Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Reading Response # 5
This article is very interesting. This article brings up many things involved with the privacy on the Internet and social networking sites. I personally use the social networking site Facebook so I can relate to what Facebook shares with everyone and what pops up on the news feed. I do not like that every time I choose to update my status or change something on my profile everyone of my friends will see it pop up in their news feed. I can see why people where so outraged by this when it first came out. In the section titled Generation Google I find the author to be especially vocal about his opinion, I feel like his view on the subject really comes out in this section. He lists things in a way that make him sound like he is worked up about the subject. I do agree that younger people are growing up with this as a norm and how it can effect our reputation, which is a true detriment. Our reputation is everything; it is how people view us as a person, and now even if we are qualified for certain jobs. We all like to say we don’t judge people by what we hear are see but the truth is subconsciously we do. I do not know a single person who could see someone they went to high school with who is now pregnant and not judge. I also found the section about changing the laws that surround privacy to be every interesting. I did not know how the U.S. stood on the subject of privacy online, however I do know that privacy is a lot stricter in Canada. This past summer I visited my family up there and I noticed the differences in the social networking sites that they use and the information that can be viewed. I think that the laws in the U.S. do need to be changed or updated. The times are changing and the laws need to be set in place to safe guard us against all these new things that are becoming social norms.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
News Report
Wyatt, Edward. "F.C.C. Investigates Google Street View." NewYorkTimes.com. The New York Times Company, 10 Nov. 2010. Web. 10 Nov. 2010.
The Federal Communications Commission announced that it would be investigating Google for violating laws when collecting data for it’s new Street View project. The Street View project began in 2007 and was designed to add street pictures to Google’s mapping services. It does this by collecting images from cars that use cameras to collect images and link them to GPS data. According to Michele Ellison chief of the F.C.C’s enforcement bureau Google’s cars have collected emails, password, and other personal information from unsuspecting people everywhere. Recently the cars also began recording information about WIFI networks, which can help mobile devices find the locations. Google took this a little further by recording the data that was being sent over these networks. Google says that once they noticed what was happening they quit and informed the authorities and that they are deeply sorry and have not and will not use any of the data they collected. The inquiry by the trade commission was halted by Google’s assurances that they would not use the data and that they are improving their privacy protections. Privacy advocates, who asked Google to disclose why and how the information was collected in the first place, were angered by this decision. Other countries will be or already have investigated Google as well.
I find this article to be really interesting. I would be outrage if I found out Google had some of my information. I think that Google should have monitored what their cars where recording more closely. They should also have restrictions in place about what the cars can record or are equipped to record. A simple apology is not going to make people whose information they have happy.
The Federal Communications Commission announced that it would be investigating Google for violating laws when collecting data for it’s new Street View project. The Street View project began in 2007 and was designed to add street pictures to Google’s mapping services. It does this by collecting images from cars that use cameras to collect images and link them to GPS data. According to Michele Ellison chief of the F.C.C’s enforcement bureau Google’s cars have collected emails, password, and other personal information from unsuspecting people everywhere. Recently the cars also began recording information about WIFI networks, which can help mobile devices find the locations. Google took this a little further by recording the data that was being sent over these networks. Google says that once they noticed what was happening they quit and informed the authorities and that they are deeply sorry and have not and will not use any of the data they collected. The inquiry by the trade commission was halted by Google’s assurances that they would not use the data and that they are improving their privacy protections. Privacy advocates, who asked Google to disclose why and how the information was collected in the first place, were angered by this decision. Other countries will be or already have investigated Google as well.
I find this article to be really interesting. I would be outrage if I found out Google had some of my information. I think that Google should have monitored what their cars where recording more closely. They should also have restrictions in place about what the cars can record or are equipped to record. A simple apology is not going to make people whose information they have happy.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
News Report
Nov. 2, 1815: Boole Born, Boolean Logic Logically Follows, November 2, 2010 by Dylan Tweney, found on www.wired.com
On November 2, 1815 George Boole was born. He would later go on to be an English mathematician and help create what we know as Boolean logic. Boole was taught at home by his father when he was younger and when he was merely 16 he began working as a schoolteacher. At the age of 24 he was submitting papers to major journals related to linear transformations and differential equations. In 1844 The Royal Society honored him for a paper he wrote about mathematical functions combining calculus and algebra. He later became a fellow of the society in 1857. Despite not having a formal college degree at the age off 33 he became a professor at Queen’s College in Ireland’s County Cork. Despite all of this we mostly know about his work with Boolean logic also known as Boolean algebra. This method reduces all logical problems to symbols. Claude Shannon’s system of using all digits that are either 1 or 0 combined with Boole’s Boolean operators of and, or, and not can be used to solve any mathematical problem. Boolean logic can also be used to make computer programs that can manipulate images and text, process mathematical problems, communicate with other computers, capture images and redisplay them in real time, and store data. However Boole was ahead of his time and the programmability of computers would have to wait till the 20th century to be discovered.
I found this article to be very interesting. I know what Boolean operators are and how to use them but I did not know the history be hide the true inventor of them. I find it very interesting that Boole was so ahead for his time and was able to go so far with such little education.
On November 2, 1815 George Boole was born. He would later go on to be an English mathematician and help create what we know as Boolean logic. Boole was taught at home by his father when he was younger and when he was merely 16 he began working as a schoolteacher. At the age of 24 he was submitting papers to major journals related to linear transformations and differential equations. In 1844 The Royal Society honored him for a paper he wrote about mathematical functions combining calculus and algebra. He later became a fellow of the society in 1857. Despite not having a formal college degree at the age off 33 he became a professor at Queen’s College in Ireland’s County Cork. Despite all of this we mostly know about his work with Boolean logic also known as Boolean algebra. This method reduces all logical problems to symbols. Claude Shannon’s system of using all digits that are either 1 or 0 combined with Boole’s Boolean operators of and, or, and not can be used to solve any mathematical problem. Boolean logic can also be used to make computer programs that can manipulate images and text, process mathematical problems, communicate with other computers, capture images and redisplay them in real time, and store data. However Boole was ahead of his time and the programmability of computers would have to wait till the 20th century to be discovered.
I found this article to be very interesting. I know what Boolean operators are and how to use them but I did not know the history be hide the true inventor of them. I find it very interesting that Boole was so ahead for his time and was able to go so far with such little education.
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