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Anchor baby you say not including the USA, until recently if you were born in Ireland you automatically got citizenship. It is less of a big deal now since European Union citizens can settle and work within other European member states and if your husband / wife is a European citizen you get to play too.

The law in Ireland had to be changed with so many pregnant african women flying into the countries airports.

Now wouldn't you like to hear a condensed version of what the fuss is about.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20041001/0941211.shtml

this is the thread techdirt were threatened about, it seems strangely familiar so it might have been the subject of a slashdot story before.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=113128438710254&ref=search this is a current facebook group

For several years Jeffrey Morris has been setting up email marketing businesses around the Leeds area and taking advantage of both employees and customers. Is it coincidence that he has changed the company name five times since the it all began...

The original techdirt story seems to have been about a peer to peer email scheme meant to protect you from spam but the company next door so to speak are a spam marketing company run by pretty much the same people. The history is a bit convoluted but essentially it seems Jeffrey Morris renames and restarts his companies on a regular basis some might say when they stink just a bit too much.
Its a wonderful thread spanning 6 years of jeff morris and his internet based "marketing" companies.

The thread has been spammed with biblical quotes and tom jones lyrics, i guess they are left in to avoid techdirt appearing to endorse the thread comments. occasionally there are testimonials by possible customers or employee's saying how wonderful jeffs email promotions company is others saying that his services under deliver and others that he rips off his staff too.

some noted posters include a nick griffin and Mr adolf hitler. Largely adding a little humour to the proceedings.

I believe one problem mr morris has with this thread is that if you google his current ventures then you find this thread with all the old names included. They just won't give him a break, seems that possible ex-employee's sometimes possible current (at the time) employees keep joining the dots which tends to lead potential customers to run away from mr morris's advances (well his companies any way).

If you generally read slashdots comments you should enjoy reading the thread at techdirt and see if you can follow the story.

It seems that way...maybe this should just be settled on Trek-Or-Wars (or to see the results of the vote to date outside Facebook ... http://www.trekorwars.com/ )

Why would you settle for a regular iPad when you can buy a 24K gold iPad for a less expensive price than the one sold in stores? SP00W! is the hottest online auction site, featuring discounted speed bidding on custom and exclusive items in real time. FREE REGISTRATION and 5 FREE BIDS !!! http://www.spoow.com/getfreebids also you can join us on Facebook and gain additional free bids!!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spoow-Speed-Bid-Auctions/142522825781258?ref=ts

I don't know who Roberto Sparese is, but I'm sure he'll get a few more hits to his Facebook account as other readers also wonder whether that was actually a little-known word and not just a typo.

P.S. Cute kitty, Roberto!

Copenhagen Suborbitals Facebook page

Open Space Movement Facebook page

For anyone wondering, there's another little project in the works, designed to help support existing organizations such as Copenhagen Suborbitals, as well as individuals interested in manned space exploitation. Aka, the Open Space Movement.

The gist of this project is something akin to "sourceforge.net" for aerospace engineering, although that would be a gross oversimplification. The OSM operates on the principle that public involvement is the key to large-scale manned spaceflight in the near future, and operates as a service and organizational platform to help rally public interest, and direct their efforts towards a series of public space ventures.

The site is nearing completion, and should be ready for a beta test in the next week or two. When we begin operations, the first thing we have planned is providing a grant towards Copenhagen Suborbitals. We have raised ~1500 out of 5000$ so far. Having talked with Kristian von Bengstrom, this amount is roughly equivalent to the cost of the propellants used in the HEAT-1X motor. More importantly, providing a 5000$ grant now makes it possible to provide a 50,000$ grant in the future - since the primary incentive behind our donation model is to show exactly what we've spent money on, and what advances have come out of it.

(we intend to spend money on in-house user-submitted projects as well, but a grant is easier to perform at this stage)

OSM and Copenhagen Suborbitals thread here

FUN FACTS:

FY2010 NASA budget: 18 billion dollars
2005-adjusted cost of Apollo Program: 170 billion dollars.

Gross sales of cell phones in 2008: 38 billion dollars
sales of cell phones in a recent 6 month period: 65 billion dollars

We are currently spending more money on cell phones in one year, than the Apollo program spent in a decade.

Very rough estimate of Copenhagen Suborbitals' operating costs over past 2 years: 200,000$ to 300,000$

Sales of ringtones in the US market for 2008: 750,000,000$

Sales of "5 dollar footlongs" in Subway franchises in 2008: 3,200,000,000$

The public has more disposable income than the budgets of all space agencies and for-profit corporations combined. The OSM wants to put that to work.

After all, we already bought the Internet.

Copenhagen Suborbitals Facebook page

Open Space Movement Facebook page

For anyone wondering, there's another little project in the works, designed to help support existing organizations such as Copenhagen Suborbitals, as well as individuals interested in manned space exploitation. Aka, the Open Space Movement.

The gist of this project is something akin to "sourceforge.net" for aerospace engineering, although that would be a gross oversimplification. The OSM operates on the principle that public involvement is the key to large-scale manned spaceflight in the near future, and operates as a service and organizational platform to help rally public interest, and direct their efforts towards a series of public space ventures.

The site is nearing completion, and should be ready for a beta test in the next week or two. When we begin operations, the first thing we have planned is providing a grant towards Copenhagen Suborbitals. We have raised ~1500 out of 5000$ so far. Having talked with Kristian von Bengstrom, this amount is roughly equivalent to the cost of the propellants used in the HEAT-1X motor. More importantly, providing a 5000$ grant now makes it possible to provide a 50,000$ grant in the future - since the primary incentive behind our donation model is to show exactly what we've spent money on, and what advances have come out of it.

(we intend to spend money on in-house user-submitted projects as well, but a grant is easier to perform at this stage)

OSM and Copenhagen Suborbitals thread here

FUN FACTS:

FY2010 NASA budget: 18 billion dollars
2005-adjusted cost of Apollo Program: 170 billion dollars.

Gross sales of cell phones in 2008: 38 billion dollars
sales of cell phones in a recent 6 month period: 65 billion dollars

We are currently spending more money on cell phones in one year, than the Apollo program spent in a decade.

Very rough estimate of Copenhagen Suborbitals' operating costs over past 2 years: 200,000$ to 300,000$

Sales of ringtones in the US market for 2008: 750,000,000$

Sales of "5 dollar footlongs" in Subway franchises in 2008: 3,200,000,000$

The public has more disposable income than the budgets of all space agencies and for-profit corporations combined. The OSM wants to put that to work.

After all, we already bought the Internet.

The new Facebook page (as listed on the official uriminizokkiri site) is now

http://www.facebook.com/uriminzok

presumably because the uriminzokkiriLike rapidly got trolled to hell. The news page is a private profile, you can read the posts made by the author but you can't write anything on his wall.

https://www.facebook.com/uriminzok

Uhmm.....The page appears to have been taken down??

uriminzokkiri (uriminzok) on Twitter

YouTube - uriminzokkiri's Channel

Facebook | Uriminzokkiri

Looks like the original Facebook "people" account they made was removed (probably by North Korea when they realized it didn't make sense to have a "people" account), and replaced with a "page" thing. I noticed the original account's username was uriminzokkiri, and the new one is uriminzokkiriLike, so maybe North Korea changed accounts primarily because they want the Like button? Lots of guessing here.

Who cares about a small iPad? I want a big iPhone, damnit.

If your offended by bad language, an extreme fanboy or adverse to humour then avoid this link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4579717&id=592104868&ref=notif&notif_t=photo_reply#!/ryan.A.hawthorne

He's likely sick of the anti-republican anti-libertarian hatred coming out of the Democrats and their people in the Congress/White House. Like - "Pro-small government supporters are kooks." or "Watch an unbiased channel like NBC not FOX." or "Everyone in the teaparty is racist." or ""If you oppose Obama's policies it's because you hate black people. You must be silenced."

See this facebook page for an example. Just read the lead stories
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Republicans-Are-Idiots-And-Arguing-With-Them-Is-A-Waste-Of-Time/114270361928171?ref=ts

Somehow I can't connect social networking and stupid flash games to "hacker" culture.

Facebook invented Cassandra, as well as Haystack

Here is their engineering page.

Facebook *has* to be a culture of hackers as they really are pushing the limits of scaling (in the same way that google is)

Only if 'Search for me on Facebook' is set to 'Everyone'
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=basic

From TFS: "One and a half million Facebook users die each year."

Yeah, I'm sure their valuation is much higher when they can claim 500,000,000 users instead of the 498,500,000 that they actually have. Bastards!

Besides, Wikipedia, and just about anyone else who matters, always says things like "Facebook is a social networking website... with more than 500 million active users [emphasis mine] in July 2010." See also http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics and http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=409753352130

From TFS: "One and a half million Facebook users die each year."

Yeah, I'm sure their valuation is much higher when they can claim 500,000,000 users instead of the 498,500,000 that they actually have. Bastards!

Besides, Wikipedia, and just about anyone else who matters, always says things like "Facebook is a social networking website... with more than 500 million active users [emphasis mine] in July 2010." See also http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics and http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=409753352130

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133380463371767&ref=ts

This is a petition to the U.S. Government's FCC (Federal Communication Commission) to mandate an unlock of all iPhones. We paid for the phone, we should be able to use it how we see fit.
Please post a message on the wall saying "Please unlock"
Only people with a US iPhone and contract please.
Spammers will be reported and banned.

Meh. Facebook already exists.

I commented a bit about it on my FB wall: http://www.facebook.com/wingedpower

But here's a quick synopsis:

Given a hard drive...
- Create X number of zero'd files to be mounted on loopback (losetup) and then to be encrypted individually(cryptsetup) using 256bit encryption(different key per loopback) [this is done on the data hard drive)
- Create Y number of zero'd ramdisk devices to be cryptsetup'd using 256bit encrption(cryptsetup).
- Create a striped array(LVM tools) using both the encrypted loopbacks and the encrypted ramdisks.
- Use cryptsetup to encrypt this resulting LVM volume and mount it as your "quick wipe drive"
- Store all luks keys, if need be, in a ramdisk.

When you power off, what happens is:
- luks keys go away with loss of power(barring UPS, memory freeze, etc)
- ramdisk slices of the RAID-0 striped array vanish... and take their encrypted bits with them.
- what survives on the physical drive are encrypted volumes containing parts and slices of a larger encrypted volume with slices missing.

Cost to implement: normal cost of equipment.
Special equipment or specialty hard drives required: none.
Security: 256bit encryption via cryptsetup at two levels AND some of the data goes missing. :)

Useful situation:
- xerox/copy machine storage... they can actually implement this with standard drives... just update software and repartition their drive!
- protection against identity theft when home computer stolen... pulled power cable... oops. all data now not accessible.
- protection from illegal seizure of computers (no key to give... it is inaccessible)
- protection against foreign government raids(and local government raids, I suppose) (power loss=data not accessible)

The cool factor is... the slices you divide up the drive into... the more unique keys that will need to be found/brute-forced/decrypted before any amount of useful data is regained. And once they do have all the individual files decrypted, only then will they discover that there are pieces of the RAID0 missing... and the RAID0 itself is encrypted.

Enjoy.

Oh yeah, he's in Burlington,NJ. Just outside Philadelphia, PA. Nice downtown location, and enthusiastic. He same the city held up his permit for months while they argued the dangers of opening an arcade. As if the drugs and vice will immediately flock back in from their 1983 time-warp.Goes to show how many old fogies still have it in their heads that arcades are a danger to youth and property values. They can't make the mental adjustment to understand than the average patron will be in their 30's with kids of their own, and probably trying to show tier kids how they had fun back in the day.

I think this guy has a long hard road ahead. Burlington will probably do everything in their power to shut him down. This guy's comic book store [Atomic City Comics] in Philly on South street has been trying for years to get a mini-arcade in his comic book store, but the neighborhood association keeps shooting down his permit requests, and blocking. Apparently Philly law says no more than 3 games on at a time, or you need the non-existent arcade license. They even randomly come in to see if he has 4 or more on so they can call the PO-PO. So he has to rotate which are on and off. A friend of mine who goes there says they guy has 10+ kool games, but most are in storage because he can't get any movement on permits.

Total Shame. Were arcades really that dangerous and evil?

Versions for BlackBerry phones and for Windows and Mac computers are coming, he said.

I cross fingers and hope that a WebOS version will appear too. Though I won't hold my breath.

Also, given the "all of my friends are already on it" nature of FaceBook, this application has a good chance of competing with Skype.

I just hope that, for the call itself, it uses some standard protocol (SIP, H323, Jingle, etc.) instead of some proprietary shit.
And given that Facebook is moving toward XMPP support for their chat system, I suspect that Jingle could be the easy solution that they went for.
(If both end points are using the Vonage app, simply negociate a Jingle call through the already available XMPP chat connection. Otherwise use a free VoIP-to-Phone broker to call the recipient using the FaceBook profile's number)

Thus it will also be easier to develop a Linux version of it. Say for example add a "voice chat" capability to the existing Pidgin Plugin.

Email mbasupport@virtualheroes.com for tech help. You can also visit our Facebook page or Steam forum...

http://www.facebook.com/NASAgames

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=835

Mitch Gross | Community Manager | Virtual Heroes (developers of Moonbase Alpha)

I built an iPhone car charger: All the details.

The clear and present danger doesn't come from *talking* about the actions of the American government, but from the actions themselves.

Here's my local paper's spin on the matter and my correction.

From the Delhi Police Facebook page: "Uploading of Fake/Morphed Photo: When it is found that a member has uploaded fake / morphed photo, DTP will take legal action with the help of Cyber Crime Cell - Delhi Police, Inernet/Telecom Service Provider, Facebook (Now they have a office in India), under IT Act. Members are warned not to attempt any misadventure on this account as we take this act very seriously."

The facebook page of the Delhi police where pictures are being posted and challans issued.
All this hullabaloo is due to the Common Wealth Games that are fast approaching. Once that's done, this facebook fiasco will die a slow death.

If you steal my loot in a raid I'll know your real name, and with a bit more googling everything there is to know about you:

Many of the vast unwashed masses on the net as spectacularly naive about their privacy. Take Gabrielle Romney, ex-lover of a right-wing political party figure in Australia. She wrote a letter to "The Age" bawling that they published her photo: "I am dismayed by the prominent publication of my photograph accompanying the article. To be targeted by a stalker is invasive, intimidating, and terrifying. As a private individual, one of the most debilitating aspects is the constant and unwelcome intrusion into one's life. Publishing my photograph has been a further violation of my privacy and dignity."

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/man-sent-more-than-100-sometimes-offensive-messages-to-exlover-20100726-10slv.html

Fair enough, but type her name into "Google" and you'll find yourself staring at her mug in facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/people/Gabrielle-Romney/528810959

Let me repeat what she said: "As a private individual, one of the most debilitating aspects is the constant and unwelcome intrusion into one's life."

If you're on Facebook, you're not a private individual.

You can still click through the whole database and get all the information at http://facebook.com/directory.

That's not entirely true. Scraping the link provided won't give you data from people who have turned off public search listings, so the torrent is potentially more useful...
Note: This only includes people who have Public Search Listings available on Facebook. Anyone can opt out of appearing here by changing their Search privacy settings.

Or, it could be a random NSA employee posting to provide a cover of plausible deniability to the monitoring! But seriously, the only thing the torrent does is make the information more easily obtained at one go. You can still click through the whole database and get all the information at http://facebook.com/directory. I really don't see where any actual news is involved in this story, even from the beginning.

At best it's a usability issue, where Facebook isn't making it clear to users what is private and what is public.

Have you gone through the new user flow recently? The amount of messaging saying "YOUR STATUS UPDATE IS GOING TO BE COMPLETELY PUBLIC, HERE IS HOW YOU CHANGE IT!!" is insane in my opinion. If someone writes a public update after that accidentally, they have bigger problems...

At worse (and more likely) it's intentional obfuscation on Facebooks part to try to make money.

How does that help Facebook make more money? Ads are targeted based upon demographics and interests without sharing information to advertisers (explanation of how it works) -- how does someone sharing publicly vs. privately help this?

As does pidgin - because Facebook now supports open standards:

http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php

Sensationalism - A manner of over-hyping events, being deliberately controversial, loud, self centred or acting to obtain attention. It is also a form of theatre.

Yep, that's pretty much it.

Just because he found the super-secret directory, http://www.facebook.com/directory/ and wrote a program that would read it. Of all the evil, nefarious things to do.

This torrent contains:

* The URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile
* The name of every searchable Facebook user, both unique and by count (perfect for post-processing, datamining, etc)
* Processed lists, including first names with count, last names with count, potential usernames with count, etc
* The programs I used to generate everything

You're going to get a URL to pages. If the user has since made them inaccessible, you'll only get what you can from their public profile. Like, you cannot get to my friends list from my public profile. You'll get "potential" usernames to log into Facebook. Big deal. Remember when everyone could make a username for Facebook and that was also their profile URL? Well, now you can guess the most common names and add them to this list like david. Then you could use ncrack or whatever.

Not a whole lot in this file. Not like he scraped the pages of data and put that in a csv file for research or anything really interesting.

You're able to tell Facebook that your friend died. I did this when someone I know died, and facebook removed all apps and ads from his page, and he never pops up in those suggest-a-friend style things.

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

https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account is better.

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

I did the exact same thing, and got the same result. However, I recalled hearing that the option has existed for some time already, and has just been very well hidden.

I looked it up, and the trick is to go to this address:

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

You have always been able to go here to delete your facebook account which was easy to find in google http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account They have only made it simpler for those who take things at face value (pun intended).

See delete account

They promise to delete your account within 14 days without active use. (if you login, you reactivate your account.)

See delete account

Robert Uomini of Kensington CA already won a $22 million dollar lottery in 1995. And yes, it's the same person, because the patent application's name and city matches and this article says he's a mathematician and his linkedin says he has a Ph.D in Mathematics. Here's his real software website, notice anything familiar? Yep, the design is exactly the same, no doubt about it this is our guy.

Here's his facebook if you want to leave him a message

Try again:

Paul D. Ceglia's Facebook page.

The people buying your information from Facebook are the customer.

What do you mean, exactly? Facebook does not sell any user information:

We have designed Facebook to provide relevant and interesting advertising content to you in a way that protects your privacy completely. We never share your personal information with advertisers. We never sell your personal information to anyone. These protections are yours no matter what privacy settings you use; they apply equally to people who share openly with everyone and to people who share with only select friends.

Source: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=403570307130

You should probably do what I did and upgrade your account:

https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

(Just don't mind that delete_account part... They meant to type upgrade) ;)

People are just ticked because they had to friend Kip Drordy. http://www.facebook.com/KipDrordy

As I understand you are not meant to own a facebook account if you are under 13.

We need to heavily censor the Internet to protect predators from children like this. *sigh* I'd use a winking smily but I don't think it is appropriate here.

We don't need no copyright education.

Yes you do, you just used a double negative.

Congratulations on your 'spotting the reference' fail.

Congratulations on your 'spotting the reference' fail.

An IT Crowd reference too. Hang your head.

Whoops! It's a fair cop, guv. Normally I would Google something like that before commenting but I was too hasty, and you never get nowhere if you're too hasty.

We don't need no copyright education.

Yes you do, you just used a double negative.

Congratulations on your 'spotting the reference' fail.

Congratulations on your 'spotting the reference' fail.

An IT Crowd reference too. Hang your head.

This might interest you:

The Free State Project - where parents raise children not some stranger 200 miles away in the legislature

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/freestateproject?ref=ts

His facebook account is so canceled! But I bet he could do commercials for MySpace. "I designed the look and feel of facebook, but now I use MySpace."

Why not? Even Myspace Tom has a Facebook page.