Zuckerberg is pretty much forced to sell his shares in order to pay his income taxes. He doesn't actually have a whole lot of cash; his wealth is in his shares of Facebook. But after the IPO, the value of all those shares is taxable income, so he has no choice but to sell shares. If he waits until tax time to sell them, and if the value has fallen enough, he might not have enough money to pay his taxes at all, which would put him in a very awkward position.

Did you say the same thing about human chess players when computers started beating the world champions? Maybe it isn't that teachers have gotten worse, but that computers and instructional software have gotten better.

I love Perl, but I'm curious. Whatever happened to Perl 6? I remember hearing about it way back when I was in grad school, which was a long time ago.

Nobody says you have to click the little F icon!

Really. Facebook is offering a free service here. No one is forcing you to sign up, and even if you do sign up, no one is forcing you to reveal personal details. If they can be charged under the federal wiretap statute, then really no website that uses cookies is safe. The best solution is just to not use Facebook, rather than ask the government to twist the law to fit what Facebook is doing.

The advantage to taking out the battery, especially when doing something private, is it protects you even when the police DO have a warrant!

Sounds like a damn good reason not to buy an iPhone then.

Unlike GPS devices covertly installed on your vehicle by police, cell phones are in the user's control. You don't have to leave it turned on all the time. In particular, if you are doing something private, like visiting your mistress, you can simply turn the phone off before driving to her apartment. And if you're afraid the phone will still leak location information while in standby or power-off mode, you can simply remove the battery.

No it doesn't. Only if the US gives up control of assigned IP addresses and DNS tlds that it controls. Already each country controls their own two letter tld.

Then he's doing the government's work for them. They wanted to make an example of him, and by drawing attention to his case, he's helping them to succeed.

Ummm, the differences the people on those beaches are there by choice, and if they are topless, they are topless by choice. That's why the beaches are called clothing optional.