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I was interested by the title of a paper called "Behavioral Advertising: The Offer You Cannot Refuse" by a small coterie of privacy activist/researchers. I love the Godfather movies, in which the statement, "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," is a coolly tuxedoed plan to threaten someone with violence or death. I don't love the paper's attempt to show that government "interventions" are superior to markets in terms of freedom.
Behavioral advertisers are no mafiosi. They are not in the business of illegal coercion. They're not in any kind of illegal business, in fact. The choice of title suggests that the authors may be biased toward making targeted advertising illegal. (The lead author argued in 2004 that Gmail should be shut down as a violation of California law.)
What was most interesting, though, was the paper's unspoken battle with lock-in, or path dependence. That's the idea in technology development that a given state of affairs perpetuates itself due to the costs of changing course.
The QWERTY keyboard is a famous example of lock-in. The story with QWERTY is that keys on early mechanical typewriters were arranged so that commonly used letters wouldn't strike one another and jam together. The result was an inefficient arrangement of keys for the fingers, but it's an arrangement that has stuck.
The reason why it has stuck is because of switching costs. Everybody who knows how to type knows how to type on a QWERTY keyboard. If you wanted to change to a more efficient keyboard, you'd have to change every keyboard and everyone's training. That's a huge cost to pay in exchange for a modest increase in efficiency. So we've got QWERTY.
Since as close to the beginning as I know of, Web browsers have been designed to store information delivered by Web sites and to return it to those sites. Cookies are the best known form of this, tiny files that allow a Web site to recognize the browser (inferentially, the user) and deliver custom content. There are also "Flash cookies," more accurately called "local shared objects," which can store information about users' preferences, such as volume settings for Internet videos. Flash cookies can also be used to store unique identifiers to use in tracking. These things provide value to Internet users, and most Web sites make use of them to deliver better content.
The authors of the paper don't like that. The path of Web browsing technology is not privacy protective, and they would call on regulators to fix that with a pair of interventions: preventing Flash cookies from "respawning" cookies (that is, recreating them when they have been deleted) and regulation of consumer-data markets to prevent marketers from learning information about consumers. This would uphold consumer choice, they argue. And they argue dubiously that their work "inverts the assumption that privacy interventions are paternalistic while market approaches promote freedom."
Now, ask yourself: If the government came in and required everyone to train for and use the more efficient Dvorak keyboard, would that be a paternalistic step? The end result would be more efficient typing.
Of course it would be paternalistic.
So let's be frank. This is an argument for paternalistic intervention, attempting to allay the authors' concern about what a favorite technology of Internet users is doing to privacy.
And it is the authors' privacy concerns, not Internet users' at large. Opinion surveys in the privacy area are notorious for revealing that consumers will state a preference for privacy no matter what their true interests are.
The good news is that there is far less lock-in in the Internet browser area than in keyboards. Technologists can and do build browser modifications that prevent tracking of the type this article is concerned with.
Their real problem is that few people actually care as much as the authors do about whether or not they receive tailored advertisements. Few people want to use a browser that is essentially crippled to gain a sliver of privacy protection to which they are indifferent.
Paternalist? It sure is. And unlike a paternally driven switch to a better keyboard, this policy wouldn't obviously make consumers better off.


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PGA Championship. Play Suspended in Third Round. August 12 2012
Play was suspended during the third round of the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island on the Ocean Course due to inclement weather conditions, namely lightning. Lee Trevino once said if you get caught in a lightning storm on a golf course, you should walk around holding a one iron above your head, " Even God can't hit a one iron." Personally I would not like to test Lee's theory, I suspect God would be able to strike a one iron better than anybody. At the suspension of play Rory McIlroy and Vijay Singh were tied at the top of the leaderboard, with a tournament score of -6 under par. Rory had completed the front nine at -4 under par, in-spite of his tee-shot on the drivable third hole, becoming lodged in the branch of a tree. He took an unplayable lie penalty, dropped the ball and fired his third onto the green and then sunk the 7 foot putt for his par. Rory is keen to get back out on the course, and is happy with is position; "I'm going into the final day of the final major of the season tied for the lead. All I wanted was to put myself into contention and I've done that. It was a great start today and I can't wait for tomorrow."
Rory McIlroy/GETTY IMAGESVijay has only played seven holes of the third round, his score at -2 under par and appears to be on cruise control, quite the opposite of his playing partner today, Tiger Woods. Tiger has lost some control and is at +3 over par for the first seven holes. He began the day as the joint-leader, but the putting touch which lit up his first two rounds unexpectedly deserted him, right from the start when he missed a three-footer for birdie off the first. Adam Scott has completed nine holes and is handily placed at -5 under par for the tournament, his third round so far is -4 under. So the leaders will have to start early tomorrow morning to complete their third rounds, before starting the final session of the day, quite a daunting and exhausting task. I hope they have the stamina to get through the day and be in contention at the end. It would be horrible to see them drop out of the race and lose the title to someone who has had to only play 18 holes on the final day.

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The slave drum pounds
The wheel of time is spinning
Black emptiness surrounds me
The pain and anger is swelling
You say everything is transitory
Temporary, nothing lasts forever
The chapter of our story must be closed
Throw it in the fire, you say
I laugh at your words — my once sweet friend
You have forgotten me
And welcomed this hooded larcenist named Reason
Invisible movements that I could not see
You have forgotten the laws of transcendence
Time is a man-made design — an illusory construct
There is no such thing as "day" or "night"
You forgot the continuum, you forgot eternity's light
You drove me to the most beautiful hill
And then threw me out when the weather turned gray
You left me on the highway with no comfort for my soul
So cold and vacant, you watched me wither away
You flew me to the highest sky
And then kicked me out when you sensed the risk
You let me fall through the clouds with no parachute
Crashing through thorns, you watched me die
You locked me in a chamber of toxic air
And swallowed the key when you figured "this is our fate"
You thought leaving me alone would make it better
Pounding at the glass, you watched me suffocate
Oh how we danced, like a couple of fools and clowns
In some silly costume party — what were we doing all this time?
I should have seen the antagonist named Doubt
Watching our every move and wearing the Reaper's crown
I should have seen the charlatan
Dressed in the robes of our Love
Whispering in your ears — the lies of Iblis
I should have seen the space, the gap, the distance
You who I called 'Soul Mate'
How do you turn your back on words of eternity?
How do you live with memories in your heart?
How do you carry on when you see me in this painful state?
O don't worry, my once-called 'best friend'
I'll just fade into the shadows
You just close your eyes
It's all over now
Be on your way with Reason
With this new man, where new oceans gleam
Say 'hush' to any memories of who we once were
Let it wash away like a bad dream
Forget the dead man you left behind
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LinkedIn Now Gets More Web Traffic Than Myspace
Justin Timberlake won't like this one little bit.
The 'SexyBack' singer, who recently bought a stake in Myspace, was greeted with the bad news Tuesday that in terms of web traffic, the site has fallen from number two to number three behind professional networking site LinkedIn. Of course, behemoth Facebook remained in the top spot.
Facebook had 160.8 million people darken its digital doorstep last month, while LinkedIn brought in 33.9 million and Myspace attracted 33.5 million.
There's some good news -- Myspace still has an estimated 130 million active users, 15 million more than LinkedIn. But the diminished visitor numbers present yet another challenge for the once-powerful social networking site that's now hoping for a second life.


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Washington Square, Feb 2004, 13.00, 288 pp. ISBN: 0743475534 Once called the Museum of English History, director Dr. Auberon Booth changed the name to BRIT and pushed a PR campaign through exhibits that would catch the attention of the media and subsequently the public. Auberon hopes that his jazzed up exhibitions with twenty-first century sound bite titles like "Slums" will bring in visitors and subsequently upgrade his reputation. He might ev...


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April 15, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Junior David Nole continued his mid-season resurgence at the plate in leading MIT to a 5-4 victory over Coast Guard at Briggs Field on Tuesday. Taking advantage of four errors, the Engineers solidified their spot in third place in the NEWMAC standings while sweeping the season-series from the Bears.
MIT (12-11, 5-4) jumped out to an early 3-0 lead as William Blackman's drive to deep right center with two outs in the first resulted in a miscommunication in the outfield that scored two runs. Blackman scored on the ensuing at bat as Nole ripped an RBI single to left field.
Coast Guard (6-17, 1-8) scored a pair of runs in the top of the second thanks to a triple by sophomore Keith Laird, who also crossed the plate after an errant throw to third. Despite the big knock, the Engineers stayed in front as MIT starter Chris D'Annunzio surrendered just two hits in three innings before being pulled from the game.
Kevin Wheeler drove home a run in the bottom half of the second with a single to right field while rookie Dan Hyatt singled to center with two outs in the third to plate Blackman.
Down 5-2, the Bears picked up one run in the fourth off reliever Ryan Munoz after a sacrifice fly to right by Kevin Keefe.
In the bottom of the seventh, MIT pulled ahead 7-3 with two unearned runs, including one off Nole's second RBI single of the afternoon. Munoz (2-2) was primarily effective in his two innings of work before tuning it over to fellow freshman Ryne Barry.
Barry was sparkling in his first two frames of relief, although Coast Guard battled back with two runs in the eighth. Brian Lisko doubled down the left-field line to score the Bears first run of the inning while Keefe singled to center to cut Coast Guard's deficit to two. In the ninth, Barry forced a terrific 4-6-3 double play to squash the Bears' rally and secure the long save.
Junior Pete Schofield (1-4) was credited with the loss after giving up two earned runs and eight hits in 6.1 innings pitched. After a shaky start, Schofield kept the MIT bats at bay with eight strikeouts while holding the Engineers without a hit in 18 straight plate appearances.
Nole finished 3-for-4 with two RBI to lead MIT's attack while Stewart Park finished 2-for-5. Park swiped second and third base during the MIT eighth, with the first steal resulting in a new single-season record for Tech's diamond program. Park stole an Institute record 24 bases as a rookie last season.


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Answering Egypt's Call for Solidarity
Posted 7 years ago on Nov. 26, 2011, 9:56 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
On November 22, occupiers of Tahrir Square issued an urgent call for global solidarity, asking the world to:
Occupy / shut-down Egyptian embassies worldwide. Now they represent the junta ; reclaim them for the Egyptian people.
Shut down the arms dealers. Do not let them make it, ship it.
- Shut down the part of your government dealing with the Egyptian junta.
The Occupy movement is answering their call. Yesterday, hundreds marched on the Egyptian consulate in New York City.
In NYC today (Saturday, Nov 26), an Egyptian solidarity rally will begin at 1 PM at the Egypt Mission (East 44th St & 2nd Ave), with a march at 4PM.
An action is also being planned for Thursday, December 1st in front of a tear gas plant in Jamestown, Pennsylvania that has been supplying the Egyptian military junta. Participants from Occupy camps across the Northeast region will gather outside of the plant, which is owned by Combined Systems International. Read More...


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The slim, elegant profile of this wallet actually conceals six card pockets and two slip pockets for paper currency.
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During the great depression, Donald Graeme Moore founded a leather supply company with his son-in-law, W. Vernon Giles, in Lynchburg Virginia. Though initially specialists in shoe leather, Moore and Giles have since broadened their business to include furniture, interior design, and a line of bags and accessories intended to showcase their real underlying focus: designing innovative, beautiful, unparalleled leather. These laptop cases, duffles, and wallets feature meticulous design in their form and function, but it doesn't overshadow the equally great design in the leather used to make them.
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Teen Shale Network studies effects of fracking on water quality at Black Moshannon State Park
By collecting water samples and using the equipment the professionals would at Black Moshannon State Park, State College Area High School students have been learning how the environment affects water quality.
Through the Teen Shale Network, the Earth Science students have become involved in research on Marcellus Shale. They are working with the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State to gather baseline data on the water quality at Black Moshannon should nearby fracking have any effect.
They've had four trips to the park and will present the data at the Shale Network conference May 12.
Ultimately, the purpose of monitoring is to watch for potential changes — if any — resulting from hydraulic fracturing that is set to occur nearby in the future. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method used to draw natural gas from the ground and has been a topic of controversy. The Teen Shale Network will provide the baseline data needed for a full investigation into its effects on the water-shed.
The collected data about Black Moshannon will go to a database, and will be available to researchers, including those in the Shale Network, a collaborative effort of several institutions.
Eugene Ruocchio, one of the science teachers at State College Area High School involved with the project, said that another goal of the trips is to allow students "to see how science is performed."
Science teacher Yvonne Pickering also has been collaborating on the project.
The participants, most of whom are freshmen, said they are learning beyond what they would in the classroom.
Maria Rodriguez-Hertz, who has been out to Black Moshannon three times, shared her thoughts on the trips.
"It's different from class," Rodriguez-Hertz said. "It's interesting to do science outside of the classroom and not know the answer."
Teachers have been saying similar things.
"It's not a typical classroom lab where the teacher knows the answer," Ruocchio said. "The answer could take years to find."
The team has been working on the project since last fall, when they first chose the area where testing would be done.
The site after the swimming area between the dam and the bridge was picked because of its lower water level, allowing waders to get into the creek. The area also offered the reassurance that it would not freeze during colder months.
Snow and cold weather prevented trips for a while. In the meantime, Penn State scientists installed sensors near the bridge.
In February, the ninth-graders and teachers came back. They were divided into two groups so that each could focus on a particular job.
One waded into the creek to download the data recorded by the sensors, and to measure the depth and flow of the creek.
Every 0.5 meters, the students measured the depth and flow of the water using an instrument called Flow Tracker. They made 14 measurements across.
Andrew Neal, a research associate at Penn State, was working with the team to find a relationship between the depth and the volume of the water.
"This is a method used by the USGS (United States Geological Survey) across the country," Neal said.
The other group collected samples to go back to the lab and get tested for chemical constituents, including dissolved organic carbon, chloride, barium and strontium.
The dissolved organic compound sample has to be put into a special bottle.
Jennifer Williams, a research associate at Penn State, explained that the bottle is rinsed with acid and then "cooked" to several hundred degrees.
When the sample is finally put in, the bottle is sealed with a crimper.
Students also used a multiparameter water quality sensor called Horiba U-53, which the company donated. This instrument measures pH, water temperature, electrical conductivity, oxidation reduction potential, dissolved oxygen and turbidity. The pH will be an indicator of the health of the water and the ecosystem.
Williams said that the aim of the trips is "to gather baseline data and to teach the students to be citizen scientists."
Work continued on two trips in March and April.
The State High participants, along with teachers, experienced rough temperatures and harsh weather conditions. On the trip in mid-February, there was approximately six inches of snow on the ground.
On the visit in mid-March, it was only 35 degrees, the weather overcast and windy with a frozen residue of snow still on the ground.
The most recent trip, on April 23, saw cloudy skies again with light wind. During the day, snow began to fall, eventually turning into rain.
Although the students had to experience these harsh conditions, they were undeterred. One said: "Real scientists don't let the weather hold them down."
Lena Nyblade, a freshman at State High, was recording data that others had collected.
"You can get more science experience outside of school in an uncontrolled environment," Nyblade said. "Science in class is very controlled."


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Life, death and the struggles within
PLYMOUTH — The death of a loved one is never easy. The pieces left to pick up after losing someone you love only make you appreciate their life even more.
On Sept. 3, 2010, Billy Hite was a normal father and husband, working to provide for his family while his wife, Kristy, was a stay-at-home mother taking care of five children. The next day, the Hite family dynamics were shaken to the core. Kristy, a 32-year old mother of five, tragically passed away when her pancreas unexpectedly shut down. Kristy battled this illness for two years, trying many different medications, before finally succumbing to this illness.
Today, Billy has taken on the role of both parents, juggling the activities of his children while also providing for them.
Because of mounting medical bills, Billy lost his home and has moved in with his parents, who help out tremendously with the children, he said. Only three of his children currently live with Billy and their grandparents: Trent, 10, Ethan, 9, and Megan, 9, are still coping with the death of their mother but are all excelling in school this year. Their teachers, their father said, are proud of their improvements in the face of such adversity.
Billy credits Menominee Elem-entary School Principal Michael Dunn and the entire staff for the support they have provided him and his family over the last couple of months. He also credits the Plymouth community with helping him through this difficult time, saying, "The outpouring of support for our family makes me proud to be a resident of this city."
Billy's 16-year-old stepdaughter is living with her maternal grandparents, while his 12-year-old stepson is currently living with his biological father.
Kristy's parents are hoping to get custody of the young boy, who Billy says desperately wants to be reunited with him, the man who raised him since the time he was 1.
Though the shock of losing his wife may never go away, Billy has had to quickly learn to handle the many tasks his wife was once in charge of.
"She handled everything, from dentist appointments to knowing ATM pin numbers. She did it all."
While scrambling to learn this new information, Billy's daughter, Megan, brought him a notebook that Kristy had kept detailing everything he would need to know, including those dentist appointments and ATM pin numbers, saying "Mom-my wrote this for you."
Winfield Solutions, a division of Land O' Lakes butter, where Billy is employed, "has helped tremendously," he said.
Land O' Lakes sent out an e-mail to all divisions asking employees to donate PTO (time off) to Billy so that he could take some time to figure everything out during this difficult transition. Billy has recently returned to work but said, "I still have months of PTO left because of the generosity of all the people I work with."
After taking a month off, Billy said that he thought he was the one carrying the heavier load, but after seeing what his wife did on a day-to-day basis, he now realizes how much all the little things added up. "You don't realize what you have until it's gone," he said.
The hardest part is not being able to say goodbye. On Sept. 3, Billy took Kristy to the hospital like he would do from time to time when her situation worsened, then returned home hoping to watch Trent and Ethan play well in their baseball tournament the next day. Unfortunately, the next morning, Billy got a phone call from the hospital telling him his wife was in cardiac arrest and by the time he got there, she was in a coma.
After returning home, Billy had the unenviable task of calling the children together to tell them that their mother would not be coming home.
Billy asked the two boys if they still wanted to play in their tournament the next day.
Trent unfortunately could not play because of a broken arm, but Ethan emphatically said that he still wanted to play in the games the next day. Ethan went on to play some of the best baseball of his life, leading his team to the championship and telling his Dad, "This one was for Mom."


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Black Veil Brides Singer Andy Biersack Reflects on 'Worst' and Best Christmas Gifts
The Black Veil Brides army have a late Christmas gift to look forward to in the form of the band's forthcoming album 'Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones.'
We recently had the opportunity to chat with Black Veil Brides singer Andy Biersack about what he thought was the worst Christmas gift he had ever received, as well as the best gift he ever opened.
Biersack explains a very unfulfilling holiday experience when he was younger: "It wasn't a real Christmas gift, but the most disappointed Christmas experience I ever had was when I was a real young kid – you know St. Nicholas Day, the day before Christmas where you get a stocking full of stuff? I remember waking up on St. Nicholas Day and I was like 6 years old or something and I ran downstairs, my parents were asleep and I couldn't find a stocking or anything but I found a bag of lady's moisturizers that my mom had bought at the drugstore for herself."
Biersack continues, "I just remember going through it and being like, 'Whoa St. Nick man, you were way off on this. This is so not what I wanted.' I was just bummed out and went back upstairs and told my parents, 'St. Nick only brought me soap and stuff guys,' and they were like, 'What?' and started laughing and then gave me my actual stocking but I just remember that moment of sheer disappointment."
Meanwhile, Biersack's favorite presents were ones featuring his favorite superhero. "The best gifts I ever got were anything cool and Batman related – like the Batman command center thing, it's like a giant Batcave thing made out of plastic - that was always good."
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In BrikWars, there is probably nothing more satisfying than witnessing the complete and utter annihilation of a city block. Watching buildings get torn apart by artillery and having snipers fight each other from the rooftops probably has more awesome than anything else. With that in mind the Minifigs often construct houses, office buildings, bunkers, and restaurants from which to do battle and to destroy. In addition to the obvious, structures can also be used as objectives or they may house objectives in a tactical battle and may even serve to modify the Battlescape in some manner. As such, structures are often the players' most versatile terrain.
- 1 Famous Buildings
- 2 Atmospheric and Tactical Buildings
- 3 Environmental Structures
- 4 Specialized and Utility Structures
Famous Buildings
Famous Buildings are influential elements of the BrikWars Canon. They help to define the setting and are well known to its players.
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Atmospheric and Tactical Buildings
Atmospheric Buildings are table dressing, meant to provide very basic wargaming needs such as cover and obstruction while simultaneously enhancing the play experience by providing a visual aesthetic pleasing to the players. Tactical Buildings serve the same purpose, except they usually have some greater game based function.
Airports are locations that vary from a huge, crowded, self-contained community to a dirt streak in a pasture with a lifeguard chair for a control tower. It is here where planes take off after being loaded with passengers, snakes, bombs or whatever mayhem the Humans see fit. Planes, however, tend not to actually land at airports since they usually explode, crash, or make good use of Kamikaze tactiks.
Possible Uses:
- Access to aviation vehicles.
- The large number of civilians could serve as allies or neutral parties.
- Planes could serve as explosive caches or deathtraps.
- Planes could deploy reinforcements.
Tactical Considerations:
- Airports contain lots of open space with very little real cover, even inside the terminals. If there are a lot of civilians, however, soft cover can be obtained by using the crowd to one's advantage.
- High ground advantage exists from the tower and arriving or departing planes. Since the planes are temporary affairs, the tower is sure to be an objective of contention.
Armories and Supply Depots
A staple for any self-respecting fortress, SHIP, outpost, or fast-food joint. It is here, shelved in gleaming chrome or hanging on slabs of stone, that the tools of mass destruction and hilarity sought after by all in the BrikVerse rest. Usually at an intersection or other easy-to-reach location, the armory is a fighting man's best friend. It is this room where men give their lives to hold back the zombie/barbarian/alien horde and save civilization, and is immortalized for the best place for a pre-battle montage of soldiers arming to the teeth while the beginning credits appear.
Possible Uses:
- Supply and Resupply.
- Obtain specialized equipment or objectives.
Tactical Considerations:
- An armory may have limited access, so watch your exits.
- Supply dumps serve as primary targets for your enemies. An army without weapons is a bunch of figs with shoves. Consider doing the same.
- Remember to protect your supplies but be prepared to burn them as well; other tactical options may present themselves if you buy yourself some time.
Bunkers are heavily fortified buildings where you can put gun emplacements and hold out from apoc-zombies, nukes, and invaders. They are usually underground and have limited access. Smaller versions are called pill boxes.
Possible Uses:
- Provide stationary cover.
- Protect a mobile objective.
- Fallback point, take and hold, or survival objectives work well here.
Tactical Considerations:
- Provides for heavy cover but minimal mobility. Heavier weaponry may be better deployed here.
- Bunkers are obvious and noticeable, making for common targets. Prepare accordingly.
Castles and Defensive Installations
Castles and other such installations are large scale buildings generally built with defense in mind. Due to their massive size, however, they also serve as containment units, housing small to large residential areas and other functionable structures. They can also mount large scale ordinance. They might serve as cities in their own right, military installations, or imposing wards.
Possible Uses:
- Siege Warfare.
- Castles and other such installations, if they are large enough, could literally serve as the entire setting for a battle or story.
Tactical Considerations:
- Concerning Castles in particular: The keep is at the very heart of castle strategy. Usually situated at the back of or in the middle of the fortress, well away from structural weaknesses such as gates, drawbridges, large windows and doggie-doors. The keep is where the most important people in any kingdom will hide, generally while wishing that they had sprung for the more expensive castle with the hidden escape tunnels. The walls are what set a true castle apart from a stand-alone keep, or an unprotected garrison. they are strong, thick and generally monochromatic. Tactically, they provide an ideal defense against ground-based troops. Many castle walls are topped with a rampart and crenelations, the rampart being the pathway around the inside of the walls, provide the perfect place from which to insult invading armies, and/or fart in their general directions. And the crenelations being the intermittent blocks which partially obscure the ramparts, providing cover from most missiles. The Moat is the outermost of the perimeter defenses, it consists of a deep trough cut around the bottom of the castle, usually this is filled in with water, as it is a widely known fact that hordes cannot swim. This feature may be lacking in some castles, but others make up for it by having mega-awesome pits filled spikes and venomous creatures. These strategies may be adopted for other large scale defensive installations.
Death Walls
A Death Wall is a huge wall with heavy defenses on it that makes lesser minifigs shit their pants when they're forced to march towards it. It has to have seen at least approximately a fuckton of minifigs die before it deserves the title death wall (see: Natalya's Death Wall, the Walls of Fico, Starkeep, Lion's Maw, or the Walls of Kerrat).
Alternately, a death wall can be a wall so useless it actually gets those defending it killed more quickly and crumbles apart at the slightest assault, but is still appreciated because of the amount of carnage it allows, or even causes. (see the Bavarian Gustav Line or the Brittanian Wall of Fort Maren.)
Death walls may not suffer from Big Gray Wall syndrome.
Possible Uses:
- To hold a perimeter or line in a battle.
- A convenient place to pile corpses.
Tactical Considerations:
- Assaulting or defending a Death Wall is similar to a castle siege but may involve somewhat different approaches due to the dimensions of the defensive line. A death wall serves only in this capacity. A castle or other defensive installation may, however, employ death walls.
- Bring something nasty to the party or you may not be able to pierce the defensive hail of enemy fire or the wall itself.
- Prepare for heavy fire and a total lack of cover on approach when assaulting.
- Learn to pick your targets wisely when defending.
GasStations and TruckStops
GasStations and TruckStops house massive repositories of various fuels, from gasolines and diesels to breakfast burritos and SodaPops. Usually filled with civilians on their way to and fro, these important structures are epitome of culture. They fulfill every minifig need, at sneakily exorbitant cost, from refuelling vehicles and bodies to exploding barrels of flammable fuels.
Possible Uses:
- Explosive fuel dump.
- Source of vehicles.
- Civilian population can serve as allies or neutral parties.
Tactical Considerations:
- Fuel repositories, as in action movies, explode a lot. Use this to your advantage.
- While the buildings are often small and the lots are open, the abundance of vehicles still provides a lot of cover, some of it perhaps mobile.
Large and Small Business Offices
Often called training centers or concentration camps, Offices exist to hone a minifigure's frustration and rage to a razor's edge. They are considered fundamental in urban areas not only because they maintain all the paperwork that keeps track of death tolls (something CityFolk are oddly fond of) but also because of their boring, oppressive environments. Minifigs aren't patient creatures by nature and being forced to sit around, not killing things, is an agony to them. You can always tell someone is about to be promoted when flipped tables or dead bodies go crashing out of fifth story plate glass windows.
Possible Uses:
- The large number of workers could be used as allies, neutral parties, or cleverly sprung traps.
- Source of OfficeSupplies, handy when you need to MacGyver something mid-battle.
Tactical Considerations:
- Office buildings are a tactical joy: multiple floors, height and line of sight advantages, loaded with basic materials, etcetera.
- Offices are a powderkeg ready to blow. Consider using the disgruntled employees against your opponent, perhaps by baiting and tailing them.
- Keep the windows in mind. Enhanced LOS out also allows for LOS in.
- Think Die Hard.
Many countries and empires maintain a strong police force to deal with the inevitable crimes that occur in a society where everyone aspires to become a mass murderer. Unlike in the Human world, such feats of violence are glorified parts of a minifig's everyday life, police forces don't exist to prevent or punish homicidal rampages, but merely to regulate them at a government-prescribed level and to otherwise maintain their governments' executive monopoly on mass slaughter. During periods of low homicide rates, police forces really have no good reason to exist other than to annoy and ticket speeding drivers, consume copious amounts of ABS donuts and coffee, and engage in the occasional shootout or awesome high-speed chase; these have the effects of disgruntling the local citizens and increasing their propensity to go on wild murder sprees. These cops are housed at police stations, of which there is usually at least one in every town or city. Police stations are quite large, but only have room to hold 1 or 2 kriminals at a time. This tiny inmate capacity is rarely an issue because every cell has at least one breakable or missing wall, a design innovation which has been found to be an effective means of preventing prison overcrowding.
Possible Uses:
- A Station could serve as an impromptu weapons cache.
- Officers could serve as allies or a neutral party that attacks and arrests interlopers.
- Criminals could serve as allies if broken out or a neutral party that attacks nearby minifigs.
- Stations could serve as a "doomsday clock," limiting the number of available turns before an Officer calls in government reinforcement to "contain" the situation.
Tactical Considerations:
- Reinforced walls and cells make for excellent cover. Conversely, action-breakable walls make for enhanced mobility and possible deceptive movement.
- Trained allies may turn the tide of battle or, at least, give one time to deploy a new tactik.
Residential Areas
Minifigs need someplace to store their weapons in between campaigns of slaughter. And, you know, a place to sleep and eat. Houses and apartments fit that bill nicely. Home to a bewildering array of specialty items, a goodly cache of weapons, and usually a handful of reliable vehicles, Residential Areas are prime targets for raiders and key defensive locations, to be protected at all costs, for military and civilian minifigs alike.
Possible Uses:
- Objects can serve as objectives.
- Residential Areas could be used to determine battlefield control.
- The massive number of civilians could be allies or neutral parties.
- Serves as a source of vehicles, weapons, and assorted other useful items.
Tactical Considerations:
- Most residential areas, even if just inside the homes themselves, are dense. Narrow hallways can become killzones and tight corners can restrict line of sight.
- Approach cautiously but quickly, from more than one angle simultaneously, while having each man able to cover another's fire lane. Coordinate effectively.
Restaurants and Other Food Service Businesses
A minifig's gotta eat...well, they don't have to but sometimes they enjoy the practice. Plus, its a way to dispose of all those corpses. And what better time to get the drop on an opponent than when he has his face stuffed full of long pig? Restaurants make for exciting places to have shootouts. Glass shatters, tables get flipped, and the possibilities in a kitchen full of fryers, ovens, and cold storage are endless.
Possible Uses:
- Food can serve to recharge a minifig's energy.
- Food fights are a time honored and practical use of a minifigure's time.
Tactical Considerations:
- There is a lot of open space and sight lines in a restaurant but also a lot of soft cover in chairs, tables, and buffet bars. Make good use of it.
- Highly dangerous hazards and equipment can be found in the kitchen area. Head there for maximum hilarity.
- Always tip your server.
Environmental Structures
Environmental Structures can serve aesthetic or tactical designs, of course, but the primary reason for their inclusion is as a basic modification to the Battlescape. They alter the entire battle in some way, usually related to the environment detailed in the battle's narrative.
Astral Constructs
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Moon, Asteroidal, or Space Facilities
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UnderWater Installations
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Specialized and Utility Structures
Specialized Structures are pieces that represent a singular function, depending on player taste and the narrative of their battle. This may be purely aesthetic or it may serve some very specific game-related function like an objective that does only one thing when captured. Utility Structures are structures that facilitate an alteration to the basic ruleset instead of Battlescape, such as racing or roleplaying.
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Dungeons are often, in the eyes of many BrikVerse minifigures, the most important (or at least coolest) room in a large space ship or fortress. This room is a combination of torture gallery, transplant-surgery theatre, and over-all prison. It should come with a torture table, some kind of execution chamber, (usually electric or gas, but a firing range is good too) some surgical apparatus for the transfer of POW figs' parts onto wounded soldiers', and a few holding cages. More insane dungeon designers come up with more insane ways of executing minifigs though, so in the ships or bases of especially demented minifgs you might find things like snake pits or lava pools which minifigs are lowered in to their deaths.
Possible Uses:
- House and interrogate prisoners to obtain tactical information.
- Stage rescue attempts.
Tactical Considerations:
- There's a whole lot of really deadly stuff in a dungeon. Most of it takes some time and effort to use, however, and a whole lot of it is designed for pain, not death. As an attacker, consider moving quickly and ignoring most of what you find unless its small, light, or easily usable.
- As a defender, consider the worth of the possible information. If it will help you achieve victory, defend the chamber with all you've got. If not, abandon it at the earliest opportunity and use the time gained to set up a counterstrike.
Mazes, Labyrinths, and ObstacleCourses
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Grasping at straws........and I don't think Obama is protecting her but keeping it in the news to let her twist
The Justice Department has filed a court motion to prevent former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from being ordered to testify in a deposition in a case connected to her use of a private email server, The Hill reports.
The Obama administration's move is in response to a deposition request from Judicial Watch, claiming the conservative legal watchdog is trying to expand the scope of the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit related to the preparation of talking points for officials to discuss the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
Last week, Judicial Watch asked the court to interview Clinton and five other current and former State Department officials about the server, after federal judges ruled in this suit and another one brought by Judicial Watch that some fact-finding is legitimate.
Now that the judges have ruled contrary to the Obama administration's wishes, the debate is now over who should be deposed and in what order, with the government claiming that Judicial Watch should finish the deposition in the first case before demanding that Clinton and the others testify in the later lawsuit.
Judicial Watch has released a transcript of the initial deposition in the first Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, in which a top aid describes Clinton's pattern of email use.
This comes as the State Department's Office of the Inspector General issued a report that Clinton did not comply with the department's policies and used a personal server without permission while secretary of state.
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Ali Shields' 'American Idol' audition began with so much promise, and then got really weird before finishing somewhere in the middle. However, the 19-year-old's dorky style and charming confidence were enough to get all three judges to move her along to Hollywood.
Shields may look familiar to fans of the 'Ellen' show. The college student wound up on the former 'Idol' judge's television show after writing a love song to the host. DeGeneres was so impressed with her voice that she sent Shields to the 'American Music Awards,' where Shields interviewed and kissed the likes of Usher and Mike Posner.
"You're just crazy enough to make it," judge Randy Jackson said as Shields finished Corinne Bailey Rae's 'Like a Star.' That was after she tried to freestyle lyrics from Breezy's hit 'Look at Me Now' and shake her booty for an audition. There wasn't much to shake, and Jennifer Lopez rolled her eyes so hard she probably gave herself a headache.
Shields may not have been the best talent that showed up on the deck of the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego, Calif. on Sunday night, but she made up for it with original style. While a few other females wore little more than bikinis, the Lido, Calif. native wore a pink sweater and white, knee length skirt with pink, flowery Keds rip-offs.
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When George Frederic Handel presented his newly composed anthems for the coronation of George II and Queen Caroline in Westminster Abbey in 1727, the Archbishop of Canterbury is said to have commented, "The Anthems in confusion; all irregular in the music."
Poor George Frederic. There's nothing about his masterly compositions that should evoke confusion or the accusation of irregularity, so unless the good archbishop was tone-deaf (always a possibility), we can only conclude that, with all the resources of London at his disposal, Handel must have had a disastrous performance. Too bad he couldn't have made it over to the colonies, where, 285 years later, he would have heard his thrilling celebration music done up right in performances that were inspiring in their clarity, cohesion, and dynamic.
Not only that, he would have heard a stirring performance of a masterpiece by his great successor. The so-called "Lord Nelson Mass" of Franz Joseph Haydn (who called it a "mass for troubled times" — also sometimes translated as "mass in a time of war"— reflects the unsettled period of the Napoleonic wars.
How did Lord Nelson's name get attached to this work? Haydn had recently had two very successful sojourns in London but this piece was written after his definitive return to Austria. Nelson's naval victories over the French made him a big hero in Vienna, and the British admiral is said to have met Haydn on the occasion of a visit to Austria in 1800, only a couple of years after the piece was written.
Nelson may even have heard a performance of the Mass to which his name has become permanently attached. The Handel pieces were attractive, but the focus was on the Haydn, a veritable musical monument in more ways than one.
This is not just conventional religious music. It is often regarded as a very symphonic work, but it's also a dramatic vocal piece, with stunning music for voices. It starts out in an atmosphere of minor-key doom and gloom but ends up in the sunshine of an almost operatic finale that is all light and joy; in between, there is a kind of narrative thread that never loses its forward motion. There are no true songs or arias, but Haydn uses the vocal quartet to set off the clear shimmer of solo voices against the powerful responses of the chorus, a kind of musical chiaroscuro, of which he was a master.
In Saturday's performance by the Choral Society of the Hamptons, the solo quartet was dominated by the angelic lead voice of the soprano Anita Johnson, a perfect vehicle for the classical ring of Haydn's melodic inventions; her inviting calls often provoked a thrilling response from the chorus. There were also strong contributions from her colleagues in the quartet: the mezzo, Charlene Marcinko, the very elegant-voiced tenor Eapen Leubner (who, let it be noted, sang holding an iPad instead of the traditional vocal score), and the bass, Eric Johnson, a last-minute fill-in for the originally scheduled singer. Mr. Johnson's voice sounded a little worn at times but otherwise he blended in with his colleagues as though he had been singing with them all his life.
I don't know where the musicians of the South Fork Chamber Ensemble actually come from but, aside from an occasionally hesitant string sound, they constituted a strong and musical counterpart to the voices, with oboes playing major solos in the Handel pieces (which included an instrumental excerpt from the oratorio "Solomon") and trumpets and organ taking equally important roles in the Haydn.
Haydn's employers, the Esterhazys, were on an austerity kick and their entire wind section was laid off; however this didn't seem to bother Haydn, whose telling orchestration for strings, trumpets and drums, and organ was, except for a couple of moments of disparity with the somewhat distantly placed organ, a big part of the success of the evening.
The Choral Society does not go back to Handel's or Haydn's time but it is one of the East End's most durable and praiseworthy modern institutions; it was founded in 1946 and has thus passed the three-quarters-of-a-century mark. It manages to represent traditional culture in fast-moving times without losing its contemporary feel. And it maintains its status as an amateur community organization without sacrificing musical quality, beauty of sound, rhythmic energy, or accuracy.
Mark Mangini, the conductor, seems to have solved one of the perennial problems of amateur choruses — weakness in the tenor section — by adding mezzos to the high-voiced men, achieving a solid balance of the four vocal sections. The singing always had forward energy and depth of feeling combined with clarity and sound quality.
Mr. Mangini is a quiet, non-showy presence on the podium but he had a solid and clear command of both vocal and instrumental forces. The parish hall of East Hampton's Most Holy Trinity Church has a bright sound that let the contrapuntal voices of these works shine through. And I have the impression that the presence of a large and enthusiastic audience galvanized the performers and helped turn a solid but potentially overwhelming challenge into a dynamic and communicative reading of a major work that caught its vocal, symphonic, and theatrical character, always in good measure.
Eric Salzman's "Big Jim & the Small-time Investors" had its first coming-out this spring in a Center for Contemporary Opera workshop at the Flea Theater in New York City. His early prize-winning "Civilization & Its Discontents," co-written with Michael Sahl, has just been released by Labor Records. "The Nude Paper Sermon" with actor Stacy Keach and the Nonesuch Consort is scheduled to be out in the early fall. "The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body," Mr. Salzman's pioneering study of new and experimental opera and music-theater, was written with Thomas Desi of Vienna and is published by Oxford University Press.


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The second-largest U.S. automaker said on Thursday that it will add 900 jobs and a third shift at its Kansas City Assembly Plant to build the F-150 pickup truck, the top-selling U.S. vehicle for well over three decades.
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Another 1,100 jobs will be added starting in the fourth quarter to prepare for the 2014 introduction of the Ford Transit full-size van. The moves will boost Ford's workforce at the factory by just over 80 percent.
The announcement comes after several months of surging sales in the lucrative pickup truck market. Truck sales grew three times the rate of the overall auto industry, Ford executives said Wednesday while discussing April U.S. auto sales.
"There's a lot more room for the housing market to move because it bottomed out so low in the U.S.," said Joe Hinrichs, who leads Ford's operations in North and South America.
He added in an interview that the average age of the trucks on the road is at a record high, which should push some tradesman to buy new trucks as business picks up.
Kansas City is the latest Ford factory in the United States to run a third shift. Hiring more entry-level workers as well as increasing factory capacity utilization helped Ford's profits margins in North America.
About 1,000 of the workers will be hired at the entry-level wage. Entry-level workers start at $15.78 an hour or nearly half the pay of traditional unskilled blue-collar Ford workers.
Under its four-year labor pact with the United Auto Workers union in 2011, Ford promised to create or preserve 12,000 hourly jobs in the United States by 2015.
Ford said it was now three-quarters of the way through with this commitment.
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by Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is an experimental anti-poverty interventionin villages across Africa. In October, we released evidence that the Project's official publications were overstating its real effects, and we offered suggestions on improving its impact evaluation. On Tuesday the MVP, whose leadership and staff are aware of our work, continued to greatly overstate its impact.
It started last year. In a June 2010 report called Harvests of Development, the Project claimed that the impacts of the project included expanded cell phone ownership. For example, the MVP claimed that increases in cell phone ownership at the Ghana site were caused by the project, in this extract from page 91 of the MVP report:
This claim has little basis, because cell phone ownership has been expanding at about the same rate all around the MVP site in areas untouched by the project. The graph below, from our paper, shows cell phone ownership at the MVP site in black compared with various other areas:
No reasonable person could look at these findings and conclude that the MVP intervention clearly caused any substantial increase in the rate of expansion of cell phone ownership. The evidence gives no clear reason to believe that cell phone ownership would have expanded any more slowly at the intervention sites if the Project had never existed.
But on Tuesday, months after multiple discussions we've had with MVP leaders on our research, a post on the MVP's blog restated the claim that the increase in mobile phone ownership at the intervention sites was caused by the Project, calling the increase at the Sauri, Kenya site one of the MVP's "achievements."
As the World Bank Chief Economist for Africa Shanta Devarajan has observed, our evidence does suggest that the MVP has had some positive short-run impacts on people's lives. So there is no reason to overstate the impacts.
Before-vs.-after comparisons implicitly assume that in the absence of the intervention, nothing would have changed. This assumption is demonstrably incorrect in the case of the MVP and cell phone ownership. The cell phones are just one example of how the Project overstates its impacts; in the paper we discuss others. For a brief summary and a discussion of my visit to the Sauri MVP site, see this earlier post.
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The point that Michael is trying to make would be easier and clearer communicated if he were to frame his causal questions being explicit about the Y-intervention. The title of Clemens's post notwithstanding, the word "effect" has one meaning (a well-defined meaning in this context, see the "Rubin" papers going back to the 1970s) which can be applied to different causal questions with clarity and transparancy when those questions are explicitly articulated.


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"They were pulled out of my arms," said Connie Smith, 38, of Littleton, in Aroostook County. "I think my son knew what was going to happen because he grabbed his teddy bear and didn't give me a hug. My girls clung to me."
It was Oct. 21, 1998, when state Child and Family Services took Smith's son and three daughters and put them in foster care. Smith's husband abused her, and it wasn't a safe place for children. But she hadn't known how to leave. She said she hadn't yet found her voice.
"It was really hard for me to have an abusive husband in the home and try to keep my kids safe and try to leave him, too," she said.
It wasn't until her children were taken that she found the way to get out. She was 24 at the time and had already experienced more than she should have, including a childhood in Houlton filled with neglect and times in the foster care system herself. She had met the man who would become her husband when they were teenagers, and she gave birth to their first child at the age of 15. They married when she was 17.
Without her children, "I knew then that I'm ultimately alone," she said. "I just remember looking in that mirror and saying, 'Who am I?'"
Fourteen years later, she knows who she is: a survivor. She's not afraid to share her history, she said, because otherwise how will people learn? "I know that I'm one of the survivors. I know that I'm one of the people that has overcome a lot of the obstacles. A lot of people just give up," she said.
That's why she represented the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians on a committee to select the five commissioners who will serve on the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Those commissioners will be officially sworn in on Tuesday in Hermon and will later begin their work to learn about what happened to Wabanaki children and families who were involved with the Maine child welfare system in the past.
The commission's process will mark the first truth and reconciliation effort in the U.S. that has been collaboratively developed between Indian nations and a state government.
It's an endeavor Smith is proud of. "I finally get a voice," she said. Many people have kept their painful experiences a secret. "It doesn't have to be a secret any more."
Smith acknowledged that having her children removed from their home "is what needed to happen for the time." It led her to finally put her children's father out of her life and enter a program to address what she called codependency, which can be characterized by a need to help others even when they are manipulative.
But getting her children back took too long. The state separated her four children into three different homes, she said. She worked weekends, so she could see her kids during the week, driving hours to visit them. It took a year to get back her eldest daughter, a couple years for her other daughters and five years for her son.
"It was just a long, hard battle," she said.
She was ultimately successful and loved having her children return home, but "it wasn't necessarily easy. There were a lot of heart-wrenching moments." She said the difficulty didn't come from her children but from the pressure to do everything right. She didn't want to lose them again.
She's now remarried, has another son and works for the tribe's housing authority as a resident counselor. She has overcome much pain but still mourns the years away from her children and the things they experienced growing up.
"I know it was hard for them," she said through her tears. "And it still is."
But they're each pursuing their own path. They don't leave her house without a hug and a kiss on the cheek. And they don't hang up the phone without saying, "'Mom, I love you,'" she said.
And they do get to see that their mother now has a strong voice.
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Worried About Privacy? Staying Off Facebook Won't Help
It's hard to feel safe on Facebook sometimes. For most people, social networking is the easiest way to keep up with friends and family and worrying about fake offers, spam, and apps harvesting personal data just get in the way. However, recent research suggests that for the privacy-obsessed, not joining Facebook and similar sites is no longer the answer.
A quartet of German researchers was able to learn about people who weren't members of social networks by examining information posted online by their friends, according to a recent paper published in the journal PLoS One. Researchers Emöke-Ágnes Horvát, Michael Hanselmann, Fred A. Hamprecht and Katharina A. Zweig looked at publicly available information on Facebook to determine with an "astonishing" rate of accuracy whether two non-members knew each other based on information posted by their friends.
People worried about revealing details about their lives, political views, or other sensitive information online often stay away from social network platforms "in the belief that will help protect their privacy," the researchers wrote in the paper's introduction.
"Such an assumption is no longer valid," they concluded.
With the help of machine learning, social network operators can make predictions about individuals being mentioned by users, even when the person in question was not a member, the researchers said. For the purpose of the study, researchers used "real-world Facebook friendship networks" representing students from five universities in the United States.
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Even if people don't post pictures of themselves attending a party on Facebook, their friends might. While this study focused on guessing whether or not people knew each other, it is not a far reach to imagine different ways friends' data can be used to create a profile of non-members. It's a fact that many users are unaware of how much of their information is public and being shared, so it's possible that incriminating photos are out there for anyone to find. Or friends checking into a location and mentioning who they are with. The Wall posts are a goldmine of personal information.
A Carnegie Mellon researcher demonstrated at last year's Black Hat conference how he was able to apply off-the-shelf facial-recognition software to Facebook photos to identify 30 percent of students walking around CMU campus. Alessandro Acquisiti took his research another step further and correlated the publicly available information with anonymous profiles on online dating sites. He was also able to correctly guess Social Security numbers within four tries for 28 percent of the subjects. And all this started with just a single photo.
German data-protection officials have even requested Facebook to disable its facial-recognition software.
It's a little funny to me that joining Facebook may actually help with protecting user privacy. Facebook allows people to tag their friends in photos, and as of yet, there is no way to opt-out of getting tagged. Right now, I have Profile Review enabled in Facebook so that I am notified whenever someone tags me in a photo. I manually remove the tags because I know many of my friends have fairly public profiles. I have location check-in disabled, and last I checked, that meant someone else couldn't check me in, either. If I wasn't on Facebook, I wouldn't have any control over what's going on about me.
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Consider how many security questions for online services rely on personal information that people casually toss out online. Now imagine if that can be linked to someone else. My colleague Neil Rubenking wrote recently about how kids have a digital presence before they are two. It's one thing to play fast and loose with your privacy, but it's totally a different issue when it's someone else's.
Play fair and take advantage of those privacy settings on your social networks. Stop and consider who is actually going to see that information, because one it's out on the Internet, it's out there.


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