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"Today, the FBAR service is developed and maintained by two full time engineers, but according to the most recent metrics, it’s doing the work of approximately 200 full time system administrators".

IT LAUNCHED TWO FUCKING MONTHS AGO. You know what my facebook wall looked like two months after launch? Nothing, because I hadn't signed up for it yet. Also, the facebook wall didn't go up until 7 months after launch. 10 months it had 1 million users. Two months out, google+ has 10 million users.

Anyway, I see facebook making changes in response to the competition. Not fixing all gripes with it of course, but changes are being made to the... er... "game" as it were.

(By the way, let's not start using the term "gamechange." Sounds too much like some douchebag marketing suit talking.)

You seem to be a Show-Me-The-Evidence-Blinded-By-Science people. Those are the people that believe anything that ~science~ can demonstrate. Can you disprove Santa? No.

It's gotten so bad that the entire Chiropractic community is under attack from within. They are wanting to turn us into yet more generic "medical types" who can't talk about subluxation or recommend drug-free remedies for various maladies.

Back to the subject at hand. If my "science" is bad, why do so many Chiropractors see patients who work in and around nuclear power plants? Radiation = Ill Health.

That's why I went with the 120mm Noctua fans for my media center. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2041483608086.109253.1574203932&l=b86a32bbdd&type=1. They are very, very quiet.

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It's only because Germany very recently started pushing an anti-facebook stance.

No, the whole EU has, pretty much since the start, had a pro-privacy stance. More recently, attention has turned to website privacy matters -- e.g. cookies.

I work for the British government, and a few months ago had to confirm exactly what cookies were used on our websites. In my case, only session cookies to track "shopping basket" type things, which are fine, but the main website uses Google Analytics. It's likely that at some point in the next 12 months we'll have to remove Google Analytics. (Or, perhaps more likely, Google will change GA in the UK(/EU) to conform to the new regulations and keep their 'customers'). That seems reasonable to me -- someone looking at our website shouldn't have to have their details shared with Google.

Our website has "share" buttons, but they don't track the user. They just send them to Facebook with the URL of our page in the query string: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.example.org/

Germany is just slightly ahead of the UK here.

The leaked builds of Win8 have had all this for a while now. I think I used one of them in April or May. ISO mounting, I did use. But couldn't find the promised PDF reader. Here's something I wrote way back in April: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150178055628121 Plenty of blogs reported this then.

The leaked builds of Win8 have had all this for a while now. I think I used one of them in April or May. ISO mounting, I did use. But couldn't find the promised PDF reader. Here's something I wrote way back in April: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150178055628121 Plenty of blogs reported this then.

nothing more interesting than a few downed trees and some localized flooding

Your choice of media apparently isn't covering central Vermont and New Hampshire.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vermont-Flooding-2011/212455332141871?sk=photos

A bridge got taken out two towns over where the brook-like river rose over 30 feet. In a spring flood it might rise 5 feet.

Meteorologists might call it a hurricane or tropical storm based on an arbitrary delineation, but a Richter-like scale of effects would probably a better classification system.

Nope https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&ref=mb

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You create a fake Facebook profile and mistag-yourself everywhere. You have a police department staff scan photos and mistag you. With a little more effort, Facebook could become the best thing that ever happened for people setting up false identities. But Facebook has to let you mis-tag yourself. I started a Facebook Group "Data Camouflage Anonymous" for the purpose of mis-tagging and mis-identifying photos (to water down the facial recognition database) and within a day found my "tagging" ability turned off by Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/151915044879668/ Facebook should be no more reliable at facial data than they are at birthday records (which are a joke).

I feel the need to post this here. Minutes ago I received this email from Dr. Bob himself:

Sorry for writing you like this but I cannot post any more replies (thanks to all the voting down of my posts by the Big Pharmacy shills)

I'd like to let you know that I'm completely serious. If you'd like to follow me on FaceBook, I'm at:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002475387056

We offer advice for patients and others interested in their health.

Either this guy is real or he is the best troll in Internet history. Even if he is a troll, I think this performance deserves a serious reply, so I will send him this:

If this is true then why do you post on Slashdot? You do realize that site is caters to and is full of people who are...extremely skeptical of the basis of your profession, to put it mildly. You've become a laughing stock to most users there.

Can't wait to see his reply.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=182046211866380&set=a.143311932406475.29932.143308589073476&type=1&theater

It's not just you who thinks Blackout is awful. Charlie Stross thinks so too:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=528863866&sk=wall

In fact, there's a LOT of criticism coming out of fandom in general about this years winner.

http://www.facebook.com/buznagn#!/profile.php?id=100001315987381&sk=wall

Profile dates back into July. Before he came to public attention.

Actually, this invite-only beta already has over 25 million users. 5% of Facebook's user base in a month by invitation only isn't too shabby.

Facebook has over 750 million users so it is more like 3%. But regardless, the "invite only" isn't much of a limitation, almost the opposite, everybody and their brother (was about to say mother, but apparently Google+ is male only) got 150 invites to spread.

I typed up a longer comment, but /. seems to have lost it. Anyway, here's the FB page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-for-the-Charing-Cross-10/217674331578560?sk=info

So there you have it. Detained under section 60 of the Terrorism Act (which is almost exclusively used against protesters) and eventually released without charge - after the wedding was over and miles away from where they were picked up.

I PRAY that Anonymous picks this up. Searching through Jeffrey Asher's friends list, you find a Michael Sedergren that is his friend. Here's Sedergren's profile. Unfortunately, his page doesn't show much of anything besides a grinch (how fitting) and his wife's profile. But looking at his wife's profile, she does like a couple of groups related to police officers so I'm going to guess that this is the right Michael Sedergren.

This idiot cop's name is Jeffrey Asher, and his Facebook page is here:

http://www.facebook.com/jeffyjewjagoff - NO KIDDING!

Such an appropriate "screen name"...

Our company facebook page has an open wall to our friends... though honestly I wish more of our customers would post to it... Good or bad feedback is appreciated. We need that feedback to fix our business, or know that things don't need fixing.

http://www.facebook.com/edgewebhosting?sk=wall

Christian Torres writes that Facebook and the pharmaceutical industry have had an uneasy partnership in recent years and many drug companies didn't join the site until Facebook gave them a privilege that others do not have — blocking the public's ability to openly comment on a page Wall.

Uh, so whoever did the investigative journalism for this piece needs to go back to Webelos and get their fact checking merit badge. All walls can be restricted to only posts by the owner of the wall on Facebook. In fact, it is so uncommon for the wall to be open to fan postings that I had to turn to Mystery Science Theater 3000 for an example of open posting. Take the current DVD distributor for MST3K, Shout Factory as an example of a non-pharmaceutical company restricting me from complaining about the packaging on some of their DVD sets openly on their wall.

Every company does it, it's not "special protection." I'm happy that big pharma is losing this option but frankly I'm wondering why anyone is allowed to open up a wall and the suppress public comments on their products. They should be proud of their products and they should engage their customers openly. You can block individual trolls but I'm shocked that their concern isn't bad publicity for their products from a few outliers but instead concern from government regulators! What? If you're giving them all your information about your drug's potential side effects, there shouldn't be any concern!

So looking at the drug they listed, Seroquel I see the user comments being actually very helpful. People talking about it losing its potency, people talking about switching on or off XR for better results. I'm sure that these comments have been weeded by some corporate automaton but, come on, these are customers helping other customers!

You know what happens when you don't put up a main page for a product? Tons and tons of hate pages. Government regulators don't notice these?

Christian Torres writes that Facebook and the pharmaceutical industry have had an uneasy partnership in recent years and many drug companies didn't join the site until Facebook gave them a privilege that others do not have — blocking the public's ability to openly comment on a page Wall.

Uh, so whoever did the investigative journalism for this piece needs to go back to Webelos and get their fact checking merit badge. All walls can be restricted to only posts by the owner of the wall on Facebook. In fact, it is so uncommon for the wall to be open to fan postings that I had to turn to Mystery Science Theater 3000 for an example of open posting. Take the current DVD distributor for MST3K, Shout Factory as an example of a non-pharmaceutical company restricting me from complaining about the packaging on some of their DVD sets openly on their wall.

Every company does it, it's not "special protection." I'm happy that big pharma is losing this option but frankly I'm wondering why anyone is allowed to open up a wall and the suppress public comments on their products. They should be proud of their products and they should engage their customers openly. You can block individual trolls but I'm shocked that their concern isn't bad publicity for their products from a few outliers but instead concern from government regulators! What? If you're giving them all your information about your drug's potential side effects, there shouldn't be any concern!

So looking at the drug they listed, Seroquel I see the user comments being actually very helpful. People talking about it losing its potency, people talking about switching on or off XR for better results. I'm sure that these comments have been weeded by some corporate automaton but, come on, these are customers helping other customers!

You know what happens when you don't put up a main page for a product? Tons and tons of hate pages. Government regulators don't notice these?

Christian Torres writes that Facebook and the pharmaceutical industry have had an uneasy partnership in recent years and many drug companies didn't join the site until Facebook gave them a privilege that others do not have — blocking the public's ability to openly comment on a page Wall.

Uh, so whoever did the investigative journalism for this piece needs to go back to Webelos and get their fact checking merit badge. All walls can be restricted to only posts by the owner of the wall on Facebook. In fact, it is so uncommon for the wall to be open to fan postings that I had to turn to Mystery Science Theater 3000 for an example of open posting. Take the current DVD distributor for MST3K, Shout Factory as an example of a non-pharmaceutical company restricting me from complaining about the packaging on some of their DVD sets openly on their wall.

Every company does it, it's not "special protection." I'm happy that big pharma is losing this option but frankly I'm wondering why anyone is allowed to open up a wall and the suppress public comments on their products. They should be proud of their products and they should engage their customers openly. You can block individual trolls but I'm shocked that their concern isn't bad publicity for their products from a few outliers but instead concern from government regulators! What? If you're giving them all your information about your drug's potential side effects, there shouldn't be any concern!

So looking at the drug they listed, Seroquel I see the user comments being actually very helpful. People talking about it losing its potency, people talking about switching on or off XR for better results. I'm sure that these comments have been weeded by some corporate automaton but, come on, these are customers helping other customers!

You know what happens when you don't put up a main page for a product? Tons and tons of hate pages. Government regulators don't notice these?

Christian Torres writes that Facebook and the pharmaceutical industry have had an uneasy partnership in recent years and many drug companies didn't join the site until Facebook gave them a privilege that others do not have — blocking the public's ability to openly comment on a page Wall.

Uh, so whoever did the investigative journalism for this piece needs to go back to Webelos and get their fact checking merit badge. All walls can be restricted to only posts by the owner of the wall on Facebook. In fact, it is so uncommon for the wall to be open to fan postings that I had to turn to Mystery Science Theater 3000 for an example of open posting. Take the current DVD distributor for MST3K, Shout Factory as an example of a non-pharmaceutical company restricting me from complaining about the packaging on some of their DVD sets openly on their wall.

Every company does it, it's not "special protection." I'm happy that big pharma is losing this option but frankly I'm wondering why anyone is allowed to open up a wall and the suppress public comments on their products. They should be proud of their products and they should engage their customers openly. You can block individual trolls but I'm shocked that their concern isn't bad publicity for their products from a few outliers but instead concern from government regulators! What? If you're giving them all your information about your drug's potential side effects, there shouldn't be any concern!

So looking at the drug they listed, Seroquel I see the user comments being actually very helpful. People talking about it losing its potency, people talking about switching on or off XR for better results. I'm sure that these comments have been weeded by some corporate automaton but, come on, these are customers helping other customers!

You know what happens when you don't put up a main page for a product? Tons and tons of hate pages. Government regulators don't notice these?

>>Team Fortress (besides hire their devs after they were finished products). And, for the record, Team Fortress and Counterstrike are still to this day better games than the sequels that came out under your name.

It's true - graphics aside, the original Team Fortress was head and shoulders better than Team Fortress Classic or TF2. Though the speed and smoothness of gameplay, I guess, is secondary to modern day users.

People still play the original, though. You can join a bunch of old school holdouts on http://www.facebook.com/groups/178060565542861/

Yup... LinkedIn was the social network I didn't use. For what it's worth, their Cancel My Account option was relatively easy to find and relatively painless to navigate.

Maybe the ease with which one can cancel an account is at least partially a factor in inflated membership metrics? According to stats here, an average user spends 15+ hours a month "on Facebook." Based on the fact that some high school students I know are logged in 24 hours a day, there are a lot of unused accounts sitting on their servers. I know mine is used less and less with the advent of Google+.

You can add pirates to the sim, and it would still look like the real thing (no, seriously, you can). No word on ninjas, though.

It's cool and all that IBM thought to do a sim of us out here in Stumptown, but I mean, we're not exactly going to be one of them thar model cities that will replicate easily to other towns.

I mean, hell, couldn't IBM choose something easier to do, like, oh, Des Moines or something?

Now to be fair to the fine folks in Iowa, they do have the Carp Festival, but seriously? IBM would have a *much* easier time there than here. Just a hint, fellas.

Seriously - as annoyed with facebook as we all are the fallacy that it's "difficult" to delete facebook needs to stop.

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

.. is probably so that they can keep an eye on coordinated protests. There has been a huge hue and cry against corruption in India recently and people have come to the streets to protest against the government's mockery of a bill to curb corruption. People are trying to get a bill passed (Jan Lok Pal) to make an independent body that'll fight corruption. The government, on the other hand, has proposed another draft which is a joke. (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR6fmPWnUDE)

Social media has been used quite a bit in co-ordinating meetings and spreading the message. The government is afraid of an Egypt style uprising against corruption. There have been attempts in the past to ask the government to curb corruption, but they have failed. (eg. search for fight against corruption baba ramdev midnight arrest)

Oh, and by the way, if you still haven't got it - I think the reason why the government is shirking responsibility from passing a strong bill is because the government itself has been tainted with numerous allegations of corruption.

PS: A link to Indian Against Corruption's (never thought I'd give a link to an FB page!)

The intention of the Central government is clear - they want to control Anna Hazare and the India Against Corruption movement.

Come on! Jon Stewart 2012

He can tell it like it is.

they may be on FB specifically to catch the moron demographic

You might be right, Brawndo is on Facebook.

I tried data polluting on FB, tagging myself incorrectly. I even started a Facebook "Data Camouflage" Group http://www.facebook.com/groups/151915044879668/ in order to get other people to mis-tag their images. What I found was that after I mistagged a certain number of friends, etc., that my "tagging" was turned off. I lost the ability to camouflage. That would be concrete evidence that there is "no clear way" to opt-out.

I lol'd. Randi is actually female it appears. I also then looked at both her and mark zuckerburger's 'page'
http://www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg
http://www.facebook.com/Randi

Recommend in right hand side bar is similar pages.Mark's Similar pages are: The Annoying Orange, Mr Bean, and a whole bunch of cartoon characters.

Yes, he definitely is similar to the annoying orange (Of youtube fame) and a cartoon character. Otherwise, I have to agree with the vast majority of poster's comments here that this is bullshit, the anonymous thing. It is absolutely about it being a bottom line, financial benefit for the most pervasive dataminers in all of time.

I seriously hope that one day I'm not dreaming about the day we had the ability to be AC/Pseudonymous handle on the internet in nostalgia, due to political (from financial) clout from these types of a**holes.

I lol'd. Randi is actually female it appears. I also then looked at both her and mark zuckerburger's 'page'
http://www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg
http://www.facebook.com/Randi

Recommend in right hand side bar is similar pages.Mark's Similar pages are: The Annoying Orange, Mr Bean, and a whole bunch of cartoon characters.

Yes, he definitely is similar to the annoying orange (Of youtube fame) and a cartoon character. Otherwise, I have to agree with the vast majority of poster's comments here that this is bullshit, the anonymous thing. It is absolutely about it being a bottom line, financial benefit for the most pervasive dataminers in all of time.

I seriously hope that one day I'm not dreaming about the day we had the ability to be AC/Pseudonymous handle on the internet in nostalgia, due to political (from financial) clout from these types of a**holes.

I've seen the argument that requiring you use your real identity harms those under oppressive regimes, but I don't buy it. Google+ existing does not reduce the number of outlets such people have for their views/ideas at all.

The other problem often sited is other people posting stuff about you. But having a fake ID isn't going to stop someone posting something that includes your real name if they were going to do so already.

facebook is no more anonymous, at least according to the TOS at https://www.facebook.com/terms.php:
* You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook
* You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date
You can't give a fake name (a name is required, and you shouldn't provide false information) and they make it a requirement that any contact info you are daft enough to hand over be kept up to date (though how they would enforce that one I have no idea). How it this any different to Google+, other than the fact Google seem to be enforcing the policy and facebook don't seem to really care as long as your using their network? What existing system are they holding up as an example there anonymity is permitted/accepted/encouraged?

Personally, I'm happy to use a network where there is a small chance of the person I'm exchanging crap with is the person I think I'm exchanging crap with. If you want something else, why not use something else. Or make your own. If there is something I don't want publicly known about me, I won't put it on any social network. When it comes down to what other people post that is linkable to me (truthfully or not), there is little I can do to control that no matter what policies the system has.

How much is 1 hell-damage in kilo-damages?

Oh, sure, one hella is defined as 10^27 ... same for both metric and imperial. ;-)

So, that would be 1000x a yotta damage. :-P

And don't forget Bobby Tables (not under his full name though).

As long as you don't use something obvious like "Humpty-Dumpty" [...]

Are you saying that name is fake?

It's as real as Naughtius Maximus, Sillius Soddus or Bigus Dickus.

As long as you don't use something obvious like "Humpty-Dumpty" [...]

Are you saying that name is fake?

It's as real as Naughtius Maximus, Sillius Soddus or Bigus Dickus.

As long as you don't use something obvious like "Humpty-Dumpty" [...]

Are you saying that name is fake?

It's as real as Naughtius Maximus, Sillius Soddus or Bigus Dickus.

As long as you don't use something obvious like "Humpty-Dumpty" [...]

Are you saying that name is fake?

It's as real as Naughtius Maximus, Sillius Soddus or Bigus Dickus.

What a crock of shit.

You use the same type of arguments as the apologists for the Conservative (and vocal Harper supporter) mayor Rob Ford of Toronto has. Examples:

In between Dundas and Queen along Spadina is the hub of stupidity and home to no shortage of delusional left wing out patients. This was almost certainly 100% made up. I don't think its a coincidence that the claim is being made in the same region as Kensington Market and the home base of the cyclist union.

and

...always looking at what others are doing instead of minding their own business. Gesture away, relieve your stress and be you!!

and

I personally feel it was an irresponsible piece of journalism.

and

Mr. Mayor, please ignore it, don't give the Toronto Star what they want

etc...

References:
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1030838--rob-ford-alleged-rude-gesture-a-misunderstanding?bn=1
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=211125698938840&id=142577519126992

Are you claiming that, unlike Stephen Harper, Hitler was NOT in favour of:
- putting people in jail, and creating huge mega-prisons
- forced labour penal chain gangs
- dramatically increased mega-legislation of "law and order" type suppression
- courting big businesses and the Conservative elite
- accepting money from rich people, and undermining unions (Hitler actually killed off the "socialists" in his "National Socialist" party, after he was finished using them)
- in favour of censorship
- in favour of ubiquitous and warrant-less government surveillance.
- against homosexuality
- against marijuana users (Hitler was big time against drug users; read Ceremonial Chemistry by Dr. Thomas Szasz some time)
- Hitler never used extremist us-vs-them propaganda
etc, etc and so on.

Are you claiming that history is a "crock of shit"?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001260268298

You have your identity linked to the same email address all over the internet. Including...Facebook.

You're not anywhere near being anonymous.

You have the same username for ebay, youtube, steam and http://www.furaffinity.net/user/eggman9713/

Holy Fuck. YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG

There is probably some argument, however tenuous, that merely having Sun's CEO publicly praise the use of basically-java in Android didn't actually constitute implicit permission to use whatever java-related patented techniques are at question.

But your honor, he maintains that at the time he said it he had his fingers crossed!

And just for completeness, he's got a Facebook page.

Not anymore; this is the guy arrested: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002651290254

I found Higgs here, here, and here

I found Higgs here, here, and here