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If you want a crackhouse filled with Little Debbie cakes--and, really who doesn't--you have to go further uptown.

Comeon... Some companies do indeed do that, but Facebook has a history completely opposite of what you describe (wrst to responsible disclosure) http://www.facebook.com/whitehat/bounty/

Because virtually nobody prints digital photos, just about the only people who ever see them are the original photographer.

LOL WHUT?

When I was a kid with a snapshot camera dropping film off at the Fotomat, just about the only person who ever saw those prints was me. Now when I share even the dumbest photo on the net, hundreds of people might see it. Respectfully, I believe your assertion is 100% bass-ackwards.

1. That space is already well populated (e.g. Skype).

Facebook uses skypes for calls actually. It was announced time ago, and MS and facebook are buddies.
Also, the Skype logo appears on facebook's videochat page:
https://www.facebook.com/videocalling/

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https://www.facebook.com/yhtomit?fref=ts

The address is wrong or my HOSTS file is working.

I use Facebook for personal stuff, and LinkedIn for professional and job-related stuff. Both are separate.

Perhaps you're looking for a feature like lists.

Facebook Ireland is at least partly a genuine operation; there are reasonable positions available: https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/dublin and the European datacentre. It's annoying that Ireland has a low tax rate compared to much of the EU, but that can be fixed by intra-EU pressure.

The Cayman Islands isn't even on the list of locations, and will be nothing more than a PO Box. Fixing that means taxing profit in the country it is generated (profit from Irish users/advertisers certainly should be taxed in Ireland).

Facebook pays VAT for all ad revenues. In Finland, that's 23 cents for every euro collected.

Additionally, Finnish Facebook shareholders pay 29% on all dividends as well as capital gains (if any).

Yeah, like that idiot Neil deGrasse Tyson. You're clearly way smarter than he is.

Interestingly enough, I had already known about this, thanks to...Jolla.

I have them subscribed on Facebook, and they offered this news plus a healthy dose of *Nudge Nudge Wink Wink*

I wonder what you guys make of it...

https://www.facebook.com/JollaMobile/posts/452558308140997

I dont know about it being opt in, but you can turn it off:
http://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674

You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.

If someone doesn't like that, they need to sue Facebook; this particular law did not require Facebook to add it.

I have my sock puppets play pet society, to remind me how Facebook's overpriced stock looks just like pets.com circa 2000.

Yes. https://de-de.facebook.com/

It is illegal to offer things in a country that don't comply with local law. If you were a Chinese electronics company, you wouldn't be allowed to sell your devices in America shops unless they complied with local consumer electronics laws. That's just the way it is.

Facebook's choice is either to comply with German law and carry on marketing themselves in Germany, or withdraw from Germany and prove under law that they've done so- banning German users, taking down their German localised site, IP geo-filtering, etc. Seeing as Germany is the most populous country in Europe, I'm going to guess that they would prefer the former.

I imagine that Thilo has already unfriended Mark. Just wonder how much longer Thilo will have a profile? Though looks like his account is rather bereft of any content in the true German minimalist tradition, so just maybe it is just a doppelganger dupe profile, who knows.

Germans bureaucrats and law makers seem to be getting really up in arms at both Google and Facebook now that Microsoft has paid them off enough like the way they do in the States.

This is just another sponsored attack and you can bet that Microsoft is somewhere not to deep in the background egging on the German politicians with the usual grease. How else could the Germans have lost their minds and allowed ridiculous American software patents to stand.

Attacking Facebook and Google in the US would be suicide for Microsoft but as usual they are just doing it where a small amount of grease will get the biggest results. Germany has become the Utah and West Texas of Europe, shame on them! Angela Merkel is nothing more than a sheep in wolves' clothing. Same as Stephen Harper in Canada. No balls at all but at least Merkel has a real excuse.

I imagine that Thilo has already unfriended Mark. Just wonder how much longer Thilo will have a profile? Though looks like his account is rather bereft of any content in the true German minimalist tradition, so just maybe it is just a doppelganger dupe profile, who knows.

Germans bureaucrats and law makers seem to be getting really up in arms at both Google and Facebook now that Microsoft has paid them off enough like the way they do in the States.

This is just another sponsored attack and you can bet that Microsoft is somewhere not to deep in the background egging on the German politicians with the usual grease. How else could the Germans have lost their minds and allowed ridiculous American software patents to stand.

Attacking Facebook and Google in the US would be suicide for Microsoft but as usual they are just doing it where a small amount of grease will get the biggest results. Germany has become the Utah and West Texas of Europe, shame on them! Angela Merkel is nothing more than a sheep in wolves' clothing. Same as Stephen Harper in Canada. No balls at all but at least Merkel has a real excuse.

Google has 11.6 million "Likes" on its corporate Facebook account.

Jackson has stated that they used post processing to do the 48 to 24 down-conversion rather than just dropping frames. And many (most?) films these days perform color correction in post processing. I would expect that anyone who is making the jump to 48fps digital won't be shy of using modern digital post processing.

https://www.facebook.com/rlanza

https://www.facebook.com/rlanza

If you do photography, post examples of good work at a steady pace,

I Am Not A Lawyer (and if I were I would not tell you this for free). I none the less strongly recommend AGAINST posting samples of your work to Facebook. Unless you actually understand that you are granting them a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook and understand what that implies for your business and your clients.

>>>Having a business facing site on Facebook/Google+ and even using Twitter can be great for self promotion, and can open up your business to a huge audience

actually increases sales?

That's a really good question.

I've run a photography website for 9 years, promoting Vanuatu, a tiny but beautiful chain of islands in the South Pacific. Traffic has always been low but steady, and Google image search gives me a decent ranking for my decidedly niche category.

In August, I got recruited to manage the Humans of Vanuatu Facebook page. The page is still tiny by global standards, but I get people visiting from around the world, a ton of positive feedback and a steadily increasing and solid fan base. I've been featured in an online culture magazine, and now have a regular series in a decent (4 color glossy) lifestyle magazine that focuses on the South Pacific. Three musicians have asked to use my work in their cover art, the local newspaper has offered me a regular feature and I've been solicited to shoot more weddings than I want to[*].

In terms of actual revenue, the jury's still out. I have seen an uptick in website visits, but the vast majority of people prefer to wait for my daily posts. I haven't tried to leverage it much yet, but I've been asked to do an exhibition early next year, with the proceeds going to charity. If that goes well, then maybe I'll try selling prints or a book online.

Best I can suggest at the moment is that a Facebook presence emphatically does increase your exposure, mostly because of what they call 'virality' - the fact that whenever someone Likes a photo of mine, all their friends see it too. This means that I get about ten times as many eyes as I have fans. Will this translate to money? Not sure yet. Why not Like my page and follow me to find out? 8^)

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[*] In fairness, I just loathe shooting weddings. So one would be too many.

>>>Having a business facing site on Facebook/Google+ and even using Twitter can be great for self promotion, and can open up your business to a huge audience

actually increases sales?

That's a really good question.

I've run a photography website for 9 years, promoting Vanuatu, a tiny but beautiful chain of islands in the South Pacific. Traffic has always been low but steady, and Google image search gives me a decent ranking for my decidedly niche category.

In August, I got recruited to manage the Humans of Vanuatu Facebook page. The page is still tiny by global standards, but I get people visiting from around the world, a ton of positive feedback and a steadily increasing and solid fan base. I've been featured in an online culture magazine, and now have a regular series in a decent (4 color glossy) lifestyle magazine that focuses on the South Pacific. Three musicians have asked to use my work in their cover art, the local newspaper has offered me a regular feature and I've been solicited to shoot more weddings than I want to[*].

In terms of actual revenue, the jury's still out. I have seen an uptick in website visits, but the vast majority of people prefer to wait for my daily posts. I haven't tried to leverage it much yet, but I've been asked to do an exhibition early next year, with the proceeds going to charity. If that goes well, then maybe I'll try selling prints or a book online.

Best I can suggest at the moment is that a Facebook presence emphatically does increase your exposure, mostly because of what they call 'virality' - the fact that whenever someone Likes a photo of mine, all their friends see it too. This means that I get about ten times as many eyes as I have fans. Will this translate to money? Not sure yet. Why not Like my page and follow me to find out? 8^)

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[*] In fairness, I just loathe shooting weddings. So one would be too many.

Here's the latest email I got from Mr Haselton (with the email addresses changed though).
It's apparently very easy to subscribe. (Though it's not one click as you do need to enter your email address if you use the webpage option.) Is that good enough for you?

From: Bennett Haselton at Peacefire.org <webmaster@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: "Bennett Haselton at Peacefire.org" <webmaster@yahoo.com>
To: webmaster@hotmail.com
Subject: new Circumventor, in a new format
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:00:02 -0500 (07/12/12 10:00:02)
Envelope-To: webmaster@hotmail.com

[You are receiving this because you subscribed to the Circumventor distribution list.
To unsubscribe from this list, click here:
http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/cv-unsub.html
or reply with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject.]

Happy Holidays everybody -- your early Christmas gift enclosed:

https://www.kitepuddle.com/smart/

This Circumventor site is in a different format but it should work as well as the others. You *must* access this one with 'https' at the beginning of the Web address; it won't work with 'http'.

You can attempt to access the "regular" Facebook through this one, for example, but it might not work correctly; the most reliable way is to enter http://m.facebook.com/ on this Circumventor site, which will take you to mobile Facebook. Unfortunately Youtube still isn't accessible yet but we're working on it.

Don't waste too much time on those school computers - Santa's watching!

Bennett

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"When I was in high school these twins got mono. They got stereo." -Demetri Martin

Peacefire.org
14615 NE 30th PL #10D, Bellevue WA 98007/blockquote.

For interest sake, I had the same issue. Here is the full text from the email. It contains no references to voting, and apart from a very generic "please give us feedback" sounds more like the changes have happened... not that *I* have the opportunity to directly affect this:

We recently announced some proposed updates to our Data Use Policy, which explains how we collect and use data when people use Facebook, and our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR), which explains the terms governing use of our services.
The updates provide you with more detailed information about our practices and reflect changes to our products, including:

        New tools for managing your Facebook Messages;
        Changes to how we refer to certain products;
        Tips on managing your timeline; and
        Reminders about what's visible to other people on Facebook.

We are also proposing changes to our site governance process for future updates to our Data Use Policy and SRR. We deeply value the feedback we receive from you during our comment period but have found that the voting mechanism created a system that incentivized quantity of comments over the quality of them. So, we are proposing to end the voting component in order to promote a more meaningful environment for feedback. We also plan to roll out new engagement channels, including a feature for submitting questions about privacy to our Chief Privacy Officer of Policy.
We encourage you to review these proposed changes and give us feedback before we finalize them. Please visit the "Documents" tab of the Facebook Site Governance Page https://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance to learn more about these changes and to submit comments before 09 PST on 28 November 2012.
You can also follow and like the Site Governance Page for updates on this process and on any future changes to our Data Use Policy or SRR.

And this story, just like any other, fails to actually enumerate the changes are. Why? Because the changes, really, aren't a big deal at all.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-site-governance/explanation-of-changes/10152338051340301

The only technical thing they're changing is the voting mechanism, which, as this shows, is pretty much broken. It was ok when Facebook was maybe 1000 people at a couple of US colleges, but since it requires a quorum of 30%, it's pretty much useless now.

Everything else is basically a language change to provide clarification of existing policies, not an actual change of policies. And if you look at the comments on those posts, it's almost all people copy-and-pasting the same fake pseudo-legalese crap about ownership of data. If any of the people posting them had bothered reading the thing they were posting on, they'd see that Facebook has no intention of claiming ownership of posted content.

So, all in all, it's a storm in a teacup, magnified by people who make money from faux outrage.

Well, it's simple to vote again.

Just permanently delete your account, as described here. I just did.

OK, where's the URL to the post?

AFAICT the post in question has been taken down, but Reed Hasting's fb feed is at https://www.facebook.com/reed1960 and it is public, so you don't need to log in to read it.

You don't actually have to have a facebook account to see postings from a page - it all depends on the settings: Netflix's FB page is public https://www.facebook.com/netflix

But their CEO's page is not public. Even so, it's easier to subscribe to the CEO's FB page than to have timely access to the conference calls, press releases etc.

With the conventional methods you tend to get the information significantly later than more privileged people.

Accordning to a note from Facebook Site Governance if "more than 30% of all active registered users vote, the results will be binding. If turnout is less than 30%, the vote will be advisory".

To expect 30% to actually read the proposed changes or even care to vote... well, I guess that's a little optimistic. I wouldn't expect the vote to actually have any effect at all so the changes will probably be implemented anyway. Not that I suggest not to vote but this "democratic approach" seems like it's just for the sake of it. But thanks for asking us.

I came here to say that, and you are correct. If Facebook wanted to give it an effort, they would have messaged every user, put it as a sticky at the top of the time line, or some other sort of pop-up bubble, like they do when they announce new features. The only way you learn about Facebook Governance, Security, or other things of interest is if you purposely seek them out. Off topic, but did you know you can sign up for a special "hacking account" where the sole purpose is to try and break Facebook's security through the UI? You only know about this if you dig around, like most cool things on Facebook :-) https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/accounts/

I checked the link in the summary: https://apps.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance/ and it consists of an iframe that loads the remote site https://fbgovernance.thuzi.com/.

Was Thuzi contracted by Facebook to perform this vote? Why would they be? Thuzi appears to be some sort of online social media marketing firm. Looks fishy to me.

I did some further digging and on the Facebook legal terms & conditions page I found a reference to the Facebook Site Governance page, so it appears to be legitimate.

The vote isn't even recognized unless 30% of all Facebook users vote.
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=76815337130

30% of 1 billion = 300 Million
So 300 million people have to vote for them to even consider the results.
Good luck. This vote is just for show.

On the Facebook legal terms & conditions page I found a reference to the Facebook Site Governance page, so it appears to be legitimate. But still, it requires you vote using a 3rd party app from Thuzi, so Thuzi gets limited information of yours as well.

On the Facebook legal terms & conditions page I found a reference to the Facebook Site Governance page, so it appears to be legitimate. But still, it requires you vote using a 3rd party app from Thuzi, so Thuzi gets limited information of yours as well.

I checked the link in the summary: https://apps.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance/ and it consists of an iframe that loads the remote site https://fbgovernance.thuzi.com/.

Was Thuzi contracted by Facebook to perform this vote? Why would they be? Thuzi appears to be some sort of online social media marketing firm. Looks fishy to me.

The vast majority of jobs at https://www.facebook.com/careers/ require a BA or BS degree. I'm sure the job requirements on the other "drop-out companies" are pretty much the same.

Most entepreneurs fail. Most of those wannabe billionaire dropouts are now few-thousand-aire low-level employees.

Also; how many of those dropouts dropped out BEFORE there business was succesful?

The "article" mostly quotes from Torrent Freak. Here's the longer source:
http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-9-year-old-pirate-bay-girl-confiscate-winnie-the-pooh-laptop-121122/

Although I'm not vouching for the accuracy of the following, I thought it might be interesting to include what appears to be a legitimate post at torrentfreak a few hours ago by the father:

As a father of this 10-years girl, I would like to thank you all for a huge support in this case. We are still devestited of what happened, and my girl is still almoust in tears. I will take this as far it goes, and seek for justice for all other cases like this around a globe. Hopefully finnish justice system will find this as fucked up as most of Finnish & Europes social media, and regular people does. Thanx once again, it really matters a lot for us! Love & respect, Julietta & his Dad ps. Sorry for my bad English. Facebook: Aki"weq"Nylund

Everything looks proper, including the link to the facebook page; my apologies in advance if anything turns out to be otherwise. Fwiw, if it hasn't already been mentioned, the actual download that has caused the recent arrest happened in 2011.

This artist is about to get global fame beyond her wildest hopes. Literally. Her name is all over the news and the blogs internationally. People have started their tirades on her facebook wall. One Reddit thread has 3000 balance of up/down votes and 2000 comments and will be trending for a week. It's a shame she was never represented by these copyright trolls in the first place, or she would deserve it. Maybe she should sue the trolls? Defamation of character or something?

There's a quote: http://www.facebook.com/JollaMobile/posts/502893053077328

Is this what you're looking for?

That's because digital wang comes along free with most searches. It is like the parsley of Internet search results.

Who orders parsley?

For more conjectures on the Parsley/Wang metaphor please ask Parsley Wang.

don't really or she'll be justifiably pissed at Slashdot

Here is Sarasota, FL, there's a place that's been around for a long time and continues to survive. Business is probably not what is was 10 years ago, but the last time I was in, I asked such questions. Before I learned much, I interrupted to ask about Terry, one of the guys who for the last decade (or two?) seemed inseparable from the place. Unfortunately he'd passed away. Terry Porter was a real wizard of film. Aside from being a kind and interesting fellow, I knew I never had to leave the store empty-handed if I could just vaguely describe a desired genre to him. All the folks who've worked there (or still do) exhibit an impressive knowledge of film. One advantage of the store is that for many years, they've specialized in difficult-to-find material, and I suspect that even in the age anything-you-want-right-now, they still have a few things up their sleeves one would struggle to find elsewhere.

That's about all I can say. Whether I've described their virtues well or not, they remain in the same location - with customers, but apparently without a website. I dug up their Faceclamp page and a news article on Terry; maybe between the two you'll find an idea.

Also the Trexa platform.

Thank you for your concern. At at&t(R), our commitment(tm) to rebuilding the nation's largest 4G network this year with your input has not wavered. However, our cozy government relationship requires us to install multiple backdoors, electronic and otherwise, and our Security budget was beginning to cut into our Invite Government Representatives Into Boardroom For Lobbying And Slash Or Trophywife Swapping budget.

As such, we have decided to retain the mandatory backdoors but leave them open to these minor vulnerabilities. The occasional permanent loss of an antenna, your Facebook account's integrity, or that one guy in Customer Service who decides to blow a whistle on us does not preclude your required payment of the 2012 Nation's Largest 4G Network Improvements Fee, or the upcoming 2013 Nation's Largest 4G Network Improvements Fee (which we hereby announce in this sentence, as double the 2012 version in all cases), even though both would be entirely too small to buy such high-value targets and high-class lays in such high volume.

Thank you again for choosing at&t(R), now with the nation's tallest paperweights. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or let us track you to your house through any other method imaginable.

I was there, it was amazing. Took a few photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151237864341768.486780.661406767

https://www.facebook.com/anthrax

Not only are they spreading biological agents, but they're doing it under the guise of being a heavy metal band.

Summon the drones.

facebook

and an update to her facebook profile.