True, but both are driving towards complete transparency. Facebook is doing to people (on a small level, to their friends) what Wikileaks is doing to corporations. I have seen many people break-up, lose their jobs, or get seriously reprimanded for things found on Facebook.

Facebook wasn't the first social network, but it was the one that "stuck" with the general public. For that reason, Facebook has changed the way people use the Internet, much like Youtube and Google did in the past. That is why Mark is the person of the year. 2010 was a huge year for social networking - it exploded from teens/young adults and techies, to mainstream, middle-aged and older. Of course, having a movie out about you also keeps things fresh in people's minds. Like many other awards ceremonies, it's usually the last, or freshest movies that win all the awards.

My hope is that these artificial brains come with an easy way to back up their memory. Since no one does computer backups, I can imagine it would be the same with their brains...

I can imagine it now...in 2025...

Kid: What's wrong with dad?
Mom: He crashed last night.
Kid: Did you do a full restore?
Mom: Yes, but we haven't done a backup since 2012. So he thinks he's 25, doesn't remember you, and he keeps talking about President Palin.

This is common knowledge for most System Administrators (or should be).

With Blackberry, you can remote wipe, or just lock the device and change the password. The iPhone can be wiped.

By default, whenever you connect your iPhone to your computer it does a backup/sync. Blackberry does not.

Most companies I know first lock the device with a new password, and give the user a chance to bring the phone in (or a # of days before it is remote wiped).

If a company is unwilling to provide you with a phone for work, then you should not have your work email on it. If there is some form of bill reimbursement, there should also be clear terms as to who owns the device, and what can be done to it in the event of quitting/firing.

Employees should be made aware of what is possible, including the ability to remote backup user data (so they know not to store questionable content on the phone).

The white pages (residential) are only available upon request starting this year in the following cities: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, the Ottawa-Gatineau area and Quebec City. Before that they were on a 24-month cycle starting in 2005.

If you want to request a phone book, go here: http://delivery.ypg.com/delivery/

Robots wouldn't have so many dupes either (as they are the easiest thing to check for). As soon as /. goes a week without a duplicate story, then we know the robots have taken over.

I've read a couple articles and they are no worse than the SEO-targeted content written by freelancers odesk for $2/hr (and english as a second or third language).

Seems as though the "algorithm" is quite elaborate - taking into account odds of winning as well. Lines such as "The [team] was not supposed to win this game, but made it happen" and combined player statistics "Coming off a poorly put together team last year, this year, the [team] looks to have greater talent."

It reminds me of how someone in Junior high would write. Impressive. Similar to MIT's paper generator: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/paper.html

PHP + MySQL + Mad Libs for Sports.

Not even. I've had users go through the trash in order to find the post-it note they had on their monitor that fell off when the cleaners went through the office.

It's also crucial to change passwords (for websites) using the forgot password function whenever they "accidentally" delete their cache/forms/passwords in IE.

It was common on Intel's high-end server boards, then it came to their entry level boards a few years ago. Now it is making it into the mainstream desktop boards. However, what Intel had on their server boards was quite slow to boot.

They are obviously upset over the possibility that the program's maker is getting very close to finding out that Google already has this function built-in, except that it forwards the user's text messages to Google for advertising purposes (or insert your own evil institution - FBI, CIA, etc).

They figure forwarding twice may causes some raised eyebrows at the user's telecom provider.

Or perhaps it's just a really bad idea. I would guess this program would be used >90% of the time for evil. This is in the same moral grey area as installing keyloggers and monitoring programs on corporate computers. It only works because the corporation owns the computer and monitoring was a condition of employment.

Next there will be a $5 Bear Patrol tax...

Probably not. But guess what *magical, revolutionary* feature will make it into iPhone 5, TBA at the 2011 (or 2012) World Wide Developer Conference?

Actually, it was meant as a joke. Perhaps my subtle sarcasm about the "professional assessment" and "turtleneck" wasn't enough. I actually own an iPhone 4, iPod, and have a Mac mini at home. I also own a few Windows machines. Both machines have their strengths, but Apple is the #1 pusher of their products as a status symbol.

The reason why I purchased an iPhone 4 after my Blackberry was the email support. As a sysadmin, I push Blackberry at work because of the exchange, vpn, and admin functions. The reason why I purchased the Mac mini was for a small form-factor machine I could hook up to my TV, but also as something I could develop and learn Mac applications and sysadmin stuff on.

I also purchase the best tools for the job, which in my experience has been a mix of Windows-based PCs and servers, Unix/Linux servers, and Macs.

I'm sorry if I have offended you, but it was all in good jest!

In your professional assessment, you forgot "turtleneck-wearing"...

What I find interesting is that his followers are materialistic, light-handed, lazy, status-obsessed pricks.

Not quite the opposite, but tangential in some ways.

Also remember that iPod sales didn't begin to explode until after Apple released the Windows compatible iTunes. Sure, MusicMatch would work in 2002, but it has hacked together at best and not many people knew about it.

The 3rd gen (late April 2003) came with Windows compatible iTunes. It was the 4th gen in Oct 2004 that really began to pick up.

So the iPod for those 2 years was only officially compatible with Mac (5-8% market share depending on where you get your stats). Limiting yourself to within that market share isn't a very good idea.

There wouldn't be any name change for Microsoft - the brand is far too valuable. Adobe would cease to exist; or rather they would become a subsidiary and only funnel money to Microsoft.

They have very few competing products, which is great for the customers of both. There would be far more integration, very little product loss.

It would be great to see Flash take on some of Silverlight's power and ease of development. Combining the best of the two would create a very worthy foe. Coldfusion has long had a few features that ASP should have had. FrameMaker could lend a hand to Word, and Visio could become an addin to FrameMaker...as all three are used very much when writing technical books.

After the scare Adobe received earlier this year at the hands of Apple, Adobe must realize at any time Apple holds the power in their relationship. Although Adobe is responsible for Apple's early dominance in the graphic and motion industry, Apple no longer needs them. In terms of sales, Adobe has always made most of their money supporting Microsoft's operating system.

Lately both companies have seen innovation only in the form of acquisitions of smaller, more nimble companies. Whatever they choose, they need to do it before the slide starts.