The sale of LJ to SUP - and really, people.. so what? Do you honestly think they’re going to change the site and make it unattractive to it’s users after investing millions of dollars into it? That would be a pretty dumb business plan.
The Beacon ordeal on Facebook is more interesting to me. See this PC world article for an overview of the technical issue… and this Idea Shower Article for a potentially useful method of blocking the data exchange between FB and partner sites.
The above countermeasure requires firefox, but you’re all really smart people and you all use firefox for a safer and more rewarding web browsing experience anyway.
-bp
