Sony has not "gone open" in any significant sense at all; the only thing they deserve credit only for is making a good business decision. Think about it: when Apple started the iTunes store, they were creating the marketplace, so they went proprietary. Then Amazon came in to the MP3 market, and "went open" because they were the one locked out of the marketplace.

Same thing is happening with eBooks: because Amazon created the marketplace, they went proprietary. Now Sony wants to break in, so suddenly they're all about open formats. But it has nothing to do with Sony in general. You can bet that the next time they think they can get another Walkman, they'll go to the mat with another Betamax/VHS, Blue-Ray/HDDVD, etc. fight to the death over their latest proprietary format.

Sony 3's controlling proprietary formats, they always have, and they (almost certainly) always will. They just settle for open formats when they're late to the table.

Bump. SugarCRM rocks, and is more than adequate for any small to mid-size company (my company is almost up to 100 employees, and we have yet to have any issues).

>>Or would that be considered torture by the Geneva Convention?
Feh, nobody cares about that thing anymore anyway ;-)

Dude, you owned me with your research skills :-) And I really goofed on the NFL; the irony is that I'm actually a card-carrying member of the NFL (from my high school debate days), so I should have known better. Still, you evidently got the idea of what I was talking about.

In any case, my point wasn't to say that there's proof of a cover-up with JFK, just that there was far more evidence suggesting it. With UFOs/bigfoot/Elvis/etc. conspiracies, you have rubber suits and very crappy video footage. With JFK, you've got:
* an assasin who was clearly a CIA agent (you don't train at a CIA base, defect to Russia, then defect back if you're not)
* he's caught at a location he couldn't possibly have gotten to if he was had shot JFK from the place he supposedly shot him from (I forget the name, but some TV show actually had an olympic sprinter try, and fail, to make that run)
* JFK's brain going missing
* forensics that call in to question the official story (and I really thought they had shown a single shooter was very unlikely, but I can't find that report)
and a bunch more things that I'm too lazy to enumerate as well.

Maybe it really was one crazy former CIA agent who shot JFK. I certainly don't know. But given all *facts* in the story, there's really a world of difference between the chances of an actual JFK conspiracy and the chances of UFOs/bigfoot/whatever.

You say that like the JFK "conspiracy" is in the same category as the "Elvis is still alive" conspiracy. There is a TON of hard evidence that the official JFK story is false, not the least of which is that the national forensics association said (just last year, using modern techniques) that the official story was impossible. As such, it really does not belong in the category as alien sightings.

Elvis on the other hand ...

Man, fear really is the mind killer.

This has got to be one of the lamest articles ever on Slashdot; the only thing more lame than the post itself is all the overblown, over-reaction to it.

Do any of you know ... *normal* people? They don't care if their friends know about their photos. In fact, they *want* to share their photos with friends; that's why they upload them by the millions to MySpace/Facebook. All that Google is doing is making it easier for people to do what they want to do. If those people have to give up some privacy to get the advantage of all the useful online enhancements Google can add by doing so, they will all *happily* do so ... even if you were to sit them all down and carefully explain all of the details of and risks associated with the privacy they are losing. They won't care.

Real privacy issues come from users not understanding what they are giving away. But when you are trying to share your photos out to your friends and family, a tool that associates their email address with the pictures they are in is a useful service, not something to fear.