You know, that'll probably work. Might see how that'll go.

If someone were to build a third party website or tool that let me keep track of subscriptions for youtube, in a manner that doesn't wind up changing every 3 weeks (unlike youtube's front page), without needing a youtube account, I'd delete my youtube account in about 1 minute flat.

Yep. Let's add to this another stunner:

Darth Vader Not Getting Paid, Because Return Of The Jedi Still Isn't Profitable. Nevermind that, adjusting for inflation, Return of the jedi was the film with the 15th highest gross to date.

But hey, You know, if it's not making a profit, then you don't have to pay anyone their share.

Billy Ripkin already has that trademarked...

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The directors commentary on the dish suggests that a lot of the old equipment was just sitting around in a spare room, and all they had to do to get the sets setup was just push it into the right place, if memory serves (been a while since i watched it, but perhaps it's time to watch it again)

Didn't Handspring--now defunct--already do this like 12 years ago? There were all sorts of devices for their PDAS, including a GSM module.

I mean, until you hear the voice acting for the asian characters.

Uh. Locking the screen is the first entry in the ctrl-alt-del menu.

Try ctrl-alt-del, then hitting enter.

Until you get to Hong Kong and hear someone talk, you mean? :P

The various government agencies who're putting their entire database into computer systems, making them internet accessible, and getting hacked would make this choice about putting stuff online rather nonexistent :P

Exactly.

I avoided facebook for almost 2-3 years. Then someone I know/knew (never found out who), decided to impersonate me on Facebook. Then one of my friends finds out i "have" and account, and tells my new girlfriend, who promptly gets really pissed off at me for having a facebook account and not friending her.

I ended up making a facebook account just to avoid this kind of situation continuing (and i reported the imposter, who promptly removed themselves from search, and facebook ui bugginess prevented me from copying their account id number, etc (I hit block when they friended me, and then went to hit the 'report' button, but their page rewrote itself and removed the entire chunk of html before i could get close to clicking the report button)

Now i find out google's got a facebook clone, and all my friends are going nuts about it. And i find out "oh, don't worry, you're already listed in a bunch of my circles". Which means, i presume, i'm being tagged on shit, with no control, unless I sign up. Awesome.

This entire system can fuck itself.

And yet, one of my friends is named 'Killface' on facebook :S