Over the last week, I began to build my own chatbot. I introduce… The Perkinator. He is a powerful robot who loves to talk about technology; in particular he really enjoys a good conversation about Google, Apple, or Microsoft; but he’s open to other topics too. Have fun!!! I found that programming Chatbots is sort [...]

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This post aims to examine two articles, “Are You Living In A Computer Simulation” by Nick Bostrom as well as “The Coming Technological Singularity: How To Survive In The Human Era”; as well as examining the impacts & issues associated with the technological breakthroughs from man. Full post after the break. It’s rather long… So [...]

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The UK Government’s Plan to disconnect filesharers from the internet has been met with deserved criticism. This plan directly interferes with the ITGS Social & Ethical Issue of Privacy & Anonymity; as it will force ISPs to report illegal activity and ultimately disconnect users; but in a more realistic sense deals with Intellectual Property. The [...]

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The role of the network administrator is to maintain the stability of the server. The server is very important, as the stability of our school network depends on its’ performance. The role of a network administrator is in management through software, rather than managing through hardware. All this work can be done through one computer [...]

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Final Portfolio: The GMail outage My final portfolio will concern a Cnet article explaining the recent Gmail outage. On September 1, the popular email client Gmail crashed for 100 minutes when a few servers were taken offline for upgrades. While this is a usual service procedure for servers, some changes were made to the request [...]

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A privacy group is campaigning for the Street View feature of Google Maps to be shut down, citing privacy concerns. People have claimed there have been many instances of privacy violation, one instance being a man caught smoking despite telling his wife he wasn’t, or a boy with a skateboard who wasn’t allowed to own [...]

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Recently, there has been much controversy of the BBC’s experimental botnet, which was sent to 22,000 computers in a technology segment on BBC News. The BBC simply wanted to prove how easily vulnerable to botnets computers could be. The BBC reassures us that this botnet was harmless, as it only changed the wallpaper on a [...]

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On March 17, Premier Election Solutions (Once called Diebold) claimed that there were critical errors in its’ software, and existed in every version of their Software. The error comes in the ITGS Social and Ethical issue of Security, as the audit logs would hunt for glitches within the software. In this case, the logs weren’t [...]

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I know you want to watch it, but FIGHT THE TEMPTATION!!!!!! Uploaded on authorSTREAM by dontpetthesheep

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Jonathan Zittrain is not worried about the internet itself, but rather where it is heading. With the Web 2.0 movement, websites/applications such as Youtube, Facebook, and Google Maps have made our lives easier, but threatened our very way of life. With many ways of exploiting the internet and easily catching viruses and a lack of [...]

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As I approach the conclusion to “The Future Of The Internet: And How To Stop It”, the question has become less of an ITGS Issue of security, rather than control. In the right hands, devices with inputs capable of spying can be safe. However, what would happen if the control fell into the wrong hands? [...]

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In the Daily Telegraph article “The Couple Divorcing Over Husband’s Virtual Lover”, we follow Amy Pollard’s outrage over her husband committing “Adultery” in the virtual world simulator Second Life. Her husband first had a virtual affair with an online call girl. Amy eventually hired a private detective to confirm these facts, which were confirmed to [...]

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Currently, I am reading the fascinating look at where the internet is headed, entitled, The Future Of The Internet: And How To Stop It. So far, this novel is extremely compelling and easy read. Within the first fifty pages within the introduction, Jonathan Zittrain covers technological history all the way from the early days of [...]

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