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Jan. 12th, 2010 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I wasn't expecting _that_.
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Carrying extra weight on your hips, bum and thighs is good for your health, protecting against heart and metabolic problems, UK experts have said.
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In case you've been wondering what they get up to...
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Requires greasemonkey, and is dependent on a third party. But still - pretty nifty.
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Nicely nuanced discussion
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This made me very angry indeed.
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Date: 2010-01-12 11:31 am (UTC)> Employee: See, the thing is — and I don’t know how much you know about it — it’s all stored in a database on the backend. Literally everything. Your messages are stored in a database, whether deleted or not. So we can just query the database, and easily look at it without every logging into your account. That’s what most people don’t understand.
I know most people don't think about to or need to know how websites are made, same as laws and sausages, but where to they think they're stored? In the bellies of magical secret keeper elves?
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Date: 2010-01-12 11:46 am (UTC)And no, most people have no idea. They think that "the internet" is a thing, not a collection of loosely joined independent machines.
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Date: 2010-01-12 01:09 pm (UTC)In plain lingo: everything you type into FB or any site has to be stored in some way on some hard drive somewhere.