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Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling - 6 views

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    This article starts out with a scenario about a professional online poker player figuring out that he was actually playing against a bot, which is designed to beat its opponents against all odds. There area of impact of this article can be arts entertatinment and leisure because the players do play for money and compete with one another online. This is from the point of view from the players however it can be also seen as business and employment because bots are being sold on line to do this specific task and to win earnings for whoever has paid for them. The Social and ethical issues here can be Security when looking at it from the point of view of the poker site owner, they are supposed to try and root out any bots to make online playing fair for everyone else. People and Machines can also be applied here because the bots are taking something that is meant for recreation by humans and extending their faculties but to the extent of not playing by the rules and playing an unfair game with some one else. The stakeholders of this issue are the online poker players, the people who own the poker playing website and the people who sell and use the poker bots. The IT system referred to in the article are the bots.
Kristin O

Personalized Gifts, Baby Gifts, Birthday Gifts - Personal Creations - 1 views

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    This site is similar to Carmens because it offeres similar services and products. It even offers a place for the customer to upload their own photos in order to personalize various items. While exploring this site I learned that it is very important to think about the design of the website. This website is easy to navigate well organized and esthetically really nice to look at and click around.
Kristin O

BBC NEWS | Business | HSBC bank 'to offshore more jobs' - 0 views

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    This article is about HSBC's pplans to keep outsorucing clerical jobs in diferent countries. This has many owrkers upset because they feel this is eliminating their jobs and putting caps on their wages. THe social and ethical issues involved are Equality of Access and Policies and Standards. There are impacts on the Bank as well. There is the economic impact, they are saving alot of money for setting up call centers they save about $20,000 - $30,000 per job it moved into the call center. There is a psycological impact the bank has to deal with and that is of their unhappy workeres in their base country. Finally there is a global impact, with more call centers the bank may be able to gain new customers in those countries. THe relevant stakeholders besides the banks are, the workers of HSBC bank, customers of the bank, politicians and media, other countries where centers are set up. This includes, India, China, Malaysia, Phillipines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The primary IT System are the call centers. This involves the use of WANs and LANs. There are also vairous ways in which call centers can be set up. They can use cloud computing or even be created virtually through the development of software as a service. The employee would only have to susbscirbe to a software that would allow them to work in the center, this makes it easier to receive updates as well.
Kristin O

BBC NEWS | Technology | Consumer concern over RFID tags - 1 views

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    This article talks about the security concerns that the customers of a supermarkets have with the use of RFID technology. They feel that the RFID technology is to invasive and can be used to track where abouts of items after they have been purchased at the store.
Kristin O

Cyberthieves Silently Copy Your Passwords as You Type - New York Times - 1 views

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    new technique for stealing passwords from users uses special key stroke software that reads the password. In brazil 50 people were arrested for using this software to send peoples infromation to gangs in the area
Kristin O

Law or no, it's simple: Don't text and drive - OregonLive.com - 0 views

  • In the first place, you'd think you wouldn't need a law, that simple common sense would be enough to tell us it's unsafe to divert attention to a tiny keyboard and screen while simultaneously piloting 2 tons of metal, rubber, glass and, let us not forget, flesh
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      he is trying to understand why people still text while they are driving when they know its dangerous
Kristin O

Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports, Blogs, Photos, Vide... - 1 views

shared by Kristin O on 14 Sep 09 - Cached
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    Here SMS text messaging is being taken advantage of by people when they are angry
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