Holy Apples-to-Oranges, Capppman!

Wrong. Facebook makes money by providing users with a place to post information about themselves publicly. The point of using Facebook is to provide information to the public, and accept or deny communication with third parties accordingly. Nothing forces anyone to click an advertisement; the /. crowd is just extremely sensitive to issues that may have anything to do with Facebook privacy concerns.

You're 100% right. Sexual orientation, however, is not private and is publicly displayed - there is nothing to "disclose," the user discloses it to the whole internet voluntarily.

That's extremely pessimistic. A living module and a couple astronauts could, with a reliable power source (whether solar or nuclear), begin mining the gold. You saw the old moon landing videos, those guys got out and walked around decades before microprocessing was a dirty thought.

Spirit and Opportunity were $400,000,000, and they had no purpose besides observation. A project to begin mining gold on the moon? I'm 100% positive it is not only possible, but extremely plausible that if a substantial amount of accessible gold was located, Earthlings would begin moonmining. It would be a symbol of a nation's advancement and status to be mining wealth from the heavens.

I can't believe no one has comprehensively replied to this story yet. This is a huge deal -- a HUGE deal, and no one can deny that. Common knowledge has been, "well there's nothing on the moon, but perhaps on Mars or [celestial body]" and now we are hearing conclusively that both water and gold are present. This could be monumental, only time will tell.

Name one.

Would the court's restrictions also bar him from writing a ciphered letter to a friend? If so, your point is moot -- the court is simply attempting to stop a criminal from encrypting what could be something related to a crime. If not, I disagree with the court's ruling on a liberty level but in application it might be called for.

I've met two people named "Skye" ... both spelled the same way.

...except for the little-known fact that every single legislator and President (who chooses the Supreme Court) is elected by the citizens -- with no exceptions. If you grabbed every single person who doesn't vote and convinced them to get off their ass and vote for inherently good candidates there would be no problems. Unless you believe that then some secret evil force would rise up, kill everyone who was elected, declare martial law, and end voting, at which point the people would no longer be responsible for the government's problems.

I'm guessing you weren't on AA Flight 11 nine or so years ago.

You can tell the name "LibreOffice" was chosen by several guys who communicated primarily via the internet. In the real world, it's very difficult to say "Libre" correctly without a Spanish accent, and I believe it's only going to continue to hinder the widespread acceptance of OO.o.

Thanks for making me chuckle this afternoon.

I'm very happy about this update. I've been wondering if I ever wrote anything questionable on my Facebook profile; once this feature is offered to me, I will download everything and scan through it.

Correct. But how are you rewarding a group of neurons?

Yes you do. Name one part of a living organism (excluding the "soul") that makes it any different from a sufficiently complex machine.