I'm sure these people's full names, street addresses and social security numbers are public information by law, and you can already look it up online. And at least half the population have their phone numbers publicly listed in a phone book or its online equivalent ...

Is this even a data leak? "Names and social security numbers" -- I'm sure that information is all publicly available. Couldn't anyone simply run a few thousand social security numbers by some official government lookup web service and get these names? Now, TFA says "personal information, SUCH AS names and social security numbers". When I see a wording like that in a context like this, I'm convinced that "names and social security numbers" is precisely all it is!

First, newer netbook chipsets built within the last year should handle 720p just fine. The only thing holding it back on the web is Flash being a bloated pig, and if you have to use Flash, those videos won't play on the iPad anyway, making this a moot point.

Not really true ... most people watch videos on Youtube, and on the netbook, these are shown with Flash, but on the iPad, they are shown without Flash. I've met so many people who are convinced you can't watch Youtube videos on an Ipad/Iphone that this feels worth pointing out.

"The ones that just want someone else to do their work" ... I would suggest that IT support is not really the users' work, after all.

"Captalism works" doesn't mean "everyone's happy". Typically, it only means management, investors, stockholders etc are. For each passing year, the majority of employees seem to benefit less and less from any success their company enjoys.

What's this article you're quoting?

BLACK METAL! The icy dawn lifteth with an horizon like "Nordens" on fire!!!1

How is that unique to the US? Many countries are so small that it's not even possible to live more than an hour away from the workplace.

It's now possible for anybody to publish a website in a sea of noise, and get noticed, provided someone is looking for their content. This was impossible before google.

I'm sure Altavista was a little worse than Google, but it wasn't so useless that it was impossible to find stuff!

Seriously, really, what if everyone on a US jury would be called a "judge"? Would they then not be "fellow citizens" anymore? Fact is, they're not even called "judges" in Sweden either. It's hard to translate; it means something like "committee persons". They are of course also our fellow citizens. They serve on more than one trial (but this is not their job), they're fewer than on a US jury, but the difference is one of terminology and numbers, not principle. They're not there to convict the innocent any more than US jurors are there to convict the innocent. It boggles the mind that smart people toss around the idea that they can be.

What I do is stay behind the console cycle. When the PS3 had been out for a while, I bought a second-hand PS2 for next to nothing and started buying cheap, good second-hand games. And since I'm always behind the cycle, I never feel like I'm missing out.

Of course a PC could do what my Playstation does -- if there were DualShock controllers for the PC, and Tekken games. But there aren't. The fighting game is a whole genre that's completely absent from the PC platform.

It's a minor point, but there's only one way from Chinese to pinyin. Because pinyin is the name of one specific way to transliterate from Chinese to the latin alphabet.

In TFA, the creator is "just 36 years old"! I'm young again!

Did anyone look at the pictures?! There's no doubt in my mind that they are all in fact official Toyoto photos. Toyota is not claiming ownership of random photos of their cars.