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You could Boycott flying.

Btw, elections are here.
Who was the judge on this case?

"...but exceeded them by a good light-year."

Not for everyone. My mate was there, and he (along with a lot of other attendees) found it to be a shameless money making event.

He paid a high price to get in, only to find that EVERYTHING costs money.

Want a photo with a star? You have to pay for that.
Want to shake their hand? Pay.
Want an autograph? Pay.

Want to take photos of the event to share? My mate overheard staff telling a fan to put his camera away or they'd hit him over the head with it.

There's a facebook group ( http://www.facebook.com/groups/379887832087126/?fref=ts ) of disgruntled fans.

Now obviously the sponsors were out to make money, but I think a lot of fans were expecting a convention, where you pay your money and then get an organic grass-roots experience with all the stars Wasn't the case here.

One of the main reasons I refuse to buy new albums is that in most cases, I know only a few pennies of my money goes to the artist; I attend live shows & buy t-shirts at them instead. This article is the best I've seen for detailing the matter.

In fact, tonight I'm seeing an older artist called Les Chambers in concert that, despite being the lead singer for a couple of hits that have been used all over the friggin' place since the 60s, was never paid any royalties, even ended up homeless for a while (I don't know the story behind that, just that he never used drugs or abused alcohol). It sounds like it was one of those cases where, as a young man in the 60s, he was -- like almost all artists back then -- eager to sign the contract and trusted the RIAA to treat him fairly.

Yes they are not "undercover" as such but just unmarked or covert cars. The are generally easy to spot unless they are behind you. New South Wales Police are even taking advantage of this with a special batch of 50 highway cars highly marked and extremely visible from the rear, but almost covert from the front. They even have photos of their covert cars on their own Facebook pages. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.420791607956995.85178.217834118252746&type=3

We recently created several groups in school and added

There is a separate group handling for schools.

https://www.facebook.com/about/groups/schools
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=162550990475119

It's basically intended to let people join a school group without explicitly having to become 'friends' with the group controller.

I don't know if that applies to the case you're referring to, though.

We recently created several groups in school and added

There is a separate group handling for schools.

https://www.facebook.com/about/groups/schools
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=162550990475119

It's basically intended to let people join a school group without explicitly having to become 'friends' with the group controller.

I don't know if that applies to the case you're referring to, though.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/BABY-DID-YOU-FORGET-TO-TAKE-YOUR-MEDS-/

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Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like hyper dude.

Full disclosure -- it's me
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fishman-For-Congress/238525136213826?sk=wall&filter=12

... have declared war on the rest of us. They have declared war on modern society.

And no, there isn't any reasoning with these people, the Dominionists. They are stone cold nuts and they even use the vocabulary of war in their screeds. Any attempt to reason with them is assuming that they are capable of rational thought. They are not. Deep down, they actually and truly believe that science is *the* enemy. It is a position that is beyond the reach of any rational thought, so ridicule is the only tool left. If given half a chance, they would drag us back to pre-inudustrial society with just the Bible as the sole text.

He needs to be held up to ridicule from sea to shining sea.

Give him a piece of your mind https://www.facebook.com/brounforcongress

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Oh yes, please tell me all about the computer geniuses that wrote the PHP scripts that power facebook!

Well, I know PHP bashing is all the rage, so how about the computer geniuses at Facebook that wrote HipHop, their PHP-to-binary compiler?

I think it is a pretty cool technical thing (and according to their stats it dropped their CPU usage by some significant figure) - and even better, they open sourced it. Like they do with a lot of their stuff.

Yes. We are protesting this!!! For some behind-the-scene inputs . And Also .

It's become a circus and a lot of us have protested , The sotto memes are too funny . But they're TRUE. LOL

Never again. Thanks also to TPB for their support !!!

  --- from a Martial Law Baby AC \m/

Ironically, its Facebook page probably has more likes than actual users.

...a bunch of his friends submitted this form to Facebook which resulted in his account being "memorialized" with no verification from any family members. Now we've lost control of his account and can't get it deleted, which was what both he and I wanted.

Those interested in the incandescent ban topic can if they want follow
the Incandescent Light Bulb Activist Alliance on Facebook,
started a few days ago, with American and European politicians, lighting designers, writers and others
http://www.facebook.com/groups/bulballiance

On the American side,
regular incandescent light bulbs are legal for Texas manufacture and sales since June 2011, signed into law by Gov Rick Perry.
Texas also has several Congressmen active federally against it, with bills and amendments
http://freedomlightbulb.org/2011/06/texas-to-allow-incandescent-light-bulbs.html
http://freedomlightbulb.org/2012/06/texas-hold-em-and-congressmen-fight-for.html

All the bills in US States, links and updates
http://ceolas.net/#bills

Outside the USA, Canada delayed ban for at least 2 years, BC suspended their ongoing ban: See the above sites for more
Mexico due to implement restricitions but their grid needs upgrading (common CFLs affect grids due to their so-called power factor)

Those interested in the incandescent ban topic can if they want follow
the Incandescent Light Bulb Activist Alliance on Facebook,
started a few days ago, with American and European politicians, lighting designers, writers and others
http://www.facebook.com/groups/bulballiance

This is his facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/harunyahyaworks

Might be a good idea to let him know what you think of him

by Facebooks stance on anonymity.
Bill W.

Anonymous

Indeed, perhaps we should share this story!

Whenever this has happened the opens source fork wins (Mambo vs Joomla, LibraOffice vs OpenOffice - which then went open itself, etc.)

Actually.. for me, OpenOffice has won - at least in the Calc department. The LibreOffice devs have made several changes to bring LibreOffice's user interface closer to that of Microsoft products, losing superior functionality along the way, and being very inflexible on offering users choice within Libreoffice.

http://www.facebook.com/libreoffice.org/posts/120105584727720
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39438

Though truth be told this started in other areas with OO.o already, thanks to users screaming "Word does it this way, Excel does it this way" - perhaps the devs thought punishing those users by also copying inferior solutions was an appropriate response.

pre-history of the Great Labor Crash

They put a lot of effort into multithreading and caching stuff before you ask for it; I saw a cooler writeup and can't find it... but here's one from Facebook's Blog.

Yes a delightful religion. The Muslims are the rats that cannot be trained to anything for the good of humanity.

I enter my face book..

http://www.facebook.com/cr.alt.7

One post since 2009...

And it says I have 11billion page views?

Huh?

So what is wrong with "firefox http://facebook.com/" ?

Yes, but the more important question is whether the article writer is related to Phil McCracken.

Hey if they can make the world's largest social network out of PHP, spit and bailing wire, I don't think technology matters as much as we wish it did. A frighteningly large percentage of business logic still runs on Visual BASIC and Cobol.

And rightly so. The fact is that scalability is just not that important for a startup. Most likely the startup will fail with few customers at all. If they do have customers chances are they won't be on the scale of today's Facebook. If they do have a huge mass of customers and run into scaling issues, then they'll also have gobs of money coming at them from all direction with which they can solve those problems.

The alternative is to burn through all your capital making a really nice infrastructure that could be used to run Facebook, but which nobody will ever use anyway.

In business procrastination often pays off. It is hard to anticipate what your needs will be in 10 years, so don't sacrifice your needs in the next 2 years to get there.

Bearing in mind the sites that use Ruby I don't think so.

Since Twitter is the Ruby poster-child, how about Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java:

"Twitter has now moved its entire search stack from Ruby-on-Rails to Java.

That's a big shift. Twitter moved its back end message queue from Ruby to Scala, a Java platform in the 2008-2009 time frame. The move was attributed to issues with reliability on the back-end.

This latest move makes the shift pretty much complete. At Twitter, Ruby is out of the picture."

Hey if they can make the world's largest social network out of PHP, spit and bailing wire, I don't think technology matters as much as we wish it did. A frighteningly large percentage of business logic still runs on Visual BASIC and Cobol.

I think it is more the lack of skills and that you will probably need some time with your nose in a manual to set up the rails environment to run a node.

Ah yes, just throw more nodes at your unreliable and resource-hungry server code.

Careful, I think there are several patents on that.

Back in my day we didn't devour 'em, we just rocked 'em like my friend Sonny here: http://www.facebook.com/officialsonnymendez

What about Hotblack Desiato and Disaster Area? They rock planets on seismic orders of magnitude.

For the "person" making the real threats, set their address to be one of your neighbors.

Hmmm, defamation of character and libel? Since you like experiments maybe a neighbor can use your address and mention you're a sex offender and see what happens! (For the record I don't advocate this.)

Since no real people (only your fake sock poppets) can see any of this stuff, if you see a SWAT team show up at your neighbors' house, then we can surmise that Facebook does indeed allow the government to monitor private communications there.

Facebook employees can. The phone company can (or whomever you get your internet through). Also you may note that all of these companies respond to subpenas... so yes "private" information may be monitored. Regarding Facebook specifically this is mentioned in the legal terms you wantonly clicked through when creating an account (See Safety 7, 10, 12 and how they relate to your experiment) I say wantonly since you obviously aren't sure about their Privacy Policy specifically the "Some other things you need to know" section addressing "Responding to legal requests and preventing harm". In a related note you may find the following interesting:

The fact is that Facebook members own the intellectual property (IP) that is uploaded to the social network, but depending on their privacy and applications settings, users grant the social network "a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License)."

Facebook adds, "[t]his IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."

While the social network does not technically own its members content, it has the right to use anything that is not protected with Facebook's privacy and applications settings. For instance, photos, videos and status updates set to public are fair game. article

Considering information you broadcast private? It's the exact opposite.

For the "person" making the real threats, set their address to be one of your neighbors.

Hmmm, defamation of character and libel? Since you like experiments maybe a neighbor can use your address and mention you're a sex offender and see what happens! (For the record I don't advocate this.)

Since no real people (only your fake sock poppets) can see any of this stuff, if you see a SWAT team show up at your neighbors' house, then we can surmise that Facebook does indeed allow the government to monitor private communications there.

Facebook employees can. The phone company can (or whomever you get your internet through). Also you may note that all of these companies respond to subpenas... so yes "private" information may be monitored. Regarding Facebook specifically this is mentioned in the legal terms you wantonly clicked through when creating an account (See Safety 7, 10, 12 and how they relate to your experiment) I say wantonly since you obviously aren't sure about their Privacy Policy specifically the "Some other things you need to know" section addressing "Responding to legal requests and preventing harm". In a related note you may find the following interesting:

The fact is that Facebook members own the intellectual property (IP) that is uploaded to the social network, but depending on their privacy and applications settings, users grant the social network "a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License)."

Facebook adds, "[t]his IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."

While the social network does not technically own its members content, it has the right to use anything that is not protected with Facebook's privacy and applications settings. For instance, photos, videos and status updates set to public are fair game. article

Considering information you broadcast private? It's the exact opposite.

There didn't need to be any monitoring, his wall was left for anyone to read.

http://www.facebook.com/brandon.raub?sk=wall

I've seen worse posted by /. trolls.

I'm wondering... why him? There's tons of crazies on the internet.... what made him so special? Did he say something that was correct? This sounds exactly like the Conspiracy Theory movie where Mel Gibon plays a crazy guy that self-publishes a little newsletter full of crazy conspiracies that everyone ignores until one of his conspiracies ends up being the truth and suddenly the FBI arrests him and put him in a mental institute... actually, this is exactly that, replace newsletter with Facebook and it's the movie. Who plays Julia Roberts in the real-life version?

It wasn't private. You can still look at it. He seems to have good intentions, but has gotten sucked in to some deep conspiracy theories, to the point that he's thinking of doing something about it. It can be hard to extract people from those theories when they're in deep.

FB bots already troll for illegal content and if something is spotted, it's forwarded to "the man."

There was something about this here not too long ago, but I can't be arsed to look it up.

1. Don't be stupid and post potentially illegal/threatening stuff to your FB page, whether you think it's private or not. It's not. Read your privacy policy. Act as if FB is some weird version of usenet and you'll be fine. Also, if you are bent on revolution, no revolution ever really got started by doing the organizing in public. At least not at first.

Thus sayeth the FB privacy policy:

We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=+322194465300

2. See 1. And if you still don't understand it, keep reading 1 until you do.

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As far as I can tell, his wall is open for anyone to read:

http://www.facebook.com/brandon.raub?sk=wall

There didn't need to be any monitoring, his wall was left for anyone to read.

http://www.facebook.com/brandon.raub?sk=wall

I think if you read a chunk of his wall (which is open to anyone to read on FB) you'll find enough to convince you that perhaps he should talk to a psychiatrist.

http://www.facebook.com/brandon.raub?sk=wall

I have a feeling it was this particular FB account that got their attention. His wall is free for anyone to peruse:

http://www.facebook.com/brandon.raub?sk=wall

According to Facebook, Kenny the Clown is a "public figure!" Like the mayor of Oakland? I don't know which is worse, the idea of Kenny the Clown as a public figure (see the "KTC in da house!" posting from Aug 5... what a nice guy... trying to take the rap for breaking into the Jobs house), or the idea of Facebook defining who is and is not a public figure.

"To connect with Kenny the Clown, sign up for Facebook today." No need, I'm already signed up for iTunes, and I'm sure they could connect me with Kenny easily.

I'm assuming its not a university or a college. If thats the case you need to be 18 to have a facaebook account acording to their ToS. So, no kids should need to get to facebook.

From the Facebook Website:

          What is the minimum age required to sign up for Facebook?
          In order to be eligible to sign up for Facebook, people must be 13 years of age or older.

If they're under 13 (elementary and middle school age range), they're not allowed to access Facebook due to their terms of service and (in the US, at least) COPPA.

From Facebook's terms of service:
You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.

This is due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires verified parental consent before children can provide information to the website. While this does not impact you directly (that is, the FTC isn't going to knock on your door), you could get some heat from parents or administrators for allowing it at all.

Personally, I think the law is too draconian, but I wouldn't put my position in jeopardy to protest it.

Check out his Facebook page for comparison.

putting your social connections in groups, and being able to SHARE them - let alone selecting who sees what.

Facebook has that and has had that since 2010. Welcome to the world of yesteryear.

Do we really care?

What's this FaceBook thing anyway?

Does it compile into native code or P-code?

Fun fact: FaceBook uses HipHop, a tool they developed themselves to convert PHP code to C++, and then compile it to native code.

And the craziest thing is that they compile everything into a single 1.5 GB binary:

Because Facebook's entire code base is compiled down to a single binary executable, the company's deployment process is quite different from what you'd normally expect in a PHP environment. Rossi told me that the binary, which represents the entire Facebook application, is approximately 1.5GB in size. When Facebook updates its code and generates a new build, the new binary has to be pushed to all of the company's servers.

So, yeah, FaceBook compiles to native code! :-)

That's just part of the front-end. They use a lot of Java too which is byte-code. Hadoop/Hive/HBase blah blah blah. IMO: Pig > Hive, node.js > PHP

Do we really care?

What's this FaceBook thing anyway?

Does it compile into native code or P-code?

Fun fact: FaceBook uses HipHop, a tool they developed themselves to convert PHP code to C++, and then compile it to native code.

And the craziest thing is that they compile everything into a single 1.5 GB binary:

Because Facebook's entire code base is compiled down to a single binary executable, the company's deployment process is quite different from what you'd normally expect in a PHP environment. Rossi told me that the binary, which represents the entire Facebook application, is approximately 1.5GB in size. When Facebook updates its code and generates a new build, the new binary has to be pushed to all of the company's servers.

So, yeah, FaceBook compiles to native code! :-)

Or you could refer to https://www.facebook.com/PigStateNews. I wonder if cops read *that*?

Not entirely true. Some Facebook pages (like mine: http://facebook.com/lannocc), are publicly viewable to anyone (as long as you're logged in). I actually wish FB would remove the logged-in restriction so my page could be searched and accessed by any person or web spider.

However, your other idea about hosting your own personal data is something I like and have thought about frequently. I imagine a social web of providers where you can pick a storage provider (or provide your own) from a marketplace. Some would be free, probably ad-supported. Others might take a small payment but guarantee an encrypted store with options for key delegation in the event of death, etc.

well... i'm designing an engine, at the moment: http://lkcl.net/engine for this project http://facebook.com/UltraEfficientVehicles. the actual complexity of the maths required to do a proper job is waay beyond my abilities, so i am using iterative programming with python, as a temporary substitute.

to give you an example of the kinds of things i need to do: the design is a cross between a revetec and a bourke. if you've not heard of either of those: the revetec uses counter-rotating multi-lobate cams instead of a crank (2 tri-lobe cams shared across 6 cylinders), and the bourke used a scotch yoke to get a perfect sine wave. both designs have extended dwell time at TDC.

so basically, the "bang" is longer, hotter and quicker than a standard crank. what that means is that the exhaust gases are *not* burning as the piston goes away from TDC. and, with the cams, it's possible to arrange them so that as the piston falls away, the pressure against the cam face is turned into a *continuous* torque. so then, the advantage of the cams therefore is not just that you can get a torque pressure for over 120 degrees (as opposed to only 40 for a crank), but that you can do *anything* - including tricks like the above.

so the equation that i need to solve is that the rate of change of the face of the cam, acting as a lever to produce torque, where the lever is itself shrinking in length (because the cam face is dropping towards the centre of the spinning cam), equalises the torque as the amount of pressure falls off due to the expansion of the hot gases. luckily - and i say luckily - because "detonation" is being used (above 1800F you get the hydrogen burning as well as the carbon, so it's all over in under a microsecond) there's no burning gases so it's not as complex as it could be.

as i simply haven't got the level of maths to express the equation properly, nor do i know what sort of pressures will actually be involved in a 70cc cylinder, nor do i yet know exactly what compression ratio it's going to run at (i've made some adjustments to the cylinder's stroke), i am having to do the best i can.

so to calculate a first version of the cam, i ended up using a spline curve to roughly match a sine wave and then altered it slightly. even here, however, my first attempt to calculate the cam face was an O(N-cubed) algorithm, and i had to look up "line through circle" which is y=mx+c into y-squared + x-squared = r-squared and use that to reduce it to a more accurate O(N-squared) algorithm.

bottom line is: hell yes you lucky bastard if you've got an opportunity to learn some more maths for god's sake do so. you're damn lucky: you could probably solve the equations needed to sort this stuff out in a couple of hours, whereas it's taken me two weeks of thought and experimentation to get as far as i have, not having access to the right level of expertise.

btw, to the guy who said "instead of calculus, use linear algebra" - you're dead wrong. the iterative loops i'm using are a very poor substitute. when i zoomed in on the critical sections of the results (the DXF output) of what i'd produced, i found that they were wrong. i had to increase the number of steps around the 360 degree circle to 1,440 and the inner loop steps to 14,400 in order to get a level of accuracy that looked acceptable, and i don't actually know if it's going to be good enough.

if instead i had the right maths, i could have used it to calculate the tangent of the roller-bearing as it drops against the face of the cam, and worked out properly, with an O(N) loop, what the cam face should be. the O(N-squared) loop is because i have to "simulate" a CNC milling tool the exact radius of the bearing going round, "shaving" the cam face away, taking a minimum distance (hence the line meeting the circle) as the bearing rotates through 360 degrees (inner loop, 14400 steps) as the cam rotates through 360 degrees (outer loop, 1440 steps). this iterative technique is *not* as accurate as using calculus.

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