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Leisure Changing of Information - 0 views

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    The changing shape of information.
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The Changing Shape of Leisure - 0 views

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    The changing shape of information.
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The Changing Shape of Art - 0 views

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    The changing shape of information.
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Uploading and downloading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • In computer networks, to download means to receive data to a local system from a remote system, or to initiate such a data transfer. Examples of a remote system from which a download might be performed include a web server, FTP server, email server, or other similar systems. A download can mean either any file that is offered for downloading or that has been downloaded, or the process of receiving such a file. It has become more common to mistake and confuse the meaning of downloading and installing or simply combine them incorrectly together.
  • The inverse operation, uploading, can refer to the sending of data from a local system to a remote system such as a server or another client with the intent that the remote system should store a copy of the data being transferred, or the initiation of such a process. The words first came into popular usage among computer users with the increased popularity of Bulletin board systems (BBS), facilitated by the widespread distribution and implementation of dial-up internet access in the 1970s.
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      this tells all about the ways to upload, and download.
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  • When applied to local transfers (sending data from one local system to another local system), it is often difficult to decide if it is an upload or download, as both source and destination are in the local control of the user. Technically if the user uses the receiving device to initiate the transfer then it would be a download and if they used the sending device to initiate it would be an upload. However, as most non-technical users tend to use the term download to refer to any data transfer, the term sideload is sometimes being used to cover all local-to-local transfers to end this confusion. [edit] Remote upload
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SOPA and PIPA Newsletter - 0 views

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  • That sounds about right, given the recent turn of events over the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), both of which are now more than likely gone from the legislative calendar for this year.
  • Hollywood (used as a shorthand for Big Media Megaliths and their trade groups), never, ever quits, even when they get what they want, much less when they don't.
  • In the short term, SOPA and PIPA were stopped, perhaps for this year, as a result of dedicated activities on a number of fronts from a number of angles
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Why Apple Shares Will Hit $500 This Year - DailyFinance - 0 views

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  • One of the most amazing things about Apple is that demand for its products doesn't appear to be falling at all.
  • Mac sales are growing by double-digit percentages, and units sold hit 3.8 million last quarter. Sales of most PCs have tapered off in the last quarter, but the Mac continues to pick up market share despite its relatively high price.
  • And finally, Apple hasn't even introduced any 4G capable products yet. That market is increasing rapidly as the sales of the HTC Thunder Bolt show. In some Verizon stores, the Android-based smartphone outsells the iPhone 4. Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T) and Sprint (S) have only begun to aggressively market 4G in the last few months. Apple is likely to enter the market in the next year.
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Apple has more cash than it needs, CEO says | Fox News - 0 views

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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook says he believes the world's most valuable company has more money than it needs.
  • Apple stopped making the shareholder payments in 1995 when it was in such deep trouble that it needed to hold on to every cent.
  • Cook, though, appears willing to return some of the cash to shareholders since he succeeded Jobs as Apple's CEO last August. Jobs died Oct. 5 after a long battle with cancer.
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Want more secrets? We need cash, WikiLeaks says | The Digital Home - CNET News - 0 views

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  • WikiLeaks has been forced to shut down its secret-divulging operations until it can raise cash, the organization announced today.
  • The organization's founder, Julian Assange, continues to insist that WikiLeaks is vital to holding governments and corporate power accountable.
  • "PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity,"
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  • Server costs in over 40 countries set the organization back $200,000. WikiLeaks has also faced an "added cost" of $500,000 due to Julian Assange's house arrest.
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SOPA: Why YouTube fans need to be worried about America's piracy bill | memeburn - 0 views

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  • And if you’re not in the US and think SOPA is something that’s happening far away and won’t affect you, think again. If passed into law, our lives online will be very different.
  • If passed, the act will give the United States Attorney General the ability to close down websites which infringe copyrights, as well as ban them from using online paying facilities such as PayPal and Visa.
  • YouTube may have to rethink its set up as it was created as a platform on which internet users could upload, watch and share videos with each other on the internet. When uploading a video onto YouTube, users are faced with a message stating
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  • “Do not upload any TV shows, music videos, music concerts or advertisements without permission, unless they consist entirely of content that you created yourself”.
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      Shows some videos that would be an example of what would get taken down with the SOPA and PIPA acts.
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  • In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online -- Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts -- are considering a coordinated blackout of their sites, some of the web’s most popular destinations.
  • No Google searches. No Facebook updates. No Tweets. No Amazon.com shopping. Nothing.
  • A blackout would be drastic. And though the details of exactly how it would work are unclear, it's already under consideration, according to Markham Erickson, the executive director of NetCoalition, a trade association that includes the likes of Google, PayPal, Yahoo, and Twitter.
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  • On November 15, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL, and LinkedIn wrote a letter to Washington warning of SOPA's dangers. "We are concerned that these measures pose a serious risk to our industry's continued track record of innovation and job-creation, as well as to our Nation's cybersecurity,"
  • Microblogging site Tumblr generated 87,834 calls to Congress with its own anti-SOPA campaign -- a total of 1,293 total hours spent talking to representatives.
  • "Rogue Web sites that steal America's innovative and creative products attract more than 53 billion visits a year and threaten more than 19 million American jobs,"
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Anonymous Goes After World Governments in Wake of Anti-SOPA Protests | Threat Level | W... - 0 views

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  • Anonymous has launched unprecedented string of attacks on government and business sites around the world, as the anger of the hive that a year ago turned on Egypt’s Mubarak regime turned on governments around the world.
  • Over the last week, Anonymous has launched unprecedented string of attacks on government and business sites around the world, as the anger of the hive that a year ago turned on Egypt’s Mubarak regime turned on governments around the world.
  • Continuous DDoSing and hacking attacks by Anonymous seems to be largely a response to proposals to strengthen intellectual property law at the expense of an open internet and to what Anonymous perceives to be overreaching of the power by various governments.
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  • in response to arrests of employees of the file sharing site Megaupload,
  • is a secretive treaty pushed and quite possibly in part penned by the same interests that just saw their plans for SOPA go up in internet flames — the entertainment industry.
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Effects of SOPA & PIPA | Brajeshwar - 0 views

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  • House Judiciary Committee Chair and Texas Republican Lamar S Smith, along with 12 co sponsors, introduced SOPA, on October 26th 2011.
  • to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. The law intends to expand existing criminal laws, by imposing a maximum penalty of five years in prison for unauthorized streaming of copyright material.
  • For example, if Warner Bros would claim that a site in Italy is perturbing a copy of The Dark Knight, the studio could make the following demands:
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      video that explains PIPA and SOPA. Along with the effects that it could lead to.
  • That Google remove that site from its search results. That PayPal may no longer accept payments to and from that site. That Ad services pull out ads and finances from it That the site’s ISP would avert people from going there.
  • Once the notice is sent to Google or PayPal or whoever, the recipient would have five days to either abide or to challenge the claim in court.
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The internet: is it changing the way we think? | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

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      Information about how the way we obtain information has changed
  • "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
  • Every 50 years or so, American magazine the Atlantic lobs an intellectual grenade into our culture. In the summer of 1945, for example, it published an essay by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineer Vannevar Bush entitled "As We May Think". It turned out to be the blueprint for what eventually emerged as the world wide web. Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?".
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  • uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's c
  • "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
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Information technology has changed the lives of immigrants « Online Education... - 0 views

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  • The boom in the information technology sector has had far-reaching effects especially on the immigrant population.  It has almost changed the way Canada lives, works and learns.  The new ‘digital literacy wave’ has caught on and that has put demands on most of us and more so the immigrant worker in Canada.  Hence the language instruction is changing in Canada in response to the immigrant settlement.  There are changes in other fields as well but the change is noticeable in the field of information technology as newcomers have learnt French or English and have adapted to the life in Canada.
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3 Ways Education Has Changed | Teacher Test - 0 views

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  • There is a lot of talk concerning how education has changed, especially when it comes to the teaching of our children in the public school system. The changes in the education of our school children centers around standardized testing, teaching methods, school grades, teacher salaries, and the No Child Left Behind law.
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    There is a lot of talk concerning how education has changed, especially when it comes to the teaching of our children in the public school system. The changes in the education of our school children centers around standardized testing, teaching methods, school grades, teacher salaries, and the No Child Left Behind law.
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Ron Gutman: How Technology Has Changed The Way We Access Health - 0 views

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  • When I grew up, the primary sources of health information for most of us were our physicians or our friends and family. But over the past decade the resources we use and rely on for health information, and how we use it, have radically changed. With the ubiquitous availability of the Internet, we're now taking on the role of gathering and assessing this information ourselves, often before we visit or return to our doctors. To find health information, most of us turn to search engines or health sites -- whether to answer questions about a new physical discomfort, a known ailment or about a health matter facing a child or other person we care.
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How Science Has Changed in the Information Age - voiceofsandiego.org: The Henrietta Lac... - 0 views

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  • We are living in the Information Age. A world where the internet, computers and smartphones are an essential part of our everyday lives, allowing us to immediately access and share information worldwide. Digital technologies have changed every aspect of our lives; from the way we work and learn to the way we play and socialize.
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  • Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives. Just look around you and you'll see how wired we are. Thanks to the Internet, virtually anything you desire can be delivered to your door in a matter of days. Personal information is more accessible over the Internet as well -- you can look up everything from a long-lost cousin to the registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. You can even trade stocks or file taxes online. Parents don't need to lose sleep waiting for their teenage daughter to come home -- they can just call her cell phone, or send an unobtrusive text, to check up.
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Social Media Has Changed The Way We Live | amotherworld - 0 views

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  • Social media has changed the way we connect with people and get information.  Just look back at technology and the pattern of tech evolution. Typewriters replaced by computers, telephones by cell phones, libraries by the internet… the list goes on and on. The internet provides information instantaneously.  Not only that it’s immediate, that information is available 24 hours a day and on many mobile platforms too. Now with Social Media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, mobile apps – anywhere you go, information can come with you.
  • Christian Mayer on 02 Mar 12
     
    Social media has changed the way we connect with people and get information.  Just look back at technology and the pattern of tech evolution. Typewriters replaced by computers, telephones by cell phones, libraries by the internet… the list goes on and on. The internet provides information instantaneously.  Not only that it's immediate, that information is available 24 hours a day and on many mobile platforms too. Now with Social Media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, mobile apps - anywhere you go, information can come with you.
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