Any parent with a curious kid and high speed Internet deals with daily safety concerns. Many people utilize fake, but convincing profiles to victimize children and with as little information as their first name, age and school, they will know where your child is between 8:00AM and 3:00PM every single day of the week. With only those three pieces of information, they can even find out where you live. It’s an extreme case, as is identity fraud, but no one can argue that it doesn’t happen.

There’s a new reason to be weary of sharing too much on the web. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and countless other social media sites have proven that social media is here to stay. It’s never been easier to make hundreds of friends effortlessly, whether they’re from around the block or around the globe. It’s also never been easier to keep track of everyone so flawlessly. Photo sharing, status updates and detailed posts (public posts, might I add) has transformed a simple social site infrastructure into an informational gold mine. What some call “pointless chatter,” others call an opportunity.

The recent economic downturn our country has faced and continues to face, and not so eloquently I might add, has caused a lot of unruliness. Unemployment rates are ever-climbing, as much as 15% in some cities, and where there’s unemployment there is a lot of hungry mouths. It’s not right but it’s a fact, crime increases as the economy declines. An innocent tweet or status update could just be your way of having fun, or your obnoxious attempt at bragging that you’re going to Tahiti for two weeks and your friends aren’t. Either way, it’s more dangerous than you think. It turns out that social media sensations like Facebook and Twitter are not only a concern when it comes to identity theft, but they’re also a huge home security nightmare.

If you do a Google search for “Twitter and burglary” you can find dozens of stories that go a little something like this: TwitterUser tweeted that he’s going out of town (finally!), but when he gets home he realizes that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to tell the world that his home would be vacant for the next few days. His home had been broken into and thousands of dollars of damages were incurred. One only wonders what his insurance company thought about that. It may be tempting, but don’t post revealing messages about your whereabouts, it’s a burglar’s (or stalker’s) dream. If you really want to invoke mass jealousy over your awesome tan just post pictures when you get back. After all, no one envies the victim of burglary.

As technology evolves dangers increase, but it’s also easier to stay safer. More families are investing in their safety than ever before. As crime rates soar and technology advances, people are making home security and personal safety their business. ADT home security has made it their business for 131 years and currently helps keep more than 7 million homeowners and business owners safer, protecting their homes and businesses, as well as what’s really matters, what and who is inside. This industry-leader provides unrivaled 24/7 monitoring utilizing advanced technology and quality, dependable service. So even if you let it slip out of sheer excitement that you’re going to be out of reach for awhile, and even if that information gets into the wrong hands, you’ll have the peace of mind that comes from professional 24/7 home security monitoring.

Be safe out there.

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Anyways, here are a few snail mail examples that you would not want to touch with a ten-foot stick, much less with Wooden Letter Openers. Now, start praying that you don’t!

Credit Card Bill in the Quadrillions

Plastic can be such a blessing or a curse, depending on whether it’s purchasing time or pay-up time. You ought to know which is which by now. At least, I do!

But what will you do when you receive a credit card statement running above $23 quadrillion? Yes, that’s more than 2,000 times the nation’s debt! No idea how 23 quadrillion looks like? Imagine 15 zeros after the number 23 and you can be sure that none of your grandkids till the end of time will have any money just to pay off that amount of debt.

Luckily, it appeared that there was just a technical glitch in the Visa structure, thus, the giant error. But not before you almost had a stroke!

Government Letter Asking Residents to Spy on Neighbors

And then there’s the letter from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, er, local officials asking you to become the neighborhood spy. Well, it would have been good if only you received the letter.

Unfortunately, every house in the whole damn block got one! So, what does that make all of you – the gringo equivalent of Fidel Castro’s notorious Neighborhood Defense Committee spying on each other ad infinitum?

You are supposed to report neighbors to a new hotline number for sins like throwing garbage into drains and ditches, sweeping twigs into the streets, and even changing oil and antifreeze! Perhaps the local officials could have done better with surveillance cameras.

IRS Tax Collection Letters

Well, we all receive tax collection letters from the dreaded IRS. What will take the socks off you, however, is that those missives demand taxes that your estranged husband should have paid but was unwilling to. Since you are still the legal wife, you will be constrained to pay up!

And believe me, there are terror stories of IRS agents abusing their authority on the matter. Taxpayers are levied varying amounts of taxes due and payable from one month to the next, thus, breeding confusion and frustration.

So, the next time you feel like not putting engravable pens to the paper to write your mother a loving note, just think of these terrible letters reaching her. That should be sufficient motivation to cheer her up via snail mail!

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So far in China, there are no explicit laws and regulations on the intellectual property protection of the exhibitors or designers, and exhibition industry has not formed a national association yet, in addition, qualification authentication for exhibitors is blank. Therefore, many famous and effective exhibitions are imitated frequently and some even only change the name of district. Based on the above situations, this paper will introduce the ways and strategies to protect intellectual property to exhibitors on the basis of China’s current intellectual property legal frameworks.

1.Protection on the exhibition emblem

Exhibitors can apply for registered trademark according to China’s Trademark Law in order to protect exhibition emblem form being plagiarized, misappropriated or cloned. Trademark registration is a sort of legal procedure. Trademark registrant firstly files an application, and if there is no objection or the raised objection is inconsistent within three months after the preliminary examination and public announcement, the registration of trademark would become effective and be protected by law. The trademark registrant will have the exclusive right of this trademark. It takes one year or one and a half years from application to approval of registration. The validity of the registered trademark is 10 years, since the date of approval of the registration. If registrant needs to use the registered trademark sequentially, he can apply for renewal of trademark registration.

Once the behaviors of violating the registered trademark are found, one may first issue a warning letter to the infringing party, and ask them to stop the infringement. If the other party still disregard totally, one can request for investigation to the industrial and commercial administrative department above the country level. In this way, if you are a foreigner or foreign enterprise, you should handle it through the designated trademark agency. And the third way is, if the infringement is serious, one can lodge a complaint to the People’s Court where infringer lives or the infringement occurs.

2.Protection on the exhibition projection

However, exhibition registered emblem is only one aspect among exhibitors’ intellectual property protection. Exhibitors care more about intellectual property protection on �originality� in exhibition project, such as the subject and content. Some personal opinions will be discussed as followed:

According to China’s current laws, exhibition can not register with its name, thus, in order to protect the intellectual property from being infringed, the owner of exhibition project should try to determine the intellectual property in texts or graphics before the exhibition is held, for example, nail down the theme of the exhibition in the approved prospectus, define the designs and plans to express or highlight the theme. In addition, in order to prevent the design scheme being plagiarized during the whole designing and producing process, confidentiality agreements should be signed by the partners.

However, only these prevention methods are far from enough. China’s exhibition industry is still in the stage of growth and the corresponding legal norms and industry rules are immature, so it will give some illegal businessmen possibilities to copy or plagiarize exhibition project. Therefore, exhibitors need to find out promptly the exhibitions with similar projects all over the country to ensure their projects are not counterfeited. Once the similar exhibitions are found out, exhibiters should collect evidences immediately, for example, the same exhibition project themes, similar exhibition design and emblem. After obtaining enough reliable evidences, the exhibitors can win the initiative role when assert one’s rights, and inhibit others infringing his intellectual prosperity.

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Specifically, in Lasco Foods, Inc. v. Hall and Shaw Sales, Marketing, & Consulting, the Court interpreted the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (�CFAA�) to permit a federal remedy for employers whose former employees delete and/or steal company information from laptop computers.

In that case, two managers left the plaintiff company and, according to the plaintiff, failed to return their laptop computers when requested and copied or downloaded confidential and trade secret information. �The files on the computer containing such information were then deleted prior to the laptop computers being returned. �The plaintiff filed a complaint alleging several causes of action, including a claim under CFAA.

The Court rejected the defendants� argument in a motion to dismiss that the plaintiff was prohibited from asserting a claim under CFAA. �The CFAA permits a cause of action for any person who suffers damage or loss by a violation of the act, so long as the damage sustained during a one-year period totals at least $5,000 in value. �

The CFAA defines damage as “any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system or information.” �The CFAA defines loss as “any reasonable cost to any victim, including the cost of responding to an offense, conducting a damage assessment, and restoring the data, program, system or information to its condition prior to the offense, and any revenue lost, cost incurred, or other consequential damages incurred because of interruption of service.”�

The Court found that the plaintiff sufficiently alleged facts to satisfy both the �damage� and �loss� test.� The Court found that the company sufficiently pled loss with its allegations that defendants deleted information, requiring forensic analysis and other remedial measures to retrieve and analyze defendants’ computers and restore the data. �The Court’s ruling did not require, as other case law on the issue suggested, that the subject information must be destroyed on the employer’s network computer as opposed to a laptop computer.

The Court�s interpretation of CFAA is more in line with Hawaii criminal statutory law addressing criminal computer-related activity.� For instance, HRS � 708-892 states that a person has committed the crime of �Computer Damage in the First Degree� where:

(a)�� The person knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and thereby knowingly causes unauthorized damage to a computer, computer system, or computer network; or

(b)�� The person intentionally accesses a computer, computer system, or computer network without authorization and thereby knowingly causes damage.

Under the statute, the damage must:� �Result in a loss aggregating at least $5,000 in value, including the costs associated with diagnosis, repair, replacement, or remediation, during any one-year period to one or more individuals.�� Also, computer damage in the first degree is a class B felony.

The Hawaii penal code explicitly permits the conviction of a person that causes damage to not only a computer network, but also a company-issued computer.� Generally, in most garden-variety cases where a former employee has been found to have deleted/destroyed computer files, the cost to engage a computer forensics professional to assess and restore or attempt to restore lost data will exceed $5,000 under the Hawaii criminal statute and CFAA.

Thus, a Hawaii employer could have a federal civil remedy available in federal court in addition to the ability to invoke Hawaii criminal statutory law for damage caused to either its network or company-owned computers.

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Roman Amaguin Esq. is a Honolulu attorney that specializes in employment and labor law. Visit his websites at: http://www.virtualhawaiiemploymentlawyer.com and http://www.amaguinlaw.com.

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The world today is burgeoning with unlimited number of business houses cropping up in each and every part of the globe. Many businessmen venture into this challenging field without possessing right attributes required to control a business with the end result leading to acquisition, merger, collaboration or sell out. Business houses at present not only have to focus on core issues of the business but also keep a close watch on latest trends and competitors as well. With the multitude of responsibilities on one�s shoulders it is not possible to manage the affairs of even a small business enterprise with limited knowledge and skill set.

One could attend seminars, conferences and consult various experts to enhance knowledge but they all come for a price. One question that may strike in the minds of many inexperienced businessmen and traders is � �How on earth could they access crucial information at an affordable rate?� The answer is Business books! Self study is the best study. Tax planning books, small planning books and other specialized business books on marketing, sales etc. With tax returns, trademarks, patents and goodwill forming a major chunk of corporate suits, businessmen have to exercise much care in matters concerning these issues. Default in payment of taxes can lead to grave legal offence which could stretch to months or even years. Just imagine the amount of the money that would go into such proceedings! Prevention is better than cure. Thus as a prudent businessman, one has to take necessary safeguards to prevent such undesired instances. It is thus essential to plan tax returns in advance using tax planning books.

Owners running a small business concern could make use of small business books in order to identify core areas affecting the profit margin and clearing up bottlenecks. Small business tax planning is another important aspect which has to be due consideration if the firm wishes to continue its operations for a considerable number of years.

Business books have come to play a key role in educating inexperienced capitalists of the strategies that go into planning and implementation of crucial business policies on the functioning of the organization. Appropriate organization hierarchical structure and effective communication are the backbone of any enterprise. Businessmen can have first hand information with regard to topics like costs, revenue, motivation, performance management, work culture and other business related issues by learning from experiences of professionals.

Business books are like pole star that helps business owners through the maze of corporate formalities and comply with them in the prescribed manner. In order to accomplish the organizational goals and short term as well as long term business goals, role of business books cannot be overlooked. By merely following the useful advice and tips of successful business experts, owners can not only reap greater profits but also ensure stable business operation in subsequent years

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