hate to reiterate the AC - but Ann Coulter did advocate this. The right has some serious reactionary pisspantses among its ranks these days.

Quoting Ayn Rand is one of the ways to touch the third rail. Ayn Rand was a reactionary dipshit, 99.9% of the things she said are utter crap. the only thing she ever said of value is that reality is separate from our view of it - and she was far from the first person to say that.

The rest of your post might be perfectly intelligent (and after reading it is seems to be), but by quoting that polarizing reactionary dipshit you make yourself look like an idiot.

wow.. that's one dumb thing "because it was misused once, 70 years ago - and since then we've passed a lot more laws to protect against it. We've also recognized our folly in doing that in the first place - it is not trust worthy today".

admit it - you're only acting like this because your team doesn't control the government.

for fuck sake, people are stupid.

Go piss your pants on someone else's couch, uncle sam is tired of cleaning up after you.

yes, warranty purposes.

yes, you're so clever filling in "American" instead of giving a useful response.

Since when is idiotic WHAAARRGARBL like this allowed on Slashdot? This isn't fark.com

to be fare LinkedIn isn't targeted for the same things as Facebook.

Facebook is a social network.
LinkedIn is a "professional network" - networking for business/IT/etc professionals.

they don't have the same stated goals, but both seem to be the best in class for their stated goals.

I have profiles on both.

It isn't that they don't care about "online privacy", it is that they've joined a site specifically to share certain information. Any information they post on Facebook, etc is clearly information they're ok with Having in public.

My profile on FB has a lot less information than most other peoples. Does that mean I don't care about my online privacy? no, I just don't care if people know that I like Belegarth MCS, and Dungeons and Dragons.

Facebook is essentially public space, don't expect things you do in public spaces to be private. It's not that hard to figure out.

As for GP not knowing what it's for: keeping in contact with people you might not necessarily see every day? Is it that hard to figure out?

Caveat: I don't play facebook games, I don't install apps, etc. My FB profile is very minimal.

Social networks are where you go to share information, if there is information on that social network that you don't want in a public place you shouldn't have posted it in the first place.

Social networks are like public spaces, don't expect anything you do there to be private information.

The entire idea of privacy on a social network is moronic - that's not what they were designed for. The only things I've put on my FB account are things I'm fine with people knowing.

Common fucking sense people.

what a contrived story - you have a couple valid points but your property tax amount is ludicrously above any real property tax.

I'm an ISU Alum

this guy has an agenda. He was a common subject among the CS students, about how he talks out his ass with confirmation bias.

As an alum i just sent him a polite email telling him that he's full of shit

"conclusive" in science.. uumm
"conclusive" in psychology? not even POSSIBLE
"conclusive" in a meta-analysis? YOU'RE FREAKING BIASED!

it is greed, at the same time as failing to run the company properly.

they're selling hardware - they should be able to make a profit at it. especially at the outrageous prices for the Tivo Series 3 HD.

You realize if the cablecard isn't functioning they're violating federal law

listings for mythTv from SchedulesDirect: $20 PER YEAR
listings for Tivo: $16 PER MONTH.

No reason for guide data for tivo to cost so frakking much. And then there is the idea they think that if you hack your box - YOUR BOX, you bought it - to get listings somewhere else that you are stealing service from them.

No, getting listings from them without paying would be theft of services. Getting your listings from somewhere else is not.

TiVo is run by a bunch of corporate farkwads.

i'll give you an example of a well designed domain-specific language to juxtapose next to LSL

the "Simple Expression" (SEXP) system from the FreeSpace 2 engine. It is essentially Scheme in structure, but a much restricted subset.

I know you're just a dumb AC, but if you have a degree in CS and you're employed somewhere that isn't using at least some of the things i listed then i can tell you something about you're programming shop, or the code you produce:

one of them is utter garbage.