Has Facebook Jumped the Shark?

Lordy, I hope so


From L'inq

Facebook is losing users

Browser Fail - You can't test a link's trust by hovering over it :-(

OK, go figure, the tried-and-true way of testing a link in Firefox - hovering over it and checking the status at the bottom - can be killed by, you guessed it, Javascript!  What are these people thinking?

Dear Firefox, Chrome Developers -  Can you please do something about this, like make the status bar BLINK RED if someone changes the link name in Javascript?!

Until then - aggressively use NoScript!

Thank you
Perry

Does Facebook stay up at night thinking of ways to annoy its users?

*YES*

On Friday, Facebook will start using your photos in ads that will appear on the profile page of your contacts. It's legal and is mentioned in the fine print when you create your account. TO stop this do the following: Account, Account Settings, Then click on Facebook Ads ( tab...), choose "No one" on the drop-down menu and save changes. Copy this and use in a status update. **PASS ALONG**

[It looks like there are TWO places to set this - at the top (which was pre set to "No One" for me, and at the bottom, which was not, funny, huh?]

Yeah, It's official - I'm opting out of Full Body Xray Scanners

Yeah, I've thought and read about it, and I'm not into the civil disobedience thing, but I had skin cancer, and I don't want more x-rays. The Government officially knows I'm not a threat, they can pat me down or whatever.  They already know I won't do something bad for crying out loud.

Will I print and bring this letter? that I found in this blog?

Maybe...

Will I send a letter to my Congress people?   Yes!

Perry

I am *really* glad I didn't buy a ps3

Seriously? Sony thinks it's a good thing to take their users to court for jail breaking their own equipment?

Sony is just plain bad.

Update:  Sony is really, really bad - they've got a restraining order against someone who broke into his own device!

Update 2: Now, it's not enough that they load malware into their customers computers, now they're selling ( or updating ) PS3's with SOFTWARE THEY CAN USE AS A BACK DOOR!  How nice.  Buy a toy from Sony, give them unlimited access to your LAN!

Perry

Geek Pr0n!

Good News! Xilinx prototyping kit, holds 2-16 Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, up to 12GB memory! w00t!  

Bad news - Where are the 10GB Network IO ports?
Price too, probably, blah.  Case is available, network daughter cards too?

Extra credit:  Can you find the easter egg in the spec sheet?  Hint: it's there twice (sorta)!



Full spec sheet can be found here

Perry

Facebook Places - You might not want other people to tag you

Facebook has a new feature called "Places", which lets people update their physical location, in real time.

The idea is to let friends find each other while out and about. 

Unfortunately, as usual with Facebook, it's enabled by default - even if you don't enter your location, someone can do it for you.

Think about it - you're across the country, or globe, on vacation or a business trip, and a friend runs into you, and not only posts "Hey - I just ran into Perry in San Antonio".  Now they can put my location right into my Facebook page.

I don't think I want that.

Well, Gawker Media shows how to turn it off

Perry