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sofifonfek

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    Comment #4612072

    not really no. Compare to how many humans use the web or are simply connect to the internet, now that's impressive. But knowing that many humans use the internet as a transport to …

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    Comment #3749099

    They're only doing the right thing for them, this move seems to incidentally benefits users too but not really. it prevent outcomes such as users 1) closing their account / switchi…

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    Comment #3723811

    An interesting view of slavery in Mauritania, it's important to raise awareness about slavery which has a natural tendency to fly under the radar. But the sensationalist title is m…

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    Comment #3723760

    So according to your post, having more money = freedom ? Does it not look like what a slave to money would say to deny slavery ? Or as stated in the article: Various religions in m…

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    Comment #3697715

    Does anyone know how the japanese judge story [2] and the german trickster Till Eulenspiegel [2] are related ? I knew the story as an adventure of Till Eulenspiegel. [1] http://en.…

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    Comment #3662622

    Google web search's secret: it's not searching what you tell it to search. - suggest spelling corrections and alternative spellings - personalize your search by using information s…

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    Comment #3662616

    Paradoxically this is also the reason why the biggest advertiser's search engine sucks more and more. This fuzzy search where he looks for all kind of synonyms instead of what he's…

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    Comment #3622856

    You're only looking at one side of the coin. If you look at it from a FB stand point, FB connect is effective whatever the market. See you can make money in a casino, some games of…

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    Comment #3622833

    It seems like a more or less reasonable solution but it defeats the whole point which is to use and abuse users' data and circle of facebook friends. If you remember several years …

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    Comment #3608341

    Having to deal with registration and account management is a choice, not a necessity. From bugmenot to mytrashmail, examples of websites not having to solve account management are …

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    Comment #3608288

    Chances are it is connected to the other personas and facebook has a more complete than you think profile, heck they don't even need you to be registered to have a profile on you, …

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    Comment #3608279

    Same here and sometimes I wonder if those who provide facebook only login would consider answering the phone 1 out of 10 times by saying "fuck off" and hanging up a good business p…

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    Comment #3608261

    >2. I think the Facebook hate is miss-placed. Do you really hate Facebook (provider of a tool) or those who spam you via Facebook (users of the tool)? If you're so worried about Fa…

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    Comment #3608255

    The funny part is that for a long time they just did it without informing you and no one complained. cough zynga cough

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    Comment #3608250

    John Gabriel's greater internet fuckwad theory is a joke about people playing video games online, it's not really relevant to the general internet. While chatroulette arguably offe…

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    Comment #3608215

    Two different shows, one is about showcasing techniques in extreme situation and feature an ex british special forces with a heavy background in adventuring while the other is abou…

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    Comment #3608120

    1) you're missing a few figures and the whole picture, by the conservative estimation Zuckerberg will make 16 billions with the ipo so he personally made ~20 bucks per registered u…

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    Comment #3607729

    I trust facebook for doing every wrong thing and the other that I can imagine. It's their business model and whole reason of existence. I don't appreciate the repeated attacks agai…

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    Comment #3607700

    What's so special about beacon ? It's no more business as usual at facebook, with the additional twist that it caused public uproar.

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    Comment #3606434

    I never register a facebook account and there's no way I will regsiter to facebook just to use an app even if its the killer app. I trust facebook for snooping in on the data provi…

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    Comment #3584024

    it doesn't really help the point the author is trying to make that this post is flawed, biased and laced with logical fallacies and FUD. Let me point out a few things: - google say…

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    Comment #3583921

    Here's your rebuttal: shine another light on your situation and suddenly instead of having half the messages ending up on google servers anyways, you have half of your email freed …

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    Comment #3583910

    AFAIK google has broken its own privacy policy, gmail's databases have been compromised and they did change default settings to be more public at least once. This makes a strong co…