Facebook is a private company. It’s top priority is monetizing your usage of Facebook.com. So, and this doesn’t take a genius to figure out, it is tracking all that you do, collecting as much data as possible, and selling it.
If you don’t like Facebook’s privacy practices, go ahead and complain. But it shouldn’t result in front page news articles about people whining about something a private company did after they gave their rights away to that company. You all should have quit, instead. That would change their policy, real quick. That, and I wouldn’t have to wade through thousands of, “OMG FACEBOOK PRiVACY AleRT!” articles getting in the way of my real news stories.
Get off my internets, basically. I did read something interesting about Facebook a few days ago, though. It was about how Facebook addressed its lack of privacy features by provided multitudes of them. A potential aim of this (and I believe it), was to confuse users so that their settings would end up being inadequate.
What a great idea. “You want privacy settings? I’ll give you privacy settings.”
Memory Errors
This article gives a cool look into what happens when just one bit is flipped, and how to trace it. The author really wants to accuse cosmic radiation, but I’d be more inclined to blame manufacturing processes and/or other environmental conditions before that.