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Tuesday, May 7
Final Exam Day!
If you are looking for me today, I am on campus but not in my office. I have a seminar from 8:00 to Noon, then a lunch meeting, then another meeting from 1:30 - 3:30. Then I will see you in class at 4:45!
Thursday, May 2
Chapter 8 and assistance with websites
Collusion in the memory market?
Best Buy closes their wireless registers
Turner CEO: Skipping commercials is stealing (full interview here)
Raise your hand if you remember your passwords!
A collection of software bugs and Software Horror Stories
Tuesday, April 30
Today, lecture and discussion of chapter 8
This is too good not to pass on....
Use your fingerprints to buy groceries!
Due dates:
Research paper - Tuesday, May 6 at the beginning of class
Web sites - Tuesday, May 6 at the beginning of class
Final exam over last chapters covered - Tuesday, May 6; 4:45 - 6:00pm
Research Paper comments:
* Formatting! Make sure you have a title page, proper page numbering
(not on the first page, but on other pages, not on bibliography or
references pages, etc.).
* Use spell and grammar check!
* You need a bibliography page, and maybe an endnotes page or
parenthetical references page, depending on how you cite
* Citations! You need to cite where your source material comes
from. A rule of thumb about citations is that the reader can go back
and find the article, from whatever source, at a later time. I just
might check you up on it!
Thursday, April 25
Viruses with more bark than bite
Gates admits stripped-down Windows possible
Tuesday, April 22
Internet Cafe's fill phone void
What are the repercussions of a BSA audit?
Bill Gates takes the stand (MS anti-trust trial)
The hassle of cancelling your Internet access
Yahoo settles with the Yodeler
Consolidation in the memory industry
Thursday, April 18
IBM is exiting the hard drive market and History of the Hard Drive
Watch the watchers on the Nanny-Cam?
Omaha Police computers - a bad case to analyze
Connecticut is going to new digital drivers licenses
Rare Apple I computer to go to auction
Tuesday, April 15
Happy Tax Day yesterday!
Virtual child pornography act found unconstitutional
The music business and the Internet
Thursday, April 11
FBI says online auction fraud is the biggest
LOKI: A promising plan goes horribly wrong
Tuesday, April 9
The Next Round in the PC Price Wars
You have heard of pop-up ads, but what about pop-up downloads?
The American Express Centurion Card
Thursday, April 4
Gigabit ethernet prices in free-fall
Celine's latest CD will crash your computer
Shyster expert system and medical expert systems and an online Disney video rental decision maker expert system. The American Express example.
The Turing Test Page and submit your own questions for a Turning Test and the home page of the Loebner Prize and a guy says he beat the Turing Test here and Eliza, an online therapist.
Links to Neural Network sites here and medical diagnosis site here and TMYCIN (Medical Reasoning System here. Free medical advice here!
Tuesday, April 2
Wall Street embraces Linux, while Microsoft starts anti-Linux ads
The "father of modern spam" speaks
This just in: Porn is out on the web
We've had two power outages on campus in the last few days, one on Friday around 1930 and again Monday morning around 0820. Both are OPPDs problem, but... more in class tonite.
FREE E-MAIL TOO SUCCESSFUL?
As with many other online services and content lately, free e-mail
has not been able to attract a sufficient number of advertisers to support all of the users who want these products. When Microsoft
bought Hotmail in 1998, there were 8.5 million members. Today there are 110 million, with commensurate spiraling of costs to maintain
the e-mail service. Although Hotmail is not currently planning to charge members, Parul Shah, who oversees the e-mail service, does
not rule that out as a possibility. Meanwhile, e-mail providers Yahoo! and mail.com, though not charging for simple membership,
have begun to charge for special services, including mail forwarding and extra storage space. AOL does not offer premium e-mail services;
e-mail accounts are included in the monthly fee for membership.USA Today, 31 March 2002
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/01/fee-mail.htm
INTERNET USE TRENDS IN 2001
A new report by the Nielsen/NetRatings firm says that the overall
expansion of the Internet slowed down in 2001 from the double-digit growth rates
seen in the 1990s to a more modest 6% growth in the number of "active users"
(people who go online at least once a month). However, those who do log on are likely to stay on longer: users spent 17 hours a month online in
December 2001, up from 15 the previous year. The most active users of all tended to be those with DSL, cable modem or other high-speed connections.
There were 21 million people with such connections at the end of 2001, compared to only 11.7 million at the end of 2000. (USA Today 28 Mar 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/03/28/net-statistics.htm
CALIFORNIA CASE PITS SPEECH RIGHTS VS. PROPERTY RIGHTS
The California Supreme Court has agree to review a case involving a
disgruntled Intel employee who sent 30,000 e-mail messages to company employees at their places of work. The employee, backed by the American
Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sees the case as one raising fundamental free speech rights denied to an individual who
wished to circulate his opinion; in contrast, the lower courts have viewed it as a property-rights case, since the messages were sent not to
employees at their homes but to their company e-mail addresses. The appellate
court's majority ruled that "Intel is as much entitled to control its e-mail
system as it is to guard its factories and hallway." A dissenting opinion argued
that it could be considered a property-rights case only if Intel had shown that its property had actually been harmed, and there was no such showing.
(San Jose Mercury News 27 Mar 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2948781.htm
Tuesday, March 26
Everyone should check their email to see about getting extra bonus points for a TCP/IP assignment!
Cuba bans PC sales to the public
My schedule for the following week: I will be out of the office starting on Thursday, March 28 up to and including Monday, April 1. I will be back on campus about 5:00pm on Monday to open the Wade/Seagate labs and teach my Monday evening class. Just a reminder that due to the University Easter schedule, there will be no class on Thursday, March 28. The Wade Computer, along with the rest of the University, will be closing at 5:00pm. The Wade Center will resume normal hours at 5:00pm on Monday, April 1.
Thursday, March 21
Tuesday, March 19
Using switches instead of hubs - great explanation
.kids.us subdomain - take that, ICANN!
Canada to raise tariffs on recordable media
Grid computing boosts hacker network
Cyber plagiarism - detection and prevention
The longitude clock comes alive!
Is "Windows" a trademark? Maybe not!
War Driving! Can this happen at Creighton?
Getting Serious OnLine with daily Internet activities and here are some things they do online
Operation Candyman busts online child porn
FCC NIXES MORE CABLE BROADBAND REGULATION
The Federal Communications Commission ruled that Internet access via
high-speed, interactive cable modems should be classified as an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications service," a
decision that liberates cable companies from the more stringent common carrier regulations that govern most telecom companies. The agency also
ruled that cable modems did not qualify as a "cable service," which prevents local governments from creating and selling separate franchises
for cable ISPs or levying higher fees on cable companies that market broadband services. Consumer groups protested the decision, saying that it
could lead to cable company control over pricing and over the content their customers can receive via broadband. (Financial Times 14 Mar 2002)
http://news.ft.com/news/industries/internet&e-commerce
Thursday, March 7
Online population nearly 500 million
Eavesdrop by looking at flashing lights?
Tuesday, March 5
SPAMmed by a candidate for CA governor?
Here's the PowerPoints for the network lecture
Thursday, February 28
Microsoft doomed by cheap PCs?
Video games are 40 years old today!
Tuesday, February 26
PA Supreme Court to rule if reading email=wiretapping
Windows Media Player (version 8) is watching you!
Wal-Mart is selling computers without an operating system
TECH TIPS - Be prepared to do your tip. Make sure that you type out a description of your Tip and turn it in during your presentation. If you do not turn in a printed description of your tip it may not be graded.
Inventor of voice mail dies at age 65
Fighting spam with a 17th century law?
Unix underpinning? Or underwear!
Test One results: Highest score = 96%, Average = 88.9%
Thursday, February 21
Exam day! Someone asked if they should know material that is in the book but not in class notes. I would say be familiar with it, since I will draw some questions from the book and others from the class notes. Old quiz questions tend to show up as well.
Tuesday, February 19
Just a reminder - Exam has been rescheduled for Thursday!
Would you buy a recycled computer from this convict?
Some interesting Postini stats
Supreme Court rules on grading papers!
Thursday, February 14
Surveillance in Washington, DC and in bookstores
A sappy Valentines geek marriage proposal
Installing the latest Microsoft security patch makes you vulnerable to the problem!
Sure your phone bill is high, but to call you a b*stard?
Tuesday, February 12
We Go On The Hunt To Discover Who's Sending All That Spam - from the Wall Street Journal
A complete history of the Internet
British Telecom is trying to enforce a patent that they say they invented hyperlinking
Studios hate replay TV technology
Is Comcast intercepting packets?
Thursday, February 7
The latest Information Technology newsletter is online. Anyone notice what is wrong on page 4?
Tuesday, February 5
This server, eden.creighton.edu, was down on Sunday and early Monday morning. I'm trying to figure out why from the event logs. Sorry about that!
Did you get this message about Postini?
Since we missed class on Thursday due to weather, I am moving the term
paper topic date forward to this Thursday. Remind me if I don't talk
about it in class today!
In the Beginning Was the Command Line
Thursday, January 31
Fake sites aim to teach investors a lesson...
The new .coop domains are here!
Scientists figure out how to use your brain to control a mouse
What happens when you give students laptops?
Profiling of fliers - massive databases and data mining
Health warning over game controllers
Due to the weather, the President's office has announced that classes
after 5 p.m. today are CANCELED.
Mary McMahon
Office of the Dean
CoBA
280-2390
Sorry gang - looks like we will have to meet on Tuesday. See you then!
Tuesday, January 29
Intel and AMD cut prices on processors by as much as 19%
MEN AND WOMEN SEE COMPUTERS IN DIFFERENT WAYS
Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, coauthors of the new book "Unlocking the
Clubhouse: Women in Computing," say that the gender gap in computer use comes about because girls, unlike boys, don't feel a "magnetic attraction"
to technology: "We found that men and women tended to come at computing with different orientations and different goals. The men were motivated
primarily by their interest in and enjoyment of technology; the women tended to be motivated by what it was good for, how it could be used to
help people.'' (San Jose Mercury News 29 Jan 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/women012902.htm
Snow?
Remember to call 280-5800 to check to see if the University is closed or
not!
Thursday, January 24
California starts a 45-day moratorium on cybercafes. Looks like the videogame arcade problem all over again!
Mendocino, CA bans wireless devices!
A student pointed that I still had the Second Edition PowerPoint slides on the website, not the third. I have revised that page and left the second edition (for those of you with that book) and added the third edition. I have also updated the FTP site for the materials as well. Thanks for pointing that out to me!
Gateway is going to cut more jobs
A few mail errors I have seen today:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
siauwee13@hotmail.com
----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>> RCPT TO:<siauwee13@hotmail.com>
<<< 552 Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation
OR
<dan626mcl@yahoo.com>:
v3size saved = 730
Sorry, your message to dan626mcl@yahoo.com cannot be delivered. This account is over quota.
Tuesday, January 22
AOL isn't going to buy RedHat!
Computers fighting Anthrax (distributed computing) and Terry's SETI score
FCC proposes hotline to get you off telemarketing lists!
Thursday, January 17
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