Information Concepts

Catalogs & Pirates

2005-12-03T00:42:00.000-08:00

Search engine - A software program that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms.

Jesse Jordan - a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) who was sued by the RIAA for $15 million US dollars for running a modified search engine that searched RPI's intranet for files that were shared using Microsoft's file-sharing system. The modified search engine was based on an existing search engine, and fixed an important bug that would crash a computer.

RPI - The first private technical school in the United States, Rensselaer pioneered in the use of the laboratory method in teaching science. It granted the first U.S. engineering degrees in 1835. The university continues to maintain extensive laboratory facilities devoted to the study of science and technology. The Hartford Graduate Center (est. 1955) is in Connecticut.

RIAA- Recording Industry Association of America, Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system. Spanning decades, RIAA's Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond awards for successful albums are coveted marks of achievements by musical artists.

Oppenheimer- The chief lawyer in the Jesse Jordan case

Content Industry - encompasses companies owning and providing media, and media metadata. This can include music and movies, text publications of any kind, ownership of standards, geographic data, and metadata about all and any of the above.

Non-licensed – Unauthorized

William Fox - Motion-picture executive who founded his own film company (1915) and merged with 20th Century Pictures to form 20th Century Fox (1935). His company led in the development of sound movies.

Fourneaux - Developed the player piano, the Pianista, a piano that played music without a human--used a mechanical device to depress

Compulsory License - License to use a patent, copyright, or other exclusive right that a government forces the holder to grant to others.
Statutory License

Copyright Act of 1909 - Allowed record companies to freely distribute copies of recordings as long as they paid the copyright holder the fee set by the statute

1. What does Lessig mean when he says ‘Search engines are a measure of a network’s
intimacy.’?
What Lessig means about search engines is that this wonderful tool is what makes the Internet what it is. It allows people to access the information that they are looking for. To be intimate with someone you have to be close to them, so when Lessig says ‘Search engines are a measure of a network’s intimacy he is talking about search engines being the one thing that keep us close with the information we want.

2. What is an individual’s liability if they put music in a public folder in Jesse’s case? Jesse Jordan had music witch he did not have permission to share in a public folder that all could access. Under current copyright laws, you can not share music over the internet with out the permission of the artist.

3. Share your views about whether or not it’s ‘right’ to license a piece of art.
This is very hard to answer this question knowing that I download music all the time. Being a student with no money, its hard to avoid the many programs with my reach witch allow me to “steal” music. Besides that I do believe as an artist that you do have the right to license your art. With out being able to license your work there would be even more starving artists and eventually there would be no more art.

4. Describe the piracies that lead to the creation of every major media. What happened
in each case? How are the circumstances similar? How are they different?

Film- Directors from the East Coast moved to California to escape the film industry's control on the artistic expression. The creators on the West Coast then became the "independent" film companies. Because patents only lasted 17 years at that time, and no one showed up to arrest them, the people who fled were able to escape punishment. Thus "a new industry" began because of piracy.

Recorded Music- copyright law does not give artists the same rights as artists in other medias. "By limiting the rights musicians have, by partially pirating their creative work, the record producers, and the public, benefit."

"every industry affected by copyright today is the product and beneficiary of a certain kind of piracy."

5. How is giving recording artists a weaker rights than other authors a form of
subsidizing piracy?
"Recording industry gets something of value for less than it otherwise would pay; the public gets access to a much wider range of musical creativity"

6. Does public interest dictate that you use somebody else’s property?
If the publics interest dictated the way are government was ran, than Bush would be out of office and I am sure a lot of laws would be re-written. Our government has laws that say we cannot use somebody else’s property. People can ignore this and continue to download music, but either way are economy depends on us to buy and buy therefore making it very hard to change laws to make things free.

7. What are the cases that the Supreme Court decided that cable companies owned the
copyright owners nothing?
In 1974, the Teleprompter Corp. v. CBS case decided that cable companies did not owe copyright owners anything.

Manovich article from Language of New Media (VOC. ONLY)

2005-11-14T20:12:00.000-08:00

Vocabulary From Manovich

Razorfish-is an interactive services firm that helps companies use the online channel as a marketing and business tool combining data, insight-driven design, leading technologies and rigorous optimization to build strong brands and improve relationships with customers, employees and partners.

Charles Schwab- Schwab serves some 7.5 million individual and institutional clients from some 300 offices in the U.S. Traders can access its services via telephone, wireless device, and the Internet.

Prada - an Italian fashion company (also known as a "label" or "house") with retail outlets worldwide.

Hugo Boss- a fashion house based in Germany, which specializes in menswear.

GUI - Graphic User Interface

VR- Virtual Reality

Tomb Raider- a 1996 video game originally published by Eidos Interactive and developed by Core Design. The game features the video game character Lara Croft, a buxom female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures

Quake - a first-person shooter computer game that was released by id Software on May 31, 1996. It was the first game in the popular Quake series of computer and video games.

Immerse - CD-ROM library that featues, Browsers, a table of contents outline.

Riven - was distributed initially on five compact discs and later released on a single DVD-ROM with a 14 minute making-of video. The Myst style of gameplay in which the player clicked on objects within prerendered still images and videos was maintained in this sequel, however it was enhanced with many animated scenes. It is widely regarded by players of Myst and other adventure games to be the most beautiful and difficult game in the Myst franchise.

Unreal is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Epic Games and published by GT Interactive on May 22, 1998. It was powered by the Unreal engine which had been in development for over three years before the game was released. Since the release of Unreal, the franchise has had one direct sequel and two different series based on the Unreal universe.

Yahoo- an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, a web directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail.

Hotbot- one of the early Internet search engines and was launched in May 1996 as a service of Wired Magazine. Acquired by Terra Lycos in 1998, HotBot provides the ability to search using the top three search providers on the Internet, Inktomi, Google and Teoma.

Johnny Mnemonic- is a short story by William Gibson, and a movie loosely based on the short story. It takes place in the world of Gibson's cyberpunk novels, predating them by some years, and introducing the character Molly, who plays a prominent role in Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy novels.

Narratology - The theory and study of narrative and narrative structure.

Lyotard - a French philosopher and literary theorist. Among other things, he is well-known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s.

Nietzche- was a German philosopher and cultural critic (and - at least in his own estimation - a 'psychologist') who was by training and academic profession a classical philologist. Largely overlooked during his short working life (which ended with a mental collapse at the age of 44) - and frequently misunderstood and misrepresented thereafter - Nietzsche emerged during the second half of the 20th century as a highly significant figure in modern philosophy, and a thinker whose unconventional and often discomfiting ideas are still hotly debated.

Berners-Lee- the inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.

Algorithm (pronounced AL-go-rith-um)- is a procedure or formula for solving a problem. The word derives from the name of the mathematician, Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi, who was part of the royal court in Baghdad and who lived from about 780 to 850. Al-Khwarizmi's work is the likely source for the word algebra as well. http://searchvb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid8_gci211545,00.html

First person shooter- first-person shooter (FPS) is a combat computer or video game where the player's on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character. According to this simple definition, a game like Battlezone, or many flight simulators would be included. However, in the early 1990s, the term came to define a very specific genre of game with a first-person view, almost always centered around the act of aiming and shooting with multiple styles of weapons and limited ammunition. On-rails shooters are often viewed from a first-person perspective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter

Sims- CD ROM Game around having the user make homes, parties, diasters in the negihborhood, etc.

Will Wright-Creator of The SIMS and SIMCITY

Ontology - The most fundamental branch of metaphysics. It studies being or existence as well as the basic categories thereof—trying to find out what entities and what types of entities exist. Ontology has strong implications for the conceptions of reality.

Symbiotic –

Binary- A numbering system with only two values: 0 (zero) and 1

Universal Media-increases the realism of online Web3D worlds (VRML, Java 3D, and other online 3D technologies) and decreases network downloads by defining a small, cross-platform library of locally resident media elements (textures, sounds and 3D objects) and a uniform resource name (URN) mechanism by which Web3D content creators can incorporate these media elements into their worlds. Universal Media allows content authors to create media-rich worlds that can be instantly loaded over even the slowest dial-up modem Internet connections. Content created using Universal Media loads, on average, 20 to 50 times faster then it would otherwise.

Machine- any mechanical or organic device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of tasks. It normally requires an input as a trigger, and transmits the modified energy to an output, which performs the desired task.

Shoah foundation- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation or Shoah Visual History Foundation, was established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. The original aim of the foundation was to record testimonies of all of the remaining survivors of the Holocaust (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah) as a collection of videotaped interviews.

Mediamatic - does New Media design and development for the service industry, education, government and education.

DNA - a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and most viruses). DNA is a long polymer of nucleotides and encodes the sequence of the amino acid residues in proteins using the genetic code, a triplet code of nucleotides.

T. Rowe Price - headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is an investment management firm offering individuals and institutions around the world investment management guidance and expertise.

Interface- The point, area, or surface along which two substances or other qualitatively different things meet; it is also used metaphorically for the juncture between items. The word interface is sometimes (usually in technical disciplines) shortened to "i/f".

Search engine - A search engine is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, or a personal computer. The search engine allows one to ask for content meeting specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieves a list of references that match those criteria. Search engines use regularly updated indexes to operate quickly and efficiently. Without further qualification, search engine usually refers to a Web search engine, which searches for information on the public Web.

Legible City-

Interactive Narrative- examines non-linear structure in traditional media like novels and films and as well as in computer-based stories and

Hypernarrative: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and internationally available browser interfaces, has facilitated many kinds of computer mediated story telling -- like collaboratively created work.

Dada-a source of many different texts, poems, artworks, information and links to other online displays of artwork on the web from the Dadaism.

Surrealism-Surrealism is a style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible. Founded by Andre Breton in 1924, it was a primarily European movement that attracted many members of the chaotic Dada movement. It was similar in some elements to the mystical 19th-century Symbolist movement, but was deeply influenced by the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Jung.

Theory of Markness- The notion of markedness was first developed in Prague school phonology but was subsequently extended to morphology and syntax. When two phonemes are distinguished by the presence or absence of a single distinctive feature, one of them is said to be marked and the other unmarked for the feature in question.

Phonology-Phonology (Greek phone = voice/sound and logos = word/speech), is a subfield of linguistics closely associated with phonetics. Whereas phonetics is about the physical production and perception of sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function - within a given language or across languages.

Montage- A cinematic device used to show a series of scenes, all related and building to some conclusion.

Composite- To form an image by merging a foreground image and a background image, using transparency information to determine where the background should be visible. The foreground image is said to be "composited against" the background.

Modernism - An artistic and cultural movement generally includes progressive art and architecture, music and literature emerging in the decades before 1914, as artists rebelled against late 19th century academic and historicist traditions.

Post Modernism - Any of a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding modernism.

Semiological - also known as semiology - is the study of signs, both individually and grouped in sign systems, and includes the study of how meaning is transmitted and understood. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions about and adapt to their semiotic niche in the world (see Semiosis). Semiotics theorises at a general level about signs, while the study of the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics.

Syntagm-is a small, Oxford-based consultancy providing user-centered design services, including new product development, prototyping, usability evaluation, usability testing and accessibility

Paradigm- table or set that shows the ways to conjugate a verb, decline or inflect a noun, etc., in all possible ways, by using a model (the word paradigm means model or example). For example, a verb conjugation table is used in Spanish with three traditional model verbs (amar, temer, vivir) in all tenses, persons, numbers and moods; it's a verb paradigm (comprising three sub-paradigms). English doesn't need paradigms, except very small ones, since it's much more analytic.

Saussure- Born in Geneva, he laid the foundation for many developments in linguistics in the 20th century. He perceived linguistics as a branch of a general science of signs he proposed to call semiology (now generally known as semiotics).

Barthes-His long, productive career reached from the early days of structuralist linguistics in France up to the peak of post-structuralism, and Barthes' works are considered key texts of both structuralism and post-structuralism. Because Barthes was gay, although not openly so until late in his life, some take him as an antecedent for queer theory. In addition, the autobiographical and aesthetic qualities of many of Barthes' texts make them literature in their own right, and have been claimed by those interested in fashioning a new performative writing.

Grammar- is the discovery, enunciation, and study of rules governing the use of language. The set of rules governing a particular language is also called the grammar of the language; thus, each language can be said to have its own distinct grammar. Grammar is part of the general study of language called linguistics.

Turing machine- There are extremely basic symbol-manipulating devices which—despite their simplicity—can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer that could possibly be constructed. The concept is derived from Alan Turing's thought-experiment in 1936 about an infinite number of ordered sheets of paper, each containing one of a finite set of symbols, which could only be studied or modifed one sheet at a time. It is not generally practical to use a Turing machine to do any significant computation, but studying its abstract properties yields many insights in computer science and complexity theory.

Typology - the study of types.

Storage Media - The physical device itself, onto which data is recorded. Mag tape, optical discs, floppy disks are all storage media.

Homer- a legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with authorship of the major Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey. The comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia ("The Frog-Mouse War"), the corpus of Homeric Hymns, and various other lost or fragmentary works such as Margites have been attributed to him, but this is now believed to be unlikely. A few ancient authors credited him with the entire Epic Cycle, which included further poems on the Trojan War as well as the Theban poems about Oedipus and his sons.

Diderot - a French philosopher and writer. Born in Langres, Champagne, France in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the Enlightenment, and was the editor-in-chief of the famous Encyclopédie.

Minimalism - movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. In other fields of art, it has been used to describe the novels of Ernest Hemingway, the plays of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and even the automobile designs of Colin Chapman.

Peter Greenaway - a British filmmaker trained as a painter and famous for his movies and exhibitions.

Text - The original words of something written or printed, as opposed to a paraphrase, translation, revision, or condensation.

Metatext - MetaText was founded on the belief that technology, if leveraged properly, could offer students and instructors greater efficiencies, capabilities, and affordability. This convergence of education and technology has served as a foundation for enhancing the overall pedagogical experience.

Semiotics - also known as semiology - is the study of signs, both individually and grouped in sign systems, and includes the study of how meaning is transmitted and understood. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions about and adapt to their semiotic niche in the world (see Semiosis). Semiotics theorises at a general level about signs, while the study of the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics.

News article

2005-10-15T19:32:00.000-07:00

ALL THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO AMERICA

The fire department's Muslim chaplain abruptly resigned Friday after saying in a published interview that a conspiracy, not 19 al-Qaida hijackers, may have been responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Habib told Newsday that he was skeptical of the official version of the attack on the World Trade Center, saying, "It takes two or three weeks to demolish a building like that. But it was pulled down in a couple of hours," Habib told the newspaper. "Was it 19 hijackers who brought it down, or was it a conspiracy?"
Habib is not the first fire department official who has come forward and asked some serious questions about what really happened on September 11th.

Lets look at some more examples…

A lieutenant firefighter said, "I never thought the whole thing would come down."

A firefighter stated, "I never expected that a tower might collapse."

A lieutenant Investigator with the Bureau of Investigations and Trials said, "No one ever expected it to collapse like that," (page 18 Official report)

The firefighters killed in the towers clearly never expected that they would collapse.

And no engineer in the country, including the designers of the orld Trade Centers, thought they would collapse. Indeed, "experts said no building like it, a modern, steel-reinforced high-rise, had ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire" and the twin towers were designed to survive airplane strikes.

Indeed, the 9/11 Commission Report itself states:

"They also received advice from senior FDNY chiefs that while the building might eventually suffer a partial collapse on upper floors, such structural failure was not imminent. NO ONE ANTICIPATED THE POSSIBILITY OF A TOTAL COLLAPSE." (Page 291)

And there was also warning that building 7, which was not even hit by a plane, was going to collapse. Indeed, people "waited around" for the building to collapse.

For example, a firefighter stated "They moved us back south. We ended up back up on Vesey Street and West Street and just hanging out until tower 7 came down. After tower 7 came down, we went right to work over at tower 7 to put the fires out." (page 9)

Another firefighter testified "Once they got us back together and organized somewhat, they sent us back down to Vesey, where we stood and waited for Seven World Trade Center to come down." (page 14)

A firefighter said "I don't know what happened to No. 7. I knew the building was coming down." (page 8)

A lieutenant firefighter said, “Basically, we fell back for 7 to collapse, and then we waited a while and it got a lot more organized, I would guess." (page 17)

A paramedic testified, "Then it was about 5:00…we didn't do any further because building number seven was coming down. That was another problem, to wait for building seven to come down, because that was un-secure. It was about 5:30 that building came down" (Pages 13-14)

Nearly a year after the monumental and treacherous catastrophe which struck lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, an audio tape of firefighter communications was finally released – which proves that the actual conditions at and near the point of impact in the north WTC tower only moments before the building's collapse were totally inconsistent with the conditions which had to have existed for the official version to be even minimally correct.
And what, exactly, does all this mean? It means that the total structural failure of the two massive, superbly-engineered/designed edifices known as the WTC towers did NOT result from jet fuel flash-fires burning at under 900 degrees Fahrenheit -- when steel used in WTC construction needed temperatures over THREE TIMES HIGHER to actually "MELT."

When you dig a little deeper you start to see that there are more suspicious activates that went on during the time of the attacks such as the war room in the Cheyanne Mountain Operations Center NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, is the defense shield that normally protects the United States against all forms of airborne attack, including by hijacked aircraft. Any time an aircraft deviates from its course, air traffic controllers request a military intercept according to military response code 7610-4J. Intercept times are especially short in the east-coast corridor where there are numerous bases with combat-ready aircraft on continuous alert.
On September 11th, 2001, the standard operating procedures were apparently suspended. In other words we let them hit the towers and told NORAD to stand down.

Even a know Bush supporter spoke out. Morgan Reynolds called the official story about 9/11 bogus.

Two weeks ago, the former chief economist in the Labor Department during President Bush's first term told the world he thought the WTC fell from a controlled demolition, indicating 9/11 was "an inside government job." Reynolds, a respected economist and former Republican conservative, made his claims after researching many aspects of 9/11, including scientific and engineering data for and against the government story.

"It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers and Building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either.”

"The government's collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three buildings.”

To add more fuel to the hot 9/11 controversy, William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor who heard and felt a strong explosion in the basement levels of the north tower just seconds before the jetliner crashed into the top floors, recently came forward to tell his story, adding further credibility to Reynolds' conclusions.

Rodriguez claims a massive underground explosion brought down the towers. His story is strengthened further by 14 other eye witnesses who can verify his claims, as well as a burn victim from the basement explosion who he helped to safety.

Immediately following 9/11, Rodriguez tried to tell his story, but claims the 9/11 Commission and the mainstream media have systematically censored his words in order to protect the official government story, a story ignoring the possibility of explosives being used to bring down the WTC.

Chapter 2 Questions

2005-09-22T06:44:00.000-07:00

Voc.

Louis Daguerre- "was perhaps the most famous of several people who invented photography."
Daguerrotype-a photograph produced on a silver-coated copper plate treated with iodine vapor.
William Talbot-was one of the first photographers and made major contributions to the photographic process. He is also remembered as the holder of a patent which affected the early development of photography in England.
George Eastman- inventor of the first film in roll form
in 1884 and the Kodak camera in 1888.
Democratization - "Democratization is the transition from authoritarian or semi-authoritarian systems to democratic political systems, where democratic systems are taken to be those approximating to universal suffrage, regular elections, a civil society, the rule of law, and an independent judiciary. "
Susan Sontag- "American essayist, short story writer, and novelist, a leading commentator on modern culture, whose innovative essays on such diverse subjects as camp, pornographic literature, fascist aesthetics, photography, AIDS, and revolution gained a wide attention. Sontag also wrote screenplays and directed films. She had a great impact on experimental art in the 1960s and 1970s, and she introduced many new stimulating ideas to American culture"
Ubiquity- being everywhere at once
Napster- Company developed in the 1990's that allowed people to download music for free. It was shut down and now you have to pay to use the service.
Louis Brandeis- "Brandeis became active in Zionist affairs during the First World War, when he accepted the role of Chairperson of the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs."
Media Literacy- "The ability to read, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of media forms (television, print, radio, computers, etc.)"
Read-only- World of media from the twentieth century

1. Creation and ownership are linked because when something has been created it has a sense of value. It is important that when someone owns something it has a value.

2. The legal environment in 1888 to 1990 was centered around creating laws that would protect the ownership of the many inventions that were being produced.

3.Lessig adressed on pg 33 that photographers would have had to ask permission to take someones picture if it was not for the courts who eventualy overturned this.

4. Any picture taken on public property is considered to be ok. If you were to take a picture of the liberty bell and some stranger was in the picture, it would not make sense to ask for there permission. Any picture taken on private property has to be given permisson before that picture gets published or posted.

5. A blog is something like a journal. The only big diffrence is that its on the internet. This makes the idea of a journal very diffrent. People know that there friends or other strangers can look at what your writing. This alows people to check up on there friends with out actualy talking to them.

6. Yes, some parellels are video recording. If you are being recorded and do not want to be then you mist notify the person who is recording.

7. If photographers had to ask for permisson everytime there would be a big drop in pictural magizines. People would demand money or be hesitent about geting there picture taken. And for celeberity magizines, you can forget about it.

8. Photography is a little diffrent then music sharing like napster. Photography is something witch every one at somepoint does. Family photos or even a class photo. Music on the other hand takes alot of production and is something that is copy righted. They take something that would cost money and give it away for free.

9. A picture is worth a thousand words. This would be an example of media litaracy. The idea that you can comunicate threw a media form. This is a very important part of being a multi media student. Taking your ideas and transfering them into some other medium.

10. I guess grammer of media is the process in creating your new medium in a way where you are not affending someone or the idea of having permission for the subjects in your work.

12. I think Lessig is just making a point about what photographers went through. I think he is trying to make sure that we figure out how to adabt to are digital age rather then just brake the rules.

13. Before blogs people would use forums such as talk radios or discussion groups or letters to the editor. The reason that blogs are alot diffrent then these old forums is because all of these old forms were censered. People could not say what ever they wanted because there wa always an editor. The attraction to blogs is that you type what you want and then you press send and its there for everyone to read. No waiting time.

14. Some public dialogue and discussions that are common are town hall meetings, T.V and radio talk shows, magizines, newspaper, chat rooms, interaction between you and friends, and any other public meeting area where discussion goes on.

15. Yea, of course we have a safe place to talk politics. Id say you can talk anywhere. In america you have freedom of speech. I can talk politics on the street or on CNN.

16. Technology helps learning and makes it harder as well. There are alot of good tools that technology has given us that make life easier and make learning fun. The big problem is that technology changes very very fast and to use these tools we have we have to learn to use them. When they keep updating software and coming out with new programs we have to constantly keep educating are selfs on how to use them. This takes up alot of time.

17. I would agree with this statement, because you can do anything on the internet and you cant say the same for T.V and radio or the newpaper, all of witch you can use on the internet.

Questions from 9/15/05

2005-09-21T20:00:00.000-07:00

What is Federal habeas corpes?
Habeas corpes is where the government has the right to make deals with prisioners in exchange for there testimony in court. This gives them the chance to get out of jail earlier.
What happens when its gone?
The reason people do not agree with habeas corpes is because prisoners will almost say anything to get out of jail. This makes there testimony questionable and can some times give the prosecution the upper hand when they really want to put someone away. If this was gone the prosecution would not be as powerful and prisoners would have no chance of geting out early.

Does the military own intellectual property and people?
This is a very hard question to answer. The military would say that they do because they have your signiture signing away your rights, but can anyone own another person? I dont think so, everyone can do what they want. Just because a paper says your the property of something or someone dosent mean you cant just leave or stand up and say you what you think. Sadly there are alot of people in the military who are ok with the fact they are told what to do and cant do everything they want. Some people need some kind of structure in there life. I dont think anyone should join the military because of the rights that you give away. I would not be able to live knowing that if someone told me I had to kill, that I would have to do it with no say in the reason I was killing.

Do you think that the nature of military collaboration creates the ownership of intellectual property and the people generating the content?
Yea I guess that the miliary collaboration does come up with a crazy idea such as ownership of other people, but this still does not make this right.

Chester: My good friend

2005-09-14T17:35:00.000-07:00

THE LEMON

Day One. Thursday

Today was my first full day with my new friend. I kept him in my cargo pocket all day occasionaly checking on him from time to time. I could not keep calling him lemon because he ment more to me then just a lemon. So today I came up with his name. I will call him Chester. Today Chester did not do much but make me smell lemony and make my pockets look stuffed.

Day Two. Friday

Wow Chester is geting rough. Over night the texture of Chester has changed. I think its because I left him on my window and that Philly sun might of got to him. Other than that me and Chester had an uneventful day. I left him at home for the first half of the day and made sure I went back home to pick him up for the evening. I was gonna be partying the rest of the night and I wanted to make sure Chester came along for the fun. Chester was not looking his best that night and he ended up going home alone. I felt bad for him.

Day Three. Saturday

I woke up really late this morning and totaly forgot where I put Chester. It was a crazy night. I looked all over the house, but nothing. Luckily I got a got a call from my girl friend who I guess took him home. I was really pissed. After a long argument, my girlfriend asured me nothing had happened. I apologized to Chester and Natasha and spent the rest of the day just hanging out at home. Chester is geting darker though and is starting to smell a little rotten. Other than that I still think he is a great lemon.

Day Four. Sunday

Today I worked on alot of work with Chester by my side. I sat at my computer trying to concentrate but this big fat yellow lemon thing kept looking at me. I put Chester in my draw for the rest of the day so I could get some work done.

Day Five. Monday

Chester looked very unhealthy this morning as I opened my draw. I felt Chester for awhile. He has started to form a brown spot on his forhead or the top of lemon. I put Chester in my bag and started my day. I got back to my house and got ready for bed. Then I remembered I still had Chester in my bag and had to write about him. I pulled him out and he looked pissed.

Day Six. Tuesday

First thing this morning I remembered to look at Chester. I get the feeling that he thinks I dont like him. He is not how he used to be. He used to smell so good and have a nice feel to him. Now he stinks and hard as a baseball. I used to want to eat Chester, now im not so sure.

Day Seven. Wensday

This is my last day with Chester. I would like to say that im gonna miss the thing, but Chester has been so cold recently. He feels very sticky and hard. He also looks like shit. I think Chester is dieing. I never thaught I would feel bad for a lemon. At least he has lived a longer life then others. Ill miss my good friend Chester.

Chapter 11 questions

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1. The code of law where it said land ran to the heavens was an American law stating anything below or above was there property. Blackstone, Kent, and Coke had been the ones who stated, "an indefinite extent, upward,"

2. The phenomena of the case in 1945 is that there was a law that stated land property ran to the stars. After the invention of the airplane, this law made it easy for any person to sue a company like American airlines for flying over their property. When the first case went to the Supreme Court over this matter, Justice Douglas stated that common sense revolts at the idea. This meant that in the publics interest common sense says you cant just sue everyone. This is a big idea because it proves that the law adjusts to the technologies of the time. Where does that fit in today? Well it is very relevant as the Internet gets bigger and bigger. Laws need to be changed to adapt to this new technology. The problem is we need to make sure they don’t take our rights away in doing so.

3. Edwin Howard Armstrong is one of the great inventors of are time. He story is very said and shows how “taking of property without compensation” does not affect are culture but individuals as well. Howard invented the FM radio witch paved the way for many other inventions that have changed are lifetime. When RCA found out Howard had a better invention the RCA’s AM radio they tried everything to hold it back so they could keep milking the AM radio. After years of being held back, Howard found him self in a legal battle. He ended up going broke and losing his patent. Howard killed him self showing how personal things like this can get.

4. Howard’s discovery was superior to RCA’s AM radio because FM could reach longer distances using less power. It was better in every way. Something like this can be very intimidating to a big company like RCA.

5. This was the question I asked my self when doing the reading. I f Armstrong had went public as soon as he had made his discovery I think he would have made it a fight between the public and RCA. Because once a new technology gets out to the public they will demand it and RCA would have no choice but to pay royalties to Armstrong. I believe that Armstrong was the true owner of this new technology.

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8. The important and unrecognized change is the freedom that the Internet gives its users to express what ever they want. This is a threat to the government. Before the Internet people used to get they culture from the corner or from family. Now with the Internet, the government has a way of controlling what we take in and how are culture is going to be shaped.

9. Commercial culture is the culture that is produced and sold or produced to be sold. Non-commercial culture is everything else. The reason that Non-commercial is not treated the same as commercial culture is because Non-commercial can not be tampered with. It always going to be culture that is made on the corner or at the lunch table at school. Commercial on the other hand is on the Internet and on the T.V so this makes it open for the government to regulate.

10. Content-based industries have always made their money by offering a service that provides information. Before the Internet, you would have to pay a company to get information you wanted. Now with the Internet, information is free as long as you know how to search the Internet right.

11. The author would say that all piracy is bad in one way or another. The only problem the author has is that he believes that in the process of fighting piracy that it will also rid our culture of its values.

12. Piracy is the act of stealing property and property is what is being taken.

13. The first amendment to our U.S Constitution is right to freedom of speech, press, and religion.

First time

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This is crazy!!!! I dont know what to say.