Archive for February, 2012
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
With the advent of contextual advertising, pioneered by Google, demand for your information has grown exponentially. As the old saying goes, “Theres no such thing as a free lunch.” Google and many other online service providers provide an array of services from the indexing of billions of web pages for ...
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Since ancient civilization, man has had an innate desire to know. He learned about the stars, God, farming, making tools, hunting, cooking, medicating, sanitation and more. In the past this knowledge was passed down orally then when he developed written language, it was written down. Over the years it has ...
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
This week's topic in info3pt0 is the challenge we face as a society in retaining privacy while adopting useful new technologies, specifically the GPS in this case. The class brings up two articles and asks the question if we as a society ought to increase or decease our usage of ...
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