chartier:

• Not offer a way to download our data in some sort of a standard, transparent, and at least somewhat human-siftable format
• Hide or otherwise be opaque about precisely what personal data you smuggle out of our devices
• Not offer a one-to-two-click process for deleting our accounts
• Fail to actually remove our data from your servers after we delete our accounts (while complying with applicable regional laws governing data retention)
• Believe that taking VC and selling your customers’s private information is the only way to get a company off the ground, let alone run a successful business
• Not use SSL for passing even the slightest bit of private information
• Offer Facebook Connect as your only signup option [hat tip to Zwei in the comments]

Did I miss anything?

I wholeheartedly agree.

On February 7th Facebook’s timeline feature will go live for all users.
what used to be an opt-in feature will be mandatory for all users.

A consequence is that many things the user might think long forgotten, will be easily accessible and many posts that were private will now be visible to the public.

This site gives an overview of the things you can do to protect your privacy and tweak the way your new MySpace Facebook timeline works.

Harry Marks on his website Curious Rat:

From Amateur Photographer:

<p>Photographers who compose a picture in a similar way to an existing image risk copyright infringement, lawyers have warned following the first court ruling of its kind. UK souvenir maker Temple Island Collection Ltd has won a ruling against New English Teas which it had accused of breaching copyright by using a photo of a London bus on its packaging.</p>

Stupid and terrifying.

This opens up a whole new dimension of ways for businesses to hamper each other, for crooks and copyright trolls to make money and a world of pain for the courts.

Over the last two days a bug in OS X Lion has been driving me crazy:
My 2011 Mac mini simply wouldn’t go to sleep.

I tried everything: Pressing the power button on its back, clicking the sleep item on the -menu and pressing ⌘+⌥+⏏. Nothing worked.

Then I hit the internet and started searching for solutions, this is what I tried:

• Is some kind of sharing function was switched on? — No.
• Where any apps preventing it it from sleeping? — Not that I could see.
• Any weird events in the system log? — Nope.
• Does one of my USB drives malfunction and keep it awake? — No, again.
• Are there any network connections open that might stop it from sleeping? — No.
• Bluetooth issues? — Nope.

I even performed a PMU and a SMC reset, with no effect.
Essentially I didn’t know what was going on and I decided to call the Apple’s support hotline: After answering all the questions by the very nice representative I was still left with no solution.

I gave the internet one last try, stumbling on the pmset -g terminal command, which prints out a log of settings for hibernation and errors if any occurred. Nothing.

Then I remembered that earlier that day I had read that someone turned screen sharing on and off again to find out if it had any effect.
I turned on screen sharing in the sharing preference pane and hit ⌘+⌥+⏏, eyes closed… The Mac mini went to sleep immediately.
I turned it off again and the mini still went to sleep as ordered.

This is one weird bug, where not having any kind of sharing functionality turned on causes the Mac to not go to sleep. Oh boy.