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Facebook Promises It Won't Mess With Voters' Minds (businessinsider.com) 114

Posted by msmash on Saturday April 16, 2016 @02:30PM from the What-will-Facebook-do? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: On Friday, Gizmodo reported on an internal discussion among Facebook employees in which they seem to be asking Mark Zuckerberg whether they should do something to "help prevent President Trump in 2017." Facebook is now assuring users that it wouldn't use its algorithms to influence voting in the presidential election this November. "We as a company are neutral -- we have not and will not use our products in a way that attempts to influence how people vote," a Facebook spokesman said in a statement.Media critic Jay Rosen said, "It sounds nutty but Facebook has a rock solid First Amendment right to filter out all Trump news -- if it wanted to."

Comment Re:Reboot (Score 1) 253

by MikeOttawa on Friday October 07, 2011 @12:42PM (#37640498) Attached to: HP To Introduce Flash Memory Replacement In 2013

I, unfortunately, am an owner of a Harmony remote control from Logitech that often reboots spontaneously - and takes about 2 minutes to "boot up". It also has the annoying habit of "sticking" on a command, and reissuing it over and over and over until you pull out the battery (which is very unfortunate when the "stuck" command is "Volume Up".

Comment Re:Spideroak is a good alternative (Score 2) 265

by MikeOttawa on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:08AM (#36139276) Attached to: Dropbox Accused of Lying About Security

Wuala is great. The client is getting better all the time, and it encrypts/decrypts on the client side. As long as you keep supplying disk space (and obviously bandwidth to access it) they will up your storage. You can even merge multiple PC's together to beef up the storage on your account.

Comment Re:so, what this seems to say (Score 1) 281

by MikeOttawa on Wednesday November 22, 2006 @02:07PM (#16953768) Attached to: Office 2007 UI License

If you're using Microsoft Server 2003, or probably any other Windows OS prior to Vista, try clicking "Fonts" in the Control Panel, and then pick "Install New Font" from the menu.

Now THAT is a blast from the past. Check out the the drive drop down, and the "Newtork..." button. Must be from Windows 95 at best - maybe even Windows 3.1?

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