It'd be more interesting to send parts of the password to different people. So for example 3 people out of a group of 7 would have to join their parts to get the whole password. Redundancies are there in case some of the people fall off the face of the planet. Ideally you'd find 7 people where no three of them would join up to conspire against you -- that is admittedly very hard.

I'm sure there's a mathematical function to split up a piece of information so that 3 out of 7 pieces is enough to restore it. How to do it is an exercise left for the reader.

I played with a BlackBerry in 2008, and they already had/have this. If an app doesn't have a particular permission, it would get a SecurityException. It's supposed to keep functioning (e.g. a chat app might not be able to read your contacts, so it would have to have its own contacts database that you'd manage manually).

But of course Google apps just say "I have to have all permissions or I won't install myself" :(

Was going to say, why not just put stickers with plain-text info? This is a solution looking for a problem, and there are network latency issues, etc etc.

Of course the benefit of having it on a site is that it is instantly modifiable, if the patient's medication changes...

Except that if you're serving content using a standard home connection, the upload bandwidth is a fraction of download bandwidth, and those pics will take forever to load compared to pics served by Facebook...

Overuse of smileys detected... God damnit, wie alt seid ihr, 16?

Second Life and MySpace says hi!

Actually, you're still right. A few years ago people were saying these 2 will be the future of the internet. So, "future of the internet" = don't invest! "passing fad!" = invest all the money!

Ah crap, hit the wrong button, sorry!

Arguably, he was uphholding his oath of defending the US Constitution, and the best way he saw to do that was to expose the whole festering mess that was going on in the military. Machine-gunning kids, how the hell is that acceptable?

OK, I can see you don't put much value in the Constitution anyway... Or your belief in it depends on whether you agree with a particular point or not...

abcd

I can think for myself, and when I read his writings, I can judge for myself whether he's misrepresenting the facts or not, whether his opinions are defending the truth or defending the evil, and whether I agree with him or not.

And for a lot of things, I agree with him. It's not like I'm hiring him to be my accountant, where it would be a lot easier to hide the facts, how can you not trust the act of writing? His articles are read by a lot of people (oh wait, maybe he's sock-puppeting his audience too!) and if they found lies in it they would've protested, and loudly too.

He sock-puppeted once, does that mean everything he's done and he's continuing to do is useless in your eyes? Keep thinking that, meanwhile he's turning out to be the champion of uncompromising progressives' causes (unlike those who protested torture under Bush and then supported them under Obama...)

Presumably there's an automated button somewhere to tell Facebook "I believe a third party knows my password" (which will be true) and a script will automatically change the password, and send a reset code to your e-mail address. Now is e-mail still sacred? If so, then the judge/the soon-to-be-ex can't touch that reset code, problem sort of solved...

Well, thats just because you're an ignorant idiot who either can't read or hasn't actually owned an iPhone so you really don't have any clue what the fuck you're talking about :)

And you're a very pleasant individual yourself, sir! (smiley face).

And what if the user, just like the majority of computer users, just hits OK to close whatever dialog box that popped up? "Well then it's their own fault!", I suppose Mr. Superior I'm-Not-An-Ignorant-Nor-An-Idiot would say.

Yeah, the first iPhone OS was well thought-of and intuitive, but after that it just relies on the user having to know some secrets to get it to work, e.g., who would've figured out that double-tapping the Home button on the lock screen would load Siri? That to move icons, group or delete apps on the home screen you have to hold them until they wiggle, and to group them you have to drag one onto another? Intuitive my butt...

Not that Android apps are any better. On some apps, hitting back actually means "go to the previous screen", even if that means leaving that app. But on my music player, if I load it, it goes to the "Now Playing" screen, which is the least useful screen since I can pause or skip songs on that screen, but I can do that from outside the app as well, so why would it show me that screen? Ok this is just nitpicking, it can't read my mind. But usually I open up the music app because I want to load up a different song. So I press the music app icon, I see the "Now playing" screen. Let's see, how do I see all songs? I press the menu button. No such option. I hit back. Ah, there it is. Real fucking intuitive..!

Does that make financial sense? If you only buy when you're running out of space, chances are you'll get a better deal. 2 years ago 1 TB would cost around (pulling number out of thin air...) $70, and now (or at least last week) for that amount of money you can get a 2TB disk..