Why is Everyone Upset with RadioShack?

The following is a position paper that I wrote in April of 2015 To set the timeline, this was merely weeks if not days after RadioShack announced that it was selling it's customer information database, which came shortly after it's bankruptcy. You know, that database that was assembled with the information demanded of you at the register every time you stopped in to grab a pack of batteries. This is in spite of their policy that they would never sell that information without your consent (emphasis mine).

Research Results

Our survey was posted online for a period of one week. Following this period, data was pulled down from SurveyMonkey in the form of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Survey results were converted from text to numeric answers. All statistical analysis was conducted in IBM SPSS v23 for Linux on the OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 operating system.

Would Anyone Like to Take a Survey?

I'm looking for a little help for a research project. There are three sections to the survey, and I need answers for all three. You shouldn't spend even 5 minutes. I'll share the results of the study once the data has been analyzed

This study investigates the relationship between emotional intelligence and computer anxiety. In addition, this the study will further explore the extent that age moderates this relationship.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VNDRXQF

Seizing Internet Domains

Homework Assignment from the past.

The question of who, if anyone, had authority to seize the domain name of a questionable website first came to the forefront two years ago when the commonwealth of Kentucky attempted to take control of 141 domain names belonging to websites associated with online gambling. While most forms of online gambling are currently illegal in the United States, it was quite controversial when a county circuit judge gave the state the green light to seize control of these sites. The major question about this was the motive. In the state of Kentucky as of 2005, 96,000 jobs were in some way related to the horse racing industry. It is fair to ask whether this was simply attempting to shut down illegal websites, or a state simply looking after its own bottom line.

This issue came to the forefront again recently with what has been dubbed in the media as the “Internet Kill Switch.” This past June, a Senate committee approved the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 (S. 3480). This bill will create a White House office of cyber security and a vaguely worded section that many interpret as giving the president the authority to effectively shut down the Internet in an emergency. The committee however denies that the president would be able to shut down the Internet. A version of the bill, H.R. 5548, has also been introduced in the House.

Pirate DNS

Some of the main characters in the peer to peer file sharing world, led by former Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde have announced their intentions to launch a competitor to the ICANN manged DNS system. ICANN is an independent non-profit organization, however it often complies with the wishes of the U.S. government. The alternative system will feature its own root server followed by a full naming system. The Pirate Bay is an infamous web site known for the coordination of illegal file sharing on the Internet who's servers are constantly on the move across the world while it's operators thumb their noses at law enforcement. The ultimate purpose of the so called “P2P DNS” project is to maintain an Internet free from censorship according to Sunde. The alternative root server can accomplish this by providing an alternative system to map familiar domain names such as google.com to the IP addresses that the Internet uses to route traffic.

The announcement of this alternative DNS system is immediately on the heels of the Department of Homeland Security seizing a number of domain names linked to websites that are linked to illegal files haring.  Sites such as Torrent-finder.com, DVDcollects, and TorrentFreak.com were taken over by the DHS and visitors were greeted by an image explaining the seizure.  In all, more than 70 domain names were seized.  Surprisingly, The Pirate Bay escaped this round of seizures despite them being a high profile target in the past.  Another popular torrent tracking site, Demonoid,com recently announced that it will be changing it's domain name to Demonoid.me.  The U.S. does not have jurisdiction over .me as it does over .com.