no they do encrypt it but they encrypt each letter seperately!

As a fellow beekeeper, i'd go further and say this is utter BS. Like most of the "inhabitat" stuff, actually.

simple. your colleague user her email address to sign up, which the other cancer survivor hat previously entered into facebook search to figure whether she is on facebook. facebook remembered the search even though it didn't return any matches at the time, but made good use of it by suggesting a probable friend candidate.
creepy: yes
creepy by facebook creepiness standards(R): no

this one's not powered by the 2-stroke either, but it hangs from cables on the ceiling. The outdoor version would have to have some sort of engine, for BigDog that was a 2-stroke which is of course completely peerless for power-to-weight ratio, for the engine itself, and energy-to-weight ratio, because of the high energy density of petroleum fuel. Pity the damn things are noisy, and dirty.

Let's call it GammaDog.

OK so scores of Nvidia chips are cool but a Zeiss Mark VI is wayyyy more cool...

I, too, think that's an excellent idea. I'm sure Mark Shuttleworth reads this thread, so please Mark, listen. We want this. Maybe the /. community still is slightly biased towards the "power user".

I thought it's spelt 1337.

OED, get it right

.. and sell it under the wrong name!