Lecture 6 PPT - Computer Science and Engineering
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CS 6
LECTURE 6 – HOW GOOD IS
THE INTERNET?
Spring 2014
Notes!
You just had a quiz!
Groups must be chosen by Tuesday 4/22
Groups must pick topic by Tuesday 4/29
Internet Good
What are some good things about the Internet?
Globalization
Instant communication
E-mail
Instant
Messaging
Social Networking
Video conferencing
Shared documents for collaborative editing
Online Games
Corporate advantages
Information
“Information Superhighway”
Term
coined by the one and only Al Gore
Can access info in a matter of seconds
Search Engines
Provide
access to a vast library of data
Newspapers/Magazines
Online
versions
Kindle versions
People
on covers move Hogwarts Style
Personal Data
The Cloud
Can
store/back up Terabytes of data
Won’t die like a hard drive
Flash
drives and SSD (solid state drives) are more reliable
than Hard Drives, but can still fail
Online Banking
Data Transfer
Can access/download large amounts of data faster
and faster
Movies
Music
Television shows
Video games
Applications specifically to access online content
YouTube
iTunes
Pandora
Netflix
Steam
Data Transfer
iTunes Fun fact
1billionth
song downloaded in February 23, 2006
Downloader: Alex Ostrovsky from Michigan
Prize
$10,000 iTunes gift card
20-inch iMac
10 fifth-generation iPods
A scholarship set up by Apple
at the Julliard School of Music
in his name
Song:
Speed of Sound by Coldplay
Promotion
Website creation for businesses
Advertise
business
Display business information
Some exist solely on the Internet
Anyone can create an internet business
eBay
PayPal
Activism
Start charity organization
Provide support to causes you believe in
Change.org
Kickstarter
Let people/companies know how you feel instantly
Company
boycotts
Using #hastags to show support or outrage
#paulasbestdishes
Activism
Corporate/Scholar
Online courses
Online degrees
PhD
online??
Working from home
Online
meetings
Access to work docs through virtual private networks
(VPNs)
Creativity
Graphic design
User Interface
Popularity of GIFs
Blogs (both for writing and for art)
LiveJournal
WordPress (.org & .com)
Blogger
Tumblr
Can show others your creativity
Etsy
YouTube
Vine
Community
Find people with similar interests
Fandoms
Online
Dating
Fight common cause
Social Networks
Facebook
Twitter
Tumblr
Shacknews
Spending money
Can buy almost anything online
Amazon.com
Credit Card online stores
Airline purchases
Costs
money to book flights on phone with most
domestic carriers
Can pay most bills online
Heart healthy
Heart race spikes every time you see spoilers for
you favorite TV show
Just
like taking a walk
And
having a raccoon jump in front of you
Or a spider
Just
like lifting a weight in a CrossFit class
One
time
Internet Bad
What are some bad things about the Internet?
Globalization
Instant communication with people you don’t want to
communicate with
Spam
E-mail
Emails
from Nigerian Princes
Or relatives stuck in Panama with no Passport
Spam
Instant Messaging
International Hackers
People
all over the world can hack “secure” sites
Information
Can access info in a matter of seconds
Sometimes
information you wouldn’t want out
Malware
Viruses
Bugs
Heartbleed
Newspapers/Magazines
Putting
print out of business
Wrong information
Inaccurate
news
Information
Personal Data
The Cloud
Cloud
sites can also be hacked
Not set up to be secure
More
people on the internet = less security/privacy
Social
security numbers
Credit Card numbers
Passwords
Address/Phone # info
Personal Data
Data Transfer
Can access/download large amounts of data faster
and faster
Your
personal information
Applications specifically to access online content
illegally
Napster
(in the past)
MegaUpload (shut down by US Dept. of Justice)
BitTorrent
Promotion
Ads EVERYWHERE
Ads
on Facebook
Auto-playing ads on Facebook
3 minutes of ads every commercial break
HULU!!!!!
Pop-up
Some
ads
download Malware to your computer
Personal opinion: Everyone should have AdBlock
It’s
not perfect, but it’s better
Activism
Provide support to causes you believe in that turn
out to be fake
Let people/companies know how you feel instantly
Using
#hastags to show support or outrage
Get people fired (bad for the people fired)
Paula
Deen – Food Network
Brendan Eich – Mozilla Firefox
Corporate/Scholar
Some standards for online courses are lowered
Online degrees
PhD
online??
Work networks can be hacked
Corporate
document leaks
Some people will never need to leave the house
Game
of Thrones spoilers count as exercise
Creativity
Creative Theft
Measures to stop creative (and other) theft
Opponents
Protect
say they limit creative license/free speech
IP Act (PIPA)
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
Community
Find people with “similar interests”
Catfishing
Illicit activities
Pornography
Hate
groups
Hiring hit men…
Social Networks make us less personable
Facebook
Twitter
Tumblr
Shacknews
Community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ2Xe4xrNi4
Spending money
Can buy almost anything online
Almost
too easy to buy things
Too easy to spend too much money
Online Stores hacked
Personal
data stolen
Credit Card info can be used by someone else within
hours
Autopay can hide important problems
Spending money
Heart attacks
Heart race spikes every time you see spoilers for
you favorite TV show
Just
like taking a walk
And
having a raccoon jump in front of you
Or a spider
Just
like lifting a weight in a CrossFit class
One
time