The Danger with Facebook Pages

Do you have a FB page you rely on heavily? If FB bans it for some reason, you are banned from creating any more new pages
Why would your Page get banned?

‘How to avoid such a situation
There are many reasons for which your page can be shut down including:

1) Your Page does not follow Facebook Page guidelines
2) You do not adhere to Facebook contest guidelines
3) Your Page does not follow Facebook Advertising guidelines

Here are some quick tips to avoid such a situation:’

Where tweeters get publicly shamed
“Public Shaming” is a Tumblr blog created by Matt Binder
You could also submit tweets from composers you want to shame

‘I started retweeting people complaining about welfare, food stamps, etc. and then following it up with a previous tweet of theirs that makes them look hypocritical/dumb/etc.

‘I discovered that as I would retweet these, my followers would start @replying these people and let them know they were idiots. They would then delete their offending tweet…’

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BuzzFeed wants its community to compete with its editors
Wikipedia should learn from this
‘Earlier this month, BuzzFeed’s editors took a step toward giving those faithful followers a little more of the spotlight they crave. Shepherd, along with a staff of four, now run BuzzFeed Community, a content-producing vertical of its very own, complete with featured posts by community members and a leaderboard with the latest on who’s posts are getting the most traffic, likes, comments, and badges. It’s a competitive place, and anyone can join and enter the fray…’
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Is Morality Without Religion Possible?

I don’t see why that has to be ‘an experiment that’s never been tried’. Isn’t it enough knowing someone who is an atheist but is more moral than religionists?

‘…de Waal’s argument, which he has been making for years, is strengthened by the fact that recent research is starting to paint a better picture of the kind of cognitive processing that empathy requires. It turns out that empathy is not as complex as we had imagined, and that is why other animals are capable of it as well as humans.

‘So if being moral is so easy, can we dispatch with religion altogether?

‘That is an experiment that no one has tried, and which de Waal finds intriguing. The problem, as de Waal points out in the video below, is that we need someone to be keeping watch in large-scale societies in which “we cannot all keep an eye on each other.”…’
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African Children Used Like Lab Rats
‘In December 2012, vaccine tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, Chad, Africa, situated on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Five hundred children were locked into their school, threatened that if they did not agree to being force-vaccinated with a meningitis A vaccine, they would receive no further education. These children were vaccinated without their parents’ knowledge. This vaccine was an unlicensed product still going through the third and fourth phases of testing.

‘Within hours, one hundred six children began to suffer from headaches, vomiting, severe uncontrollable convulsions and paralysis. The children’s wait for a doctor began. They had to wait one full week for a doctor to arrive while the team of vaccinators just carried on vaccinating others from the village. More children became sick…’
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Why is Philippine Comelec refusing to announce winner ranking and number of votes?
Is Grace Poe the reason? Or this:

Comelec ‘shortcuts’ made votes vulnerable to manipulation – election watchdogs

‘Rene b. Azurin, author of “Hacking Our Democracy,” said at the AES Watch press conference that against historical trends, from the beginning to the lull in counting, the ranking of senatorial candidates did not change, even the differences between their votes were almost constant…’
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Philippines Coast Guard defensive over fisherman’s death
And the PCG is right to be according to this report:

‘…The coast guard said one of the Taiwanese boats allegedly tried to ram the coast guard vessel as officers attempted to board the fishing boats. The coast guard fired warning shots and shot at the engine and propeller of the fishing boat to disable it, the statement said.

‘A crew member from one of the Taiwanese boats said the Philippines vessel shot at a fuel tank, resulting in the death of the 65-year-old fisherman…’
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Help Protect Your Kids On The Internet With DNS Angel

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Keeping our kids from being exposed to the bad sites on the internet, such as pornography, is a real challenge. There are numerous software options that a parent can install to protect their kids, but knowing what I know about software, computers and parenting; the software option often falls through the cracks. Besides, most people today are app oriented and only want to install something that has a very quick (minimal) learning curve.

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Why Predatory Publishing is Dangerous

Is Your Website Mobile-Friendly?
Because I use my netbook most of the time, I’m very grateful for mobile-friendly sites I don’t have to adjust page sizes
Why Your Website Should Be Mobile-Friendly

‘In late 2012, Google conducted an independent survey titled “What Users Want Most From Mobile Sites Today.” Of the 1,088 smartphone users that were surveyed, about 67 percent indicated they would be more likely to purchase a product or service from a business that built a mobile-friendly website. Couple that with the fact that 61 percent of users also said they’d leave a site that’s not optimized for mobile and it’s clear that having a mobile-friendly site is more important than ever…’
How to Make Sure It Is

Why Predatory Publishing is Dangerous
Blogger writes about predatory publishing, is threatened with $1B suit

‘Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall runs the popular industry blog Scholarly Open Access. The site maintains a list of open-access journals and publishers that Beall believes engage in predatory practices. For journals and publishers these acts include things like spamming scholars or charging faulty fees for content. The site is known simply as “Beall’s list” to followers and its notoriety has earned Beall ink in places like The New York Times. (And yes, now he even receives pseudo-spammer journals who request to be featured on the site without really understanding.)

‘Today The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a less amusing letter Beall received Tuesday. An Indian intellectual property management firm called IP Markets informed Beall that they would be suing for $1 billion in damages and that he could face up to three years in prison for his “deliberate attempt to defame our client.”…’
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The worst social networking fiasco?
CIA Agent’s Facebook Pages Ruins Him
‘The question of how much a spy should divulge online became a touch less theoretical this week after Russia unmasked what it said was an American spy—saying it had detained Ryan C. Fogle, a junior political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, amid what it alleged was an effort to recruit a Russian officer.

‘Mr. Fogle’s Facebook page, as visible to his 243 “friends,” offered details about his social life, contacts and travel plans. One of those friends provided The Wall Street Journal with images of how Mr. Fogle’s page appeared to them.

‘On that page, Mr. Fogle said he worked at the State Department, posted photos of a tour of a Moscow Cold War bunker and of Mont Saint-Michel in France and Krakow, Poland. He bantered with apparent colleagues about flights back to the U.S. He also indicated he had plans to return to the U.S., including a date and flight route, and said that over Memorial Day weekend he planned to hang out at a restaurant in Arlington, Va., Ray’s the Steaks.

‘Mr. Fogle’s level of sharing appears restrained, by the standards of his generation. His 243 friends isn’t large for someone of his age group. The publicly accessible version of his Facebook profile doesn’t include a photo of him or personal information…’
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Death of A Manila Town’s Fiesta
Just like last year, less than 10% of my hometown folks celebrated our town fiesta. So I think I can finally say that Baclaran’s official Fiesta day is finally dead.

In my 2 cents worth, these are probably the reasons: Either the residents are veering away from the Catholic religion feast, or because of continuing economic (including underground) downturn, or both. The rain of underworld easy money from gambling and black market is getting scarce as years pass by. Legitimate taxpaying workers — except those flaunting their wealth — will see it foolish to celebrate and invite the lot of neighbors who didn’t cook for the fiesta of course.

Is it good that this happened? For one thing, violence which is always part of the celebration is being avoided.

FBI’s Online Wiretapping and your Computer

How the FBI’s online wiretapping plan could get your computer hacked
‘The fundamental problem is that eavesdropping facilities are a double-edged sword. They make it easier for the U.S. government to spy on the bad guys. But they also make it easier for the bad guys to hack our computers and spy on us. And, the researchers say, the Internet’s decentralized architecture makes it particularly hard to build effective and secure wiretapping capabilities online…’
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The Virtual Trackable Locker Box
Trackable Box Storage Does Away With The Traditional Locker

‘Boxbee offers an alternative to traditional storage units, as it allows users to manage their boxes online and retrieve a box whenever they need one. The service is more convenient and cost-effective than renting out a whole unit.

‘The company, which operates in a 15-mile radius of San Francisco, brings boxes to your door, which you can then fill before scheduling a pickup. They are then collected and secured in storage with 24/hr surveillance…’
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Keep Your Private Photos Safe
‘Here is a purely hypothetical situation you could face this summer:The focal character in our tale is Alex, a 20-something recent college graduate. She has a great job at a major law firm. She wants a quick vacation this summer; she works hard, plays hard. To that end, she and her friends decide to spend the weekend in Las Vegas.

‘The trip is fantastic: Hot dry desert air, frozen margaritas by the yard, beach clubs and more. They take photo after photo (some better than others). Alex comes home, exhausted from the weekend, and not entirely sure she wants everyone to see the photos from the trip. After all, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

‘Let’s see what happens after she uploads her photos through two scenarios…’

Why your Apps Stop Working
‘If you’ve ever used the Internet — and you know who you are — you’ve undoubtedly had apps or various services stop working unexpectedly. For ordinary users, this usually just means no access to Twitter or Gmail for a while. But for developers, whose apps and services rely increasingly heavily on hooks into popular Web services, the problem can be far more complicated.

‘That’s because modern Web services (and the apps that facilitate them) can fail for a variety of reasons. One of the most common problems arises when some other service has gone down — more specifically, when the application programming interface (API) that lets your app tap into that other service stops working. Trouble is, until recently there hasn’t been an easy way to confirm or rule out API failures.

‘And that’s where API status dashboards, the weather reports of the Web-service world, come in. Dashboards enable developers and administrators to quickly check to see what’s going on with the API itself…’
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Genetically-modified Humans

English: Tornado Fries (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

They are already walking among us
‘According to the original DailyMail article, Jacques Cohen, a former employee at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine & Science of Saint Barnabas in New Jersey, came up with a way to blend the genes of multiple mothers into a single egg that can then be fertilized with sperm from a male. The end product is a child with a genetic blueprint from three different parents, a process of human manipulation known as “germline” alteration.

‘This unscrupulous discovery, which only further taints the natural order of life with man-made genetic modifications, reportedly led to the development of at least 15 GM babies at that time, which are presumably still alive and now progressing through their adolescent years. And according to the original report, any children born to these GM individuals will also bear these modified GM traits, as they are inherently passed down from generation to generation…’
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The Worst Foods You are Eating
‘Most of us don’t eat as well as we should, but we should at least be trying to cut back on junk foods that ruin our diets and expand our waistlines. Check out 10 of the worst foods you can possibly eat and avoid them like the plague!

‘The potato is an amazing plant that has served to feed people for hundreds of years, but it becomes one of the worst things you can eat once it’s fried. Anything fried in vegetable oil is extremely bad for your health because it contains polyunsaturated fats that produce cancerous free radicals in the body. Fried potato products also are likely to contain a cancer-causing chemical called acrylamide. So aside from the obviously high levels of fat in fries, eating them could also give you cancer!…’
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Herb Won’t Spawn Near Routers
This probably proves that routers are radioactive
School experiment discovers garden cress won’t germinate near a router

‘A group of 5 girls have carried out a science experiment at Hjallerup School in North Jutland, Denmark that saw garden cress seeds placed in 12 tubs and split into two batches. Both batches were placed in different rooms that remained the same temperature, and were given the same amount of water and sunlight over the course of 12 days.

‘You’d expect both batches of 6 tubs to grow equally well, but one set didn’t even germinate. The reason? They were placed next to two routers. Although it’s unclear exactly why this happened, it is thought that the radiation produced by the routers is what stopped the seeds germinating…’
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Good Fats You Should Eat
‘Let’s face it: Too many of us eat too much fat, and when we do, it’s usually the bad kind, not the good. What are good fats? We’re talking monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats and omega-3 fatty acids, and research demonstrates moderate consumption of these fats confer a number of health benefits. Yes, a little fat can go a long, long way, for better or worse; let’s learn more about the healthy variety and why they’re so important for your health…’
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How Hardware Manufacturers Are Deceiving You

Beware of fine print even on the front of the product itself — one got me
‘…Sure, everyone involved can come up with a variety of excuses — they aren’t technically misleading customers, it’s all in the fine print, and these are the standard ways the industry operates — but hardware has been advertised in many misleading ways.

‘We’re not the only ones calling these marketing gimmicks misleading. Some of these tricks have even been the subject of class-action lawsuits for misleading consumers. Today we will look at 8 ways hardware manufacturers attempt to pull the metaphorical wool over the consumer’s eyes…’
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NY Cigarettes and Terrorism
‘A Palestinian smuggling ring with possible ties to Middle East terrorist groups made millions selling tax-free cigarettes in the city and upstate, the Daily News has learned.

‘Late Wednesday, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the NYPD busted up the ring of 16 defendants they say flooded the market with more than 1 million cartons of tax-free cigarettes.

‘Law enforcement sources told The News some members of the group may have ties to Hamas and Hezbollah…’
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If you’re a perp, make sure your victim can’t even blink
Man Convicted by Victim’s Blinks
‘…the 16-minute video police shot they said clearly showed David Chandler identifying Woods as his killer by blinking his eyes.“I thought (the video) was very important,” Prem said after the verdict. “I know there’s a wide variety of opinions on that but when you look at it with the other evidence, it was powerful.”

‘The video shows Chandler, 35, of West Price Hill, in the hospital and kept alive only by machines. He went to the West End at about 2:30 a.m. Oct. 28, 2010, to buy crack cocaine. That’s the neighborhood where Woods, 35, lived…’
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‘Harmless’ Fads That Caused Widespread Destruction
‘Fads are almost never a good thing, but rarely are they ever truly harmful. We dump a few hundred bucks into Tamagotchis, Beanie Babies, or Rubik’s Cubes, and then the craze is over and we put all that crap in a shoebox to confuse our future grandchildren. However, some fads have poisoned thousands, started wars, and enslaved entire nations, all for the sake of some dumbass thing people wanted to ride, wear, or eat…’
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