Archive for September, 2009
Lunar Regolith Excavation Challenge Set for October 17-18 at NASA Ames in California
Friday, September 25th, 2009Lunar Real Estate: Location, Location!
Friday, September 25th, 2009Obama in the Classroom
Friday, September 25th, 2009NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft to Fly Within 142 Miles of Planet Mercury Sept. 29
Friday, September 25th, 2009Russian Space Agency Head: “US Space Shuttles to Could Continue Beyond 2011″
Friday, September 25th, 2009Phobos-Grunt Officially Delayed to 2011
Friday, September 25th, 2009Mars Water-Ice Found at Vastitas Borealis
Friday, September 25th, 2009The evolution of a fisherman
Thursday, September 24th, 2009WEATHER ALERT for VA - Washington County
Thursday, September 24th, 2009WEATHER ALERT for VA - Washington County
Thursday, September 24th, 2009WEATHER ALERT for VA - Washington County
Thursday, September 24th, 2009EUREKA! Water Confirmed on the Moon
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Social networking sites are privacy problem
Thursday, September 24th, 2009A ComputerWorld article reports on a study that says social networking sites like Facebook are "leaking" personal information that allow third parties to tie Web browsing habits to specific individuals. The study looked at 12 different social networking sites and was able to determine that 11 of them were intentionally or unintentionally making it possible for third parties to tie your viewing habits to you personally.
Cookies and HTTP referrer information were identified as part of the problem. The report concluded that it was difficult for users of social network sites to counter this. A partial solution is to delete all cookies every time you quit your browser, which few people do. Cookies are heavily used to simplify logon to sites that users visit frequently, and regular cookie deletion will eliminate that convenience.