Hasn't Facebook thought of making changing privacy settings a bit more obvious. For example when you add yourself ot a regional group it could say "Please change your privacy settings, if you would like to keep your information to just your friends. Click here".

They've already made the mistake of promising a lot with Vista and with Roadmaps, I think usually (from past experience with MS) they are indicative only and don't really outline a good basis for what MS are developing. To be honest they probably just plucked a number out of the air.

Wouldn't aliens already have contacted us if they're interested? Clearly we're not as interesting as other life forms.

umm, new zealand doesn't even have clarity on its own broadband strategy. I mean we still have the monopolisation of Telecom and only a few other players who are hesitant to invest their coin in a national broadband network in NZ. I think if Obama wants some advice it would be this: 1./ well defined strategy with outcomes 2./ Return on Investment from infrastructure 3./ Policy around how Network owners "unbundle services" Just pure $ do not always equal better broadband...

I agree, the other problem is that does this apply to businesses located in other states selling to people in Wisconsin or vice versa, businesses selling to people located in other states or overseas. How do they regulate it and how do they distinguish if the buisness is based in Wisconsin, but sells from a "branch" or "Headquarters" located somewhere else?

This would be great for smaller devices, like mobile handsets because there would be smaller surface area required. I like the idea of walking around with an iPhone for a few days without having to charge it if I'm not near a PC or laptop.

MMX Only allowed extra Multi-media capabilities, so was still for the most part pretty useless on most machines, especially in a bus environment. More Intel marketing.