Do weblogs need Terms and Conditions?

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Victory: Google Updates Terms and
Conditions

Victory: Google Updates Terms and
Conditions 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Google has updated their Terms and Conditions, removing the sentence that required no public statements be made about AdSense. However, they do add that people using Google trademarks should follow their Permission Guidelines, which seem a bit excessive. (All the other changes are pretty minor.) Thanks, Google!...

Changed terms and conditions for Google
AdSense

Changed terms and conditions for Google
AdSense 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
In response to some pressure from their customers and potential customers, Google has changed the terms and conditions for their AdSense program. I only took...

Photobl0gging/phonecambl0gging services:
watch the terms and conditions...

Photobl0gging/phonecambl0gging services:
watch the terms and conditions... 12/31/2003 05:00 PM
BoingBoing reader Cassandra Fleetwood asks:

Do you know of a site to post photos where one still retains ownership of their photos? I noticed this is not the case for Textamerica (see excerpt from their Terms and Conditions below).

From Textamerica Terms and Conditions
"12. All images and comments posted on Textamerica.com, regardless of the source or content, immediately shall become the exclusive property of Liberation Management LLC. By posting images and text on Textamerica.com, you are representing that you are the owner of such images/text and thereby assign to Liberation Management LLC any ownership interests you have in the images/text, including your copyrights. By posting images or comments on Textamerica.com, you further agree that Liberation Management LLC shall have the right to use your images/text for any purpose without compensation to you and shall not be responsible to you for unauthorized copying of the images/text."

Link, and thoughts / suggestions from other BoingBoing readers welcome via our submission form.

Update: fontaholic sez, "Fotki.com is great and they don't assume ownership of your images. Here's a snip from their privacy policy":

Fotki and FOTKI, INC. claim no ownership rights in the content you place on your Fotki albums. We will not use Member's images for marketing purposes or any other purposes without obtaining the Member's express permission.

Terms And Conditions Of Radiolinja Origo
Oy's 3g Licence Have Been Amended

Terms And Conditions Of Radiolinja Origo
Oy's 3g Licence Have Been Amended 04/15/2004 10:19 AM
HUGIN Online Apr 15 2004 2:15PM GMT

Setting the conditions

Setting the conditions 05/10/2004 05:33 PM

Getting better working conditions

Getting better working conditions 12/02/2002 01:17 PM

"Race conditions in security UI"

"Race conditions in security UI" 07/05/2004 03:02 AM

Hacker dies under mysterious conditions
in prison

Hacker dies under mysterious conditions
in prison 01/03/2004 08:21 AM

Swedish operators fail to meet 3G
conditions

Swedish operators fail to meet 3G
conditions 05/18/2004 04:44 PM
DMeurope.com May 18 2004 8:21PM GMT

"Yahoo! Maps now display traffic
conditions"

"Yahoo! Maps now display traffic
conditions" 12/22/2004 01:31 AM

You cannot have credible elections if
the security conditions continue as they
are now

You cannot have credible elections if
the security conditions continue as they
are now 09/17/2004 12:58 AM
LINK TO INTERVIEW TEXT .. dragged out of him

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3661640.stm
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"NATO Sees No Iraq Role Unless Many
Conditions Met"

"NATO Sees No Iraq Role Unless Many
Conditions Met" 04/28/2004 08:46 AM

China places conditions on Britney tour

China places conditions on Britney tour 06/01/2004 12:22 PM

China Places Conditions on Britney Tour
(AP)

China Places Conditions on Britney Tour
(AP) 06/01/2004 10:39 AM
AP - China to Britney: Come perform but leave the revealing outfits at home.

Oasis Semi withdraws IPO, cites market
conditions

Oasis Semi withdraws IPO, cites market
conditions 12/19/2004 03:03 PM
SiliconValley.com Dec 18 2004 1:00AM GMT

Yahoo maps offer live U.S. traffic
conditions

Yahoo maps offer live U.S. traffic
conditions 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

Improved Inlet Flow Conditions For Your
Pumping System

Improved Inlet Flow Conditions For Your
Pumping System 06/01/2004 02:26 AM
The patented “J’ Model Inlet Stabilizer was designed specifically for the inlet side of all pumps and drastically improves inlet flow conditions, insuring adequate flow into the pump and extending the service life of all inlet system components. [PRWEB Jun 1, 2004]

Apple's new DRM reneges on your purchase
conditions, picks your pocket

Apple's new DRM reneges on your purchase
conditions, picks your pocket 04/30/2004 03:37 AM
The new iTunes has stricter DRM than the last version, limiting the number of times you can burn your playlists to seven (it used to be ten), and detecting and blocking similar playlists. Jason Schultz has some good ranty analysis about what this means:

So after one year and 70 million songs, $0.99 now buys you less rather than more -- seven hard burns instead of ten soft ones. What will Apple "allow" us to do with the music we "buy" next year? three burns? one? zero?

And what about the songs you've already bought? Don't we get to keep the rights we had before the change?

Well, Apple has conveniently reserved its rights to make changes -- unilaterially -- to its DRM and your ability to make fair use via its Terms of Service and Terms of Sale pretty much anytime it pleases, without even having to give you notice.

Link

Iraq's Sadr Drops Conditions for Talks
with U.S. (Reuters)

Iraq's Sadr Drops Conditions for Talks
with U.S. (Reuters) 04/14/2004 10:26 AM
Reuters - Iraq's radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has dropped his conditions for entering into negotiations with U.S. authorities who have vowed to kill or capture him, his spokesman said Wednesday.

Conditions in Ohio Point to Kerry, but
Bush Runs Strong

Conditions in Ohio Point to Kerry, but
Bush Runs Strong 09/12/2004 09:05 AM
Everything seemed to be in place for a powerful run by John Kerry in Ohio after Labor Day. Yet polls suggest that Mr. Kerry has actually lost ground.

RX250305 - OpenMosixView : Multiple Race
conditions - advisory and exploit

RX250305 - OpenMosixView : Multiple Race
conditions - advisory and exploit 03/25/2005 03:00 PM
rexolab (Mar 24 2005)

CAFOD report: dire working conditions in
computer production

CAFOD report: dire working conditions in
computer production 01/27/2004 10:23 AM
No Sweat Jan 27 2004 2:28PM GMT

After a long hybernation, computer
storage looks to be awake and ready to
move in 2004. Business conditions se

After a long hybernation, computer
storage looks to be awake and ready to
move in 2004. Business conditions se 01/02/2004 02:27 PM
Zacks.com Jan 2 2004 1:28PM ET

ViagenX Introduces VANGUARD Tissue
Collection Kits for Sampling Under Field
and Laboratory Conditions

ViagenX Introduces VANGUARD Tissue
Collection Kits for Sampling Under Field
and Laboratory Conditions 08/14/2004 02:36 AM
Use VANGUARD to help overcome the challenges of sampling under field conditions or in a laboratory environment. VANGUARD is designed to collect tissues samples, and preserve the RNA contained within the tissue for downstream analyses. [PRWEB Aug 14, 2004]

Dvd Terms To Know

Dvd Terms To Know 12/04/2003 09:38 AM
SiliconValley.com Dec 4 2003 8:44AM ET

Terms of Use

Terms of Use 12/25/2003 08:07 AM
terms of use

help.xanga.com/about/termsofuse.htm
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AIM Terms of Service

AIM Terms of Service 03/14/2005 04:47 PM

AIM Terms of Service: "Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses. "

So, basically, don't say anything on AIM that you would not like to see displayed on the jumbotron or (perhaps, someday) re-enacted on Time Warner's new AIM-dialog based reality TV show.

"terms of service"

"terms of service" 03/14/2005 05:53 PM

AOL Clarifies Terms of Service for AIM

AOL Clarifies Terms of Service for AIM 03/17/2005 04:22 AM
America Online has clarified the terms of service for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) in response to a firestorm of criticism that was sparked when bloggers objected to language concerning users' privacy. AOL has modified the "Content You Post" section to reiterate that user-to-user communications will remain private.

2K3 embeds some new terms in our
vocabularies

2K3 embeds some new terms in our
vocabularies 01/03/2004 07:30 PM
Runners-up included the high-tech term blog (Web log, or Internet journal); the newly minted verb google (to rummage through the Web using the search engine ...

Blogging terms going mainstream

Blogging terms going mainstream 01/04/2005 07:49 PM
BBC warns regarding dangers of being "dooced" Not long after making the Wired Jargon Watch, I finally got to see the term " ;dooced", in action as the BBC posts an article regarding the growing conflict between employers and employees when it comes to blogging.

Barghouti given five life terms

Barghouti given five life terms 06/06/2004 06:51 AM
An Israeli court gives five life sentences to one of the leaders of the Palestinian uprising, Marwan Barghouti.

Trademarking search terms

Trademarking search terms 11/04/2003 03:38 PM
Many companies use the Google Trademark Complaint Procedure to stop competitors bidding on a company name or product. As this...

DeWitt comes to terms with Cobalt's end

DeWitt comes to terms with Cobalt's end 01/28/2004 08:43 PM
Interview Some things better left unsaid

AOL weasels about its Terms of Service

AOL weasels about its Terms of Service 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
Cory Doctorow: Last night, I blogged about AOL's terms-of-service for its services, in which you waive your privacy right. AOL has done some interviews objecting to this, saying that the terms are only intended to reach to message-board postings.

I don't buy it for a second. If AOL meant "you waive privacy in your message board postings and not your AIM messages" they could say so.

And if they won't say so, why should we believe them? Link

Update: J sez, "Apple's .Mac service lets you use the AIM network without clicking through AOL's TOS at all (you get to use your username@mac.com as your AIM name), and the .Mac TOS says nothing at all about AIM or AOL, and neither does Apple's privacy statement, which you agree to when agreeing to the .Mac TOS."

Health terms not often Googled

Health terms not often Googled 11/05/2003 08:21 PM
Instead, Google and other software gofers spend the bulk of their time hunting for pornography, deals on computer gear, and the latest dirt on favourite ...

Gmail's terms of service

Gmail's terms of service 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
Privacy advocates are getting all riled up over Gmail "terms of service". I kinda of had to laugh as if...

Google sets its own terms in IPO

Google sets its own terms in IPO 05/01/2004 03:19 AM
Business Day South Africa May 1 2004 7:25AM GMT

Origin of the terms "BCE/CE" for dates?

Origin of the terms "BCE/CE" for dates? 07/12/2004 02:42 AM

A friend who blames Jews for all of the ills that he perceives in American society asked me if it was a Jew who started using "BCE" ("Before the Common Era" rather than BC or "Before Christ") for dates of events that occurred more than 2004 years ago.  Being a scientist and engineer he had only recently come across this coinage and was convinced that it part of a contemporary Jewish plot to deestablish Christianity as America's default religion.

My response was that I believed BCE/CE instead of BC/AD was a bit of 19th century academic pedantry.  I remember seeing the term on yellowed labels next to objects in museums that had been gathering dust for 50+ years.  Given that Jews had only recently escaped from their ghettos in the 19th century and that most classics or Bible scholars would have come from wealthier families, I thought it highly unlikely that a Jew coined the term.  Most likely I thought it was Christian scholars who wished to employ a bit of jargon to make their professional work appear more scientific.  The only etymological reference that I could find was this Word IQ article, that talks about the appearance of the term "Common Era" in a 1908 encyclopedia published by the Roman Catholic Church.

Anyone have a better source for settling this question?  The Oxford English Dictionary and first Supplement don't contain "BCE" or "Common Era".

Grok Description matches for Do weblogs need Terms and Conditions?
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i need mms setup or how to setup mms in
this modle G3100

i need mms setup or how to setup mms in
this modle G3100 07/10/2004 05:43 PM
TechTree Jul 10 2004 8:40PM GMT

PHP Webcams

PHP Webcams 12/31/2003 06:09 PM
First Release

New Worm Hijacks Webcams

New Worm Hijacks Webcams 08/27/2004 02:14 PM

Googling unsecured webcams

Googling unsecured webcams 01/04/2005 11:55 PM
Xeni Jardin: Cleverly-aliased BoingBoing reader numlok whispers:

This is both very cool and very scary. Use this search string below with Google, and you will find dozens (hundreds?) of unsecured webcam feeds (most seem to be security cams).

inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="

Link. More background here.

More Googleable unsecured webcams

More Googleable unsecured webcams 01/05/2005 03:58 PM
Xeni Jardin: Following up on yesterday's post about how to sniff out publicly-viewable webcams (whose operators may not be fully aware that said webcams are publicly viewable), Boing Boing reader George Hotelling says:

Did you know there's a whole site dedicated to finding interesting stuff via Google? Link, and check out or the "ihack stuff.com" site.

And reader Victor Gregorio says:

Here is a search that finds Axis webcams..
inurl:"view/index.shtml"

Link. Reader Jonathan offers yet another string for Axis cams, Link, and says "They're particularly fun since they tend to have multiple frames per second, so you get something almost full motion." I just tried this and found a cool barnyard in Japan where goats and baby cows were frolicking in the dirt with ducks.

Plug pulled on London Webcams

Plug pulled on London Webcams 11/18/2003 03:18 PM
'Operational reasons'

Notes and Tips: Webcams for Macs

Notes and Tips: Webcams for Macs 08/23/2004 10:56 AM
Readers offer tips about Mac-compatible webcam hardware and software.

Webcams Transport Virtual Visitors

Webcams Transport Virtual Visitors 02/05/2005 09:04 PM
For personal encounters that go beyond e-mail and instant messaging, nothing is faster and more revealing than video chatting, as the trend is called.

Webcams that run a long time on AAA
batteries

Webcams that run a long time on AAA
batteries 06/17/2005 03:50 PM

I remember in the last house we lived in that I could aim my webcam down the hallway from my office and actually see into the kitchen. I had pcanywhere running on the PC so when I could take a few snaps to hopefully catch a glimpse of the kids. Well one day I turn on the camera and who is standing up on a counter reaching into a cabinet that is off limits. (candy)

So I pick up the cell and call home and ask my wife to put my daughter on the phone and I ask here what she was doing standing on the counter with her hands in the cabinet that has candy.

I get silence on the line as she tries to figure out how i knew well thats was the extent of the fun I have had with a webcam, but it seems other people are being innovative and putting webcams in all kinds of interesting places and running them remotely. A new camera though will last a long time on set of batteries check out this link. [Yahoo]

Thousands of security webcams wide open

Thousands of security webcams wide open 01/05/2005 09:02 PM

At CeBit, bejeweled MP3 players, cuddly
Webcams

At CeBit, bejeweled MP3 players, cuddly
Webcams 03/14/2005 04:16 PM
ZDNet Mar 14 2005 3:12PM GMT

Webcams put British royal wedding venue
online

Webcams put British royal wedding venue
online 04/08/2005 09:59 AM
Straitstimes.asia1.com.sg - Fri Apr 8, 09:45 am GMT

DeskLapz offers real-time images from
live Webcams

DeskLapz offers real-time images from
live Webcams 07/21/2004 04:17 PM
Want to see what's going on around the world? If Then Software has released DeskLapz, a utility for Mac OS X v10.3 or higher that provides users with up-to-the-minute images recorded by Webcams on the beach, in the mountains, and elsewhere. DeskLapz's developer said the inspiration was "Sundial," an old Mac utility that displayed time-lapse video over a 24 hour span. DeskLapz comes with three cameras unlocked; making a donation to If Then Software unlocks seven other cameras.

Boing Boing: Googling unsecured webcams

Boing Boing: Googling unsecured webcams 01/06/2005 02:25 AM
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"Setup in LA"

"Setup in LA" 12/25/2004 05:20 PM

"my little setup"

"my little setup" 12/24/2004 12:09 PM

"New Setup"

"New Setup" 08/31/2004 11:33 AM

X-Setup 6.3

X-Setup 6.3 12/04/2003 09:37 AM

"My Setup 1"

"My Setup 1" 09/14/2004 11:08 AM

Computer setup fun!

Computer setup fun! 08/11/2004 10:14 AM
My new Thinkpad X40 just arrived, so I have many , many happy hours of computer set-up to look forward to, including trying to figure out how to move onto my new laptop the stupid !@#$%-ing programs that only allow themselves to be registered to one computer, oh how I hate them. I've just started the Windows File and Settings Transfer Wizard, a splendid utility that moves all your, well, files and settings to your new computer, which has never been known to work. On the plus side, the X40 is lovely. Light 'n' loaded. And, while the keyboard of...

Xpress Setup XP

Xpress Setup XP 12/31/2003 07:19 PM
Back on Track

X-Setup Pro 6.6 Final

X-Setup Pro 6.6 Final 05/27/2004 04:55 PM

X-Setup Pro 6.5.100 Beta 1

X-Setup Pro 6.5.100 Beta 1 01/03/2004 07:06 AM

Run the IE Setup for Windows XP

Run the IE Setup for Windows XP 04/16/2005 06:55 PM

"Updated: mac setup"

"Updated: mac setup" 09/08/2004 10:19 AM

PowerBook Setup App -- I Want This
Utility!

PowerBook Setup App -- I Want This
Utility! 07/23/2004 11:03 PM
This utility dramatically reduced set up time. By Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Renderfarm Setup Tips?

Renderfarm Setup Tips? 06/15/2004 01:16 PM

"Dual 2.5GHz G5 Setup 1"

"Dual 2.5GHz G5 Setup 1" 09/12/2004 11:14 PM

"Computer Setup at school, Vol. II"

"Computer Setup at school, Vol. II" 08/27/2004 01:50 PM

"Dual Display Setup"

"Dual Display Setup" 09/27/2004 10:52 AM

Do weblogs need Terms and Conditions?

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