LOGO is how I got started on computers when I was about 3 years old. My father showed me how you can enter commands to make that turtle do fun things. I was hooked. I got distracted by video games (and outdoor playing) for a bit, but started doing my own programming in BASIC by 4th grade.

Or the Amiga people...

I would think one should be more worried about sheltering their kids from extreme violence than from sexual content. Why does it seem more ok to let kids watch violent movies where people are killing each other than to see a pair of boobs on a movie?

Maybe it's a population control thing...

The problem with that is, what about the time between install and auto remove? Perhaps a plugin could be written to do the "bad" things it needs to do quickly before the user has a chance to see the prompt and click 'remove'. I shouldn't have to let a plugin get installed on my system, see it, and remove it. Just don't put it on there in the first place.

I remember back in the late 90's I was watching Saturday Night Live with my girlfriend. They cut to a 'commercial break' for Gillette where they introduced the Mach 20. They talked about how having 20 blades will make shaving so much better, much more close of a shave with the layers of skin being removed, etc. The skit itself was funny enough, but I really had a laugh when my girlfriend thought it was real.

"How can they sell a product like THAT?!?!"

She was fine once she realized it wasn't a real commercial.

Well no. The first option in the poll says "die on impact." Impact what? Mars? A Martian IPBM defense missile? A highly powered laser beam from another Martian IPBM system?

First option is fine the way it is.

There's an implied risk, and required training, with driving. In order to be allowed to drive, one must take appropriate training and get a license. This tells potential drivers that there are things they need to learn before they can get behind the wheel.

In the computing world, there really isn't any such thing, especially for the home user. Joe Average can just go out to Best Buy, purchase a computer, take it home, and be online. He can, and probably will, very quickly get infected with all sorts of malware and his computer may start attacking systems all over the Internet without Joe Average's knowledge - He was never told.

Perhaps there should be a license (and training) required for Internet access similarly to what is required for driving. Maybe even throw in annual inspections of the licensee's computer for good measure.

Of course then there's the whole privacy issue...

I wonder what the market share for web browsers would look like if Internet Explorer wasn't mandated as THE browser in certain organizations. (ignoring the fact that it's merely installed on every Windows PC). How much of an effect is Chrome or Firefox or Safari making in corporations where a majority of users don't have admin rights to their system and therefore can't even install other browsers if they wanted to (or knew about it)?

They didn't remove the wall-to-wall feature. Click a friend's name, load their profile. Just below the text box where you'd type out a message to post on their wall, there's a "filters" link (below the Share button). Click that. Then click wall-to-wall.

Now if you want to see a wall to wall between friend1 and friend2, you can copy/paste friend1 and friend2's ID numbers into the URL.

I only noticed this after reading your post and tried it to verify. So the ability is already there to see friend1 and friend2's "life story" between each other. This new tool just automates it so you don't have to paste IDs into the URL.

If you don't want something seen on the front page of the newspaper, don't post it online.

I think as long as this tool abides by the privacy settings on your Facebook account, it should be ok. If you don't want people seeing your communications on Facebook, why have them as a friend? Or put them in a group that doesn't have access to certain areas. If you want communication between you and another friend to be private, use a more private means of communication. Secret posts to your mistress don't belong on a Facebook wall post.

The information this tool makes available is already available anyway. If you're concerned about one of your Facebook friends having access to all of that information, why not just remove them as a friend?

Modded Insightful. Nice! :)

Not to mention that having so many restrictions on passwords can significantly reduce the pool of possible passwords, making brute force password cracking even easier. But maybe no one does brute force anymore...

I believe the flight sim was in Excel 2000. Excel 95 had an FPS game similar to DOOM in it. It was just one small map, but it was there.

Plenty of Easter Eggs in various applications, operating systems, hardware devices, movies, etc. :)

Let's see, time to call my 254 friends...

I guess the term 'friend' is being used somewhat lightly.

Perhaps for online games like Halo 2 or World of Warcraft, once the game becomes so outdated that the company decides not to continue hosting it, they should allow fans to host smaller local servers, private servers, themselves. They could even charge a one-time fee to buy the software. Then fans of the game can still play the game with a small group of friends even if the company essentially gave up on the game servers.