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OUT: A recent hacking incident revealed that the most common password
out there is the word PASSWORD. Really? Mindboggling is not quite
the reaction one gets from that story. I know that people have so
many secure accounts, multiple emails, social media log-ins that is
hard to remember everything. But still, password as your password?
Many sites and systems are requiring customers to use longer nonsensical
log-ins with both alpha-numeric and special characters. But if the
host system is hacked and the passwords stolen, it really does not
matter how clever a person is; it is really for one's own personal
protection on a device or an account basis to be careful.
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cyberbarf ELECTION 2012 ARTICLE This year's presidential election will be a pivotal point in American history. It is not the quality of the candidates, but in what direction will the free fall of politics will go for the next four years. The personal ramifications on employment, wealth creation, taxes, entitlements and American standard of living are all at stake. A recent survey showed that 90 million voters may not participate in this year's federal elections. A major reason cited is that these apathetic voters don't care for either Republican or Democratic candidate for President. The internet has spawned a very partisan approach to political information. One consultant has said that this election is about winning the undecided Independent voter, who numbers around 10 percent of the electorate. But the Independent voting bloc is much larger than a mere 10 percent, and will decide the outcome if motivated enough to go to the polls. It is a duty of citizens to educate themselves about the candidates because their choices on who represents them in government is the foundation of the democracy. It happens only ever four years, but the ramifications of elections can last for decades. Everyone needs to decide for themselves which candidate best represents their personal beliefs, policies, values and the role of government in their personal lives. The major political parties were created to speak in a collective voice for members on certain issues. Those issue and mission statements are incorporated into the party platforms which are adopted at each political convention. To read what each party's mission statement, philosophies and goals, the following web sites are a beginning point of one's research: The Democratic National Committee The Republican National Committee Each candidate has their own web pages outlining the candidate's views on issues, solutions to the problems they believe they can solve if elected, and a blueprint on how they would govern. Beware of a front page donation solicitation. Democratic Nominee Barack Obama Republican Nominee Mitt Romney Libertarian Nominee Gary Johnson One should not just read the self-produced pages of a party or candidate. One should also research each candidate's record (political votes, sponsored legislation, governance record and personal histories). The best way is to do a search of the candidate in all three major search engines, Google, Yahoo and Bing. Find independent articles that give factual information and analysis of each candidate. American elections are dominated by political advertising. Much of the advertising contains attacks on an opponent that may have little or no basis in fact. With the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United, advertising is a form a political speech so any person or Political Action Committee (PAC) can spend an unlimited sum of money on advertising. Because of this biased free for all, there are several web sites that try to parse the fact from the political fiction; the truth monitors: The major news organizations will be covering the candidates and campaigns on a full time basis. Each media outlet has its bias accusers, but if one does a comparative reading of two or more stories one can determine the facts from the spin: One should also take care and read your local newspapers coverage of the local elections. Your state and local elections are just as important as the national presidential election. Lastly, one needs to weigh the candidate information, ballot measures and take the time to actually vote. Many states and counties have early voting, so check with your local board of elections to determine the dates and times for those early balloting days. Every vote does count greatly in the collective will of the nation. Remember, there is an old saying: if you don't vote, then you cannot complain.
cyberbarf THE WORLD IN YOUR HAND ESSAY The latest marketing reports bode ill for the old line media conglomerates. Generation Y has basically abandoned print media (newspapers, magazines and books) in favor of looking at information through their hand held devices. Other reports indicate that barely a majority of the rest of Americans get their news from local television. There is now nothing that can't be delivered to one's smart phone or tablet. Communications: telephone calls, text messages, tweets and emails. Documents such as tickets, contracts, textbooks or notes can be delivered electronically in PDF or other formats. Entertainment like videos, music, films and television shows can be streamed to one's handheld device. Sports events, live box scores, specialty league feeds and bonus stadium stat packages are growing segments of the interactive experience marketing campaigns of pro sports teams. There is an App for just about anything. Compass, GPS, live traffic navigation, games, recipes, recommended searches, aggregation RSS feeds, calculators, calendars, reminders, notes, live dictation, video chat, photography, editing, art, science, and thousands more specialized platforms. Look at the app buttons on the standard iPhone: camera, messages, calendar, stocks, photos, YouTube, maps, weather, notes,utilities (including clock, calculator, compass and voice memos), settings, iTunes, app store, games and contacts. And lost in the clutter is the fact that the device is a phone! The information world is literally in the palm of your hand. But that may not be a good thing. Educators are not teaching principles of knowledge to students anymore. The technology has driven them to show their students where to find the information and answers digitally rather than read the original source material to learn the answers. Some would argue that it is the same thing; that technology is speeding up the acquisition of the answers with a few keystrokes. But those keystrokes replace the human brain absorption of text to memory for future application and recall. Finding the information is not the same as learning the information. The easy search is the junk food in education today. Too much of it is bad for the knowledge digestive system. But the smartphone revolution is giving people a false sense of intellectual security. The Internet is filled with gazillions pieces of information, some authoritative, some pure bunk. A search engine does not make an analytical judgment of whether the result is actually correct. It merely uses keywords and text recognition algorithms to spit out a list of ranked links. It is an easy cheat to have so much information at one's finger tips; but the real cheat is the loss of applied learning skills. Twenty years ago there was a movement that riled against the Dumbing Down of America, mostly through the use of mind numbing and stupid television programs that wasted time and rotted impressionable brains. A handheld Internet browser is a sinister yet seductive alternative to book learning and formalized memorization of mathematical tables to historical events. The danger and the pitfalls of having so much information in one's pocket has yet to be fully defined. Besides the addictive nature of constant interconnectivity to the web and social media, there is a personal hazard. There are so many people walking down busy sidewalks, crosswalks and hallways with their heads down completely focused on their smartphone screens. There are also too many people who do not heed the warning about texting and web surfing while you are driving a motor vehicle. Even at a stop light, people grab their phones to check messages - - - which is annoying to people behind them when they don't realize the light has changed. With personal power comes personal responsibility. The smartphone evolution is one of those times where people need to think before they act.
cyberbarf THE THOUGHT POLICE UNFREE SPEECH One of the dumbest stories exploded in Chicago this summer. An out-of-state chicken franchisor was setting up local franchises with stores in the Chicago metropolitan area. Chick-fil-A was looking to put a new store in a Chicago neighborhood. In a city with high unemployment, especially among youth and minority groups, one franchise would employ around 92 people. It would also generate sales and real estate taxes to increase revenue for the city which is bankrupt and running a massive deficit. However, a local alderman went off on the chicken franchise because he did not like the political views of the Chick-fil-A president, David Cathy, who in an interview, said he was personally against gay marriage. The Chicago alderman blew a gasket and said he would veto the chicken franchise from getting any city permit to build a store because of president's view on gay marriage. Then Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel chimed in saying that he did not want the business either because somehow it did not reflect the values of Chicago and offends a segment of the population. No one could ever explain what gay marriage has to do with selling chicken sandwiches, but it created a hellfire debate. What the mayor and the alderman failed to realize was that there position in regard to gay marriage is contrary to current Illinois law, which bans gay marriage (but provides for civil unions). The alderman and mayor took an oath to uphold the constitution and the laws of the state, except when politics comes into play to pander to a minority political group. It was also interesting to note that Emanuel's tirade that he does not want Chick-fil-A's alleged intolerant values in his city also means that he should kick out all the Catholics, Orthodox Jews and Muslims working or living in the city because those groups also do not believe in legalization of gay marriage. But the city leaders refused to back off their statements. The idea that a business needs to pass an undefined "Chicago values" test administered by elected officials reeks worse than the McCarthy communist witch hunts of the Cold War 1950s. The idea that politicians can punish a person for exercising his free speech rights is a gross violation of the constitution. Besides, the alderman and mayor were punishing not the franchisor but the independent local franchisor, a person in their own community, who wanted to open a legal business. The concept of crony capitalism is where a government grabs power over private business in such a way as to determine which business enterprises win (or survive) and which businesses fail. Favoring friends and business associates based upon political views smacks as the worst kind of corruption. To allow a government official to punish a person or business exercising their free speech rights to comment on a public issue is a dangerous slippery slope to tyranny. It also explains why government agencies are trying to seize control over the Internet in order to regulate content. To regulate any part of the Internet is to control it. Many countries outside the United States cut off the Internet to their citizens to quell revolutionary communications and destroy free speech movements.The power brokers in Washington D.C. are not above trying to expand the scope of their meddling under the tortured logic of solving an imaginary crisis or to “protect the children.” As set forth above, that is why citizen involvement in elections is so important to check unfettered power grabs into personal liberties such as free and uncensored Internet communications. |
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| Question: Whether Internet politics have a substantial impact on changing a voter's opinion on any candidate? |
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