Facebook, one writer feels is a pretty huge scam. But like Google, MySpace, Yahoo, and all other corporate ’social networking’ outfits, it’s a hard-core advertising company. Nothing more. You know it, and I know it. A lot of people who must know better believe your Facebook is the greatest business in view of the fact that sliced bread. Most of the same people believe a buck is a honest and reasonable price for a digital music file, and that [...]
Archive for February, 2009
You sell one persons personal artwork. You’re done. That person owns their own. That’s why their name is own it. I know that the facebook team is saying what they need to say probably after having a frightening meeting with their lawyers. You have place your behind on the line now and everyone knows what your intentions are. You mess up one time, you’re out. “This message is just one to try to cool us down so you don’t have [...]
Public attitude surveys taken aptly after the speech by CNN and CBS show Mr. Obama’s plans won overwhelming approval from viewers. Polls top toward most Americans welcome U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on the economy. In his Tuesday address to Congress, he said the United States will recover from recession and “emerge stronger than before.” Most said the president’s plans will make the economy better. But one survey by CBS, found only a bit more than half thought Mr. Obama [...]
On Web sites touting the mind-blowing powers of salvia divinorum, come-ons to buy the hallucinogenic herb are accompanied by warnings: “Time is running out! … stock up while you still can.” That’s because salvia is being embattled by lawmakers concerned that the inexpensive and simple-to-obtain plant could become the next marijuana. Eight states have already placed restrictions on salvia, and 16 others, including Florida, are considering a ban or have previously. “As soon as we make one drug illegal, kids [...]
Internet users will soon be able to take pleasure in unlimited, legal music downloads for a small additional monthly fee, after Sky confirmed plans to roll out a music download service to rival Apple’s iTunes Music Store. The broadcaster is in discussions with Omnifone, a British-based company that provides unlimited music downloads to mobile phone users, to use some of its equipment to power the download service. Ominfone, which unveiled MusicStation Next Generation at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this [...]
Telstra claims they have 5,507,000 subscribers of Australia’s 7,228,000 internet users. Consequently it follows that Telstra is the Carriage Service Provider (CSP) that enables the highest level of P2P file sharing. The Australian government originally owned the majority of Telstra’s shares and has been promotion off chunks in view of the fact that 1997. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possibility of the content industry owning shares in the broadband networks and that if they did – then [...]
The US space agency’s Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the largest gamma-ray burst ever detected, a report published Thursday in Science Express said. The spectacular blast, which occurred in September in the Carina constellation, produced energies ranging from 3,000 to more than five billion times that of visible light, astrophysicists said. Studying gamma-ray bursts allows scientists to “sample an individual star at a distance where we can’t even see galaxies clearly,” Reddy [...]
To start with, our “city,” our solar logic, is in a part of the Milky Way that many scientists call the galactic habitable zone. This zone is about 28,000 light years from the center of the galaxy and contains just the aptly concentrations of the chemical elements needed to support life. Farther out, those elements are too scarce; farther in, the locality is too perilous because of the greater abundance of potentially lethal radiation and other factors. “We live in [...]
Planet Planet hosts a prodigious amount of variety of income organisms – I don’t know many millions of species. Much of this life, which thrives in the soil, the air, and water, is too small for the naked eye to see. For example, just one gram (0.04 ounces) of soil has been found to host 10,000 species of bacteria, not to mention the total number of microbes! Some species have been found up to two miles underground. The atmosphere too [...]
Facebook knows your age, alma mater and favorite band. It’s seen your spring break photos and read the messages you sent to your supporter. So, can it do anything it wants with that content? Huh ?! Yup. Or so the intro to this Chicago Tribune tale says, going on: “Legally, nearly. But in practice, the rules that govern Facebook’s relationship with its users are abstract and subject to constant negotiation. “The blogosphere was a buzz Monday after a well loved [...]
