If you were ever confused about the changes that have been made, or if you just clicked “OK” without reading any of the new terms of service like 95% of the population does, here are a few things you should definitely know about:

1. Facebook will not let you share any of this information without using Connections. You cannot opt-out of Connections. If you refuse to play ball, Facebook will remove all unlinked information from your profile.

2. Facebook will not respect your old privacy settings in this transition. For example, if you had previously sought to share your Interests with “Only Friends,” Facebook will now ignore this and share your Connections with “Everyone.”

3. Facebook has removed your ability to restrict its use of this information. The new privacy controls only affect your information’s “Visibility,” not whether it is “publicly available.”

Explaining what “publicly available” means, Facebook writes: “Such information may, for example, be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Facebook), be indexed by third party search engines, and be imported, exported, distributed, and redistributed by us and others without privacy limitations.”

4. Facebook will continue to store and use your Connections even after you delete them. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they’re not there. Even after you “delete” profile information, Facebook will remember it. We’ve also received reports that Facebook continues to use deleted profile information to help people find you through Facebook’s search engine.

5. Facebook sometimes creates a Connection when you “Like” something. That “Like” button you see all over Facebook, and now all over the web? It too can sometimes add a Connection to your profile, without you even knowing it.

6. Facebook sometimes creates a Connection when you post to your wall. If you use the name of a Connection in a post on your wall, it may show up on the Connection Page, without you even knowing it. (For example, if you use the word “FBI” in a post).

Be careful my friends. These things, however insignificant they may seem to you, SHOULD NOT be taken lightly.

Demonstrating the Strength of AIA [HD Video], originally uploaded by NASA Goddard Photo and Video.

Nasa has uploaded new photos and videos from their shiny new space telescope: the Solar Dynamics Observatory. It delivers a mind-blowing image of the Sun you’ve never seen before.
You can check out more photos and videos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/sets/72157623903514852/

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Demonstrating the Strength of AIA [HD Video]

A series of movies that illustrate the power of the AIA to show regions of heating and cooling. The first movies are shown in colors from blue to red, which span temperatures from 1,000,000K to 2,600,000K. The second spans the temperatures from 2,600,000K to 10,000,000K. To convert from K to F multiply by 1.8.

Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

To read more about this movie go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/briefing-materials-20…

To learn more about the SDO mission, visit: www.nasa.gov/sdo

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation’s largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.

A video that is both informative & entertaining.

So they dug a 17 mile tunnel under the French-Swiss border to run their experiment which cost upwards of $9 billion USD. So why could this be the end of the world as we know it? Well the machine could potentially create black holes. Yes “HOLES” as in more than one. And one would be all it takes. So they tunred on the machine and “fired the laser” down the tunnel and to the surprise of some of the scientists, it worked! They tested again and it worked again!

Now I understand that they are very intellegent and the entire purpose of conducting an experiment is to test things out, but when a scientist in charge of runnning this is surprised that it worked they way they intended it to I get a little drawn aback by it. I mean, you’re gambling with the life of every human in exsistence a little more assurance would be awesome. Either way, grats on the experiment! I look forward to owning a dark matter gun sometime in the near future.

You can see pictures of the collider here.

/drool I WANT ONE /drool