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Comment: Re:Facebook is Public (Score 3, Interesting) 95

by eln (#39000151) Attached to: Famous For Fifteen People: Is Everyone a 'Facebook Celebrity'?
When you "like" things, you get updates from those things. It is conceivable that someone would want to see updates from some organization while not wanting their friends to know they like that organization.

Having said that, it's been clear from Facebook's inception that your "likes" are public (at least to your friends) information. It would be nice if you could pick and choose who saw your likes similar to how you can pick and choose who sees your statuses, but Facebook isn't under any legal obligation to make that happen.

Comment: Re:whingers (Score 3, Insightful) 404

by eln (#38981457) Attached to: When it comes to 3D TV:
As someone who is blind in one eye, the fact that 3D is becoming so ubiquitous does kind of suck. I don't care that movies are being made more in 3D, but lately it's becoming more difficult to find showings of those movies that aren't being projected in 3D. If you have some showings that are 3D and some that aren't, I can just go to the non-3D showing. If all of the showings are 3D, I either have to forgo watching the movie completely or watch a darker version of the movie that gives me a headache.

Hopefully they'll either figure out a way to make 3D at least equal to the 2D experience for those of us who can't experience 3D, or they'll continue to make standard 2D content available.

Comment: Re:Well it's hot and techy, what could go wrong? (Score 2, Insightful) 268

by eln (#38895399) Attached to: Facebook Reportedly Filing $5 Billion IPO Today
MySpace and Friendster would like a word with you.

Obviously Facebook has been far more successful than any of its predecessors, but it's still an Internet property that could be replaced and fall virtually overnight at any moment. It may be a good buy now, but if you're caught holding the bag at the wrong time you could easily lose your shirt.

The best prospect for Facebook investors remains for it to be bought out by some large conglomerate so they can cash out before the bottom falls out. Young people are already abandoning it as they don't like hanging out where their parents and grandparents also hang out, and even some older people (not as many as Google had hoped) have likewise abandoned it for Google Plus. At some point, some other site will come along and eat Facebook's lunch, it's only a matter of time.

Comment: Re:Wow, does that PR stunt even work anymore? (Score 5, Insightful) 350

by eln (#38879403) Attached to: WikiLeaks To Ship Servers To Micronation of Sealand?
It's also not in international waters in any meaningful sense. The British have pretty much let it be so far because it's basically harmless, but if they start posting embarrassing secrets about the US government from there, you can bet the US will put pressure on the UK to re-assert its territorial rights over it.

The only real way they could get into international waters these days would be to be mobile in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Even then, if they started putting out information the US considered truly dangerous, it would only be a matter of time before their floating fortress was "accidentally" sent to the bottom of the sea by a wayward torpedo.

This whole idea is a fantasy, of course. The only way to be safe from the US shutting it down would be to host it in a country willing to stand up against the US to protect it. I don't think there are very many countries on that list.

Comment: Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation (Score 1) 543

by eln (#38833571) Attached to: Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games

The moderation system is really more of like/dislike setup and has no encouragement for mods to actually say that +4 is fair score and that +5 would be too much.

That's what the overrated/underrated mods were intended for, but they've never ever been used for that purpose and probably ought to be removed. To my knowledge, the only reason people ever use them is because they're immune to meta-moderation. Well, that and so they can make posts +5, Troll or -1, Insightful.

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