Assignment 3 – ToS Review

Terms of service for this site include all of the standard stuff concerning liability, indemnity and etc, that everyone has in place to try to cover themselves from potential problems as much as possible. The site is offered “as is” with no hard guarantees of working, but seems to work fine. There is also the pretty standard large section that tells everyone that uses the site that they are responsible for everything they post and that there is no effective way to police the entire site so they may run into subject matter that they might deem inappropriate, however, this subject matter should be tagged in a such a way as to warn people. It further states that content cannot be any sort of malware (virus, trojan, etc,.) and cannot contain illegal material. Content is also held to copyright so one isn’t supposed to upload things for which they do not have the copyright or documented permission from those who do. Users of this site must be at least 13. This, of course, is all the stuff that one would expect from a web, Terms of Service, basically it is the list of:

1 – Everyone Play Nice

1b – Don’t pretend to be someone or something you are not.

2 – Warn People if you aren’t.

3 – Don’t use other people’s stuff

4 – If the law gets involved, we’re not responsible for your actions or words.

Where this site differs in some others, is in how they address creative license. Not only do they hold their own copyright solid, but the only use they claim on your posted materials are for support and promotion of your blog. You own your creative license. They have even licensed their Terms of Service under a creative commons, Share and share a like, clause, allowing others to use their license policy.  This license seems to be a pretty good one, for allowing free creativity to reign, while keeping things within the law.

Promise:  Fast and easy, and in 50 different languages. The product has many great features such an spam filtering and metering for statistics and better yet it is mostly free.  What is really offered here is a way to share thoughts, ideas, photos and etc. with any and all people who will listen or read, to reach out into the community of bloggers. Furthermore, you retain your creative license.

Tools: The free tools include a decent editor which is html friendly, and includes filtering capabilities to determine who sees your work, Spam filters, several pre-made layouts, video embedding, a decent support section/service. All the basic things you would need to blog, kind of a bare-bones system.

Bargain: Here’s the rub. For using this stuff for free you have agreed to allow them to use your stuff royalty free to promote wordpress and/or your blog, they also put ads in various place as well, and if you want to be rid of these advertisements then you pay a premium price. If you want more forms/templates/tools, they are available at cost. All in all thought it isn’t a bad deal.

I checked out live journal as well, and not only do you retain your creative license and copyright, they actually claim absolutely NO part of your blog.

In moving toward a more compact Society – Final Project Proposal

This will be a second-life realization:
Thesis: – We are moving toward a more compact society where micronization is rampant. Archologies compact what we understand as a city and technology becomes progressively smaller and faster as if it has any realy choice but to do so. Mixed into this driving force of technology and information streams is an economy with the growing hunger of a black hole. Technology is a commodity, knowledge is a commodity, everything is or will be commodified if this beast has its way.  Where does it end or does it end?

I will be building a second life structure that should stand as warning and social commentary; “The School of Tomorrow”. Come and see how the next big generation will learn.

Physical part: paper.

Media Part: – 2nd Life building

Goal: Raise awareness and questions concerning the technological direction in which we are heading and the speed at which we are heading there.

Steyr UMEWS – Mk XD-I Enhanced Battlefield System

Every Utopian Society understands that the only reason it exists is because of those people that keep safe the boundaries between said society and the external unwanted elements. Ever commited to helping these people better defend our way of life, DSI Enterprises, in conjunction with Steyr Industries has  just unveiled the newest innovation in personal Battlefield systems.

This new weapon system has everything a budding soldier, arm-chair soldier or hardened veteran could ever need. Around the classic Steyr configuration DSI Enterprises, in conjunction with Steyr, have added a unique Optics piece that includes a digital video and still camera, satelite uplink for streaming news and music and a small GPS and battle field radar linked computer. The Stowage section of the Rifle is in the stock and allows for 5 nutrition bricks, a smaller cleaning kit and the earbuds for the computer to be stowed. For Saftey the only sound is in conjunction with the earbuds and biometric sensors have been added to the trigger and foreward grips. These sensors are linked with the computer, however, can also operate in isolation is the computer has been circumvented. Fail-safes are built into the electronics that make it nearly impossible to dissassemble them without destroying them beyond use. The computer itself has many liesure time capabilites such as streaming video and news casts, MP3 capability, storage for the camera uses, and a few common games designed for small format. It can even be used to surf the internet as well as any phone can. It also comes with an integrated laser targeting sight and the onboard computer can be set to display all optics information.
While there may well be a number of items that together can do all the things this sytem does, this is the first battlefield system that is self-contained allowing a person to carry one item in place of many. The satelite uplink and computer readout array is also easy to use, made to resemble many of the small format electroci devices on the market today. This product will be sold with only slight modifications for each state’s firearms laws needing to be accomodated. This means that the target audience will be adults with interests in having a functional weapon and entertainment system intercombined. Distribution will be wherever rifles are sold and with the satelite uplink registration of the weapon will be automatic for those areas requiring such. So come try this new and innovative system from hunters, to soldiers, to pacman commandos this puppy has it all.

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