They're looking for intelligence on Facebook? That should keep them searching for a while :-)

Here in Ireland we follow a Celtic calendar. Autumn (fómhar) is defined as the three month period with the Autumnal Equinox as midpoint. For simplicity, seasons nowadays align with the months of the Gregorian civil calendar so Autumn starts on the first day of August.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar

Kevin Mitnick was able to get mugshots of police that were investigating him by buying a police yearbook claiming it was a present for a relative who was a police officer.

"At one point, he went to a police station and found a Los Angeles Police Department yearbook for sale. It included photographs and names of the very undercover squads seeking him. He said he wanted to buy a copy as a gift for his police officer uncle. With no questions asked, for $75 he walked away with a photo guide to his pursuers."

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/hacking-the-system-because-he-could/question-2086111/

Please do not give the five trillion dollar coin to Mr Burns to deliver it ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Trillions

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1618206/Open-Source-Alternative-To-Dropbox

It would be bad if I lost my Gmail account but I do have a DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) for that. I download everything each month via IMAP to have a local backup and for all registrations instead of just using my Gmail address I use an e-mail address in my own domain which redirects to my Gmail address. It would be bad if I lost my Gmail account but I do have a DRP for that.

I tried the demo at http://myfavoritebeer.org/ and the result was:
"Error encountered while attempting to confirm your address. please try again. (error message: unknown)"

Spartans! Prepare for glory!

I am familiar with TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 (I still have an account on a DEC-20) and it's not exactly either which makes me think it could be TENEX http://tenex.opost.com/tenex72.txt

that owns the Ile de Sein and it feels good when some of our people do a difficult job so well, again,
I'm in a totally different division, can't claim any credit.

http://nauticallog.blogspot.com/2011/04/ile-de-sein.html

The host_id seems to be base64 representation of 32 hex digits. I hope it's just random but if it's an MD5 hash of something related to the host PC then the real security problem will be when someone figures out what the something is.

oops, upon further reading I realize the law is http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000023646013&categorieLien=id That does indeed state: "Le mot de passe ainsi que les données permettant de le vérifier ou de le modifier, dans leur dernière version mise à jour"

The password AND data to verify it or change it.

I suspect the OP did not verify the exact wording. The law requires retention of (among other things) "mot de passe ou données permettant de le vérifier ou de le modifie" (password *or* data to verify it *or* change it) so it seems that it would be enough to store the password hash and/or do a password reset when demanded by the law enforcement guys.

Could people with better French than me please verify my understanding of what it says:

http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000023646852&dateTexte=&oldAction=rechJO&categorieLien=id

What are these " of which you speak?

What the West should do is support the aid being given from Egypt and other Arab countries. We should not be so arrogant as to assume we know but rather we should ask them what they need to help Libya.