Showing posts with label Mark Zuckerberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Zuckerberg. Show all posts

Friday, January 27, 2012

Steve Jobs was named inventor of two great things

Steve Jobs is considered the inventor of two great things so far, after Thomas Edison, according to a survey of MIT and the Lemelson Foundation. Mark Zuckerberg also made the list.
List Lemelson Invention Index Fund and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced on 01.26.2012, are made based on survey of 1,010 Americans ages 16-25, to determine the light institutional greatest ever.
Most young Americans surveyed, 52%, choose Edison is the greatest invention. 24% voted for Steve Jobs. Next is Alexander Bell, Marie Curie and Mark Zuckerberg - CEO of Facebook. That young man received 3% of the vote.
Among the creations of Steve Jobs with iPhone and iPad, the well-known devices, is changing the way we communicate with each other and help Apple become one of the world's largest companies.
Many people do not agree with this list, especially with the location of Steve Jobs. According to the author's Tito Grag Escapist magazine, call Steve Jobs is the inventor was a mistake, because Jobs did not invent anything. Greg Tito said that Jobs is a CEO, a great leader. He organized others make discoveries and inventions themselves, but he is not the inventor.
 
Many others said that characters like Nikola Tesla (with the revolutionary contributions in the field of electric and magnetic fields), Tim Berners-Lee (father of the World Wide Web) worth more than Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg more.
 
But to understand this list, because respondents are young. Steve Jobs and Zuckerberg achieve such a high position in the list for young adults to feel what the characters brought great influence to their daily lives. For example, 40% of survey participants said they could not imagine my life without electricity or smartphone tablet.
 
In addition, those surveyed did not select a contemporary character, which is chosen Thomas Edison's greatest inventor, although his achievements were made mainly in the 1880s.
In another aspect, the people surveyed are not sure about the possibility of its patent. 45% said that creativity is not properly concerned at their school, and 28% said that their educational process is not ready to step into the field of creativity, such as science, technology, skills arts or mathematics.
 
The survey showed that over the past year, less than half of the respondents were doing things like using a drill or electric hand tools, or something from processing raw materials. "We have to attract students to the creative experience like this, as well as providing a strong education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, to prepare for inventors future, "Leigh Estabrooks, chairman of education Lemelson-MIT says creativity.
 
Program of the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam is sponsoring several student groups, each group of up to $ 10,000, so they pursue innovative projects last year to tackle the problems of the real world.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Facebook to improve services to protect individual rights

Facebook will improve some of its services in Europe in the next six months towards transparency and protection of customer data outside of North America better.
Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg at the Facebook developer conference in San Francisco. Photo: Reuters.
The decision was made after Facebook committee Protection of personal data Ireland (IDPC) completed three months of research activities of the international branch of this group in Ireland and concluded: privacy policies Facebook's complexity and lack of transparency.
Do branch is located in Dublin (Ireland) Facebook should be subject to privacy laws, according to European standards, which is stricter than the regulations of the U.S., especially in a matter of time data storage. Facebook in Ireland branch in charge of the operation of all Facebook users outside North America, the majority of the total 800 million customers of the company.
Results of tests show that IDPC risk is not your information is disclosed publicly. For example they may not know that everyone, whether familiar or not, will see the images posted on the wall until revised privacy. The improvement measures that Facebook launched as provide users more information about how Facebook and a third-party application process their personal information; how to remove the random information more timely; scene customer explicitly when using the automatic face recognition if you want to tag your photos. Explanation of privacy policy will also be simplified Facebook.
The examination of Facebook activity had been planned before IDPC officials Ireland received 22 complaints from a group of law students in Austria. They own campaign "Europe against Facebook" to protest Facebook to store information that users have deleted. There are also three complaints from consumers council of Norway. IPDC not only subject to sanction recommendations. If Facebook does not comply, the agency will conduct the proceedings that Facebook could be fined up to 3,000 euro. And if the conclusions serious breach of data policies, a court sentenced the group to at least 100,000 euros.
"Our function is not a decision someone has violated the law. We help organizations fully comply with the provisions of law in the best way, "Billy Hawkers, committee members said. "Facebook has agreed to provide the best measures to improve the situation within six months." An assessment of the Facebook action commitments will be announced in July the following year.
"This is a practical way for Facebook to test a relatively new service and this stand," the charge of data protection in Linklater LLP law firm, Mr. Tanguy Van Overstraeten said. "They are facing their own success. They have to solve many different views as radial geography. " Operation of Facebook in Europe have criticized repeatedly. Many claim to denounce corporations sell personal data for advertising companies, or store information that the user has been deleted. Investigators have studied Ireland accused Facebook selling personal information and conclusions are unfounded information.
Earlier, in the U.S., Facebook was forced to settle the claims of the U.S. Trade Commission (FTC) after the FTC accused the corporation does not protect personal information of users or disclose their data. After the incident, Facebook pay attention more closely to the privacy of customers in the next 20 years, namely the need to explicitly consent before sharing data was published, many criteria apply stricter privacy. These activities of Facebook will be an independent third party monitoring.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg "road" picture as the fault of Facebook privacy

A serious bug in the programming code of Facebook has made the user can access and view private photos on Facebook of other users, even if access to it. Even Mark Zuckerberg is the "victim" of this error.
Serious error on the bodybuilding forum members first detected on day 3 last. It is known that errors related to a new feature on Facebook, allowing users to make informed many images violate Facebook simultaneously.
Accordingly, if a user who launched the report contain nude pictures or pornography, then add the option marked "optional additional images for alarm", users will see all the images are recent addition of Facebook accounts being reported, even the images have been installed to private.
Mark Zuckerberg take pictures with his girlfriend, one of the private photos leaked
As soon as the error was discovered, Facebook was immediately removed this feature.
"This is the result of one of our recent code for Facebook equipped and operated in a short time" - Facebook said in a press section and then - "After detecting an error , we immediately stop this feature and it provides only after confirming that the error has been corrected. "
Although the error was quickly removed, Facebook users can not freely access private photos of others, however, survive long enough to bug the private photos leaked out. Even the "boss" of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is the "victim" of this error when a series of photos of Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook privacy mode was accessed and stolen.
Add personal photos of Mark Zuckerberg and friends
This can be seen as an "accident" is not worth having with Facebook on this sensitive time, when Facebook is preparing plans IPO (issuing shares to the public first) with a value predicted up to 100 billion USD. This is not the first occurrence of the privacy of users on Facebook. Privacy and Security on Facebook is always a matter of criticism and the most controversial of the largest social networking world.