AOL Instant Messenger’s Terms of Service
Use AIM? Of course you do (if you’re reading this I can almost guarantee it, in fact, it’s probably on right now)

�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, if you plan on marketing something, copyrighting or trademarking something, distributing your music, poetry, works of art, source code… whatever (file transfers on aim also go through AOLs server)… don’t do it via instant messenger. There are plenty of other alternatives out there to use so… I would recommend doing that.
Granted, I doubt AOL searches everything that gets sent over their servers for this kind of stuff… it wouldn’t be hard for them to archive everything to search later on, or to continually search and archive stuff as it’s sent… I mean, it’s freaking AOL… they have the server space for that, that’s for damn sure. And storage is cheap… you can get a 160 gigabyte hard drive for like $100 or less… A library floor of academic journals = 100 gigabytes. 10 hard drives = 16 floors of academic journals. Yeah, thats a lot of storage space for less than $1000.
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My new favorite website: http://www.hackaday.com/
It’s a hacking blog. It has a lot of neat projects that people have done (hacking in terms of modifying hardware and doing neat stuff)
My next project is going to be a: do it yourself lcd projector
I’ve got an old dell laptop here that is good for NOTHING, so i’m going to find myself an overhead projector [Nick, from The 400 (he's a suitemate) and I are going to a Radford Universtiy Surplus Auction saturday in hopes of bidding on an overhead projector real cheap].
So hopefully by the end of the weekend I’ll have an LCD projector of my own… not that I could play movies on it or anything… yet. The old crappy laptop I have doesn’t have a DVD player and no network card.
I can plug in my wireless card to it though, so I should be able to do some kind of remote-desktop style connection, or possibly network my dvd drive from my desktop computer or whatever in order to show files. My desktop computer also has a tv tuner card, so maybe I can stream that out through an in-network (my personal network) webcast or play video games (whatever).
If I could do that, it could be really convienient [being wireless] because I could bring it into the suite, or anywhere within the range of my network and show stuff big screen. The dell has a pretty decent screen on it so I should get good results (plus, I’ve taken apart laptop monitors before, so I know how to do it and keep it working).

It’s good to be back at tech.

Quote of the day:

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”

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