Psst: that's not actually true... It's not well implemented, but you *can* reply to an individual in a thread. Have you never gotten a message that said it had "branched off" of a separate thread?

When Ars Technica posted this news several days ago, the comments were mostly along the same lines as this one. The thread then became an "XP vs Vista/7" pissing match.

I think everyone is missing the issue. It's not about XP, it's about Internet Explorer.

The ~170,000 visitors a month web site that I work for has an XP userbase of 53%. I doubt that number will dip below 50% by the time IE 9 is coming out. Another commenter on the Ars thread found numbers for XP that were around 65%.

So for me, the real question is: in the midst of intense competition from Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera, why would the IE team choose to create a browser that no more than 50% of users can install?

Actually, it should still be possible to hide your friend list from your other friends. I was just looking at a couple of my friends' profiles, and I couldn't see their friend lists. I'm not sure how they did it though.

I was just doing a privacy experiment with a co-worker who wasn't on my list, and whatever it is that Facebook has changed, she was still completely invisible to me, and we even had three mutual friends. So that's a good thing.

On the other hand, they've apparently removed the option to hide the 'Add as a friend' link on your profile. For the past year, since I found that setting, I'd been happily avoiding getting unwanted friend requests. Now I can only limit it to 'Friends of friends' at best.

I hope this means good things for my Sheinhardt Wig Company shares!

Thank you! Every time I read one of these goddamn RIAA threads, I think to myself "Thank god for Matador" and then consider posting something about them.