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i found a few pictures of the flooded WD factory here:
(flip forward in the photo album)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150371103772908

Exactly. Drug war is insane and it causes insane violence, that can be compared to that of terrorism for sure. Even though it's impossible to pretend that the drug war has nothing to do with violence it causes and with all of the non-violent drug related prisoners that shouldn't even be arrested, the federal government does not care.

So the question then follows: why are they petitioning the White House to do those things? Isn't it clear that the current administration and all administrations before it going nearly 100 years back don't have anything to do with the American people in general, but are there to satisfy special interests, whatever those are?

The only correct solution is to get rid of this government and to restore actual values that USA was based upon and it was thriving upon, and realize that most of those things that are petitioned are a platform for one consistent candidate, the only candidate in the race who has shown to be principled and consistent and correct about the problems years before the problems became obvious to everybody else.

So all those people petitioning the White House should join the real revolution.

Stop violation of individual liberties and freedoms.
Stop the wars.
Stop the drug war.
Stop the war on US (and world) economy with all the counterfeiting and theft.
Stop the special privileges.
Pardon the non-violent drug related prisoners.
Bring all troops home.
Stop wasteful government spending and shut down unconstitutional unauthorized unelected offices.
Balance the budget.
Stop counterfeiting the money and causing inflation and price hikes.
Stop destroying business with all the regulations and allow investment capital to return.

This is not a difficult message, it cannot be an unpopular message it is proving to be a popular one.

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(the formatting is better this way and the message is better to be posted with an account, even when the original account gets shut down for the day as biased moderation unleashes itself upon the messenger).

Exactly. Drug war is insane and it causes insane violence, that can be compared to that of terrorism for sure. Even though it's impossible to pretend that the drug war has nothing to do with violence it causes and with all of the non-violent drug related prisoners that shouldn't even be arrested, the federal government does not care. So the question then follows: why are they petitioning the White House to do those things? Isn't it clear that the current administration and all administrations before it going nearly 100 years back don't have anything to do with the American people in general, but are there to satisfy special interests, whatever those are? The only correct solution is to get rid of this government and to restore actual values that USA was based upon and it was thriving upon, and realize that most of those things that are petitioned are a platform for one consistent candidate, the only candidate in the race who has shown to be principled and consistent and correct about the problems years before the problems became obvious to everybody else. So all those people petitioning the White House should join the real revolution. Stop violation of individual liberties and freedoms. Stop the wars. Stop the drug war. Stop the war on US (and world) economy with all the counterfeiting and theft. Stop the special privileges. Pardon the non-violent drug related prisoners. Bring all troops home. Stop wasteful government spending and shut down unconstitutional unauthorized unelected offices. Balance the budget. Stop counterfeiting the money and causing inflation and price hikes. Stop destroying business with all the regulations and allow investment capital to return. This is not a difficult message, it cannot be an unpopular message it is proving to be a popular one.

I am sorry, but your sensibilities would be better served not with an outrage over a /. comment but instead at a ballot box, where you should register and vote for somebody who clearly understand this issue and is vocal against it.

I left out Ron Paul and Gary Johnson on principle that they are the only people that will address the underlying fundamental issues, everybody else in that race is a zombie for the undead party (both, one and the same).

Ron Paul would bring US troops home, the National Guard as well and would cut militarist costs by hundreds of billions and would cut 1 Trillion in spending in the first year with the goal of balancing the budget in 3 years and with the goal of getting rid of the Fed and restoring liberty.

There is nothing better that anybody else either proposes or would do (well, I think Gary Johnson has good ideas too, but he won't get nominated, they don't acknowledge him at all.)

You THINK Ron Paul has no chance of winning, but we'll see. AFAIC you are wrong, and we'll see how the next steps goes - the Register as a Republic Bomb to make sure that Ron Paul is nominated. The biggest hurdle in front of Ron Paul is not Borat Chubaka, because Borat is a plant by the military industrial complex and by big pharma and by the banking and insurance industries.

It seems another youtube user who had downloaded a copy reposted it, and the original author added it to his playlist. See: http://www.facebook.com/badlipreading/posts/296640680348638

Are you kidding me.... Hackathon??? and look at the age of the people it's like a kindergarten... http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=23155051776 Facebook just keep you puzzles you won't have my brain ever I'm not a whore....

I'd start by writing a dictionary table of lying words...

Well, one way you could have been nicer about it was to clickie the linkie before spouting off this nonsense:

http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php?puzzle_id=20

Most places would prefer you stay inside the box and start by reading the requirements. ;)

It's a math problem, not an attempt at AI.

Actually, unless I'm missing (or misunderstanding) something, this is actually a quite simple problem. Maybe the difficulty is in making it efficient?

I'd start by writing a dictionary table of lying words...

Well, one way you could have been nicer about it was to clickie the linkie before spouting off this nonsense:

http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php?puzzle_id=20

Most places would prefer you stay inside the box and start by reading the requirements. ;)

It's a math problem, not an attempt at AI.

I can't find the exact image -- it's a Facebook photo of a friend-of-a-friend (possibly visible here) -- so this Tumblr image will have to suffice. Lately I saw a college professor complaining about how badly in debt his students are and how their lives will start with crippling burdens. Yet for all that, I heard no consideration for the part they played in this drama. Did they offer to take a pay cut? Find a more economical way to teach? The college-for-all movement has heightened costs (expanded the number of instructors required, added facilities and administrative staff) while not materially changing the overall worth of a degree.

Supposedly, the main reason for getting a college degree is the bump in lifetime earnings, but not all degrees are created equal. Engineering, math, and the hard sciences dramatically pull up the averages for everyone, while the humanities languish. It was this way when I was in college back in the 80's, and it's only gotten worse since. If you're slaving away to get that PhD in medieval literature and racking up $150,000 in debt, you might want to revisit that life plan.

The Internet Archive has a variety of snapshots of her profile page... and sometime between 22 Oct 2007 and 08 Jan 2009, her date of birth changed from 16 Jul 1978 to 16 Jul 1971.

Her Facebook profile and website's contact page list her permanent residence in LA... but the voicemail number on her contact page has a Houston area code, 713.

Ahh, the infamous mod pic. Everyone knows that pic. The left patch on the flight suits (and our previous "Space Jammies" which are similar but dark blue, phased out about 12 years ago) are commonly "Morale Patches". She's on Charlie Crew, which chose to be called the Centurians, and that's the saying their crew chose. Our crew was Bravo Crew, and ours was "Striking Accuracy" since we chose to be "Bravo Crew Vipers". I'm logged into FB and a member so that link may not work for you or others. I can't remember the call signs for the others, but all crews on the schedule were referred to alphabetically from A through E or F (I forget). Alpha, Bravo, Charlie...etc. Since those are boring names around the early 90s we started going by the nicknames. Delta crew was Delta Dawgs at one point and later Delta Dingos.

The official squadron motto for the 2 SOPS is, "Pathways for Peace." (Obligatory Wiki link)

Facebook wouldn't allow such an application. To export the data, you'd need a Facebook application. To make a Facebook application, you have to agree to their Terms of Service (Facebook likes to call it a "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities").

3. Safety
We do our best to keep Facebook safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that, which includes the following commitments: ...

3.2. You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.

Believe me, it's been tried. Facebook is quick to respond and threaten a lawsuit if you continue.

200,000 + people in page, 120 k+ are currently talking about it. its bigger than most politicians' pages. Support is really global, and there are people from all walks of life. Albeit, of course, people who have their dinners in monaco.

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt

Good idea.

Better idea.

That is true for companies with which you have a contract that involves sending them personal information.

No, it's true for all companies that hold personal information. See the ICO for more details (for the UK).

They are not from a EU country

http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

The website under www.facebook.com and the services on these pages are being offered to you by:

  Facebook Ireland Limited
  Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2 Ireland

Amazon can use a platform-based service because Amazon sells things for money. Allowing programs to find out about things Amazon has for sale is profitable, t Amazon's marketing info gets redistributed. Amazon's "cloud" is a pay service, and making pay services available makes money. So Amazon's platform is a win for Amazon.

Google, on the other hand, is entirely ad-based. (Yes, they get about 3%-7% of their revenue from actual products they sell. So what?) So they don't want their data repurposed, especially if repurposing deletes the ads.

Facebook is quite platform-oriented internally, with internal services making heavy use of interprocess communication. But little of that is exposed to the outside world. What is exposed is heavily restricted. Facebook games have to accept payment only in Facebook's private money, with a 30% take.

Google used to be more platform oriented. There was a Google SOAP search interface and a Google Web Search API. Both have been discontinued. They didn't push ads.

Google's priority is to return search results in under 100ms. That requires tight integration. It's all about cache management, not platform APIs. Some data has to be pushed to clients, rather than pulled through APIs, or performance will suffer badly.

Given Google's business model, they don't seem to be doing their infrastructure wrong.

Here's his fan page if you want to throw a thumbs up his way.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1717931900812

I know Renee personally. In fact, I submitted this story to Slashdot in late September, but it didn't get posted.

There are other factors involved. Renee is aware of the problems with an evacuation this time of year, but was more concerned about being prevented from getting a second medical opinion and being denied a medical attendant on the evacuation flight. She sought publicity upon the advice of her lawyer, who felt this was the only way to pressure the company to do the right thing - and the publicity campaign has worked. Renee is now getting a second medical opinion and will be getting a medical attendant on her evacuation flight.

Polar aviation technology has advanced considerably since 1999, and a Twin Otter can safely land at considerably lower temperatures than an LC-130. You may note that Renee did not ask for an evacuation in August or most of September - merely that a plane be put on standby for an evacuation as soon as possible in October. She didn't earn her Engineering degree or get to be Winter Site Manager by being stupid. There was also concern that the denial of her reasonable request for a second medical opinion, etc., might be retaliation related to some issues with anonymous whistleblowers which she handled.

It should also be noted that some types of stroke can get progressively worse, and that she is currently at a high altitude with low oxygen which might exacerbate the damage. I understand the skepticism, but like I say - she is not stupid.

More information here, though note that this page was established by family members, not Renee herself:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Evacuate-Renee-Nicole-Douceur-from-Antarctica-Immediately/139354572829055

as it turns out, when people find out you are evil, they dont like it and then you end up eating crow because you fear them.

Photography Policy Change

We have listened to the very public debate surrounding our photography policy and as a result, with immediate effect, are changing the policy to allow family and friends to take photos in the mall.

We will publicise this more clearly in the mall and on our website, and will reserve the right to challenge suspicious behaviour for the safety and enjoyment of our shoppers.

We wish to apologise to Mr White for the distress we may have caused to him and his family and we will be in direct contact with him to apologise properly.

no need to appologize for getting caught being evil, just go bankrupt instead.

Interesting that you say that! It seems there was a fair sized protest on Facebook (and presumably email). From that page:

Further to the previous statement Capital Shopping Centres Group PLC have confirmed that they will be changing the photography policy at the 11 directly owned centres and that at the other 3 centres, which owned in partnership with other companies, they will be discussing with their partners the policy change and recommending that it be adopted.

As you will have seen Capital Shopping Centres Group PLC have issued a formal apology and said that they have changed their policy on photographs and will allow family and friends to take photographs. I do intend to keep the dialogue going with Capital Shopping Centres Group PLC and clarify that this aplies across all of 14 of their shopping centres including The Trafford Centre and Lakeside.

I don't know how many people participated, but it seems to have been enough.

I agree with you, and suggest that you head on over to the (ugh, Facebook) protest campaign and if you have a FB account, add your vote/click/support etc.

My mother is on it but hasn't used it in ages, and would delete the account if it were possible.

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

Simple.

As faked images on Wikileaks facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/wikileaks

They don't -- but why ask me? All I said was Google+ provides a different structure -- I didn't say FB didn't require real names, etc. -- they do. Section 4, FB TOS, as per my comment below in these threads.

BTW, that's a cite from:

http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

Facebook is also starting to get better games too. It isn't just like the stupid FarmVille stuff anymore, for example the recently launched The Sims Social and Civilization World are great games on their own. The best part of course being that they're solely designed to be played with other people. CivWorld is at least fresh in a way and allows up to ~200 players in the same game. All the civilizations are made of many players and the interaction within your civ is fun. It's in beta now, so they just need to iron out the interface issues. Sim Social seems to work good, and you can run it in full screen too.

The game companies are just now starting to understand how to make great social networking games, and of course all of them will be on Facebook as that is used by 99% of people and you can actually publish your game there (you can't on Google+ yet if you don't have deal with Google, which many don't).

Facebook is also starting to get better games too. It isn't just like the stupid FarmVille stuff anymore, for example the recently launched The Sims Social and Civilization World are great games on their own. The best part of course being that they're solely designed to be played with other people. CivWorld is at least fresh in a way and allows up to ~200 players in the same game. All the civilizations are made of many players and the interaction within your civ is fun. It's in beta now, so they just need to iron out the interface issues. Sim Social seems to work good, and you can run it in full screen too.

The game companies are just now starting to understand how to make great social networking games, and of course all of them will be on Facebook as that is used by 99% of people and you can actually publish your game there (you can't on Google+ yet if you don't have deal with Google, which many don't).

Well I hope TFA explains it better than TFS.

This happened because the destination page was able to identify Facebook's original request and served a JPEG file.

Lets see, click a thumbnail, got to the third party server, which does whatever the hell it wants to with your request. Welcome to the intertubes.

I also fail to see why this is a problem.

You can set the thumbnail with the "link rel='image_src'" tags!
Along with the title and description...

No need for any server side code; its all documented on OpenGraph.

They seem to be censoring it, but why not keep them busy:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Astrolabe-Astrology-Software-and-Services/52527078715

Your mean the URL http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline ? How is that generic timeline stolen from timelines.com, what you're claiming is that Facebook stole their URL. Maybe at one point someone did get overzealous and redirected any FB search for Timelines on Facebook to the FB Timeline page, but currently a search comes up with multiple hits for Timelines (including another firm that does web based historical timelines). This company is listed second after the page for a band named Timelines. the FB service is at the bottom of the list. Further the Timelines link has the Timelines (tm) logo beside it, thus reaffirming the identity. FB never infringed on Timeline's own URL, but may briefly have infringed on the FB link within FB to the Timelines FB page (which while still a URL, is actually property of FB.)

Second the case is still very weak as FB does not list historical events. A timeline is a timeline based on information you've entered on your FB page going back to your birth. Unless you comment about some event that becomes of historical note, the FB timelines will not be of significant historical content or value. The complaint claims that the FB service using the generic term Timeline will compete with their service which claims to have the goal of being historically accurate and of educational value as a source of information about historical events. So the claim of Trademark infringement is still very weak. It's your timeline on Facebook, not Timelines by Facebook. FB is not using the same or even a similar logo other than the commonly defined and widely used timeline word, which is being used in accordance with it's definition. This suit sounds like the start of a Trademark troll attack on anyone who wants to use a timeline on their website, with FB as their first target.

That's a lot of work. Didn't you know you can change your privacy settings so that tagged photos of you aren't searchable by other people? http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=267508226592992

In many areas of West Los Angeles, I simply will not park and do business in the city and be victimized by this predatory tax, and many I know feel this way. How can you possibly enjoy a meal or shopping when you are worried about a ticket? It's fool's gold, as it discourages commerce in your city. Beverly Hills, OTOH, gives two free hours parking and has large parking structures to encourage people to come and shop and eat.

Parts of Westwood have been called a "ghost town" due to its business-unfriendly climate. There's even a Facebook page dedicated to the parking oppressiveness in Westwood - which hits UCLA students the worst.

If you want less of something, tax it. And that includes parking in your city.

No we have this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and of course the very much abbreviated list wouldn't be complete without this

So, if I want to use this form to request the information they have about me, I have to give them a postal address, a phone number, and a copy of a state issued ID. I'm not sure I'm willing to give them even more information, just to know that they store about me...

There is another means: https://www.facebook.com/settings Click "Download a copy of your Facebook data." and follow the instructions.

Except that that only gives you the information that's currently accessible to you and other facebook users. It does not include the photos and posts you've "deleted" (but which facebook still stores). It certainly does not include the history of sites you've visited while logged into facebook, or any other tracking history which facebook has gathered and associated with your name. Think about it: facebook has at least an order of magnitude more information on you personally than you appear to think. All of it is used for customizing sales of your identity and your interests and so forth to facebook's customers (you're the merchandise, not a customer).

There is another means: https://www.facebook.com/settings Click "Download a copy of your Facebook data." and follow the instructions.

Yes yes, quite creepy indeed, nobody wants their websites posted, EXCEPT ITS PARTNER SITES

http://www.facebook.com/help?page=1068

and I guess we only kind of know what they are after http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=104057282970409&topic=26

So that porn site shouldn't show up on your timeline according to this.

In depth, and by the Pacifica Radio Network.

http://rt.com/usa/news/occupy-wall-street-spreads-505/

http://www.pacifica.org/

http://www.kpfa.org/

And also I found, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Censored/151690209993

I really don't see that this is any real revelation, It's NOT a free country (unless you're very, very rich) and it's NOT "By the people for the people", it's by the money for the money!

You are welcome to go here .

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=131827713544941

I don't understand how a Facebook app is supposed to help us communicate to our friends without Facebook.

Bullshit.

By the way, head on over to http://developers.facebook.com/ and see for yourself.

But of course you knew you were full of shit.

Tom from MySpace has a Facebook account.

http://www.facebook.com/myspacetom

Maybe you could have both at the same time.

Facebook posts are copyrighted by the poster, the same as any newspaper article or photograph is, and if they use those copyrighted works in their reports, they are infringing - and good luck trying to make a fair use exemption fly if sued over it.

Uhm, no.

From FB TOS http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf

2 Sharing Your Content and Information

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:

1. 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.

2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).

3. When you use an application, your content and information is shared with the application. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and information. (To learn more about Platform, read our Privacy Policy and Platform Page.)

4. When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).

...

It's not just the Onion: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Real-Women-Against-PETA/126680116695?sk=info

Granted, depending on how seriously you take FaceBook groups the Onion piece could be the more credible.

Facebook recently implemented something to address that, I believe you can untag yourself now from a friend's photos. Doesn't stop the friend from posting the crap, but it stops the troll from finding it :)

http://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=467145887130

Once I was all about zip ties. Then I saw that cable lacing article on wikipedia that zippthorne posted about earlier and went bananas, lacing everything with marine whipping twine. But any time anything in your setup changes (namely, 12-72 hours after you're done with your cable management project) you have to start over.

So I'm all about velcro. monoprice has velcro ties for ultra-cheap.

My home theater: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150195660470606&l=49d60950a5

You can find a lot of good ruggedized setups here http://www.facebook.com/groups/133909986649315/

Lots of great how-tos for doing it "right"!