Scavenger Hunt

Barbara, John, and Arthur

So far on the scavenger hunt, we have found

1. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60654-d2140201-Reviews-Aulani_a_Disney_Resort_Spa-Kapolei_Oahu_Hawaii.html

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3 http://www.w3.org/WCA/ https://www.w3.org/1998/11/05/WC-workshop/Papers/Fry.html

4. neko case, beck, white stripes

15  http://andrewfry.blogspot.com/2007/07/tacoma-tag-clouds-and-technorati.htmlhttp://bp2.blogger.com/_ebJdmah2hio/RqjiXTr7h4I/AAAAAAAAAKE/oMxCpFn5jzE/s320/
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17  https://www.facebook.com/diana.seaman.121?fref=ts  Barbara Bartolatz-Littrell's high school classmate Diana Seamen

18  twitter  -   https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GlobalWarming&src=tyah

5) The names of three matchmaking websites that are NOT eHarmony.com. And these are match.com, matchmaker.com, and okcupid.com.

6) A web page or address featuring Andrew Fry as a panelist for Digital Hollywood. And this is prime.digitalhollywood.com. Bonus for naming one person on the panel - Kevin Liga.

7) A home valued at between 200,000 and 300,000, three bedrooms in University Place from Zillow and Redfin and directions how to get them. The one one zillow is at 3407 Morrison Rd W, university Place, WA 98466 and you can get there by getting on the I-705 S, Take Exit 132B and WA-16 to Center St then take Exit 1C from WA-16W.  As for the one on Redfin you'll have ti take Exit 132B, WA-16, Regents Blvd, 27th St W and Grandview Dr W to 37th St W in University Place and drive to 8902 Colgate Dr W.

9) The names of three general search engines sites that are NOT, Google, Yahoo or BING Search. And these are dogpile.com, duckduckgo.com, and ixquick.com.

10) Financial information for RealNetworks. URL...
http://investor.realnetworks.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=954111

Startup.com

My overall opinion on this documentary is that it is excellent. It is interesting to realize that the World Wide Web has not been around for very long. For a documentary like that to be made on an evolution is pretty awesome in the sense that the actual people involved in the boom ensured that there was video coverage on every single scene of the process.

First of all, this documentary teaches its viewers on how to start up a company or business and gives evidence that almost everybody has the potential to start a business. It just requires hard work, determination, commitment, persistence, etc. and anything that seems impossible to do could be easily turned around into something bigger. People are created to fail or succeed and it is okay to fail but it is only when you fail and give up that makes you a complete failure but if you can fail and use it as a lesson then you can always seek for newer ideas and succeed.

The documentary explains how anything new in technology isn’t static but always keeps changing in the smallest amount of time. One cannot stop thinking and improving on old ideas in technology but has to be always working on making something newer, better, convenient, and efficient everyday. It is very sad to realize that often times the actual inventors of an idea do not benefit the most out of it just because they relaxed and someone stepped up from the outside to make their invention better. I have come to understand that technology has developed drastically over a very short period of time. Looking at what technology was shown in the documentary and comparing that to what we have now is just absolutely incredible. From the first ever dot COM to nowadays where we have individual domains as we discussed in class and one can buy it for very cheap. I would watch it over and over again because I did not just watch the Startup.com just to know how easily it went crazy shortly after it was introduced. Instead, I took some personal lessons out of it such as starting up a business, seeking funding for a business, recruiting the best board of directors and employees, and managing the business as a whole. It was a good documentary.

The Machine is (US)ing US

This really pertains to computer and cyber ethics. The traditionalists will say that the Machine is not using us in the sense that copyright, privacy etc. as issues all existed before technology got to where is has gotten to today and wherever it is leading everybody to. The only difference now I may say is that the Machine has set a more convenient platform on which these issues use to spread more and more. “The machine is (US)ing US” sounds frightening and something to be afraid of but I personally do not agree with that. We have all very well embraced this technology but our morals play majority of the role as to if it is using us or vice versa.

I feel like “We are using the machine” instead in the sense that if we look at previous stories of cyber bullying such as the case for Megan Meier who died of suicide by hanging three weeks before her 14^th birthday was attributed through the social networking website Myspace. Did technology kill her? Well, my opinion is that this is more of a moral than a technology issue. Technology is doing a lot of great things to this world and as to why a minor of 14 years old should be socializing on websites through the Internet is a question we should ask the parents or guardians. I personally believe that if we should have boundaries morally as to what age in this case, we should be let to visit certain websites or what to and what not to use the Internet for then incidents like this wouldn’t have happened.

Another example is when we can give feedbacks on certain websites as to whether we like it or not. Hulu or Netflix for instance could recommend what to watch to viewers simply because these viewers have told the system what they are interested in and what they are not. So now, who is “using” the Machine?

What I Want To Get From This Class

Being a Computer Science major, I have studied the principles and use of computers. In this principle I must be adept at modeling and analyzing problems. I am studying the ability to design solutions and verify that they are correct. So far, most of the areas I have covered are the introductions to some programing languages and gaining proficiency in them. These include Python, C++, Java, Ruby, PHP, and C. My use of these languages have mainly been for huge data processing, design and implement, document and debug a medium complexity program with an object hierarchy that includes interfaces and/or abstract classes and a graphical user interface given some guidance on the design. Also, I design and implement unit tests for medium complexity programs with an object hierarchy that includes interfaces and/or abstract classes, utilize modern software engineering tools (e.g. IDEs, static checkers, unit testing frameworks, revision control systems) during the implementation of a medium complexity program. I do all these through correctly employing programming language features by reading and interpreting the associated published API documentation.

Although I have a fairly strong background in computing, I haven't studied the foundation of the Internet and the World Wide Web. This has not been my focus but after becoming a victim of identity theft and also having a professor's talk about cyber security last quarter, I have gotten a keen interest in learning how the Internet and the World Wide Web all started, the geniuses behind it, etc. I have appreciated how much technology has given to this world and where it is taking us. But as it is in everything, there are always pros and cons. My number one intention is to be able to be a very good software developer so that I can produce great software to make life easy for people of this world. But not everybody has such good intentions. Others live in the world of doing the opposite of everything, especially if they're going to be making easy money off it or could be hurting other people in some sort of way, be it revenge or retaliation for something they did to them. Because of this, my main focus in this class and what I want to gain out of it is to be able to identify the virtual community and explore the methods used to maintain it as well as understanding and appreciating internet security capabilities and vulnerabilities and the appropriate methods to protect the internet's information so that only the right people will get to access what they keep on there etc.