News game

[big_bad_al]

After a rousing match, the Good News squadron has beaten the Bad News team 2-1!

Bad News got off to an early start when a 1st grade teacher was sentenced to 15 days in jail for allowing her students to name a stuffed animal Mohammed. This apparently counts as blasphemy under Sharia, which seems ludicrous to me. People name their kids Mohammed all

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[dhalps]

Just a note that Facebook didn't screw up the first time. In fact, other people had written that exact application before (refresh your friends' page and note the differences. Ooh. Aaah.).

It's more that users don't understand security -- note that people love the white pages, but Google's reverse phone lookup spawned chain email protests just as strong as the Facebook protests. And it's just an inverted index!

We need to do a better job of understanding the relationship between actual security, perceived security and user happiness. But that's not Facebook's fault.

[big_bad_al]

Who said anything about security? I suspect you mean privacy, since that was what I was writing about. To the best of my knowledge, Facebook has not had any major security problems since I joined