People Are Willing to Give Away Their Personal Data for a Cinnamon Cookie

What- An experiment by a local artist called "Please Enable Cookies" gave away cookies to anyone who would answer personal security questions from "your mother's first maiden name" to potential social security number digits

Why- This was to show how people worth their personal information, to 380 new yorkers it was only worth a cookie

Who- experiment done by artist Risa Puno

Where- Brooklyn Arts Festival

http://mashable.com/2014/10/01/data-for-cookies/

        Is the iPhone 6 prone to bending?

What: The iPhone 6 is prone to bending

Where: Found bending in people's pockets

Why: The new iPhone 6 model can not handle the constant strain of being carried in people's pockets

When: This is still happening currently and Apple has not responded or made any statements about this

Web 2.0: Multimedia Blog Posting Sem 2_Pre

   This school year I am taking the mathematics class geometry. The teacher is Mr. Santangelo . The class is simply ordinary. What I expected to learn from the 1st day of class was geometry. There isn't much to know about Mr. Santangelo except for his days off due to family emergencies. I've only so far reviewed in that class but so far we are currently expanding our knowledge on lines, points, planes, and spaces.

  Mr. Santangelo's grading policy is very simple it is 10% homework, 10% class participation, 10% projects, 25% quiz and, 45% test. The part of the class that interests me the most is the lines. I say this because lines are fun, they have slope, Y-intercepts, and somehow very important if not everyone's, my education.

   The class does not use technology at all except every now and then a graphing calculator. The class does include cooperation which seems to be essential in the class. I like the class very much, it is very informative and helpful for my career in math. (?) 

Educational Technology and Copyright Law

In the article I learned about copyright law and how it protects originality. The copy right law states :Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work

Anything that goes agaist these rules are prohibited by copyright law.

Five million Gmail addresses and passwords dumped online

An archive which contained about five million gmail addresses and passwords was posted Tuesday on an online forum Tuesday. Though the data was old and likely came from several security breaches in the system according to a security firm. A user with the online name "tvskit" posted the archive on a Bitcoin security forum, btcsec.com, and claimed that over 60% of the email addresses and passwords are valid.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2605400/five-million-gmail-addresses-and-passwords-dumped-online.html

"Cold Fusion" Dream

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In 1989 Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann claimed they could change the world. They made a new power source call "Cold Fusion", if it was true. Though it still remains a theory it may still be possible. Cold Fusion said to be a cleaner power source. Cold Fusion is better defined as a low energy nuclear reaction or LENR. If the theory is true the price for cold fusion is 25% less than coal a year. Though it may still take years for this possibility to become true. I believe this is a great possibility to save money and a cleaner power.

discussion questions

1. Why did you select the sites you subscribed to?  I selected them because they were either great news sources, for technology, the world, and the U.S. or the site was a government site, or a hobby that I'm interested in.
2. Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them? The feeds were easy and sometimes challenging to find because the RSS feed button was either a symbol, a "click here", or just a big RSS.Subscribing to the RSS feeds was surprisingly easy.
3. Which sites were your favorites? The government, state sites because it showed what is happening around the United States.
4. What else can you use RSS feeds for? To read about news, to bookmark interesting websites (by news wise), and can be used for as a personal newspaper on the web.
5. How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future? I don't know, it depends on how interested I'm into the subject to know about it every so often.