Blog Entry 7

http://www.privacy2010.org/

Support Privacy 2010

The blog consist or 10 questions pertaining privacy in a variety of situations such as airport security and internet usage. Most of these questions also ties government laws together making it more of a campaign statement. Adding to the effect, each questions ends with another question. Asking if you support or deny the topic at hand.

http://www.wordstream.com/articles/google-privacy-internet-privacy

Internet Privacy 

The link leads you to a long poster length add concerning internet privacy. It starts off with an iconic pyramid eye scheme making it look like the Illuminati symbol stating the government is watching you. the follow up talks about the limits of what Facebook allows you to allow others to see over the years. Ending the post we see pictures taken from Google cameras.

http://epic.org/events/tsa/

The Stripping of Freedom\

The first thing you notice from this blog that there is an section at the top with different quotes interchanging from time to time. The quotes are statements made by others supporting the cause. The blog further discuss the issues they have with TSA security procedures. Stating that they're too in depth with their searches surpassing certain standards of privacy.

Privacy

Facebook

My settings:

• My username is my real name.
• Other users who wants to add me will have to get my permission to do so but are allowed to look at my posts.
• I have blocked certain people to never receive any activity on Facebook from.

What my settings could be:

• My username can be a fake name
• I don't think i can change the fact that other users will need my permission to add me.

Instagram 

My settings:

• I am not linked to any other accounts Instagram offers to link to such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr etc.
• I am allowed to change my Username to anything I want that is not taken. At the moment its is "sirwonthanh"
• My phone number, gender, and email is given to Instagram but is not allowed for other to see.

What my settings could be:

• My Instagram account can be linked to my Facebook account along with my Tumblr. Which would copy the pictures I post on Instagram to my linked accounts along with the caption.
• My username could be changed to one without my name included.
• Other then my email I can change both my phone number and my gender to "not available".

Snapchat

My settings:

• My username is thanhptran along with my phone number and email given to Snapchat.
• I receive pictures only from my friends added.
• I share stories only to my friends added.

What my settings could be:

• My phone number is required for Snapchat but my email isn't. My username can be made without my real name.
• I can receive pictures from anyone if chose to.
• I can share stories with everyone if chose to.   

YouTube

My settings:

• Instead of my real name I have my nick name as a part of my username.
• I receive notification from other users who comments on the same thread I comment on.
• I receive videos from users who would like to spread their content through direct message.

What my settings could be:

• I can block all notifications from any or all activity on YouTube.
• I can block all messages from YouTube.

Overall I am feel fairly secure of my privacy settings. If anyone wanted to look me up just for the heck of it i wouldn't mind. My daily activity does not include anything shameful to my appearance to other, in any case i'm an open book. Although if wanted to my settings in privacy can be up a notch considering my current settings are pretty lose. All four of these accounts are have one thing in common which is visual media. They are all the same with the ground bases of allowing others to see what you post or allowing what you receive from others as well.

Group Project Report

We will be researching mostly about how social media affects an individual in the workplace. We will provide different examples of how social media has gotten individuals in trouble with their boss. We will also look at the pros that social media can provide for an individual such as putting themselves out there so companies and businesses can notice them. As well as the cons to see how social media has many disadvantages and how you have to basically filter what you put on your social media.

In our group we will split up the research and the Prezi so that everyone will research and design a slide about what each group members found about the topic at hand. Jesus Ortuno will be in charge of researching the effects that social media bring onto the workplace as well as provide an example. Miguel Salvo will also do some research especially on the regulations that are put on employees by their workplace. Saidev Rao will focus on the design of the presentation and to make sure everything is in order. Thanh Tran will focus on the pros and cons in social media and the workplace. He will also make sure that the presentation has no technical or grammar errors. At the end we will all split up the work to make sure everyone did an equal share, and to make sure everybody knows what each slide is about.

The sources that we are looking at using are mostly different websites on the internet. One example is, http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-fired-2011-5?op=1, this site shows some perfect examples of what the business is like and how it can all change because of the social media. Furthermore, we will use Google.com to research the percentage of employers that actually go through your social media prior to hiring you. We will also go deeper into looking at the statistics of how many people have actually gotten in trouble due to their social media profile

Creative Commons / Project Gutenberg

IMAGES From Creative Commons

  ASUS Graphics Card

MSI Motherboard

 Cooler Master Heat Sink

Beowulf

Formatted in HTML ; It can be read on browsers (Computers and Phones)

Frankenstein - The modern Prometheus

Formatted in HTML ; It can be read on browsers (Computers and Phones)

Julius Caesar 

Formatted in HTML ; It can be read on browsers (Computers and Phones)

Overall most of the books found on Project Gutenberg are HTML formatted. Think the reason for this is that I am using a computer to look for these link and the site wanted to give me versions optimal with what they know i am currently using.

Chinese Gold Farmers

     Most people who plays MMO's or Massive Multiplayer Online games play it for fun. Being lost into a virtual world where you can do anything you want can be lots of fun for some people. Besides from that, there are players who aren't actually player but instead they turn the game into a day to day job

     In China, there are a few companies in the game World of Warcraft hiring over 100,000 workers to play the game and earn in game currency. They work 10 hours long boring hours a day with only 3 days off a week averaging 30 cents an hour. The job requires you to play the game killing as much monsters as possible and collecting the "drops" which usually is the in game currency or items which can later on be sold. The gold is then transferred the boss which sells them to an online retailer (eBay or amazon)  and from there on players around the world can purchase the fake currency for around 20 dollars a batch. Overall the whole industry accumulates a net worth of 135 million dollars as the annual wealth.

    Even though gold farmers in general are frowned upon by the gaming community  a job is a job.  Trolls, or players who horse play, constantly interfere with the process which only makes the job that much harder. Not only that the hours and repetitive work is already miserable enough. I feel that people shouldn't have to do jobs they dont like but wheb that's the only option they have at that moment then let them be. They have it bad enough.