Comp 301 Fall '09:Current events
From Comp 301 Fall '09
November 20:Government Stepping Up Privacy Protection
November 5: Social Isolation and New Technology
October 21: The evil master plan to encrypt g-mail, found!
October 19: Amazon, Facebook, and Google back FCC on Net neutrality
October 12: Cracked.com: 5 Ways You're Secretly Being Monitored Cracked.com gives a pretty hilarious description of how we don't have privacy anymore.
October 7: Facial Profiler An ad campaign for Coke Zero that claims to find people that look like you. You connect by Facebook, and they are asking for people to upload pictures to form a "Face Database."
October 6: Scambaiting 101 This is a site dedicate to the 'baiting' of 419 scammers, primarily from Nigeria. A pretty hilarious thing.
September 18: FCC to unveil new Net Neutrality rules Not exactly from the mouth of a ninja, but still could be good news for all those who like to legally *cough cough* download media. -Sean
September 17: 50 things that are being killed by the internet A fun and interesting read from the Telegraphy.co.uk Technology site.
September 16: News Story on NBC Nightly News (because hey, who said old media wasn't sexy?) about how swine flu is being tracked on the web. Also, mentioned in the story (and way more fun to play around with) is an application that combines twitter updates concerning swine flu, Google Earth and traceroute to show where people post/have issues with the epidemic in real time. - Scott
September 15: Homework 2 is now up. Have fun with traceroute.
September 15: Justin has written a great little tutorial on how to use the pdf format for file upload. This makes life better.
September 1: Homework 1 to be assigned in class today. We will go over the exercise in class (RCB).
