Jason Hardin

This week Jason Hardin talked to our class about Copyright laws. I found many aspects of the lecture interesting. I learned about topics such as fair use and Creative Commons. Fair use is a positive defense against charges of infringement. News stations usually take part in this kind of sharing. They will put video clips on their site for advertisement for the video. I think this aspect of the copyright law is good. It promotes information awareness. If getting permission to show a clip was very confusing and labor extensive, it would not be done as frequently.

Creative commons is a site used as an alternative to the requesting a federal copyright. I think CC is a great tool for ordinary people to use to protect themselves. It is an inexpensive and effective way to copyright your work. I think that it is only a matter of time before the government catches up with the approach CC is using.

Network Diagram of Trinity's LAN (Local Area Network)

Joe Hatch Lecture

Joe Hatch gave a lecture to our computer skills class about protecting your computer. He introduced me to CCleaner, which is a program that deletes cookies and other junk. He also showed us how to defragment our hard drives. I found this very interesting because I had never defragmented my hard drive before. He also lectured on the different ways in which hackers can introduce viruses to your computer. He said that one of the most vulnerable places is Starbucks because they have an open network. If you are IMing, hackers can send links to your computer with viruses attached. This is called phishing.