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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • created the architecture for the Open Library
  • Swartz was a member of the RSS-DEV Working Group that co-authored the "RSS 1.0" specification of RSS
  • founded the online group Demand Progress
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  • In the early days of Reddit, Swartz's Infogami and Reddit merged; the merger agreement made Swartz an equal partner in the merged company.
  • JSTOR's fees limited access to academic work produced at American colleges and universities.
  • Swartz also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism.
  • against the Stop Online Piracy Act
  • On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by federal authorities in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR.[7][8] Swartz opposed JSTOR's practice of compensating publishers, rather than authors, out of the fees it charges for access to articles.
  • In 2010 he joined the Harvard University Center for Ethics.
  • At age 13, he won the ArsDigita Prize, a competition for young people who create "useful, educational, and collaborative" non-commercial websites.
  • By age 14, Swartz was a member of the working group that authored the RSS 1.0 web syndication specification
  • he agitated without cease—or compensation—for the free-culture movement.
  • Around 2006, Swartz acquired the Library of Congress's complete bibliographic dataset: the library charged fees to access this, but as a government document, it was not copyright-protected within the USA. By posting the data in the Open Library, Swartz made it freely available.
  • government-produced documents are not covered by copyright
  • public.resource.org
  • A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free.
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Honeydew (melon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Honeydew's thick, juicy, sweet flesh is often eaten for dessert, and is commonly found in supermarkets across the world.
  • harvested based on maturity, not size
  • color ranging from greenish white (immature) to creamy yellow (mature)
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  • nearly spherical shape with a surface free of scars or defects
  • a honeydew should feel heavy for its size and have a waxy (not fuzzy) surface.
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Open knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • one is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it without legal, social or technological restriction
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Omega-3 fatty acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Qualia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • individual instances of subjective, conscious experience
  • qualia is "an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us."
  • The way it feels
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  • what it is like
  • recognizable qualitative characters
  • it is purely subjective
  • intuited
  • cannot be communicated, or apprehended by any other means than direct experience
  • a normally sighted person who sees red would be unable to describe the experience of this perception in such a way that a listener who has never experienced color will be able to know everything there is to know about that experience
  • color
  • it is possible to make an analogy
  • such a description is incapable of providing a complete description of the experience
  • a perception
  • taste
  • it is by definition difficult or impossible to convey qualia verbally
  • What's it like
  • consciousness has an essentially subjective character, a what-it-is-like aspect
  • the subjective aspect of the mind may not ever be sufficiently accounted for by the objective methods of reductionistic science
  • subjective consciousness
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UltraViolet (system) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • stream and download purchased content to multiple platforms and devices
  • buy once, play anywhere
  • store digital proof-of-purchases under one account
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  • six accounts allowed per household
  • account holder may register up to 12 devices for streaming and/or downloading
  • Up to three streams can be simultaneously transmitted
  • UltraViolet does not store files
  • UltraViolet only coordinates and manages the licenses for each account, but not the content itself
  • The rights for purchased or rented content are stored on the service
  • a digital-rights locker
  • by only managing the rights and licensing of content, UltraViolet insulates itself from future technological advances, allowing users to keep watching content they have purchased
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment
  • NBCUniversal
  • Fox Entertainment Group
  • Paramount Motion Pictures Group
  • Marlin DRM
  • DreamWorks Animation
  • Warner Bros. Entertainment
  • Common Encryption (CENC) system
  • Common File Format
  • based on the Base ISO File Format
  • based on existing standards from MPEG, SMPTE, and others
  • high definition (HD)
  • standard definition (SD)
  • An HD player can play SD and HD files
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
  • UltraViolet content can also be offered from existing movie streaming services, using their existing streaming and DRM technologies
  • legacy streaming
  • Google Widevine DRM
  • Lionsgate
  • OMA CMLA-OMA v2
  • Microsoft PlayReady
  • Adobe Flash Access 2.0
  • "Universal DRM" renamed UltraViolet
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Commonly misspelled words - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Rhinoceros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Indian and Javan rhinoceros have a single horn
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Web archiving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • saves page and all its images
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Tagged Image File Format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • TIFF is a popular format for high color-depth images
  • TIFF is a flexible, adaptable file format for handling images and data within a single file
  • The ability to store image data in a lossless format makes a TIFF file a useful image archive, because, unlike standard JPEG files, a TIFF file using lossless compression (or none) may be edited and re-saved without losing image quality.
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  • Other TIFF options are layers and pages.
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