Yes, "We will eventually be forced to re-think a lot of cherished beliefs about brains, minds, and behavior."... by magnets.

A collar bomb? I think the perp played a little too much Fallout 3.

Well, now, uh, Launcelot, Galahad and I, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the asteroid, taking the French, uh, by suprise. Not only by suprise, but totally unarmed! ...*Who* leaps out?

Short version = I think I speak for most individuals when I say, Duh.

Long Version =

The illusion of anonymity that is the Internet. Does anyone honestly believe you have any real expectation or right of anonymity online?

When you hit a webserver... Logs are generated/stored
When traffic you generate is either passed through or blocked at a firewall... Logs are generated/stored
When you use a search engine from a company in the advertising industry (ex: google)... logs are generated/stored
Rinse and repeat for just about anything you do online... and add in a dash of other miscellaneous things like tracking cookies, flash cookies, etc...

In some cases logs are obfuscated, but not usually. I mean c'mon - legitimate advertising companies have gotten pretty good at targeting ads for users by datamining and trending data, do you honestly believe the NSA isn't doing this to a creepy scope and scale?

Correlating data mined from multiple sources (logs, cookies, etc...). is an expensive process from a resource standpoint. Anonymity through obfuscation, apathy, and prohibitive costs may be seemingly effective, but it is not absolute.

3M's Post-It note division sales will increase, due to users writing down their passwords and storing them under their keyboards.

It can identify political dissidents 5x faster

What's the matter? Chicken? Buck Buck Buckaw! Sounds like a smoke-screen post from a 2nd-string programmer. (j/k - couldn't resist)

Force BP to make an offer to it's competitors - if they can fix it before BP - they can have exclusive rights to the well and BP will still be held responsible for the cleanup effort.

Air conditioners work more effeciently w/ hotter air. If you contain the hot aisle and use it as input for your AC and have the cool air exhausted from the AC units into the cold area of the room you can reduce the power draw required for cooling.

I am a Sr. Network Engineer for a consulting firm and have been performing interviews for new candidates. Time is not the same thing as experience, skill, or talent. I have interviewed people who have spent widly varying amounts of time in the industry, and found that it has little bearing on the quality of the professional. There are many more bad IT professionals than there are good (that's why the good ones make more money). I put all candidates through a fairly rigorous technical interview in order to better guage their skills. The real question is, why aren't other professionals (lawyers, HR employees, accountants, salespeople, etc...) subjected to the same type of interview. No professional should be guaranteed a job just because they have existed at a job for X time.