Week 3 "Circus Catches"

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questions 5-7

5-What is net neutrality? Who is in favor of it, according to this article? Who is against it?
Net neutrality is the principle that basic Internet protocols should be involved, that content providers should get equal treatment from internet operators. Corning, Tyco and Motorola are against it. Many democratic colleagues are in favor of it.
6-Google has lost a bid to overturn a Belgian court order that requires it to publish an earlier ruling forbidding it from reproducing article snippets on its news amalgamation service.
http://news.com.com/Google+loses+appeal+on+posting+Belgian+ruling/2100-1030_3-6118489.html
7-A judge accepted computer maker Silicon Graphics Inc.'s reorganization plan Tuesday, setting the stage for the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October, the company said.
http://news.com.com/SGI+set+to+exit+bankruptcy+protection/2100-1014_3-6117330.html

reson why stocks are going up

the reason why the stocks are going up is because the prices for gas and oil are going down, so energy is supposed to be less of a burdon on our economy.

1-4

1-What is the flaw with IE? How can this flaw be fixed?
The flaw with IE is microsoft internet explorer is vulnerable to malicious sites meaning attckers have the power to download an assortment of malware onto the computers. This flaw can be fixed by getting another internet access website called firefox which is less vulnerable than internet explorer.
2-Think of three slogans you could use to sell as many units as possible!
a) Why get confused and mangled with equipment when theres NETSTIX
b) Need something small and easy to use get NETSTIX
c) Why carry a PC around campus when you could just use a NETSTIX
3-Name three possible customers.
a) Siemens Medical Solutions
b) Wall Street
c) FSMLabs
4-Will China have a "better" Internet than America? What can we do?
Yes they will because they will build a faster, more secure, more mobile version of the current Internet. We can begin planning now and wait and see how it is because moste people believe that the new version will cost to much and wont be able to do that well.

Two articles about computers

An Apple for the enterprise
Apple's newest Macs and OS need a good hard look as mainstream enterprise fare. Apple has accepted that user and administraitor productivity is a responsibility. Also the prices of Macs have hardly ever been changed by the prices being cut. Apple said its first public claim that a Mac model is less expensive than a competitor's PC. Mac customers are now getting respect for Apple since it is fightng with Dell on prices.

Chair resigns immediately
Patricia Dunn was the person behind Hewlett-Packard's boardroom spying detection gone bad who was planning to step down as chairwoman in January as forgiveness for the criminal spying approach used by detectives. She had resigned completly from the board as the fallout over the scandal also seemed to also take down two senior HP employees.