RTFA...
meh. i rarely RTFA to be honest. Personally the thread comments are the news for nerds im after anyways. I get more good info/explanations and lots of good sites and links from the comments on here. And i dont have to worry about /. effect, pay walls, or getting pissed when i waste time reading some of the garbage FA's or stupid fucking ad's passed off as FA. An as another poster pointed out, FB TOS and conditions say they can do what they want.

-KI

Iif i ask them to delete all pics and status' when I delete my account, and they dont..its ok that they dont? I would think the owner of the post owns the comment which is why the provider cant be sued, but if the providers refuse to take it down when requested by the owner/poster, that is an entirely different legal matter. Sounds to me like the poster could sue on that part.

-KI

After about 20/30 minutes when this story broke on /. and other sties,

Hey, watch it...it may be a little messy here, but its no stie !

-KI

I wish I could find the pic, but a little while after 9/11 there was a full page add ran (NY Times?) that had one alarm bell on a brick wall in one pic, and then like 30 alarm bells on the same wall in the other pic with the caption "Do you feel any safer?" It was a great addvert. I do not think the TSA, Homeland security, etc has done anything to make americans safe.or at least any safer then we were pre 9/11. Its kinda like they say about jails/guards "The prisoners have all day to watch us and figure out how to do something, we have 8 hours of work to do while trying to stop them" If guards/inmates can get killed in an american prision, under the watchful eye of the guards...well...?

-KI

I tend to be left of center now. It seems growing up in a baptist church influenced me much more then i knew. For years I was pretty far right. Then I stopped believing in mysticism and realized i wasnt going to go to some place called hell if i wasnt a republican/pat robertson luving/right wing nut.

-KI

This sounds more like the usual "war against the internet"

or the war against drugs.

-KI

really? AC troll?...but we can track a cow down to a specific stall in a barn in washington state (mad cow disease) and yet "people can not be tracked too closely"? who are you, Eric Holder?

In the old days, the ATF would just make up some charges against you (meth, guns), keep the press/news 2 miles away from your compound (Waco) and charge in shooting and setting fires to a building with your family in it. Now they can say "we have a report from our security system" that you are a threat. They dont even need to make up anything as a cover story, you are on a list..'nuf said. Theres a saying ive seen on here, around the net goes like this "when they came for the Jews, I didnt say anything because i wasnt a jew. when they came for the gays, i didnt say anything because I wasnt gay. Now they are coming for me, and theres no one left to say anything". The point is, with a system in place like this it is too easy to abuse and we are one step closer the end. And we cant stop it now, without a lot of people getting really upset, the very thing this system will detect and prevent. We are at the point now where we decide the next step in our evolution. Up until now, evolution had a pretty decent set of "rules" where the species that evolved certain traits, stuck around longer. At this point a system like this will make sure someone's idea of the next generation, will be followed, circumventing natural selection, and probably guaranteeing the human race, as we know it, will cease to exist.

-KI

No. Its keep your head down when doing things they may not like.

c'mon...i would venture a guess that there is a couple people on here who have access or could get said ISP's logs. but really who has the time to go through human feces?

...and in other news the earth is not flat.

Assume everything you do is tracked/available, because it is. Someone once told me "If they want to fire you, they can always find something" and i've seen it happen to people. Just dont do anything to make them wanna fire/investigate you and you will be fine. Lets just review one case in the news currently. PSU. If the feds didnt catch Sandusky (cause you know there had to be phone calls with the boys, emails, and im sure his "history" trail on his computer wasnt just "boys life" magazine) then u know they dont actually pay attention to 99% of the stuff being watched, unless u stick your head to high and get them to look. OTOH, if you want to be completely safe then move to a cave, dont use fire (smoke will give you away) and for chris sake dont ever go outside.

-KI

In the past *someone i may/may not know would detect port scans or breach attempts and do a dns lookup, email the admins from the compromised IP address and let them know they were cracked/hacked. Very rarely would it solicit even a reply, and the IP address would still show up in the logs. So this person would then either remotely shut down the box at said IP address or do some other next tricks (kiddie scripts work great sometimes for this). Which would get emails/phone calls/cease and desist/etc sent to them. At this point they would respond that the IP address had been compromised already, and they should fix it so it would stop bugging *my friends box. No response and no more attacks from the said IP address. Dont know if it would work in this case, but if the server was shut down no one else could exploit the hack and see/obtain credit card info. *my friend would probably tell you to do this from a IP address that may or may not be traceable to your friend.

-KI

I have tried to get my parents to use it, but for some reason they stick to IE, and sometimes use FF. It kill me cause they always bitch about all the tools bars in IE and yet wont click on the damn chrome desktop link. I love chrome, I hate tool bars, and FF generally got so bad i quit using it about a year ago (except for freecorder) I have AVG, Zonelabs, Ad-aware on there computers and they still manage to get them so mucked up I have to spend about 30 mins every month cleaning them up. I really dont see how they can stand the load times, slow page loads, searchs being redirected to some other site all the time. Progress does happen with them, but at this rate they will be dead before I can ever get them to use chrome as their default browser.

I think it is quite possible the earth has natural heating/cooling cycles and we may be in the midst of a warming one now. Perhaps we are contributing to it, maybe not. However, the issue I think needs addressed now is all the "fracing" going on to get the oil/natural gas we are burning (which may be contributing to global warming). Earthquakes have spiked in frequency in Oklahoma and Arkansas, to say the least. And these are two of the states which have greatly increased new frac wells being drilled/re-opened. The documentary Gas Land depicts other things like tainted/poisoned well water, water that catches on fire right out of the tap, etc. Maybe its because this is a local "North American" (canada fracs too) issue, that the world doesn't seem too upset about it, but for North Americans i think (IANAGeologist) this issue has a more immediate risk for us then Global Warming.

-KI

TV was the printer, Content (broadcasting, etc) was the ink. Lose money on TV's so you can make money on the content. So all Sony is saying, is that they need a different way(CPU in TV) to sell us content. Imagine having to pay the ISP (Net Neturality goes away) to let us view Content from Sony, which we paid Sony for...