For anyone who wants to know the actual numbers

Apparently, in 2008 in the NHS Tees area (Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland) there were fewer than 10 cases of syphilis - so few that, under data-protection rules, the NHS can't give out the exact number.
But in 2009, 30 cases of heterosexual syphilis were notified to the NHS. So, yes: a four-fold increase, but a very small sample from which to drawn any very big conclusions.

Long story short, they noticed an increase, asked the patient where they got the disease. The patient said they met partners on the internet, which gets translated into Facebook. I'd put my money on it being Craigslist, as someone mentioned earlier.

I've got to say, the hubris implied by that last one seriously reduced by sympathy for these guys.

I read it as an homage to the movie 300!
THIS.. IS.. WIKILEAKS!!!!!!!!!!

No, the first amendment is the law.

I think the parent was trying illustrate how ridiculous the three letter agencies will sound using that justification right after the series of attacks against wikileaks.

But the problem is the same govermnental departments that make that argument are also incredibly secretive themselves (CIA, NSA, FBI). It's a double standard. You can't have it both ways. It makes complete sense to say that when when the NSA wants to listen to my international phone calls, but then when the President wants to squelch the release of torture photos, we're told that the photos really aren't that bad, and that it's a matter of national security.

Unfortunately, the media in this day and age only care about ratings and ad revenue.

Human rights have nothing to do with it. Google was hacked. If people can't trust the contents of their GMail inbox to remain out of the hands of Chinese intelligence, and Google can't ensure that some Chinese entity isn't stealing proprietary code, Google's profits will suffer. Pulling out of China will make this less of a threat. It's a cost-benefit analysis, and that's how it would be presented to the shareholders.

Except that Baidu already dominates search in in China. If Google pulls out, most people won't notice. For the few Google users, they'll move to Baidu and search like everyone else.

That isn't the surprise. The surprise is that even if you go out of your way to not publicly document some things (such as high school), this information can be found out through your friends list.

burnallmpegs.org makes more sense, since it's technologies like h.264 that are preventing widespread use of the tag.

Intuitively, longer sessions can lead to session hijacking. This implies that it's safer to reconnect. I'm sure ssh has some way to prevent session hijacking though.