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Comment Re:I'm offended too (Score 5, Informative) 211

by iammani (#34838794) Attached to: Playmate Photo From Apollo 12 Up For Auction

Comment Re:Facebook overvalued? (Score 2) 295

by iammani (#34794354) Attached to: Facebook's Revenues Leaked

Unless of course you expect the revenue to change rapidly in the next few years. Which is what people expect to happen to facebook. I would say $16B is undervalued, for such a company (i also believe $50 is really over valued though)
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook Apologizes to Birth Photographer

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "The Chicago Tribune reports that Facebook has apologized to Laura Eckert, a photographer who specializes in pictures of pregnant women and the first moments of a baby's life, for disabling her account for posting pictures the company initially deemed inappropriate, including shots of a friend and her newborn moments after birth that partially showed her friend's breasts, but not her nipples. Eckert says when she tried to log onto her Facebook account to find out which photos were targeted, the account was disabled so she sent more than 30 e-mails to Facebook to inquire and didn't get a response until the day after KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids reported on her plight. "It's funny it happened after the media got involved. I sent many polite e-mails asking for information over the course of the last few weeks and got no response. None," says Eckhert. For their part Facebook spokesman Simon Axten explained the Facebook reviews thousands of pieces of content every day to ensure Facebook remains a safe and trusted environment for everyone. "Of course, we make an occasional mistake. This is an example," says Axten. "When this happens, and it's brought to our attention, we work quickly to resolve the issue." Eckert says she is relieved to be able to log on to Facebook again, but that she's still unclear which birth photos the company allows. ""I need a little bit of clarity on what is a violation and what's not. I'm going to shoot another birth in a week or two and I'm going to want to share those photos.""
Crime

Unwise — Search History of Murder Methods 532

Posted by timothy from the unless-everybody-joins-in dept.
nonprofiteer writes "Mark Jensen's home computer revealed Internet searches for botulism, poisoning, pipe bombs and mercury fulminate. A website was visited that explained how to reverse the polarity of a swimming pool — the Jensens had a pool — by switching the wires around, likening the result to the 4th of July. The State pointed out the absence of Internet searches on topics like separation, divorce, child custody or marital property. Julie Jensen died as a result of ethylene glycol in her system, an ingredient found in antifreeze. On the morning of her death, someone attempted to 'double-delete' (apparently unsuccessfully) the computer's browsing history, which included a search for 'ethylene glycol poisoning.'" What if searches for devious, undetectable methods of murder were in everyone's history?
Crime

Submission + - Unwise: Internet Search History of Murder Methods (forbes.com)

Submitted by nonprofiteer
nonprofiteer writes: Mark Jensen's home computer revealed Internet searches for botulism, poisoning, pipe bombs and mercury fulminate. A website was visited that explained how to reverse the polarity of a swimming pool — the Jensens had a pool — by switching the wires around, likening the result to the 4th of July. The State pointed out the absence of Internet searches on topics like separation, divorce, child custody or marital property.

Julie Jensen died as a result of ethylene glycol in her system, an ingredient found in antifreeze. On the morning of her death, someone attempted to “double-delete” (apparently unsuccessfully) the computer’s browsing history, which included a search for “ethylene glycol poisoning."

Comment Re:Broken? (Score 1) 238

by iammani (#34754984) Attached to: Google's Next Challenge, Spam Results

I find Blekko.com to be decent.

Quoted from a techcrunch article

In addition to providing regular search capabilities like Google’s, Blekko allows you to define what it calls “slashtags” and filter the information you retrieve according to your own criteria. Slashtags are mostly human-curated sets of websites built around a specific topic, such as health, finance, sports, tech, and colleges. So if you are looking for information about swine flu, you can add “/health” to your query and search only the top 70 or so relevant health sites rather than tens of thousands spam sites. Blekko crowdsources the editorial judgment for what should and should not be in a slashtag, as Wikipedia does. One Blekko user created a slashtag for 2100 college websites. So anyone can do a targeted search for all the schools offering courses in molecular biology, for example. Most searches are like this—they can be restricted to a few thousand relevant sites. The results become much more relevant and trustworthy when you can filter out all the garbage.

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