It seems to run a lot smother then it did before and commenting is faster. I don't like the lack of a button to get more comments on the side and that there's no new post button at the bottom of the page. I like the layout though. Maybe make the/. logo a bit bigger. Also it went really weird during the transition so maybe try do it faster.
The Facebook T&C do not include a modeling release (separate from IP rights) that is required to use a likeness of someone to endorse a product or service. This is especially true if you have other people in the background of your profile pic which may not have agreed to the Facebook T&C.
Forgot to mention that if your Facebook profile pic contains over people in the background (mine does), then that other person who may or may not have agreed to the T&C has even more rights to sue them then you do.
2. Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it. -Facebook T&C
Note how whilst this gives them an IP License it does not give them a modeling release which is required for them to use it to endorse products, also to imply I endorse something which I don't is fraud and libel.
IANAL.
Other people can check you in at places unless you lock down your privacy settings, luckily this feature doesn't really seem to be catching. I only know one of two people who use that feature. Ironically they're people who have enough technical knowledge to know better.
you could also avoid using: email, IM, sms, telephones, telegrams, letters, smoke signals, etc. Social networks are an evolution in our communication technology and I don't think there going to be going away.
list of diaspora pods by uptime: http://podup.sargodarya.de/ I found it usefull as I didn't want to have to wait for an invite and don't have the server[s] to set up my own one.
Facebooks T&C (which I believe is like a EULA and thus doesn't have legal standing?) says that you give them
"For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it." --Facebook T&C 2,1
but as other people have pointed out they don't require you to have a 'modeling release' for your photos (they can't use them for advertising, etc), your friend needs your permission to post to Facebook, but this does not give Facebook permission to use your photos to endorse products, etc. Further more falsely implying I endorse a product is defamation and fraud.
Disclaimer: IANAL, this post is not legal advice and I don't accepts the Facebook T&C because it changes to often and they have breached it.
Manners often depend on the social context, for example in a posh restaurant it is considered rude to eat a burger with your hands, but not in MacDonalds.
It is becoming the same with grammar in some cases (SMS, IM, some uses of Facebook and twitter) it is ok to use incorrect spelling/grammar on others (E.g school, work,/.) it is not. This has always existed in the spoken word (E.g. you speak diffidently in a bar then in your place of work, probably using different grammar).
It is also due to different socioeconomic classes and cultures which are now writing a lot more then before, due to the rise of the net (as other posters have said).The city watch would not have spoken the same as the Lords and Ladys
Interestingly enough 'then' and 'than' are often pronounced slightly differently by many native speakers, although the difference is very hard to hear and I also often make this mistake. I think it is mostly because their meanings in common use are reasonably similar and because it is often misspelled by overs so the habit is picked up.
using or characterized by irony:his mouth curved into an ironic smile
happening in a way contrary to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this:[with clause]:it was ironic that now everybody had plenty of money for food they couldn't obtain it because everything was rationed
I don't think you understood me. Teh erors lyke this maik reeding hard and thus thinking about what you're redding harder. I make exceptions for ESL folk, but if someone grew up with English, I expect them to use proper (British/American/Australian/Indian) English spelling and grammar or face my Grammar Nazi Wrath. Once they're writing intelligibly, I can communicate with them intelligently.
Interestingly enough I don't actually find that harder to read and I don't read a lot of stuff like that. I do however find it irritating when people forgot words such as 'the' and 'a'. It is however necessary to do some abbreviation and phonetic spelling in SMSs/twitter in order to get information into one message.
If you use an old throw away email address to register, then you don't need a phone (I think you might have to create a Google account instead of a gmail one and then use that to log into gmail as well)
Did they even consider that it could be people who have mental problems are more likely to play video games as supposed to the other way round? As the saying goes correlation != causation.
I was wondering why Facebook added the option to download all your data (on the Account settings page). Maybe this is the reason. Google also has something similar here although it doesn't appear to include tracking data. Both of these are relatively new additions though, is this a relatively new law or has it been around for a while?
Is there anyone here who can comment on the legality of what they are doing? Also did Google Street view set a legal president for this, as what Google did seems to be similar (but less invasive).
The company operates in the US, TFA is Australian so is looking at it from an Australian perspective. It is not saying that they are only planing to do this for Australian users in fact it actually implies most of the information sources will be from the US (plus all Facebook accounts with bad privacy settings).
They do however seem to operate world wide so they are probably open to legal proceedings in many countries (including Australia according to the TFA)
Slashdot Mirror
Some of the settings pages change back to normal HTTP when using that and chat doesn't work, other then that it works fine.
Not for me
Reasonably easy once you find the settings page, (it keeps moving). You do however have to check it regularly for new settings.
It seems to run a lot smother then it did before and commenting is faster. I don't like the lack of a button to get more comments on the side and that there's no new post button at the bottom of the page. I like the layout though. Maybe make the /. logo a bit bigger.
Also it went really weird during the transition so maybe try do it faster.
I was here when they changed it, it went really retarded for a minute or so.
Could you please point me to this clause, I can't seem to find it.
The Facebook T&C do not include a modeling release (separate from IP rights) that is required to use a likeness of someone to endorse a product or service. This is especially true if you have other people in the background of your profile pic which may not have agreed to the Facebook T&C.
Forgot to mention that if your Facebook profile pic contains over people in the background (mine does), then that other person who may or may not have agreed to the T&C has even more rights to sue them then you do.
2. Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
-Facebook T&C
Note how whilst this gives them an IP License it does not give them a modeling release which is required for them to use it to endorse products, also to imply I endorse something which I don't is fraud and libel.
IANAL.
Other people can check you in at places unless you lock down your privacy settings, luckily this feature doesn't really seem to be catching. I only know one of two people who use that feature. Ironically they're people who have enough technical knowledge to know better.
you could also avoid using: email, IM, sms, telephones, telegrams, letters, smoke signals, etc. Social networks are an evolution in our communication technology and I don't think there going to be going away.
list of diaspora pods by uptime: http://podup.sargodarya.de/ I found it usefull as I didn't want to have to wait for an invite and don't have the server[s] to set up my own one.
"For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."
--Facebook T&C 2,1
but as other people have pointed out they don't require you to have a 'modeling release' for your photos (they can't use them for advertising, etc), your friend needs your permission to post to Facebook, but this does not give Facebook permission to use your photos to endorse products, etc.
Further more falsely implying I endorse a product is defamation and fraud.
Disclaimer: IANAL, this post is not legal advice and I don't accepts the Facebook T&C because it changes to often and they have breached it.
Would EFF help with something like this?
Manners often depend on the social context, for example in a posh restaurant it is considered rude to eat a burger with your hands, but not in MacDonalds.
It is becoming the same with grammar in some cases (SMS, IM, some uses of Facebook and twitter) it is ok to use incorrect spelling/grammar on others (E.g school, work, /.) it is not. This has always existed in the spoken word (E.g. you speak diffidently in a bar then in your place of work, probably using different grammar).
It is also due to different socioeconomic classes and cultures which are now writing a lot more then before, due to the rise of the net (as other posters have said).The city watch would not have spoken the same as the Lords and Ladys
Interestingly enough 'then' and 'than' are often pronounced slightly differently by many native speakers, although the difference is very hard to hear and I also often make this mistake. I think it is mostly because their meanings in common use are reasonably similar and because it is often misspelled by overs so the habit is picked up.
It expresses that the thing it's applied to can be supposed - as opposed to something that can't be supposed at all.
Wouldn't that be supposable'?
Also Oxford Dictionary search
adjective
-Oxford Dictionary
I don't think you understood me. Teh erors lyke this maik reeding hard and thus thinking about what you're redding harder. I make exceptions for ESL folk, but if someone grew up with English, I expect them to use proper (British/American/Australian/Indian) English spelling and grammar or face my Grammar Nazi Wrath. Once they're writing intelligibly, I can communicate with them intelligently.
Interestingly enough I don't actually find that harder to read and I don't read a lot of stuff like that. I do however find it irritating when people forgot words such as 'the' and 'a'.
It is however necessary to do some abbreviation and phonetic spelling in SMSs/twitter in order to get information into one message.
If you use an old throw away email address to register, then you don't need a phone (I think you might have to create a Google account instead of a gmail one and then use that to log into gmail as well)
You know you can embed fonts in word documents right?
Did they even consider that it could be people who have mental problems are more likely to play video games as supposed to the other way round?
As the saying goes correlation != causation.
I was wondering why Facebook added the option to download all your data (on the Account settings page). Maybe this is the reason. Google also has something similar here although it doesn't appear to include tracking data.
Both of these are relatively new additions though, is this a relatively new law or has it been around for a while?
Is there anyone here who can comment on the legality of what they are doing?
Also did Google Street view set a legal president for this, as what Google did seems to be similar (but less invasive).
The company operates in the US, TFA is Australian so is looking at it from an Australian perspective. It is not saying that they are only planing to do this for Australian users in fact it actually implies most of the information sources will be from the US (plus all Facebook accounts with bad privacy settings).
They do however seem to operate world wide so they are probably open to legal proceedings in many countries (including Australia according to the TFA)