• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

You cannot shame the shameless.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

“woke” is the new caravan.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Republicans in disarray!

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Let there be snark.

Mobile Menu

  • Winnable House Races
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • Balloon Juice 2023 Pet Calendar (coming soon)
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • War in Ukraine
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • 2021-22 Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Science & Technology / Open Thread: Facebook PSA

Open Thread: Facebook PSA

by Anne Laurie|  October 12, 201010:06 pm| 18 Comments

This post is in: Science & Technology

FacebookTweetEmail

I’m not a FBer, so I have no idea whether there’s any reason for Ryan Tate at Valleywag to continue the Denton crusade against Zuckerberg:

Facebook’s new “One Time Password” feature, announced this afternoon, is actually pretty cool, at least in concept. The idea is to allow people to use shared internet kiosks more securely by texting them a password that expires after 20 minutes. That way, even if the kiosk is infected with software recording the passwords you enter, nothing useful can be harvested from it. The trouble is, anyone who finds your cell phone, say in a bar, has an easy way to get access to your Facebook account. The solution is to unlink your cell phone from your account as soon as it’s lost, but you’ll only do that if you know this new password-to-phone feature exists in the first place. Which is why Facebook should probably being spreading the word more aggressively than with a single blog post.

Of course, the Gawker empire has some experience with taking advantage of hapless techies who leave their phones at the bar…

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Jigger what, jigger who
Next Post: Foreclosure Moratorium Responses »

Reader Interactions

18Comments

  1. 1.

    tim serbo

    October 12, 2010 at 10:13 pm

    good to hear i’m not the only non-Facebook person out there. why anyone would entrust their personal information to a callow, misogynistic, sociopathic little shit like Mark Zuckerberg is beyond my understanding.

  2. 2.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 12, 2010 at 10:23 pm

    If you don’t put all your personal shit on there, nothing useful could be harvested anyway. FB is useful for some things, but I am continually mystified by some of the stuff people put up there – home phone #s, addresses, embarrassing photos, etc.

    True, some of that stuff could be found via other Internet methods, but still.

  3. 3.

    tim serbo

    October 12, 2010 at 10:28 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: yeah, supposedly FB confers some vague benefits on those who use it, though i have yet to hear what those benefits supposedly are. i just have an aversion to doing business with people who have open (or covert, for that matter) contempt for their customers.

  4. 4.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 12, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    @tim serbo:

    i just have an aversion to doing business with people who have open (or covert, for that matter) contempt for their customers.

    Your circle of business acquaintances must be very small, then.

    I have found benefit for some of my vocational pursuits from using facebook, but I am an infrequent user of most of the features enjoyed by those who spend way too much time on the site.

  5. 5.

    tim serbo

    October 12, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: i’m just very selective, and i’m fortunate to live in a community where merchants and customers deal respectfully with one another, if only out of self-interest. of course, i have to bend my principles a bit when necessity compels me to deal with banks, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

  6. 6.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    First rescuer is now down with the 33 trapped Chilean miners, and they’re more or less chatting (there’s a live color video feed from the mine) like pretty normal. Live BBC News video coverage here.

    The guy who’s down there now is not going to bring anyone up yet, but is the technical expert checking out every aspect of the working of the rescue capsule etc. He will return up, and then a medic will be sent down. If all’s okay, he’ll return and then a rescuer will be sent down to begin bringing up trapped miners one at a time, probably one an hour.

  7. 7.

    tim serbo

    October 12, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    @El Cid: ah, a much more interesting subject of discussion. damn, i admire the Chileans for the care they’ve taken, measuring twice and cutting once, all down the line (i borrowed that figure from one of Atrios’ commenters). and good on NASA for their contributions.

  8. 8.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    Correction — they said ‘fuck it’ to the plan and the first miner is on his way up. There are many cheers. His family is right at the capsule exit. They have a very fixed order in who will come up when. With the mine foreman (or technician) remaining last.

  9. 9.

    CaseyL

    October 12, 2010 at 11:00 pm

    Oh, here’s where we’re watching. I posted in the newer thread.

    I hope the rescue goes well. Some unalloyed good news, heroism, can-do spirit, and government doing what it’s supposed to do, would be a wonderful thing for a change.

  10. 10.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2010 at 11:11 pm

    First miner’s up, and family’s there!

  11. 11.

    CaseyL

    October 12, 2010 at 11:14 pm

    He is in good shape, and they’re sure not hurrying him off to the hospital tent. I like the sunglasses.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 12, 2010 at 11:17 pm

    The first Chilean miner is safely above ground. BBC is doing amazing non-stop coverage.

  13. 13.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2010 at 11:20 pm

    The BBC is repeating the story about how one of the miners has been in a similar situation before. He and a brother or someone decided to go to the Gulf during the war to get work, and they chose to sneak there by hiding in a cargo container. But they were trapped and there was some sort of delay, and they survived by trapping rainwater in a shoe and rationing chocolate.

    Originally the plan was supposed to be to have 1 miner come up per hour, but it seems that they’re ready to send the capsule back down.

  14. 14.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2010 at 11:27 pm

    @tim serbo: Not just NASA. An American drilling company led the program to get the tunnel to the miners.

    About two weeks after the collapse, Layne’s Latin American affiliate Geotec Boyles Bros. brought in a Schramm T130 tophead drill. Layne also sent in two drillers, Jeff Hart and Matt Staffel, who had been drilling water wells in Afghanistan to support U.S. troops stationed there. Assisting the drillers were two Spanish-speaking drilling helpers, Doug Reeves and Jorge Herrera, from Layne’s western region in the U.S.
    __
    Working as a team, Layne and Geotec drilled a 5-inch hole nearly 2,300 feet, reamed it to 12 inches and finally to 26 inches in diameter ? large enough to accommodate the “Phoenix” rescue capsule. A cheer went up as families and rescue workers joined in a celebration when the drill broke through. “I’m on top of the world,” Hart told a TV reporter.

  15. 15.

    Sentient Puddle

    October 12, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    The trouble is, anyone who finds your cell phone, say in a bar, has an easy way to get access to your Facebook account.

    …which is not a problem if your phone has a passcode lock feature, which I know iOS and Android have, right off the top of my head.

    Actually, depending on how they format the texts, it could still be a problem. I know on my Droid, the first line or so of texts show up momentarily on the task bar even when the phone is locked. But short of flaws like this that seem easy enough to work around, this security feature looks pretty solid on the technical end. The worst you can say is that users are morons and won’t use tools available to secure their shit (which is probably the biggest problem in computer security, unfortunately).

  16. 16.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2010 at 11:46 pm

    Paramedic down now, 2nd miner getting ready to be sent up. The next miner scheduled to go up is the guy who has been the miners’ spokesperson. (If I recall correctly, he was the union rep and had helped lead negotiations before.)

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    October 13, 2010 at 12:57 am

    I can’t give two shats about FB, but wife.gov must…Face for her bidnez. It’s what the kidz expect these days. Me? Meh.

    Also, too, Megs kicks in another twenty mil today.

    http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2010/10/whitman-contributes-another-20.html

    She says she has to, to keep herself free of the clutches of the EEEvil unions and stay all fresh and independent. Although at tonight’s debate she noted a cop’s union had endorsed her because of “her record” of being tough on crime. Jerry missed a fine opportunity to ask what the fuck record might that be?

  18. 18.

    jerr0d

    October 13, 2010 at 3:35 pm

    Facebook has absolutely changed the way in which I do business, and all businesses as a result of social factor, this keeps it much more accountable, and tends to make business a lot more trustworthy.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • Suzanne on Late Night Dumb Nastiness Open Thread: Botox vs Clearasil (May 28, 2023 @ 11:30am)
  • Big Picture Pathologist on People Are Highly Overrated (May 28, 2023 @ 11:30am)
  • Miss Bianca on People Are Highly Overrated (May 28, 2023 @ 11:29am)
  • Don K on People Are Highly Overrated (May 28, 2023 @ 11:27am)
  • YY_Sima Qian on Sunday Morning Open Thread: The (Debt Limit) Beat Goes On (May 28, 2023 @ 11:27am)

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Seattle Meetup on Sat 5/13 at 5pm!

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
We All Need A Little Kindness
Classified Documents: A Primer
State & Local Elections Discussion

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
TaMara
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Join the Fight!

Join the Fight Signup Form
All Join the Fight Posts

Balloon Juice Events

5/14  The Apocalypse
5/20  Home Away from Home
5/29  We’re Back, Baby
7/21  Merging!

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2023 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!