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Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License 213

Posted by timothy from the want-it-both-ways dept.
mrtwice99 writes "Dropbox recently updated their TOS, Privacy Policy, and Security Overview. Included in the TOS is the following statement: 'By submitting your stuff to the Services, you grant us (and those we work with to provide the Services) worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable rights to use, copy, distribute, prepare derivative works (such as translations or format conversions) of, perform, or publicly display that stuff to the extent we think it necessary for the Service.' I think Dropbox is a great service, but what is the significance of granting them such broad usage rights?" Elsewhere in the same Terms of Service, which are a few notches above the norm in both brevity and readability, Dropbox says both "Dropbox respects others’ intellectual property and asks that you do too," and "You retain ownership to your stuff."

Submission + - Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License (dropbox.com)

Submitted by mrtwice99
mrtwice99 writes: Dropbox recently updated their TOS, Privacy Policy, and Security Overview. Included in the TOS is the following statement:

By submitting your stuff to the Services, you grant us (and those we work with to provide the Services) worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable rights to use, copy, distribute, prepare derivative works (such as translations or format conversions) of, perform, or publicly display that stuff to the extent we think it necessary for the Service.

I think Dropbox is a great service, but what is the significance of granting them such broad usage rights?
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Submission + - Mac OSX 10.7 Lion Released to Developers (winbeta.org)

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BogenDorpher writes: "Apple has released the much anticipated Mac OSX 10.7 Lion 'Golden Master' to developers. For those that are wondering what 'Golden Master' means, it is pretty much the term Apple uses to reference a final build that hopefully doesn't have any last minute hiccups or bugs before it hits the public."

Comment Re:The origin of life, hah, thats easy... (Score 1) 69

by mrtwice99 (#36411556) Attached to: CERN Lends a Hand To the Origin of Life

Sigh - The universe expanded from a singularity, a singularity is not nothing.

interesting, I agree that I misrepresented that point. So, it sounds like the big bang theory is not an "origin of the universe" theory at all. Its an "evolution" of the universe theory. That point escaped me until now.

So where did the singularity come from?

Comment The origin of life, hah, thats easy... (Score 0) 69

by mrtwice99 (#36410754) Attached to: CERN Lends a Hand To the Origin of Life

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth

I know most of you don't like that answer, but its much more sane than arguing for a giant explosion out of nothing, some accidental joining of proteins in primordial soup, and billions of years of accidental gene mutation and natural selection culminating in the world as we know it. Believing in either option requires faith, but believing in God takes less faith than believing in that!

Really, think about it.

Submission + - Recommended SAS Time Tracking Company for SMB 1

Submitted by mrtwice99
mrtwice99 writes: I am involved in a small IT company and we would like a better time tracking solution than Quickbooks provides. However, we have pretty specific fields that we need to capture on the time entries themselves: location work is performed, not-billed reason, class/division, and issue/ticket #. That is in addition to the normal fields you would find such as: organization, project, task, employee, notes, etc. Employees should be able to add a customer or project on the fly. Importing/exporting customers, projects/jobs, items/tasks from/to Quickbooks would be very helpful. It would also be nice if the service provided desktop and mobile phone clients that interface with their service. Fields on time entries need to be able to be bulk updated from the admin interface, i.e. I need to be able to change time entries from "unbilled" to "billed" with ease.

I have tried all 10 services that come up on the first page of a good search along with a few others. ClickTime got close, but its really not going to work. So does Slashdot have a suggestion? Building it ourselves is our next step, but we would prefer to spend our development efforts elsewhere.

Comment Re:Nothing new here. (Score 1) 1252

by mrtwice99 (#31131684) Attached to: Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War

That's an awful lot of opinion that many on this site will agree with...but its just that, opinion.

The bible has more textual/historical evidence to prove it is accurate than any other historical work: http://www.carm.org/questions/about-bible/manuscript-evidence-superior-new-testament-reliability

If you disagree you will need more than opinion...

Comment Re:Costs? (Score 1) 660

by mrtwice99 (#30814008) Attached to: What's Holding Back Encryption?
Well, at least for HTTP certs, the price is coming down considerably. The Planet has $15 certs: https://ssl.theplanet.com/ With 99% browser acceptance rate. I used to avoid SSL for my customers b/c of the cost. Now, I don't have any aversion to using them. The low cost certs are just as secure, but they lack some of the "frills" like badges for your site. For most of my customers and their user base, all that matters is the lock icon in the browser and no security warnings when the page loads.

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