If 96% of people had done it the social pressure might have been insurmountable. He might have figured if he was the only person in the village who didn't give DNA the police would investigate him and find him anyway, so he might as well give the DNA, hope that there would be a mistake, or hope that he could claim "If it was me, then why did I give them my DNA?"

"I am better than someone else because of the software I use."
Nice man, real nice.

The fact is you shouldn't have to reinstall windows or install linux on a new computer just to get it working properly. And an awful lot of people, like my parents for example, aren't going to realize what's causing them all the problems.

I collect reborn dolls, so my pictures are of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_doll

Right, my mom is the only person I know who uses her face on her facebook account and I think it would be really awesome to see her on a billboard or something, as would she.

If i had known so many people were going to say it I wouldn't have said anything. I feel like a bit of a drone now. But it's the first thing that came into my head when I saw the headline.. "Isn't betelgeuce the past?" I said to myself. Oh well.

What they're saying is it might have blown up around 600 years ago... or not

I don't think firefox has crashed on me in 3 years.. I use lazarus every single day.

I was thinking that... glory fades.. mundi?

I really want to but i can't till they have an extension for form recovery.

Exactly! This was needed YEARS ago I've been making tapes from the radio since I was 5!

Kids learn really fast though, if a lot of those families have kids in them they'll figure out how to use everything in a few weeks and can teach their parents, not to mention they probably do ICT in school.

I can't wait to see all the characters in a range of different outfits!

Great thing about twitter is that it's not really a social networking site anymore. Most people don't post about themselves at all, it's more like slashdot. You share interesting stories and articles you read. And you follow your favourite news sources, journalists, writers, etc. But it's better than Slashdot now in my opinion because you get the information sooner. Not to mention slashdot users are often unfriendly and endlessly looking for opportunities to act superior to each other, where as in twitter you want your stream to stay interesting and dynamic and don't waste your time on the typical petty arguments typical of other social outlets on the internet.

I hope they don't also automatically categorize us under such headings too!

Also..

"let's try this illegal thing! Maybe we won't get caught and we can keep the 50 million. if we do, what harm?"

So you can keep yourself out of prison and do whatever you want if you're a millionaire. I am shocked.