Facebook Privacy: your phone numbers might be available to friends

Go on facebook, click on account, then click on edit friends. Go to the left hand side, click phonebook and phone numbers will appear for some.

I am not sure if that is due to users putting phone numbers in their accounts or some search the internet program that scrapes phone numbers off of records.

UPDATE Comment one (see below) sets the record straight: only those who have wanted their phone numbers to be displayed have their phone numbers available on the phonebook tool.

17 July 2010: knee rehab edition

Walk: my 1.7 mile walk; super slow (18:45 at 1.05 miles, 31:35 at the end); but this was TEN MINUTES faster than yesterday with the same effort. The knee is looser though has a long way to go.

Bike: FIVE minutes at low resistance; I was surprised that the knee wasn’t ready for more. Recovery from this arthroscopic surgery is longer than it was from my lateral releases in 1984 (age? procedure?)

stretch and etc. 15 reps of VMO exercises (lower quad muscle that is on your inside), 20 yoga leg lifts, 20 sit ups, stretching. In terms to being able to straighten it out, I am now down to “two CD cases” underneath my extended leg; that is down from 3 yesterday. Then again, this was done while I was warm.

Shoulder: last night, it ached until I got the proper head position? Something is going on; the ache went away.

17 July 2010 (am)

Local
My neighborhood scores high on “how walkable is your neighborhood” scale. That is valid for me, though some of the facilities are university related and others can’t use them.
Check it out.

Back to the economy and politics
Paul Krugman predicts a stalled government along with a ton of fake scandals, should the Republicans win the house.

He also points out that what the Republicans really want is to bankrupt government so they can kill all of the government programs; in short, a return to what didn’t work before.

Local: Billy Dennis has a good post here, which rebuts the oft-repeated idea that African American leaders aren’t concerned about crime.

Internet culture and parenting
I admit that I mostly use the internet to read about science, politics, current events, sports and to discuss these topics with others. But there is a whole internet society out there and those who live in it sometimes get burned. Evidently some pre-teen girl made a profanity filled video where she puffed herself up (called herself “perfect”), said that those “haters” should be shot, etc. Needless to say, the trolls (those who attack via the written words) pounced on her. Then she and her father attempted to respond and, well, here it is. (if interested, you can see the original video in the comments).

My point: kids need at least a bit of supervision (as one blogger said, perhaps leaving the internet connected computer in a non-private area) and parents should not expect their kids to expect verbal consequences to their actions. Parents should also learn about how the internet works; this father clearly did not.

By the way, if this interests you, read the comments. Note how many of the adults leaving comments can’t see that
1. many of the trolls attacking this kid were themselves unsupervised kids and
2. the dad appears to be blissfully unaware that his daughter is suffering the consequences of her actions and of HIS lack of supervision.

Were it my daughter, I’d take the computer out of her room and put in a public place, and I’d shut down that account, open a new one and say “this is what happens if you don’t watch what you say”. I wouldn’t make a fool of myself like this guy did.

More on the story here and here.

Note: if you read the comments on The Legal Satyricon article, you’ll see that she hasn’t changed her behavior.

16 July 2010 politics PM

Here is some cool pro-Obama fluff (as well as some legislative accomplishments; some which are substantial though might not go far enough)

The Democrats have a nice 2010 issue:

I posted this on Daily Kos:

I don’t see this on the front page or in a diary so I’ll post this gaffe from Rep. John Boehner: if in power, the Republicans would set a moratorium on all new federal regulations! In other words, they’d try to bring back the conditions that got us into this economic mess to begin with.

Source below the fold:
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I don’t see this on the front page or in a diary so I’ll post this gaffe from Rep. John Boehner: if in power, the Republicans would set a moratorium on all new federal regulations! In other words, they’d try to bring back the conditions that got us into this economic mess to begin with. Source below the fold:

Via Gawker.com:

Now maybe he was just trying to be nice to the particular businessman who asked him about this, someone who has no idea how the federal government or society operates:

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner on Friday endorsed a one-year moratorium on almost all new federal regulations, an idea he said would create jobs by ending uncertainty among businesses fearful of new federal mandates.

Boehner made the suggestion in the Capitol after a 90-minute session with a group of business leaders gathered as part of America Speaking Out, the House Republicans’ effort to solicit ideas across the country for a fall campaign platform.

One of the participants at the roundtable raised the idea and Boehner said afterward, “Having a moratorium on new federal regulations is a great idea. It sends a wonderful signal to the private sector that they’ll have some breathing room.”

It’s bizarre how these business leaders, who must be very well educated and capable of critical thought, keep thinking that Obama is coming after all businesses, one by one, until Western Civilization has been pulverized entirely.

Eugene Robinson on Countdown said it very well: if Democrats can’t run on this, we may as well become a one party system.

Knee Update (of interest only to me)

This afternoon: I am walking much, much, much better this afternoon after my therapy system; my mobility has almost returned to pre-operation levels. We’ll see if this lasts.
I can slip one cd case under my good knee when extended. I get a double and a single (or three singles) under my right one.