Thursday, October 29, 2009

Advocacy


Trustworthiness. Everyone has some form of trustworthiness or deserve trust. Trust is easily lost but can be hard to gain. People should trust others just like professor should trust there students that even if they have no basis to trust that student on. Professor's should also trust there students in using the Internet (brief history). The Internet deserve some form of trustworthiness and everyone that creates a false websites on purpose doesn't deserve the ability to go onto the Internet. Not all websites on the Internet deserves your trust but some can be trusted sources of information. The Internet (brief timeline) is the most vast form of media. On the Internet you can find both liberal and conservative views, democratic and republican, etc. Because the Internet is so vast, there happens to be people whom are just trying to be known somewhere or someone believes that they are right and therefore not everything can be counted as right. Basically what I'm trying to preach here is that everyone deserves/needs to be trusted all though those that purposely ruin there credibility, in this case the Internet.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Narrative

As I wandered through the Wal-Mart checkout line, I noticed a newspaper article. At first I didn't pay any attention to it. But out of the corner of my eyes, I noticed the headline. Across the front page was the title "Apple fix to iPhone security flaw" in big, black newspaper print. I was astounded to find that now I can buy a $200 phone and still get my information hacked. Now don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with an iPhone. I believe that the iPhone can be a great and useful technology with all of it's apps. I just believe there's something wrong with a company who sells their products at an extremely high rate and one of their only excuses is that there products can't get hacked. Windows products do not have an anti-virus program already installed onto there products, but at least they don't lie about having a good one. Baffled, I didn't realize that I was holding up the line, I grabbed the newspaper. Disgusted, I was, after realizing that I actually bought the newspaper.