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anonymous

2009 Identity Theft Statistics - 0 views

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    The process of using someone else's personal infomation for other users own personal gain. There has been study going on by the Javelin Strategy & Research Center since 2004. 2008 statitics revel that almost 10 million victims (22% increase from 2007). 71% of the fraud that happens, happens in the first weak of stealing the victims personal data.
anonymous

Identity Theft and Fraud - 0 views

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    Description of Identity theft, and that it is indeed a crime. Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. In the US and Canada many poeple have reported that unauthorized persons have taken frauds out of their bank or finacial accounts, or the worst care, taken over their identity all together (another person who is using someone else's name/credit card).
Chalana Perera

Subtitles on Online Programs (BBC Technology) - 0 views

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    The famous tech show "click" now has subtitles online and this article discusses the impacts of having subtitles for its internet versions of the show.
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    The famous tech show "click" now has subtitles online and this article discusses the impacts of having subtitles for its internet versions of the show.
Jeff Ratliff

When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"? (io9) - 2 views

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    Whether Avatar is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick District 9, released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race. Specifically, it's a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people. Avatar and scifi films like it give us the opportunity to answer the question: What do white people fantasize about when they fantasize about racial identity?
Jeff Ratliff

33 Best Typography Effect Photoshop Tutorials - 0 views

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    "Photoshop's text and layer tools can be used to create some really awesome Typography's. We've put together a list of 33 of the best Typography tutorials we could find to help you stay up to date on the latest trends and techniques. You'll find some really cool grunge and glass styles, learn how some of the best designers create their unique effects using typography."
anonymous

Web Server (Wikipedia) - 0 views

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    The primary function of a Web server is to deliver Web pages to clients. This means delivery of HTML documents and any additional content that may be included by a document, such as images, style sheets and JavaScripts. Most webservers have limitation, and if reached could cause breakdown of server, or "crash."
anonymous

Facebook 30,000 Servers (Data Center Knowledge) - 0 views

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    Update on number of servers the company has to run the massively popular social website, Facebook. It has been updated from the orginal 10,000 to an existing 30,000 servers. Facebook is also responsible of logging 300 million users data. Facebook gets about 25 terabytes of log data everyday. 
Maliha Rahman

The Impact Red Light/Speeding Cameras- (newcarbuyingguide.com)) - 2 views

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    -how red light/speeding cameras can be taken as a violation of privacy and how increased potential of receiving tickets could affect one's auto insurance rate. -you have to face the cameras because they can't be used, but what are other solutions that could make this process easier and less of an issue?
Chalana Perera

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | UK surveillance plan to go ahead - 2 views

  • asking firms to retain information on how people use social networks such as Facebook.
  • More communication via computers rather than phones Companies won't always keep all data all the time Anonymity online masks criminal identities More online services provided from abroad Data held in many locations and difficult to find
  • recognition of the role of data in protecting the public
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  • Communications data is crucial to the fight against crime and in keeping people safe. It is a highly technical area and one which demands a fine balance between privacy and maintaining the capabilities of the police and security services
  • The Home Office says it wants to change the law to compel communication service providers (CSPs) to collect and retain records of communications from a wider range of internet sources, from social networks through to chatrooms and unorthodox methods, suc
  • ecret security services have legal powers in the UK to intercept communications in the interests of combating crime or threats to national security.
funeral director

A Big Uplifting Hand in Time of Distress - 2 views

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shazad rouf

Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com - 0 views

  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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      areas of impact: Arts, entertainment and leisure
  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
  • At the end of 2008, there were an estimated 4 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency. That's about two cell phone subscriptions for every three people.
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      Social and ethnical issues: Globalization and cultural diversity Now, almost everyone has a cell phone as it is the best way to communicate with others.
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      IT systems: Communication systems
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      IMPACT: Arts
shazad rouf

Online career matchmaker helps MBAs land jobs - CNN.com - 0 views

  • "Even though the economy is not as bad as it used to be, we are still seeing a good uptake. Our traffic is still going strong," Larizadeh says.
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      areas of impact: business and employment
  • Four years and a round of venture capital funding later, what started as a hobby designed to help friends share career information has turned into a network with approximately 600,000 members.
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      social and ethnic issues: security
  • Schools like The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business have formed partnerships with Doostang that enable their students to access the network's premium job listings for free.
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      IT systems in a social sytem: Communication system
Sung Won Kwak

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony cuts price of PS3 consoles - 0 views

  • Sony Entertainment has announced it is reducing the price of its PlayStation 3 games consoles.In Europe the price has been lowered to 299 euros, in the US to $299 and in the UK to £249.99.
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      area of impact-business
  • new slim-line PS3 would be available from the first week of September. "It has the same features and functionality [as the old PS3], but now it is 32% smaller, 36% lighter and consumes 34% less power," he said.
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      it systems-Basics:hardware
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      socialðnical issue-people&machines
  • a new digital reader for the PSP - called Digital Comics - that will allow users to read Spiderman, Fantastic 4 and other DC comics on their portable, along with a range of graphic novels.
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      it systems-basics:software
anonymous

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web tool oversees Afghan election - 0 views

  • Their reports feature alongside those of full-time Afghan journalists to ensure the election and reporting of it is as "free
  • The Alive in Afghanistan project plots the SMS reports on an online map.
  • The text messages are collected via a free-platform known as FrontlineSMS, developed by UK programmer Ken Banks.
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  • Any attempt to rig or interfere with Afghanistan's election could be caught out by a system that allows anyone to record incidents via text message.
  • authenticity.
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      stakeholder 2
  • Ushahidi
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      stakeholder 1
  • National Security Council
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      Stakeholder 3
  • "We hope to enable people to report on what is going on in the country
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      Stalkholder 4, the people create the impact, and are going to use the SMS technology.
  • of Afghanistan has asked all domestic and international media agencies to "refrain form broadcasting any incidence of violence during the election process".
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      Areas of Impact>Politics and Government
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    Any attempt to rig or interfere with Afghanistan's election could be caught out by a system that allows anyone to record incidents via text message.
Andrew Beadle

A-Z of Programming Languages: Scala - a-z of programming languages, LinkedIn, programmi... - 0 views

  • Scala is not really a scripting language — that's not it's main characteristic. In fact, it can express everything that Java can and I believe there are a lot of things it can offer for large systems that go beyond the capabilities of Java
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      IT System: this is a form of digital communication that helps with developers developping programs.
iman mustafa

Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user - 0 views

  • The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET New
  • A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
  • Kelly declined to speculate on who was behind the attack, but he said: "You have to ask who would benefit the most from doing this and think about what those people are doing and the disregard for the rest of the users and the Internet."
Sanchit Jain

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated - 0 views

  • they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
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      there is no individuality, aynbody can be "created".SOCIAL
  • You can just engineer a crime scene,”
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      Science and the Environment, Politics and Government IMPACT
  • A potential invasion of personal privacy is another.
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      Control, Policies and Standards, Integrity SOCIAL
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  • stored in law enforcement databases as a series of numbers and letters corresponding to variations at 13 spots in a person’s genome.
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      IT SYSTEMS: basic hardware, used in the process to create DNA
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    they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
Shih-Chen Chiu

'Facebook Lite' gets public debut - 0 views

  • aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
  • Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
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      IT systems in a social context-software & applications
  • "Facebook Lite is a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enables people to make comments, accept friend requests, write on people's walls, and look at photos and status updates," the statement continued.
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      social & ethical issues- globalization, equality of acces
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  • The site is currently on trial in India and it is thought there are plans to extend this to China and Russia.
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      areas of impact- business
  • In a statement Facebook said the new service would be a "faster, simpler version similar to the Facebook experience you get on a mobile phone".
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      social & ethical issues people and machines
Omkar Naik

Hacking firms one click ahead of law - 0 views

  • For $US100, the website provided Cioni, then living in northern Virginia, with the password to her boyfriend's AOL email account. For another $100, she got her boyfriend's wife's password. And then the password of another girlfriend and the boyfriend's children.
  • Federal US law prohibited hacking into email, but without further illegal activity it was only a misdemeanour, said Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University.
  • All the services advertise that they will email a screenshot of the target's inbox or even send an email from the target's account as proof that they've cracked the password. The customer then sends payment. One service then responds with the script of a scene from a Shakespeare play, with the stolen password hidden in the copy.
Chalana Perera

BBC News | Sci/Tech | Search engine seeks billion URLs - 0 views

  • But size is not everything and while alltheweb seemed lightning fast when I tried it, it did not appear to match the relevancy of a much smaller search engine now
  • find more of these highly rated gems and place them on the first or second page of search results, resulting in a better and more satisfying search experience."
  • the result of more than a decade of research into optimising search algorithms and architectures in a project initiated at the
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  • storage subsystems, operating in parallel to distribute user queries, search the catalogue and spider the Web.
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