Dr. Jerz-
I want to do a talk on File Sharing and Ethics.

Dr. Jerz, I'm not to sure would topic might be a little easier for me since I don't know to much about the internet. I'm thinking maybe viruses, spyware, and security...because I'm good at attracting viruses and maybe I can learn something :-) The other topic that I was interested in was Google, Microsoft, and "Evil", which ever you feel is of more importance..or no one else wants I'll take.

Dr. Jerz, if no one wants to present on Goodle Microsoft and Evil I would like to do that or maybe the Spam on your email and blog. Whichever may be available.

Since the faculty e-mail is down this weekend, I'll post a few starter links here.

A great place to start to get a broad view of most subjects is to look up the major terms/companies in www.wikipedia.com (but I wouldn't quote that site directly in any research... use it to find links and guide your investigation.)

Google, Microsoft and Evil

See #6 on this list
http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html

Plenty of negative claims about Google: http://www.google-atch.org/

On Microsoft as a monopoly
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39116764,00.htm
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/08/microsoft.silicon/
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17996.html
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/

File Sharing

Be sure you present the debate fairly -- particularly if you chose this issue becuse you are a strong supporter of one particular side.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pmupdate/s_251548.html
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40068
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1486060/20040330/index.jhtml?headlines=true
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,61173,00.html
http://teenmusic.about.com/od/ethicsthelaw/

Computer Security

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/specials/hackers/primer/
http://www.mapnp.org/library/infomgnt/security/security.htm
http://kb.indiana.edu/data/aehm.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3257165.stm
http://www.mckeay.net/secure/archives/000013.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/computer_security_review/
http://www.zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=3287/
but see my critique of the above article: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?id=1620

One more, on viruses:

http://vmyths.com/resource.cfm?id=19&page=1

Dr.Jerz,
When I attempt to save my blog entry that goes along with my topic there is an error message which occurs. It reads: 'Parse error in template 'About Me': with no ' I am not even dealing with my about category. What is happening here? I cannot prepare my presentation as of Sept.19, 2004 5:35AM

Leslie, although I can't yet track down the source of the problem, your blog entry is visible at the following URL:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeslieRodriguez/004569.html

So I think you should be fine for Monday's presentation. (I'll still try to fix your problem, though.)