Monday, October 27, 2014

10/27 Do Now

A representation is used for representing a subject, mostly to talk about the importance about that subject. When leading a presentation, you need to talk with details that don't confuse the audience and will fully educate a audience member on the subject and why you made a presentation about it. You also need to ask questions to what they think about the subject from their personal point-of-view. Their ideas need to be used by you to make you change your thoughts on the subject, use their ideas to change your's. Trying showing pictures and videos, visual-aids help the viewer know more about the subject. Their audience's attention is important for the presentation, its the main purpose.

Friday, October 24, 2014

"Backoff" Malware is spreading

A malicious malware is spreading through computers across North America. This malware Is known for a string of payment card breaches. Damballa, computer company, says that it's infection percentage has risen 57 percent from their last scan detection. This malware scrapes RAM for leftover credit card data after a payment card has been swiped. Damballa said that most computers that have this malware, aren't noticeable to have the malware.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Google Fiber Reaches Austin

Google has set out plans to build foundations of their super high speed internet in the city of Austin, Texas. Google had planned to set up the connections back in 2013 but had delays from Regulations and permits. Mark Trauma, head of Google Fiber Austin, that there will be a $300 connection fee to homes in Austin but there will be a 5 Mbps Service as offered. No additional prices have been offered to have the high speed network in the city. Google is also planning to expand to more cities in the future as the permissions from the FCC are still at wait.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Tech Blog: Congress wants net neutrality

Congress Wants Net Neutrality


Representitive Henry Waxman made a 15-page letter to the company FCC for adopting new net neutrality rules to stop the controversy and problems. Waxman's solution to this issue, is to grant the FCCs new oversight to broadband providers. the FCC had a third attempt back in May to develop rules that will protect the Internet from potential, harmful future practices. Without any new rules, ISPs will abandon the rules of net neutrality. FCCs plan to change the rules have been changing through the decade as many of them have mostly failed. The is also a problem with the third party companies, that depend on the internet, will be put at risk from not having an open internet protection. The plan to change net neutrality rules are still at debate from the FCC and Congress.

Friday, October 3, 2014

Tech Article : GM recalling 117000 vehicles

General Motors is recalling 2013-2014 vehicles cause of a stalling defect. The car brands that might have this problem are Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, and Buick. Metal slivers in the chassis control module can cause an electrical shortage says GM. GM also says there are around 100 thousand cars in the US  and 20 thousand cars exported elsewhere with this defect. They say they will notify any owner to recall their car to have the defect removed and changed for free.