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  1. Re:The latest five pictures... on Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages · · Score: 2

    It's the most recent photos you were tagged in.

  2. Re:Bait and switch on Every Day's a Tax Holiday At Amazon · · Score: 1

    You'd assume they live and work in the same state.
    But I guess it's worth commuting hundreds of miles next time you can save 7.25% on Tropic Thunder on BluRay.

  3. Re:Microsoft's Lost Decade on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    Did you bring this up at the last shareholder meeting?

  4. Re:Mixed messages on Facebook Billionaire Gives Money To Legalize Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that dilemma be solved with alcohol and cigarettes which are legal and not good for you at the same time?

  5. Re:My concerns about network neutrality. on Lawrence Lessig Reviews The Social Network · · Score: 1

    "If a cartel of major ISPs is paid to promote YouTube, say, at the expense of everyone else's video site, small businesses everywhere will feel the sting." - Should we outlaw Akamai then? I think what you've described is precisely what they're doing, with edge servers closer to the user, and dedicated racks in major ISPs.

  6. Re:This flaw is no longer available on Facebook Bug Could Give Spammers Names, Photos · · Score: 1

    What happened when you tried someone else's e-mail address?

  7. Re:Not The Only Problem on Facebook Bug Could Give Spammers Names, Photos · · Score: 2, Informative

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

  8. Re:Too late on Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? · · Score: 1

    "Someone in these kind of stories always suggests that you set up your own Facebook-like service or just a website. That's just thinking too much of yourself - why would people visit your site just to see your stuff?" - Well, you can do that with Open Graph protocol with the caveat that it works for pages only. But you can host your own entity, or, like TripAdvisor, create thousands of Facebook page equivalents all controlled by you.

  9. Re:Yes, it could. on Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? · · Score: 1

    How do you generate News Feed that's interesting and not just a collection of useless facts?

  10. Re:and again.... on Facebook and the "Social Graph" · · Score: 1

    Semiconductors were invented by a man with some pretty wild ideas. I'm assuming you whole-heartedly support them, as you have voted with your money for products containing semiconductors.

  11. Re:and again.... on Facebook and the "Social Graph" · · Score: 1

    Accel also invested in Foundry Networks and 2Wire.
    Serving on a board of a random association is a super-strong tie, shouldn't Accel be funneling the data to The Man on the router level though?

  12. Re:Publicly available on Facebook Kills Dataset of Crawled Public Profiles · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: I work for the company mentioned in the article, not in legal role though.

    Privacy is dynamic and "publicly available information" is not set in stone - user could've chosen to hide specific bits of that information a few minutes later, and there doesn't seem to be any update protocol to remove those bits from the scraped DB.

  13. Re:it is called metonymy on Subject to Change · · Score: 0

    Hey, thanks for the clarification, but the complete sentence is still incongruous.
    So "Silicon Valley brethren" is metonymy then for Redwood City, Palo Alto and Cupertino?

  14. Re:I actually registered on FaceBook on Scrabulous Returns To Facebook, As Wordscraper · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it is a bit. However, on the site with the subheading "news for nerds" the expectations are a bit raised.

  15. Re:I actually registered on FaceBook on Scrabulous Returns To Facebook, As Wordscraper · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "downloaded the wordscraper client" - not sure what you're describing here. There's no client, and there's no download.

  16. Re:Is this unusual? on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 1

    If you didn't clarify this was UK, I could swear this was Yahoo! in Sunnyvale. Except for the 24 hour gym part - it's open 24/7, but they turn off the sauna after the personal trainers leave.

  17. If $9 is "The Max"... on VeriSign Jacks Up .com, .net Prices To the Max · · Score: 1

    ...you might have a low FICO score.

  18. Lots of companies do that on Scholarships From FOSS Organizations? · · Score: 1

    Do companies like Google or Red-Hat offer scholarships to big name schools in return for a few years of work after college?

    No, but tons of companies do. They are called "banks", their scholarships are called "loans", and the best part of the deal is that you don't even have to work for them to return the money - you can choose your future employer to your own taste, and just return the money on a pre-determined schedule.

    I can't imagine any company paying somebody's 4-year college tuition in exchange for "a few years of work" - how do they know they'll be hiring, and hiring your specific skillset in 4 years from now, or what's their guarantee that you're not, to put it mildly, a "C" student?

  19. Sha handles it gracefully on Facebook Interviewer Heckled at Web Conference · · Score: 5, Funny
    Say what you want about American journalists, and their courageous representative Sarah Lacy, she handled the hiccups in the interview gracefully:

    seriously screw all you guys. I did my best to ask a range of things.
  20. Jobs going fast! Sign up now! Only 2.3 mln left! on Increased US Broadband Adoption Could Create 2.4 Million Jobs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Top jobs created by broadband adoption:

    1) Comcast traffic filterer
    2) MPAA P2P network monitor
    3) DMCA takedown notices writer
    4) RIAA fake torrent uploader
    5) Botnet senior manager
    6) Senior wiretap installer

  21. Re:There's XSS-like vulnerabilities too on Facebook Widget Installs Zango Spyware · · Score: 1

    Thanks a lot for details.

  22. Re:There's XSS-like vulnerabilities too on Facebook Widget Installs Zango Spyware · · Score: 1

    Can you be a bit more specific? A Facebook app can choose to run FBML (display data passed back to Facebook and displayed) or an iframe, where you see Facebook navigation, but the rest of the page is iframe loaded from developer's server.

    What you are describing is a bit different, and I just want to make sure I understand it right.

  23. What's the news? on Sony BMG Dropping DRM · · Score: 4, Funny

    AllofMP.com has been pioneering the model all along.

  24. Re:Bias? on Google's OpenSocial Too Late To Be a Win? · · Score: 2, Funny

    if I'm not mistaken

    That's a big if. Perhaps they should stick a 121st CNET logo/reference somewhere on the page, since it's so easy to miss.

  25. Re:How do you turn it off if you're not a member? on Facebook Caves To Privacy Protests Over Beacon · · Score: 1