...dongle.

Pretty funny that anyone would care about Facebook's "explanation" about why the independent researchers finding all those tracking cookies are all mistaken... but to be honest, I'm pretty sure that killing off Facebook's tracking wouldn't do anything if everyone else is tracking you anyhow.

More cynically, there are enough cheaper and more convenient ways to track people nowadays than attaching a special-purpose GPS tracker to their property, that pretending to value the Constitution just this once is worth more than the inconvenience of getting a warrant for those few times they want to use a physical GPS tracker.

I'll still cheer their doing the right thing this once, but if they want my general approval they still have way more to do.

Sounds similar to diamonds -- let me guess, if someone gave you a diamond you'd just throw it out like the worthless little piece of carbon it is, am I right?

Besides, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.

Missing option: Until the next honeybee mating season.

Haven't you heard? God said such things are OK now, like shrimp and women's rights.

You want to go after a really bad sin? Try greed -- which is one of the most pervasive violations of the rule "Love your neighbor as yourself". Be a real man, and make your stand against a *popular* sin, rather than one most people can't even be tempted by.

I'm counting "life in prison" as "death sentence without the usual appeals and standards of evidence". None of the extra expense in a death sentence is the execution, it's all the extra scrutiny. If you're innocent, you should hope they're going for a death sentence rather than life in prison, because you have a higher chance of getting your life back.

It is more worthwhile to spend money giving someone better chance to prove their innocence, than to spend it keeping them in a box til they die.

:-)

Real engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Some software engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Other software engineers *get paid to* get it done by tomorrow, because if something goes wrong no one but a few nerds gives a crap. But none of that could possibly be the fault of the managers.

Most humane way to execute someone:
Bullet (or bolt gun) to the head, followed by organ donation to more worthy human beings. This may be ugly, but it is very humane.

Least humane way to execute someone:
Put them in a box till they die, funded by money that could have been spent saving lives.

I'm opposed to the death penalty, but my opposition starts at the most common method -- putting them in a box until they die because someone was too afraid of the automatic appeals process required for a faster death penalty.

Well, most forms of money are used to fund terrorism. We should ban money!

This being Slashdot, one might say they're waiting on the balls transplant. (Yet if "having balls" works like people say, nerds wouldn't want that anyways.)

Just use your charge card.