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It seems to me that it is not only Saverin who is not mindful of and not caring about the health of the nation and the people around him. Judging from the articles linked below, it seems that the entire of Facebook is not healthy:

Facebook's reputation in the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles like these:

Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the April 2012 competition to be voted the worst company in the United States .

Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:

"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."

There's more like that in the article.

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.

On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.

Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?

A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.

How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.

What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.

The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.

Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.

This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:

"Aston ... was charged ... based solely on a Fac

They exist. Just because something isn't the 'norm' over here doesn't mean it doesn't exist. (And I want to know what % of Dutch use these services).

Lexington, KY has the BrokeSpoke. A not for profit bike repair shop. You can rent bench time, volunteer or pay an annual fee. You get access to all their tools and knowledge. Craigslist has become a boon for people looking to sell stuff second hand. My entire apartment is furnished with second hand stuff. Be it my surplus projector and printer or my good will 5.1 surround sound system (with real floor speakers).

I have jeans that I've had for 10 years that I've had to repair at least twice. They fit perfect and often just have minor problems. My dad's riding lawn mower I've gone through and replaced about every bolt on it. I was shocked to see that the manufacturer actually provided full diagrams with part numbers. I found my local mower shop and ordered some odd parts and had it back together in no time.

(1) Manage your Facebook password with a password management application, so you can legitimately tell them you "don't know" any Facebook passwords, they were randomly generated and are stored securely in a password manager at home and tied to that web browser.

(2) Enable Facebook 2-factor authentication with a second cell phone. Don't bring that phone to any job interview.

Even if you have the correct FB password, you cannot login to FB on a new unknown device without receiving the SMS message, and entering the security code that Facebook sends you via SMS.

I find it quite plausible that it's the leading cause of death for women aged 15-24 in Israel.
Cancer and heart disease usually hit later in life.
Women much less prone to be murdered than men.
Traffic-related deaths in Israel are among the world's lowest.
Israel does not include war-related deaths in health statistics.
Dr. Rachel Adato is a former gynecologist, she's probably not making it up. Ask her yourself: http://www.facebook.com/racheladato

Facebook's reputation with the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles like these:

Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the April 2012 competition to be voted the worst company in the United States .

Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:

"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."

There's more like that in the article.

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.

On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.

Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?

A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.

How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.

What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.

The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.

Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.

This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:

"Aston ... was charged ... based solely on a Facebook photo and a generic description offered to police by the victim's boyfriend."

Defending herself required a "... court appearance and several thousand dollars in legal bills."


Open source will prevail. E

This summer, Infinit (infinit.io) will be released. The program aggregates local storage across all of your devices and allows you to access the data on them at anytime directly through your file management system and eventually mobile devices. In addition, if your friends or colleagues create Infinit networks with their storage space, you can exchange storage space to ensure that your files are replicated on trusted nodes outside of your own network. All files in the Infinit network are encrypted and distributed in bits across the network so only you have access. You can find out when it's available via twitter @infinitdotio or via FB http://www.facebook.com/infinitdotio

According to his own page (Andrew Nikolic), "I have removed my response on this issue from Facebook"

That's it?!? No apology for having no sense of humour? No apology for threatening to report FB Likes to employers? No apology for having blown innocuous criticism way out of proportion when he's running for a seat in the legislature? What's he going to do in candidate debates? Bring a gun?

My best suggestion is to tell him on his Facebook page. He probably doesn't read slashdot!

http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

And even if you go through with the deletion process, you still have to avoid logging in (watch out for saved passwords on a laptop) for two weeks.

The overall trend of the judiciary seems to be moving toward greater permissiveness for e-discovery with regard to social media, as well as a strong likelihood that privacy concerns will be outweighed by the weight and relevance of the information.

Interesting read here too, seems the courts don't always agree.

The answer is Facebook, and I got a job by using this bug against them! see?

Facebook is over this way --> Facebook.

You're not the Grammar Nazi.

"Facebook uses PHP because it is open source, and as a result much cheaper than ASP.NET or some other proprietary tool

Their decision to use PHP has absolutely nothing to do with cost. Also saying they use PHP is mostly false. They have almost completely rewritten the entire engine that powers the language.

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2010/02/02/hiphop-for-php--move-fast/

"Since 2007 we've thought about a few different ways to solve these problems and have even tried implementing a few of them. The common suggestion is to just rewrite Facebook in another language, but given the complexity and speed of development of the site this would take some time to accomplish."

I heard lots of Packard built Merlins at the 2007 Gathering of Mustangs and Legends at Rickenbacker AFB outside of Columbus Ohio. The overflight of a couple of dozen Mustangs in a "51" formation was particularly nice. More recently, I recorded the overflight of 19 B-25s at the 70th reunion of the Doolitlle Tokyo Raiders at Wright-Patterson AFB. Turn up your speakers and enjoy the "noise." That many bombers in the air is just something you don't see or hear anymore.

Cheers,

Dave

If you're interested, there is a good lecture by Alan Bond here which addresses almost everything:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G-HPHNrrLQ?t=4m30s

There is a lot of very informed and interesting discussion on the nasa spaceflight forums thread:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=24621.600

There are many other sources of information but at least one collection is here:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Reaction-Engines-Skylon-Spaceplane-Fans/105055779583747

* Google says: “We are unable to issue rewards to individuals who are on sanctions lists, or who are in countries (e.g. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) on sanctions lists.”

* Facebook says: “You must... Reside in a country not under any current U.S. Sanctions (e.g., North Korea, Libya, Cuba, etc.)”

But researchers in those countries needn't worry; the government over there has their own reward program for discovering security bugs.

Mozilla, Google, and Facebook all offer bounties to researchers outside the US.

* Mozilla has awarded bounties to researchers in several European countries.

* Google says: “We are unable to issue rewards to individuals who are on sanctions lists, or who are in countries (e.g. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) on sanctions lists.”

* Facebook says: “You must... Reside in a country not under any current U.S. Sanctions (e.g., North Korea, Libya, Cuba, etc.)”

Which bounty programs are restricted to the US?

So far I have been able to use a combo of open source and commercial products to create a distributed workflow, but tying it all together under single sign on is next to impossible especially to a wiki for organizing all the fiction. Anyone interested feel free to visit us, we seriously need some more creative people working on the site and projects.

Check out the project I've been working on for some time: www.HEX.xxx

Taking place in an alternate universe known as Obscure Delusion, several videos are now coming to light.

* Maniac Loveseat is a short episodic format show in the Obscure Delusion universe. Featuring HEX and Jacky Paper, it is an unscripted improvised brainstorming session. Things that may be used for building parts of the canon universe and considered madness are wrenched from our viscera on the Maniac Loveseat.

* The Unknown Truth is a science documentary show in the Obscure Delusion universe. Now in it’s land mark 37th season, welcome to **The Unknown Truth** Episode 2012-03-16 with your host, Doctor Watt.

Obscure Delusion Fictional Universe Original Material with references to public domain H.P. Lovecraft characters and works.

Our Distribution Channels:
* Our Main Site www.HEX.xxx
* Facebook Page & Twitter Updates
* YouTube Channel (Original Content Verified!)
* DailyMotion (Original Content MotionMaker!)
* Funny or Die Channel (Funny Videos!)
* Phone 1-800-HEX-SETX - Located Downriver in Trenton, MI.

The financial system in the U.S. is corrupt, in my opinion. There are many arrangements that help those in control steal from the average person.

Sooner or later, people will realize that Facebook promotes fake relationships. Unfortunately, that realization will apparently come after investors have lost billions in Facebook's IPO.

Facebook's reputation with the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles in the mainstream media like these:

Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the competition to be voted the worst company in the United States.

Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:

"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."

There's more like that in the article.

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.

On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.

Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?

A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.

How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.

What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.

The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.

Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.

This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:

"Aston ... was charged ... based solely on a Facebook

Wondering why no one in the USA government is getting up in Indias face the way they did with last week with North Korea?? - http://www.facebook.com/LivePoliticalChat/posts/125747644224881 The hypocrisy in the USA would be funny if it wasnt so serious.

I recommend he learn some well established api. He should get straight into it. Something graphical with very intense visual feedback. He should start by just getting the demos to work. They are *really* simple to get setup, and give great insight in to the capabilities of the frameworks. Then as he progresses he will learn other things he can accomplish and add to them. http://code.google.com/more/ http://developers.facebook.com/ http://qt-project.org/ https://developer.apple.com/library/ios

As a base. he would need javascript (w3schools), or python (Python: Essential Rererence), or C (Programming in C), or C++ (Programming: Principles and Practises Using C++). He does not need to read these books. He just needs to reference them. All the information in them is available online, but having a physical reference is always great to have within reaching distance.

When I was a kid, I would only read a book if I knew it contained the solution to a problem. I would read the book cover to cover if I had to, but in general, I was always more interested in building rather than reading.

My only intent was to play video games, and I would do anything to get them to work. I would save every penny just to by another mb of ram. I was constantly changing the motherboards and processors as well. When I was 11, I was writing batch scripts. At that time, I was using 80386 architecture and DOS. I moved to windows to play games like ski-free, and to play around with winsock and tcp. I got into irc for videos and music, which also introduced me the concept of a newsgroup. At this point everything changed. Any problem I had could be solved with ease. Generally, somebody else would always have faced the same problem I had, and they had solutions!

I got into web development pretty early, but I got bored with it quickly, since at that time, the specification was pretty limited, and I was always more interested in playing video games and sports instead. I'm 29 now, and I have a bachelors in computer science, and a masters in engineering. I do numerical programming with C++ and OpenCL.

I only got into hardcore programming in university, but my general experience with computing placed me highly with my peers. My university was arguably the best in the country for that particular undergraduate program. Lots of my friends had fathers who were programmers, and taught them a lot at a young age, but none of them progressed faster than I did. I easily caught up to them.

My point is that you do not need to push him into programming, He may loose interest very quickly. My interest in things has always been very volatile, since there are so many other things to be interested in as well (sports, music, novels, etc). If his passion is genuine, he can catch up easily. The one corollary is that each generation is exponentially more intelligent than the previous generation. My generation was the first to have access to an over abundance of information. Before, there was a deficit of information and a surplus of attention, but now there is a surplus of information, and a deficit of attention. Access to such an infinite pool of information has made me much more ingenuous than my father's generation. Our kids will most likely be exponentially smarter than we are. Of course, previous generations more easily focused on one particular field, which had its merits, as they made incredible discoveries. The argument that there are less things to discover now is bulls$%*. We still understand very little in the scope of things. He does need to become the next teenage billionaire. His passion(s) just need to be nurtured properly. LET HIM PLAY! He has to work for the rest of his life.

Perhaps you can explain it to these crowds that he doesn't have much real support: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150666962588207&set=a.128332363206.108799.79085878206&type=1&theater

I've created mine. Any future employers are NOT going to be happy with good old Toaderix Vandalrix.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003681319432

Well, if they demand my account information, they deserve what they get. [ptui, may they rot in hell]

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.

* (According to an earlier comment, that is not true, the administration asked only to view her pages.)

Is FB going to ban the supervisor (if s/he has an account on FB) for breach of the terms of service? That could be an effective deterrent.

Being banned from Facebook is an honor. If they want an effective deterrent then what they want to do is have the woman find out if the school took passwords from any other employees, then verify that these were used. At that point you have an unauthorized computer access for which there are serious laws with serious jail time. Throw the book at whichever members of the school conspired to make those illegal computer accesses.

If you or I accessed a girlfriend's account you would get into serious trouble. If Facebook doesn't make sure the same happens here, they are failing in their duty to use all reasonable means available to protect the integrity of their user's accounts.

N.B. Under section 4 point 8 of Facebook's terms of service, other members of staff are not allowed to hand over their passwords, so the access remains unauthorized even if they agreed to it.

4 Registration and Account Security

Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:

• [.. intermediate points elided..]
• 8. 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.

How it works explains why there is no increased security risk. At each step it is obvious what website you are on. Gawker opens a window and the URL bar in the new window starts with https://www.facebook.com/, meaning it is a facebook page, and you type in your un/pw if and only if you are not already logged-in to Facebook.

So the security risk is exactly the same as everywhere else on the Internet. Nothing has changed, except that now there's one less bad password for you to forget.

The Facebook Terms of Service state that "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."

No, the summary is not FUD. The way those services work is that they use a Facebook app. Although they do not have access to your account, per se, the app is running as an authorized app in your account, which means that it can do anything that any other Facebook app can do.

Even the base level of permissions is more than I would trust an arbitrary third-party site to have. If I'm posting on an Internet message board, I don't normally want to post with my full name and photo, and I sure as hell don't want that website to have a list of all my friends, even if it is just their IDs.

I am very selective about what Facebook apps I am willing to authorize. I sure as hell will never authorize an app just to be able to post in some online forum. In effect, this means that by making this decision, they will never get comments by anyone who knows enough about computers to know how Facebook's API works. Basically, they'll be cutting the median tech knowledge level on their message boards in half.

I use this a lot. - https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=167722253287296

Already there.

The assumptions in the summary are wrong in general, you must live here before coming up with solutions to problems you don't understand except by watching documentaries .. some photos from rwanda and ghana to give you an idea what it is like

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150555032114134.428576.665564133&type=3&l=45fe9c1d8d

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150615484079134.438141.665564133&type=1&l=a6ab9d3a8e

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150490910759134.419413.665564133&type=3&l=7809a12c56

The assumptions in the summary are wrong in general, you must live here before coming up with solutions to problems you don't understand except by watching documentaries .. some photos from rwanda and ghana to give you an idea what it is like

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150555032114134.428576.665564133&type=3&l=45fe9c1d8d

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150615484079134.438141.665564133&type=1&l=a6ab9d3a8e

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150490910759134.419413.665564133&type=3&l=7809a12c56

The assumptions in the summary are wrong in general, you must live here before coming up with solutions to problems you don't understand except by watching documentaries .. some photos from rwanda and ghana to give you an idea what it is like

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150555032114134.428576.665564133&type=3&l=45fe9c1d8d

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150615484079134.438141.665564133&type=1&l=a6ab9d3a8e

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150490910759134.419413.665564133&type=3&l=7809a12c56

Especially, nobody puts Mohammed-Rex in a corner: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mohammed-Rex/279099352158512

If a book is not available without DRM, I do not purchase it.

This is exactly the reason I released my book without DRM. Also set the price at $2.99 because that seemed to be the most popular price point. Still isn't helping sales any, but I figure that's because few people know about it. I guess I could point people to it from slashdot: Cerberon on facebook click about for complete list of eBook availability.

Goodbye semi-anonymity for Ira Sponsible.

I'm sure Google has a similar thing going on like Facebook where companies can pay extra $$$ to get unfettered access to the data as part of "we may share your data with interested third parties".

No they absolutely do not: "We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of Google" (Ref: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/). There is no "we may share your data with third-parties" clause in the Google privacy policy, unlike almost every other company out there. Read the links carefully and you will see that Google has one of the best privacy policies (at least in terms on sharing information with third parties). Also note that some of these companies have way more personal and sensitive information about you that Google.

Disclaimers:
      * I work at Google
      * These are entirely my own views and opinions and do not represent Google's in any way.

*cough*

np: Wiley - Money Man (Evolve Or Be Extinct (Disc 1))

Understanding that not everyone will be excited by this, I am happy to announce that CUSA CEO Barry Altman just lowered prices and issued refunds... "FORT LAUDERDALE, FL. March 22, 2012 – Commodore USA, LLC announced today the revision of the introductory price of it’s latest offering, the AMIGA mini, as well as the addition of configuration options, allowing for the selection of both CPU and memory.

Due to an overwhelming outpouring of customer comments, along with those posted on the major tech blogs, the company has listened to the thousands of requests for both lower prices and more choices, and responded today with prices and options that most respondents indicated was in line with other current offerings..." The new prices for the Commodore Amiga mini are here -> http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_AMIGAmini.aspx

The full price release is available on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommodoreUSA

I'm wondering whether my old nokia dumb phone will last longer than Nokia the company ;).

I'd bet on that for sure.

My 5310 Music phone is going great and I often carry it in preference to the bulkier Android because it is a tiny fraction of the size, has great call quality and great speakers. Really amazing for a gadget that size. Plus it's built like a tank in spite of being small and light.

Admirable that you did some research, but if you were a little more astute you might have noticed that the article cites the source as a Facebook photo - which happens to be public, if you search for her name on Facebook.

(And if that's not large enough, you can download the higher-resolution original, from the option in the gear menu.)

with all those sensational messages is that the individuals making the decisions are unknown. It's an organization of some kind with some capital letters as abbreviated name.

Who are those persons?
Spokesperson - Jerome Van Win - http://www.facebook.com/jvanwin ??

SABAM headquarters is located at 75-77 rue d'Arlon in Brussels

Christophe DEPRETER has been the Managing Director of SABAM since 1 July 2009.
http://www.sabam.be/en/sabam/management
http://www.raaskalderij.be/2012/03/sabam-noemt-uitbreiding-activiteit-logische-stap/

Carine Libert, Department of Legal Affairs and International Affairs http://www.facebook.com/people/Carine-Libert/100002967307348

Luc Van Oycke, Director of Administration and Finance http://kopimiuk.wordpress.com/tag/luc-van-oycke/

Willy Heyns, Director of ICT http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Heyns/100000541173703

Jac Cuypers, COO http://www.facebook.com/jac.cuypers

Serge Vloeberghs, Director of Sales http://www.facebook.com/people/Serge-Vloeberghs/1171478165

Sandrine Evenepoel, Director of Human Resources http://www.facebook.com/sandrine.evenepoel

E-mail : contact@sabam.be - yaaawn!

Shame them!

with all those sensational messages is that the individuals making the decisions are unknown. It's an organization of some kind with some capital letters as abbreviated name.

Who are those persons?
Spokesperson - Jerome Van Win - http://www.facebook.com/jvanwin ??

SABAM headquarters is located at 75-77 rue d'Arlon in Brussels

Christophe DEPRETER has been the Managing Director of SABAM since 1 July 2009.
http://www.sabam.be/en/sabam/management
http://www.raaskalderij.be/2012/03/sabam-noemt-uitbreiding-activiteit-logische-stap/

Carine Libert, Department of Legal Affairs and International Affairs http://www.facebook.com/people/Carine-Libert/100002967307348

Luc Van Oycke, Director of Administration and Finance http://kopimiuk.wordpress.com/tag/luc-van-oycke/

Willy Heyns, Director of ICT http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Heyns/100000541173703

Jac Cuypers, COO http://www.facebook.com/jac.cuypers

Serge Vloeberghs, Director of Sales http://www.facebook.com/people/Serge-Vloeberghs/1171478165

Sandrine Evenepoel, Director of Human Resources http://www.facebook.com/sandrine.evenepoel

E-mail : contact@sabam.be - yaaawn!

Shame them!

with all those sensational messages is that the individuals making the decisions are unknown. It's an organization of some kind with some capital letters as abbreviated name.

Who are those persons?
Spokesperson - Jerome Van Win - http://www.facebook.com/jvanwin ??

SABAM headquarters is located at 75-77 rue d'Arlon in Brussels

Christophe DEPRETER has been the Managing Director of SABAM since 1 July 2009.
http://www.sabam.be/en/sabam/management
http://www.raaskalderij.be/2012/03/sabam-noemt-uitbreiding-activiteit-logische-stap/

Carine Libert, Department of Legal Affairs and International Affairs http://www.facebook.com/people/Carine-Libert/100002967307348

Luc Van Oycke, Director of Administration and Finance http://kopimiuk.wordpress.com/tag/luc-van-oycke/

Willy Heyns, Director of ICT http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Heyns/100000541173703

Jac Cuypers, COO http://www.facebook.com/jac.cuypers

Serge Vloeberghs, Director of Sales http://www.facebook.com/people/Serge-Vloeberghs/1171478165

Sandrine Evenepoel, Director of Human Resources http://www.facebook.com/sandrine.evenepoel

E-mail : contact@sabam.be - yaaawn!

Shame them!

with all those sensational messages is that the individuals making the decisions are unknown. It's an organization of some kind with some capital letters as abbreviated name.

Who are those persons?
Spokesperson - Jerome Van Win - http://www.facebook.com/jvanwin ??

SABAM headquarters is located at 75-77 rue d'Arlon in Brussels

Christophe DEPRETER has been the Managing Director of SABAM since 1 July 2009.
http://www.sabam.be/en/sabam/management
http://www.raaskalderij.be/2012/03/sabam-noemt-uitbreiding-activiteit-logische-stap/

Carine Libert, Department of Legal Affairs and International Affairs http://www.facebook.com/people/Carine-Libert/100002967307348

Luc Van Oycke, Director of Administration and Finance http://kopimiuk.wordpress.com/tag/luc-van-oycke/

Willy Heyns, Director of ICT http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Heyns/100000541173703

Jac Cuypers, COO http://www.facebook.com/jac.cuypers

Serge Vloeberghs, Director of Sales http://www.facebook.com/people/Serge-Vloeberghs/1171478165

Sandrine Evenepoel, Director of Human Resources http://www.facebook.com/sandrine.evenepoel

E-mail : contact@sabam.be - yaaawn!

Shame them!

with all those sensational messages is that the individuals making the decisions are unknown. It's an organization of some kind with some capital letters as abbreviated name.

Who are those persons?
Spokesperson - Jerome Van Win - http://www.facebook.com/jvanwin ??

SABAM headquarters is located at 75-77 rue d'Arlon in Brussels

Christophe DEPRETER has been the Managing Director of SABAM since 1 July 2009.
http://www.sabam.be/en/sabam/management
http://www.raaskalderij.be/2012/03/sabam-noemt-uitbreiding-activiteit-logische-stap/

Carine Libert, Department of Legal Affairs and International Affairs http://www.facebook.com/people/Carine-Libert/100002967307348

Luc Van Oycke, Director of Administration and Finance http://kopimiuk.wordpress.com/tag/luc-van-oycke/

Willy Heyns, Director of ICT http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Heyns/100000541173703

Jac Cuypers, COO http://www.facebook.com/jac.cuypers

Serge Vloeberghs, Director of Sales http://www.facebook.com/people/Serge-Vloeberghs/1171478165

Sandrine Evenepoel, Director of Human Resources http://www.facebook.com/sandrine.evenepoel

E-mail : contact@sabam.be - yaaawn!

Shame them!

with all those sensational messages is that the individuals making the decisions are unknown. It's an organization of some kind with some capital letters as abbreviated name.

Who are those persons?
Spokesperson - Jerome Van Win - http://www.facebook.com/jvanwin ??

SABAM headquarters is located at 75-77 rue d'Arlon in Brussels

Christophe DEPRETER has been the Managing Director of SABAM since 1 July 2009.
http://www.sabam.be/en/sabam/management
http://www.raaskalderij.be/2012/03/sabam-noemt-uitbreiding-activiteit-logische-stap/

Carine Libert, Department of Legal Affairs and International Affairs http://www.facebook.com/people/Carine-Libert/100002967307348

Luc Van Oycke, Director of Administration and Finance http://kopimiuk.wordpress.com/tag/luc-van-oycke/

Willy Heyns, Director of ICT http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Heyns/100000541173703

Jac Cuypers, COO http://www.facebook.com/jac.cuypers

Serge Vloeberghs, Director of Sales http://www.facebook.com/people/Serge-Vloeberghs/1171478165

Sandrine Evenepoel, Director of Human Resources http://www.facebook.com/sandrine.evenepoel

E-mail : contact@sabam.be - yaaawn!

Shame them!

Here:
http://www.facebook.com/SaveTheHobbitSouthampton?ref=ts

Sure, you decided that it wasn't worth the cost which is fine, but don't act as if there's no benefit whatsoever.

Look, if you fatally shoot yourself in the face there's almost always a benefit to the flower shop, but that doesn't make the overall experience even close to "a good thing." There's a difference between "no benefit whatsoever" and "overall not of benefit" that is not resolved by small compensations, especially when those compensations could be had in other ways.

Facebook is there to mine your presence and your postings and your contact's postings for profitable information which it then sells to corporations and gives away to the government, all without any reasonable oversight on the part of the Facebook member.

But wait, there's more: They encourage third party targeting of your personal life by linking other people's images and postings to you without your consent, they store your stuff after you thought you deleted it and they make it available to others, they actually sell their database of stuff (including yours) to corporations (just like Twitter, I should point out)...

On top of all that, they have extremely odious terms of service, terms that toss the idea of rehabilitation aside and promote the existence of an unrecoverable, unredeemable, unemployable, untouchable low class. Pee on a bush, or streak, or do any one of a number of not particularly troublesome things and end up on that magical, won't-save-the-children sexual offenders list? Not only can you not live near a playground, get a decent job, or ever vote again... even Facebook deems you unworthy. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad and misguided. Not to mention based on entirely wrongheaded ideas.

Facebook is not a good thing. Popular? Sure. That's because people just aren't very well informed (a good number of them don't even have the mental capacity to understand the issues), and because even people who could understand if they were clear on what is going on are just very poorly educated and not well versed in critical thinking.

And then there's these last couple of generations amazing propensity to share until conventional social boundaries are inverted... I'm talking about the kind of behaviors that lead to a clutch of teenagers walking down the street or sitting at a table in a restaurant, all with their cellphones pressed to their ears or fingering out a text, all the while ignoring the people right at their elbows. That is truly bizarre behavior. Facebook encourages it, and that's clearly a bad thing.

Me, I have no Facebook account; I turn off my phone when I have a guest, or am a guest; I don't talk or "share" when listening to music or perusing a film; and I don't respond to being told something by immediately turning around and spewing out some similar experience (that's just part of being a good listener, but I have noticed that particular misbehavior is very prevalent in the younger generations right now... it may be related to the whole social media thing. When someone tells you about X, the good listener listens, enquiring about that incident of X, rather than trying to riposte with their own experience of X-prime.)

Popularity does not equal goodness. Slavery was popular. The Nazis were popular. The drug war was popular (not so much these days, but look at the harm that's been done in its name already... lots more to come before society kills prohibition V2, I'm afraid.) Religion is popular. And hey... Facebook is popular, too.

Why is no one raising the issue that demanding users hand over passwords violate Facebook's Terms of Service?:
4. Registration & Account Security
8. 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.
9. You will not transfer your account (including any page or application you administer) to anyone without first getting our written permission.

Unfortunately, with the job market so tight, I'm sure applicants would be reluctant to push back on interviewers who either ask for passwords or ask for the applicant to login to one of these sites. However, I would be suspect of any employer that demands I violate terms of service as a condition of employment. Indeed, I would be suspect of any prospective employee who so readily violates such agreements.