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Google settles Buzz privacy case with FTC, apologizes
Google and the FTC have just announced that they've reached a settlement in the FTC's investigation of Google's privacy violations committed during the rollout of Google Buzz, the company's social network built inside of Gmail.One of the reasons Buzz never quite took off may have been the enormous backlash surrounding its launch, and Google's handling of Gmail users' privacy. The FTC claims that by not adequately informing users of the privacy issues surrounding Buzz, Google has violated the FTC Act. Specifically, Google didn't properly inform Gmail users that they had the option to decline or leave the social network, and the controls for limiting the sharing of personal information were confusing and difficult to find. If you remember, before the backlash kicked in and Google subsequently backtracked, upon joining Buzz the identities and email addresses of the people you frequently emailed were made public by default. Google received "thousands of emails" complaining about this situation, the FTC claims.
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Noted Studies of Grammar Errors Reveal Changing Issues in Common English Writing
A number of ambitious studies have worked to map the frequency of such errors in common use, according to you-can-teach-writing.com.
One famous project, which was conducted by Maxine Hairston in 1981, surveyed which grammatical errors professionals found to be most egregious.
Her findings concluded that status marking errors - as demonstrated in the sentence "I didn't do nothing" - disturbed respondents the most, along with faulty parallelism and the use of "would of" instead of "would have." The responses indicated, moreover, that teachers and business managers have very different ideas of what essential grammar constitutes, according to the website.
Another study, which was completed in 2008 by Andrew and Karen Lunsford, combed through 3,000 collegiate papers. The researchers created a list of frequently made errors.
Their study
suggested that digital communication may cause "new error patterns." For
instance, bizarrely constructed sentences seem to be made when "students
cut and paste passages from one sentence to another." Incorrect
capitalizations are possibly caused by automated capitalizing tools,
Chronicle.com reports.
Professionals may draw on the error lists offered by these studies as they
revise their written work. They can also utilize grammar and spelling checks to
improve their writing.
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Ask Ars: How can I make my music collection more accessible?
Question: How can I liberate my music collection from my single PC, store it somewhere central on my LAN, and access it from multiple locations?
This question is a little like the onsite backup one we answered last week, and what methods you can use depend on how simple, expensive, and extensible you want your centralized music collection to be. Clearly, there are a ton of ways to tackle this problem, and this answer does not aim to be comprehensive. Rather, we're just throwing a few ideas out there that newbies to networked music sharing should investigate further. (Regular Ars readers should feel free to pitch in with further suggestions in the comments.)
On the low end, you don't even really need to move your media off your PC in order to liberate it. Both Home Sharing on iTunes and Windows Media Center make it easy enough to stream media directly off one computer to others in the same network. But this method can create a lot of extra work for the central computer, and makes it hard to sync devices, since non-local music through these services isn't accessible for that purpose (you can download music between computers with Home Sharing, but this might fragment your collection and will take up extra space). A better solution is to set up a server or a network-attached storage (NAS) device that can be accessed over your home network, which gives you more options and has varying costs.
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A Messy Desk Can Influence Perceptions of Your Professionalism [In Brief]
