Post #8

In chapter 8, it talks about ethnics and the information age. There are five areas of computer ethics frequently discussed are 1. unauthorized use of computers, 2. hardware, software, and information theft, 3. information privacy, 4. copyright, and 5. the existence of objectionable materials on the Internet. Information privacy is the right of individuals and organizations to deny or restrict the collection and use of information about them. There are several different scams that are listed in the book under unauthorized collection and use of information. The first scam is phishing. Phishing is a scam in which a perpetrator sends an official-looking e-mail that attempts to obtain personal and financial information from the recipient. Spam is an unsolicited e-mail message or newsgroup posting sent to many recipients or newsgroups at once. The Copyright Act of 1976 and its numerous amendments apply to all creative works. A copyright means the original author or creator of the work retains ownership of the work and has the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the creative work.

Something I learned was how to put together a really good power point. I also now know how to add action buttons and insert different backgrounds instead of using the default ones they have.

I have a pretty bad week. Trying to register for classes, I found out that I had a stop on my account that I did not know about. When I fixed the first stop I found out that I had another. A huge pain in the butt to run around campus on my day off from school. And then registering for football tickets was another fun excursion. And let's not get started on the fact that FSU lost to Miami. There goes our season, Again! Anyways hopefully we'll win against Duke. The Packers didn't play but we have to play the Broncos on MNF. GO PACK GO. GO Noles.