Pros:

1.       Some online gambling websites will offer vacation packages or signing bonuses for joining their website.

2.       Can gamble in your pajamas in the comfort of your own home.

3.       You don’t have to travel long distances, such as to Las Vegas or Atlantic City, to gamble.

4.       You don’t have to deal with obnoxious, annoying, or drunk gamblers as in a real casino.

5.       You don’t have to tip the dealer.

Cons:

1.       It may take up to two to four weeks to receive money (or credit) from cashing in if using a credit card.  However, if using a debit card, it may only take three to five business days.

2.       Unlike a physical casino, online casinos lack in customer service.  Some sites may give a toll-free number to call or an email address; whereas others may not give a number and could take a few days to respond to an email.  Some sites seem to only be concerned with taking your money.

3.       Most sites are able to make up rules as they go.  So, in the event of a dispute, the casino usually has the final say.

4.       When using credit/debit cards, your statement will be unnerving to balance because most sites do not indicate a name only the merchant bank.

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Net Neutrality

Pros:

1.       Enables the little guy to be a part of the same net as big, high-tech, corporations.

2.      Free of restrictions on content, sites or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed, as well as one where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams.

Cons:

1.      Any non-neutral scheme could ISPs allow  to unfairly discriminate and control which data they prioritize, such as data from their own sponsors or media interests.

2.      Allowing for preferential treatment of Internet traffic, or tiered services, would put newer online companies at a disadvantage and slow innovation in online services.

Argument

Some applications of Web 2.0 are Movie Collector Plus, Free Dictionary, and Napster.  Movie Collector Plus allows the user to create a database of his/her own movies and keep track of who (s)he lets borrow his/her movies. It provides a list of newly released films, and allows the user to add any movie to his/her personal collection.  Also, at the top of the page it flashes the latest news breaks.  This website is quite versatile.  Free Dictionary provides the definitions of English words, as well as a thesaurus, an online translator, and encyclopedia.  This website is a one-stop site to aid research and general knowledge.  Napster is a website dedicated to music.  Napster allows its users to search millions of songs to download for their personal collections.  Also, the site provides Billboard lists of the top new music.  Napster streams online radio for all-day listening, at the click of a button.

Also, blogs such as Facebook and Myspace are components of Web 2.0.  These websites are networking site that allow the user to keep in contact with friends from around the world.  The user can browse pictures posted by friends, read/write on friends’ walls, send messages to friends from across the world.  All of this can be done by the typing of a keyboard and the click of a button.

Web 2.0 is the new age of the internet.  It allows the user to be more active, and more involved with websites.

Movie Collector Plus

Free Dictionary

Napster

Sometimes when a country begins to develop through industrial and military means new technologies become necessary.  Some of the biggest technological advances are seen in civil engineering, manufacturing, information technology, food production, and product distribution.  Politically and economically, these areas of technology are the most important.  Technologies that advance from one part of society can often benefit others through the adjustment and extension of principles, inner-workings, and production resources.  For example, word procession technology wasn’t originally developed to help people learn.  It was developed for the purpose of “information exchange” in military and scientific projects.  If we let ourselves think of “word processing” as the general storage and display of words on the computer or on paper, then we might just let the word storage and display technology comes from the military’s idea of nature and the uses of written language.

General interest website:

Technologies arrive often as a result of military or industrial development. Advances in civil engineering, manufacturing, information technology, food production, and product distribution technologies result from economic and political prioritization, which is to say, that is where the money is. Technologies developed in one sector of a society often benefit others through adaptation and extension of principles, infrastructure, and production resources. Word processing technology, for example, was developed originally not for literary or educational purposes, but for the purpose of “information exchange” in military and scientific projects. If we allow a broad definition of “word processing” to mean the general storage and display of alphanumeric characters on printout or video display, then we might even allow that the word storage and display technology proceeds from a set of scientific and military-industrial assumptions about the nature and uses of written language.

Wikipedia website:

Technologies arrive often as a result of military or industrial development.  Some of the biggest technological advances are seen in civil engineering, manufacturing, information technology, food production, and product distribution.  Politically and economically, these areas of technology are the most important.  Technologies developed in one sector of a society often benefit others through adaptation and extension of principles, infrastructure, and production resources.  For example, word processing technology wasn’t originally developed for literary or educational purposes, but for the purpose of “information exchange” in military and scientific projects.  If we allow ourselves to believe “word processing” to simply mean the general storage and display of alphanumeric characters, or words and numbers, on a computer screen or on paper, then we might also believe that the word storage and display technology stems from a set of scientific and military-industrial assumptions about the nature and uses of written language.

David Biddix

Web Design

Future of the Internet

            The technology of today has made leaps and bounds since the World War II era. From the invention of the radio, the television, to the internet technology is quickly taking over the human race.  Holography, electronic banking, and computer viruses are three inventions that have spawned from the invention of the internet.  These three concepts have made a great impact on the modern world, but if not used correctly can cause extreme damage to the world as we know it.

            Imagine a world with no human, no animals, and no plants only computerized images that speak to one another. Images that are projected from two lasers onto curved silver plates.  These images have already been invented. They are called holograms.  Holograms are nothing more than two superimposed images two-dimensional pictures of the same object seen from many different reference points giving the illusion of a single three-dimensional object.  Holography is a fairly simple concept that if modified can become beneficial as well as detrimental.  For instance, if a college student decides one day that he does not want to attend a class, given access of holographic technology, he could take pictures of himself sitting in a desk as though he is actually in attendance of the class and project a hologram from an empty desk in the class.  This may be a possibility in 75 years if the technological advances continue.  On the negative side, if holographic science were to get in the wrong hands, it could be used a distraction in war battles.  Although holography is a fascinating concept, it is still just a concept and in its early stages.

            Another advance in technology that stemmed from the invention of the internet is the implementation of electronic banking.  One can sit in the comfort of his or her own home and pay bills, deposit money, and buy clothes all online.  If this technology continues to thrive and progress, in 75 years all physical banks will be obsolete.  There would be no reason to get in a car and drive down the road to write a check or deposit cash.  This is not necessarily a bad idea if done in a failsafe way.  However, if the internet were to fail or become under attack from viruses this concept would fail as well.

            A computer virus is a piece of software that attaches itself to a computer program and inflicts damage to the use of the computer and its programs.  If viruses continue to evolve as they have since the invention of the computer, they could grow to irrevocable damages.  If a virus program were to get into the wrong hands, it could be used as a weapon against countries, continents, and even the world.  For instance, the Chinese government has already been reported to have begun planning to attack foreign networks through viruses. The Department of Defense noted that “China is making a significant push out of the traditional warfare areas—land, air, and sea—to a more ‘modern battlefield’ of space and cyberspace.”

            Although the invention of the internet has had a positive impact on the world, the progression of certain concepts within the internet as a whole has the possibility to send us back to the Stone Age.

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