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Do you think that Apple is defending their rights under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act? Or, are they excercising illegal censorship? You own the hardware. What are your rights?
i think apple should let you do whatever you want with your own device. you pay for it. so you should be able to do what ever you want with it. just because they have a major company does not mean they need to control everything that their customers do. I think that they are exercising illegal censorship because it is wrong what they are doing. I have a lot of rights. And i have the right to do whatever i want with my ipod or macbook. i love my macbook it is the best thing ever. but apple sometimes does too much. also their products do not even last that long. apple is a big corporation and they have a lot of things that they have to do

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The above link will take you to a story of a couple who is suing Google. They’re saying that because Google took pictures of their property for the Google feature “Street View” and the public is now able to view their home that their privacy is being invaded. Websites that allow the public to access images and information that a specific individual did not post themselves are commonplace now. Is this an invasion of privacy? What other types of information are we able to access online about people or their property without their knowledge? How much of this information does the person post online themselves and how much are they unaware of? What are the benefits of making such an abundant amount of information available online; is this worth giving up privacy? Add at least two links to support your answer.

I think that this is not an invasion of privacy because all they are really doing is taking a picture of your house. it is not like they are taking pictures of you inside your home. It also helps people when you take pictures and have the street view because it helps people if they are going somewhere they know what the place will look like. I dont think that it is such a big of a deal. it does not really matter if your sutff is on the internet. Because you can put anything on the internet. And i do not thyink that it should matter if they are not taking pictures of you in your home and doing things inside your home. Because you have a level of privacy in your own home. the simple way is to ask google to remove the image. knowing the kind people that they are they would remove it if you just told them where it was. dont sue google because google is the best thing since the ipod. i dont think thwat it should really matter that your home is on there. My house is on there and i really dont care. its not like they have a picture of me in my room getting dressed. these people just need to stop being stupid and trying to get some money. It should not matter at all because there are plenty of othere people on there who have not complained about this problem.

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I do believe that the us government would so do something like that, what's going on in Thailand. Because so many people take their freedom of speech rights a bit too far. And sometimes what they must do is put up websites that stop people like that from getting into the important files of criticizing the government. Another thing about freedom of speech is that it is a really good thing and sometimes it has saved peoples lives, because they had the opportunity to use their voice. But once someone is threatening other people and their lives, then that is when there is something that should be done. And so they need to be caught and then they need to apologize if it is something that is terribly wrong and they are not telling the truth and the people are completely against it, then they are just saying their opinion and so it's wrong and they SHOULD be sued. Because even though freedom of speech is all bout America, you never know all the damage you can do with words. Also there are other countries who oppose freedom of speech, i have a friend that used to live in a country that was communist, and they were heavily punished if you would even say the word America, because it was totally wrong, and it was opposing their country. Then they get themselves in a lot of trouble and they begin to hurt themselves because they are in trouble, also they may punish others because of what they said and so since we do have that ability we should not take advantage of that quality that we have.

question of the week.

If you did not know Cadie was a program, and the only contact you had was through the Internet, would you think that Cadie is human (maybe a young kid)? Based on your experience with Cadie, do you think artificial intelligence programs will act as if the were fully human in the future? (Support your answer with at least two research links.) If yes, what is to prevent governments from giving them citizenship rights? What is to prevent Cadie from taking over the Internet? (Or, is this all just an April Fool's day joke? Discuss the intricacies of online April's Fool's Day jokes, with google in particular, if that's your conclusion.)

I think that google has alot of power and can do whatever they want. I think that the cadie.It's an exciting moment that we're determined to build upon by coming to understand more fully what CADIE's emergence might mean, for Google and for our users. So although CADIE technology will be rolled out with the caution befitting any advance of this magnitude, in the months to come users can expect to notice her influence on various google.com properties. Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this intriguing homepage. These are merely the first steps onto what will doubtless prove a long and difficult road. Considerable bugs remain in CADIE'S programming, and considerable development clearly is called for. But we can't imagine a more important journey for Google to have undertaken. I never heard of Cadie until I got in this class. If i didn't take class I Based on my expreience with Cadie, i think that artifical intelligence programs will start to act as humans. But they would have to program them to were the programs can't rebel against the human race, because i have seen movies where they created objects that function as humans and have a brain of their own.The cadie thing is really interesting because people really thought it was real. But it actually isnt i guess. I think i would like to make something like this and make people do it.

*http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220113/posts
*http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/89pv/cadie_google_cognitive_autoheuristic/