Final Blog Assignment (Class Reflection)

Overall I enjoyed the class. I think the the biggest thing that I gained out of it was learning more about computer programs like Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Up untill taking this course I have not used either of those programs and this class definitly gave me some experience using both. Another part I thought was helpfull was the blog assignments. I'm not someone who spends much time on computers and I actually learned a lot about what types of software and helpful resources are available online. Giving points for for the assignments was a good idea to because it made me sit down and actually read the book. I would say the only part of the course I didn't enjoy was the comic book project, and not because I thought it was a bad idea I just never big on comic books so I had a hard time coming up with ideas for it. Other than that I enjoed the class and I wouldnt change anything about it.

Reading Response Blog 7

1.) a. Junk Cleaing Programs (Disk Medic)
b. Windows disk cleanup utility
c. Delete uneeded files
d. Delete duplicated files

2.) I do not currently have a computer, but i when i did i used the virus scan and i deleted the cookie file about once or twice a month

3.) Process of removing or writing over files with ones or zeros so the magnetic particles that store the information lose all record of what they once held.... important becuase people cant view whats on your hardrive..

4.) Cookies are text files left on your computer after you visit a commercial website... conveniant because online advertisers can see what kind of websites you visit and show you reccomended products that relate your interests.. cookies are not good because certain advertising networks will track people by name as they visit different websites...

5.)Key loggers are programs that record every keystroke you make and email the file to a hacker... Lavasoft's Ad-Aware Personal and Microsoft Windows Defender...Many of the companies offering free anti-spyware software are actually spyware promulgators.

6.)Phishing- Process of aquiring sensitive information by sending emails directing a user to a fake website...

Pharming- Type of identity theft commited when you land on a phony website.

Reading Response Blog 6:

1.)A inexpensive way to access wireless internet outside your home or office.

2.) a.) You can check the logs of your router, check your computer security software, or download a free or shareware program.
b.) Close your network or encrypt your network.

3.) I think the man watching child porn in the car deserved to be arrested, and the man who he was stealing the internet from probably should have been arrested as well... The porn the man in the car was watching could very well came from the mans home computer.

4.) If your traveling in a secluded area you may have trouble getting broadband internet access so you couldnt use the service. Personally i wouldnt use the service just because i dont travel to places far enough away that my cell phone couldnt just as easily be used... but maybe in the future..

5.)He declared "email bankruptcy," I think if your recieving that many emails a day and you cant keep up with them its definitly a reasonable option.

6.) a.) Dont ever buy anything advertised via spam
b.)Dont ever reply to a spam or click the "unsubscribe " link.
c.)Use a third-party filter.

1.) yes i have used it but i dont own a computer so i cant download it.

2.)section g Row 1 seats c&d (restricted legroom)

sections g & l/ row 26/ seats a-f (to close to the bathrooms)

3.)Personally, i think its sort of a unneccesary serivce, first off you have to have a SMS capable phone and some phone companies will charge you extra for sending those messages . There is plenty other ways of paying for something that arent so complicated.

4.) What lenders use to determine whther or not they will give you a loanand the rate of interest they'll charge you if you get the loan. No

5.) Steve from Puno, Peru is trying to improve his taxi service so he can one day own his own taxi company. $450.00 requested 0% Raised

Victoria from Lima, Peru is trying to improve her resturaunt
$525.00 requested 14% raised

Reading Response Blog 5:

1.) Bank of America has been offering credit cards to people without a soical security number. Illegal aliens in particular. (TRUE)

An unsuccesfull contestent on The Contender committed suicide after being taken of the show. (True)

2.) Its a way to show which politicians are popular in certain areas of the country.

3.) File sharing protocol used for transfering large amounts of data.

4.) Nothing at all I had to stay on campus and work.

Reading Response Blog 3:

1.) Something that EBAY uses to automatically bid for you when you are outbid in a auction.

2.)To search for misspelled words like snoy instead of sony, its a bargain because it doesnt show up when people are searching for "sony." Site was under constuction.

3.)The seller uses a stolen credit card number to order the camera from amazon.com. Author reccomends that you dont make payments using wire transfers.

4.)A form of a credit card that can only be used online and doesnt involve you giving your real credit card number out over the internet. Citi, Bank of America, and Discover are the three companies that the book lists as examples. I have never used a virtual credit card number.

Comic Book Concept

For my setting I think I will use either the bars in Indiana or the southside in Pittsburgh. The concept will have something to do with my character as a superhero of some kind. He will travel to as many different bars as he can, doing a shot in each. The "villian" will be the barteder trying to cut the hero off at the end of the night. The main characters will be me (hero) my friends as my sidekicks, the bouncers and bartenders as the "villians". My heros "superpower" will be that he always stays at the bar untill last call , and his only weakness is when he leaves with a girl before the bar closes. I have a coulple of different ideas for my exact plot but i want to see what kind of pictures i can gather to make make the ideas work.