aims to keep the profile’s following and follower counts as close to equal as possible. Findable – a blog that can be found with search engines. Flaming – a process of creating or contributing to abusive exchanges in a forum. Flickr – a photo sharing site founded in February 2004, now owned by Yahoo! where professional photographers feel comfortable posting and discussing their work. Forums – an arrangement of posts and replies about a specific subject in an indented hierarchical fashion so that
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responsibility for actions performed by users which violate any laws, foreign or domestic. If discovered, these users will be reported to the proper authorities for prosecution. Prohibited Use of Equipment or System: * No peer-to-peer file sharing or externally reachable file transfer protocol (FTP) servers * No exporting internal software or technical material in violation of export control laws * No accessing unauthorized internal resources or information from external sources
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toward car sharing programs. The drivers who use the car sharing are attracted to the program because of it is affordable. The program can offer access to a car without the stress of car ownership hassles such as routine maintenance and auto insurance, nor will they risk losing their car if they cannot afford to pay it. It is also convenient for low-income households as it enables us they money they would usually use for a car payment toward other household or personal expenses. Â Car-sharing services
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which requires genuine. In 2005, loses of legal media and software industry from digital piracy was $200 billion (DSTI/IND (2007). Also, Oberholzer-Gee (2010) indicates that 60% of World Wide Web broadband busy by consumers’ video, game and music sharing. To avoid this issue intellectual proprietors use various methods. In this paper is shown methods to dodge problem of digital piracy. There are two ways to protect legal digital content from piracy. Firstly, there is indirectly impact to society
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The music industry has been revolutionized by the innovations brought about by technology. It is time where artistes and musicians specifically are facing challenges with regards to ownership of their music which has been invaded by people from all over the world. A while ago before the technological breakthrough musicians used to get ownership of their music fully by targeting the main avenues that channeled their music to the masses. This proved to be very easy and simpler for the musicians but
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First thing first, the number of times I've had to unwillingly listen to Alan Walker's Faded in the past year is obscene. What I consider mainstream music is those songs that are overplayed on the radio, with simple (and sometimes cringe worthy) chords and rhythms. Most will be present somewhere in Billboard Hot 100. Just as the category suggest, they're there because they're "hot". Not amazing or intricate or sophisticated, just "hot" matters. This hotness is achieved through either a catchy beat
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The court also addressed the issue of personal use as it pertains to fair use. A previous court for the case Williams & Wilkins v. United States (1975) decided that under the 1909 Act, copying for personal use could be considered outside the scope of copyright protection. Their reasoning for this was that “it is almost unanimously accepted that a scholar can make a handwritten copy of an entire copyrighted article for his own use.” (Williams, 9th Cir. Cal. 1975) The supreme court found there to be
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Peace and justice has a lot of different meaning to different people. Some people define peace as a way to avoid negation or in common synonym harmony and tranquility while justice is the conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct. Two simple words but they carry out so much within them. These two words may seem different but they complement each other when said in one. Like people in different faith traditions, these people have different believes and different traditions
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“Violence Vanquished” Response * Do you agree or disagree with Pinker's idea about violence? Why or why not? * Using the ideas from Gilbert (surrogates, super-replicators, predicting the future) how can we encourage society to further decrease violence in the future? Should we? * What connections do you see between Gilbert's argument, Pinker's argument, and our topic of future studies? I would say that I do agree that the rate of violence has substantially decreased, over
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“The quest for peace and Justice” by Martin Luther King Jr. was written after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In the article he talks about how far mankind has come today in science and technology, yet lacking morally and spiritually. He discusses three problems of spiritual and moral lag. They are racial injustice, poverty, and war. When talking about racial injustice, King says that is one of the major struggles of their time. Negros passion to be free was growing in the US as part of civil
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