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That may be your understanding of what it was about. But when Mike Huckabee called for an "Appreciation Day", he didn't even mention the government interference issue. He did talk about angry rhetoric.

https://www.facebook.com/events/266281243473841/

Remove my books from your lists immediately...The Eternal Question and Children of Hamelin. I am seeking legal action... ... I own the copyright to my books and I did NOT give you permission to put them on your sight for lending. REMOVE THEM IMMEDIATELY! ... Please remove my three books from this site. My novel Queen Sacrifice took over a year to write and I consider book piracy to be theft from authors. Any readers who download stolen books are also guilty of stealing from authors. ... I'll add my name to this list of people pissed off that you are lending my book without my permission. This will serve as your only notice that you are to remove my book Morgan: The scandal that shook Freemasonry from your service immediately.

lol... that is one way to look at it. People are kind. Now they're dead. [grin]

I read your post and couldn't help but google "depressing philosopher." I have a dark sense of humour. Anyway, I don't know why I found it so funny, but I did, that the first result would be exactly what I was thinking about first: Discussion List on "Who is the most depressing philosopher. Given the subject of this post I shouldn't have been surprised that a group somewhere would be discussing philosophies that are truly depressing.

However, I found a most heartening result on, of all places, Facebook. And it made me laugh my ass off. It is so droll it is beyond belief. I love this humour. It is a Facebook page for Depressing Philosophers Who Say That Nothing Matters So Why Bother Anyway. If you click the link you will see the humour. Honest.

Seems interesting that the registration link is not https

http://www.facebook.com/hackercup/register

WNYC's excellent program, RadioLab will have a Google Hangout and possible a meatspace meetup somewhere in the Lower East Side in NYC.

Headliners for their event include:

• Packing for Mars author Mary Roach
• A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines author and physicist Janna Levin
• Martian Summer author Andrew Kessler
• Other unspecified scientists and journalists

Side note: RadioLab is a production of New York's NPR affiliate. Apparently the show is just a couple years old and apparently it's not carried on stations everywhere. If you haven't heard it, and you like science, check out their podcast. It's quirky, incredibly well produced, and overall very well done.

I'm an iOS music app developer, and for music apps and action games, despite the similar hardware Android just doesn't cut it yet performance-wise. Check out the touch-to-sound latency times below that another music app developer posted last week. For many apps it doesn't matter, but for audio and many types of games, 200ms latency is too much! I haven't tested Android myself, but on iOS I get about 40ms.

WaveSynth for Android 1.0.1
HTC (4.0.3) -> 186ms
Google Nexus 7 (4.1.1 Jellybean) -> 213ms
Galaxy S2 (4.0.3) -> 256ms

WaveSynth 2.1
iPhone 4 (5.1.1) -> 49ms

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Are/Were companies doing this because it's cheaper than running a background check?

Additionally, sharing your Facebook password is against the TOS (Section 4, subsection 8). You can tell an employer/prospective employer that you will reveal your credentials if they assume the legal responsibility for breaching the contract.

That should get them off your back. Whether you get hired/fired, that's an entirely different matter.

Disabling Javascript doesn't eliminate FB ads. Try it. Turn off Javascript for all sites, clear cache, and load www.facebook.com.

I see ads, clickable ads that reach their destination. Looking at the page in the developer tools, there's no JS being executed (pause does nothing), and neither the Scripts nor the Resources tabs reveal anything resembling a script.

Further, all the ads link through the same base URI, what is likely a FB redirector script: https://www.facebook.com/ajax/emu/end.php. I've written ad software for websites that doesn't use a bit of JS, and it appears that FB is capable of doing the same.

Reenabling JS shows the ads have both the base URI AND a mousedown handler with function reference of a similar name: a.emuEvent1.fbEmuLink.image.fbEmuImage

Finally, advertisers and the agencies that put their ads on FB don't have to rely on FB for click metrics, it's normal practice to redirect through a third-party agency that counts ad clicks.

It's possible that this company didn't understand the incoming requests. I'd love to see their analysis of User-Agent signatures and client IP addresses.

At least not unless they are skillfully faking profiles.

Of course my crappy little page plays to a small niche audience just to advertise my blog.

F'book gave me $50 voucher to get to play with ads.I was actually quit impressed with the ad interface. You can chose to pay by result i.e. getting a "Like", rather than for clicks. Don't see how bots would give them any advantage if you chose that paying scheme.

I am really not a huge F'book fan, don't like their laxness with regards to privacy data at all. Don't have a profile other than this page. Nevertheless, I really don't see how this story has legs. Just pay for "Likes" and check on your followers' profiles (random sample will do). It will be hard to build diverse profiles that look real.

Also it doesn't make business sense. Ad revenue is their lifeblood. They really cannot afford to lose trust in the integrity of their ad delivery.

This guy has been circulating around the internet as the profile of the next mass murderer on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ld=2582718763

Google, Facebook, 100 advertising sites, are all busy trying to gather as much information about me as possible, and not giving me any control over it.

Um, really? Really? and if that's too much trouble, you can probably hire somebody on mechanical Turk to do it for 10 cents.

I submit: https://www.facebook.com/dexter

(OTOH, I unfriended the account because disappointingly it wasn't even a little bit in-character)

Are all my friends already on Jitsi

As Jitzi just use plain standards, the correct question isn't that, but :
"Are all my friends already on SIP or XMPP/Jingle ?"

(The software component itself isn't important. As long as the software supports SIP or XMPP you can communicate with them.
As long as both software ends support ZRTP/SRTP, you can secure the communication. As long as both software ends support OTR, you can secure the text chat. Whichever software is used isn't relevant.
Jitzi is just cited because a Tor's developper did recommend it and thus brought some publicity to it. But any compliant software could be used as an example:
Jitzi (SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ZRTP/SRTP, OTR), Twinkle (phone only, so SIP, ZRTP/SRTP, but obviously no OTR), Purple-based like Pidgin and Adium (SIP/SIMPLE, XMPP/Jabber, multiple other including a wrapper for skype, OTR for text but lacks ZRTP for now), Ekiga (SIP but no ZRTP nor OTR, XMPP planed in the future), and countless others...)

Now back to the question:
"Are all my friends already on SIP or XMPP/Jingle ?"

Surprisingly: Yes, they might.

As said, Jitzi (and countless other software) use standards like SIP and XMPP.
XMPP is very popular and several systems use it under the hood (including high profile like Goolge Talk), or provide a XMPP gateway to their own chat system (several social networks, even Facebook).
Also a full XMPP implementation can route message between different XMPP networks. So you don't even need to be on the same XMPP network as long as both your servers accept to exchange message (most do, Facebook is a notorious exception).

Google's GTalk runs on plain XMPP/Jingle (they even played a part in creating the Jingle part of the standard). So any of your friends already having a google account they can use it to log into Jitzi and will see all their Google contacts in it, and start communicate with any other GTalk user, even those using the web interface (although the web interface's video/audio plugin only works on Windows, and for very obvious security reasons doesn't support encryption).
(Note: Google's own FAQ isn't up to date, for example Pidgin also supports audio/video call since version 2.6.x)
As Google implements the full XMPP protocol you can even communicate with people on other XMPP-powered networks. (You can chat using your Google Talk @gmail.com account with people having a Jabber account @jabber.org).

Another possible candidate is Facebook. Facebook also come with a huge network of contacts. And Facebook does provide a XMPP gateway to interface their own proprietary chat. Users can log with their Facebook credential into any XMPP compliant client and they will see all their facebook contact (although due to Facebook's TAG-like approach to list, the group-mode view can be messy) and can chat with them). Now for Video/Audio, the situation is slightly less bright:
- Facebook's audio/video chat web applet, only works with other user of the web applet.
- Skype audio/video call to other facebook users only works with skype (it uses only FB for chat and friend discovery, the video/audio is still handled by skype).
Now it might be possible that friends connected through the XMPP gateway may attempt to Jingle-call each other. I haven't test it yet. But if it works, their call will be segregated, as it's already the situation between Skype and Webapp users. (Currently Facebook doesn't convert and route audio/video streams between skype and webapp user, and is very unlikely to introduce it for their XMPP gateway either).
As it is only a XMPP gateway and not a full XMPP implementation, they don't provide "server federation" and you can't chat with users on other XMPP networks (a @facebook.com account can't chat with a @gmail.com account. It's limited to other Facebook users only)

do I need to

The trouble with "single signon" is that it's usually a front for a Facebook or Google style tracking system. It usually comes with built-in privacy intrusion, ad targeting, and an overreaching EULA.

"Using Facebook for login provides you with all the information you need to create a social, personalized experience from the moment the user visits your site in their browser."

This is not the first time population growth drove change.
not to many posts but by reading them you might comprehend what is happening, why and where we are heading
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Abstraction-Physics-101/170311386325230

And there we go: facebook page for the Pirate Party of Japan, of course not to be confused with the WiiWare game of almost the same name.

I figured it had something to do with dick-waving.

I am not entirely what This Guy has to do with the issue, please clarify.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=430108543679549&set=a.430108540346216.103930.164801466876926&type=1&theater 38 miles on 28 pounds of lithium iron magnesium phosphate batteries in 70 minutes. Not bad...

They changed emails without asking.

Which has never happened.

They change the page layout without asking.

Every site (google, slashdot, and everyone else) changes site design. Unless you're implying FB forces Timeline on people, which has never happened.

They record everything you do when at the site and use those data to display specific advertisements.

And they're far from the only one. Google, anyone?

They delete profiles without asking.[...]
They don't remove profile data, when asked.

Besides the contradictory nature of this, I've never heard of FB spontaneously deleting profiles for no reason. I have heard of them shutting down pages and profiles based on ToS violations. Also, there's this: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=224562897555674 (unless you're complaining that they hold on to your marketing data... see previous comment)

They delete contact data from your phone without asking.

The only thing I found on this was a software bug in the API causing this. It's far from your implication that FB deciding you didn't need those numbers and purging them.

They change privacy settings without asking.

This one I'll give you, but it's far from the end-days version you hear about. Every time I read about a "world is burning" privacy settings update, I never see it happen in my own settings. I also don't see the inability to hide everything in my profile that's often touted.

They change their privacy policy without asking.

Just like every company in existence. Truth be told, the only company that's ever told me about updates is (brace for it).... is Sony.

I'm not saying FB is a saint or anything, and nobody I've ever met has the disillusion that FB is private and isn't selling their info, but a lot of what you're posting is straight up FUD that gets spread on Slashdot quite a bit.

Facebook exposes a Jabber/XMPP protcol for chatting on Facebook.

If you really must chat on Facebook then you and your friends could use the OTR encryption plugin, though it's not as a cool hack as implanting some kind of transparent layer into Facebook itself but maybe that's something that could be done with GreaseMonkey or something.

https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse

I thought they announced last year that they would be opening up their Open Graph API to handle all kind of verbs. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/

There's the Delete Button, but for some reason it's hard to find.

Why wouldn't the public username be unique? Can I access two different people's profile pages through https://www.facebook.com/publicusername?

FAQ "What do I have to do to permanently eliminate my account?"

Before doing so, you might want to do the following, just to be safe:

1. 1. Download a copy of your data, keep it somewhere safe.
2. 2. Announce on your wall that you will be deleting your facebook account permanently soon, and that anyone who wants to stay in touch needs to take note of alternate contact-info.
3. 3. Make note of alternate contact-info for anyone you might want to stay in contact with; send them an FB message if nothing else
4. 4. Attach alternate e-mail addresses to your account, so that you'll be deleting them all at once
5. 5. Wait some time (a week? a month?)

Of course, none of this stops someone from creating an account purporting to be you, with a similar-sounding name, and a throwaway address at some web-mail provider that looks similar to yours. Keeping a FB account open doesn't do much to avoid it, either, except that someone who searches on your name get two hits and have to decide between them.

"Your Facebook email is based on your public username. Email sent to this address goes to Facebook messages."

http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=224049364288051

So if I didn't want a public email address on my FB profile then why would I want one now?

We are working on it.

https://www.facebook.com/NASA.ISRU

Pascal Papara's Broadway AROS project has been brought to the Raspberry Pi by Stephen Jones. There's also an ARM6 hosted version of the AROS project available.

Has anyone ever tested if we actually need air conditioning for a server room?

You do need "air conditioning", since you do want to make sure the air is not too dirty or humid or dry or hot.
But yes you can do without conventional data center air conditioning:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150148003778920&_fb_noscript=1
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/the-facebook-data-center-faq-newest-page/

They're also trying in a warmer more humid area:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/facebook-data-center-2/
Wonder how well that will work.

These look familiar.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=350915578280466&set=a.350911864947504.77141.345405795498111&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=350915934947097&set=a.350911864947504.77141.345405795498111&type=3&theater

These look familiar.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=350915578280466&set=a.350911864947504.77141.345405795498111&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=350915934947097&set=a.350911864947504.77141.345405795498111&type=3&theater

Environment Texas also pointed out the risk the project poses to the south Texas economy. According to a 2011 Texas A&M study, nature tourism generates about $300 million a year in the Rio Grande Valley, created 4,407 full- and part-time jobs and $2.6 million in sales taxes and $7.26 million in hotel taxes. The Rio Grande Valley has been named the number two destination in North America for birdwatching and attracts visitors from all over the world to view almost 500 species of bird.

It isn't apparent from this snippet, but the Rio Grande Valley isn't some tiny valley that will be entirely dominated by SpaceX moving there. The Rio Grande Valley is actually a gigantic area composed of 4 entire counties and over 20,000 square miles. SpaceX is interested in a plot of land on the edge of that valley that occupies much less than a square mile, and will be firing its rockets (powered by oxygen and kerosene) out over the ocean.

Brownsville itself is super excited about SpaceX potentially moving there, and I suspect few if any of the people involved with this "Environment Texas" group actually live in Brownsville.

Who else read "Anonymous Road Train Project"?

Picturing guys in business suits with Guy Fawkes masks on.

Reminds me of the demotivator I threw together the other day.

Facebook has open sourced quite a few things. http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/ Looking at this from Facebook's point-of-view, I think they see having their own browser as being absolutely essential to their future. There's so many things they could bring to the table in terms of user experience if only they had their own platform. Nerds see the privacy conundrum very clearly, the average person on the other hand, could give a shit. They've probably looked at Webkit, and see that working on a browser engine with their arch enemy as totally unworkable. That arch enemy being Google, not Apple. Google is, of course, a big contributor to Webkit. No one seems to take Gecko seriously. Apple passed on Gecko. Google passed on gecko. Buying Opera makes perfect sense to me. I've never cared for it personally, so I don't have a dog in this fight. As to whether or not they open source it, they have open sourced things in the past. As for Opera I can see a lot of reasons for them to open source the engine, and I can see a lot of reasons why they wouldn't open source the engine. If they open source, they win points with geeks, what was Opera can be forked and continue on. They get free improvements via community involvement in the project. And they can keep proprietary bits proprietary. On the other hand, it's already closed source, and it would be easy for them to keep it that way. Easy for them to keep their work under wraps from the likes of Google. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they're also working on their own web search.

https://m.facebook.com/

I LOL'ed when I saw that, it's kinda sloppy... just like you said, they're probably not even trying (yet).

You can /. her facebook her too.

Pretty crummy thing to threaten/slander a guy just because he sends a DMCA that reads, "Hey you took my photo. Please remove it." She kept using it on facebook upto a few hours ago. She was TOLD she was infringing on copyright but kept doing it anyway! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Schwager-Consulting-Marketing/345405795498111

You can /. her facebook her too. Pretty crummy thing to do to threaten/slander a guy just because he sends a DMCA that reads, "Hey you took my photo. Please remove it." She even used it on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Schwager-Consulting-Marketing/345405795498111

Amusing comments in the "recent posts by others" section, though...

"It will be a slow, natural progression forward, with a lot of legacy IPv4 content and assets lying around,"

IPv4 content? Seriously? Assets? You mean old routers that don't support IPv6? if businesses have been buying enterprise network gear that only supports IPv4 then they deserve to have stacks of them sitting around, but there's no reason that an enterprise still can't use a LANA scheme and use NAT-PT at the edge. I swear people make the whole IPv6 thing seem like it will change the whole world, it won't. The content will be the same folks, you can still go to youtube and facebook . Although Facebook isn't quite there as yet.

it's just an evolution and yes the ISPs and large enterprises need to support it. You can even get your ISP to support NAT-PT or use tunneling, it will just take time. There are many transition standards such as NAT64, SIIT and DNS64 that also help in all this "confusion" but honestly folks if we can just get the ISPs to adopt it widely most of this confusion will go away and while we have IPv6 Days this is more an evolution not a revolution for your favorite Web apps. If you're worried that you're stuck with obsolete software or hardware that locks you into IPv4, don't worry you can still use it. Yes it will take a little change but it won't be like having to set the time on your VCR. Wait, er uhm, DVD player. Er Blu-Ray player, yeah that's it.

I'm an eDoctor, and your post leads me to believe you may be suffering from USI. I would look into a 12-step program in your area to help you get over this debilitating disease...

Facebook would be quite within their rights to put these on iTunes or Amazon.

No, they wouldn't. You should try reading the actual FaceBook ToS

You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:

        For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us 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). This 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.

http://www.facebook.com/drfuhrman
"Joel Fuhrman M.D. is a board-certified family physician, best-selling author and nutritional researcher who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods."

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vitamin-D-Council/332321220632
"The Vitamin D Council is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to end the worldwide epidemic of vitamin D deficiency."

Just saying... Even though I normally cite their direct websites... Both eating better and getting enough vitamin D have been show to prevent, and in some cases reverse, a variety of diseases including cancer.

http://www.facebook.com/drfuhrman
"Joel Fuhrman M.D. is a board-certified family physician, best-selling author and nutritional researcher who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods."

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vitamin-D-Council/332321220632
"The Vitamin D Council is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to end the worldwide epidemic of vitamin D deficiency."

Just saying... Even though I normally cite their direct websites... Both eating better and getting enough vitamin D have been show to prevent, and in some cases reverse, a variety of diseases including cancer.

There is no "innovation" behind Facebook, it is merely a social/business/etc contract between a vast amount of interested parties to create, maintain, and improve upon (in their own self interest) conduit for information storage and exchange between people.
Why do they do this? Simple, information and advertising.

People tend to confuse "innovation" with "invention." You don't have to do the second to do the first. Facebook as innovated a lot of things, from its business model to its technology. Look at HipHop, for example. That's innovation by anybody's standards, but Facebook's track record for innovation is not limited to software. That's narrow thinking.

The Indian courts have not explicitly blocked file sharing sites. All they have provided is a generic order to stop the copyright infringement. The company Copyright Labs which is looking to stop the piracy of its films, maintain that they provided the ISPs with a list of specific URLs that were to be blocked. The ISPs have apparently decided (40 days after the blocks were requested) to block entire domains rather than individual URLs. One of these parties is liable for damages for the blanket blocks.

The courts haven't necessarily done anything wrong here besides being ingenuous.

Both Facebook and Google share many business practices and monetizing practices. While Google had the unfortunate timing for their IPO (2004) after dot com bubble burst, the exact same thing could had been said about them. Many slashdotters, however, still believe that Google does the right thing.

For me the interesting thing is how similar these two companies actually are. Both companies base their revenue on advertisement and gathering user data, provide tons of open source contributions and are free for everyone to use.

What I cannot understand is why Google gets a free pass on this while slashdotters absolutely hate Facebook. Both Google and Facebook have done their mistakes, but only Facebook is constantly cried about. I can only guess it's because Facebook goes against slashdotters nerdy backgrounds. Gee, we have a place where every person can discuss, share their life the way they want to and be social.

It isn't the first time I've read how internet should be for geeks only and normal people not given access. And that right there shows some really horrible side of geeks. It's align the lines of hating gays because you can't stand someone being different from you. Yet geeks feel like everyone hates them for being different.

Maybe it's some traumatizing event from childhood or something, but after I realized this, I cannot think geeks as nothing more than the most hateful group of people towards people with other kind of thinking. This could also very well be the reasons why geeks are bullied - if you treat other like shit, you will be treated like shit. Be nice to them and they will be nice to you.

Facebook is still a young company. They have worked more on their grown rather than revenue by now, and it has worked very well for them. Unlike MySpace, I don't think Facebook will be going away anytime soon either. They have grown past that phase and are now the number one social network in every country. We used to have same kind of services in my country even back in 2000 - they're all now seriously in bad shape because Facebook took all the users.

I also don't see why Facebook would need to use any of this for privacy violation. Just like Google, their business depends on not giving out the information, but by establishing way for advertisers to use it via their platforms. Selling out info would kill them, and even more so than if Google did it. The information, users etc is the most single biggest asset they have. This is also why Google+ and Diaspora are losing heavily and will never amount to Facebook - they don't have the users, so no other users will come.

Working in investment industry, I would seriously suggest buying Facebook shares. It is, and will be, the internets social network. They will be heavily increasing their profits once they start working on it instead of growth. It will still also heavily grow when rest of the world gets online. Currently there are amount 800 million people (a very impressive number!), but there is room for over 6 billion more. And those won't be joining MySpace, Google+ or Diaspora, they will join Facebook because that's where everyone is.

Just my two cents,
John

http://tpb.fl.ax/ [tpb.fl.ax] was posted as a workaround on the official Pirate Bay Facebook page [facebook.com] since the blog was also under DDoS attack.

That's not the problem, the problem is that it's global. The majority of users are outside the US. So, selling 40,000 dollar car to someone in turkey isn't exactly going to work. Here is a breakdown.

We used FB for some ads at the last place I worked. They are actually incredibly targeted. On a location scale, you can target people in a single city, no need to even talk about countries. Moreover, you can target by age, education, etc. So, you have a $80k luxury car want to advertise? You can target people over 40 with post secondary education. What about a "hip" econobox? You can target young, recently graduated 20-somethings. You can even choose to just include just people with majors that will most likely have jobs. Check out FBs page on targeted advertising.

https://www.facebook.com/stevenballmer/posts/364080266982087

yes
https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=224049364288051