He behaves very strangely (one of the YouTube clips was uploaded with the title "Drugs Are Baaaad"); Letterman is not amused.
Another pro-Assad satellite channel, Addounia, broadcast a report blaming "a terrorist group" for the bombings — which was uploaded, with English subtitles, to YouTube.
Mr. Laird pointed to youtube.com, where the video was uploaded with no advance publicity; it has already been watched more than 221,800 times.
"There are over 10 reports a day," says Araya. "The ministry is using them to focus their pest control process so they can improve the use of pesticides to eliminate the mosquito hatcheries on any reports uploaded with the app".
The images were uploaded with the comment: "Do your absolute worst guys and abuse her as much as you like, all I ask is that you show me it all".
The company now operates an official Flickr feed, where a number of photos – including some of those initially criticised by Higgins for being covered by copyright – are uploaded with a creative commons "CC BY-NC" license on them.
While the fact that many of these videos are uploaded with Arabic titles may explain why some international commentators seem unaware of the evidence from the streets, various forms of cognitive bias may also play a role in limiting recognition of Kurdish participation when journalists have little contact with the field.
But Judge Louis L. Stanton of United States District Court for the Southern District of New York sided with Google, saying that while the company certainly knew that copyrighted material had been uploaded to its site, it did not know which clips had been uploaded with permission and which had not.
His project, called the 2045 Initiative, for the year he hopes it is completed, envisions the mass production of lifelike, low-cost avatars that can be uploaded with the contents of a human brain, complete with all the particulars of consciousness and personality.
Items are uploaded with a Windows-only tool.
