no he is not well networked. I mean, who ever heard about Pinterest or Turntable?
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its important because FB is the biggest social network on the internet. Believe it or not, many people still dont understand or get what "social web" means. Having FB stock publicly traded (company more transparent) and strong earnings would prove to the masses that web and social net is sustainable AND profitable AND here to stay. And it already works! look what happened with Zynga stock after FB IPO papers hit the daylight.
its quite simple VB stand-alone (so they dont block one IP) application with IE window in it. you log in, and VB is scrapping all the data creating excel file with contacts, saving images organized in folders for other web import, etc). not that big of a deal, right?
in your example, can you explain how FB is better than AIM/ICQ or any other instant messanger in what you trying to do?:
FB and any other IM:
- accept people you want on your list, delete etc - see whos up right now - text to one or multiple users the same time (can FB do that), send photos, music, any files - more?
I heard it so many times users saying they need facebook for this or that but in reality, they dont. Its like my sister says she needs to go to google to search for facebook to click on facebook link to go to FB.
By scanning I mean taking any object (or living form) and shoot it with some wave to obtain a matrix image (like MRI) but on an atom level.
By printing I mean you will have an .ato file just like a CAD drawing and printer will print a 3d object but instead of using plastic or some material it will print using single atoms.
This technology will ultimately solve all human problems, lets only pray that it will be developed by some consortium of civilized and reasonable countries.
Transportation will be fixed by ability to "teleport" people. your atom map will be saved and transferred over Internet to a destination, where a printer will print you out. Within the time once mastered this, we will be able to solve all health problems. You will be scanned and all your health issues fixed by an algorithm working on your image file, then from your image reprinted healthy, perhaps even without that pot belly.
Our cities will be rebuild (reprinted) from a scratch by this technology.
I know this sounds like a heavy delusional science fiction, but todays scientists are already able to change metal into gold by shifting atoms, its just process alone is extremely expensive, making it useless from a financial point of view.
They could look very deep into the "made in china" "issue". Lookup "Kluska" - owner of company Optimus in Poland. One of the richest man in 90s. Basically, CBS imprisoned him for months after he allegedly broke the law by exporting parts to foreign countries where PCs were assembled and brought back to Poland. The issue was that he did not pay tax out of the assembly. After years of litigation (bail denied), he was free man, while his company went bankrupt and he was left in debt after fighting with Government. Polish IRS (Urzad Skarbowy) did not even apologize.
I agree with you that Apple make choices for you and usually they are excellent. But they come with price, you know?
EDIT: and then in court I would say I forgot the password because I havent been using this drive for a while now.
it would be great to know if its possible they had an insider. how otherwise would they know that other links linked to the same content were linking to exact the same file that DMCA note was sent to take down. Otherwise it was unfair and thats the purpose why safe harbour exist -- it protects you a small company from millions of users uploading their content and being shorthand or not having boots to check each and single file whether it violates someones copyrights or not.
> Consider this totally legal (for me) scenario: I rip the Dark Knight DVD, and place it in Dropbox as a legal backup of my content. I share the link with nobody; it's just mine, all mine.
I am not sure if this is entirely legal.
First you say you didnt make a copy, but "rip". Its called ripping because DVDs content is locked with an encrypted key, so locked DVD with a movie is not just a folder with files you can copy over to your desktop. Years ago there was a movie when they forgot to lock the key and based off of it software developers were able to build a key decryptor for any encrypted DVD. Most DVD ripping software is illegal throughout the world, at least some software vendors got lawsuit over their software functionality.
Further, while I dont have a link handy, but I recall there was a discussion on HN that 9th circuit make it illegal for anyone to stream any copyrighted content, whether to themselves or a group of people. So uploading it into cloud and then getting it back out of it technically is illegal, AFAIK, but that was month ago when I saw this posting.