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lm741··on Path reaches settlement with FTC, agrees to pay $800K fine for COPPA violations
You don't have to ask for a user's age if your site is intended for a "general audience". You'll still need to purge information from users who are discovered to be under 13.

See questions 40/41 http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm#teen

""" 40. I operate a general audience site and do not ask visitors to reveal their ages. I do have a button that users can click to send feedback, comments, or questions by email. What are my responsibilities if I get an email that says, “Hi, I am Steve, age 10, and I really like your site. When do you think you will add some more games?”

Under the Rule’s one-time contact exception, 16 C.F.R. § 312.5(c)(2), you may reply to the child once without sending notice to the parent or obtaining parental consent, if you do not re-contact the child, and you delete the child’s personal information, including email address, from your records after responding to the email.

"""

Legal Corollary of 40: If you send spoofed email to a site operator claiming to be under 13, you could legally force them to delete another user's account.

lm741··on Realtime laser graphics
Speaking of DIY/open laser dacs, one of my friends built one called the ether-dream. (http://ether-dream.com/) You can control it over ethernet and all of the firmware is on github.

I put together a simple AVR based laser system once that projects a UV laser onto a glow in the dark surface. Check out at http://lm741.posterous.com/ if you're curious.

lm741··on Googlebot now makes POST requests via AJAX
Correct. The richness of the Javascript environment for Googlebot is probably a more significant discovery than the POST requests. I previously pretty much assumed that bots didn't really run Javacript. (Or at least that they would kill network access before running it)
lm741··on Googlebot now makes POST requests via AJAX
I noticed this a few days ago. I'm actually considering POSTing the screen dimensions and a few other browser properties for Googlebot via js.

https://twitter.com/#!/lm741/status/122378906669023232

lm741··on JS Source of "Osama Execution" Facebook Worm
For reference, here's a screenshot of the offending page: https://skitch.com/3141/r7xca/bin-laden-execution-video
lm741··on Posterous silently changes all external links to affiliate links
I posted about this a while ago: http://lm741.posterous.com/16766453

Two easy ways to get around it: url shorteners and redirect services.

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