The answer is of course, product placement in-line with the text. They could do this pretty easily on the back end of many books automatically.

"... all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as he opened forth his Pepsi-Cola, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it."

Since FB is so heavily load balanced I would expect that they're using SSL dedicaetd modules on their load balancing solution and still running their servers HTTP. Since they didn't care about privacy enough to use SSL until it became a PR issure, I doubt they care too much about encryption on their internal network.

I use it to bug the shit out of people. There's nothing quite as irritating as a dozen smiley icons in a row.

At some point isn't it easier to just buy the software?

It is a ridiculous idea that will never work. But, it might be fun to use just to piss off Facebook.

Many generations of our elders had no Internet, TV or radio. Consequently, they spent a lot of time socializing and discovering delicious liquor combinations. No reason we can't leverage some of that good info.

So turning a software free market into another Apple walled garden is an advantage? Maybe they should call it "Apple Genuine Advantage."

Shit, I just found it. How'd we miss this before?

        if (Password == "JOSHUA")
        {
                printf("Greetings Professor Falken");
                godmode = true;
                return;
            }

Whatever, so long as it brings back the TURBO button I'm buying one!

You don't really need a weapon at all. Just turn on any electrical device that gives off an RF signal while the plane ascends. Then watch that fucker go up in a firey fireball of death!

The Google business-class apps are encrypted, private and sync with Android out of the box. And the best part - since Google says you can trust them, it means you have nothing to fear! Of course, you would have to stop using your desktops and switch to Google Apps for your calendaring and email.

Since we know that gravity = acceleration, we should make the phone work only in zero gravity. Problem solved. NEXT!

If you don't know any details it's OK to say nothing.

Looks like somebody got their PR spin piece relayed as a news story again. Bravo!

You can remove the DRM from EPUB, PDF and PRC (Amazon's flavor of Mobi DRM), but it's not easy enough for the general public to do. Google Mobidedrm and ineptpdf.pyw.

I do this for everything I've bought on my Kindle just on principal. Kindle doesn't support ePub, most likely so they can lock you into their evil monopoly plans. If I had it to do over again I'd get a device that supports ePub, just to avoid the hassle. In this case I don't mind the DRM too much.