Chapter 5 HW

5.4
Two web-sites that are blocked by filters that are not the kind of sites filters are intended to block are all student organizations at Carnegie Mellon University and A map of Disney World.

5.5
Two methods used by some governments to control access to information are the censorship of sites to help control material available to children by the Communications Decency Act of 1996, and the Child Online Protection Act which made it a federal crime for commercial Web sites to make available to minors material "harmful to minors".

5.7
Two reasons people object to spam are the content that they contain and the way it is sent. The content is usually advertising, and many people do not want any unsolicited ads or announcements. Also, spammers disguise their email return address so that they do not have to respond to complaints.

5.11
The policy for internet access that is appropriate for elementary schools is the restricted access of explicit material containing bad language as well as pornography and racist materials. For elementary school, only limited access is needed. For high schools explicit material should be granted access because of the maturity level being higher. High Schoolers should have more freedom with what they are able to view, but pornography should still be off-limits. Racist content is useful for research projects and showing different points of view.

5.14
His comments about his intentions of not hurting people and being a regular kid are all not true and blatant lies. Regular children do not set off bombs in school hallways, and then say they did not want to hurt anybody. If they did not want to hurt anybody, they would have set it off in a remote location. Blaming the internet for making him set this bomb off is not right, because although the internet grants access to all this information it is your responsibility to use your common sense and reason when it comes to using it or not. For instance, if you watched a video of how to use a knife and then stabbed somebody and blamed this on the internet site and said that hes just a normal kid without any intentions of hurting anyone, nobody would believe him because there is no way it is true.

5.17
The issues that are raised from this problems is that the satelites become useless if everybody knows about them. It alerts the enemy that they are trying to spy on, and without the element of surprise they will not catch what they want to catch. This should be illegal because this makes the satellites less effective and they are used by the government. Therefore, i think that the information that is found by the satellites should be released, time-sensitively, so that the information can still be gathered effectively. The argument for telling where these satellites orbit is weak because although people should know if they are being watched, if they are doing nothing wrong they do not have anything to worry about.

5.18
The arguments for Harris Interactive's law suit are that their inclusion on the list cut it off from about half of the survey participants. They had told these people that they were signing up for these surveys as well. The argument against them is that they were not giving the people signing up enough information to know what they were getting into. The list was published that showed the criteria, and so if they wanted to not be on the list they would just have to meet the criteria.