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Facebook does exactly what they should. They won't delete a damned thing based on your word. Serve them a court order and you'll get a lot further.

Try reading their terms of service

section 3.6

You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.

and section 3.10

You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.

and 4.1

You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.

and 4.7

You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.

and 4.8 (the account was created by one student, then shared with another)

You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.

and 4.9 (see above)

You will not transfer your account (including any Page or application you administer) to anyone without first getting our written permission.

Facebook deletes accounts all the time without being required to be served a court order. Or did you forget this?

Facebook just doesn't want to set a high-profile precedent that they have a duty to actually enforce some of their ToS when it's a child being victimized. But what can you expect from anti-social media?

"The only ones promoting sexism are SJW's."

Yeah this is going to need a citation! Because I'm pretty sure "Stop staring at womens boobs" and "Raping people is bad" are not sexist statements!

As you wish:passed around everywhere. Nevermind who said it first, everyone's saying it now. If only the feminist movement would restrict themselves to "don't abuse women", or "equal pay for equal work" there wouldn't be a problem - the problem is that they aren't interested in that sort of thing.

Except that the signs point to SnapSaved.com, which only let you receive and save images; sending was to come at a future time, either via webcam or file upload.

You can read a statement from them at their facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Snaps...

Please join my group.... :-) https://www.facebook.com/group...

Yes, just because they can get a judge to say it's not illegal "because it's the government doing it because drugs and terrorists", doesn't mean that Facebook actually has to allow them to violate the terms of service. I don't have a FB account, but if I did, I would be spamming https://www.facebook.com/DOJ with questions about this while reporting them to the admins for abuse.

Here you go.

This seems like a natural evolution of the freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences doctrine.

in a McDonald's you're more than likely to encounter a party consisting of at least one child under the age of ten. This introduces a new set of considerations beyond offending the knitting circle on table 6. Facebook, on the other hand, is designed (and intended) for those aged 13 or over - a restriction reflected in their terms of use (section 4 paragraph 5 of the current ToU in US English: "You will not use Facebook if you are under 13."). 13 is pretty much universally accepted as the age at which someone charged with a capital offence may be tried as an adult. Such would imply something of even a basic understanding of the language likely to be encountered on the site.

You might try asking that question to Marshall Mathers.

I hadn't realized this track was posted on YouTube. It was a collaboration between me and the enchanting Jo Gabriel, and never actually officially released anywhere. Or at least I thought...

And, rather than suing, they post a link to the video.

They're not alone, either. A *ton* of artists would love that kind of exposure. Especially for *free*.

Well, first you need to get an H1B Visa...

Oh wait, you are an American citizen? Yeah.... well.... sorry, but someone with a PhD from a university in Mumbai is more likely to get the job you're applying for. And when they get that job, they'll send the majority of that money back home. But if we don't let companies like Microsoft and Facebook have all the H1Bs they want, they'll move their operations off-shore. They'll say anything to convince people that H1Bs are somehow good for the economy and create more American jobs than they cost, but the truth is U.S. software houses simply want the work done as inexpensively as possible, and you're basically advertising, with your PhD, that you're expensive and you don't even have real-world experience yet.

My advice: drop the PhD until you have several years of experience.

Here:

https://www.facebook.com/bochk...

in this facebook page https://www.facebook.com/amphi...

Is Facebook huge enough? See haxl

This may have been added after the story originally came out, but I found this.

Methinks BBC did what they did on the advise of their lawyers, and I am sure that there are still plenty of good people within BBC who can discern good from bad, right from wrong

So ... why don't all of us contact BBC and tell them what we think ?

Their website is at http://bbc.com/

You can contact them via http://www.bbc.co.uk/faqs/cont...

Or file a complaint at http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaint...

Their worldservice email address is at worldservice.letters@bbc.co.uk

Their FB page is at https://www.facebook.com/bbcwo...

Let them know, let BBC know how wrong they are about VPN

If you're logged into Facebook, this link should take you straight to the settings page where you can disable the auto-playing of videos:

https://www.facebook.com/setti...

This should work for most people - although my brother (on Mac OS X) was not able to see the 'Videos' sub-menu (which for me appears in the list on the left at the very bottom).

I only use the FB website on my mobile (the constant addition of new permissions turned me off the app), and am not sure if you can disable it within the app.

Except that frequently autoplay will start happening again despite this. My settings still had it disabled, turning it on and off again did nothing to help. I have to rely on a browser plug-in to consistently disable this nonsense.

As far as the argument that "Nobody cares until it happens to a celebrity," sometimes a famous case that happens to a celebrity is what people need to get them to start caring about an issue. A lot of people started caring more about AIDS once Rock Hudson and Freddie Mercury died. Nobody really knew what ALS was until Lou Gehrig got it, and it ended his baseball career and then his life.

In the past, the press was the only way of distributing news widely, and celebrities were the only ones who got press coverage. Depending on your definition of 'celebrity', I suspect the Internet has changed that. Consider oh, I don't know, Tardar Sauce -- if he got a disease while he was still well-known, everybody in the world would know about it. A couple hyperlinks away is a detailed description of the disease, and you soon have worldwide visibility and education on what was otherwise a local concern.

For those with smaller circles of influence, the same holds true to a lesser extent. When these people experience problems, information just as detailed can be spread just as easily by their followers through networking effects.

If you're logged into Facebook, this link should take you straight to the settings page where you can disable the auto-playing of videos:

https://www.facebook.com/setti...

This should work for most people - although my brother (on Mac OS X) was not able to see the 'Videos' sub-menu (which for me appears in the list on the left at the very bottom).

I only use the FB website on my mobile (the constant addition of new permissions turned me off the app), and am not sure if you can disable it within the app.

Got you joke, but just want to put this right here. This is how "small" government is supposed to work.

https://www.facebook.com/pages...

have a look at his comment.

I don't do FB, anyone here that knows if this is pertinent?

In the quest for the Almighty Dollar, Facebook ain't what she used to be...

This is what users want, which is what FB was 4 years ago.

It is starting to look more and more like this is FamedGod's doing, and these lizardtards are just trying to highjack the lulz.
https://www.facebook.com/Lizar...

Considering that a big earthquake here is 3 on the Richter scale I would say - not very prepared either.

We have other things that might happen before that with that are more likely to cause problems, the closest is corrupt politicians.

"The purpose of the site was not to let fans discuss their favourite episodes, it was to store and distribute copyrighted material without licence. This is precisely what copyright laws were designed to tackle. This isn't news, this isn't relevant to any serious discussion about copyright reform, this is the system working as intended."

You are completely full of shit and I would like to know why you feel it is okay to come in here and just lie? They did not "store and distribute copyrighted material without licence".

I'm going to hazard a guess that they were hosting links to torrent files of the episodes. Which should be legal but for some insane reason isn't.

In response to the announcement on their Facebook users are lamenting that they can no longer use the site to stream full episodes of both new and classic Who. Clearly the site must have offered streams of full episodes for the users to be upset that they aren't there anymore.

"Those data demands will only increase with time, particularly as personal cameras and smartphones become capable of capturing higher-quality images."

From Facebook: "We automatically take care of resizing and formatting your photos for you when you add them to Facebook."

As a long-time "Puget Sound"-ite, I was always under the impression that - prior to his big break with Almost Live - Bill Nye had already been trying to break into comedy and/or show business (although he was indeed a Boeing engineer).

I do know that he didn't start out as "Bill Nye the Science Guy" - it was a name John Kiester offhandedly coined which stuck (because, frankly, it was perfect for him).

Actually, the good news is that the experiment is definitely happening! They moved the ring to Fermilab last year and are busy setting it up to run. You can read more about it here: Muon g-2 at Fermilab. They even have a Facebook page.

And failed to do so for De Speld (dutch kind of union)

I don't get adverts on Facebook? Nor do I get game requests, pokes or any other annoying thing that intrudes upon my idle time.

I installed the Facebook Purity browser extension, and all of that went away.

I now browse FB with no trouble, no bugging, none of the "Eat this and never diet again!" adverts that look like some kind of tropical disease. I also get a lot of hand customizations that give *me* far more control of Facebook than they're really happy with, which is why they had to change their page from "Facebook Purity", to "Fluff Busting" Purity.

I have noticed that it also blocks Facebook's third-party cookie system, meaning I can't comment on LiveFyre, Discus and other commenting systems on other sites. Annoying, but probably just a configuration issue I haven't figured out yet.

U.S. companies are worth more to foreign companies than to other U.S. companies because foreign companies pay lower income taxes. A U.S. company, Emerson, lost a bid to a French company, Schneider, for APC for that reason. As the WSJ states (free access to the paywalled article via FaceBook):

In 2006, Emerson sought to acquire a company called American Power Conversion (APC). This was a Rhode Island-based company that made more than half of its earnings outside the U.S. Unfortunately, Emerson competed against Schneider Electric, a French company, to acquire APC. Emerson offered more than $5 billion, but ultimately Schneider acquired APC by offering a bid in excess of $6 billion.

Why was Schneider willing to offer more? Schneider outbid us because France's tax code—typical of most OECD countries—exempts 95% of foreign-source income from taxation, while the U.S. tax code fully taxes such income. APC's profits were worth more to Schneider because, once absorbed, APC's global profits (net of the taxes paid in the countries where those profits were earned) could be repatriated to Schneider's headquarters in France, where they would be taxed at less than 2%.

In contrast, earnings repatriated to the U.S. are subject to a tax rate of nearly 40%, with a credit for taxes paid abroad on that income. That dramatic difference made it possible for Schneider to offer more for APC. So what had once been an American company became French.

Hack, a programming language developed for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP.
Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages.

An open source version of Hack is available at http://hacklang.org/ as part of the HHVM runtime platform, which supports both Hack and PHP.

Also, FBIDE (a web-based Hack development environment) was presented at Facebook's Hack Developer Day,

Joel B. and I introduced Facebook's web-based Hack development environment, known internally as âoeFBIDE.â The Hack type checker is compiled to JavaScript, so all Hack language checking is done very fast, client-side. Features of FBIDE include autocomplete, an integrated debugger, quick file and code search, and other pretty cool things. FBIDE has been a great success internally at Facebook. At a company where vim and emacs are the dominant choices for development, a large percentage of Facebook engineers are using FBIDE, and the number is growing quickly. We believe FBIDE will be useful to Hack developers outside of Facebook, allowing them to productively become familiar with the language, so we're working on plans to make it more widely available â" hopefully toward the end of summer 2014.

Hack, a programming language developed for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP.
Hack reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages.

An open source version of Hack is available at http://hacklang.org/ as part of the HHVM runtime platform, which supports both Hack and PHP.

Also, FBIDE (a web-based Hack development environment) was presented at Facebook's Hack Developer Day,

Joel B. and I introduced Facebook's web-based Hack development environment, known internally as âoeFBIDE.â The Hack type checker is compiled to JavaScript, so all Hack language checking is done very fast, client-side. Features of FBIDE include autocomplete, an integrated debugger, quick file and code search, and other pretty cool things. FBIDE has been a great success internally at Facebook. At a company where vim and emacs are the dominant choices for development, a large percentage of Facebook engineers are using FBIDE, and the number is growing quickly. We believe FBIDE will be useful to Hack developers outside of Facebook, allowing them to productively become familiar with the language, so we're working on plans to make it more widely available â" hopefully toward the end of summer 2014.

The Vedas describe everything manifest in the universe to be vibration.

Why can't the entire universe be pixelated / voxelated like Haramein describes in The Resonance Project:
https://www.facebook.com/TheResonanceProject

This undoes any "weirdness". It's our equations that are too simplified, and intellectual people always trying to mold the existence into their limited beliefs.

Over at the Wall Street Journal Bret Stephens questions the claim that as many as 1,023 Palestinian lives have been lost in the conflict. The column is paywalled but can be accessed for free via the WSJ Opinion Facebook Page.

Consider the media obsession with the body count. According to a daily tally in the New York Times, NYT -6.42% as of July 27 the war in Gaza had claimed 1,023 Palestinian lives as against 46 Israelis. How does the Times keep such an accurate count of Palestinian deaths? A footnote discloses "Palestinian death tallies are provided by the Palestinian Health Ministry and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs."

OK. So who runs the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza? Hamas does. As for the U.N., it gets its data mainly from two Palestinian agitprop NGOs, one of which, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, offers the remarkably precise statistic that, as of July 27, exactly 82% of deaths in Gaza have been civilians. Curiously, during the 2008-09 Gaza war, the center also reported an 82% civilian casualty rate.

When minutely exact statistics are provided in chaotic circumstances, it suggests the statistics are garbage. When a news organization relies—without clarification—on data provided by a bureaucratic organ of a terrorist organization, there's something wrong there, too.

Smoking as in smoking hot (NSFW) for the colloquial challenged.

Maybe something like this: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Phone-Cop/406292446126450

Yes, BUK is large, slow, heavy, easy to spot. And guess what? There are numerous photos and videos of this BUK spotted in the area on the day of the tragedy.

http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/07/17/7032237/
https://www.facebook.com/dmitr...
https://twitter.com/Dbnmjr/sta...

Russia supported terrorists with tanks, armored vehicles, ammunition, grenades etc since early April. It has been confirmed by numerous sources - by locals, UA military, by terrorists themselves. What makes it unlikely for them to smuggle in a few BUK-s and a few specialists as well? Given that, after all, the major issue terrorists had do deal with was UA air forces?

Ukrainian Ministry of Defense states that there were no Buks in the bases taken over by the terrorists, and any other military equipment left there was rendered unusable by the leaving troops.

"What names are allowed on Facebook? [...] The name you use should be your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID" https://www.facebook.com/help/...

Who's to say they don't have a few coders working on better video codecs? They seem at least to be hiring for video chat: https://www.facebook.com/caree... Every bit counts with a site their size. Google doesn't even close its tags.

Rape joke are never funny.

~SJW

She's on quite the fishing expedition. Here is another lawsuit filed by her, from 2012, suing Pinkmeth (again), Katz Global Media (for the crime of providing anonymous hosting), and Verisign. Yeah, she sued Verisign. Maybe that suit didn't work out so well, so she thought she would try her hand against Tor. Not exactly the best way to make a name for herself as a criminal justice major. I suspect that pursuing suits like these will serve is much more of a "loss in earning capacity" than a porn picture ever would. She might also be interested that her Facebook profile is open for the world to see. Here she is.

Maybe she's just trying to clog up the Google search results for her name with information about lawsuits instead of her actual pictures. You have to go to page 4 to find this one (which is not Pinkmeth), page 6 for this one (also not Pinkmeth), and page 8 for this one (again, not Pinkmeth).

I'm assuming she has no proof that would allow her to sue the person actually responsible for distributing the pictures (you know, other than her). Life lesson learned, I suppose. Try not to clog up the justice system.

Apparently the Rhode Island State Police posted a photo and plausible statement:

https://www.facebook.com/Rhode...

The post says the canine is "trained to detect electronic devices".

That does not look as bogus a claim as training specifically for storage media: the chemicals used in the soldering, cleaning, and IC packaging conceivably could have a detectable smell.

Google Reader was merely the most popular 'client' app - its disappearance wouldn't spell the doom of feeds (RSS/atom/whatever), and here's why: practically all the major publishing apps have RSS functionality built-in.
Do you use Wordpress? You probably have an RSS feed whether you're aware of it or not.
Using phpBB? You probably have an RSS feed.
Started a subreddit? It comes with a bunch of feeds.

Now try to get an RSS feed for, say, https://twitter.com/slashdot .
Or how about an RSS feed for https://www.facebook.com/slash... ?

facebook still offers an RSS for timelines, but you'll have to get it first as it's keyed.
twitter doesn't offer an RSS at all, you'll just have to use the APIs (and you'll need to authenticate even if you only want public read access, so you'll have to register, too). And don't think about trying to offer an API-to-RSS bridge, Twitter doesn't take kindly to such awesomeness; http://tweet-2-rss.appspot.com...

These 'social media' platforms of course want you to stay inside their boundaries. If you want to know what @Whoever is up to, you'll just have to view twitter or, better yet, 'Follow' that user and make sure you've got yourself logged in on as many devices as possible preferably with the official twitter apps.

So what happens when a company no longer regularly posts their news or blog posts via their regular content delivery, and instead takes to twitter / facebook? The feed dies out. Sure, it's still there, and maybe once in a blue moon some new content does pop up on there.. but for that same content and everything else you'd be interested in, you'll just have to check them out on facebook and/or twitter.

It's only when companies start realizing this shift - and, again, they might not even be fully aware that they're offering a feed in the first place - that they might try shutting it down for fear of not reaching the right viewership (in the way they want, including the possibility of deleting a post that they later regret).

At least feeds will remain as the premiere way to deliver podcasts (hacked on as they are) ... until some sort of social podcasting platform emerges as the de facto standard and requires you to use their website/proprietary apps.

According to the work of Nassim Haramein and the Resonance Project, Black Holes came first and is best described as a metastable 3D torus, not a destructive 2D/3D singularity.

There's also a bunch of geometry and fractal stuff there that essentially unifies micro- and macro cosmos, as well as quantifying gravity and the mass of a proton.

Of course, this will all be dismissed out of hand because most people are closed-minded, and when this is rediscovered, someone else and "science" or "medicine" will take all the credit. The real source is really sacred geometry from the Vedas and other ancient knowledge.

Whereas we the people are created equal, and whereas we the people are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and whereas we the people instituted a government to secure these rights, and whereas we the people lay the foundation on such principles, and organize its power in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect the above objective, do require the following Bill of Rights for Voting Equality.

1. Each citizen of the United States at or exceeding the age of majority has the right to vote in any public election in the jurisdiction where he or she resides. That right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, any State, agreement, person, or entity. After incarceration all rights shall resume.

2. a) All citizens of the United States, residing in all states, shall have equal access, (the same requirements), to creating a political party and achieving a ballot line. b) All candidates and parties shall have equal time constraints to qualify for ballot access. c) All proofs will be received by a multi-partisan regulatory board, such as the Board of Elections. d) All citizens that desire to be candidates, shall register at their local Board of Elections. e) The Board of Elections shall divide equally, the campaign tools for election purposes. All tools must be properly labeled as citizen provided. f) Elections shall be publicly funded. No private money may be used for a public office, or seat in the government. The citizen must have full confidence that no bribery or appearance of bribery is taking place.

3. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall elect Senators and Representatives in the Congress in such number and such manner as it would be entitled if it were a State.

4. All citizens must be able to verify that the vote has been counted accurately. All ballots must be counted by hand. All counting must be supervised by multi-partisan personnel and recorded.

5. a) There shall be at least one Representative to each Thirty Thousand citizens, per state. b) Each state shall divide its population by 30,000 to determine its number of representatives. c) Each Representative shall have the voting power equal to the number of citizens that voted for them. d) Congress shall be unicameral, and the Senate shall be dissolved.

6. All citizens shall have equal early voting hours in which to cast their vote. sufficient voting places, materials, and personnel shall be provided to reduce the voting time to within an hour.

7. The Presidential/Vice-Presidential election shall be counted by (score or approval) counting.

If you would like to read the reasons behind each rule go here instead. https://www.facebook.com/group...

Whereas we the people are created equal, and whereas we the people are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and whereas we the people instituted a government to secure these rights, and whereas we the people lay the foundation on such principles, and organize its power in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect the above objective, do require the following Bill of Rights for Voting Equality. 1. Each citizen of the United States at or exceeding the age of majority has the right to vote in any public election in the jurisdiction where he or she resides. That right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, any State, agreement, person, or entity. After incarceration all rights shall resume. 2. a) All citizens of the United States, residing in all states, shall have equal access, (the same requirements), to creating a political party and achieving a ballot line. b) All candidates and parties shall have equal time constraints to qualify for ballot access. c) All proofs will be received by a multi-partisan regulatory board, such as the Board of Elections. d) All citizens that desire to be candidates, shall register at their local Board of Elections. e) The Board of Elections shall divide equally, the campaign tools for election purposes. All tools must be properly labeled as citizen provided. f) Elections shall be publicly funded. No private money may be used for a public office, or seat in the government. The citizen must have full confidence that no bribery or appearance of bribery is taking place. 3. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall elect Senators and Representatives in the Congress in such number and such manner as it would be entitled if it were a State. 4. All citizens must be able to verify that the vote has been counted accurately. All ballots must be counted by hand. All counting must be supervised by multi-partisan personnel and recorded. 5. a) There shall be at least one Representative to each Thirty Thousand citizens, per state. b) Each state shall divide its population by 30,000 to determine its number of representatives. c) Each Representative shall have the voting power equal to the number of citizens that voted for them. d) Congress shall be unicameral, and the Senate shall be dissolved. 6. All citizens shall have equal early voting hours in which to cast their vote. sufficient voting places, materials, and personnel shall be provided to reduce the voting time to within an hour. 7. The Presidential/Vice-Presidential election shall be counted by (score or approval) counting. If you would like to read the reasons behind each rule go here instead. https://www.facebook.com/group...

Telling me that the government should be allowed to ignore parts (or all) of the constitution when fighting a war is like letting a rabid dog lose because he might bite a bad-guy.

Serviam Libertas

Dare to Defend your Rights!

Seems to be involved https://www.facebook.com/atlas...