Where did you hear this from?

I read a report that the guy who found the phone tried to tell someone who worked at the bar he found a phone & saw who was logged into Facebook on the phone, and that employee couldn't find the phone's owner, so he took the phone home. The next day, the guy who found the phone saw that the data on the phone was gone, care of MobileMe, at which point he went to sell it to the highest bidder.

However, if a password is compromised, the attacker only has a limited amount of time to access the account. If passwords never expired, an attacker will always be able to access the account. Security is always a trade off. I feel like the risk of (potentially) weak passwords is not worth the trade off of an attacker having a potentially unlimited amount of time to work with. Weak passwords can be mitigated with a strong password policy. If your systems are such that if an attacker breaks in once, then you are right, it doesn't matter. But if having access for a longer time means an attacker can do more damage, then why not expire passwords?

It's all about the trade off. There is no one "right" way to do it.

or LL Cool J...

I think it is fine, if, at the end of the day you can put that $10-15 toward the purchase of the full game and also use the save data from the demo in the full game. I would never replay the first few hours of a game, and I would also never pay for the same content twice.

However, I might pay for a "try before you buy" type of deal where you really do get to try the game, and not just play 5-10 minutes.

For a lot of my tasks, electronic records are better because you can attach metadata to documents to more easily search, sort and drive workflow. This then makes my tasks easier, quicker and less error-prone.

I feel like this is more of an issue with people not understanding what metadata is and what it can do for them rather than an issue of people liking paper.

You don't know what the program is about. Regardless of anyone's feelings on sex, letting semi-nude pictures of yourself get transmitted digitally is a bad idea, as is transmitting them, and these teens might not understand that.

I'm all for giving credit where credit is due. If an artist is dead or retired, shouldn't their work be released into the public domain, or should a record label be able to profit in this situation?

You'd probably like The Dark Knight Returns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns

While Batman can't match Superman's strength, he makes up for it in cunning.

You can send and receive Tweets from your (non-smart) phone without needing a data plan.

That's why Twitter has the character limit (it is the same limit for SMS messages). That's why people started using and continue to use Twitter.

If you had your Google Profile set up to be public, then people could find the information that is in the Google Profile. Buzz just gave people a link directly to your Google Profile, more or less. What it all comes down to: if you don't want the public to know something, don't post it in a public profile.

If people are actively avoiding Google accounts, why wouldn't they also be actively avoiding accounts on social networking sites? I assume the reason for avoiding Google is that people don't like the fact that stores stores personal data. Name one social networking site that doesn't.

The point being that people who avoid Google probably wouldn't be using Buzz anyway (because they wouldn't want a central database storing the fact that they shared certain content).

At best, Google is making me follow the people I want to - i.e. the people I send e-mail to & chat with regularly anyway.

At worst, I click unfollow and all is right in the world.

I think people don't get the point of social networking. It doesn't work if everything is private. That's neither social nor networking.

Yes, language evolves, but in academia, students are expected to use good style (whether it is MLA, APA or something else). No style find emoticons acceptable yet.

I feel like this is less of a problem with literacy, and more of a problem about not being able to adapt your writing style to fit your audience.

Plus, there's nothing wrong with professors sticking up for today's grammar in the face of change.

For the same reason you have to cite your references in a certain way, or for the same reason you should spell out numbers ten and below.

In academics, you have to follow a certain style. As a journalist, I had to follow the AP style. Yes, styles and language both change, but this is about knowing your audience and knowing how to communicate with them.

Benjamin Franklin said "Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar." Only now, social media has become part of our daily conversation, so the lines are blurring between what should be formal and informal.

So now the question is "should professional communication be different from the conversational vernacular?"

People are going to complain when that arbitrary code breaks their iPad in some way.

Different methods of delivering software have their own sets of pros and cons.