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I admit the convenience of Facebook. I use it.

But voluntarily giving your contact list and location info, and passing your private conversations via a for-profit data mining machine seems, in principle, not very enlightened.

One day some of that data is going to leak. It's bound to happen.


Remember reading that Enron was also one sad example of stack ranking system.


If this box really is a secure, maintenance free computer, I see a lots of places where it could shine: elementary schools, small business, info kiosks, libraries, my parents ;-)


Even if they could do all that it is still wild guesswork with too many possibilies. And the effectity of that fantasy also assumes that there is endless supply of advertisers from all different industries. The reality is that if, for example, only some dating sites and hosting companies are willing to pay for ads that match your profile then it is only dating and server hosting ads that you will see.


No, it's about DNS resource records generally used by all name servers (RFC 1035).


I'm trying bootstrap in my latest project, but have to say was surprised the first time I viewed it with IE. Even with IE9 the navbar and buttons look poor. Any advise?


Don't really know Erlang, but having worked for Telecom industry earlier, I would guess Erlang is getting its concepts and messaging model from SDL [1] rather than from OO.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_and_Description_L...


Sure some juicy rumours to awaken speculators interest as facebook IPO is drawing closer ...


What's funny is that when I saw the title I immediately assumed it was a TechCrunch "article" (meaning "linkbait"). And of course it is.


One counterpoint for super rich:

http://givingpledge.org/


One man project with 25 KLOC? A bit limited example IMO. No problem with C++ strings if you don't use 'em. Well, that's a solution ...


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