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Yes. Although the homepage isn't encrypted, the login&password are posted to https://login.facebook.com/login.php (which then redirects to another unencrypted page).

Doesn't matter where the POST goes, if you are typing sensitive information in a field on an unencrypted page, there's a chance that rogue javascript is watching.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/posted.php?id=100000630030732

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/posted.php?id=100000630030732

"We have received a request to permanently delete your account. Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days.

If you did not request to permanently delete your account, follow this link to cancel this request:

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

Thanks,
The Facebook Team"

Even if their backups hold my information forever, at least I'm not adding to it. The primary reason I left was because I was spending too much time looking at all my "friends" incredibly inane status updates and pictures. The vast majority of my "friends" never contacted me and of those who were genuinely my friends, I already have their email/phone number/see them regularly anyway.

It's been day two and I'm even more convinced it was the right thing :)

Permanently delete FB account (inside)

Given the 2010 track record of FB this sends the 'correct message'...the captcha during delete is something else (ymmv)...takes 14 days inactive before they comply with request.

Log-in, then paste the direct link: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
which will auto rewrite to https for two stage authentication post actions

Explain page> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703

Permanently delete FB account (inside)

Given the 2010 track record of FB this sends the 'correct message'...the captcha during delete is something else (ymmv)...takes 14 days inactive before they comply with request.

Log-in, then paste the direct link: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
which will auto rewrite to https for two stage authentication post actions

Explain page> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703

Yes. Although the homepage isn't encrypted, the login&password are posted to https://login.facebook.com/login.php (which then redirects to another unencrypted page).

For those of you who don't know how to leave Facebook... http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

Look! It just gets freaky weirder!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Masonichip-International/171184380894?ref=ts

Apparently, he may turn in his yellow shirt for a political position: Facebook campaign

I ended up AdBlocking a bunch of facebook URLs to solve this. Annoying, but it did work. The ones I blocked:

http://connect.facebook.net/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
  http://www.facebook.com/ajax/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect.php/js/FB.SharePro/
  http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?*

(PS: why does slashcode convert text-only URLs into hyperlinks inside a blockquote?)

I ended up AdBlocking a bunch of facebook URLs to solve this. Annoying, but it did work. The ones I blocked:

http://connect.facebook.net/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
  http://www.facebook.com/ajax/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect.php/js/FB.SharePro/
  http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?*

(PS: why does slashcode convert text-only URLs into hyperlinks inside a blockquote?)

I ended up AdBlocking a bunch of facebook URLs to solve this. Annoying, but it did work. The ones I blocked:

http://connect.facebook.net/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
  http://www.facebook.com/ajax/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect.php/js/FB.SharePro/
  http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?*

(PS: why does slashcode convert text-only URLs into hyperlinks inside a blockquote?)

I ended up AdBlocking a bunch of facebook URLs to solve this. Annoying, but it did work. The ones I blocked:

http://connect.facebook.net/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
  http://www.facebook.com/ajax/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect.php/js/FB.SharePro/
  http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?*

(PS: why does slashcode convert text-only URLs into hyperlinks inside a blockquote?)

I ended up AdBlocking a bunch of facebook URLs to solve this. Annoying, but it did work. The ones I blocked:

http://connect.facebook.net/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
  http://www.facebook.com/ajax/connect/*
  http://www.facebook.com/connect.php/js/FB.SharePro/
  http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?*

(PS: why does slashcode convert text-only URLs into hyperlinks inside a blockquote?)

Too bad /. does not give this more attention http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DM4SjtxR_SGo%26sns%3Dfb&h=f9283 The "Collateral Murder" video was a fraud of editing.

10 years ago if you had a degree and an MCSE you could start at 5k a month and if you had 5 years experience demand 8k a month or walk out the door! Houses were only $170k with 5% down. As long as you could show up you could work anywhere.

Could any of you imagine reading such a story 10 years ago? Shaking head ...

I keep hearing how bankers such as Goldman Sachs are betting agaisn't America and Greece are doing everything in their power to have total destruction in order to reduce bargaining power and enslave the world in debt.

I have nothing really to say other than disbelief on how this could happen in such a short short time. I do not think I should peruse I.T. anymore but this globalization is likely going to adversely effect all jobs.

Here's a question to anyone who works at facebook and is willing to reply (even anon):

What is the ratio of engineers at facebook who could work on low-level internal and open source code like HipHop, Thrift, memcached, etc., to engineers who work on features like Superpoke and other higher-level features/systems?

Is there much crossover, if so how, if not why?

There is also the obligatory Facebook group (Act On ACTA): http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16582417478&v=info

And the economics of a closed fully controlled platform, have been in Steve's dreams since the seventies. Luckily we all know it will ultimately utterly fail, as so many closed platforms in the past. It will take a while. It might be hard for hackers such as us, but we will prevail! Sad to see Apple go down like this, was a big fan, contributor, promotor, book writer, journalist and so on for years.

I am really disappointed in Steve. At least Google tries a little bit to 'do no evil', Steve makes beautiful things, but with a very bitter taste! Facebook group: iPad is an attack on our freedom

... While "believe in" sounds stupid, irritating, and demeaning to science, I would still rather be counted in such a poll as believing in evolution, rather than not believing.

Yep. Case in point, I noticed some friend had joined a Facebook group with a similar title because it was a response to another group for people who don't believe, and to show I'm not taking sides I'll show both links ... please feel free to join either, neither, or indeed both at your whim ...

we can find 1,000,000 people who don't believe in Evolution befor June Currently at 176290
We can find 1,000,000 people who DO believe in Evolution before June Currently at 398198

I took the "Do believe" folks to task over their title but it was simply a response to the religion inspired "don't believe" group. Interestingly, if we're talking semantics, whilst I don't believe in evolution, I do believe that evolution is (currently) the most likely mechanism for the current incumbents on the planet. But it is a fine line to tread when having discussions with the overly religious and their comparisons between their particular flavour of religion and science.

These sorts of lists are also pretty meaningless as shown by Project Steve which is a list of scientists with the given name Stephen or a variation thereof (e.g., Stephanie, Stefan, Esteban, etc.) who "support evolution".
My favourite bit:
The list pokes fun at such endeavors in a "light-hearted" manner to make it clear that, "We did not wish to mislead the public into thinking that scientific issues are decided by who has the longer list of scientists!"

... While "believe in" sounds stupid, irritating, and demeaning to science, I would still rather be counted in such a poll as believing in evolution, rather than not believing.

Yep. Case in point, I noticed some friend had joined a Facebook group with a similar title because it was a response to another group for people who don't believe, and to show I'm not taking sides I'll show both links ... please feel free to join either, neither, or indeed both at your whim ...

we can find 1,000,000 people who don't believe in Evolution befor June Currently at 176290
We can find 1,000,000 people who DO believe in Evolution before June Currently at 398198

I took the "Do believe" folks to task over their title but it was simply a response to the religion inspired "don't believe" group. Interestingly, if we're talking semantics, whilst I don't believe in evolution, I do believe that evolution is (currently) the most likely mechanism for the current incumbents on the planet. But it is a fine line to tread when having discussions with the overly religious and their comparisons between their particular flavour of religion and science.

These sorts of lists are also pretty meaningless as shown by Project Steve which is a list of scientists with the given name Stephen or a variation thereof (e.g., Stephanie, Stefan, Esteban, etc.) who "support evolution".
My favourite bit:
The list pokes fun at such endeavors in a "light-hearted" manner to make it clear that, "We did not wish to mislead the public into thinking that scientific issues are decided by who has the longer list of scientists!"

You cannot add 'WikiLeaks' as your friend on facebook.
It says the user has too many friends.

http://www.facebook.com/sunshinepress?v=wall

“Everyone” Privacy Setting. Information set to “everyone” is publicly available information, may be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Facebook), is subject to indexing by third party search engines, may be associated with you outside of Facebook (such as when you visit other sites on the internet), and may be imported and exported by us and others without privacy limitations. The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” You can review and change the default settings in your privacy settings. If you delete “everyone” content that you posted on Facebook, we will remove it from your Facebook profile, but have no control over its use outside of Facebook.

I'd also like to point out in their terms:

When you publish content or information using the "everyone" setting, it means that everyone, including people off of Facebook, will have access to that information and we may not have control over what they do with it.

“Everyone” Privacy Setting. Information set to “everyone” is publicly available information, may be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Facebook), is subject to indexing by third party search engines, may be associated with you outside of Facebook (such as when you visit other sites on the internet), and may be imported and exported by us and others without privacy limitations. The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” You can review and change the default settings in your privacy settings. If you delete “everyone” content that you posted on Facebook, we will remove it from your Facebook profile, but have no control over its use outside of Facebook.

I'd also like to point out in their terms:

When you publish content or information using the "everyone" setting, it means that everyone, including people off of Facebook, will have access to that information and we may not have control over what they do with it.

From the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, Section 3 "Safety":

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

The question then becomes how enforceable is the agreement? Sure, if he has an account Facebook can close it, but if he is just accessing Facebook without an account do they have a case? Last I saw you can browse parts of profiles without being logged in, and without ever agreeing to any terms.

Agreed. If you have the second most popular website in the world serving over 400 billion dynamically generated page views per month from a backend of over 30,000 servers, you absolutely do not want to rely on PHP to serve those pages for you.

This is the same old argument over and over again. Facebook and a couple of other large sites building on PHP don't work the way they do because of PHP, but despite being build on PHP. There's a lot of engineering effort put into those sites, with a not unimportant share of that devoted to things having nothing to do with what PHP handles. With such engineering effort being poured in, Facebook could have been developed in assembly or COBOL, neither of which would have been prove that they are inherently suited for such environments.

Also, don't forget that Facebook is migrating to their C++ based hiphop toolchain and have build their own internal framework, a framework that resembles the Java EE stack in a couple of ways and is NOT available to the general public. The kind of PHP that Facebook does is NOT your typical 'phpfreakz' kind of PHP that is most commonly practiced.

I've also personally talked to the lead developer of Hyves -- the Dutch version of Facebook with some 12 million users -- and he said 'PHP is a little shit language' (PHP is een kut taaltje). I understand that out of context this may not mean much, but he did said that. Additionally, Hyves, Tweakers (a Dutch news site) and a couple of other companies I know that use PHP professionally, some of which I know people working there, almost all seem to agree on that it's very difficult to find really skilled PHP programmers. There is an abundance of programmers that are of the Joe's Burgers variety and have hacked on some PHP script, but that's a completely different category really and not at all what a professional organization is looking for.

So, even though a select few companies are using PHP very professionally, the norm in the PHP market is that it's used by people who barely know the difference between a while loop and an if statement, let alone that they know anything at all about data structures, algorithms, or efficiently structuring their code.

Does PHP offers anything like that? Does the standard PHP library already comes with an MVC framework? Is unicode already natively supported? Is there any name spacing support? Is there ..

Those aren't real problems unless they are actively preventing you from developing your website, which is probably only the case about 2% of the time. The other 98% of the time you never need consider them.

And that's precisely where it all goes wrong. We don't need no education anymore, we don't need no knowledge about CS theory, we don't need no transactions, we don't need no unicode, we don't need no MVC... PHP is so easy... a baby can now program any web site. .... Until it all comes falling down.

It's the typical Visual Basic kind of mindset. A mindset about which you can read everyday on thedailywtf. Sure, idiots can produce crap in any language, but for some reason both PHP and VB seem to produce a disproportionate amount of that.

You sound like you did very well in school, and maybe even graduated at the top of you CS class. You also sound like you may have little real world experience.

I did okay in school and CS went well too, thank you. I'm currently the lead developer of a 12 person strong development team I've worked with for about 7 years. We're building an enterprise application consisting of several 100k LOC and every day have to deal with an infuriating amo

Agreed. If you have the second most popular website in the world serving over 400 billion dynamically generated page views per month from a backend of over 30,000 servers, you absolutely do not want to rely on PHP to serve those pages for you.

This is the same old argument over and over again. Facebook and a couple of other large sites building on PHP don't work the way they do because of PHP, but despite being build on PHP. There's a lot of engineering effort put into those sites, with a not unimportant share of that devoted to things having nothing to do with what PHP handles. With such engineering effort being poured in, Facebook could have been developed in assembly or COBOL, neither of which would have been prove that they are inherently suited for such environments.

Also, don't forget that Facebook is migrating to their C++ based hiphop toolchain and have build their own internal framework, a framework that resembles the Java EE stack in a couple of ways and is NOT available to the general public. The kind of PHP that Facebook does is NOT your typical 'phpfreakz' kind of PHP that is most commonly practiced.

I've also personally talked to the lead developer of Hyves -- the Dutch version of Facebook with some 12 million users -- and he said 'PHP is a little shit language' (PHP is een kut taaltje). I understand that out of context this may not mean much, but he did said that. Additionally, Hyves, Tweakers (a Dutch news site) and a couple of other companies I know that use PHP professionally, some of which I know people working there, almost all seem to agree on that it's very difficult to find really skilled PHP programmers. There is an abundance of programmers that are of the Joe's Burgers variety and have hacked on some PHP script, but that's a completely different category really and not at all what a professional organization is looking for.

So, even though a select few companies are using PHP very professionally, the norm in the PHP market is that it's used by people who barely know the difference between a while loop and an if statement, let alone that they know anything at all about data structures, algorithms, or efficiently structuring their code.

Does PHP offers anything like that? Does the standard PHP library already comes with an MVC framework? Is unicode already natively supported? Is there any name spacing support? Is there ..

Those aren't real problems unless they are actively preventing you from developing your website, which is probably only the case about 2% of the time. The other 98% of the time you never need consider them.

And that's precisely where it all goes wrong. We don't need no education anymore, we don't need no knowledge about CS theory, we don't need no transactions, we don't need no unicode, we don't need no MVC... PHP is so easy... a baby can now program any web site. .... Until it all comes falling down.

It's the typical Visual Basic kind of mindset. A mindset about which you can read everyday on thedailywtf. Sure, idiots can produce crap in any language, but for some reason both PHP and VB seem to produce a disproportionate amount of that.

You sound like you did very well in school, and maybe even graduated at the top of you CS class. You also sound like you may have little real world experience.

I did okay in school and CS went well too, thank you. I'm currently the lead developer of a 12 person strong development team I've worked with for about 7 years. We're building an enterprise application consisting of several 100k LOC and every day have to deal with an infuriating amo

I'm not a particular fan or foe of PHP (it's a tool that can get a certain class of jobs done), but I should point a few things out...

PHP is basically JSP with plain Java SE on it, and a rather poor version of that approach that this. It's perfectly suited for Joe's Burgers 4 page website, but when something more 'advanced' is needed, PHP just doesn't cut it.

Agreed. If you have the second most popular website in the world serving over 400 billion dynamically generated page views per month from a backend of over 30,000 servers, you absolutely do not want to rely on PHP to serve those pages for you.

Does PHP offers anything like that? Does the standard PHP library already comes with an MVC framework? Is unicode already natively supported? Is there any name spacing support? Is there ..

Those aren't real problems unless they are actively preventing you from developing your website, which is probably only the case about 2% of the time. The other 98% of the time you never need consider them.

And I can produce results a hundred times as fast by using Java EE/Java/JBoss AS than with Django/Python and surely PHP. I'm not sure what this proves though... Also, don't forget that hacking together stuff and throwing it out is nice when you're 16 and in high school, but in the real world maintainability, correctness, stability, scalability, etc etc all count and in the end are way more important than just the ability to get some prototype like code out of the door, that 'usually-works-but-breaks-down-every-tuesday-when-it-rains'.

You sound like you did very well in school, and maybe even graduated at the top of you CS class. You also sound like you may have little real world experience. If you're in the bowels of some large corporate IT department where even your boss forgot you existed, you may have the time to plan everything, consider all of the potential problems, and do everything perfectly right the first time through, but it's more likely that either your boss or someone above him will see the cost of you spending six months planning something that will be perfect as way more expensive than just spending three weeks delivering something that is good enough. And this isn't even considering that you may have competition in the marketplace, competition that will put you under if you spend all your time planning while they are delivering actual products.

I'm not a particular fan or foe of PHP (it's a tool that can get a certain class of jobs done), but I should point a few things out...

PHP is basically JSP with plain Java SE on it, and a rather poor version of that approach that this. It's perfectly suited for Joe's Burgers 4 page website, but when something more 'advanced' is needed, PHP just doesn't cut it.

Agreed. If you have the second most popular website in the world serving over 400 billion dynamically generated page views per month from a backend of over 30,000 servers, you absolutely do not want to rely on PHP to serve those pages for you.

Does PHP offers anything like that? Does the standard PHP library already comes with an MVC framework? Is unicode already natively supported? Is there any name spacing support? Is there ..

Those aren't real problems unless they are actively preventing you from developing your website, which is probably only the case about 2% of the time. The other 98% of the time you never need consider them.

And I can produce results a hundred times as fast by using Java EE/Java/JBoss AS than with Django/Python and surely PHP. I'm not sure what this proves though... Also, don't forget that hacking together stuff and throwing it out is nice when you're 16 and in high school, but in the real world maintainability, correctness, stability, scalability, etc etc all count and in the end are way more important than just the ability to get some prototype like code out of the door, that 'usually-works-but-breaks-down-every-tuesday-when-it-rains'.

You sound like you did very well in school, and maybe even graduated at the top of you CS class. You also sound like you may have little real world experience. If you're in the bowels of some large corporate IT department where even your boss forgot you existed, you may have the time to plan everything, consider all of the potential problems, and do everything perfectly right the first time through, but it's more likely that either your boss or someone above him will see the cost of you spending six months planning something that will be perfect as way more expensive than just spending three weeks delivering something that is good enough. And this isn't even considering that you may have competition in the marketplace, competition that will put you under if you spend all your time planning while they are delivering actual products.

Your comments rating of troll is accurate, and here is why:

*note: following calculations are in calories per gram degrees celsius.

Melting ice is no small issue, neither are warming oceans. We know that the heat capacity of water is 1 and the heat capacity of ice is .5. We know that to melt 1 cubic centimeter or ice it takes 50 calories of heat, and we know it takes 10 Calories of heat to raise the temperature of 1 cubic cm of water 1 degree Celsius. and it takes .5 Calories of heat to warm 1 cubic cm of ice 1 degree C. So if the ice caps contain millions of metric tons of ice that is below 0 C, and it is not in an equilibrium of forming at the same speed that it is melting, then we can see that the total heat content of the earth in increasing, all other things held constant. Now consider the oceans, which cover the majority of the earths surface, and are very deep in places, constituting a massive possible store of heat, several orders of magnitude higher than Surface temps, air temp, and the ice caps combined.

So based on the fact that we know definitively that the oceans are warming, but quite a bit, and that the melting of the ice-caps also displays a gratuitous increase in total heat of the earth. While the air temps are fairly static, they carry very little heat compared to the other major mechanisms, and very difficult to accurately measure, and give us practically no insight whatsoever into the temperatures of our planet.

You attack what i say blatantly using the fallacy reducto ad absurdum, reducing logical constructions to absurdity by eliminating all of the important facets, as so many creationists, flat earthers, evolution deniers and republicans do. Any lover of science would do no such thing.

I talk about general concepts and things, you reduce and twist what is said to absurdium. Your points are neither here nor there, and you are broken. over 99% of the scientific community is in concensus over global warming, whereas polling figures from the big polling organizations deny it. You call me crazy and lofty while you ignore everything around you. Open your eyes.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377186311375
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377231836375
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377250136375

I was modded insightful because I displayed insight. You were modded troll because when you ignore everything I say and then insult me based on 5 or 6 buzzwords picked out of my post, you are doing justice to every other troll out there. Scientific reasoning says something important, rhetoric and foolishness is why people believe as you do. As Plato once said "Rhetoric is the art of making the lesser argument seem the greater" and you have failed at accomplishing such a disgraceful task.

Your comments rating of troll is accurate, and here is why:

*note: following calculations are in calories per gram degrees celsius.

Melting ice is no small issue, neither are warming oceans. We know that the heat capacity of water is 1 and the heat capacity of ice is .5. We know that to melt 1 cubic centimeter or ice it takes 50 calories of heat, and we know it takes 10 Calories of heat to raise the temperature of 1 cubic cm of water 1 degree Celsius. and it takes .5 Calories of heat to warm 1 cubic cm of ice 1 degree C. So if the ice caps contain millions of metric tons of ice that is below 0 C, and it is not in an equilibrium of forming at the same speed that it is melting, then we can see that the total heat content of the earth in increasing, all other things held constant. Now consider the oceans, which cover the majority of the earths surface, and are very deep in places, constituting a massive possible store of heat, several orders of magnitude higher than Surface temps, air temp, and the ice caps combined.

So based on the fact that we know definitively that the oceans are warming, but quite a bit, and that the melting of the ice-caps also displays a gratuitous increase in total heat of the earth. While the air temps are fairly static, they carry very little heat compared to the other major mechanisms, and very difficult to accurately measure, and give us practically no insight whatsoever into the temperatures of our planet.

You attack what i say blatantly using the fallacy reducto ad absurdum, reducing logical constructions to absurdity by eliminating all of the important facets, as so many creationists, flat earthers, evolution deniers and republicans do. Any lover of science would do no such thing.

I talk about general concepts and things, you reduce and twist what is said to absurdium. Your points are neither here nor there, and you are broken. over 99% of the scientific community is in concensus over global warming, whereas polling figures from the big polling organizations deny it. You call me crazy and lofty while you ignore everything around you. Open your eyes.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377186311375
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377231836375
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377250136375

I was modded insightful because I displayed insight. You were modded troll because when you ignore everything I say and then insult me based on 5 or 6 buzzwords picked out of my post, you are doing justice to every other troll out there. Scientific reasoning says something important, rhetoric and foolishness is why people believe as you do. As Plato once said "Rhetoric is the art of making the lesser argument seem the greater" and you have failed at accomplishing such a disgraceful task.

Your comments rating of troll is accurate, and here is why:

*note: following calculations are in calories per gram degrees celsius.

Melting ice is no small issue, neither are warming oceans. We know that the heat capacity of water is 1 and the heat capacity of ice is .5. We know that to melt 1 cubic centimeter or ice it takes 50 calories of heat, and we know it takes 10 Calories of heat to raise the temperature of 1 cubic cm of water 1 degree Celsius. and it takes .5 Calories of heat to warm 1 cubic cm of ice 1 degree C. So if the ice caps contain millions of metric tons of ice that is below 0 C, and it is not in an equilibrium of forming at the same speed that it is melting, then we can see that the total heat content of the earth in increasing, all other things held constant. Now consider the oceans, which cover the majority of the earths surface, and are very deep in places, constituting a massive possible store of heat, several orders of magnitude higher than Surface temps, air temp, and the ice caps combined.

So based on the fact that we know definitively that the oceans are warming, but quite a bit, and that the melting of the ice-caps also displays a gratuitous increase in total heat of the earth. While the air temps are fairly static, they carry very little heat compared to the other major mechanisms, and very difficult to accurately measure, and give us practically no insight whatsoever into the temperatures of our planet.

You attack what i say blatantly using the fallacy reducto ad absurdum, reducing logical constructions to absurdity by eliminating all of the important facets, as so many creationists, flat earthers, evolution deniers and republicans do. Any lover of science would do no such thing.

I talk about general concepts and things, you reduce and twist what is said to absurdium. Your points are neither here nor there, and you are broken. over 99% of the scientific community is in concensus over global warming, whereas polling figures from the big polling organizations deny it. You call me crazy and lofty while you ignore everything around you. Open your eyes.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377186311375
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377231836375
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377250136375

I was modded insightful because I displayed insight. You were modded troll because when you ignore everything I say and then insult me based on 5 or 6 buzzwords picked out of my post, you are doing justice to every other troll out there. Scientific reasoning says something important, rhetoric and foolishness is why people believe as you do. As Plato once said "Rhetoric is the art of making the lesser argument seem the greater" and you have failed at accomplishing such a disgraceful task.

Yup, we do.

Here's one from last year.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10268282-38.html

They want username AND passwords? Unbelievable. What possible use could they have for the password unless they want to commit identity theft. Sorry, but that's going to be a TOS violation and is definitely the stupidest thing I've read all day... FB could probably make a case against them for unauthorized access to FBs computer systems. This is like the idiot school officials peeping kids with school laptop cams. It's pretty clear that control freaks are invariably the stupidest people alive. How do these morons even get jobs where they are in a position to manage/hire other people?

Join the Facebook page for Fluff Busting Purity (the script), that will show them:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/fluffbustingpurity?ref=mf

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
Do not login into your account after that for at least 14 days, otherwise it will be re-activated. I do not know if this actually works since I do not have a facebook account. I remember that before this was available facbook would only 'de-activate' your account and you could always come back with all your contacts/infos/photos etc. - but this is supposedly the real deal.

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
Do not login into your account after that for at least 14 days, otherwise it will be re-activated. I do not know if this actually works since I do not have a facebook account. I remember that before this was available facbook would only 'de-activate' your account and you could always come back with all your contacts/infos/photos etc. - but this is supposedly the real deal.

Yeah, or you can also just use:

http://lite.facebook.com/

I don't get why they care if THEY themselves offer so many ways to avoid all that crap.

"This is awesome, kudos to the guy who pulled it off."

It would be awesome if everyone hadn't done this many times already.

If someone from NASA really called this guy then it's obvious no one at NASA reads /.

Please stop posting these stories, they were cool the first 3 times, now it's belongs to the Redundancy Office of Redundant Redundancy

Great, a number of sites have switched to Cassandra, that's an interesting social benchmark. What about some real engineering benchmarks? I'd like to consider Cassandra but where is the objective data?

Cassandra's data model page states that "Cassandra is much, much faster at writes than relational systems". Great, so how about some comparative data? There is a slide show on the main Cassandra page with a snippet of data about read latency. Reads range from 7 ms to 44 ms. That's pretty anemic in the RDBMS world. There is a statement that writes are limited by network bandwidth.

There is also a presentation from IBM that shows reads ranging from 25 to 900 ms, but with no write data. The fact that read latency gets worse (increases) by a factor of 2 or more when you go from a 3 node to 6 node Cassandra cluster would seem to be worrisome on the surface.

The Facebook Engineering Notes presentation has almost nothing quantitative (only two sentences have numbers) and nothing is documented about read or write performance.

From Facebook's Terms of Use:

• You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.
• You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.

So, given that there are no sex offenders or children on facebook, what's the big deal?

Facebook has now changed their policy to eliminate privacy, in particular, friend lists are always public. At one time you could make this private, as noted in this report. I made my own friend list private when I first joined it, but Facebook now ignores my configuration. If you can make friend lists private, please let know how... it sure isn't easy, and Facebook's current documentation says that it cannot be made private.

Making public the private data you gave a company, without your consent, should be illegal.... but it appears that Facebook can do it with impunity. I've mostly stopped using Facebook because Facebook seems to be becoming actively hostile to privacy of any kind.

That's an ancient rumour. According to NewEgg, the supplier was IPEX.

People are worried it's another one-two by the record companies (and it probably is). This is great news and comes down to a bitchslap to the pencil pushers trying to get away with it.

Btw, if you want to rally more support: join our facebook group: We Need 5m people to prevent the labels killing internet freedom with ACTA. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=213704134963

Run a REAL operating system, like VISTA!

and of course you should not trust this function which says you can remove all your imported contacts

This wasn't supposed to be flamebait, it was supposed to be a joke about the proposed use of Hella- as the SI prefix for 10^27. I thought I read about it here...obviously I was mistaken.

You are aware that A Clockwork Orange was fiction, aren't you?

Never! I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

You mean that the messages I get from the Korova Bar every so often are a delusion of mine? And the occasional evening I spend there criticizing the owner's wiring (he's an electrician) and drinking surprisingly well-priced beer are also delusions.

I designed a serial to USB/Ethernet adapter so legacy serial ports can upconvert to either standard. Underneath all these other technologies, is and will always be a serial port.

Check it out

OMG!! Look at these targeted ads! Judging by the ad, it would seem that they have determined by my calling habits that I like to ..... make phone calls?

My Remote Desktop

PS No jokes about my cluttered and edited desktop, or choice of OS.