Fine Print
Aug. 10th, 2004 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenSo, there's another LJ crush meme going around...
From the signup Terms of Service:
By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the LJmeme.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, display and or sell such Materials. By posting said information, including personal information, you grant us full ownership over it for any purpose. This is an object lesson. Don't give out information you don't want other people to see without reading the fine print.
'Nuff said, really.
Edit: Amusing article from Dale Hawkins in the latest RISKS digest:
Many popular instant-messaging tools interpret text "emoticons" and replace
them with graphical icons. For example, if you send your buddy a
colon-right-parenthesis, your correspondent's messaging client may replace
the :) with a yellow smiley-face icon.
This is very nice, but the sender has no control. And it's hard to know in
advance what character-strings will be parsed into what kind of unintended
image.
A colleague was discussing his 401(k) plan with his boss, who happens to be
female, via instant messaging. He discovered, to his horror, that the boss'
instant-messaging client was rendering the "(k)" as a big pair of red
smoochy lips. :(
From the signup Terms of Service:
By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the LJmeme.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, display and or sell such Materials. By posting said information, including personal information, you grant us full ownership over it for any purpose. This is an object lesson. Don't give out information you don't want other people to see without reading the fine print.
'Nuff said, really.
Edit: Amusing article from Dale Hawkins in the latest RISKS digest:
Many popular instant-messaging tools interpret text "emoticons" and replace
them with graphical icons. For example, if you send your buddy a
colon-right-parenthesis, your correspondent's messaging client may replace
the :) with a yellow smiley-face icon.
This is very nice, but the sender has no control. And it's hard to know in
advance what character-strings will be parsed into what kind of unintended
image.
A colleague was discussing his 401(k) plan with his boss, who happens to be
female, via instant messaging. He discovered, to his horror, that the boss'
instant-messaging client was rendering the "(k)" as a big pair of red
smoochy lips. :(
