Heck, that's just the beginning of the fun and games for the defense and security contractors.

Blocking at the router means that I don't have to tweak several hosts files, plus it covers my Android devices that don't have easily accessible hosts files, but do have pre-installed Facebook apps that call home every night with huge permissions that send who-knows-what, and can't be uninstalled. (When I finally rooted the tablet, I did some cleaning.)

I refuse to use Facebook and block it at the router. If that means that I can't use some idiot's site that requires it, so be it. So far, I think it's been a net improvement on my browsing experience. On many of these sites, the comments are the content. I'll take my content elsewhere.

I blocked Facebook.com at the router. I'm sure that they have other methods, but all the pages I access that make little tracking fetches from Facebook are sucking mud. (It's the same with doubleclick: Is it the end of time yet? No? Stay blocked! I don't care who owns them now.) It does mean that I can use Facebook or see the fascinating pages of other people. Oh noes!

Even the simplest home router can do that. They usually have a parental site blocking feature.

And he's yet to be charged with anything, right?

That would be the 51st through 60th states. Not so good in the house, but those 20 seats in the senate would rock.

. . . to Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Funds File Amicus in Support of Google in Oracle v. Google Appeal.

The ipcommission.org domain that this report is hosted on belongs to something called the "National Bureau of Asian Research". (They have an advert Wikipedia article.)

I think someone just wants to build the biggest botnet ever! (Kidding...)

Avast is starting to suck donkey balls with all their advertising and tricks into upgrading unsuspecting non-computer literate people. :(

- Yo Grark

The military command lied to Ender by pretending he was still in a training exercise, but they did not lie about the need to "end them." Without communication with the aliens, there was no way for the humans to know that the queens had realized their mistake and were perfectly willing to live in peaceful coexistence. Given the sheer luck that allowed Razer to win the previous battle for Earth, they were reasonably certain Earth would never survive another attack.

It was only later that Ender was able to communicate with the remaining queen and learn the full story. He was upset about being lied to and having caused so much death, but I think he understood why they lied to him. He didn't like it, mind you, but he understood it was the only way to get him (or anyone) to do what he did.

My memory is that Ender was told that they were looking for someone to lead the fleet that had departed for the alien frontier decades before. They simply neglected to tell him that they made their decision and the fleet he was leading in the training exercises was the actual fleet.

Scientology is very big on making bomb threats. Mind you, they make the bomb threats in other people's names. They made bomb threats on behalf of Paulette Cooper (see Operation Freakout) where they got her finger prints on a piece of paper, added the threat then mailed it. It continues to this day, where they put up a YouTube video claiming to be from Anonymous and making bomb threats. (They really goofed on that one. They made a DVD on black PR on Anonymous. On the DVD, they had a copy of the fake video, but it was in higher resolution than the one upload to YouTube. Gee, where could they have gotten that hi-res copy?)

An we continue to be pissed about it except it makes no news because we have "mini-bush" in the PM's office!

- Yo Grark

Except in Quebec. Just want to point that out.

- YoGrark

Why not, drug companies are continually sued over the failure of their "code"

- Yo Grark