What a twist

This week is the final week where the last SLOG is written. And what's different about this one was that we are given the task of writing down our understanding of the issue of privacy between computers while we write down our slog.

So in our supposedly second last day of classes in the department, we looked into the property values of the internet. We discussed about how the internet works with its long ranged and carefully planned networks to how files are distributed across the networks to the privacy of one's identity in the internet. Speaking of one's privacy over the internet, we looked at one's properties over the internet, which includes (but not limits to) copyrights, trademarks, patients, etc., and the process and importance of property over the internet.

Before moving on, we should look at the issue surrounding the privacy in networked computers. One of the issues surrounding the privacy in networked computers is that privacy have their limits: they come in different methods of protecting one's personal information, and depending on how resourceful the information is, and how well the information can be shared among people.

Despite how resourceful the privacy can be given and kept, sometimes even saving privacy can't be enough. Sometimes privacy can be leaked for the purpose of evidence or just for the sake of leaking. Some information, such as surveys, black boxes and 911 calls forces you at a degree to share your opinion or identify yourself to get a result in the end while others such as identification and postal code are needed to confirm one's identity.

Case in point: music piracy and illegal downloading continues to become a large conflict in the entertainment section as technology improved itself over the years, and soon people were all over their heads to maintain their property from being stolen from the public.

This is why the internet has closed and open approaches of copyrighting objects present in the internet, to ensure that no one else takes one's work and claim it as theirs.

This lesson was fascinating and again, easy to understand. The different types of trademarking to claim responsibility and rights to a property was intriguing and made me think twice about what I should upload into the internet. The fact that how most problems in the internet such as pirating became increasingly problematic was a surprising fact for me because I always though pirating was a thing that came along with the internet, like stealing an image from someone who already owns ownership to the photo in the first place.

Next was our final DrRacket lesson of the course (I think, I may be wrong. Oh well.) This one was all about filtering lists. Taking the flattening function as extra aid, we learned how to separate those who match what we are looking for in a list over those we don't need.

The lesson was again extremely easy to understand and there was no problem not to ask questions on how to solve it. It just needs to be read more carefully.

That's all for the week. Now comes the final week for the course. Let's finish it off with a bang.