Wired has posted an interview with Craig Mullaney that explains his experience and lessons from Afghanistan, as documented in “Unforgiving Minute”.
…in 2003, at a time when we didn’t officially recognize that there was an insurgency in Afghanistan, the strategy was wrong…like throwing darts in a dark room. Sometimes you hit the bulls eye, but you don’t deserve to.
I find it interesting that I was just sent a news feed item on Facebook from the President:
Barack Obama is speaking at the White House forum on Health Reform. Watch live: http://www.healthreform.gov/video/room1.html.
The text below the news showed 3,875 users had clicked on the “like” option. I thought that was a strange number so I clicked on it as well and received a popup message: “unable to write to the database”.
It seems that 3,875 represents the maximum buffer on Facebook for likability. Not surprisingly a few minutes later the like option and like count were removed from the news item.
F-Secure has documented some illegal ads on YouTube. The payment card criminals have not only found YouTube to advertise their services, but they also seem to have exposed a problem with YouTube reporting:
No big surprises there.
A bit more surprisingly, when you want to report such videos to YouTube admins, they actually don’t have an option for reporting criminal use like this.
It’s not sexual, violent, repulsive, hateful, abusive, harmful, spam, or infringing, which are the options available. Perhaps “criminal” or “illegal” were just too obvious for users to flag and report, or maybe YouTube is trying to take a deeply philosophical social networking stand on acceptable use?