Eactly, it's like when people's naked pictures leak onto the internet and there's an outcry about somone's career being ruined. I truly don't get that because last time I checked everyone had nipples and buttocks, were we supposed to believe that "famous people" didn't?

It's about time. I wrote my final year physics paper on this, using quantum dots tuned to the wavelengths of RGB for flat panel displays. In 1998.

Most fun part was that I did most of the work from my bedroom, running simulations on the unix system at uni via a C app and my trusty 33.6k modem. Good times.

exactly, when working from home (via windows) I have my OSX laptop on the desk next to me. Heck when I'm at work (where "social" sites are blocked) i have my android phone with unlimited data package with me :)

I thought it meant the data could be stored for several years?

Me too, at the moment the only real-time tv I watch is the news, and even that's not very often. Sometimes I'll manage to catch an F1 or IndyCar race, if I manage to remember, and be in my house, and not busy. TV Shows I get via bittorrent and watch when I get around to it, I'm about a year behind most series now but have plenty of HD space to keep grabbing new episodes as they come out :). My HTPC is built to look just like a standard DVD player (I repurposed the case), has a remote and boots straight into XBMC, so even the kids can operate it (my porn is not in XBMC, it's deeply buried in a nested folder structure elsewhere!)

Though this model isn't entirely new, a previous work colleague of mine only watched TV shows when they were released on DVD.

Have been working on something similar very very slowly: a single ASP.Net web page (which could easily be ported to PHP no doubt) that acted as a proxy web browser that encrypted its traffic using a GPG key randomly generated (or provided by the user). It'd be text only ( = no accusations of being used for child pr0n or for teh pirates) but the idea would be that anyone could drop it into their own website without having to configure it and instantly people living under opressive censoring regimes (China,Iran,US,etc.) would be able to open that web page and use it as a web browser to get to news sites and the like.

I actually did, switched from OpenSUSS 11.4 to a Hackintosh, don't ever want to go back (unless the ghost of steve jobs comes to haunt me, then I may consider it)

Yep, whenever I see a photo for a burger-meal or a breakfast the entire thing is shades of yellow (assuming brown counts as dark yellow): cheese (bright yellow), bread (off white tan), bacon (brown), burger (dark brown), fries/wedges/chips (yellow), chicken nuggets (tan), sausage (brown).

And then the omnivores continue to persist the myth that non-meat eaters don't get enough protein, any of you guys ever eaten a vitamin?

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I've been vegetarian for 18 years and thought free range eggs were all fine and dandy until about a month or two ago when someone finally explained this to me. Now adjusting slowly over to vegan.

fish + dairy = prescatarian

I think the idea with the changeover being on sunday is that you don't have to get up early (job/commitments notwithstanding).. Think of the 23 hour day in spring as an opportunity to get up at a "normal" time and go to bed an hour early. The 25 hour day on the other hand is clearly an opportunity to have an extra hour in bed on the morning. meaning both changeovers involve more sleep!

Does anybody else here think that the Like button shouldn't track you even if you ARE logged in?

I have no problem with the Like button being there. But EVEN IF I AM LOGGED INTO FACEBOOK it should not record my page hit unless I click that button.

That's the 5/6 items you've used most recently. For most computer users who are NOT power users this is probably web browser, email, word processor, photo viewer and .... er.... solitaire?

Selling a used game to someone else does NOT give another person access. It TRANSFERS access from one person to another. The total number of players has not gone up.