I'm using Firefox 3.6.3 on Slackware 13 and it works just fine.

Easily the coolest Google Doodle of all time.

Maybe it's just my particular setup, but Open Office fonts on Linux are absolutely atrocious. So much so that I run an XP VM strictly for Office.

I've given KWord a spin, and although it looks much nicer with regards to the entire KDE interface and the fonts are substantially better, KWord is still rough around the edges. I tried typing up an article the other day with it and that red squiggly line appeared under a misspelled word I was typing. I corrected the word, but then the red line just kept following the cursor. I cut the entire paper, pasted it back, and the line was still there. I was unimpressed.

For the record I'm running Slackware 13.

Do you know of any font packages for Open Office that might fix this problem? I would prefer to not have a VM strictly to type stuff. I admit I've seen ways to get Windows fonts on Linux, but I really haven't delved that deeply into it. If you'd care to enlighten me, I'd appreciate it.

Ironically, that sentence still makes sense with the typo.

You are correct.

The point I was trying to make was that if I disagree with Facebook's terms (which I do), that I really have no ability to challenge Facebook itself without significant social loss to me.

Thanks to Facebook, I have been able to stay in contact with many members of my family (aunts, cousins, uncles), whom I otherwise would only speak to a handful of times a year.

Granted, I have the right to create my own rival social networking site and convince everyone I know to switch to it, but that is basically an insane proposition given that Google's "Buzz" can't pull it off.

I am not blaming Facebook for it's decisions, but I am asserting that Facebook, at least temporarily, has a de facto monopoly on social networking, ergo I essentially have no recourse against their privacy policies.

Except it's not that simple. When Ma Bell was around and people didn't like the monopoly, should they have quit using telephones? Boycotting a service like the telephone (at the time) was simply too socially, and probably economically, damaging.

We have a similar, albeit less serious, issue here. When everyone you know, including family, uses Facebook to communicate and stay in touch, how can you just stop using it? Especially since your own action is utterly inconsequential to Facebook management, while being absolutely consequential to your own personal life.

Internet technology is fast approaching common infrastructure. This would be like 150 years ago, people saying "If you don't like the water company, just dig your own well!"

Of course, these examples are considered "extreme" because sites like Facebook are so new. But this line of reasoning only serves to magnify the real issue: the Internet has had such a profound effect on society that a newbie to traditional industry like Facebook can become so crucial to everyday life in just a few years. (Granted, the word "crucial" is somewhat strong, but we're talking about social interaction, not life or death.)

I can understand the position Facebook has taken. As a private company, they have the right to do as they please to a certain extent. But when a company like Facebook can achieve the same kind of social utility in a matter of years as a phone or electric company that took decades, the law simply cannot keep up.

Thank you!

For all the bitching people do about politics on this site, they apparently have absolutely no idea how government actually functions.

This bill just came out of committee. It must be passed by the Senate and the House and then signed by the President to become law.

None of these things have happened yet. There is plenty of time to debate the issue and plenty of time for you to write to your Congressman.

How can Obama deserve criticism here?

A bill with the support of a Republican Senator and a Democratic Senator in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee has been introduced to the Senate that will have to be passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives before it gets anywhere near Obama.

Why is a bill coming out of committee such a big deal?

So I'll get to see aliens and the antichrist at the same time?

Awesome.

Just don't use whale communication. We all know what happens then.

And when I read your sig, all I see is AAAAARRRRR!!!!!

I kid, I kid ;)

lol touche, i hadn't taken holo-fucking into account when i posted.

I'm a rootkit, and Windows 7 was my idea!

Clearly you forget how hard it was to cheaply and quickly access high (and low) quality porn back then.

Me too, but it's up to 8223 in the half hour since you posted. The sample is growing pretty quick.