I agree. The infrastructure, laws, and documents are already in place to control the hiring of illegal workers. The problem is that employers currently feel that that benefits outweigh the risks. They can get incredibly cheap labor for which they are not responsible from a tax or benefit perspective at a low likelihood of being caught or penalized.

Increasing the penalties or stepping up enforcement of current laws seems like a much more simple and less controversial way of addressing the problem.

Seems like a total nonissue in the first place. As stated in the TOS above, they are held accountable by your privacy settings which means if you don't want your "private" information used to make money for FB, then make it only accessible to your friends, thereby making it impossible for them to sell. And an even better idea would be not put stuff on FB that you don't want passed around, period.

What critical information are we trying to protect anyway? I guess they could sell pictures of me, but what advertiser worth his salt is going to put the average joe's ugly mug on billboard or a pop up anyway. I assure you, most of you aren't going to make the cut when it comes to possessing the looks to convince people to buy something...

         

Engineers design to the conditions a device will be operating in. This is all the more important in space flight as getting extra and unnecessary mass into orbit is crazy expensive and dangerous. The ISS was not designed to operate outside of its current orbit, and effort required to convert it to a new mission would be astronomical. Look at all the cost over runs they have had just trying to get the thing to do what it is supposed to, much less something it wasn't designed for. Converting the ISS to an interplanetary vehicle would be like trying to convert a house into vehicle meant for traveling the arctic. And oh yeah, the nearest place to buy and get tools would be 1000 miles away.

Great. The German's have successfully hidden their highly secretive and potentially Earth saving formula away from the masses and academia where it could be improved for over a decade. I'm for making a buck the same as the next guy, but when you come across something as important and the potential for widespread impact such as this you would think that your better half would take over and get the word out. Imagine if this little alternative plastic company joined forces with the largest paper producer in the US which provided it with an almost limitless supply of this ligin. That would drive the cost down and provide the volume necessary to make a legitimate impact on the market.

Would be to use this new awesome bullet sensing and trajectory calculating technology claim to have, and attach it to a big gun instead of a soldier. Since the technology is capable of knowing where the bullet it going, reverse the calculation, and figure out where it came from. Then just kill the sniper. In this manner the mission of the sniper become obsolete. If the enemy knew that every time a sniper fired a round he was probably going to die, it all becomes a moot point because no one does it anymore. In the asymmetric wars we fight today we always have more troops, so the 1 to 1 kill rate this technology would create would generate unacceptable loses to the enemy.