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If they wrote the book, then AT&T in the US is about to make the movie on poor customer service. Don't forget to join the facebook protest group against AT&Ts bandwidth capping. Don't let this happen in America. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_186439608067383

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ban-Sony-until-they-respect-Freedom/181461915231273

How about the Ericcson AXD301 ATM switching system, with over a million lines of Erlang?

Or...how about RabbitMQ?

Or...how about Facebook's Chat backend?

There's quite a bit more than you think and the three I referred to were using Erlang- there's loads more with some of the other functional languages.

You sure about that?

You sure about that?

You sure about that?

You sure about that?

IANAL but as I understand an employer may search through my company provided phone at any time. http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs7-work.htm

Utah's elected officials believe that their Utah State provided cell phones are private and should not be monitored by their employers, the Utah tax payers. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=117045128372479

It really rubs me wrong that they think they're above Utah tax payers, and don't extend the same privacy protection they're trying to give themselves, to everyone else.

As one of the nation's largest union employers, this bodes well for those who support unions.

This also bodes well for those in the seciton of the Venn diagram who both hate unions and think that AT&T sucks. They have a brand new outlet to scream about how lazy union workers are responsible for AT&T's sucky network and poor customer service and are going to ruin the T Mobile experience.

I just always visit https://www.facebook.com. Seems to work. There is also a setting I noticed that says something like "use secure sessions wherever possible", which perhaps redirects you to the https site even if you click on an http link. I haven't tested it though, I'm happy using https all the time so that people can't steal my session cookie or whatever.

According to my (school age) son, https farks up some of the precious facebook games discouraging the kids from using it. If this is true, its not good, kids are probably the ones who most need https, I'm not totally surrounded by people who think it would be hilarious to 'crack' my account with firesheep and post 'funny' stuff on my wall.

I just always visit https://www.facebook.com. Seems to work. There is also a setting I noticed that says something like "use secure sessions wherever possible", which perhaps redirects you to the https site even if you click on an http link. I haven't tested it though, I'm happy using https all the time so that people can't steal my session cookie or whatever.

...the next brand new model is released.

My iPhone 3G was running pretty smooth until Apple pushed some update along with the 3GS release. Then everything got slower, bugs were introduced and primary features like list of messages would hang for 15 seconds. Apple did not respond to this. I decided to go for an HTC Desire HD in 2010

An update from HTC, december 2010 has rendered my HTC Desire HD almost useless:

• At random times all your text messages are just deleted
• Sometimes when you send an MMS, the CPU goes 100% and the phone consequently is slow and useless until you reboot it
• Notification doesn't work properly. Yes, that means you never know if somebody has sent you and SMS.

Both Apple and HTC products have serious skipping and lag problems. I agree Apple usually offers a smoother experience with their new models. I wish they all had the decency assure reasonable quality of updates.

What bothers me the most is I know the phones are indeed capable of delivering a smooth user interface. Crappy code and lousy quality control is to blame...

Try reading this then: http://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/jun-shiomitsu/japan-quake-as-seen-from-twitter-translated-by-me-so-quality-questionable/10150121176733830

It's incredible.

http://www.facebook.com/USNavy

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150454556910001&set=o.113781385300557

Lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania It's complicated From Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Crystal Yamnitzky
Today haa been a fucked up day period
March 6 at 4:44pm via Android

Robert Driscoll is among the Friends.

Also, she probably created this account - the 3 friends currently in it are common with the above account. My guess is the police have gotten her barred from accessing the first account.

Lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania It's complicated From Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Crystal Yamnitzky
Today haa been a fucked up day period
March 6 at 4:44pm via Android

Robert Driscoll is among the Friends.

Also, she probably created this account - the 3 friends currently in it are common with the above account. My guess is the police have gotten her barred from accessing the first account.

What if you're an app developer and only want a little information to save the user a login?
Impossible! All my app (Calcudoku) needs is:
(1) user id, and (2) first name,
but I'm forced to ask the user for "basic information", which is: name, picture, gender, networks, user id, list of friends, likes, music, about me, location, education history, and work history (what the ??!!)

I'm also getting fed up with the changing APIs, lack of documentation, intermittent errors, and yes, I am using AdSense on the page, thank you Facebook :-(

It'd be wonderful if there were some sort of option whereby an app could allow you to see a list of your friends, invite them, etc, without the actual app being able to see that information, but Facebook doesn't really provide that level of detail.

An app can display a Request Dialog that prompts the user to invite selected friends to use the app. But because the app gets a callback about who was invited, it's possible that apps can't do this without being given access to the user's public or private friend list. As you say, this should be possible even if an app hasn't requested access to anything. The docs don't make it clear what permissions are required.

How do you think they make money?

They track every like button you click for ads, who clicks it, the demographic of what you entered, and more.

Also using any of the 3rd party apps can open information to that developer.

Citation:

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

#
About Advertisements and Other Commercial Content Served or Enhanced by Facebook

Our goal is to deliver ads that are not only valuable to advertisers, but also valuable to you. In order to do that, you agree to the following:

      1. You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name and profile picture may be associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in connection with that content, subject to the limits you place.
      2. We do not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent.
      3. You understand that we may not always identify paid services and communications as such.

Hasn't she read the Terms of Use? By posting the pictures on Facebook they're no longer hers.

I've found Facebook has the opposite effect (lower self esteem)

Me too. My dog has more friends than I do.

> All you can do now is download the shitty low res copies facebook keeps

Huh? Facebook upgraded its resolution last year to handle up to 2048 pixels on the longest edge. Granted, many cameras can shoot higher than that nowadays, but I don't think anybody would describe that as low-res.

http://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=432670242130

Size doesn't always matter. Facebook compresses pictures heavily, so you'll never get the quality of the original back.

I just tried this and it didn't work. C:\Documents and Settings\ANONYMOUSCOWARD>wget -r -l 2 -p -k --load-profile [path to y our mozilla profile for cookies and passwords] http://facebook.com/ [facebook.co m] 'wget' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

> All you can do now is download the shitty low res copies facebook keeps

Huh? Facebook upgraded its resolution last year to handle up to 2048 pixels on the longest edge. Granted, many cameras can shoot higher than that nowadays, but I don't think anybody would describe that as low-res.

http://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=432670242130

Same way with most of your sites... something like:

wget -r -l 2 -p -k --load-profile [path to your mozilla profile for cookies and passwords] http://facebook.com/

Play with the -l and --accept and --reject to filter out stuff you don't want... unfortunately facebook's undescripted URL format will make this difficult. But wget works quite well to backup your other blog sites, like livejournal, blogspot, and slashdot.

As for myself, I only ever post to facebook via twitter (which also crossposts to buzz and livejournal). There's actually no real content that I post to Facebook directly, I just use it as yet another form of 2-way rss.

this video shows you all about it, you don't need to be logged in or even have an account to see it.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150292657680484

You're starting to piece it together. It all falls apart when your wife logs onto Facebook one day and sees:

NevarMore likes the gays

Oh, poop. I used the wrong link: https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004666&id=183100363&l=552fa933a1

FWIW, causeway pictures I took on Thursday: https://www.facebook.com/album.php?...

A facebook link that requires a login to host photos you want to share on slashdot?
Are you shooting for a "funny troll" mod?

Heck I'd be happy as a clam if I get to watch the launch close to the giant countdown clock (where exactly is it, anyone know?

Press site. I don't know the details of how you get a press pass. You could contact the NASA public affairs office, but you almost certainly won't get to go there without being press.

The KSC visitor's center holds (held?) a lottery for public viewing passes at the NASA causeway.

Another option is to find someone who works at a NASA center and ask them to request an employee pass for the NASA causeway. Those usually come out a couple of weeks before the launch. Even then, though, they're pretty hard to get now even for employees (fortunately, they're easier to come by where I am now, and I have a death pact with several co-workers that we'll take each other if one of us doesn't get one.)

FWIW, causeway pictures I took on Thursday: https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004666&id=183100363&fbid=506378627842

Egypt is not a person.

I respectfully disagree.

I'm pretty sure it's him.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Arnell-Johnson/1217436323
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/arnell-johnson/2a/bbb/626
http://swom.com/people/99009-arnell-johnson
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Arnell_Johnson#more-information

He crops up in quite a few strange places. For example, in some of his blog posts he links to angrybirdsgames.com (currently parked) and targetnichemarket.com. These are registered to:

arnell johnson
1112 loveland lane
virginia beach, Virginia 23454
United States

He's up to his eyeballs in Internet get-rich-quick schemes. He's the kind of person who's probably totally legal, but will make his greatest and most well-received contribution to this world on leaving it.

Sorry, link failed: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jury-nullification/108547382503300

Just take a look at http://www.facebook.com/motorolaeurope, after reading the comment below by ripnet regarding the Milestone.

Nathan Fillon has been on the record saying if he won the lottery he'd purchase the rights to the show, produce new eps and release it as an internet series.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/HelpNathanBuyFF

Apparently some people are taking him up on his word.

If you're really so good at making sites that serve billions of page views per month

Creating a routine site which "serves billions of page views per month" is a routine IT skill. Hell, creating a routine site which serves millions of page views requires no expertise at all, and is something I'm sure lots of enthusiasts posting here have done before the days of point-and-click blogs and social networking sites. So, is Facebook routine?

has fairly low latency across the globe despite the huge volume

Fifteen years ago called. They want your cutting edge content delivery network research.

has marketed itself successfully to half a billion active users worldwide

No disagreement here. Facebook knows how to sell itself.

interface with hundreds of thousands of third party apps

Have you actually used the Facebook API? While this is the only "engineered" component of Facebook, it's (i.e. the Graph API is) basically a frontend to tables of personal information and junction/link tables between them. Again, the skill here is the routine deployment of an SQL database.

work on a range of mobile devices.

Well, not on mine, but I think what you meant was: at least vaguely tested on the devices commonly used by their employees with remaining complaints perhaps fixed eventually, and with a translation API suiting the native language of a few of the more common mobile platforms.

nd no matter how crude and low-tech the front-end UI may feel to the end user, IT WORKS.

Nonsense. It's in a perpetual state of beta, and if you haven't seen it not working it's because you haven't used it often enough to be targeted for testing - at which point something on the site will break for a while and will get fixed only because enough people whine.

If all these are just "routine IT skills" for you - ok, great, just show me where you're on the Forbes list and I'll definitely pay my respects.

Ah, the nerd of 2011, whose skill is measured by "where you're on the Forbes list".

Facebook is successful because it successfully preys on the social weaknesses of the average human. As an engineering feat, it is almost completely uninteresting.

TFA is not the one you've linked there. TFA:

Benchmarking

In order to talk about browser performance, we needed to standardize. We now have two machines that will be our testing machines:

For OS X: a MacBook Pro laptop, currently OS X 10.6.6, 4GB of RAM, 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7, and NVIDIA GT 330M with 512MB of RAM.
For Windows: a Lenovo T410s laptop, currently Windows 7 Enterprise, 4GB of RAM, 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5, and NVIDIA NVS 3100M with 512MB of RAM.
Both of these laptops are significantly less powerful than the Mac Pro the original tests were run on. In addition, the 3100M offers approximately half the performance of the 330M.

Additionally, even in the article you linked to, Safari was the fastest non-beta browser.

When firefox kicks the shit out of it in the benchmark

Because Chrome fanboys* are a lot like Apple fanboys* -- unconcerned with objective evidence of any kind. They are unable to appreciate Mozilla's accomplishments and strengths because they weren't done by "their team" and anyone not on "their team" is TEH ENEMY. Course, "their team" is sort of like the fat couch potatoes who see their favorite football team win a game and say "fuck yeah, we won" and the only correct response is "really? I didn't see you out there on that field". So they won, you shallow dipshits who'd have no identity whatsoever if you couldn't borrow some organization's.

* There's a big, BIG difference between someone who uses a thing because it meets his/her needs and gives a satisfying experience but has no special loyalty to any corporation or brand name, versus someone who must fanatically defend their favorite corporate logo and make it look good whether or not it deserves to like some religious crusade because it's become an unhealthy extension of their ego. I know the Slashdot crowd doesn't do such a good job making these distinctions so I am spelling it out for you. Oh you'll knee-jerk anyway but now you'll do it with no excuse.

Kind of ironic when Apple is the company that is most vocal about HTML5 replacing Flash. http://developers.facebook.com/attachment/scores.png

When firefox kicks the shit out of it in the benchmark

you fail at using facebook :p

the url you posted contains a link to the discussion you last accessed before clicking on the terms link:

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=101063233083&topic=15948&post=110792

the real url for FB's terms is
http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

you fail at using facebook :p

the url you posted contains a link to the discussion you last accessed before clicking on the terms link:

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=101063233083&topic=15948&post=110792

the real url for FB's terms is
http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

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

Statement of Rights and Responsibilities

This Statement of Rights and Responsibilities ("Statement") derives from the Facebook Principles, and governs our relationship with users and others who interact with Facebook. By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement.

...

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.

So they wanted him to break the Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities ?

Try reading the facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, By using or accessing Facebook, you agree to this Statement., section 4.1: You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.

Presumably a law upholding (ahem) organisation like the US government and its agencies will want to abide with agreements that they enter in to ???

Why can they just lie and expect to get away with it. So does that imply that I can lie on my tax form and also expect to get away with it ? I am sorry: this is not acceptable. Governments seem to regard the law and good morals as something that others need to obey, not themselves. What about the individuals who manage these fake accounts, if I ordered an employee of mine to lie they would be liable to prosecution just as I would be; why should government employees be any different ?

Actually that's only partially true, his profile page is here, which is accessible by the ID 4. His public figure page is different. You can't friend him, just send messages (and "Report/block this person"). Every user can do the same under their privacy settings.

Actually that's only partially true, his profile page is here, which is accessible by the ID 4. His public figure page is different. You can't friend him, just send messages (and "Report/block this person"). Every user can do the same under their privacy settings.

Actually that's only partially true, his profile page is here, which is accessible by the ID 4. His public figure page is different. You can't friend him, just send messages (and "Report/block this person"). Every user can do the same under their privacy settings.

Meh. It worked for Egypt fighting back against Hosni Mubarak.

Facebook info page
Facebook wall page