That's certainly a possible explanation. Another possible explanation is that management hires people expecting them to grow and take on more duties, then ask for help when they need it. The difference is what happens when you go to management and ask for help. Your manager may honestly not know what you're doing or what you can handle. Really, it's the adult thing to do.

Go to your profile and hit the little pencil icon next to it. You can hide your friends list from there. (Thanks to another /. commenter, who pointed this out to me.)

BTW, make sure you lock down the settings on what your friends' apps can see, unless you trust them not to accidentally add malware.

Thanks for the pointer. I'd been looking all over for that. I'd also suggest checking out the settings on what your friends' apps can see in your profile; it's very open by default.

Really, you would turn down an applicant on the basis of something which may very well be a health condition or religious conviction? For your own sake, I hope your comment doesn't end up online or anything...

(Seriously, I hope you're kidding here. People don't drink for a lot of reasons. It just means they don't drink.)

To copy from the privacy section of the FAQ linked by the parent:

> With Google Public DNS, we collect IP address (only temporarily) and ISP and location information (in permanent logs) for the purpose of making our service faster, better and
> more secure. Specifically, we use this data to conduct debugging, to analyze abuse phenomena and to improve our prefetching feature. After 24 hours, we erase any IP
> information. For more information, read the Google Public DNS privacy page.

If I didn't know better, I'd suspect that you were trying to get all the women around here to come out of the woodwork...

They make running shoes like that (but probably not as padded as you have in mind). They're called track spikes (just take the spikes out).

Thanks,
Lea

The same medical industry drones who wanted us to do prenatal testing for Down's Syndrome (what difference would knowing this beforehand make, other than a stressed-out pregnant woman?)

There are three reasons (off the top of my head) that one might want to know beforehand:

1. Termination. You might not terminate a Down's-positive fetus, but some people do, especially if it looks like they're going to die anyway.

2. Treatment. I have heard that some heart defects (which is one of the largest death-related dangers from Down's) can be treated successfully in-utero, before strain on the heart causes complications or death.

3. Preparation. I'm not sure that the moments after giving birth would be the time I'd prefer to recieve the news that my new baby had Down's. I'd prefer to research it beforehand, if that was practical.

- Lea