Mar 7, 2012
Disclaimer: this article described the evolution of Web 3.0 and in my opinion was a rather confusing read, i will best attempt to summarize what it was about. Summary: the author talks about the next step of the internet, Web 3.0. This is the point where we really get the best rich web experience (machine provided) [...]
Mar 2, 2012
summary: this article talks about a proposed plan by the obama administration to place into effect a internet bill of rights that pertain to users privacy policy. for years it has been the objective of companies to obtain as much information about you as they possibly can. this has usually come in the form of [...]
Feb 23, 2012
Summary: this article is about the shut down of the website “jot form” that had its business in digital forms. the Secret Service notified the websites carrier Go Daddy dot com and ordered them to remove Jot Form from its DNS listings pending an investigation. that was all the information that was given to the host site [...]
Feb 16, 2012
Summary: In the classic story that we CANNOT do anything right the first time it was announced that a patch for ASP.NET actually doesn’t help security that much at all. Microsoft released a patch that was supposed to resolve security issues for ASP.NET and right after a hacker published a vulnerability on how to create [...]
Feb 7, 2012
What? nobody understands rasputin jokes? very well…. Summary: this article is about how there is a never a lack of creativity amongst people who are trying to steal your information. as web pages get more user friendly and offer more features to their users the people who create spam are finding more ways to exploit [...]
Feb 1, 2012
Summary: This Journal is about ways to detect malicious code in javascript. as of the time of the writing of this article there had been little success in determining if maicious code had been injected into your server. it is very difficult to differentiate between good and bad code. the authors of this journal have [...]
Jan 27, 2012
Summary: what the speaker is saying is that SOPA and PIPA are not working in the best interest of the interenet. the internet is an entity in itself and it has a lot of stuff and its not just about commercial corperations anymore. these corporations try to make money and they want to do anything [...]
Jan 19, 2012
Summary: Adobe is not going down with its own ship, as the move towards a HTML5 standard becomes more and more of a reality for everything online, adobe moves in the same direction by developing tools that would help make complex animations in HTML5 easier that could only be made with FLASH. The new Adobe EDGE software would [...]
Jan 11, 2012
Summary: this journal is about how we can shape the future of the internet and improve on Web Intelligence. First the Author comments on how the internet is in a sort of infintile state and how the way we currently query does not produce the information we want due to the innefficiencies of searching. since [...]
Jan 5, 2012
Summary: the reason we need IPv6 is because we have almost used all of our Ipv4 resources. believe it or not there are a finite number of IPv4 addresses and over the years through some less than efficient assigning of IP addresses we come to the present day close to exhausting the supply of nearly 4.3 [...]
Nov 30, 2011
Summary: Spatiotemporal databases area good for applications in space and defense but historically suffer from performance issues. the way that databases work now is we store data about the known world, stuff that does not change or changes infrequently. we have been able to monitor moving objects but not with great effiency. since something is [...]
Nov 21, 2011
Summary: The european union is trying to monitor and better enforce alleged copyright infringments. a proposed database that would keep personal information about alleged copyright infringers for a currently undisclosed amount of time. this has led to scrutiny by groups who disagree with the notion of saving personal information about users that the EU cannot [...]
Nov 16, 2011
Review: We all remember street view, its that one thing that happened that one time when google decided that it wanted to not only digitize the earth from space but digitize it from the ground level by driving cars arround with cameras attached to them that took a picture every few feet and tied it [...]
Nov 9, 2011
Sumamry: The recent slew of attacks on businesses using SQL injection from hacking groups might make it seem like top notch stuff but its suprisingly easier than it sounds. the key in SQL injection is finding web applications that are vulnerable to the injection of malicious code into the database. so after the site is used legitimately [...]
Nov 2, 2011
Summary: Wolfram|Alpha is an engine unlike any other on the market today. firstly it is NOT a search engine, but rather a “Computational Knowledge Engine.” so what is the difference? Search engines search a nearly infinite unmber of articles, documents, and news reports to return a finite number of results that contain keywords that you [...]
Oct 27, 2011
Summary: Supercomuters are the human tool of choice for solving complicated problems that would take conventional computers exponentially longer to solve. so what do we do with these tools of super proportions? we teach it how to play Jeopardy. Watson as it is called, is a supercomputer that was created by IBM to be able to [...]
Oct 20, 2011
Summary: in this article the authors try and discover the best method for modeling data from the top three most widely used models. the models in this study are Relational, Extended Entity Relation, and Object Oriented modeling structures. the main goal of this study was to determine which model provided the best abstraction level and [...]
Oct 12, 2011
Summary: We often take for granted the fact that the internet is widely avaliable everywhere and from many places and locations, we may also take advantage of the anonanymity the internet provides from time to time. but have you ever had the sneaking suspicion that you are being watched? well you are, passively anyway. every time you [...]
Oct 7, 2011
Summary: it doesn’t matter if you have the best system in the world, Mother Nature will always best you. You can have the best planning and execution for any type of scenario but and even those are no match for say, a lightning bolt. This was a recent issue with Amazon’s cloud service, in which [...]
Oct 1, 2011
Summary: After the natural disaster known as “Hurricane Katrina” an effort was made to relieve the victims. This effort did not come in the form of monetary relief, food, supplies or shelter, however these were relief efforts as well. This specific effort came in the form of databases, but what use do hurricane survivors have [...]
