Today we read a article about how you can be tracked by people. The article is called "Facebook Is Using You" but only a small part of the article is about facebook. The article starts out by telling you that facebook filed documents with the government allowing it to sell shares of stock to the public. Facebook has 845 million users and has made 3.2 billion in advertising revenue last year. That is only 85 percent of the revenue made. Then the article goes on to tell you about Google and how much it has made. Google made 36.5 billion in advertising revenue. Whenever you search something on the search engine, an advertisement that is similar to what you search will show up. I find that kind of creepy. An advertisement responding to my searches creeps me out.
Then argue goes on to finally get to the main point, that material found online can be used against you. The material has been used against people battling for child custody of trying to defend themselves in criminal cases.
The article says, "LexisNexis has a product called Accurint for Law Enforcement, which gives government agents information about what people do on social networks. The Internal Revenue Service searches Facebook and Myspace for evidence of tax evaders' incomeand whereabouts, and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has been known to scrutinize photos and posts to confirm family relationships or weed out of fake marriages." That totally sucks. It just shows that I have no privacy, except for in my home. Unless, they are being creey and watching us there too.
The lady who wrote the article thinks that there should be a law against being able to be tracked. I agree with her, there should be a law to protect people's privacy.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Hepatitis C Hits Baby Boom
On Cbs3 website there is an article called "Hepatitis C Surpasses AIDS As Killer, Hitting Baby-Boom Generations Hardest." The article is about the symptoms of being exposed to hepatitis c. A study says that 1 in 33 baby boomers has the hepatitis c virus. The hepatitis c virus is a small enveloped, positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae. Hepatitis C virrus is the cause of hepatitis c in the body. At the monent, there is currently no vaccine to prevent hepatitis c infection. Federal health officials say hepatitis c is now killing more people than AIDS are. Most of these people who are dying from hepatitis c are over 45 years old. Once the symptoms appear the liver is already damaged.
Dr. Robert Bettiker says, "The major symptoms include pain in the right upper quadrant of your abdomen and that goes on for days or months. Your eyes might turn yellow, you might start bleeding a lot if you get cut, and the veins in your esophagus can get really big and can rapture."
Dr.Bettiker says that if you had a blood transfusion before 1990 or have ever used intravenous drugs you should tell your doctor. Early treatment for the deadly virus could be effective.
I feel sorry for those who have been born during that baby boom where they might possibly have hepatitis c. They should all get tested to know if the have it. The article says that some people may have hepatitis c and not even know it. They deserve to know, so they should go to their doctor.
Dr. Robert Bettiker says, "The major symptoms include pain in the right upper quadrant of your abdomen and that goes on for days or months. Your eyes might turn yellow, you might start bleeding a lot if you get cut, and the veins in your esophagus can get really big and can rapture."
Dr.Bettiker says that if you had a blood transfusion before 1990 or have ever used intravenous drugs you should tell your doctor. Early treatment for the deadly virus could be effective.
I feel sorry for those who have been born during that baby boom where they might possibly have hepatitis c. They should all get tested to know if the have it. The article says that some people may have hepatitis c and not even know it. They deserve to know, so they should go to their doctor.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
I'm a criminal and so are you
We read a article in class about a lady saying that most people have broken a law but they just haven't been caught. The people who have been caught get treated unfairly once they do their time and get out of jail. Michelle Alexander has been telling people that she was a criminal. She is a fairly clean-cut, light-skinned black woman with fancy degrees from Vanderbilt University and Standford Law School. She is a law professor and once clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
She has asked people, "Haven't you ever committed a crime?". When she asked people that question they did not know what she meant. She tells them what she means and they say they are not criminals. She sees them as someone who hasn't been caught. She thinks they are no better than many of those who have been branded felon for life.
Michelle says, "Perhaps there should be a box on the census for that says 'I'm a criminal."
Everyone who has ever committed a crime would be required to check it. If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citzenship to those branded felons."
She thinks that millions have been forced into a permanent second-class status because they once committed crime.
I think that if it was a very serious problem like a murder or rape then it should be held against them. Jobs shouldn't turn down people because they are a criminal. They could be great hard workers but that job they are applying for will never accept them because they have a criminal record.
She has asked people, "Haven't you ever committed a crime?". When she asked people that question they did not know what she meant. She tells them what she means and they say they are not criminals. She sees them as someone who hasn't been caught. She thinks they are no better than many of those who have been branded felon for life.
Michelle says, "Perhaps there should be a box on the census for that says 'I'm a criminal."
Everyone who has ever committed a crime would be required to check it. If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citzenship to those branded felons."
She thinks that millions have been forced into a permanent second-class status because they once committed crime.
I think that if it was a very serious problem like a murder or rape then it should be held against them. Jobs shouldn't turn down people because they are a criminal. They could be great hard workers but that job they are applying for will never accept them because they have a criminal record.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Photoshopped or not
We read a article in class about people who work in computer science who want to create a software tool for measuring how much fashion and beauty photos have been altered. There will be a 1-to-5 scale that will be able to tell how much the photo has been altered. Doctor Farid and Eric Kee, a Ph.D will be putting the program together. They are putting the program together because some places want photos to be labeled with how much photoshop that as been applied to the photo. What they are doing is intended as a technological step to address concerns about the common use of highly idealized and digitally edited images in advertising and fashion magazines.
Mr. Matlins said, "We're just after truth in advertising and transparency." He also added, "We're not trying to demonize Photoshop or prevent creative people from using it. But if a person's image is drastically altered, there should be a reminder that what you're seeing is about as true as what you in 'Avatar', the science-fiction movie with computer-generated actors and visual effects."
Ms. Seymour said, "Readers aren't fooled if you really sculpt the images. If you're a good editor, you don't go too far these days. If you give someone a face-lift, you're a fool."
They think that people could develop disorders for wanting to be like people in the magazines. Well, I don't think that if people look at it that way then it will be able problem. I also think that people will always want something they can't have or something they can't be. No tool can fix that. Maybe with photoshop they are feeling like they are making the photo more appealing to the people who are looking at the photo.
Mr. Matlins said, "We're just after truth in advertising and transparency." He also added, "We're not trying to demonize Photoshop or prevent creative people from using it. But if a person's image is drastically altered, there should be a reminder that what you're seeing is about as true as what you in 'Avatar', the science-fiction movie with computer-generated actors and visual effects."
Ms. Seymour said, "Readers aren't fooled if you really sculpt the images. If you're a good editor, you don't go too far these days. If you give someone a face-lift, you're a fool."
They think that people could develop disorders for wanting to be like people in the magazines. Well, I don't think that if people look at it that way then it will be able problem. I also think that people will always want something they can't have or something they can't be. No tool can fix that. Maybe with photoshop they are feeling like they are making the photo more appealing to the people who are looking at the photo.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
In China, Human Cost Are Built Into an iPad
In class we read a story about Apple and its factories where its products are made. Other brands have the same problem as Apple but Apple was put more into the center of attention than the other brands. There was an explosion in one of the buildings, in the area where they polish the cases for the iPad. Two people were killed and over a dozen people were hurt cause of the explosion.
The workers who put the devices together work in harsh conditions. There are difficult work environments and serious and sometimes deadly safety problems. Employees work more overtime than they have to work. In some cases they work seven days a week. They live in crowded dorms. Some of the workers say that they stand so long that their legs swell until the point where they can hardly walk. Under-aged workers have helped build some of Apple's products. The company suppliers are not disposing the hazardous waste properly.
Two years ago, 137 workers at an Apple supplier in eastern China were injured after they were told to use a posionous chemical to clean the screens of the iPhones. Within seven months last year two explosions at iPad factories killed four people and injured 77 people. Before there explosions had happened, Apple had been told about the hazardous conditions. Executives say that the company have made significant strides in improving factories in recent years.
I think that Apple has great products and I would not go and trade on Apple products because they are treating the people who work in their factories wrong. If they want things to change then they should do something about it. They should stand up for themselves or something like that and go on strike. Then Apple will not make money because there will be no products being sold. Cause and effect situation: No products being made, no money for Apple. Then maybe Apple would want to change and come to an agreement with the workers so they can make their work environments safer for the employees. The pay is wrong too but I think the work environments are more important.
The workers who put the devices together work in harsh conditions. There are difficult work environments and serious and sometimes deadly safety problems. Employees work more overtime than they have to work. In some cases they work seven days a week. They live in crowded dorms. Some of the workers say that they stand so long that their legs swell until the point where they can hardly walk. Under-aged workers have helped build some of Apple's products. The company suppliers are not disposing the hazardous waste properly.
Two years ago, 137 workers at an Apple supplier in eastern China were injured after they were told to use a posionous chemical to clean the screens of the iPhones. Within seven months last year two explosions at iPad factories killed four people and injured 77 people. Before there explosions had happened, Apple had been told about the hazardous conditions. Executives say that the company have made significant strides in improving factories in recent years.
I think that Apple has great products and I would not go and trade on Apple products because they are treating the people who work in their factories wrong. If they want things to change then they should do something about it. They should stand up for themselves or something like that and go on strike. Then Apple will not make money because there will be no products being sold. Cause and effect situation: No products being made, no money for Apple. Then maybe Apple would want to change and come to an agreement with the workers so they can make their work environments safer for the employees. The pay is wrong too but I think the work environments are more important.
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