Google just sounds so sweet to my ears, much better than some random names that I don't know are associated with my favorite company of all time.

Here, because I get news out of it. I gave up on farmville, because I got nothing from it.

I disagree. Political stories have a lot of nuances and spur a lot of arguments while to science stories (being one of the main reasons I'm on /.) my comments would be something along the lines of "cool," or "huh." I could make such comments, but the reason they would not be modded up is because no one would care to read them.

I'm probably about to get whooshed, but where's your love for the Japanese?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami

I do work in the industry, and you're right that must bugs are caused by sloppiness and inattentiveness. Those bugs are easy to solve and show up in early testing and code reviews. It's the complexity ones that make you spend a whole week with something like "tried to fix bug #104: still 0% percent complete" as your team's current tasking. Or worse, show up a week after delivery. Those bugs are usually complexity related and half of the time deal with unpublished limitations of 3rd party libraries.

I've also done some amateur carpentry: I suck at it, but the nice thing is that usually you can look at something later and say, "That panel is crooked, why don't I pull it off and redo it?" You don't usually have to spend days testing and debating about which panel might be crooked and call vendors to find out whether your tools are working like they are supposed to.

Anything on the food network.

Actually, as a rather smell oriented person, it would greatly increase my immersion in pretty much any movie and I would be all over this if it was cheaper. I'm sure I'm not alone on this either.

I think parent is right, the only way to detect which songs you ripped and which songs someone else ripped is to figure out what is unique about your ripped collection, and there, we can't help you.

Keep in mind that if you can't tell the difference then your not really perjurying yourself with any EULA that you accept if you honestly thought the music was your own. And if you can't tell the difference, how will they?

Don't you think this might incorrectly flag people who send out lots of chain emails to all their friends?

I, for one, hope so.

I was thinking along the lines of management coming in and saying:
"Either we hang some colored lights around that will make you feel like taking the stairs or we put: 'Take the stairs rather than the elevator whenever possible' on your list of yearly goals."
I would really prefer the former. Just because I don't think that colored lights encourage me to take the stairs doesn't mean its unethical for them to do so. Balls that light up depending on whether or not I'm being green or not are preferable to most of the creepy posters companies already put up in order to influence my behavior.

Personally I think the employees are right. I don't think the color of an art piece would make me change whether I take the stairs or not, but the reminder that I'm making a choice about it would definitely make consciously choose, rather than defaulting to the more convenient elevator. Also the implication that management prefers the stairs over the elevator would be a strong influence on me.

Will be the average guy/gal in your area. I don't know where your from, but in my area I'd say 80% would return it if it was easy and a small fraction of the remaining 20% would be criminal enough to do anything more than attempt to e-bay it.

Your confusing people who will find a dropped phone with people who would steal a phone.

Yes, this information could have been dug up on you before, but consider your example of your wife used to have to hire someone to follow you. To get to that point she had to have enough suspicions to lay down a few hundred in order to have them confirmed. Now she'll just plug your iphone into her computer while your in the shower and find out where you've been.

Although that was another article, the situation and fears are the same. The easier it gets to know information about people, the less your enemies, friends, potential employers, advertisers, government, etc have to work to dig up the information, the less they'll weigh whether they are invading your privacy or if it is really worth the effort.

Oh, officers, you have it all wrong! Those terabytes of k1ddy pr0n on my hard drive prove my innocence!

Well, I don't have a password on my wireless router, because I'm too lazy, but if swat busts through my door and drags me out and yells at me for awhile about "This was a 500k raid, the pedo we've been after for months has surely disappeared already and the taxpayers and future victims need to know why you did this to them!"

Like hell I'm saying, "Well officers, I'm lazy." No, I'd say "I tried! Oh GOD I tried!!! I tried so hard I bled! Next time I'll try to my death!!!!"

I do see your point, but you also have to consider GP's point:

If you lock your wireless down and a pedo moves in next door, but your neighbor on the other side of the pedo didn't, you won't even have to be held at gunpoint or show the authorities and maybe the local media your perfectly legal collection of porn. The guy on the other side has to.

If the pedo is a hacker: well that sucks for you, but even though authorities have a little more evidence against you they'll still find that all your porn is legit and whatever you are accused of doing is not from a mac address of a computer you own, and there are no records of the activities in your house.

If they REALLY have it in for you, then encrypted or not they'll drive for that conviction and ruin your reputation in the process, in which case, you really want to reduce your chance of any such encounter. The only way I see is by hoping the pedo is not a hacker or is lazy enough to use the other guys wireless.

If people can't see this: http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/birth.jpg, realize that birth announcements were made in the local papers, and notice that multiple agencies have put investigating it's legitimacy and found it real, then no amount of convincing that trustedID is trustable is going to convince them.

If I have to bring at least two newspaper articles, several sworn officials, several in depth investigations and court rulings in support of my identity to prove myself for an amazon purchase and it is still not enough, I don't think I am going to adopt that system.