Weekend Open Thread

I won
Nothing going on this weekend but the Rose Festival Parade (flee Portland and head for the hills).

The online poll to determine which Facebook policies will be put into place on the social network closed this morning after one week of voting -- and a serious lack of user interest.

Out of 900 million users, a mere 342,632 voted on which privacy policy would govern the site. Just shy of 300,000 users voted against the policy change, while around 45,000 voted for it.

That's roughly 1 in every 2,600 users -- or 0.00038% of Facebook.

Facebook's call to action last Friday asked users to read and vote on which Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy they preferred to use.

Facebook said that if the poll didn't receive at least 30% of users' votes, the company would make the decision of which privacy policy to use on its own. That means 230 million people would have had to vote during the eight-day window the poll was open.

I bet the ones who care, like me, would never sign up in the first place. I never would sign up for any social networking site.

Didn't even know this was happening.

FB did not do a good job of making it public. Why do I think that was probably intentional????

I am bit of loner and anti social. The few who know me to call me on my phone or send me a e-mail.
Another thing is I ma looking for permanent work and I do not want to give my age away, that is one reason I closed my LinkedIn account.

Funny any job I have applied for has an area on it for your birthdate. Some jobs actually require a minimum age. Like 14 year olds can't work at McDonald's. Kind of need a birthdate for that. Under 21 year old's can't serve alcohol in many places. Kind of need to ask for an age in those jobs. I'm pretty sure that if you put down where you went to college you have to put WHEN you graduated so they can make sure you are telling the truth. Unless you're some Doogie Howser and graduated at 12, they can tell how old you are by your graduation year.

Go figure people willfully sign up and voluntary give up their privacy to Facebook. I bet the ones who care, like me, would never sign up in the first place. I never would sign up for any social networking site.

Looks like very few people care about privacy, despite all the blogger press claiming otherwise. Facebook held a vote on privacy policy and virtually no one came. I voted no, but I was 1 of a very, very few who did bother to vote.

»news.yahoo.com/facebook-election···657.html

Thank you; I'll remember to avoid Liberty Mutual.

nice, we went about 5 years with out a microwave, (we wound up getting this one »www.walmart.com/catalog/product.···14089914 first one we ever owned with a humidity sensor in it)

oddly enough im learning that "microwave safe" isnt actually microwave safe, at least not the stuff we have, the plastic canisters tend to "blister" (warm up chili for 30 seconds, and the things still blister!) even managed to crack a "microwave safe" measuring cup heating up water.

i think its just my choice in "cookware", any suggestions?

Do yourselves and families a favor. DO NOT microwave in plastic.

Its your choice. But plastic is very obviously porous, it would only make sense that during the heating process the chemicals breakdown somewhat. Would you eat food out of a baked plastic container? Just a different change in the chemicals.

For example BPA requires no heat to release into its plastic containers contents, wouldnt super exciting those molecules cause a faster more efficient release of the stuff? (i.e. microwaving a babies bottle)

I think I might install the OS to 1 drive like you said.

analyst firm Forrester Research, seniors ages 65 and up are probably more connected and tech-savvy than you think. Forrester found that about 60% of U.S. seniors are online. That’s about 20 million people and while this obviously means that 40% don’t care much about the Internet, those 60% who are online are tech-savvy and happily use technology to connect to their friends and family.

Online seniors, says Forrester analyst Gina Sverdlov, also highly value their mobile phones, but mostly for making calls. Only 22% of online seniors use their phones to access the Internet and only 7% of those who are online and own a mobile phone use mobile apps on a regular basis.

Go figure peo I bet the ones who care, like me, would never sign up in the first place. I never would sign up for any social networking site.