I'm sorry, but this is public information. If you want it to be private, you keep it private. If Jane and Joe Average can access the information it's not private.

How it gets used is another matter, but...

If I'm at a party and keep my ears open and hear a reliable source say "Fred has been recruiting people to go around at night and kill all the blacks people in the town", I'm not going to hire Fred. Now if they note that Fred got drunk a lot in college, that doesn't really matter to me, unless he was too drunk to go to classes and cheated his way through. I don't see checking out facebook or myspace as any different.

We're getting farther and farther away from freedom and equality, all in the name of Freedom and Equality. It's like Dave Barry says, when someone tells you they're doing something "for the People" it's usually not the people at large who win.

Ironically enough, I had moved past the article in question to read the article about Jason's bandwidth being overwhelmed by myspace layout providers referencing an image on textfiles.com; I clicked on the next article and... down to to either "maintenance or capacity problems". 8^/

A social life for /. readers! Now we all just have to die. I'll call Al up and see if he has any Internet Kool-Aid[tm]. He invented that, you know!

Ours are in use 24/7 except when a user screws up and locks their desktop out of the compute pool. We're mostly a linux shop. I suppose a couple of the Windows servers could sleep, but (a) we don't trust it, (b) people log in at all sorts of odd hours to do things and (c) backups and other things run during off hours. So sleeping just isn't an option for our systems.

I realize this doesn't apply to everyone, but the situation isn't black and white.

Install translators so drivers and passengers can communicate.

Let's eliminate the spammers, thus saving 100% of that energy. I'm thinking the same way the US recently eliminated some pirates.

These guys are wasting at least a day of my life every year, plus billions of dollars corporations an individuals spend avoiding their plague of emails, and then on top of that they're destroying the environment. Terrorists, every last one of them.

It may be overkill, but RenewData (www.renewdata.com) specifically handles online data storage for legal firms, complete with e-discovery tools.

Worse than that, I once was in tis position, and every time we recompiled, new bugs cropped up. Until we realized they were *old* bugs. The taope drive had ceased writing about 3 months ago, only it always said it was writing fine. So what we had brought with us was 3 month old code. On the meantime, the drive crashed back at the office (no, I am not making this up), so we had current binaries, but old source, and every recompile brought in more old library code. Everyone, and I mean everyone involved, was breathing down our necks.

Including my wife, stuck at home 300 miles away with our colic-y firstborn.

No. I suspect MS spends more on this per year for toilet paper.

Didn't google already do that? With streetview? I'm sure I heard a car drive through my cortex the other night.

What do they evolve into? You can just rock me to sleep tonight!

While this is prevalent today, in the early days, it was less so. Some of the sci-fi authors did research, but many apparently had only a passing acquaintance with the science in their stories, to the point some of it was laughed at when the stories were published by those with breadth or depth of science knowledge. (I am not referring to things generally believed true at the time but proven false later.)

I've never understood why really dark colors even show up on lots in the southern US, especially in the western states. We owned a black car once. Never again.

Agreed. keeping tires properly inflated helps gas mileage, safety and performance.

BZZZZT. Time is a completely non-renewable resource. All I got is all I got, and wasting it to get somewhere slower while commuting doesn't cut it. Make the roads big enough for reasonable capacity and coordinate the lights to keep traffic flowing, and you'll do far more to save the environment, reduce fuel consumption, and not waste peoples' time.

dynamic time warp again!

Whatever gets taught, proper scientific method needs to be taught first and then applied. There *are* problems and holes in the current evolutionary theory, and by pretending those don't exist and teaching evolution as unassailable dogma (not that this is how it's taught everywhere, but it is in most places I hear about) the proponents of evolution prove themselves no different than the people they claim the creationists are.