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Twitter Changes its Terms of Services

Posted by Riz On September - 15 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Well, if your one of those who received  Twitter’s new terms of services in your Email Inbox, don’t be shock for that.

Twitter has altered its  Terms of Services and Privacy policy after getting a series of complaints from the user.

Twitter, a social networking website, that is almost used  by whole of the people leaving in various part of the earth has a famous and powerful people into it.  Right from US President Obama to the Hottest and smartest celebrities followed by the People who browse online use  the Twitter service.

Though how much popular it be, Twitter has indeed  been a long victim for Copyright Infringement and  Hackers heaven.  I still remember how   i was unable to login into twitter for many hours , 3 months ago and later twitter posted that it has been attacked by hackers making them to Shut down the website for maintenance for  1 day.

And now, Twitter has  made its  rules stronger and clearer.

1 .   Twitter Basic Terms  says to user that,

Post the content in  Twitter  on your Own risk , which is to say  the user that is posting a  article in twitter might face copyright violation”

This statement  by Twitter clears the air  on the risk of  posting an Content in twitter.

2. Twitter Password:

Here  twitter strongly says to the user to make a best case of  password with the combination of upper, lower, alpha numeric.

The problem is, a user cant remember such a password. This is the real fact :|

3.Content on the Services

Twitter clearly  informs the user  on the issue that  Twitter will not be able to monitor and control the content that a user post.  Twitter  openly admits that  the content  posted  here can be risked for copyright and the user  should post any content on Twitter on his own interest.

4 :The Services are Available “AS-IS”

Now this is the most  important message from Twitter.  Twitter in their terms of conditions clearly states

“our access to and use of the Services or any Content is at your own risk. You understand and agree that the Services is provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Without limiting the foregoing, TWITTER AND ITS PARTNERS DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. We make no warranty and disclaim all responsibility and liability for the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any content thereon. Twitter will not be responsible or liable for any harm to your computer system, loss of data, or other harm that results from your access to or use of the Services, or any Content. You also agree that Twitter has no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Services. We make no warranty that the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from Twitter or through the Services, will create any warranty not expressly made herein.”

For more  on this  New Terms and Conditions

Have a go here to the twitter Terms and conditions link

Twitter New Terms and Condition

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California Gold Rush 2.0

Posted by Tommy On September - 1 - 2009ADD COMMENTS
California Gold Rush

California Gold Rush Mining in 1849

The California Gold rush is back after 160 Years. This time it seems to be recession driven.

The number of people coming to California to pan for gold is up as the economy has gone down.

Professional gold panners say they make an average of $60 to $80 in a day, but most amateurs who do it recreationally make significantly less.

Some who have lost their jobs and become gold panners quickly learn that it takes hard labor.

Gary Mosher says he comes from Colorado, and sees the effect of new prospectors first hand.

“He’s sleeping in a tent with his son and his wife; doesn’t have a job; got a car,” said Mosher. “Taking drinking water out of the side of the mountain and hoping to find enough gold to buy groceries.”

Gold panning professionals are also seeing an influx of vacationers who are choosing to come to California to pan for gold to try to make some money while taking time away from their day jobs.

“We’ve had people from Texas, from Ohio, from Georgia, from Tennessee, from New York all come out here and use this as their vacation to get a little bit of extra money,” Dennis Robnett of Pioneer Mining Supplies said.

Some estimate there is a 15% increase in gold panners. It will cost you about $40 for basic supplies to get started.

Source : http://wbztv.com/watercooler/modern.gold.rush.2.1144903.html

Hillsdale High School Bomb Scare!

Posted by Tommy On August - 24 - 2009ADD COMMENTS
Hillsdale High School

Hillsdale High School

The Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California is currently being evacuated. The police have secured the school after a pipe bomb was set off after the school day.

The weird thing is even the neighbors are being evacuated, though it seems now that some of them are allowed to return back to their homes.

It looks like a student set off a pipe bomb before the school started today. And that student is already in the custody of the police. For the moment all that the police are trying to do is evacuate the school. Looks like there won’t be any school.

The students have been moved off of school property. The police are completely clearing the school and blocks around the school.

The bomb squad has just arrived at the high school. The bomb squad is on hand to make sure that there are no other bombs on the premises.
There could be one student left inside of the locked down school. A student is reported to have called her mother from within the school. Parents are lining up at Abbot Middle School to pick up their children.

This is currently a developing story, there will be more updates on this story based on what really is happening out there.

This is really weird….

Saudi Princess robbed near Italy

Posted by Riz On August - 9 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

sardiniaA  Saudi Princess was robbed for almost  16 million dollars this sunday in Sardinia. Now this takes a lot of  guts to be frank. Robbing a princess is surely is a mental act, leading the attraction of whole lot of Italian police towards them.

The  Police refused to name the princess name for media. But, added that they have informed both Italian and Saudi officials about the theft.

“The thieves used a master key. In 10 minutes at dinner time, without making any noise, they managed to remove the safe from a suite occupied by the Saudi princess,” Italy’s La Stampa newspaper reported.

All can be said is whoever the criminal is , he sure has got attention on him.

World Population and The Web Pages

Posted by Riz On July - 31 - 2009ADD COMMENTS
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A person browsing Online

The title Sounds funny , but the message it  provides  is more than funny. It is found out that the number of  Web Pages available Online  crosses  the total population of the earth. To say, the ratio between the Population and the web pages will be  1 : 150.

This  shows that there are about more than 1 trillion web pages available online. A notable fact is , the world population as recently updated is 6.7 billion. It  indicates,  for every person alive in this Earth , he has about 150 web pages to competitive him.

The  findings of the total web page available online was actually done by Microsoft’s  Bing.com  for their search engine updation. During this crawling process, the data that  Bing.com got from various websites crossed 1 trillion. Few weeks ago, Google announced the  crowding traffic  of web pages available and also claimed the presence of more than 1 trillion pages online which is now proved by Bing.com

“An average person would need six hundred thousand decades of nonstop reading to read through the information,” News.com.au quoted Bing as saying.

Mark Higginson, director of analytics for Nielsen Online, said that the global online population had jumped 16 per cent since last year.

“Approximately 1.46 billion people worldwide now use the internet which represents a solid 16 per cent increase from the previous year’s estimate (1.26 billion in 2007),” he said.

The largest Internet population belongs to China, with 338 million users online, which is more than there were people in the US.

However InternetWorldStats.com (IWS), a website that combines multiple data sources, has claimed that China’s online population is more like 298 million.

“With the rates of India and China still quite low, there is ample room for growth in the coming decade,” said Higginson.

According to IWS, the top 5 countries with the most internet users are:

1 – China (298,000,000 users, or 22.4 percent of their population)

2 – US (227,190,989, or 74.7 percent)

3 – Japan (94,000,000, or 73.8 percent)

4 – India (81,000,000, or 7.1 percent)

5 – Brazil (67,510,400, or 34.4% percent)

UFO sight in UK: Truth or Trick???

Posted by Riz On July - 29 - 2009ADD COMMENTS
UFO spotted by Google Map

UFO spotted by Google Map

Well, well what do you know, An UFO  spotted again. This time its in UK. There are many confirmed reports in Internet that claims the presence of a UFO. But NASA has strictly sticked to its  words saying there is no such thing. Even before   3 months there was an circulation of a  flying plate  moving across the mountains.NASA  though, was not satisfied with that information and didnt comment more.

It makes me wonder, whether there is really no such thing as UFO  or  NASA simply doesn’t want to create panic revealing the mysteries  of the skies.

And now yet again,a  UFO sighting claim has been made in the UK, with a mystery object now being photographed by a person living at Hertfordshire. It was Chris Middleton, of Welwyn, snapped the mystery object during a a visit to the Jacobean house and garden, the home of the 7th Marquess of Salisbury.

“It made no noise and I didn’t see it until I put the image on my computer. If you sharpen the image and zoom right in you can see it~s no normal aircraft and you can see a red heat source behind it,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.

“I think it’s impossible for there not to be something like that out there – the universe is so vast. He had the intriguing image examined by professional photographers – and none of them could explain it,” he added.

Richard Wiseman, a professor of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, who has an international reputation for research into the paranormal, said: “It’s very difficult to tell what it is because it is tricky to know how far the object is from the camera. I guess that it could be a bird or a paraglider in the distance, or a small piece of dust or debris very close to the lens. Either way, I don’t think Hatfield House should be bracing themselves for a close encounter of the third kind quite yet.”

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Man this sounds like crazy and weird. Yes it is a weird stuff. The growing competition in  Internet has crossed a new level. This time targeting GRAVE. What  makes them interest on Grave??!!

With the help of  the Internet service providers and few sites like Facebook, a person can now write upon the message , email or greeting for their child, spouse or any 1  and trigger the sites to make the message appear on the screen by the activity of some fire off emails on the particular day which they wish. This offer is valid even after the person is death.

Just add the key dates and message that should appear and with the preplanned programme the message will be delivered on that day itself

Cheez whats funny is that this may cause terrible family suspense. Many people have already decided to adopt this way in Uk, a news site reports.

Which means they are deciding to give their family members a  message of surprise after their death. some consider this as a good method to expose themselves. But i wonder whats the point of understanding when the person itself is death .LOL!!!

This  technology is to admit has really become  a  buzz.