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cower behind your chosen pseudonym some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

....which is having its 'Oxygen Cut off', by Zinga.

Remember 'Owned!' on facebook, the game where you traded your gallery pictures, but moved to MYB about a year ago?

My game, 'Possessed', aims to fill the void left. However, I don't have the same viral marketing means that Owned! had at its disposal since Facebook have all but made 'player invite' requests useless, so have just a few 100 players. But, now this is posted on slashdot, I'm hopeing to have millions more in the next few hours!! (in my dreams maybe....!!!)

http://apps.facebook.com/possessed

If you have a few minutes of idle time, give it a whirl!

Thanks

Back then, the Indians were not considered Americans and had no rights to any protections under the law. But really, you need to go back that far, and stretch the meaning of 'coming to the nuisance' to insane lengths? I would just call that plain old imperialism.

I choose that case because it's the most egregious example in the US. For modern examples, consider night flights out of airports. For example, back in 2001, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the noise from night flights out of Heathrow Airport in the UK violated the human rights of local residents. I don't know how long Heathrow has had night flights, but surely it's been going on for decades by the time of the court case.

More generally, there's a movement to ban all night flights in the EU, even for locations where night flights aren't a problem. They apparently have the ear of several European Parliament members.

In the US, due to urban spawl and the high cost of real estate, there are many residences and delicate public buildings (like schools) near industrial areas and other nuisances. For example:

"It troubles me, 12 or 14 years later, to go back to a business owner in Whistler after we made a decision to put a neighbourhood next to his plant and say, 'You know what? Back then we thought this. Now we're choosing to interpret this differently, and now you're going to have to pay.' I don't think that's a good way to do business. It's not logical to me."

The reporter interviewed a resident later in the article who said:

"Oh, he doesn't have to worry about that," said Tim Koshul, struggling to compose himself, tears of relief streaming down his face. "I'm ecstatic to live with the status quo, because the status quo means that we have a very good shot of getting this heavy industry out of the neighbourhood and living in a safe place where we can all enjoy our lives and kids can play and everything else."

He said there are two lawyers waiting on a call from Koshul following council's decision about what the next steps will be. Those steps are up in the air at this point.

"We will take steps to get them out of there and make this the most amazing neighbourhood that it was planned to be for this community. I haven't been at a loss for words for 10 months," he laughed.

This little act is repeated everywhere in the US.

Not opinion, fact. I said "given the right conditions" and that could include bioaccumulation, or other sorts of naturally occurring processes that concentrate pollutants, for instance, evaporation of groundwater with 40ppb of a pollutant can leave a very concentrated pollutant.

Air doesn't evaporate. And any bioaccumulation that concentrates sulfate salts, is going to concentrate naturally (as in not man-made) occurring toxic chemicals as well.

But either doing that takes an enormous pile of accumulated data to mine (something like a database of all person's locations, occupations, typical spelling errors and modes of expression).

You mean like this and this? GPs point is valid provided that the information is available. Sadly, at least to some extent, it is.

They pose for pictures wearing santa hats! What else do you think they would do?

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5738035&l=4781d09835&id=526589612

but they will eventually switch to something else as the technology evolves, or the needs of the site change, and so on.

Unless the language is open source, and then you can change the language and frameworks to meet your needs instead of rewriting in a new language for 1 feature. Or being forced to throw up your hands when you find what seems to be a language or framework bug, versus being able to dig into the source, confirm it, and submit a patch.

Not saying changing languages is never the right solution, but with open source there are more options. That is actually how Facebook is still using PHP.

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2356432130
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358

but they will eventually switch to something else as the technology evolves, or the needs of the site change, and so on.

Unless the language is open source, and then you can change the language and frameworks to meet your needs instead of rewriting in a new language for 1 feature. Or being forced to throw up your hands when you find what seems to be a language or framework bug, versus being able to dig into the source, confirm it, and submit a patch.

Not saying changing languages is never the right solution, but with open source there are more options. That is actually how Facebook is still using PHP.

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2356432130
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358

I'm an indie filmmaker myself (used to be a tech nerd a few years ago, but turned into movie magic 3 years ago). I'm constantly trying to find such good shows too, online. And I have quite a list for you. :-)

- Continuum, scifi: http://www.facebook.com/ContinuumTV (shot with a Canon 7D dSLR)
- Pink http://www.pinktheseries.com/
- http://mindseyeseries.com/
- http://www.minglemediatv.com/CursedWebSeries.html
- http://www.crackle.com/c/Trenches
- http://www.crackle.com/c/Fear_Clinic
- http://www.asylumseries.com/ (shot with a RED One)
- http://www.crackle.com/c/The_Bannen_Way
- http://www.crackle.com/c/Urban_Wolf
- condition:Human http://vimeo.com/user1160921
- http://compulsions.tv/
- and of course, the videos in these two Vimeo Channels: http://vimeo.com/channels/hd and http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks if you have a Roku, or a GoogleTV you can view most of these shows above via RSS, or via the Vimeo application for these two platforms. The videos in these two Vimeo channels, are really, really good indie work.

There's one more sci-fi web series coming out soon, but I can't remember its name. They use Canon dSLRs to shoot it.

Feel free to email me btw, if you like to discuss any of that, I'm a lot into indie filmmaking: http://eugenia.queru.com/

So perhaps there needs to be some way to gauge the support for netflix on Linux? If there are 10,000 people who support it, is that enough potential customers? How about 100,000?

There's a facebook page with about 1600 "likes." Perhaps if enough people who use FB can "like it" they can get 10k or more and garner enough publicity to push for a client?
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Bring-Netflix-To-Linux/

The explosion happened last year actually, but Zuckerberg did not win person of the year in 2009. To to say "2010 was a huge year for social networking" is not inaccurate, however an equally valid statement would be "2010 was no bigger a year for social networking than 2009". If you look at the numbers announced by Facebook it Increased by 200 million users, between September 2009 and July 2010(10 months) the same growth rate between April of 2009 and September 2009.
Cite for my numbers: Facebook.com

Facebook (2010)
Continued growth at almost exactly the same rate as 2009
Facebook launched 'Places' (Foursquare-like service)
Facebook launched 'Questions' (Yahoo answers-like service)
'The social networking' was released to theatres

Wikileaks on the other hand released (in 2010):
The Collateral Murder video.
92,000 Afghanistan war files
400,000 Iraqi war files
251,000 US diplomatic cables

Now regardless of how you view Wikileaks, it would be foolish to say it has influenced events less than Facebook. One caused a United States citizen and military private to be put into solitary confinement for 7 months, without trial (or a pillow), the other produced their own version of existing internet services.

http://www.connect.connect.facebook.com/WPFD2011

But be polite or your post may be censored...

World Press Freedom Day "moved" (deleted and reposted) the original posting on Facebook and with it deleted all of the comments on it claiming: "We have temporarily stopped wall posts simply because the traffic we've received far exceeded what are able to see and respond to right now! We simply had the structure wrong and weren't ready for a wall with that much traffic, and once we have the logistics worked out, we look forward to continuing a robust discussion around press freedom ahead of World Press Freedom Day 2011!"

The logistics being a situation where they moderate (read: delete) posts,
regulating speech != free speech, disappointing behavior for an organization who celebrates (and very existence relies on) free speech

Let them have it here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/WPFD2011?v=app_2373072738
or join "World Press Freedom Day, what a joke" here: http://www.connect.connect.facebook.com/WPFD2011#!/pages/World-Press-Freedom-Day-2011-What-a-Joke/164635873577540?v=wall
or "Protest World Press Freedom Day-3 May" here: http://www.connect.connect.facebook.com/WPFD2011#!/pages/Protest-World-Press-Freedom-Day-3-May/128796330513944?v=wall

World Press Freedom Day "moved" (deleted and reposted) the original posting on Facebook and with it deleted all of the comments on it claiming: "We have temporarily stopped wall posts simply because the traffic we've received far exceeded what are able to see and respond to right now! We simply had the structure wrong and weren't ready for a wall with that much traffic, and once we have the logistics worked out, we look forward to continuing a robust discussion around press freedom ahead of World Press Freedom Day 2011!"

The logistics being a situation where they moderate (read: delete) posts,
regulating speech != free speech, disappointing behavior for an organization who celebrates (and very existence relies on) free speech

Let them have it here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/WPFD2011?v=app_2373072738
or join "World Press Freedom Day, what a joke" here: http://www.connect.connect.facebook.com/WPFD2011#!/pages/World-Press-Freedom-Day-2011-What-a-Joke/164635873577540?v=wall
or "Protest World Press Freedom Day-3 May" here: http://www.connect.connect.facebook.com/WPFD2011#!/pages/Protest-World-Press-Freedom-Day-3-May/128796330513944?v=wall

World Press Freedom Day "moved" (deleted and reposted) the original posting on Facebook and with it deleted all of the comments on it claiming: "We have temporarily stopped wall posts simply because the traffic we've received far exceeded what are able to see and respond to right now! We simply had the structure wrong and weren't ready for a wall with that much traffic, and once we have the logistics worked out, we look forward to continuing a robust discussion around press freedom ahead of World Press Freedom Day 2011!"

The logistics being a situation where they moderate (read: delete) posts,
regulating speech != free speech, disappointing behavior for an organization who celebrates (and very existence relies on) free speech

Let them have it here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/WPFD2011?v=app_2373072738
or join "World Press Freedom Day, what a joke" here: http://www.connect.connect.facebook.com/WPFD2011#!/pages/World-Press-Freedom-Day-2011-What-a-Joke/164635873577540?v=wall
or "Protest World Press Freedom Day-3 May" here: http://www.connect.connect.facebook.com/WPFD2011#!/pages/Protest-World-Press-Freedom-Day-3-May/128796330513944?v=wall

Next thing you know, you'll say it's stagnated

Nah. It's gone WAY past that. I think /. jumped the shark when they started posting article stuffs on Facebook... Why bother with the site itself anymore?

You can manually upgrade your profile by clicking the button at the bottom of this page: http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/

http://www.facebook.com/common/browser.php isn't compatible with Firefox 4, IE 9, or Chromium 6

Yeah right. All the botnet operators that directed them to attack WikiLeaks servers instead of spamming are just being patriotic and there was no government pressure there. (My friend who's job it is to block spam for a cellular provider tells me that during the WikiLeaks DDoS attacks spam traffic dropped to less than 1% of normal)

As for the rape charges in Sweden which were already dropped because the 'victims' "partied with [Assange] after the consensual sex and even bragged about the intercourse on twitter and to their friends", the Swedish legal system is just being patriotic by completely subverting every principle they're sworn to uphold. No government pressure there either.

Lest we forget the issue covered right here on /. about the US State Department bullying graduate students and threatening their employability should they post anything encouraging about WikiLeaks online, but despite the fact that it is openly declared that the US State Department is responsible, they're in fact just patriots acting on their own time using company letterhead to save a trip to Kinko's.

And for the grand finale, while Assange's completely bullshit charges have Interpol looking under rocks to arrest him, Nigeria has requested Interpol issue an arrest warrant for Dick Cheney for well-supported bribery charges. But of course the fact that Assange's warrant has been issued and Cheney's hasn't has nothing to do with US government pressure either way, Interpol is just having a half-price sale on Australians.

Wake up and smell the military dictatorship. Your ignorance is inexcusable.

http://www.facebook.com/revengeoftheelectriccar

A neat video from a thermal camera showing the X-37B immediately after landing, while taxiing down the runway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTxMbda-j4Q

There's also a bunch of post-landing photos at the Air Force Space Command's Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=265891&id=78118717073&l=f24f107baa

Facebook says they have 500 million users. Last I knew, that's quite a bit more than the population of the USA. http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

1. Clippy: Misunderstood animated pedagogical agent or spawn of Satan? - Invokes Sun Tzu

2. Why People Hate the Paperclip: Labels, Appearance, Behavior, and Social Responses to User Interface Agents. Impressive 65 Page PDF available from this abstract page.

3. People Who Hate Clippy, the Stupid Paper Clip from Microsoft Word (Wartburg Chapter). Emergency outreach

4. Meme:Clippy. Fanpic uploads @ end.

5. On Youtube.

6. How I Made Clippy Lovable. Stanford again. What is it with these guys? You know their mascot is a tree?

7. DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS. I think my nose just started bleeding.

8. Et tu DARPA?.

9. Senor Pedaso Molesto de Matal NPR transcript.

10. Back At'chya. Remember before they became inertia?

11. Hark the Herald.. Wait, DIE DIE DIE. Just sayin'.

12. Reflection.

Happy Clippymas! Hope the leaks result in a zillion times the cogitation invested in Clippy..

says it's about 77K people. You can probably discount about ~50K of that as the developers and MS/Dell employee giveaway, however.

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=135892916448833&v=info

I was playing one of these guys the other day and grabbed a shot with my BlackBerry to send to a friend. I put it on my Facebook so I could share it with you all. It's obviously a Nazi version...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1790730&l=58123b17f4&id=1049148624

This exists. Greater Manchester Police released an app which gives security updates and stuff. I haven't used it. It's not been without it's critics.

But worrying about texts to 911 ignores the real issue, which is easily available guns and ammo.

Great article here. I have been giving advice to many up and coming business people and have been successful so far. I am Donald Brownlie Fleming, an Australian Entrepreneur, ebook author (Master Selling by Donald Brownlie Fleming) and a Philanthropist. If you have time, maybe you can visit me too. http://facebook.com/donaldbrownliefleming

My local newspaper is now doing "Facebook exclusive" letters to the editor. It is not clear if I can send a letter to the Editor and opt out of having it posted on Facebook.

Edmonton Journal Letters Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic=23238 They started a discussion group right on the Cooks Source Facebook page. 5 pages of links showing Cooks Source republishing content stolen from elsewhere. There's a blog somewhere else that took it further, I'll have to look for that.

Facebook security?

Yours In Anchorage,
Kilgore T.

According to Facebook user stats, that's pretty small. It's 37th on the list of top Facebook countries. That constitutes less than 1/2 of 1% their users. That's not something you'd want to lose, but that's not something you'd risk a successful model to chase, either.

FYI (after reading the article as well as info from his notes):
He was taking multi-vitamins and protein supplements. He was still exercising (claims that it was his normal regimen).
He also measured BMI and things like cholesterol levels and the like. All of which suggested he had become "healthier".
So, he has in some ways addressed the things that you are talking about.

Although, I think the main point of his experiment was to prove that for weight loss, counting calories is the most important. Not some notion of the "quality" of those calories.
These other details, that he ended up seeming to become healthier, were just surprising things that even he had not expected, that seems to imply that "eating healthy" is still poorly understood.

You dont actually migrate users out of Windows to Linux and out of Exchange to gmail. You make a lot of presentations and charts etc with lots of bogus numbers, with just enough credibility to convince your local Microsoft sales guys think you are serious. Once they give you some discounts, you mention that as a big savings achieved by you in your annual report and try to wangle boni [1] and/or raises. Then rinse, lather and repeat for the next year or in the next job.

[1] Glossary:

Boni: plural of Bonus.

Hi! I'm Boni of Malta. I'm single, and I want to exchange bones and stuff. Please be my friend. I'm on facebook! Woof!!!

How the heck do you even know you are connecting to starbucks hotspot and not my credential-grabbing Linux laptop? If you need security, you need it all the way to your destination, as in https://www.facebook.com/. If SSL doesn't scale, let's develop a lightweight replacement that may be susceptible to pattern analysis or stream corruption but not theft of data transmitted in regular use. Even HTTP digest authentication would do more good than known password sent to an unknown wireless service for many sites.

If you are alerted that someone is using firesheep on you, then you at least know and can use a "logout all other sessions".
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/forget-to-log-out-help-is-on-the-way/425136200765

Maybe she can join mine too! http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=121747594532256

Meanwhile, the 'Queen' that matters has had a Facebook page for ages.

Copyrighted by whom? Not the Facebook user who posted it; you waive your right to copyright the moment you sign up for a Facebook account.

That's not even remotely true. It's the second item in the Facebook terms:

You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook

Based on their documentation, you can, if you're a technical user. Just write a script to pull email addresses using Graph API:

https://graph.facebook.com/

(What does your post have to do with google?)

All data on Facebook is property of Facebook, not of the people who put it there... so you should be able to ask Facebook to remove it... (according to the text, "companies (i.e. Facebook) will be forced to delete it when asked").

Facebook does not own all (or even most) of the data on FB. From the Facebook Terms of Service:

You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook.

On their facebook forum, their magazine has been deconstructed to show where all of their content came from. Its not just recipes, but articles and pictures as well

For example, the image at http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=439516851748&set=a.439514776748.238553.196994196748 of their magazine is a copy of http://www.weightwatchers.com.au/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=38441. This is not a recipe.

....of links that they've ripped off.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic=23238
Actually, many of the posted recipes on the profile have people replying with links to the original articles.
It looks like often times they are just swiping the entire article (not just the recipe) verbatim! Wow!

Would you believe she is even now unrepentant?

She replied on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=103853763018020&id=196994196748

She believes her original mail was an apology and thinks this exposure may be good for her.

...is getting hammered right now. Like, several comments a second. Fascinating to watch a meltdown in real time. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooks-Source-Magazine/196994196748

Their Facebook page is still up though. And people are using it to collate other stolen articles. http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic=23238 Also, someone found a Paula Deen recipe that was stolen, and notified Paula - who has contacted her legal department.

Well then you've come to the wrong site. Let me get you back on track:

http://www.facebook.com/

Okay, this sounds terrible in the article, but I can't see how bad it is until I see it in action. But because facebook has NO DOCUMENTATION TO SPEAK OF, I can't figure out how to do it. Even the cheerily sinister official announcement spends the whole time talking about how great the friend stalker tool is, but gives zero information on how to find and use it.

Anybody know what buttons to push?

...150 million users...

500 million users and growing faster than anything else. I think Farmville has more than got EA's attention.

Well, they already have the gangsters.

https://facebook.com/ works just fine.

https://slashdot.org/ doesn't, it redirects to http:///

But I agree, SSL should've become the default long ago. Has someone already made a Firefox plugin that for every http:/// link tries the https:/// equivalent first and then falls back to http:/// only if that fails?

... write on her wall?