Response to Mazer

  The power team is a organization of muscular christian people.  Real manly men.  It's symbolic because the big masculinity of these men represent their strength of not sinning.  They say Jesus was a man's man and not a skinny little man.  But it does seem like they try to make you believe in their religion.  But I think every person should be allowed to have their own belief and that other people shouldn't make you belief anything you don't want to.  Personally, I'm not religious but it doesn't matter to me what religion anyone believes in.  There are so many different religions you can believe which ever one you would like.  While growing up I was pretty religious but as I got older I changed my mind of what I believed and my family and friends are fine with that.  But there is one part of this organization that I think is a good thing.  They encourage people to not abuse drugs and alcohol or anything else that can effect you negatively.  They want to make a true positive change in your life for the better.  This wasn't the best read but it sure makes you think about other kinds of religions and ways people practice and show theirs.

Response to Sedaris

  This is an interesting story about a guy with OCD.  At times it was kind of funny but it was also realistic at times because people with OCD act and do similar rituals that he did.  It is a serious problem and he can't help to do them.  His family and other people are mean to him but I think it's because they don't realize he has a problem and that he can't help it.  I think he could have got this from his family who at times seemed like they had a bit of an OCD disorder even though they don't realize it and it's not as severe as his.  But when he gets to college his OCD isn't as bad because he starts to smoke, drink, and do drugs.  He still had OCD but he had cigarettes and smoking that kept him busy and  he was so obsessive and compulsive over a single cigarette, it would calm him down and it was something to do with his hands and mouth.  He says everything is fine if he knows he has a cigarette to smoke in the future.

Research Questions

1.    How much potential damage can happen to somebody from Cyber crimes and how can you protect yourself from being attacked virtually.  

2   Cyber crimes are some of the fastest grow crimes and if you don’t protect yourself from these crimes over the computer it could really affect you and your future.

3.      Cyber crimes have increased greatly over the past few years because of the rise of using a computer.  They can be anything from spam, viruses, spyware, to hacking into a computer and stealing important files and identities.  Cyber crimes are any crimes used on a computer.  You can even buy software over the internet now to create your own malware and other illegal computer attacks.  Most attacks are targeted attacks but not all.  The reason they can be targeted is because of the information on ones computer.  Cyber security is the defense against these kinds of crimes.  It is important to have a good defense program to block all the harmful things on the web.  The easiest way to do this is to buy a software package that protects your computer from harmful ware over the web.

4.     I still would like to find out how many people actually perform these kinds of crimes and what the most popular ones are.  If you get hacked and important information is stolen how badly it can affect your life.  How do cyber cops keep up with the changing of the internet and these crimes.  What are the laws against computer crimes.  How difficult it can be to find the people who are doing the crimes.

5.      I have looked at several different sources for this topic.  I have looked on databases that have scholarly articles and journals.  A few books, government websites as well as just other regular websites, and I have even seen a few movies that deal with computer crimes.

Response to Klosterman

Klostermans “Ha Ha,” he said, “Ha Ha” is an article about canned laughter and laugh tracks and how stupid he thinks they are.  I’m not really persuaded on his argument.  I have seen many shows he included in his argument.  A lot of them I like even though some use laugh tracks and some don’t.  I don’t lean towards either side of using or not using a laugh track, I enjoy shows with or without them.  For example Two and Half Men has recently become one my favorite shows and it still uses a laugh track and I think the laugh track adds to the hilarity of the show.  You don’t always notice it’s there either; if you get really into the show they you don’t even notice it even though I don’t always laugh with the laugh track because I don’t laugh at dumb or unnecessary comments or things.  Another show I really enjoy is, It’s Always Suny in Philadelphia, and they don’t use a canned laugh, in fact it would probably seem awkward if they would add a laugh track to the show now, but it’s still a really funny show without the laugh track, you don’t notice it’s not even there.  I think it all starts with the beginning of the show and how the show is produced, to whether or not a laugh track should be used.  It’s funny either way.

intro to topic

The topic I am considering using for my research paper is cyber crime.  Cyber or computer crime is any crime that involves a computer and a network.  They include anything from downloading illegal music files to stealing millions of dollars from online bank accounts.  There is also net crime which refers precisely to crimes on the internet.  Those crimes usually consist of hacking, copyright infringement, child pornography, and child grooming.  There are also problems with privacy when confidential info is lost.  Cyber crime has a large range of potentially illegal activities.

There is also spam, which is sending email in bulk for commercial purposes, it is unlawful.  Computer fraud is any false fact intended to cause a loss from someone.  A few other cyber crimes include offensive content, harassment, drug trafficking, cyber warfare, and cyber terrorism, but there are many more different kinds of cyber crime.  Now that we are highly using technology, cyber crimes are on the rise and the FBI is doing what they can to prevent and protect people from being attacked by one. 

I would like to find out how many people commit cyber crimes and what charges they could face for doing them.

Annotation Bibliographic of article

Facebook is a huge social networking site that millions of people use, and this article is about your privacy settings, and what they plan to do to make it safer and easier to use.  Facebook started out really simple with not many features, but since then it has evolved greatly.  And the more people want to use it, the better privacy settings they want also.  So they add privacy settings to just about everything so that you can customize how you want things to be displayed, or what other people can see on your profile.  They are continuing to listen to our feedback and are continuing to make things simpler.  Facebook is constantly updating and improving the ease to your privacy settings.

Zuckerberg, Mark. "Making Control Simple | Facebook." The Facebook Blog | Facebook. 26 May 2010. Web. 07 Feb. 2011. <http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=391922327130>.

response to Richtel article

  Richtel's article "Attached to technology and paying a price" is a rather interesting article about the Campbell family's technology usage.  It seems like just to much tech in a day, especially for Mr. Campbell, who seems to be constantly on his phone or computer.  But also the whole family are constantly using their phones, laptops, and playing video games.  Even the daughter, who is only in second grade, will get on her laptop and zone completely out and not even hear her mother calling her name.  They forget about other things going on because they get stuck in the use of their technology, for example Mrs. Campbell forgot about baking cooks twice and burnt both batches.  They don't seem to have much family time, or time without getting involved with their phones.  It's an obsession that seems that it can't be stopped, even though the article says you can rewire the brain, the Campbell's are fixed with their technology.  It is the entire part of their life.  It's amazing how involved they are with technology.
  Lots of people are having, like a type of ADHD/obsession, towards checking their phones or facebook or having multiple tabs open at once, and going back and forth through them.  It is a part of today's technology use.  Trying to mulitask these things usually contributes to poorer school work or other outside work.  The work can easily be interrupted.
  I love technology and I am majoring in IT, but I think that this is just too much.  For me, logging onto my laptop for only a short period of the day is enough to read my emails, checkup on recent news and sports and a check a few other web sites that I enjoy.