The TOS took every right of ownership except liability. If I used the service I'd be appalled. Subscribers got a hosting service in exchange for behavioral tracking. To 'change the deal further' and take the right to use my photography for marketing, possibly undisclosed and with at least implied endorsement of the people in my photographs and I. No. Hell no. That's not the same at all.
In the first agreement fb took all license rights. If a professional photographer licenses a photograph with all rights, fb can use the shot for any commercial purpose and let anyone else use it. Wouldn't that be true here? If this TOS is a valid contract, the photographer would be liable if a person in the shot sues because it was used without a modeling release, right?
Bets on whether driverless car GPS and telemetry data will be ruled inadmissible in traffic court? Just like the camera+gps systems now? After all, allowing that evidence would made up speed trap tickets.
Around here, driving through a speed trap while any of the above nets you a ticket for 11+ over the speed limit without regard to how fast you were driving.
FYI: I often drive with a camera showing out the windshield -and- the speedometer when I pass through common speed traps, especially if the city is having 'budget issues'. It's much harder to get video showing the car's instruments thrown out than to get logged data excluded in court. Officers don't like finding out they've been caught lying on camera. Now you know while photographers are being labeled as terrorists!
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I am, nonetheless, highly interested or even excited about this development, which should really give a much-needed boost to the proliferation of long-flying drones in the hands of hobbyists. Batteries are expensive and heavy.
Lipo batteries are energy dense and very light for the power they store. These couldn't come close even with the entire wing covered.
OTOH, If these could be deposited on a film that -is- the upper wing surface so they are light, they could provide power for a glider like model plane that's mostly soaring.
The problem with the NYPD plan is not that it is a bad idea in principle, but that it will WILL NOT WORK and is a waste of limited resources.
The problem is that it will be abused as existing similar plans already are. Criticize someone connected? Shut up or be committed. Complain about the threat? Be committed for Oppositional - Defiant Disorder. Desiring freedom and being left alone is being redefined a mental disorder in the US?
Take a good picture eating out with friends at an Italian restaurant? FB's marketing dept. will call the owner selling a FB marketing campaign based on your image. Later, FB ads with your picture will say 'Smitty loves Tony's Italian restaurant, you will too.'
The process will be automated using geo-tags in the images and the popularity of images posted.
Thank you for further crowd sourcing the last of the marketing materials we used to pay for...
If they use facial recognition to identify and use only pictures of instagram users, doesn't that free them from any worries about model releases given these contract terms?
...next they'll inject for "advertisements to keep your bill down" or something even worse.
This is cable. Originally you paid for cable because there were no ads.
They'll say it's to keep your bill down, then raise rates. Complain and they'll say the increases would have been higher.
If they're nice they may offer a higher tier plan without injected ads so you can pay a fee for them to suck less.
In phase two the injected ads will be flash video and will count against your (newly reduced!) bandwidth cap. The ad server will query your bandwidth usage and serve full HD ads at double the normal frequency to enhance overage charges if you're close to or over your cap.
Show me where Google clearly spells out that every single word you write using their service will be scanned. My word, legalese, trumps your word, secretly.
Every word you write to someone using Google mail, or who forwards your email to anyone who uses Google Mail essentially becomes property of Google too. Today it seems that only by running your own mail server and corresponding only with others who do will stop your communications from being aggregated and sold. (or profiled and sold with your name, address, employer, financial and browsing histories attached) With ISP sniffing, encryption may be required too.
make it 20% and I'll walk back into the store. Yes I'm a price whore.
It can get so much worse!
*Buzz*
Buy at least $200 in drapes for your wife in the next hour, or we text her the log of your visits to sexycoeds.com
(1 hour later) *Buzz*
Buy $400 of additional merchandise or we make a post on your facebook page about your love for gay tentacle porn. Thank you so much for Liking us earlier! We couldn't do it without you.
apple said Samsung can't pay any price. They claim there is no price high enough, and that they would never license those patents to anyone at all. The harm to apple is so severe that Samsung must be barred from selling products practicing it world-wide.
Samsung says didn't you just license that to HTC apple? Why don't we take a look at that agreement and see if you're claim that you'd never ever license was true. Also, Samsung just won a trial in the UK which found Samsung didn't infringe one of the design patents.
apple doesn't want Samsung to be able to bring those things up because they undermine what apple claimed.
Read the letter linked from infowars:
"In the event that you change your stance on wearing the ID with the battery and chip removed as has been offered to you on two occasions, we will be more than willing to rescind this withdrawal notice."
"In response to public outcry and pressure from rights groups, the school has offered to remove the battery and chip, but wouldn’t budge on mandating the ID. Their offer would also require the Hernandez family to end their criticism and agree to comply with and even tout the policy,"
On the condition that her and her father say the sh*t sandwich tastes great and everyone should try some. It seems you left the most important part out.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
