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User Review - LibraryThingA great introduction to the myths, obviously well-researched, but also pleasantly told. There are extensive notes on each myth, which is good, but they are in a separate section at the end of the book, which I found annoying. I can't imagine that most readers would just read straight through without the explanations, so I would have preferred the notes to follow each myth.
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User Review - LibraryThingIn the world of myths, Norse myths are like that cool kid that you don't really know is cool because he always keeps to himself and doesn't really talk about the same stuff as everybody else. Maybe he's a bit too much of a hipster, but after talking to him for a few minutes, you realize he's a cool guy, even if he is familiar with stuff you've never heard of. Norse Mythology is like that. Sure there are the more popular Greco Roman mythologies, or the more indie Mesoamerican mythologies, or the more fringe Judeo-Christian mythologies, and the more hip Celtic mythologies, but Norse mythology is itself pretty much worth knowing. While other books I've read on the subject barely do enough to do Norse mythology justice, this book does a fabulous job of covering all the established myths from the existing authorities on the subject, including Snorri Sturluson, all translated into English for the US/UK/AU/CA/etc. reader. In reading this book, I realized just how much Norse mythology influenced popular fantasy authors, especially Tolkien, in which just about every single Dark Elf/Dwarf has a name that appears in Tolkien's legendarium, which makes one think twice before kowtowing to a demand by the Tolkien estate to not use a term like Dwalin, Gandalf, or Mirkwook (all names originated in Norse mythology). But I digress... If you'd like a book that does a fairly good coverage of Norse myths without having to learn Scandinavian, then this is a great place to start. Crossley-Holland does an excellent job of presenting the material to the reader in a way that's easy to understand and doesn't get bogged down in the arcane (but does delve a bit into the arcane in a way that's completely enjoyable). I would highly recommend this book as as starting place for anybody interested in Norse mythology, as well as the other Pantheon books of mythology and folklore for those interested in other cultures as well.
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Quote:My notes, using my 7-inch Dob in Boston's outer suburbs, say:Tricky. Cluster consists of a bright double [HD23675]with a much fainter companion, plus a bunch of stars about 3' square all much fainter than the faint companion, most barely visible with averted vision at 105X. Even with those, still pretty poor.
Quote:This for me was the most difficult, and in fact the only difficult object when I was doing Herschel 400 with my 4" f/5.5 Televue from a blue zone site. I had to return to it on a number of nights over some months. First I saw nothing but the lucida. Then I saw it as a double star (the lucida and the faint companion) and was told that this is how Herschel 400 hunters usually see it when they count it. It looked the same then in a fellow observer's 17". I did not give up however and with the improving conditions later that year suddenly I did not just see it as a cluster (with the lucida and its companion off-center) but it was beautifully resolved in my 4" with half a dozen individual members identifiable on a misty background with the DSS at 70x.
Quote:This one is seen through a patch of significant intervening dusty gas, reddening it to a color excess of E(B-V) = 1.6, which would make a bluish B-type star as yellow-orange as a K-type star. This is a visual extinction of nearly 5 magnitudes, making the cluster only about 1/100 as bright as it 'should' be. The bright double star is, I think, not related, likely lying in the foreground. Its inclusion very much artificially increases the catalogued cluster brightness, which really should be closer to 9-10 magnitude.
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Quote:Starhopped pretty accurately to this guy tonight but could find no trace of a cluster. I know it's a small one (4 arcmins) but fairly bright at 6.59 magnitude. The closest star(HIP 17877) appeared as a double even though it didn't show up as one on my chart. The secondary of double appeared dimmer than the magnitude of the cluster and though seeing was very poor, I'm almost positive it was a star and not the cluster. But maybe it was? Or at least part of the cluster? I'm very confident in my star hopping to this object as I did it twice, coming from different sides being very meticulous and arrived at the same "double" star...but with no cluster visible. Not sure what to make of my observation here. Did I just keep going to the wrong star? Or was the "double" star that I observed this cluster? As far as conditions go, I rated seeing at 2/5(anything above 100x was pointless) and transparency at 4/5. I observed this location at 77x 100x and 167x and made out nothing more than what appeared to be a double star. Any ideas? I'm leaning towards being in the wrong location for the cluster despite being very confident of where I had the scope pointed, but I'm just not sure....
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Quote:Quote:Numerous images show what looks like a blue planetary nebula centered within NGC 1444 can anyone ID this object? Unless a new planetary nebula has just formed, it probably is just a 6.8 magnitude star HD 23675 which is overexposed in numerous images.
Quote:Quote:Quote:Numerous images show what looks like a blue planetary nebula centered within NGC 1444 can anyone ID this object? Unless a new planetary nebula has just formed, it probably is just a 6.8 magnitude star HD 23675 which is overexposed in numerous images. Not sure I agree, my question is based on an image in the February 2014 issue of S&T page 58. I could be wrong but it looks like a PN to me. Rich (RLTYS)


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AT&T Pre-Announces 'Best-Ever' iPhone Sales in 4Q 2012
Ahead of its official earnings release for the fourth quarter of 2012 later this month, AT&T today announced that it sold over 10 million smartphones during the quarter, including "best-ever" sales of both iPhone and Android devices. Quote:
Apple is expected to report a strong holiday quarter when it releases its earnings on January 23, buoyed by a full quarter's worth of iPhone 5 sales and fresh updates across much of the rest of its product lineup. Article Link: AT&T Pre-Announces 'Best-Ever' iPhone Sales in 4Q 2012 |
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Yay! Go iPhone sales! It'll be interesting to see how many of these smartphone sales are the i5.
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Jan 8, 2013, 08:55 AM | #3 |
like most things these days this good news will likely drive Apples stock down LOL
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Jan 8, 2013, 08:58 AM | #4 |
As the US smartphone market reaches the very beginnings of smartphone saturation, I think we'll see iPhone growth rates around 10-20% domestically and much higher numbers overseas. The iPhone is only on half of the world's wireless cellular providers. It'll be very interesting to see if apple can join with china mobile to tap its 900 million subscribers.
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Could Verizon, AT&T Follow T-Mobile in Ending Subsidies? Last month Deutsche Telekom AG's DTE.XE +0.57% T-Mobile USA said it would completely stop subsidizing phones in 2013, instead offering plans that essentially allow for interest-free financing. "That is a great thing," Verizon Communications Inc. VZ +0.88% Chief Executive Lowell McAdam said in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He joked that Verizon would support U.S. regulators in banning phone subsidies. Although he likes the idea of ending subsidies, he questioned whether U.S. customers are ready for that type of shift because they have been conditioned to getting lower-cost phones for so long. Verizon "could move to that very quickly" if people wanted it, he said. AT&T T +0.45% Mobility Chief Executive Ralph de la Vega said Monday the company is watching the T-Mobile strategy, and AT&T could make a similar move if it becomes popular, but the company isn't focused on the issue. ------------------ If T-Mobile is successful with no subsidy strategy, Verizon and AT&T might follow suit?
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:12 AM | #6 | |
Since AT$T is making money hand over fist with the iPhone, why don't they do something for a change and treat their customers right like giving them the truly unlimited data they are paying for.
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:22 AM | #7 |
...and yet I get anywhere between a "'searching' to one or two bars" on my iPhone display since moving into our new condominum. Curse AT&T and their lack of adequate cell towers.
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:24 AM | #8 | |
If they went all OS's, they could say Android, iOS, and Windows devices. If they went all companies... that becomes a bit confusing with Android... is it Google's? Then why are the Google APIs/SDKs/services separate from the ones for Android? That's one of the biggest frustrations about trying to develop for Android... no one really controls it firmly enough, so everyone is free to make tweaks to it that makes it so code that run fine on one device completely breaks on all the others.
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:26 AM | #9 |
Complain about AT&T's service with your wallet, not your mouth. The former actually warrants attention.
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:30 AM | #10 |
9.4 million smartphones with 7.6 million of them being iPhones?
gee, I guess the proof's in the pudding. iPhones still outsell Android garbage by far. (at least with AT&T)
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:37 AM | #11 |
Impressive market share of sales. Sure to drive the stock down!
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:51 AM | #12 | |
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:56 AM | #13 | |
There are several Android phones which are not remotely "garbage" ---------- BTW - the article headline is misleading We don't know if ATT's iPhone sales for this quarter were best ever for the iPhone - we just know that ATT's smartphone sales were best ever |
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:56 AM | #14 |
Have almost no issues with ATT, but I'm thinking about going with T-Mobile this year because they have unlimited LTE plans.
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:58 AM | #15 | |
1. Monthly contract fee. 2. Monthly phone subsidy or finance fee. 3. A flate cost/MB data usage fee. This way, consumers would clearly see what they're paying for. |
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Jan 8, 2013, 09:58 AM | #16 |
Apple are clearly in trouble
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I remember reading here on MR that at&t store staff was instructed to try to move potential smartphone customers away from iPhone. Doesn't seem to be working all that well.
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Jan 8, 2013, 10:20 AM | #19 | |
Those won't be released until the 23rd.
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Jan 8, 2013, 10:29 AM | #20 |
Yup, you beat me to it. It might turn out that AT&T sold more iPhones this quarter than ever, but the plain language of the press release does not say that.
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Jan 8, 2013, 10:33 AM | #21 |
wow...those are some crazy numbers for activations for iPhones.
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Jan 8, 2013, 10:35 AM | #22 | |
Sorry but do they CAP your data? or do they throttle you over a certain amount so that you get what you are paying for with your 2007 unlimited data plan. You are paying for 3G speeds, not LTE. I suggest AT&T let you have 3G unlimited, at the 1mb or less you would have gotten in 2007. I get 35-40mb/s regularly on AT&T LTE network in Tampa. Should I be allowed unlimited data on the cellular network at that speed. If they did, it would crush the network. I am flipping sick of clueless people who moan and complain when they can't get stuff for free. AT&T is clearly investing in faster LTE networks which is not free... |
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Jan 8, 2013, 10:35 AM | #23 |
Sure, but the numbers are going to be higher, so still good for apple.
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Jan 8, 2013, 10:36 AM | #24 |
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit is it?
I wish more wireless service provider owners posted here so talk about tethering would be taboo too. .....Theft is Theft....
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Jan 8, 2013, 10:38 AM | #25 |
every damn quarter has been the "best ever" for AT&T
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For the third time this year, Candy Dynamics (also known as Circle City Marketing and Distributing) has issued a recall of some of its candy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports that a single lot of the unfortunately named Toxic Waste Short Circuits Bubble Gum has been voluntarily recalled due to elevated levels of lead.
The recall involves Lot #15070SC12 (found along the left side of the bag), of the 3.2 oz. size of the super-sour gum (UPC 0 89894 31001 3), which Candy Dynamics imports from Pakistan. FDA testing found that it had exceeded acceptable lead levels (0.189 parts per million; the FDA tolerance is 0.1 ppm), which potentially could cause health problems, particularly for pregnant women, infants, and small children. (Reminder: for kids under 4, gum is a choking hazard.) The recalled gum was sold nationwide in retail stores and through mail orders, as well as distributed in limited quantities in Canada and Switzerland, from January 4, 2011 through March 18, 2011.
No other "Toxic Waste" brand products or other lots of "Short Circuits" bubble gum are included in this recall, and no illnesses have been reported thus far in connection to the gum. Consumers should call the company for information on destruction of the gum at 317-228-5012 (Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm EST).
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From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh ("hide of land, ploughland") and Old Norse plógr ("plough (the implement)"), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz ("plough"). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou ("plough"), West Frisian ploech ("plough"), North Frisian plog ("plough"), Dutch ploeg ("plough"), Low German Ploog ("plough"), German Pflug ("plough"), Danish plov ("plough"), Swedish and Norwegian plog ("plough"), Icelandic plógur ("plough"). Replaced Old English sulh ("plough, furrow"); see sullow.
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- (literary or historical in the United States) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
- An alternative name for Ursa Major or the Great Bear.
- A carucate of land; a ploughland.
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- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
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terms derived from plough (noun)
device pulled through the ground in order to break it upon into furrows for planting
plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)
- (transitive) To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
- I've still got to plough that field.
- (intransitive) To use a plough.
- Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
- (transitive, vulgar) To have sex with.
- To move with force.
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- EPIC Files Amicus Brief in Facebook Consumer Privacy Case, Urges Rejection of Settlement: EPIC has filed a amicus brief urging a federal appeals court to overturn a controversial consumer privacy settlement. If the Fraley v. Facebook settlement is approved, Facebook will display the images of Facebook users, including young children, for commercial endorsement without consent. Facebook users opposed "Sponsored Stories" and several have formally objected to the settlement, including a children's advocacy organization which said that the "settlement is actually worse than no settlement." The MacArthur Foundation also withdrew stating it should not have been designated to receive funds. EPIC's amicus brief in support of the objectors explains that the settlement is unfair to Facebook users and should be rejected. EPIC also notes that Chief Justice Roberts expressed concerns about a similar privacy settlement involving Facebook. EPIC and a coalition of consumer privacy organizations filed an extensive complaint with the Federal Trade Commission that eventually required Facebook to improve its privacy practices. For more information, see EPIC: In re Facebook and EPIC: Fraley v. Facebook. (Feb. 21, 2014)
- Instagram Retreats on Changes to Terms of Service, Cites User Opposition: Instagram announced that it would withdraw proposed changes to its terms of service announced earlier this week. Instagram backed off a plan to use the names, images, and photos of users for advertising purposes, pleading instead to "complete our plans, and then come back to our users and explain how we would like for our advertising business to work." Instagram's parent company, Facebook, is bound by the terms of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, initiated in 2009 by EPIC and other consumer privacy organizations, that prohibits the company from changing privacy settings without the affirmative consent of users or misrepresenting the privacy or security of users' personal information. A recent letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from EPIC and the Center for Digital Democracy warned that Facebook's proposed changes would adversely affect Instagram users. For more information, see EPIC: Facebook, EPIC: In re Facebook, and EPIC: FTC. (Dec. 21, 2012)
- Facebook Updates Privacy Controls, Removes Profiles Safeguard: Facebook announced changes to its privacy controls and the privacy settings of its users. The changes include settings that allow users to choose which information apps can access and disclose, and a privacy shortcuts menu. But Facebook also removed an option that allowed users to hide themselves from strangers through Facebook's search function. The changes follow an election conducted by Facebook in which 88 percent of voters opposed changing the privacy policy and voting rights of users. EPIC previously wrote to the Federal Trade Commission regarding the blanket disclosure features of certain apps and the proposal to end the voting part of the site governance process Facebook. Facebook is currently subject to a settlement with the FTC over privacy violations. For more information, see EPIC: Facebook and EPIC: In re Facebook. (Dec. 13, 2012)
- Judge Rejects Settlement in Facebook "Sponsored Stories" Case: A federal judge has rejected a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit about Facebook's unapproved use of user images for advertising purposes. The judge, who had previously expressed skepticism about the terms of the settlement, wrote that the plaintiffs had not justified the lack of direct monetary payments to Facebook users, nor had they explained how users will receive an economic benefit from being able to opt out of future endorsements. EPIC and several consumer privacy organizations opposed the settlement, saying that there was little benefit to Facebook users and that the cy pres allocation was not aligned with the interests of the class. In 2009 and 2010 EPIC and a coalition of consumer privacy organizations brought a successful complaint to the Federal Trade Commission that resulted in a significant consent order. In a letter to the court following the recent court order, EPIC explained that the FTC settlement had produced far greater benefits for Facebook users. For more information, see EPIC: In re Facebook. (Aug. 21, 2012)
- FTC Finalizes Settlement with Facebook: The Federal Trade Commission has finalized the terms of a settlement with Facebook first announced in November of 2011. The settlement follows from complaints filed by EPIC and other consumer and privacy organizations in 2009 and 2010 over Facebook's decision to change its users' privacy settings in a way that made users' personal information more widely available to the public and to Facebook's business partners. The settlement bars Facebook from changing privacy settings without the affirmative consent of users or misrepresenting the privacy or security of users' personal information. In comments filed with the FTC, EPIC recommended strengthening the settlement by requiring Facebook to restore the privacy settings users had in 2009; giving users access to all of the data that Facebook keeps about them; preventing Facebook from creating facial recognition profiles without users' consent; and publicizing the results of the government privacy audits. Although the FTC decided to adopt the settlement without any modifications, in a response to EPIC, the Commission said that facial recognition data is included within the settlement's definition of "covered information," that the audits would be publicly available to the extent permitted by law, and that the terms of the settlement "are broad enough to address misconduct beyond that expressly challenged in the complaint." Commissioner Rosch dissented from the final settlement, citing concerns that the provisions might not adequately cover deceptive statements made by Facebook apps. For more information, see EPIC: In re Facebook, and EPIC: Federal Trade Commission. (Aug. 10, 2012)
- Judge Skeptical of Facebook Settlement: At a preliminary hearing on a proposed settlement involving Facebook "sponsored stories," Judge Seeborg expressed skepticism about the deal, wondering if there was any actual benefit to Facebook users. The deal, which had been endorsed by some groups funded by Facebook, was opposed by EPIC and several consumer privacy organizations. In 2009, EPIC and a coalition of consumer privacy organizations brought a successful complaint to the FTC that resulted in a significant consent order. For more information, see In re Facebook. (Aug. 3, 2012)
- Facebook Timeline Changes User Privacy Settings. Again.: Without user consent, Facebook announced today that it would post archived user information, making old posts available under Facebook's current downgraded privacy settings. Users have just a week to clean up their history before Timeline goes live. The surprising announcement follows a recent decision by the Federal Trade Commission which found that the company had engaged in "unfair and deceptive" trade practices when it changed the privacy settings of its users. EPIC initiated that complaint and is now urging FB users to submit comments to strengthen the proposed settlement. For more information, see EPIC - In Re Facebook and EPIC - Facebook and Privacy. (Dec. 15, 2011)
- Federal Trade Commission Announces Settlement in EPIC Facebook Privacy Complaint: The Federal Trade Commission has announced an agreement with Facebook that follows from complaints filed by EPIC and other consumer and privacy organizations in 2009 and 2010. In 2009, the EPIC first asked the FTC to investigate Facebook's decision to change its users' privacy settings in a way that made users' personal information, such as Friend lists and application usage data, more widely available to the public and to Facebook's business partners. The violations are also detailed in the FTC's 8-count complaint against the company. The proposed settlement agreement bars Facebook from making future changes privacy settings without the affirmative consent of users and requires the company to implement a comprehensive privacy protection program and submit to independent privacy audits for 20 years. The settlement does not adopt EPIC's recommendation that Facebook restore users' privacy settings to pre-2009 levels. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reacted to the settlement in a post on Facebook's blog, saying that he was "first to admit that we've made a bunch of mistakes." For more information, see EPIC: In re Facebook, and EPIC: Federal Trade Commission. (Nov. 29, 2011)
- FTC Releases Agenda for Facial Recognition Workshop: The Federal Trade Commission has announced the agenda and panelists for a workshop exploring the privacy and security issues raised by the increased use of facial recognition technology. The workshop will be held December 8, 2011 at the FTC Conference Center, and will feature diverse panelists with consumer protection, privacy, business, international, and academic backgrounds. EPIC Senior Counsel John Verdi will speak on the panel "Facial Detection & Recognition: Exploring the Policy Implications." EPIC has a complaint pending before the FTC over Facebook's use of facial recognition technology to build a secret database of users' biometric data and to enable the company to automatically tag users in photos. For more information, see EPIC: In re Facebook, and EPIC: Federal Trade Commission. (Nov. 22, 2011)
- WSJ: Facebook Close to Settlement with FTC over EPIC Complaint : The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Trade Commission is finalizing a settlement with Facebook that follows from a complaint from EPIC and a coalition of US consumer and privacy organizations. In 2009, the organizations urged the Commission to investigate Facebook's decision to change its users' privacy settings which made the personal information of Facebook users more widely available to Facebook's business partners and the public. According to the Wall Street Journal, the settlement would require Facebook to obtain "express affirmative consent" if Facebook makes "material retroactive changes," and to submit to independent privacy audits for 20 years. For more information, see EPIC: In re Facebook, EPIC: Facebook Privacy and EPIC: Federal Trade Commission. (Nov. 10, 2011)
Summary of EPIC's Facebook Complaint
On May 7, 2010, EPIC and fourteen other organizations filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Facebook has engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices. The complaint addresses Facebook's latest round of changes, including linking profile information, abolishing the 24 hour data retention limit for developers, instituting social plugins and "Instant Personalization," and the use of cookies by Facebook to track users' internet activity.
In the complaint, EPIC asks the FTC to open an investigation into Facebook, to compel Facebook to allow users to choose whether to link and publicly disclose personal information, to compel Facebook to restore its previous requirement that developers retain user information for no more than 24 hours, and to compel Facebook to make its data collection practices clearer and more comprehensible. The following organizations signed onto the complaint:
- The Electronic Privacy Information Center
- The Bill of Rights Defense Committee
- The Center for Digital Democracy
- The Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights
- Center for Media and Democracy
- Consumer Federation of America
- Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues
- Consumer Watchdog
- FoolProof Financial Education
- Patient Privacy Rights
- Privacy Activism
- Privacy Journal
- The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
- The U.S. Bill of Rights Foundation
Facebook is a social networking site founded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. The site "connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them." As of December 2009, Facebook has nearly 150 million users in the United States.
Facebook and Privacy
Facebook has had a controversial history with respect to privacy. In 2006, Facebook launched a feature called "News Feed" which allowed users to track their friends' Facebook updates and activity in real time. Within 24 hours, hundreds of thousands of the site's users protested the feature. One Facebook group, "Students against Facebook News Feed" grew to 284,000 members within just a few days. As a result of the widespread protest, Mark Zuckerberg wrote an open letter to Facebook users, apologizing for doing a "bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them." Facebook then updated its privacy settings to allow for more user control over the News Feed Feature.
In 2007, Facebook launched Facebook Beacon, which allowed a Facebook user's purchases to be publicized on their friends' News Feed after transacting with third-party sites. Users were unaware that such features were being tracked, and the privacy settings originally did not allow users to opt out. As a result of widespread criticism, Facebook Beacon was shut down in 2009.
In February 2009, Facebook changed its Terms of Service. The new TOS allowed Facebook to use anything a user uploads to the site for any purpose, at any time, even after the user ceased to use Facebook. Further, the TOS did not provide for a way that users could completely close their account. Rather, users could "deactivate" their account, but all the information would be retained by Facebook, rather than deleted. EPIC planned to file an FTC complaint, alleging that the new Terms of Service violated the FTC Act Section 5, and constituted "unfair and deceptive trade practices." In response to this planned complaint, and user criticism, Facebook returned to its previous Terms of Service.
EPIC's Previous Facebook Complaint
In late 2009, Facebook rolled out another round of changes which required mandatory disclosure of profile information that had previously been protected by users' privacy settings. The site automatically made some user information, including users' names, profile pictures, friends lists, fan pages, gender, and networks, available to the public, including to third-party developers, without offering users a choice to opt-out. The new Facebook privacy policy stated that "certain categories of information . . . are considered publicly available to everyone, including Facebook-enhanced applications, and therefore do not have privacy settings." Consequently, users could no longer control who views certain types of information and could not prevent third-party applications from viewing certain types of information. EPIC, along with several other organizations, filed a complaint and supplemental complaint, with the FTC, citing "unfair and deceptive trade practices," and urging the agency to investigate.
EPIC filed a supplemental complaint regarding several Facebook services, including Facebook Connect and iPhone syncing. EPIC alleged that Facebook's representations regarding Facebook Connect and iPhone syncing were unfair and deceptive because users who employ the services are not informed beforehand that they will no longer have control over their information.
To date, the FTC has failed to take any action regarding these complaints.
EPIC's FTC Complaint
EPIC's FTC complaint is signed by a number of other organizations, including the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Center for Digital Democracy, the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights, the Center for Media and Democracy, the Consumer Federation of America, the Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues, Consumer Watchdog, FoolProof Financial Education, Patient Privacy Rights, Privacy Activism, Privacy Journal, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the U.S. Bill of Rights Foundation, and U.S. PIRG.
The complaint highlights several aspects of Facebook's most recent changes that threaten its users' privacy. The complaint focuses on Facebook's unfair and deceptive trade practice of sharing of user information with the public and with third-party application developers. First, the complaint argues that Facebooks decision to force users to make previously protected information "publicly available" is an unfair practice. Second, the complaint argues that Facebook's new social plugins and instant personalization are misleading and deceptive. Third, Facebook deceives users by not clearly informing them about cookies which Facebook uses to track users' internet activity. Fourth, Facebook's decision to allow developers to maintain user information indefinitely contradicts its previous policies and assurances to users.
Facebook now requires mandatory disclosure of even more information, including users' music, film, television, and literature preferences, employment information, educational information, current city, hometown, activities, interests, and likes and dislikes. Facebook forced users to convert information that had previously been protected under privacy settings into "links," which are "publicly available" information. Users were not given a choice to opt-out of this process. Users could either convert profile information into "links" or Facebook would remove the information from that user's profile. These changes contradict earlier assurances made by the company that users would be empowered to protect their information because, as Facebook stated, "you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on Facebook."
The changes also contradict users' reasonable expectation about their privacy. Facebook allows users to adjust their privacy settings, but these adjustments have no practical effect on the public availability of information such as pages, links, employment information, and film and music preferences. Even if a user adjusts her settings so this information is limited to "friends only," the information may not be visible on the user's profile, but it is still publicly available elsewhere.
EPIC's complaint also alleges that Facebook's social plugin program is unfair and deceptive. Facebook has also developed a social plugin program that encourages users to interact with websites across the internet. "Social plugins" are buttons or boxes that appear on third party websites that prompt a Facebook user to click on or comment on items of interest. For example, is a user chooses to "Like" a news article by clicking on a "Like" button, this action is displayed on the third party website, disclosed to the user's friends and appears on the user's Facebook profile. This interaction results in user information being shared with those websites and the user's interaction being published to her friends on her "news feed." This sharing of information is not apparent to users, though, because all that users see when they navigate to a social plugin site is a small "like" or "recommend" button. There is nothing about the button which indicates the vast underlying exchange of information that occurs when a user clicks on it.
Facebook's new Instant Personalization feature is also problematic. Instant personalization allows three partner websites - Microsoft Docs, Pandora, and Yelp - to use cookies and users' "publicly available" information to serve Facebook users a tailored "experience." Pandora, for example, uses information in a user's profile to serve him music based on his stated music preferences and his friends' music preferences. Facebook disclosed user information to these three partner sites without users ever granting their permission.
Facebook has also changed its developer data retention rule in a way that profoundly affects users, without ever gaining users' consent. Previously, Facebook had limited developers data retention by mandating that developers delete user information after 24 hours. That rule was abolished to allow developers to maintain user information indefinitely.
Facebook has also failed to be transparent regarding its use of cookies. Facebook uses cookies to track users across the internet, destroying their ability to surf the internet anonymously. EPICs complaint argues that the use of cookies is not obvious to Facebook users or controllable under the privacy settings.
These changes together amount to a massive disclosure of user information that had previously been protected under users' privacy settings. This information has now been disclosed to third parties and can be retained indefinitely.
FTC Authority to Act
The FTC's primary enforcement authority with regards to privacy is derived from 15 U.S.C. § 45, commonly known as section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA). Section 5 of the FTCA allows the FTC to investigate "unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce." This law provides a legal basis for the FTC to regulate business activities that threaten consumer privacy.
Legal Documents
- EPIC's FTC Complaint in In re Facebook (filed May 5, 2010).
- EPIC's Previous FTC Complaint in In re Facebook (filed December 17, 2009).
- EPIC's Previous Supplemental Complaint in In re Facebook (filed January 14, 2010).
- Federal Trade Commission, LifeLock Will Pay $12 Million to Settle Charges by the FTC and 35 States That Identity Theft Prevention and Data Security Claims Were False (March 9, 2010).
- Federal Trade Commission, ChoicePoint Settles Data Security Breach Charges; to Pay $10 Million in Civil Penalties, $5 Million for Consumer Redress (December 6, 2006).
- United States v. ChoicePoint, No. 06-CV-0198 (N.D. Ga. Feb. 10, 2006).
- Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft Settles FTC Charges alleging False Security and Privacy Provisions (August 8, 2002).
- In re Microsoft Corp. (Fed. Trade Comm'n Dec. 20, 2002).
- Federal Trade Commission: Section 5 Enforcement Actions
News Stories and Blog Items
- Ryan Singel, Privacy Flare-Up Prompts Facebook Meetings with Congress, Employees, Wired (May 13, 2010).
- Christopher Breen, Why I Left Facebook, PC World (May 13, 2010).
- Ian Paul, Facebook Plans a Privacy Summit, PC World (May 13, 2010).
- Mike Pearson, European Authorities Join Facebook Privacy Dogpile, Tech News World (May 12, 2010).
- Nick O'Neill, Facebook Calls All Hands Meeting on Privacy All Facebook (May 12, 2010).
- Facebook Executive Answers Readers Questions, The New York Times Blog (May 11, 2010).
- Lee Goessi, Facebook prepares to defend privacy policies: Several Facebook complaints filed with FTC, Helium (May 11, 2010).
- Nicholas Carlson, Facebook Users' Names, Email, Location, And Photos Exposed On Yelp, San Francisco Chronicle (May 11, 2010).
- Ki Mae Heussner, Quitting Facebook: What Happens When You Deactivate, ABC (May 11, 2010).
- Dylan Tynan, How Facebook Pulled a Privacy Bait and Switch, PC World (May 11, 2010).
- How to Put Facebook on a Privacy Lockdown, San Francisco Chronicle (May 11, 2010).
- Chloe Albanesius, Facebook Denies Hiring Former FTC Chief Muris, PC Magazine (May 10, 2010).
- Scott M. Fulton, III, Facebook to Fight Privacy Complaint with Help of Former FTC Chairman, Beta News (May 10, 2010).
- Steve O'Hear, Facebook's Byzantine Privacy Controls Produce More Confusion,Tech Crunch (May 10, 2010).
- Avanti Kumar, Facebook's International Users Share Privacy Concerns, PC World (May 9, 2010).
- By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Visualizing Your Privacy on Facebook, The Wall Street Journal (May 7, 2010).
- Privacy groups take Facebook complaint to US regulators, AFP (May 7, 2010).
- Jacqui Cheng, Privacy Groups Complain to FTC over Facebook Privacy Tweaks, Ars Technica (May 7, 2010).
- Congress Asked to Push Facebook Probe, UPI.com (May 7, 2010).
- Mark Hachman, Facebook Targeted by New FTC Complaint, PC Magazine (May 7, 2010).
- Alison Diana, Facebook Faces FTC Complaint, Information Week (May 7, 2010).
- Ian Paul, Facebook Privacy Complaint, A Complete Breakdown, PC World (May 6, 2010).
- Douglas MacMillan, Facebook Policies Draw Criticism From Privacy Groups, Business Week (May 6, 2010).
- Wendy Davis, EPIC Files Complaint About New Facebook Features, Media Post (May 5, 2010).
- Jenna Wortham, Facebook Glitch Brings New Privacy Worries, New York Times (May 5, 2010).
- Dan Yoder, 10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account, Business Insider (May 3, 2010).
- Caroline McCarthy, Activist Groups Launch New Facebook Offensive, CNET (Apr. 30, 2010)
- Kurt Opsahl, Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline, Electronic Frontier Foundation (Apr. 28, 2010).
- Mike Swift, Facebook Slammed Over Privacy Concerns, Mercury News (Apr. 28, 2010).
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Mark Taylor has a lot to answer for.
For years the former Test captain has been interrupting matches to implore Australians to run out and buy air conditioners. It's working.
Air conditioner penetration in Australia has exploded rapidly in recent years from 30 per cent in 2001, to 70 per cent in 2011. That's a massive jump.
It's also a massive part of why the Prime Minister now has a problem with the states, who, in turn, have a problem with their energy policies.
Essentially, the PM is absolutely correct when she points out that our energy infrastructure is excess to requirements 99 per cent of the time.
It's also true that expensive energy infrastructure is being constructed all around the country at a time when our total demand for electricity is actually stagnant – or even falling.
And yet it would be wrong to suggest that the construction of this infrastructure is all 'gold-plating.'
The mitigating factor is peak demand. Peak demand refers to the heights our energy demand can hit. It only occurs on approximately one per cent of days, but it can result in a 50-100 per cent surge in demand.
The explosion in AC means that while total demand for energy in Australia has been relatively steady of late, peak demand has skyrocketed.
That's where the drive for new infrastructure is largely coming from.
In fact, a recent review of the Queensland grid showed that for each $1,500 air conditioning system, a further $7,000 must be invested in the electricity network to ensure it can run that system during peak periods.
So unless we all give up our air conditioners does it mean that the PM's plan to get the states to rein in energy costs is doomed?
Thankfully, no.
It's true that if we keep using power the way we have been we'll face an unpalatable choice: spending many billions on energy infrastructure that we only need one per cent of the time – or acceptance of regular brown outs.
But there is a third path: limit the peaks by getting smarter about energy consumption. Getting smarter – in energy as in everything else - is all about information. Information is essentially the difference between a smart grid and the traditional 'dumb grid'.
A smart grid is capable of processing information about the behaviours of suppliers and consumers.
Smart grids allow us to manipulate – from both the supply and demand ends - the way energy gets used.
There are two key options the information from a smart grid opens up.
The most obvious is intelligent pricing. Currently, the way we are currently charged for electricity is an economist's nightmare.
The bloke who turns on his washing machine at 3pm on a summer stinker – when millions of ACs are at full blast – doesn't incur any extra cost. That's because the system has no way of accurately monitoring what he's doing.
Similarly, the woman who runs her dishwasher in the early hours of the morning receives no reward.
But if consumers – and we're talking here not just about households, but commercial enterprises and industry – are able to shift their usage around certain times of the day and year, peak demand should fall sharply.
Commercial and industrial enterprises in particular could enter into all sorts of creative contracts with energy suppliers not to use power at critical times.
The other option opened up by smart grids is more direct – the remote control of appliances. It sounds scary in theory, but it could be relatively painless.
Through this system, a consumer could sign on for a cheaper energy package, and, in exchange, offer to allow the energy company remote control of key smart appliances.
How would this work in practice? Well, when demand surges in a heatwave, the power company could remotely control your air conditioner to switch off intermittently for, say, one minute out of every ten.
The effect on the temperature of your room would be negligible – but the reduction in energy would be huge when multiplied out over many users.
Australia is taking steps in the right direction. For example, the NBN will make operating smart grid functions easier and more reliable.
But despite the savings, the switch to 'smart' will require one extra important investment from government - in skills.
The role of energy worker and information and communication technology professional are merging, and the skills required are becoming more complex.
Yet along with greater sophistication, we will also need more pairs of hands. Already in this country demand for electricians is growing by seven per cent per year – far faster than our training system can currently keep pace with. A transition to smart technology will accelerate this further.
So while the opportunity is there for governments to save a packet on infrastructure over the long term, there is also a pressing need to plough some of those savings into training a new generation of workers.
Get it right though, and we can take a fair bit of the heat out of this energy debate.
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Little Joe says:
"Commercial and industrial enterprises in particular could enter into all sorts of creative contracts with energy suppliers not to use power at critical times."
You had better tell the workplace unions about your plans also!!!
Ps. Our roads are supposed to be built for peak loads also ..... not that many of them in capital cities cope with peak load!!!
Arthur says:
What about our 20% population increase since.Tubbies adds?
How long will we pretend our problems are anything but the real one? Too many people.
M says:
One thing that would have a huge impact on energy costs accross the country is smarter building with regards to internal insulation.
Tim says:
Great article.
Far too many people have no idea how our electricity system works and just expect to be able to use as much energy as they want, when the want without having to incur any additional costs.We need to do things smarter or people have to understand the realities of possible rolling brownouts. Electricity doesn't magically appear in your appliances.
Dash says:
Then again, the guy who has a roof full of solar panels gets no carbon tax compensation because all the ALP are interested in is the size of his wallet not how he pollutes. Not his carbon footprint. But no solar panels and dumb as dog shit…..here have some money! Why? Because its socialist wealth redistribution and nothing else.
Dave says:
Giving the government the ability to disable "inappropriate" devices such as air conditioners remotely.
What a delightful idea. I can't imagine anything could go wrong in that scenario, and I'm sure they would restrain themselves to turning it off for one minute in ten, and only when peak power load is hit!
Tubesteak says:
Considering our population is destined to continue to grow you might as well continue increasing the energy supply so that it can easily meet demand all the time.
No need for this silly remote controlling crap or asking us to be "smarter".
It's like with our roads. There is no longer any justification to build 2 lane highways when demand means we should be building 8 lane highways that will be capable of dealing with the inevitable growth and usage requirements.
That is why I pay taxes. I expect you to build the infrastrcture that will be able to cope with my demand as and when I see fit and as and when I choose to use it. I don't pay taxes so that you waste it on vote-buying middle-class welfare such as maternity leave schemes and baby bonuses.
Build the infrastrcture that easily copes with demand. End of story.
Joan says:
Australia - with worlds most expensive electricity while sitting on world`s greatest abundance of cheap energy resource just proves we`re world`s biggest idiots. A pack of whingers who don't know how to usefully, industriously make the most of the natural abundance Ausrtalia gives us and are idiotic enough to add a Cabon Tax which will not change world climate. The excess power exists because business going off shore in droves. Thanks to Gillard
Terry2 says:
I queried my power bill earlier this year and an automaton spruked the standard corporate response about upgrading infrastructure to accommodate the increased demand due to airconditioning, plasma televisions etc. As I don't have either I suggested that perhaps the flat charge per kwhour needs to reflect usage by introducing an increasing scale of charges as you exceed 'reasonable' consumption. I was told that commercial and farm operations did have such a scale BUT it actually got cheaper per kwhour the more power you consumed.
Achmed says:
People do understand that the GST added more to the cost of electricity costs than the carbon price? In WA the state Liberal Govt have increased electricity costs by 57% in the last 3 years. And yet according to the Liberal faithfull the only thing that is ruining business is the carbon increase.
I note that while the Liberal sychophants rave about the terrible carbon price introduced by Labor they never extoll the virtues of Abbott's Direct Action Plan. That's the Plan to give the polluters taxpayer money from the budget. Wait and see how much taxes will increase to provide this money train to big business.
sunny says:
Good article, very interesting.
I reckon we also need to have an ad (maybe Tubby Taylor can assist) to encourage people to hang their dang washing out on THE LINE on a hot day instead of using the dryer. .. and also wash their dang dishes in THE SINK when they have less than half a dishwasher load.
Roy says:
You're all worried about power price increases? Then lobby your government to stop subsidising solar power! That's where a lot of the price increases are coming from, the people that don't have solar are paying the rebate for those that do. There's another issue arising from solar power, white outs! Yes there's too much power in the grid at times and it's only going to get worse because if the sun's blazing at midday too much power is going into the grid and it's not like the power company can turn off generators like they do normally if there no-one using power. So they'll have to find ways to dissipate it, maybe arc it off or boil a ton of water or something, perhaps they should convert water into hydrogen and oxygen because we're going to need them in the future. You've been warned!
MarkF says:
As soon as Bob Taylor mentioned a smart grid (smart meters??) I had to go back and see if he was tied up with the electricity industry. The only thing I've heard about smart meters is consumers getting gouged even more with peak prices twice what they used to pay, shoulder prices about the same and a tiny bit off on off peak when they sleep.
As far as letting the electricity company control my air conditioner, I don't think so. Being a shift worker trying to sleep through a summers day in Queensland without air or intermittent air is out of the question. Would I trust the power companies to do the right thing? Doubtful.
Come on Bob. Instead of pushing this smart meter/grid crap designed to increase already high electricity prices, how about coming up with an idea that would help the majority reduce their bills.
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