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.

self introduction

My name is Justin Geary, I'm currently attending IUP for IT.  My home is about 25 minutes from Pittsburgh, but I was born in Virginia and lived there till I was 9.  I love all sports.  I don't play any college sports but in high school and when I was younger I played hockey, football, baseball, basketball, track, and I was even on the golf team sophmore year.  I  BLEED Black and Gold.  Steelers in the Super Bowl again, hell yeah!