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Submission + - Dating site inports 250k facebook profiles (wired.com)

Submitted by mark72005 on Friday February 04, 2011 @01:47PM

mark72005 writes: How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day?

Simple.

You scrape data from Facebook.

At least, that’s the approach taken by two provocateurs who launched Lovely-Faces.com this week, with profiles — names, locations and photos — scraped from publicly accessible Facebook pages. The site categorizes these unwitting volunteers into personality types, using a facial recognition algorithm, so you can search for someone in your general area who is “easy going,” “smug” or “sly.”

Submission + - Moscow's bid to blow up Wikileaks (thedailybeast.com) 1

Submitted by mark72005 on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:11PM

mark72005 writes: National-security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government's eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country's domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders. "We may not have been able to stop WikiLeaks so far, and it's been frustrating," a U.S. law-enforcement official tells The Daily Beast. "The Russians play by different rules."

Submission + - Convincing your employer to go with FOSS

Submitted by mark72005 on Thursday October 14, 2010 @02:38PM

mark72005 writes: My employer is currently looking at adopting a content management system for use by our technical support staff (Primarily first-line end user suport, but hopefully it will include deeper levels of support personnel eventually). The candidates are currently Plone (oss) and Confluence (proprietary, closed-source). For those with experience in each, what argument could be made in favor of Plone to managers interested in pragmatism rather than idealism?

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