Recent Computer News

The University of Florida and scientists from Honeywell Aerospace have been trying to invent a special computer. The computer works about 100 times faster than any present computers!! The purpose of the computer is to manage the satellite and orbiting data. It will be able to run the system more quickly and to decide what they do by on their own. Computer system’s development in durability and protection from cosmic radiation has been at low pace, so this super computer will be helpful more for space project and so on. By 2008, the computer will be made completely, and in February, 2009, the test flight is planned with unmanned rocket. In my personal view, I don’t think this super speed computer is needed by public people like me. The only thing that I thought here is the success of the test flight! (October 30, 2006, from All Headline News http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005348439)

What Is "Net Neutrality"?

Net Neutrality is the short term for Network Neutrality. Network Neutrality is the main guideline to guard Internet’s openness and freedom. It enables Internet users to do whatever they want on the Internet; for example, we can watch videos, listen to music, and send an e-mail etc. In other words, the sources on the Internet should not have a kind of superiority. The nation’s largest telephone or cable companies tend to break network Neutrality because they want to control the sources that users can find on the Internet so as to get profit by loading the specific sites when users are searching. However, the high-technology companies are the strong supporters of Net Neutrality; for example, Amazon.com, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Yahoo. (from Save the Internet. com http://www.savetheinternet.com/=faq)

My 3 Favorite Web Sites

Today, I’m going to talk about good web sites. In fact, I don’t often use English web sites unless I need to research for classes, so I have no idea about enjoyable web sites… and it is very difficult for me to introduce good web sites. Therefore, although I’m really sorry to bother you, I will recommend the 3 following web sited that are very useful for my academic life.
First of all, as everyone knows, “amazon.com” is a very helpful shopping site. I always Japanese amazon.com for buying especially books, but I actually see reviews of editors and customers in order to get detailed information about English books. When I had book report homework last semester, the reviews were very helpful for me to understand the story and the remark the customers had.
My second favorite site is "BBC". This is practical for my research paper because it contains all of fields of information such as health, politics and education. Also, we can watch and listen to the latest BBC news easily. Actually, I'd like to study in UK next year, so it's good way for me to get used to British English. In addition, have you ever noticed the “Learning English” section? I’d like English as a second language students to enjoy this corner because it helps you improve your English entirely.
Finally, I’ll recommend a free touch-typing program in a web site “Senselang.” Although there are a lot of typing test web sites, I think this one is effective because we start with the very first step of typing. For example, “fjf jfjf ffjj ffjfff ffffjf fjfj fj fjjff ff…..” I think it is good to increase my concentration, too!!
I’m afraid that I write too much, but if you have nothing to do on holidays, please visit these sites and have a nice one!

Computer Gift For My Friends & Family

There are a lot of useful things related to computers, so it’s very difficult for me to decide what presents I should give to my friends or family..... However, I came up with one handy intelligent case which can bind us more closely and strongly.
That is …DIGITAL CAMERA!!! If my family, who live away from me, have a handy camera and they can take a photo of them or view of my hometown and send me those pictures by e-mail. Actually, I really miss my family these days because my great-grandma is in hospital now. So, I will be very happy that I can know how my family is easily. In fact, unfortunately, there are too many kinds of digital cameras for me to talk about here. Apparently, a lot of cute and pretty ones are sold these days that attracts me strongly. Yet, when I go to electronic stores such as Yodobashi Camara and Sakuraya, I can hardly tell the differences in functions between those without asking clerks. As you know, they are very kind and helpful for customers. Therefore, the only thing that I have to do now is to save money so as to buy a good camera for my family!

What Is “Social Engineering”?
I have never heard this term before, so I looked up on the Internet and to my surprise, I got 51,200,000 pages! When I saw the word “Social Engineering,” I imagined some kind of good action for society making use of the techniques of computer engineering, but it is completely different.
The general definition of social engineering is to get or steal someone’s private information by using psychological tricks to carelessness of human mind. Yet, in terms of computer, "Social Engineering" means that the action of illegal entry to other computers by stealing the passwords without damaging the computer itself. In this case, it is also called social hacking and social cracking. The general way to get the password is rather silly for me; pumping the password from the user by pretending to be a system manager, staring at the keyboard or the screen on which the user is inputting the password with standing behind the user, and flicking at the paper on which the password is written. Therefore, in order not to let someone see the password, everybody has to be careful in dealing the password!!