Okay, so i thought i would send off my final blog, with a review of this class and our Professor. Oops maybe i should wait until after the final.....
JUST KIDDING..
On Blogging: I have never thought about blogging, EVER. Nor did i EVER want to. Not sure i ever will again. I There is just something too personal about putting all your ideas, comments, opinions out there for someone to stumble upon and rip to shreds... my ego is too fragile.. Okay my skin is too thin. And yes, i know they dont' all have to be that way, they can be more informational, I can see the benefits to keeping people informed about what's up. Like the annual Christmas Letters sent to all generically. So i will resolve to take small baby steps, like filling in the "im doing...." on facebook.. LOL.
On Content: Loved the class. Great topic and insight into how the Internet works. My Friend, who works at Weyerhauser IT dept laughed when she saw our book, but truth be told, i loved it and found it very helpful. I think i may even keep it for reference and not resell it.. She never needs to know..... :) I think my favorite part was the Scavenger Hunt, of course taking first place didn't have anything to do with it..... It was awesome! My little husky dog almost got hijacked by my daughter on my arrival home. But Juneau (he came with that name) has replaced my computer mascot (Yoda) and is adjusting just fine. The guest speakers were awesome as well, opened up insight into a Tacoma i never knew and I've lived here my whole life practically. Quite frankly, i have always been afraid of downtown Tacoma, not a very good place to hang when i was a teenager or even later than that. I'm sure Professor Fry remembers those days. I am happy to see that Tacoma has cleaned itself up and has created a culture to be proud of.
On the Professor: I wish all my professors were as fun and animated as he. Not a big surprise he acts! I liked the fact he was so straight forward, and tested on what he taught. I really dislike professors that disassociate their tests from their content. But Professor Fry was right on.
I would totally recommend this class to any major. Don't ever quit teaching this class Professor Fry.. it's awesome and a great reprieve from the accounting classes i have to take!! I enjoyed the class thoroughly..
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Illegal file sharing
Yeah! I definitely was excited to hear on this book. I want to read it! Okay, so maybe I'm not like rushing out to buy it. But we have all thought about pirating things, maybe have done so. And like Professor Fry, said the line is so thin. Do we have the right to copy a CD (or download it on our MP3 player) since we already own it? We all raised our hands, i certainly won't stop doing that.
But I have to admit, i have burned DVD's with pirate software too, and one of my Friends just gets all over my case for it. This is why it's so expensive for the rest of us, he says... I guess that's what retailers tell us too, right? Shoplifting drives up the prices.. makes sense. Okay, I'm convinced. I will TRY not to do it again.
As far as downloading illegally from Limewire or Nabster, i had a friend who tried to "help" set me up with Limewire and ended up totally killing my computer. virus, or something, it was bad, and i was upset, needless to say, i have honestly never attempted since then to ever download illegally from a site.
I would like to learn how to protect myself however, when it comes to file sharing. I just don't know enough about it. I have the WiFi on my laptop and it's always asking me if i want to share with " so and so... " another computer. And i really don't' like the idea of someone on my computer. OR snooping around it. So for the protection factor alone, i am very interested... So i should go and download the ecopy.. just kidding... I'll check it out.
I have learned that whatever it is that i want, the public library usually has and reserving it really takes no time at all. It's all online now. So we watch most of the movies we want to see between netflix and the library. I just wish they would start carrying textbooks and save us hundreds of dollars in those fees. And speaking of that, if i could pirate anything.... it would be the textbooks, i think that is ridiculous the gouging they do to us. Talk about Exploitation.... (see just about anything can be justified... LOL)
And PS the group did an excellent job presenting the book, i was engaged.
But I have to admit, i have burned DVD's with pirate software too, and one of my Friends just gets all over my case for it. This is why it's so expensive for the rest of us, he says... I guess that's what retailers tell us too, right? Shoplifting drives up the prices.. makes sense. Okay, I'm convinced. I will TRY not to do it again.
As far as downloading illegally from Limewire or Nabster, i had a friend who tried to "help" set me up with Limewire and ended up totally killing my computer. virus, or something, it was bad, and i was upset, needless to say, i have honestly never attempted since then to ever download illegally from a site.
I would like to learn how to protect myself however, when it comes to file sharing. I just don't know enough about it. I have the WiFi on my laptop and it's always asking me if i want to share with " so and so... " another computer. And i really don't' like the idea of someone on my computer. OR snooping around it. So for the protection factor alone, i am very interested... So i should go and download the ecopy.. just kidding... I'll check it out.
I have learned that whatever it is that i want, the public library usually has and reserving it really takes no time at all. It's all online now. So we watch most of the movies we want to see between netflix and the library. I just wish they would start carrying textbooks and save us hundreds of dollars in those fees. And speaking of that, if i could pirate anything.... it would be the textbooks, i think that is ridiculous the gouging they do to us. Talk about Exploitation.... (see just about anything can be justified... LOL)
And PS the group did an excellent job presenting the book, i was engaged.
World without secrets
Incredible, the amount of technology. This was a great book to hear about after the South Sound Tech conference, not to mention the World security conference last month. The author brought brings to light how technology being created is stripping away at the privacy that we hold so dear. WE get so excited over these really cool things being created yet Businesses and governmental agencies exploiting this technology. Like the guy getting a speeding ticket by just being tracked by the GPS. Incredible!!
I guess i shouldn't be surprised, i think our world, our culture is already hyper desensitized. If you have been around long enough to know or remember what TV looked like 20, 30 or so years ago, you would have to agree. Leave it to Beaver and brady bunch days would never have thought about crossing the lines of invading privacies. Well, maybe i'm wrong, but society as a whole would be way more appauled by the invasion. Honestly, i don't think that many people are concerned about the ramifications. Especially after 911. Some people think we need to have more sensorship and we need to be spying on more people. If we had, we may have uncovered the plot before they had a chance to fly thier planes into the buildings. "All for the greater good"... that is how our privacy will all be rationalized away. Interesting book, interesting topic. Good presentation.
I guess i shouldn't be surprised, i think our world, our culture is already hyper desensitized. If you have been around long enough to know or remember what TV looked like 20, 30 or so years ago, you would have to agree. Leave it to Beaver and brady bunch days would never have thought about crossing the lines of invading privacies. Well, maybe i'm wrong, but society as a whole would be way more appauled by the invasion. Honestly, i don't think that many people are concerned about the ramifications. Especially after 911. Some people think we need to have more sensorship and we need to be spying on more people. If we had, we may have uncovered the plot before they had a chance to fly thier planes into the buildings. "All for the greater good"... that is how our privacy will all be rationalized away. Interesting book, interesting topic. Good presentation.
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