Many Google engineers contribute to open-source software, but they do so on their free time.
This gives a false impression that Google actually contributes to open-source.

There is an XMPP interface to Facebook chat which works pretty well. Works even better than GMail on some aspects.

As far as I understand it, XMPP doesn't allow direct client-to-client communication, you have to go through one or several third-party servers, which will get the content of your messages even if you use encryption.
It would have certainly been better to build this as an extension to file-transfer or audio/video chat rather than making a new protocol however. (I don't know XMPP that much, but I suppose those three things are direct client-to-client for efficiency reasons)

You can deal with Authentication using GPG.

Just come to slashdot.

What are you talking about? The Dreamcast is one of the best consoles of all time.

But if you factor in the costs of having someone work on the project (someone that would normally have to be paid, and for engineering work paid pretty well), then it's definitely not cheaper.

Because a high-resolution high-framerate camera is more expensive than a complex mechanical stabilization device -- oh wait, it isn't.

Not everyone is as open-minded as this.

Defying social standards and morals will only ostracise yourself.
Thankfully today's social standards aren't as discriminatory as you suggest.

It's not men before women, it's men and women are different.

What is extremist about people realizing their place in society?

It's only a problem for people that think there is a problem where there isn't.

Next, and standing all by itself, there's *nothing* wrong with marketing one's natural advantages.

There is nothing wrong either with using one's natural advantages to make money with activities such as porn or prostitution.
Yet if you ask people around what they think of prostitution, they'll think it's disgusting and that those women are whores.

That second link was quite funny.
It's basically "Stop making merchandise I do not want to buy!"

What's the problem?
You feel offended by a woman in a swimsuit?