Tommystorm

I received an email from Facebook telling me about the “New and improved” privacy features they were adding, and recently when logging in, was prompted to take action on setting my privacy settings.

Then my friend Sue showed me this article: Privacy Advocates Slam Facebook . I was shocked to read that when your friend chooses to use an application that your friend is giving away to that application’s system all personal information about you that your friend can see. WTF? This isnt a new thing either, Facebook’s application policy has been like this forever.

Ok so i went to revisit my privacy settings today. Imagine the horror when i saw what my current settings are for applications:

So basically, if one of your friends installed one of those sketchy, annoying, add-on apps into their facebook profile, they are giving that same sketchy application (THAT YOU DECIDED ALREADY WAS SKETCHY AND DIDNT WANT FUCKING WITH YOUR PROFILE) full access to your profile.

I don’t know about you, but i don’t delegate decisions like this to my friends. As much as I may love them.

Wow.

Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo: “Matthew Whalley writes ‘Researchers got hold of published and unpublished data from drug companies regarding the effectiveness of the most common antidepressant drugs. Previously, when meta-analyses have been conducted on only the published data, the drugs were shown to have a clinically significant effect. However, when the unpublished data is taken into account the difference between the effects of drug and placebo becomes clinically meaningless — just a 1 or 2 point difference on a 30-point depression rating scale — except for the most severely depressed patients. Doctors do not recommend that patients come off antidepressant drugs without support, but this study is likely to lead to a rethink regarding how the drugs are licensed and prescribed.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

(Via Slashdot.)

Uh-oh. Some British WoW players are gonna be pissed, eh?From digg. 

British bank Halifax blocks WOW subscriptions: “While not some attack or slur upon Blizzard Entertainment the Halifax bank, with the Bank of Scotland as a subsidiary, are blocking automatic monthly payments to the MMO. They cite that World of Warcraft is experiencing high incidences of credit card fraud.

A COMPLEX SERIES OF LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS WILL TRACK OUT OF THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES TONIGHT AND MOVE NORTHEAST ALONG THE EASTERN SEABOARD…REACHING NEAR THE GULF OF MAINE BY LATE WEDNESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY EVENING. SNOW WILL INITIALLY OVERSPREAD NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN MAINE TONIGHT WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY…THE SNOW WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN…AND COULD EVEN CHANGE TO ALL RAIN ALONG THE COAST BY MIDDAY WEDNESDAY. THE PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF AND END BY LATER WEDNESDAY EVENING.

State of the Union by the Numbers: “A look at what President Bush said in his final State of the Union Address delivered Monday night. Each word is scaled in proportion to the number of times it was used. Roll over a word for its frequency.”

The domain name says it all godhatesfags.com. My mouth was agape for so long, a puddle of drool formed on my desk.