I helped a family friend setup their new computer (which had Windows 7 on it) and the first thing I did was download Firefox 3.5, installed the IE Aero theme and removed any references to IE I could find. The nice thing with this theme is very few non-technical users notice a difference other than their browser seems to load pages faster.

I think where you're going with this is when somebody google's your name, this is the first result. Why not create a personal site, say yourname.com and give people the side of yourself you'd prefer them to see?

When user's stage a revolt, much like this Slashdot posting is doing, they typically listen to the users and make some changes. All it takes a group or two with a few hundred thousand users (the site has 350 million) and they take notice.

My only complain would be if Facebook listed me in the search engine results, which they currently allow me to disallow this. The reason being is I prefer my person website to rank 1st in Google over all these other sites I'm on.

Like others have mentioned, see if you can get compensation for the extra time / new responsibilities. If not take the job and do what you have to. Just consider yourself fortunate to have a job. And remember, it's a lot easier to look for a new job while you already have one rather than if your unemployed.

That is sort of the unfortunate thing about moving up the ladder is the higher you get, the less work you actually do and the more managing of others you do. Some people prefer to be the ones actually outputting work, while others don't mind getting paid a bit more and doing less of the day to day stuff.

Dude, that's 90% of Slashdot comments. What do you want a bibliography for each comment on here?

Can't somebody give their own person opinion of something.

See: "Personally I think"

I have Vista, and have been using it for a year or two now. I had issues early on, but discovered that it wasn't Vista but a bad RAM stick that was giving me grief. I really have no qualms about the operating system. Personally I think Apple is the one to blame about the public perception of Vista. Microsoft's marketing has focused on their own product and tried to keep the mud slinging to a minimum while Apple decide to directly speak to Microsoft and bash them during their marketing campaign. I guess we can see what the public responds to better. No wonder politicians campaign the way they do.

I hate to knock on wood but I have to wonder if Apple will stick the course with Windows 7 as well.

Why are people texting while driving in the first place? You have a phone, dial your friends number and talk to them. It isn't that hard.
Also, couldn't there be some sort of voice recognition software created to solve this problem if people still want to text while driving?

Perhaps we can just use the system from a Star Trek episode where we fight our wars using computer simulation. When a virtual job hits your city, you have to report to the death chamber. The war continues but society lives on!

Facebook have a very extensive privacy control area of the site where you can lock your profile down however you want. You can even completely block every user on Facebook from viewing your profile (thus making it pointless to be on the site)

Another level of privacy is what you publicly offer up from your profile. You can make you entire profile open to the public or hide everything (including who your friends are). HR types love the dumb people who don't lock their profile down.

Probably the best setting to use is to only allow friends to view your profile, friends list, profile picture etc.

I didn't RTFA, but who does? Anyway when I saw the description it instantly reminded me of those ads that pretend to popup a textbox stating that you have a virus.

Instead of calling your friends 'friends' you call them 'nodes'.

"associating a piece of data with multiple categories" Seriously could that be anymore vague? Perhaps they should sue the W3C for creating the SELECT > OPTION dropdown box in HTML while they're at it.

Safari also caved to the tabs on top layout. While the extra screen real estate is nice, I'd still rather have the title bar for the same reasons you pointed out.

Opera still doesn't support border-radius or box-shadow, probably the two most important properties that make web designers life's easier. Safari (or really Webkit) seems to be doing all the innovating lately when it comes to CSS3 features with Firefox and Opera battling it out for 2nd place. Either way, as a developer I still prefer to use Firefox with all its useful developer tools and addons.