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. 

61-year-old computer springs back to life

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The WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell), a 61 year old computer was turned back on Tuesday in the UK. It  became the world's oldest working computer, first constructed in the 1950's as a part of the atomic research program, weighing about 2.5 tons. The computer has no actual use anymore in modern life except for being on display in a museum for learning purposes. The WITCH has many lights that flash and clattering sounds from all over. The WITCH uses dekatrons instead of binary code like most computers. The contraption could only store 40 8-digit numbers and takes about 5-10 seconds to multiply 2 numbers. The WITCH also uses computer programs on paper tape and has no keyboard nor monitor. I think it is a great idea to revive the WITCH because people can see the oldest computer in the world and historians and other people with the same interests can see and learn about the origins of our devices.

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Nuclear Fusion Project Struggles to Put the Pieces Together

Contracting woes may cause further delays for $19.4-billion ITER, a project designed to show the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a power source. The world's largest scientific project is threatened with further delays, as agencies struggle to complete the design and sign contracts worth hundred of millions of euros/dollars. ITER is a massive project to show that nuclear fusion can be used as a power source(for more). The device is a "doughnut shaped" reactor called a Tokamak, wrapped in superconducting magnets that squeeze and heat a plasma of hydrogen isotopes to the point of fusion. The result would be nothing ever done, the controlled release of 10 times more energy than consumed.  ITER has been consuming mostly money and time. Since seven international partners signed up to the project in 2006, the price has roughly tripled to around €15 billion (US$19.4 billion), and the original date of completion has been moved to 2020.  I have no opinion on the matter because this is alot of money going into a project that may or may not pay out.