There's the Marvel Universe, and the Ultimate Universe, and they are COMPLETELY separate. There's a well-known super-hero that is very recently dead in one and totally alive in the other.

That's from heating the sperm in your testicles to the point that they die. Unless you keep your sperm in your ear, or your cell-phone directly on your crotch, you should be fine.

So build it in and make it automatic. Web browsers check signatures all the time.

On some level, this is true. Anonymous Coward has done a LOT of stuff over the years.

I lost my dick in a freak car accident, you insensitive clod!

This is one of the best comments I have ever read.

Along the same lines, where I used to work we had some n00bs (one really) that would su, do his or her work, and then leave the lab, completely forgetting the exit part. On any given day, you could walk in the lab and see root prompts up on at least half the boxes.

There are a hundred things wrong with this scenario. I know. That's why I quit. I don't need to hear them all. Mind the forest, not the trees.

You didn't close your String there.

Yes yes, +1. I really dug how Flynn wanted to make a perfect, open, free system for everyone, and the evil capitalists took it and over-charged for it. Pretty cool message for a Hollywood film. Even referenced that the only difference between releases was the release number. I was half-expecting that the Encom was the reason Flynn went missing, that some corporate henchman trapped him in the machine.

And every computer shown in the movie was Unix based...
% whoami
flynn

EPIC

Don't mention gay marriage or legalizing pot. I may be slightly off topic here, but only /.ers and the like will know who to blame, and why to be mad. And that's not the average American. We're lucky if we make up 5%.

If only we could become the archetypal American, Joe the IT guy, as opposed to Joe the plumber.

You're attempting to extend property rights such that they provide privacy. I don't think that works, except in cases of Intellectual Property, wherein the idea itself has monetary value and can therefore be "stolen" simply by being seen. But the only way to legally protect your IP is to disclose it via the patent office, so still no.

I own a car. Yes, I am about to make a car-Facebook analogy. I am very sorry.

If you look at my car, you haven't violated my property rights. If you write down my license plate, you haven't violated my property rights. If, from my bumper stickers and whatnot, you determine that I have a kid named Billy who plays football, a daughter named, Billy, who plays cello, that one of my kids is an honor-roll student (Billy, most likely), that I have a wife, that I most likely voted for Ralph Nader in 2004, and from the make and model of the car ascertain with reasonable certainty which socio-economic bracket I fit, you still have not violated any of my Constitutional Rights. Would it be creepy? Yes. The same is true of gathering info on Facebook, message boards, etc.

However, if you set your privacy settings and they circumvent them, that's totally different, and may fall under DMCA protection, since "You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings." [Facebook terms of use: http://www.facebook.com/terms.php ]

There's no general right of privacy guaranteed by the Constitution or any other U.S. document. We're generally protected from Search and Seizure. There are only specific privacies guaranteed, such as medical records and school records.

Courts have ruled that there is no expectation of privacy for e-mail. It's not a far stretch to say that covers Facebook and other social networking sites as well. It immediately includes those sites when the user has e-mail notifications enabled.

It's not spying. Maybe information-gathering. We can only call it spying if they're actually playing "I spy."

I spy with my little agent eyes, something slutty.