Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Theodore Roosevelts Journey

http://www.timerime.com/en/timeline/1036693/Theodore+Roosevelt+and+the+river+of+doubt/

Monday, February 13, 2012

Online Safety

                  A website that I found on the Internet was about Kacie Rene Woody. She was born on 1989- to December 2nd, 2002. She was abducted from her home in a small town in Arkansas. Earlier that year she met a guy on a Christian chat room whos name was David. He told her that she was 16 and lived in California. The one thing she didnt know that he was a 47 year old man. She didnt tell her any personal information but by the help of the Internet and one button he found everything about her and let his home town in California to Arkansas to stalk, kidnapp, rape, and kill Kacie. He took her from her home, tied her to the floorboard of his van, took him to this storage unit and not only killed Kacie, but he killed himself also.
            One thing that I think she could of done to prevent this is dont get on chat rooms period. You may think its fun but very dangerous. Dont talk to people you dont know and dont even give out one personal information out.
          My thoughts on this is that its very scary. Knowing that if you tell one little information about this you can use the Internet to search to find you and you can have every little information you need to locate where you are at. I now know how serious this is and to be even more careful on the Internet.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Google

          There are three differences with the old policy and the new policy. The first difference is in the old policy you could disagree with the acceptance terms but with the new policy you have to accept them. In the new policy they are going to go through your e-mails for things that you are interested in. In the new policy you might have to have a Google account to use some of there services.
         Googles new global reach will potentially touch billions of people worldwide. When people are loogged in they can edit or turn off their search histories. It will also put up advertisements that you like, so you dont have advertisements that wont interest you. URL: http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/27/tech/web/google-privacy-clarified/index.html?iref=allsearch
      I think this policy will be nicer because it will make things more simple than they were. There are some down facts with it though because I dont really want them to go through my stuff, finding out personal information that they can have. It will  also be kind of creepy because they could know more about you than anyone would.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Copyright Infringment

Koons v. Art Rogers 1992
This was an Art project that Koons had drew a picture of a little boy and an old man holding 8 puppies in their arms. The artist Rogers changed the photograph into a 3 dimensional work without obtaining a license. The court disagreed with Koons, and the court said he found substantial copyrightable elements were borrowed despite the change in medium, Jeff Koons lost this copyright infringement case. \

LINK TO ARTICLE: http://www.csusa.org/caw/caw_2006_teachers_articles_visual_art.htm