Technology

I believe that there is no good or bad in the use of technology. It all just drops down to whoever uses it and for what purpose he uses it for. For good, it helps makes tasks easier and much more time efficient. For bad, it can be used to steal, hack, stalk and even murder someone as what the case of the movie was. Technology is a tool after all, and people use it however they like to use it, there is no way to control people who do evil through the use of technology. It is a matter of individual choice after all and if someone wants to for example, stalk you, there is nothing you could do to stop him or her from doing what he or she want.

I learned however that there are ways to prevent evil users of technology from being able to do what they want to the point of getting access crucial information about you. You should learn their tricks if you are to prevent them from doing anyting to you. You should learn to think like them and counter their moves before they even do it and that’s where the study of cracking/hacking comes into place, to make people aware and prevent malicious attacks from these groups of technology users. And that's why, we, IT people, should really learn about all this things, to prevent these things from happening.  

Internet Security

Online network security is very important, as what have been demonstrated to us, online networks are prone to malicious attacks from hackers if coding or construction of the program of a network is coded in certain ways. They can delete datas, modify contents, and ruin your whole network if you make a wrong line of code in your program. It is important for us, IT people, to take all pre caution before releasing a software online. I learned that we should all learn these techniques to avoid, if not, minimize vurnerabilities of important systems especially when we are already dealing with information critical systems.

I now understand why we should study the art of hacking and some possible vurnerabilities on making databases, software, and online system networks since we should should aim to protect our clients, and users from problems in the future.

IT Fraud

IT fraud is a disgusting thing to do. It is so easy to pull off as to why many people do it. You see, the problem with IT fraud is that people that does not involve their selves with IT, has a tendency to have a hard time distinguishing fact from fraud. It is their lack of education and gullible tendencies that makes them an easy target. Another factor of people falling victim of IT fraud is the tendency of people to get attracted to "cheap" IT products. Take this instance for example; In E-bay, there was a time where a certain 32G “Sony" USB Flash disk was being sold for like, 1.5k++ pesos. It was a shock to many back to people on how a 32G USB flash drive was so cheap since during those times, a 1G generic flash disk already costs 1k+ pesos. Because of this, may people bought the USB disk, a lot bought bundles of order only to find out soon after that it was a FAKE. The 32G "Sony" USB disk might really show that it contains 32G when you look it up on properties, but, once you store big files in it, the files would be saved, but wont be retrievable anymore. But then, people didn’t know that. People still believed that it was 32G since it showed 32G on property and even worse, told their friends about it. More people got tricked because of that and even more people got rich. You see, before we buy something unbelievable, we should first look it up in the net to see if whether it exists or not. If not, don’t bother buying it because it most probably is a fraud.

Market Revision

The discussion last class was interesting. I mean, think about it, the market doesnt really tend to look on the importance of quality over a price of product when in comes to investing into technology. People gets tricked by fake advertisment over claims that, "most of the times", cant even be verified.

Take freelance-job websites for example. Imagine people bidding of for the lowest price they can make the project. I mean, how can the companies, that wants projects, such as security-strict website confirm that the man they give the job to is really ok and could make the job run smoothly and perform as asked over a period of time, if they just go over bidding on who can make the job faster and cheaper. And believe me, people most of the times, only look on the terms of pricing and fast work, while they should be looking more, or testing, the people you want to give the jobs to.

The market should be thought of new things if you ask me. They should all be oriented on how technology should work to avoid scams and poor performance software output from people they hire. Better yet, hire an IT personell or a proggrammer for who else could better understand and evaluate a programmer than an IT or a programmer itself, right?

Flash Memory vs Hard Disk

"Will  flash disk prevail over hard, magnetic disks?"

I came to an interesting article in the internet, saying that it wont and how flash disk is so much more expensive than hard disk. But how much longer will it take for flash disk to catch up? I mean, considering the price of flash disks before, it surely has dropped in a tremendous amount compared to what it was then. I'm not saying that hard disk wasnt dropping prices but considering the trend of the price drop, I wouldnt be surprised to hear or see that the prices of it is at a 1:2 or even better, a 1:1 ratio on HD price vs Flash.

Just take CD vs Floppy for example, back then, CDs were much more expensive than floppy disks. It was too overpriced and just to have a cd reader, or cd-rom, would cost you a lot. There were a lot of issues back then too, but then, CD prevailed over time right? It's just a matter of giving more time to advance the technology that we have now.

Flash started to a point where HDD was already being used for so many years. It has an unfair advantage of say like, tens of years, and judging Flash to be the one losing should not be the case. Compared to growth, I’ll say flash grew faster, and I say that Flash memory shall prevail in the near future. It's just a matter of time until someone discovers something that will make flash memory, the new primary choice of storage. Until then, we're stuck to the hard disk which sucks up electricity a lot, huge, has life spans, and can only rotate for a limited amount of time.

Technology is Getting Cheaper and Cheaper

Technology is getting cheaper exponentially. I mean, if you come think of it, It just doesnt make sense. It's hard to imagine how better performing systems, processors, memory storage devices, is somewhat cheaper than their weaker predecessors. Not only that the new released ones are better in performance, but actually, they are smaller, and much more compact than their predecessors too. 

Take flash disks for instance; A year ago, a 512MB flash disks costed much more than how a 1G flash disks costed now. Nowadays, a 512MB flash disk may be given out 
for free already.

Truly technology is growing so fast and so cheap. Soon, it wont be just the people with money that is going to be able to own high performance PCs and "high tech gadgets", the not so able people will be able to get a hold of their own too and more people will be able to contribute. When that time comes, just imagine how much faster the rate of the improvement of technology will become and how much more cheaper and compact the future devices will be. 

Sept 17 ManTech Class

This september 17 class was a real eye opener for me, imagine, all this time, I was so dumb still thinking that a primary memory card for your PC still costs 3000 pesos more than what it costs now. It's not only the prices that goes down so fast thou, things in the IT world changes so fast too.

It made me realize and think about how fast the rate of technology is improving to such 
a point that not getting hold of information as soon as possible will get you left behind, fast. I realized that to be able to get into a deep understanding with technology, a lot of time online in the net, doing research is a very necessary task. I just  realized that what they said about the study of technology as life long learning, is definitely true.