Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Pipa And Sopa



  This is all because of two pieces of legislation: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and its Senate companion bill, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). This was from This Google Link. They would be important to the average person because, if they wanted to look up YouTube for a DIY thing it might popup a website about dogs. Because they might think that YouTube doesn't need to be available for the public to watch YouTube videos. The PIPA and SOPA bills were intended to stop piracy on the Internet. They could be misused by the government taking over everything. If the government took over the entire Internet then, people wouldn’t be able to find anything that they are looking for. Some facts about PIPA and SOPA are… Media companies are always looking for new ways to fight piracy. They've tried suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. But none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and Mega Upload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites. Enter SOPA, in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the U.S. Senate. Both bills are aimed at foreign websites that infringe copyrighted material. The bills are commonly associated with media piracy, but may also apply to counterfeit consumer goods and medication.Originally, both bills provided two methods for fighting copyright infringement on foreign websites. In one method, the U.S. Department of Justice could seek court orders requiring Internet service providers to block the domain names of infringing sites. For example, Comcast could prevent its customers from accessing thepiratebay.org, although the underlying IP address would still be reachable. ThisISP-blocking provision was a major concern among Internet security experts, and both SOPA and PIPA have dropped it. All that is from this site. The bills are intended to strengthen protections against copyright infringement and intellectual property theft, but Internet advocates say they would stifle expression on the World Wide Web. In essence, the legislation has pitted content providers -- like the music and film industries -- against Silicon Valley. CBS Corporation is among the media and entertainment companies that support the legislation. That information is from This SiteThis is all because of two pieces of legislation: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and its Senate companion bill, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). This was from This Google Link. They would be important to the average person because, if they wanted to look up YouTube for a DIY thing it might popup a website about dogs. Because they might think that YouTube doesn't need to be available for the public to watch YouTube videos. The PIPA and SOPA bills were intended to stop piracy on the Internet. They could be misused by the government taking over everything. If the government took over the entire Internet then, people wouldn’t be able to find anything that they are looking for. Some facts about PIPA and SOPA are… Media companies are always looking for new ways to fight piracy. They've tried suing individual users, getting Internet service providers to take action against subscribers, and working with the U.S. government to shut down domains based in the United States. But none of those actions can stop overseas websites such as The Pirate Bay and Mega Upload from infringing copyrights, or prevent Internet users from accessing those sites. Enter SOPA, in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the U.S. Senate. Both bills are aimed at foreign websites that infringe copyrighted material. The bills are commonly associated with media piracy, but may also apply to counterfeit consumer goods and medication.Originally, both bills provided two methods for fighting copyright infringement on foreign websites. In one method, the U.S. Department of Justice could seek court orders requiring Internet service providers to block the domain names of infringing sites. For example, Comcast could prevent its customers from accessing thepiratebay.org, although the underlying IP address would still be reachable. ThisISP-blocking provision was a major concern among Internet security experts, and both SOPA and PIPA have dropped it. All that is from this site. The bills are intended to strengthen protections against copyright infringement and intellectual property theft, but Internet advocates say they would stifle expression on the World Wide Web. In essence, the legislation has pitted content providers -- like the music and film industries -- against Silicon Valley. CBS Corporation is among the media and entertainment companies that support the legislation. This day in history thousands of websites, including WikipediaRedditBoing BoingTheOatmeal (which gives the most amusing of all the protests, though slightly inappropriate for younger audiences),WordPressMakezineMozilla, and the entire O’Reilly Media network went black (complete list of confirmed websites that are participating), their owners voluntarily taking the sites down specifically in protest of proposed legislation in the United States, SOPA and PIPA, but more generally in protest of the disturbing trend of internet censorship; this time some of the most drastic such legislation ironically coming from a government who is constantly criticizing other governments for doing just this.  Many other websites, most notably Google, are also taking part in the protest, not by taking their site(s) down, but by promoting awareness of an issue that previous to today has conspicuously stayed mostly out of the main stream media (whose owners almost unanimously support and are lobbying for SOPA and PIPA to pass). All this is from This SiteNothing could be further from the truth. I got all this from This Site.


Thursday, August 21, 2014

Apple Poducts

Apple Products: 


There are 46 Apple products total. People all around the world use apple products. Apple was founded on April Fools Day in 1976 by three men. Their names are Steven Gary Wozniak, Steven Paul Jobs, & Ronald Gerald Wayne. It was incorporated on January 3rd, 1977 without Wayne because, he sold his share back for $800, but he drew the first Apple logo.

Once in China there were 22 fake Apple stores, & they were even using the Apple brand $& logo. Even the workers thought that they were working in a real Apple store. They were eventually caught when an American expatriate wrote a blog post on one of the fake Apple shops. According to Wired, everything that you say to Siri is stored for 2 years. Apple can also tell where you are and where you have been. When Apple gets new employees they put them to a test, to evaluate their trustworthiness. They are even asked to develop fake products during this time period, but they don’t know that it is fake. They think that what they are making is real. The older Apple laptops Apple logo on the front was upside down instead of right side up. In the 90’s they had their own video game system. 9 out of 50 states don’t have Apple stores. The stores are: Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, & Wyoming. Apple was the very first company to introduce the mouse and track-pad. Apple had 6 CEO’s and their names are: Michael Scott, A.C. “Mike” Markkula, John Sculley, Michael Spindler, Gil Amelio, & Steve Jobs. Teachers and students that use Macs are found to be 44% more productive with their teaching or learning, & work. The first Apple retail stores opened in the states Virginia & California. Apple is now known as the largest technology company in the U.S. The first Apple logo featured Isaac Newton. A description is: Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree with an apple about to fall on his head. The first IPod that they made came with a little secret. An Easter egg in the form of a game that could have been played, if the owner knew the right combination of the order of the buttons that they would have to push. On July 17, 2002 Apple began selling a Windows-compatible IPod. Apple announced the successor to the IPod mini, the IPod nano on September 7, 2005. Apple has more than 35,000 workers in stores worldwide. Apple was started in a bedroom at 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos. The Apple computer Apple 11e, was the longest-lived computer and was on sale for 11 years. Apple doesn’t ship their products over seas; they fly them first class in an airplane. Apple’s first computer didn’t have a monitor, keyboard, or case all it was, was an assembled circuit board. The Retina Display for Apple’s IPad’s are manufactured from the Samsung company. Apple is earning $300,000 per minute in the U.S.

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