Of course, the iPad and iPod users' privacy is protected should they use "free" Facebook, Google, etc., right? Or do Apple clients not only pay up-front, but also get their privacy violated like everyone else?

What is sad is that ***WE*** (my generation, in their 40s, who used to play Assassin) have lost this ability. What became of us???

If the "people doing the hiring" were all honest, efficient, unbiased people, then you'd be right right.

Most likely, though, this will facilitate discrimination by systematically rejecting arabs or blacks, but hide it behind a "screening process" that highlights those mistakes...

Plus the fact that people coming from poorer and harsher environments (immigrants and minorities, mostly) have more chances of finding their mistakes online than ivy-league offsprings. Redemption will become even harder for them.

This should have been classified under "YRO", not "Science".

Science disappeared a long time ago from Canada's tar sands industry discussions.

The Alberta and the Canadian governments try to call their approach "scientific" (a MP even used the expressions "based on facts" when talking about the conservatives' agenda - hilarious!) while forbidding scientists to present the results of their research, cutting their fundings and replacing their voices with marketing.

The head of UN's WIPO believes that the Internet (and obviously the stack on which it runs) should have been patented. How do you believe it would have evolved, would TCP/IP be protected by patents?

Goodbye world

His contribution goes way beyond the ones of a recently celebrated "genius". I could make a list of what C gave us today, but I'd have to start it at 0.

"You get lots of $$££€€'s moving around but it all zero's out in the balances..."

Except that, in the meanwhile, you added thousands of dollars in litigation fees, making your lawyers richer, at the expense of shareholders or, most probably, consumers.