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Social
Networking Safety Tips
Social networking web sites
such as Myspace, Facebook and many others are a popular and fun
way to communicate with relatives and friends, and to renew old
friendships. There’s a dark side of social networking that has
been well documented by the media. Popular newsmagazine shows
are full stories of young people stalked by people they met on
social networking web sites. While most of the negative
attention comes from the illicit relationships that started from
social networks. Many of the various scams that are still
getting sent around by e-mail are now spreading through social
networking web sites.
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and the Tech Industry
For every new
technology that sets the world on its ear, there is somebody out
there who thinks they can cash in on a questionably relevant
patent. Beating successful technology companies with
patent infringement lawsuits already has a pejorative term
associated to it. Patent trolling the term used to refer to the
milking successful companies by those claiming patent
infringement.
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MiniDisc Player
In my search for a portable music player
with the features that I wanted, I was coming up short of getting what I
wanted so I had to take a sort of leap backwards. I went onto e-bay and
got a portable minidisk player/recorder. I wanted an AM/FM radio so that
I could listen to my favorite news/talk station while on the bus ride to
work and during lunch break I could listen to my tunes from my computer.
I ended up getting a Sony Net MD Walkman MZ-NF 610. Net MD is Sony’s
method of taking audio files from computers and loading them onto
MiniDiscs.
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Shawn
Fanning Inventor of Napster
When MP3 first became popular in
the late 1990's finding songs as MP3 files was difficult at
first. Songs were available from underground web sites
that were forced offline quickly by threat of lawsuit from the
recording industry. Shawn Fanning decided that to help
make MP3's easier to find he created a search engine for MP3
files held on peoples' computers and to download directly from
each other. Initially Napster was a closed network for
Fanning's close friends at Northeastern University where he was
a student. Eventually Napster was made public and it
caught the attention big music and that's when the lawsuits came
flying. After close to two years of court room action
Napster was shut down and was sold to Roxio which after a year
or so Napster became a legitimate online music store.
Selling music online would have
never have happened without the original Napster. The
recording industry was hell bent on keeping people buying CD's.
After the Napster genie was let out of the bottle there was no
it was going back in. Even before the end came to the
original free Napster there were many other peer to peer
networks sprouting up. Although other peer to peer
networks have gotten shut down many more come along to take it's
place. While peer to peer networks allow people to get
music without paying the musicians and songwriters as they
deserve, but does help curb the obscene profiteering by the
recording companies.
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