The interstate commerce clause is frequently misused - but telecom and the Internet seems to clearly be interstate commerce.
Telecommunications does not equal commerce. Nor does the Internet (a subset of telecommunications) equal commerce.
A new University of Georgia study has found that despite overwhelming military superiority, the world's most powerful nations failed to achieve their objectives in 39 percent of their military operations since World War II.
39% hardly equates to *most*.
That somebody will explain how our superiority in the highly competitive black-ops space-plane carrying mystery cargo arena will eventually be converted into a solution for the fact that we can't seem to fight a ground war against a 14th century tribal rabble armed with 1950's eastern bloc shit without getting our stuff blown up all the time...
You might find this surprising, but most military powers find it difficult to fight wars without getting their stuff blown up all the time. I think it has something to do with the presence of a "foe".
Tell that to the Conquistadors.
The problem is that we don't *know* in 7th or 8th grade who is likely to need more math 5 or 6 years down the line. Most kids, if you tell them in 7th grade that they can stop taking math, they're going to. Then they hit junior or senior year of high school, realize they want to be an engineer, and they have none of the needed mathematical background. Basically we teach 4-5 years of advanced math to every student in the country, so that the 10-15% if them who will actually need it, have it. It's wasteful as Hell, but I can't think of a better way to do it without forcing life altering career choices on 13-14 year olds.
Maybe if you're not interested in math as a 13 or 14 year old, you shouldn't go on to be an engineer, or a scientist, or whatever. I don't say that to be a troll, what if it's true though? Maybe the population as a whole would have a considerably higher job satisfaction rate if they listened a little more carefully to their interests at that age. Maybe that guy who is drudging through his life as an electrical engineer was really "supposed" to be a graphic designer for a high tech consumer product manufacturer. He knew he was into high tech gadgets, and he had all that math, so he got pushed into being an EE, but he really was more into designing how people used them then in designing how they functioned. Just a thought.
My opinion is that if you post personally identifiable information to a public website, and expect that information to be kept from all the world's eyeballs, you're being incredibly foolish.
I understand the general idea of what you (and many other bewildered Slashdotters) are saying, but you just don't get it. Yes, the website is publicly accessible, I mean, duh, *all* Internet websites are publicly accessible. Would you recommend not entering personally identifiable information into your banking website? Or your Federal Income Tax Return website? Just because the website is publicly accessible, does not mean that the information you enter into it should be publicly accessible. Now I can forgive a bad programmer for *accidentally* sharing my information without my consent, but that is a far cry from *intentionally* doing so.
The idea of using Facebook without entering personally identifiable information is like recommending that we have sex without touching anyone else. The whole point (as I, and I suspect many others, see it) is to share personally identifiable information with YOUR FRIENDS. What on Earth else would you do with a Facebook account?
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
