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...highly competitive first varsity race set the tone for the following contests. Navy and Harvard’s varsity eights raced down the course neck and neck until the 1000-meter mark, where the Crimson was able to gain a slight lead. The Midshipmen inched back in the following 1000 meters, but was unable to adequately respond to Harvard’s competitive edge and slight lead...
...Facebook.com’s storage of user information on its server, Facebook has recently encouraged its users to vote on possible changes to the Web site’s terms of service. In a post on the company’s blog on Thursday, Facebook CEO and founder Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 explained that if more than 30 percent of Facebook’s 200 million active users voted on the proposals, all of Facebook’s future amendments would go through the same voting process. Users have been given...
...customers when adding new features that were initially unpopular. The addition in 2006 of a news feed—a box brimming with information about friends’ actions, such as changing relationship statuses or uploading photos—was criticized for infringing upon user privacy. Founder Mark Zuckerberg responded by asking people to “calm down” and then introduced settings that allowed users to limit the information that would appear in other users’ feeds. Last summer, people were given an option of switching to a new layout before everyone was automatically switched over...
Palin, Gov. Sarah • Alaska Legislature soundly rejects choice of for state attorney general • denial by of calling for Sen. Mark Begich to resign so Ted Stevens could be re-elected after e-mailing "I absolutely agree" in response to Alaska Republican Party chairman's call for Begich to step down • description of by former supporter of as "a clownish, vindictive amateur...
...copyright infringement; doing nothing would send out the wrong message entirely. But those companies also know that legal action alone isn't going to strangle piracy. "The end of this year will be the 10-year anniversary for music industry legal suits against file sharing networks," points out Mark Mulligan, London-based analyst at Forrester Research. "Throughout that time, file sharing has grown, and grown and grown." The shutdown of Napster in 2001 didn't prevent Kazaa becoming even larger; and Kazaa's subsequent demise has hardly hindered the Pirate Bay. By the time courts catch up with unlawful services...