...Internet Trolls In the past, bullying could be found in schools, in the workplace, and in sports. Nowadays, there is a new form of bullying called Cyber Bullying. Cyber bullies are also known as Internet Trolls. Lisa Selin Davis, an internet blogger, writes about her personal experiences dealing with internet trolls. She states in her blog that all kinds of people can become trolls, according to sociologists and psychologists who have studied online behavior. Three major types of trolls are, The Moral Crusader, The Hater, and The Debunker. All three spend time and energy engaging in virtual hate. A Moral Crusader is a person who thinks his or her way is the right way. They use their beliefs and morals to put others down. They try to convince others that their beliefs are better and superior then that of others moral beliefs. Some examples of moral crusader groups are called, “The Anti-Tobacco Lobby,” “Gun Control Lobby,” “Anti-Pornography Group,” “Pro-Life/ Pro-Choice Movement.” These are all examples of places crusaders like to project their strong opinions onto others. They are social movements which campaign around a symbolic or moral issue. The Hater finds other users with similar views to form a group. It shares views to bond itself. They destroy and attack their target. Haters seek to attract attention by making provocative comments that are aggressive or offensive. They are usually people that greatly dislike a specific person or thing. An example of an internet...
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...Patent Trolls Patent Trolls as defined by Investopedia is a term used to describe companies or people that misuse patents as a business strategy. These patents are bought by Non-Practicing Entity’s (NPE) who buy these patents from bankrupt companies and auctions and have no intentions of developing it. Their business strategy is to do some research and file lawsuits against infringing companies. These Patent trollers cost the US Company billions of dollars each year. They disrupt the productivities of many companies and affect the whole idea of creativity and innovation in the United States. Patent trolling cost the companies $29 Billion in 2011 in direct costs and up to $80 Billion in other ancillary costs. Add to that the incalculable costs in terms of productivity and disruption of innovation and entrepreneurship. Among the ones that are most affected by this are the small and start-up companies. To give a comparison, the terrorist attack of 9/11 had an economic impact of $123 Billion whereas, patent troll lawsuits amounted to $500 Billion in lost wealth to defendants. The next question that needs to be answered is why there is a rise in this sort of unethical business. This business has a very low start-up cost which usually requires buying out junk patents or acquiring patents from bankrupt companies. This business also has a very low overhead cost Furthermore, the cost of running these sort of businesses are very...
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...IP, Patent Trolls and Innovation. If you were privy to the early years of file sharing you may remember waiting happily hours for your favorite music to download. In the end, you might have found that it wasn’t the right song after all or that the quality was less than stellar. Nonetheless, the explosion of Napster in the late 90’s was an exciting time for music enthusiasts since it opened a new technology forum to access music. While the initial firestorm about Napster was related to copyright infringement, a deeper dilemma was unfolding along with this new technology. Napster’s story demonstrates what can happen when an established, powerful industry faces a threat from a new technology that offers more services for a lower cost. Furthermore, it depicts the struggle of burgeoning technologies with established institutions’ copyrights, patents, and intellectual property. Our society continues to explore how to balance the rights of intellectual property while not dampening the emergence of needed disruptive technology. Innovation is the fuel that stokes our economic fire. Yet, with a perceived threat of lawsuits or the attacks of patent trolls, start-ups and venture capitalists may be deterred from investing in areas that are deemed too risky. In the aftermath of Napster, venture capitalists were much less likely to invest in digital music as a result of the decision. In the late 1990’s, the music industry was less than thrilled about Napster. The music industry...
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...much that they allow it to run their lives. It can only take one troll to make a users life miserable. Although online anonymity has a lot of negatives, it can be somewhat beneficial to users. It can allow the anonymous person to express his or her beliefs and opinions for everyone to see. Having said that, people don’t always use the privilege to speak anonymously. By allowing anonymity anyone can literally write whatever the user wants without any repercussions. Majority of the people are normally just being facetious when commenting on blogs just to get a rise out of some people and gain attention even if it may be negative attention. Cyber bullying can be very dangerous and illegal for the most circumstances poses as a threat. Threatening someone via online anonymously can still get the user in some trouble with the law. It is still considered assault or harassment on someone even when it is anonymous. Law enforcements have a way to track the anonymous attacks down and hit you with some charges. The head of the social media sites should have a higher punishable Consequence to users who do not follow the code of conduct when it comes to privacy terms. Social media needs to come up with a program specifically for online bullying. The amount of attacks will decrease with better enforcement of the policies. It will deter the trolls...
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...set off for the field of pixie fairies. Ezra trudged through the petunia filled fields where the pixie fairies play. He thought, “These are the most annoying creatures in The Great East, even worse than the trolls!” As they pulled his ears and flicked his nose he scrunched his face and just kept walking. He left the fields and the last stop on his way to the Kingdom was the haunted forest. It was said to be filled with the scariest creatures in all of The Great East Kingdom. Ezra marched through the forest ready for anything. He fought off ghouls, goblins, and even evil monkeys. It took him eight straight hours to walk through it even without a rest break! But he made it through and standing before him was the glorious Great East Kingdom...
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...Generally regression analysis is used with the regression equation. Here a linear equation is created to predict the Body fat (%) using 3 predictors or also known as independent variables which are the chest circumference, abdomen circumference and weight. From the result a line equation is formed , that is in the in form of (Y) = a + bx Where : (Y) is the average predicted value that is the variable which need to be estimated for any value of x. X is the independent variable and at each time a different predictor (independent variable) is used that is chest circumference, abdomen circumference and weight. A is the Y intercept . This is the Y value (body fat %) when x = 0 B is the slope of the regression line . This slope measures the average change in Y (the body fat %) for each unit change in x ( chest circumference, abdomen circumference and weight) The following are the result of the regressing which were attach after the result. Result 1 : Predicting Body Fat % Using chest circumference (Y) = -51.72 +0.697 X The slope of the equation is 0.697. This means that for every one unit increase in the chest circumference the body fat % will increase 0.697 unit. Result 2 : Predicting Body Fat...
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...Society: The Inca people were separated into different social roles. The “Inca” were actually the highest members of society (the king to the nobles); anyone lower was not considered “Inca”. After the fall of the Inca Empire people started to refer to all the citizens of the Inca Empire as the Incas. * The king was called “Sapa Inca”, and he was at the top of the social hierarchy. A third of the total resources the people produced went to the king and the rest of the government. * Below the king was the high priest, or the “Villac Umu”, and spoke to Inti directly. * The royal family, or the direct relatives to the king. * The nobility- people directly related to the direct relatives of the royal family. There were also nobles who became nobles by becoming extremely educated and trained to do so, but were still considered to be lower than your generic run-of-the-mill nobility. * Public administrators consisted of tax collectors, record keepers, and leaders of the conquered tribes, the Curacas * There were the common folk, artisans and farmers, who were the lowest on the social pyramid of the Incas. There were also groups called, “Allyu”, which everybody was apart of, and was the basic unit of society. GEOGRAPHY They were installed in South America, Cuzco was the capital in the southern Peru. They built an empire that stretched from Ecuador (in the north) to Chile (in the south) and it was the largest empire ever seen in the Americas. The people...
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...Many people believe what they see or read on the Internet. It can change how they view topics and can alter their beliefs. This is one of the many ways the Alt. Right, an emerging white supremacy group can recruit new people into their party. Many Alt. Right supporters come from the internet and often just call themselves “trolls”. Before the term Alt. Right gets used more thoroughly, it must be defined. The article on Teaching Tolerance titled What is the Alt-Right and written by Cory Collins defines the term as “an umbrella term encompassing right-wing ideals at odds with establishment, conservatism, and multicultural society” (Collins). This boils down to that the Alt. Right hates any race other than Caucasians and believes that they...
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...assignment: Troll Bridge We live in a society filled with norms, solid framework and expectations. We are expected not to fart at meetings or to tell every stranger we meet about our sexual preferences. Although it may seem that these “appropriate” behaviors are a pure reflection of our true selves it is not, according to psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. All humans have deeply stored inside their brains a subconscious mind, which is where all our truly desires are suppressed. These desires can be expressed differently. To take an example: Writers are often able to access a collective unconscious and use it to create artistic literary work filled with symbolism and features which are interesting to the psychoanalytic critic. One of those writers is Neil Gaiman and in his short story Troll Bridge many psychoanalytical symbols can be interpreted. The story follows the protagonist and first-person narrator Jack and his life development. Every time Jack is in a changing period of his life he meets a troll, who says he wants to eat him. First time they meet, Jack is a 7-year-old boy who is out to explore the countryside. His surroundings change as he goes and he gives a detailed picture of what his curious eyes see. When he sees a bridge he is surprised that there is any token of the existence of humanity, so he must be quite far out. It’s under this bridge Jack meets the troll who completely untraditionally introduces himself with “I am a troll” (p. 3, l. 32). The Troll lives...
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...Setting and Narrator in Neil Gaiman’s “Troll Bridge” “Three Billy Goats Gruff” has been Neil Gaiman’s inspiration for this short story “Troll Bridge”. However, many elements from the old fairytale has been replaced and Gaiman brings a more twisted and dark version on the table. The main character, Jack, meets a troll three times and, de-spite his selfishness, actually lets the troll eat him the last time. The ending of the story is unex-pected and provides no resolution but is a crucial part to Jack’s development. The story is split up in three parts where Jack is at three different stages in his life. Throughout the whole story, the narrator uses the setting to reflect Jack’s feelings and changes through these three stages. It is a first person narrator and Jack is telling the story. In the first part of the story, the narrator is describing the setting positively and magical. Jack is 7 years old in this part and is very detailed with his description of nature and his fantasies, for example: “The light that penetrated the leaves was stained green and gold, and I thought I was in fairyland” (p. 60 l. 24-25). This makes the at-mosphere of the setting lively and Jack’s pureness as a child is present through what the narrator describes of the setting. In the next stage of his life, Jack is 15 and the atmosphere of the setting changes. The narrator starts the part with telling the reader about how the fields in the area started to go as new houses and roads took over –...
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...Market Mix: The Best Bang For Your Buck American InterContinental University April 5, 2012 Donald Buehrig Busn105-1202A-269: Introduction to Business Unit 3 Individual Project Abstract In this paper you will see how you can use the market mix to do research on a particular product. Using the four p’s to narrow down your choice in a flooded market makes you realize that everything that we buy has been thru some sort of research on how to appeal to the consumer. Choosing a product is easy, but choosing the right product takes some time to pick what would work best for the situation. This paper shows you that when marketing a product know the environments the surround your customer. For this paper the product was priced with in the budget, had a reliable product, placed in the right graphic area and promoted to the need of the customer. When choosing a product you must consider what the product means to you. I ask myself this question, “why do I want or need this product” before I purchase any large product. Once I answer this question then I start shopping around looking for the product that fits best. I have been in the market for a new trolling motor and decided on the Minn Kota riptide. Let me explain how I used the market mix in making my decision. First I put a limit on the price I was willing to pay for a trolling Motor. I was willing to pay a descent price for a descent product. Now what makes this product a descent product or is it worth the price is...
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...August 2011 I realized recently that we may be able to solve part of the patent problem without waiting for the government. I've never been 100% sure whether patents help or hinder technological progress. When I was a kid I thought they helped. I thought they protected inventors from having their ideas stolen by big companies. Maybe that was truer in the past, when more things were physical. But regardless of whether patents are in general a good thing, there do seem to be bad ways of using them. And since bad uses of patents seem to be increasing, there is an increasing call for patent reform. The problem with patent reform is that it has to go through the government. That tends to be slow. But recently I realized we can also attack the problem downstream. As well as pinching off the stream of patents at the point where they're issued, we may in some cases be able to pinch it off at the point where they're used. One way of using patents that clearly does not encourage innovation is when established companies with bad products use patents to suppress small competitors with good products. This is the type of abuse we may be able to decrease without having to go through the government. The way to do it is to get the companies that are above pulling this sort of trick to pledge publicly not to. Then the ones that won't make such a pledge will be very conspicuous. Potential employees won't want to work for them. And investors, too, will be able to see that they're the...
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...Running head: PATENT TROLLS Outline: Patent Trolls Tadeh Grigorian, Sara Lovdahl, Linsey Mounsey, Melony Whitecloud, University of Phoenix COM/440 Learning Team C Facilitator: Chad Schatzle Patent Trolls References Bessen, J., Ford, J., & Meurer, M. J. (2012). The private and social costs of patent trolls. Regulation, 34(4), 26-35. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/920096721?accountid=458 Catelli, A. (2014). Patent trolls get greedy across the globe. Inside Counsel.Breaking News, Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1500277849?accountid=458 Catelli, A. (2014). The top 10 businesses targeted by patent trolls. Inside Counsel.Breaking News, Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1503758911?accountid=458 Common Sense Solutions to the Patent Troll Problem. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.patentprogress.org/patent-troll-reform/common-sense-solutions-to-the-patent-troll-problem/ Intellectual Property: The Assessment OXF REV ECON POLICY (2007) 23 (4): 529-540 LaFuze, W. L., & Ruble, R. R. (2007). Patent trolls. The IP Litigator : Devoted to Intellectual Property Litigation and Enforcement, 13(2), 31-36. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/219970937?accountid=458 Lemley, M. A., & Melamed, A. (2013). MISSING THE FOREST FOR THE TROLLS. Columbia Law Review, 113(8), 2117-2189. Lu, J. ". (2012). The myths and facts of patent troll and excessive payment: Have nonpracticing entities (NPEs) been overcompensated? Business...
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...Patent and Trademark Office defines a patent as "the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale or selling" a patented item. If anybody uses your idea you get paid, a patent makes it safe to share and innovate. However there are patent trolls out there. A patent troll is when companies don’t make any products, but go around suing other companies that do make products over supposed patent infringement. After listening to the podcast I think patent trolls slow innovation, make it harder for companies to grow, and hurt global competitiveness because of the fear of being sued. The podcast mentions Nathan Myhrvold and the company Intellectual Ventures. Peter Detkin states that the mission of Intellectual Ventures “is to help inventors bring great ideas into the world. That lot’s of inventors, they’re like great artists, brilliant but not brilliant at business. So their patents languish. IV gets their ideas into the hands of companies who’ll actually build what they’ve invented.” It’s ironic that Peter Detkin the guy who created the term patent troll is now a founder and vice chairman of Intellectual Ventures, because from what was in the interview it seems like Intellectual Ventures is a lot like a patent troll. The company’s website presents itself as being all about investing in innovation. In my opinion Intellectual Ventures is not what it appears to be. From the podcast they seem very hesitant answering questions as if trying to cover up or hide something...
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...realized recently that we may be able to solve part of the patent problem without waiting for the government. I've never been 100% sure whether patents help or hinder technological progress. When I was a kid I thought they helped. I thought they protected inventors from having their ideas stolen by big companies. Maybe that was truer in the past, when more things were physical. But regardless of whether patents are in general a good thing, there do seem to be bad ways of using them. And since bad uses of patents seem to be increasing, there is an increasing call for patent reform. The problem with patent reform is that it has to go through the government. That tends to be slow. But recently I realized we can also attack the problem downstream. As well as pinching off the stream of patents at the point where they're issued, we may in some cases be able to pinch it off at the point where they're used. One way of using patents that clearly does not encourage innovation is when established companies with bad products use patents to suppress small competitors with good products. This is the type of abuse we may be able to decrease without having to go through the government. The way to do it is to get the companies that are above pulling this sort of trick to pledge publicly not to. Then the ones that won't make such a pledge will be very conspicuous. Potential employees won't want to work for them. And investors, too, will be able to see that they're the sort of company...
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