The fact of the matter is that our outdated laws lead to a lot of waste that really isn't waste. The example of France in the article is very telling.
What remains after all this material has been extracted from spent fuel rods are some isotopes for which no important uses have yet been found, but which can be stored for future retrieval. France, which completely reprocesses its recyclable material, stores all the unused remains -- from 30 years of generating 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy -- beneath the floor of a single room at La Hague.
It's not a "flop". Many of the most respected tech bloggers have permanently deleted their Facebook accounts. I did so myself about a month ago when I heard that Zuckerberg called FB users "dumb fcks". Who cares about hooking up with people you went to high school with anyway?
Agreed. It's a change in direction. Facebook is no longer on an easy, upward, unchallenged trajectory.
A business plan to compete directly with Facebook no longer seems foolish. Regardless of Diaspora's success, the overwhelming support of $200,000 of real money proved that there is a hungry market for a Facebook competitor; someone just has to build it.
Yes Facebook is evil. When I saw that Zuckerberg called users "dumb f*s" for trusting him with their data, and I mused on how criminals could exploit that data via phishing, pw guessing, and social engineering schemes, I joined the Perma-Delete revolution.
Really could have just as easy been a silly joke that is now taken out of context.
I wonder if any of us will ever make it to the level of Zuckerberg, but if you do, are you sure you never made an IM message or an email that might be used against you like this?
No kidding. If you can 'flag' then do so, if more than 10 people I believe flag something it will get killed, but only if that happens before it gets 10 upvotes (not that I'm scared this will get any upvotes).
Making it a self post with the url unlinked in the description, with a warning might have been better. Suppose the site had been hacked and loaded with malware and readers assumed you were just linking a report about the hack, rather than the compromised site itself.
No harm done. This sort of thing won't be in the HN guidelines. In general, if you want to show others a compromised site, make sure the link is clearly identified as such and won't be clicked on accident. Optimally, make it so it's not really live link and the receiver will have to, say, cut and paste if they decide they want to view it. Just a bit of basic precautionary paranoia.