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| DATE | 2010-01-26 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Facebook really really does suck]
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:34:48PM +0000, Raj Goel wrote:
> Because at least then, Facebook couldn't market it's security flaws and data land-grabs as "features" or "enhancements"?
>
> Oh wait, never mind.
>
> Tech marketers have been selling snakeoil for decades...
They are so transparently always trying to grab your personal data, it
amazes me that people run the stupid add ons and games. First of all, I
keep thinking to myself, don't these people have other things to do with
their lives. Secondly, people as just so stupid, that they don't care.
It just gets crazy.
There are things that I grudgingly have to admit is good about Facebook.
Facebook has solved a problem that was artificially created by braindead
operating systems in the first place. Instead of everyone having a
private IP address and some network servies (ie: Apache with desktop
build ins), they now have facebook to endlessly download pictures of
their kids 8th birthday and their cat's misadventures with a cerial box.
And hell, they don't even have to learn VI. Instead they have to learn
dozens of bizzarre Facebook specific commands and clicks.
Now, maybe there is a business oppurtinity in this. How about if we
created a small OS that integrates your desktop and chatting into apache
in a smooth OS, and then sell the static IP conntections and network
services? All the boxes are then networked together into a single
community front end that these boxes interface with. So why the
content and Copyrighted materials remain on the seperate systems, the
community functionilty can still work. And you can use X11 programming
to make these interact programs drag and drop easy to use.
Ruben
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Ron Guerin
> Sender: nylug-talk-bounces+raj=brainlink.com-at-nylug.org
> To: Nylug
> ReplyTo: Nylug
> Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] Facebook really really does suck
> Sent: Jan 26, 2010 17:24
>
> Henning Follmann wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:18:08PM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
> >> Anyone else notice how sucky facebook really is. They'd be better off
> >> ripping it out and using the PHP Bullietenboard system
> >>
> >
> > Hello Kettle, you are black.
>
> For a specific definition of sucky perhaps. I'm not sure why Ruben
> thinks it's sucky, or why the "world's most insecure" BB would be an
> improvement.
>
> - Ron
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> Rajesh Goel, CISSP
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