You know this is Slashdot, home of news for nerds and stuff that matters.

It is neither Digg nor Fox News, so how about you do us ALL a favour and stop talking sensationalist bullshit.

Farmville by Zynga requests the most basic default level of permission i.e.

Access my basic information
Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone.

You see that last phrase ??? INFORMATION I'VE SHARED WITH EVERYONE. So you put stuff online, set the privacy level to the lowest (can be seen by everyone), then complain about privacy because everyone can see it ?

Are you illiterate or just plain dumb ?

Disclaimer : I have no affiliation with either Zynga or Facebook. I'm just tired of all this bullshit masquerading as truth. Either check your facts or shut the fuck up.

Okay, so I'll repeat my question ... why are you browsing Slashdot at work, instead of WORKING ?

WHAT, JUST THAT ONE SITE, OF PERHAPS THE WHOLE FUCKING INTERNET ?

Seriously though, the whole "this should be in caps because it's a warning" ? I'll decide if something is a warning or not, sounds like a lot of alarmist bullshit to me. If something is NSFW, then don't fucking browse it at work ... how simple is that ? In fact, why exactly would ANYONE be browsing that site AT work ? It's not like it's a valuable source of research material for 99.999% of the working population is it ? Perhaps if more people actually WORKED at work, the country wouldn't be in such a goddamn mess ?

George W. Bush seemed to think they were connected.

Bush Defends Assertions of Iraq-Al Qaeda Relationship

By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 18, 2004; Page A09

President Bush yesterday defended his assertions that there was a relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda, putting him at odds with this week's finding of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission.

"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," Bush said after a Cabinet meeting.

So it's really irrelevant what YOU think, the idiot with the launch codes seemed to believe it.

Carpet bombing managed to find Hitler's bunker.

Laser guided smart bombs have yet to find Osama Bin Laden.

You tell me, have we improved since WWII ?

No, the only thing that matters is that you make a difference.

The only difference the US made in Iraq was between the "official" death toll, and the real one.

Nothing else has changed, there will be a civil war pretty soon with the Sunnis, Shias and Kurds all vying for the biggest slice of the pie, some new tinpot dictator will crawl his way to the top, and 20 or 30 years down the line, we'll be having this same discussion again.

If you are going to make a difference, then do it. If you are going to sit there for 10 years and leave with the country in a worse condition than when you started, then stay the fuck home.

Fine, I want a patent granted to me immediately on the Space Shuttle, but with the USA flag removed.

That's the ridiculousness of the "innovation" that Zynga are claiming here.

A 1:1 conversion ratio ? Your bank will let you do international bank-to-bank transfers with NO charges for you or the receiving party ?

Please, tell me the name of your bank, I'll open an account tomorrow.

This post is "new". Nobody has ever made a post quite like this one before. Is it a "copy"? Absolutely. Could I get a patent on it? Almost certainly yes, as it's just sufficiently different (99% existing text, 1% new text) to claim "invention".

It's STILL a blatant ripoff of the parent, but hell, this kind of "invention" is what has kept the pharma companies in gold plated toilet seats since the patents of the REALLY useful drugs ran out years ago.

Bang a new molecule onto an existing complex chain, claim it cures not only small and big warts, but now medium warts also, and get another 15 years carte blanche to ripoff the consumer.

Pachinko machines circa 1920 ?

Real currency is exchanged for virtual currency (balls) that can be played in the machines. The machine pays out winnings of more balls. Officially / legally, these balls cannot be exchanged back into real currency, although it does happen courtesy of the local Yakuza mafia who will have an exchange center close to (but not in) the same location as the machines.

Kind of parallels the whole Gold Farming / Selling websites that abound in MMOs chat screens. The Internet mirrors real life once again.

But I digress, this patent is bullshit, so of course it will be awarded.