. If he cares so much about her posts then just close the facebook account. You want to update your friends call them, talk to them. Facebook is the reason people are becoming anti social. For thousands of years people got along with out facebook and I bet we can get along again by just doing face to face or call to call social networking.

People got by for thousands of years without computers, but I doubt you're about to pull the plug. "Oh, but computers are useful!" you say. Well, yeah, so is Facebook. Facebook allows a whole bunch of people to better keep in touch with a whole bunch of other people, including many that they would otherwise not keep in touch with at all.

Just because you have no use for it, doesn't make it useless. Maybe you and your friends just haven't figured out how to use it yet.

How many laptops have user replaceable graphics cards? After all, the Mac Mini and the iMac are basically laptops in elaborate cases.

My family were quite free and easy about words - if it was in common usage it was fine. My dad's epic vocabulary was generally used instead of a dictionary. The one house rule we did have was that blanks could be swapped and re-circulated: At the start of your turn, if there was a blank on the board and you had the letter it represented in your hand, you could swap them and take the blank into your hand.

The BBC, BBC4 specifically, had a show about Scrabble champions. The link should give you enough to go on if you want to find somewhere to download the show. Anyway, it was very interesting to see how soulless the game became once you got to the championship levels - it was all about memorising huge lists of words. There was no care for vocabulary or the use of words, it was just memory and anagrams. It was very far removed from the game that most of us play.

If they were, indeed, weapons, I'm sure the military will come out and say so - "Look what we found on the bodies! See!" - to try to save some face...

If I buy a piece of hardware I must be able to do with it anything I want. Someone took it to mean that if I own a gun then by my logic I can kill without repercussions, which is of-course not doing whatever I want just with hardware but also with someone's life, so they are trying to be cute for the sake of an argument.

I actually assumed they meant something like, say, converting a semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic rifle, which would actually be more akin to the idea of modifying hardware in a way that is in some way forbidden. Do you believe you should be allowed to modify rifles in that way?

While that's what happened in the film, that's not what happened in real life. According to Wikipedia he never had visual hallucinations, and only heard voices from 1964 onwards, 5 years after being diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Check out the big brain on Brett! You're a smart motherfucker. That's right. The metric system.

Are we all obliged to care then? I honestly don't. I never met him and I didn't think his music was all that great. I liked a couple of his songs, but I never thought he was outstanding. I was born in 1982, so for most of the time that I've been aware of him he's been white, he's been making fairly dull music, he's been acting like he's Jesus or something, he's been plastic-surgeried into the next decade and he's been accused of child abuse. What am I supposed to be impressed about? Some music he made before I was alive in a genre I don't like?

Same here... I saw it on Wikipedia last night and figured it for a hoax until I checked the BBC website.

I'd say you draw the line somewhere around the age of consent.

No, Valve won't go after you for trying to run it under a non-admin account. They'll go after you for saying you'll run a cracked version.

That's what Epic have done - UT2k3 used Ogg, and I assume the more recent UT games do as well. Link at the Vorbis site.

I don't want internet service on my cellphone. EVEN IF IT WAS FREE, I wouldn't want it. In fact, the only 3 things I want on my cellphone, is voice calling, voice mail, and text services.

Funny, a while ago I'd have said the same thing about a camera, web access and GPS in my phone. These days, I appreciate the value of having a camera (even a fairly poor one) with me at all times; I love having web access so I can read BBC News, Slashdot, Facebook, BBC Sport, and anything else at any time; I certainly value the GPS and Google Maps, particularly when I got lost driving back from business on the other side of the country.

Sometimes people don't realise how useful things can be until they get to use them. You might find internet service on your phone more useful than you think, and people might just as well find Broadband more useful than they think.