Friday, December 10, 2010

Blog Revise (Blog 1)


With the introduction of the internet, it opened up a lot of venues for businesses, new ones to be formed, and current businesses to be aided in wireless electronic transfers and such. It also has opened up options for students and curious minds alike to type in a question in a search engine and find dozens of links to find the answer. But when there’s good, there’s something to balance the equation, as it open up opportunities for businesses and people, it opened up options for con men, thieves, and evil users with the intent  to gain some monetary gain at someone else’s expense.

Businesses gained benefits from the internet with the creation of email. Allowing co workers to send their projects or presentations that needed to be presented in an hour from anywhere in the world. The recipient can receive anything via e-mail and be able to utilize that piece of their puzzle to carry on with their work instead of waiting close to a week to finish without the others input. This allows businesses to cut labor hours being wasted by merely waiting on someone else’s input to finish their final product (be it again presentations, prototypes for a new item, or ensuring their system is secure from other rival companies etc.)

Students and knowledge seekers gained a huge benefit for being able to find the answer to a question they don’t know. In today’s day and age people are running out of excuses to say “I don’t know” with Google and handfuls of web resources, someone is bound to have found out the answer to your exact question, and one in a billion shot being that your are not the only one who has had a specific problem with someone knowing the solution or figuring it out for themselves and posting it on forums all over the world wide web. But there are those you use this amazing pipeline of info to use it for devious purposes ( self indulgences, vile content, or simply wasting their life looking up pointless YouTube videos and getting the urge to try it despite seeing it fail).

The main dark side of the internet is the possibility of someone who doesn’t want to earn an honest days pay siphoning your information, browsing history or the recent outbreak of fake antivirus programs that try to convince you that your computer is infected, leading you to believe that if you pay for it, your computer will get better, but in turn they now have your credit card information to make fraudulent purchases at your expense.



 This also comes into major effect with people creating semi legitimate looking websites for a bank the users have or key logger viruses, these viruses track and send back every key stroke you have used until the virus is eradicated, this is dangerous when you use online banking resources and it collects your user name and priceless password for them to transfer anything they want wherever.
Thus these kinds of threats opened the door to recent major expansions of 50+ Antivirus, malware and spyware companies creating software to combat these kinds of threats and are now struggling with each other to remain on top, most do not have differences at all, just a brand name that in the end will do the same job, making sure that viruses and other internet computer threats stay out of your system. Most of the time though, people including myself feel that they are a waste of money because we never see them work, on the contrary though, its really working in the back ground doing its job to make sure your not infected. Kind of sounds familiar with soldiers that go above and beyond their call of duty, come home and are generally not truly acknowledged doesn't it?



The internet is a great resource….. as long as it’s used and monitored properly by eventually…. yourself.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Blog 2 - What if everyone could and would reason?

Should reasoning skills be taught in primary school?
I think it would be a great idea to teach or at least give an idea of what “reasoning” is, but to teach this type of skill would require customization for each individual, since everyone thinks and believes completely different. Our ways or reasoning comes down to compromising to reach an agreeable outcome, but so many factors affect one’s ability to reason. Such as way of life, religion, positions on politics and personal beliefs and if they are able to look past it (stubbornness on positions). If we were able to find a way to make everyone understand that there are and is acceptable to have multiple theories and idea on how something came to be (god creating the universe or evolution from the primordial soup), but that would be reasoning within itself wouldn’t it? If such methods worked for a vast majority of people and students being able to understand this simple concept, maybe we wouldn’t have as many differences, people would maybe come to find there is no reason for racism, but in fact it is ethnicism since we are all one race regardless of color…. The human race. IF people were able to properly reason and be able to support their argument other than relying blind faith and ideas they have no true knowledge on, maybe we would be able to understand the difference with Muslims and terrorists and not make such careless misconceptions. Religions being able to accept the Koran, many versions of the bible, and any such text that religions base their beliefs on, would be a major step in peace and tranquility among mankind. If everyone had reasoning that should and could be taught in schools, may make a newer, better generation of adults. Maybe then overtime, we could all stand united regardless of backgrounds.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

How technology has affected everyone (Blog 1)

With the introduction of the internet, it opened up a lot of venues for businesses, new ones to be formed, and current businesses to be aided in wireless electronic transfers and such. It also has opened up options for students and curious minds alike to type in a question in a search engine and find dozens of links to find the answer. But when there’s good, there’s something to balance the equation, as it open up opportunities for businesses and people, it opened up options for conmen, thieves, and evil users with the intent  to gain some monetary gain at someone else’s expense.

Businesses gained benefits from the internet with the creation of email. Allowing co workers to send their projects or presentations that needed to be presented in an hour from anywhere in the world. The recipient can receive anything via e-mail and be able to utilize that piece of their puzzle to carry on with their work instead of waiting close to a week to finish without the others input. This allows businesses to cut labor hours being wasted by merely waiting on someone else’s input to finish their final product (be it again presentations, prototypes for a new item, or ensuring their system is secure from other rival companies etc.)

Students and knowledge seekers gained a huge benefit for being able to find the answer to a question they don’t know. In today’s day and age people are running out of excuses to say “I don’t know” with Google and handfuls of web resources, someone is bound to have found out the answer to your exact question, and one in a billion shot being that your are not the only one who has had a specific problem with someone knowing the solution or figuring it out for themselves and posting it on forums all over the world wide web. But there are those you use this amazing pipeline of info to use it for devious purposes ( self indulgences, vile content, or simply wasting their life looking up pointless YouTube videos and getting the urge to try it despite seeing it fail).

The main dark side of the internet is the possibility of someone who doesn’t want to earn an honest days pay siphoning your information and browsing history. This comes into major effect with people creating semi legitimate looking websites for a bank the users have or key logger viruses, these viruses track and send back every key stroke you have used until the virus is eradicated, this is dangerous when you use online banking resources and it collects your user name and priceless password for them to transfer anything they want wherever. Thus these kinds of threats opened the door to recent major expansions of 50+ Antivirus, malware and spyware companies creating software to combat these kinds of threats and raking in close to billions a year.

The internet is a great resource….. as long as it’s used and monitored properly by eventually…. yourself.

Friday, September 3, 2010

first blog.... ever

SO this is my first time blogging ever in my life despite being up to date with technology. I do hope what i will pick will interest some of you and maybe stop to think ya why is it like that"? because that is what i think all the time. Why does or should this work? Who woke up one morning and decided im going to invent the wheel or car or anything that we use and in most case heavily rely on.

Well, i hope to have some of you enjoy my blogs as they evolve. =)