This will be great news for all those people who think they aren't getting nearly enough information through Facebook about their friends' Candy Crush exploits.

I bet I can get them to pay me.... one million dollars... not to go through with this plan.

This is the sort of case that needs to be appealed to the Supreme Court instead of being settled, because there's plenty of uncertainty in prior court precedent as to whether linking to infringing content is itself an infringement (particularly with reference to DMCA takedown requests).

And then afterwards, Tarantino could write and direct a new movie about the case, which would probably include Ruth Bader Ginsburg mowing down hordes of zombie attorneys in slow motion with an M249.

Separate Internet Explorer from Windows?! That's impossible!

Did your ex-wife go to prison for defrauding the state?

I have it on good authority that Kanye West is a genius.

That's kind of why I cited the GAO report which confirms that while the damage was substantially less than what was originally reported by some parts of the media, the thing about the W keys turned out to be true.

Sounds like Surgeon Simulator to me!

What about oversight? They say they're going to stop doing this and that, but how will we ever know whether they're being honest about it? How will we know whether the next president decides to turn the bus back around? Congressional oversight is a joke, as members of Congress (e.g,, Feinstein) are as much in favor of running roughshod over citizens' rights and allies' respect as Gen. Alexander is. FISC oversight is likewise pointless, and several of those judges have argued against even having an opposing side arguing for the privacy protections of the people. Short of another Snowden, there's no way to know.

Bill Clinton's staffers went around prying the W keys off the keyboards in the White House before George W. Bush moved in (among other things), but we don't automatically accuse Clinton himself of being petty and moronic because of that.

Oh, wait, you're talking about Google. For a second there, I thought you were talking about Slashdot Beta.

I'm not completely sure, but I think the SEC is talking about situations where a company avoids the traditional IPO process and instead "crowdfunds" the sale of securities in their company (either debt or equity). Kickstarter is generally different, because the return on "investment" is in the form of a set non-monetary reward that is more similar to a purchase than an investment.

What is needed, though, is some clarity in the rulemaking process to ensure that Kickstarter and other similar sites can feel comfortable that they are not at risk of being caught up in this net.

I'm pretty sure that legislation is still in the Senate. See also this.

Okay, in fairness, I went back and read TFS, and it looks like the real problem here is Soulskill's poor writing skills. A transitional sentence was needed to indicate that the "+/- 20 years" prediction was an old prediction, and that scientists did a new analysis in 2012 that suggested that a large earthquake was imminent (and which happened not long thereafter).

Seriously, this sounds like a math problem for a middle school math class:

Fred found out that an earthquake happened in 1850, 1900, and 1950. When should Fred expect the next earthquake to happen?

A. 2000
B. 1951
C. 2013
D. This is a bogus question because it makes unfounded assumptions as to how earthquakes work without any true understanding as to the underlying mechanics