Month: January 2015

Current Event Post 1

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-era-cloud.html

In our increasing digital world it is becoming harder to protect our personal data, the above article proposes an interesting solution to the problem. I think Professor Jon Crowcroft’s idea has merit given the success of other peer-to-peer networks such as Bitcoin and BitTorrent. The biggest problem to such a network is adoption. To succeed it will require an application that is easy to setup and use, and easily found. With the increasing threats to our personal data I hope that someone takes the ideas presented in the article and implements them. However, I don’t agree with the idea of a pay-per-use system given that a peer-to-peer system depends on the contributions of the user’s computer power and network connection to work instead of a centralized corporate server.

Study Journal 1

Jan 13 – Definition of Ethics – Reason, Logic, & Logical Fallacies

  • Let your learning increase your testimony instead of damage it.
  • I find my self often using the logical fallacy of “Appeal to Authority” and should attempt to avoid this.
  • If ethics has a clearly defined line, then why is there so much debate about what is ethical an unethical or who is the authority on ethics?

Jan 15 – Critical Observation & the Orders of Ignorance Continue reading Study Journal 1