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Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" 319

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 21, 2010 @03:56PM from the ad-nauseum-roundhouse dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."

The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace NSFW 629

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @02:25PM from the meesa-completely-agree dept.

cowmix writes "When TPM came out ten years ago, its utter crappiness shocked me to the core and wounded a entire generation of geeks. My inner child had been abused and betrayed. I moped around, talking to no one, for almost two weeks. I couldn't bring myself to see #2 or #3, whatever they were called. Now, a decade later, comes Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review, the ultimate, seven-part, seventy minute analysis of this mother of all train wrecks. Not only does it nail how the film blows, but tells us why. Time, apparently, does not heal all wounds." Or, if you prefer all 7 parts embedded in one page, you can check out slashfilm's aggregation.

Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:29PM from the 9cm-edited dept.

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Comment Re:Written Before Christianity Was PAGANIZED (Score 1) 568

by vactech2 on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @08:33PM (#28616215) Attached to: British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online

I've been dragged to church a few times recently, it appears that pastors seem to be getting more paranoid. They also seem to be getting their propaganda from the same place. I've heard this argument brought up a couple of times now. So I looked it up. I couldn't find any "evidence" for any of the legends of the epistles deaths/murders. Real evidence please? Actually, any real evidence of Jesus would be good too (Josephus does not count)also re-written a million times. The historicity of Jesus amounts to a big fat zero. Josephus is the only scrap of "historical evidence" for Christianity. The Josephus writting is discounted because, it is hearsay, it was written over 2 generations after the supposed death of Jesus, it has no original copy, and the re-written copy is over 300 yeas older, it was re-written by Christian appologist (why?), at it's best it only suggests that Christians exist at about 120AD (big deal). The epistles deaths are just legends. There are no immediate and relevant historical accounts. This is a silly argument from christian leaders.

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