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designer
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My ex wife has made a facebook account with a picture of me on it. Says I went to Pot Head High and on and on, She has made friends with all of my family and business associates and asks where she can score. It is insane. I tried to get it pulled and my people say they can still see it in existence
Mt Toaker
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Hahaha, You'll never get one again. I wouldn't want to connect ICMag and Facebook either. The industry is still very controversial even where it is legal as medicine.
Designer, you should e-mail facebook. If you want to take it far enough you could get the authorities involved. I've seen a few facebook cases on the news and it sounds like she is impersonating you with the intent to slander your name.
Designer, you should e-mail facebook. If you want to take it far enough you could get the authorities involved. I've seen a few facebook cases on the news and it sounds like she is impersonating you with the intent to slander your name.
Can give facebook just a tiny credit....tho myself have not adapted
yet to its format or the culture ...
Facebook Founders Donate $170K to Pro-Pot Initiative
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370523,00.asp:bump:
You can advertise it on Facebook, but you just can't post pictures of it on facebook – marijuana, of course, which can be a fairly spotty subject for the social networking giant when dealing with those that seek to express their love of "herbal remedies" across their online personas.
Of course, that hasn't stopped those connected with Facebook's development team from jumping on the pro-pot bandwagon themselves. ABC News is reporting that Facebook co-founders Sean Parker and Dustin Moskovitz have both donated fairly significant sums in support of California's Proposition 19 campaign, which seeks to legalize marijuana use across the state come this November's election cycle.
Moskovitz, who left Facebook in 2008 after serving as a vice president at the company, has reportedly donated $70,000 in total toward the measure. Parker, co-founder of Napster and, perhaps more importantly, depicted by pop star Justin Timberlake in the recent release of The Social Network, has kicked in $100,000 to support the measure.
"What's interesting here is that [Parker] is a member of the generation that really gets it," said Drug Policy Alliance spokesman Stephen Gutwillig in an interview with the Associated Press. "We think he's pivotal to the future of drug policy reform in the country."
* Though i saw the movie by happen stance when in a multiplex theatre to see Black Swan , sat thru Social Network not aware what is was about when it first came out .
( just realized (doh!) it was Justin Timberlake that played Sean Parker of Napster in the movie ...he was not bad )
yet to its format or the culture ...
Facebook Founders Donate $170K to Pro-Pot Initiative
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370523,00.asp:bump:
You can advertise it on Facebook, but you just can't post pictures of it on facebook – marijuana, of course, which can be a fairly spotty subject for the social networking giant when dealing with those that seek to express their love of "herbal remedies" across their online personas.
Of course, that hasn't stopped those connected with Facebook's development team from jumping on the pro-pot bandwagon themselves. ABC News is reporting that Facebook co-founders Sean Parker and Dustin Moskovitz have both donated fairly significant sums in support of California's Proposition 19 campaign, which seeks to legalize marijuana use across the state come this November's election cycle.
Moskovitz, who left Facebook in 2008 after serving as a vice president at the company, has reportedly donated $70,000 in total toward the measure. Parker, co-founder of Napster and, perhaps more importantly, depicted by pop star Justin Timberlake in the recent release of The Social Network, has kicked in $100,000 to support the measure.
"What's interesting here is that [Parker] is a member of the generation that really gets it," said Drug Policy Alliance spokesman Stephen Gutwillig in an interview with the Associated Press. "We think he's pivotal to the future of drug policy reform in the country."
* Though i saw the movie by happen stance when in a multiplex theatre to see Black Swan , sat thru Social Network not aware what is was about when it first came out .
( just realized (doh!) it was Justin Timberlake that played Sean Parker of Napster in the movie ...he was not bad )
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thats really awsome 170k is alot of money... been when you think the owner is a BILLIONAIRE what is 170k??? like 170 bucks to someone like us??? very small amount....
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
Jeff Jarvis: Washington shows the morals of a clumsy spammer
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* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011 13.19 GMT
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General David Petraeus Gen David Petraeus has previously said US online psychological operations are aimed at 'countering extremist ideology and propaganda'. Photograph: Cliff Owen/AP
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.
The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as "sock puppets" – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same.
The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries".
Centcom spokesman Commander Bill Speaks said: "The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable Centcom to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US."
He said none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be unlawful to "address US audiences" with such technology, and any English-language use of social media by Centcom was always clearly attributed. The languages in which the interventions are conducted include Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto.
Centcom said it was not targeting any US-based web sites, in English or any other language, and specifically said it was not targeting Facebook or Twitter.
Once developed, the software could allow US service personnel, working around the clock in one location, to respond to emerging online conversations with any number of co-ordinated messages, blogposts, chatroom posts and other interventions. Details of the contract suggest this location would be MacDill air force base near Tampa, Florida, home of US Special Operations Command.
Centcom's contract requires for each controller the provision of one "virtual private server" located in the United States and others appearing to be outside the US to give the impression the fake personas are real people located in different parts of the world.
It also calls for "traffic mixing", blending the persona controllers' internet usage with the usage of people outside Centcom in a manner that must offer "excellent cover and powerful deniability".
The multiple persona contract is thought to have been awarded as part of a programme called Operation Earnest Voice (OEV), which was first developed in Iraq as a psychological warfare weapon against the online presence of al-Qaida supporters and others ranged against coalition forces. Since then, OEV is reported to have expanded into a $200m programme and is thought to have been used against jihadists across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
OEV is seen by senior US commanders as a vital counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation programme. In evidence to the US Senate's armed services committee last year, General David Petraeus, then commander of Centcom, described the operation as an effort to "counter extremist ideology and propaganda and to ensure that credible voices in the region are heard". He said the US military's objective was to be "first with the truth".
This month Petraeus's successor, General James Mattis, told the same committee that OEV "supports all activities associated with degrading the enemy narrative, including web engagement and web-based product distribution capabilities".
Centcom confirmed that the $2.76m contract was awarded to Ntrepid, a newly formed corporation registered in Los Angeles. It would not disclose whether the multiple persona project is already in operation or discuss any related contracts.
Nobody was available for comment at Ntrepid.
In his evidence to the Senate committee, Gen Mattis said: "OEV seeks to disrupt recruitment and training of suicide bombers; deny safe havens for our adversaries; and counter extremist ideology and propaganda." He added that Centcom was working with "our coalition partners" to develop new techniques and tactics the US could use "to counter the adversary in the cyber domain".
According to a report by the inspector general of the US defence department in Iraq, OEV was managed by the multinational forces rather than Centcom.
Asked whether any UK military personnel had been involved in OEV, Britain's Ministry of Defence said it could find "no evidence". The MoD refused to say whether it had been involved in the development of persona management programmes, saying: "We don't comment on cyber capability."
OEV was discussed last year at a gathering of electronic warfare specialists in Washington DC, where a senior Centcom officer told delegates that its purpose was to "communicate critical messages and to counter the propaganda of our adversaries".
Persona management by the US military would face legal challenges if it were turned against citizens of the US, where a number of people engaged in sock puppetry have faced prosecution.
Last year a New York lawyer who impersonated a scholar was sentenced to jail after being convicted of "criminal impersonation" and identity theft.
It is unclear whether a persona management programme would contravene UK law. Legal experts say it could fall foul of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, which states that "a person is guilty of forgery if he makes a false instrument, with the intention that he or another shall use it to induce somebody to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting it to do or not to do some act to his own or any other person's prejudice". However, this would apply only if a website or social network could be shown to have suffered "prejudice" as a result.
• This article was amended on 18 March 2011 to remove references to Facebook and Twitter, introduced during the editing process, and to add a comment from Centcom, received after publication, that it is not targeting those sites.
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
Jeff Jarvis: Washington shows the morals of a clumsy spammer
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* Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain
* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011 13.19 GMT
* Article history
General David Petraeus Gen David Petraeus has previously said US online psychological operations are aimed at 'countering extremist ideology and propaganda'. Photograph: Cliff Owen/AP
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.
The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as "sock puppets" – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same.
The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries".
Centcom spokesman Commander Bill Speaks said: "The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable Centcom to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US."
He said none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be unlawful to "address US audiences" with such technology, and any English-language use of social media by Centcom was always clearly attributed. The languages in which the interventions are conducted include Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto.
Centcom said it was not targeting any US-based web sites, in English or any other language, and specifically said it was not targeting Facebook or Twitter.
Once developed, the software could allow US service personnel, working around the clock in one location, to respond to emerging online conversations with any number of co-ordinated messages, blogposts, chatroom posts and other interventions. Details of the contract suggest this location would be MacDill air force base near Tampa, Florida, home of US Special Operations Command.
Centcom's contract requires for each controller the provision of one "virtual private server" located in the United States and others appearing to be outside the US to give the impression the fake personas are real people located in different parts of the world.
It also calls for "traffic mixing", blending the persona controllers' internet usage with the usage of people outside Centcom in a manner that must offer "excellent cover and powerful deniability".
The multiple persona contract is thought to have been awarded as part of a programme called Operation Earnest Voice (OEV), which was first developed in Iraq as a psychological warfare weapon against the online presence of al-Qaida supporters and others ranged against coalition forces. Since then, OEV is reported to have expanded into a $200m programme and is thought to have been used against jihadists across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
OEV is seen by senior US commanders as a vital counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation programme. In evidence to the US Senate's armed services committee last year, General David Petraeus, then commander of Centcom, described the operation as an effort to "counter extremist ideology and propaganda and to ensure that credible voices in the region are heard". He said the US military's objective was to be "first with the truth".
This month Petraeus's successor, General James Mattis, told the same committee that OEV "supports all activities associated with degrading the enemy narrative, including web engagement and web-based product distribution capabilities".
Centcom confirmed that the $2.76m contract was awarded to Ntrepid, a newly formed corporation registered in Los Angeles. It would not disclose whether the multiple persona project is already in operation or discuss any related contracts.
Nobody was available for comment at Ntrepid.
In his evidence to the Senate committee, Gen Mattis said: "OEV seeks to disrupt recruitment and training of suicide bombers; deny safe havens for our adversaries; and counter extremist ideology and propaganda." He added that Centcom was working with "our coalition partners" to develop new techniques and tactics the US could use "to counter the adversary in the cyber domain".
According to a report by the inspector general of the US defence department in Iraq, OEV was managed by the multinational forces rather than Centcom.
Asked whether any UK military personnel had been involved in OEV, Britain's Ministry of Defence said it could find "no evidence". The MoD refused to say whether it had been involved in the development of persona management programmes, saying: "We don't comment on cyber capability."
OEV was discussed last year at a gathering of electronic warfare specialists in Washington DC, where a senior Centcom officer told delegates that its purpose was to "communicate critical messages and to counter the propaganda of our adversaries".
Persona management by the US military would face legal challenges if it were turned against citizens of the US, where a number of people engaged in sock puppetry have faced prosecution.
Last year a New York lawyer who impersonated a scholar was sentenced to jail after being convicted of "criminal impersonation" and identity theft.
It is unclear whether a persona management programme would contravene UK law. Legal experts say it could fall foul of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, which states that "a person is guilty of forgery if he makes a false instrument, with the intention that he or another shall use it to induce somebody to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting it to do or not to do some act to his own or any other person's prejudice". However, this would apply only if a website or social network could be shown to have suffered "prejudice" as a result.
• This article was amended on 18 March 2011 to remove references to Facebook and Twitter, introduced during the editing process, and to add a comment from Centcom, received after publication, that it is not targeting those sites.
designer
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Psuedo I do seem to meet women with extreme emotions. You know that comes in handy at times, and not so much at others. I am trying to find women lately with a little less going on in that way. Live and learn
I emailed Facebook and told them there is an impostor but so far my friends and family says the account is still active and gaining more friends. That has been probably two weeks ago I logged in the complaint.
I emailed Facebook and told them there is an impostor but so far my friends and family says the account is still active and gaining more friends. That has been probably two weeks ago I logged in the complaint.
...well you saw i said "tiny" bit of credit
These kids are the future like Steven Jobs was in his day (still is ) & very bright & those billions will give them alot of power . Unlike Steve Jobs who took so much LSD in his early 20's he thought he could live on "Air" . Jobs did bring into being much that has changed the landscape of our world ...and in a very real sense he's brought the world together in a way any "high thinking" person may have envisioned .
( At one point last month Apple was worth more than Exxon Mobile the largest corp in the world ....a pretty great accomplishment for an 'original stoner' from Silicon Valley/SF.)
But yah , will reserve judgement on facebook , just haven't navigated it much ... lets see what they ( facebook team) do in real terms . If we all could just "Google" the future .....now there's one thats changed the face of the world forever, far more than facebook .
Go Stanford !
Kirsten
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I give him no more credit than i would a millionaire dropping a quarter into the palm of a homeless person.
FYI Madrus, Mark Zuckerberg makes $1,541,095.00 - PER HOUR.
Which is $25,684.00 - PER MINUTE.
So, Mark literally gave 6 minutes and 30 some odd seconds of his 1,440 minute a day earnings to the cause. 6 minutes to earn 170k - So when he drops 170k, it's literally the 1 penny that he left at the counter in the store because the total was $4.99, and he didn't feel like waiting for grandma to scoop it out the register. He doesn't even feel it, won't even know it was spent, except when he does a Vanity Google of his name and see's where it is mentioned.
I gave more money to Norman Lubow (Reverend Bud) as a $5 donation, when i was 15 and he was buying my 1/8th of Northern Lights for me and asking for donations so he could throw rallies at Federal buildings and toss joints to the people, than Mark Zuckberg has ever given when it comes to time versus time and earnings.
Heck, anyone stopping on the street in their city and putting a $5 dollar bill under the head of a sleeping homeless person is sacrificing more of their personal wealthy to help another human than Mark will ever choose to do for the cannabis cause.
If i had his money i would give 10%. Period.
If you give and don't feel it, then you didn't give a thing because sacrifice for others is caring and that does have a cost you feel when you give. What he did well...More like "look at me, i am so ultra liberal, so forward thinking, so open minded".
Edit to add: Oh, yes MARK ZUCKBERG, AKA "M. LINDEN" the Ex-CEO (canned) from Second Life virtual world the great squasher or pornography and protector of our children. Digital representations, not real people porn = bad, Pot = good. Go figure. I knew there was another reason i did not like that guy. LOL!
yah , just around mid Jan, Apple was hitting $350 a share while Exxon had dipped to $76 per share ...well maybe Apple was a little less than Exxon at the time since for every point Apple goes up or down equals $1bil dollars , where for Exxon every point it goes up or down equals $5Bil.
It was close for a moment there .... now @ $80 Exxon is worth $400bil & Apple which was getting pretty over~valued on the iPad release sold back down to $330/share , so now stands at $330bil market cap. (Apple's highest mark was hit just after Valentine's day a month ago @$364 )
In just the last 3 mos Exxon reported whopping revenues of $99Bil compared to Apple's revs of $13Bil in the same 3mos ...the net earnings from that for Exxon was $8Bil vs Apple's net revs of $3Bil in just 3mos time.
* The addiction to oil is a little bigger than the addiction to iPhones , iPads & iTunes (and social networking )...but that could be debateable !
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Agreed. I'm on facebook with a fake name and i have only my close friends and contacts as buddies, no bars, no friend collector types, no celebs, no people who update their shit all the time about what their dog ate this morning and such. Problem is, i'm still too paranoid to check it out more than say once a month
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The only reason I got a facebook is to show I'm married haha XD...I'm on it during the day when I'm on my computer but always offline to everybody, but out of the 22 people I have as friends are my family I ignore any other requests heh
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Facebook is not FBI
Facebook is owned by the CIA!!!
anyone with a facebook page and ipod is on the SIMS boards being tracked everywhere they go. to your grow, your home, etc.
LMAO @ all the stupid fools!!!
Facebook is owned by the CIA!!!
anyone with a facebook page and ipod is on the SIMS boards being tracked everywhere they go. to your grow, your home, etc.
LMAO @ all the stupid fools!!!
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bill belichick said it best.. no..ah.... i don't myface! next fucking question!
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