If somebody is copying it for a "friendly" reason, why not use a link? If they can't embed a link, then they can have a watermark. Still not good enough? Well how about asking? That's not being a dick. That's preventing others from being dicks.

Tell that to thousands upon thousands of bar owners who have no public transportation to and from their establishment. Tell that to the guy who just wants to MEET a friend for a couple beers. Having one or two beers and driving is totally acceptable to me. Most of the morons out there on their cell phones are far less capable than your average "I had 2 beers with dinner" driver.
 
If you really want to solve the problem your way (one drink = no driving) and do it realistically then you need to address the actual problem... It's a transportation problem, not a drinking problem. Just about everybody on earth drinking a beer tonight would like to be able to walk out of the bar and flag a ride home (or wherever). Are YOU going to pick them up?
 
Seriously good public transportation. Available everywhere, even to the karaoke bar in the sticks. That's the real solution. To a lot of things.

If so then it seems people know how they are characterized.

Really? This is terrible. Can you tell me how I can see how my friends categorize me? I looked but can't figure it out.
I have a business presence on FB and need to fix this if it's true.
I guess I could use code names for the groups "buddies" "pals" "Friends Group 1" etc. to mean different things. But that's a pain. Can you verify your assertion? Much appreciated!

Facebook is an American company. Americans are notoriously not so enthralled with Wall Street OR Goldman at the moment.
Americans (don't give me that USian crap, "America" is the name of the country), are most likely to read about privacy issues and most likely to distrust Wall Street and "Corporate America" right now. Why wouldn't they exclude us in the initial rounds of this? Well they think we're the most skeptical of course. We're bad for price inflation. Now Italy, Egypt, New Zealand, Japan, China, to them Facebook is an American juggernaut. If Americans are excluded, heck that's like doing everybody else a favor. They're buying stock in the business model that's making most of it's money harvesting American data. Woohoo!!
If they exclude us, then we can't temper the exuberance.
Goldman Sachs is like the Corleone family of finance. Only infinitely more entrenched in Washington and Wall Street. They know exactly what they're doing.

"[BP is] a good buy but only if you don't feel bad investing in an evil industry whose 1 oil rig out of 10,000 has leaked thereby covering hundreds of innocent pelicans with oil! Hope you can sleep at night.

I'm not so sure?

Which company do you think will have the safest oil drilling practices and possibly a larger interest in alternative energies over the next 5 or 10 years?

Nice. I'm going to have to borrow that.

Thank you. I find it irritating that offering a carefully thought out opinion with a good background behind it is 20% flamebait and 40% troll. Proof that you gotta be SC when you post. SC being the slashdot equivalent of PC, Politically Correct. What's most frustrating is the "Apple vs. Android" in the Title of the Article. It's not like I dropped that opinion on some tangential thread.

"to generalize yourself to the entire population of smartphone users is a bit silly"
 
Well maybe a bit. But we're all talking about opinion here right?
I do think, having spent the last 20 years of my life dealing with end users and end user technology that I have a bit of an edge when it comes to judging these things. I might be wrong, but I'm betting that of the people who have used both enough to come to a good personal conclusion, it's the geekier of us that prefer Android. The iPhone is a little insulting to the technophile sensibility. And the extra twiddling and patience that -seems to me- to be required by Android, is something that the geek crowd is used to, actually revels in. I get it. I fiddle with my wife's android all the time. I just use my iphone. From the "Joe Sixpack" viewpoint, I'm pretty sure the iPhone is the winner. From elegant UI standpoint, I'm pretty sure the iPhone is the winner. For the fiercely independent geeky Slashdot crowd, I'm not at all surprised that Android is the winner. But we're talking Market Winner for 2011, not Slashdot winner.
 
Again, this is an Apple vs. Android story. It's all opinion.

-1 flamebait.
 
It's an Apple vs. Android story you twit. It's here for us to argue the merits of each as we see it. Discuss which we think, based on our own experience and judgment (can't base it on somebody elses) which is the market "winner" for 2011. This is obvious by the TITLE of the story. I'm guessing you're an Apple hater, and wouldn't have attacked the same exact post if it had been touting Android instead. Either that, or clicked into the story with your post ready, just looking for somebody to lay it on.
 
By the way, I think Android feels very rickety and low end compared to iPhone. I've used both. I've used Android briefly in half a dozen different up-to-date incarnations. The iPhone is a joy to use, Android is like Windows 98, first edition, with a 3 dollar mouse. Does that make me a troll? I think the troll is the person who shits all over somebody just for having a different opinion.
 
What the hell is with all the damn adolescent war-mongering on this site? It wasn't always so bad. At least it didn't used to be moderated up to +4 on a regular basis. Sigh.

My wife has an Android. I have an iPhone. Comparing hers to mine is like comparing Windows 95 to Windows 7. Sure they both do email, messaging, web surfing, have apps, and basically do all the same tasks that most people do day in and day out. One is a pleasure to use. The other is annoying and sometimes frustrating. Using an iPhone makes me smile. And I'm a lifelong Microsoft junkie (I tried rehab several times). Never having been an Apple fanboy (I don't even like Mac OS a little bit), I'm now a total iPhone fanboy. It's elegant, ergonomic, pleasant, and intuitive. Android tries to come close, but it doesn't. Every time I pick up a new Android device I think surely this one will impress me. Nope. It's only impressive if you've never used an iPhone long enough to appreciate it.
 
I see people switching to iPhone from Android with some frequency, but I've never seen anyone go the other way _and like it_. If Apple can get the price down a bit, they'll "win" for a long time to come. Android has the many handset makers going for it. It'll continue to do well. There are still a ton of people (90+% last I read) that have yet to upgrade to a smartphone. Android might remain more popular. But Hyundai's are more popular than BMW's. Nobody pits them against each other. That would be silly.
 
I'll add, that I don't like Apple's locked down approach very much, or it's lack of basic features out of the box, like wifi tethering or just plain moving some damn files around without syncing with iTunes. But most people don't care about those things, and those that do are just the type of people to click here, and have their cake and eat it too.

Interesting that travel dropped right about the time we really geared up the subsidized food burning.
 
Funny how historically high food prices and pitiful job and income growth can really dampen a decade. That's without mentioning gas prices. "Peak Travel" you say?? Whoever came up with this Peak Travel idea must live in vacuum.

The Peace Prize was given to "Obama" for getting elected.
The USA electing a black opposition President in the time of Bush is a historical accomplishment;
the Peace Prize is yours too if you voted for him. It was like awarding the US the Peace Prize.
 
I see where you're coming from, but I view the Peace Prize as something really grand. Something that deserves to be capitalized.
So grand, that since it was awarded to Obama, when it was awarded, then that must mean it was intended for all of us who voted for him.
I think we should accept it that way.
 
What he's done since...

It's not cheating if you have permission.
 
It's not like we have to worry about whose offspring is whose these days. At least not if you hang out with responsible intelligent adults. So what's the deal with wanting to OWN your spouse's body?
 
Sure, monogamy is great for awhile. But when you've been married 15 years and plan on staying married forever, and always coming home to the other, why not give each other the freedom to have some fun?
Are you really that jealous and insecure?

This is a cool proof of concept and neat little hack. But sound really isn't the best way to do high speed photography.
Look at the balloon in the video, you see the end of the action. I think ideally we want to see the moment the pin pricks it. Same with the glass, we want to see the hammer smashing it, not the moment after when the pieces are falling.
 
The CHDK has been around for awhile and can produce flash sync at least up to 1/60,000th of second on some pretty cheap cameras.
 
Simpler, if you don't like hacking your firmware, with high end flash heads you can simply use high speed sync mode and shoot around 8 fps at up 1/8000th of a second. Experimenting with wide apertures and higher (but still perfectly good)ISOs you can do pretty amazing things. Especially with the latest off-the-shelf radio strobe controls. You might have to work a little to catch the absolute perfect moment, but that's usually not hard with the right setup. TFA is a neat hack, but probably not the best nor the most direct route to great high speed photography.