Identity theft is stealing someone else's information such as name, age, gender, address and using them to commit a crime or steal money or get hired with that person's information. This has become a major way of theft because it is safe and the risks of getting caught are small. In America identity theft is becoming so common, and the rate is almost doubling every year. This is a serious issue because it causes so much problems to the victims, the people who got their identity stolen, because when the identity stealer commits a crime with another person's identity, that person will be in trouble. Famous and rich people are easy targets for identity thieves because they have money and it is easy to get to their personal information.
How to get all these information about the victims? The answer is easy: The internet is the easiest way to get information about people, specially the social networks, for example Facebook, people enter all their personal information without even knowing who sees them and how safe they are. People can steal our information from Facebook so easily and do fraud with it.
How should we protect ourselves from identity theft? We can never protect ourselves 100% but we can reduce the risks, we should not put all of our important personal information on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and we should be more careful when we are buying something online or whenever a website requires us to enter personal information, we should be sure that the website is trusted and safe to the our information first, and when we are sure, we should enter our information.
This ds106 assignment is called "Fan Fiction Picture" and we have to take a picture to describe our favourite song or movie or tv show. I chose the song Mr. Saxobeat and tried to take a picture that would give an image of "Mr.Saxobeat"
I know it's not a real saxophone but it was the closest this I could find at school.
This ds106 assignment is called "Consumer Mashup" and we have to think of a place where we spend money the most and what we spend it on, since I live alone and I don't know how to cook, I go to McDonalds at least 3 times a week and I get Big Mac and a large size fries, so I took the simple McDonalds logo and added "Big Mac and Fries" on it. I edited the photo using a simple program on the internet, the program is called Picnik and it's easy to use.
I know it's not good to eat McDonalds that often and it makes you fat, but it's fast and tastes good not to mention that it's right next to my house.
This ds106 assignment is called "Google Translate Fail" where we have to use the google translater and find the mistakes and make fun of it!
So I typed in 明日は晴れるかな (ashitaha hareru kana) which means "Is it going to be sunny tomorrow?" with a tone of wondering and a bit of worry by using the (kana). but instead, google translated it "Tomorrow Harerukana" which is very funny, I guess google thought Harerukana is a name or something!
I wonder why they made this translater if it is not going to work properly? Sometimes it just confuses people more than making translation easier. I think google should stop the translater or work to make it better.
This is the ds106 assignment called "Your Very Own Spubble". To make this assignment I used a simple website called Picnik which was suggested by the assignment creator, it was really easy to get used to the website and it has great features, I suggest you to give it a try and I hope this picture will make you laugh!
This is my first ds106 assignment so I hope I'm doing it the right way. This assignment is about Evolution so I decided to show the evolution of life on earth.
Simple Cells
Simple Animals
More Complicated Animals
Fish
Amphibians
Reptiles
Mammals
Genus Homos and Evolution to Humans
Humans
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What is coming after us?? Is life on earth going to continue it's evolution as it has been all these years? Or are we humans the peak of evolution?
Malware is a short term for malicious software. Malware is basically a way of programming which enters to a computer and disturbs it by removing data, stealing information, and many more. Malwares have many ways to get into a computer, they can get in by a corrupted e-mail or a file or even by link on the internet. Recently, malwares have become so common specially in social networking websites such as facebook and twitter. What hackers do is they put malicious sites on facebook and send them to random people, and when the users click on the link, they send them to corrupted websites. On Facebook, there was this trick going on where a friend sends you a link and tells you to a link but actually it's not your friend who sent it, so when you click you will be sent to a link that looks exactly like the Facebook login page and when you enter you username and passowrd they would steal it with all your private information with it. There was another trick but instead of a link they send you a video and when you try to watch it, the computer will give you a message saying that you need to update the flash player and when you update it, it installs a virus that will turn you computer into a zombie. A zombie computer is a computer controlled be a hacker and the hacker can use your computer as he\she wishes to without you being aware of it, which is a very dangerous thing. Twitter has been having the same problems for a long time.
This is a video that shows the most dangerous computer viruses.
These social networks are working so hard in order to stay free of Malware, recently Facebook is co-operating with a security company called Websens to protect their website, so whenever a user clicks on a link, the link will be sent to the security website for a check and then will be sent back to the user before it opens. If the website is corrupted and has malwares in it, the security website will send an alert saying the website is corrupted and it will give a reason why they think so.
This feels like a war that will never end, a war between the hackers and the security companies, hackers always creating new viruses and companies trying to protect agains those viruses.
Today I saw this awesome video one of my friends shared on facebook so I wanted to share it with the class, I don't know how the system really works but it is a kind of digital storytelling. It is amazing how that person developed the system, please take a look at the video and be amazed!
If you have any idea about how the system works, please feel free to leave a comment.
And here is the link where I found the video.
"We Are All Artists" Or that's what Timmmmyboy said in his presentation. I listened to his presentation and he had a pretty interesting idea of art and being an artist. He has an idea that everybody is an artist and we can all be artists, he says we do not have to be good at painting or drawing to become an actual artists but we can practice to become better. He says that creativity is not inharited but it's just like sports where people have to practice to become better.
Timmmmyboy also mentioned that being in a creative environment can help a person to be better in art, for example a child who's parents are artists or writers, they grow up in that environment and naturally become artists as well, he thinks that ds106 could provide that environment for us.
He talks about how people tend to say they are not artists and they just cant draw or can't be creative and he encourages them not to act like that and be more positive and believe that everyone can be creative. Timmmmyboy believes that we can be more creative when we feel uncomfortable, he gives the example of Breakfast is Overrated and he says for example you can be more creative in the morning if you don't have breakfast or at midnight when your stomach is empty.
The part that got my interest the most was the "Take something ordinary and make it extraordinary" part, he gave the example of the coffee filters and how the producers came up with a way to make it easier to get out one coffee filter without ruining the box and getting more than one filter out, he also talked about using old videos and remix them to be more creative, and that's what made me think of the Surfin' Bird which we had a talk about in the class and we are doing it as a final project. What Family Guy producers did is they took an old song and recreated a seen and it actually worked, it became so famous that everybody started searching for the origin of that song.
Timmmmyboy has a point of view, but personally I do not enjoy being an artists, I would prefere to enjoy the art instead of being the artists. I have tried it a few times, I have taken drawing lessons, music lessons, pottery lessons but I never really enjoyed it. Maybe after all it's just not meant for some people to be artists.
