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Week 8

 Georgia is a country located at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of Caucasus region. Well what i would like to say is that geographically we had contact with Asian and European countries and civilization has been emerged likewise. Georgian's are very talented but lazy, most of us. We sent many Georgian IT students in MIT, Google, Facebook. One 23 year old Shota Zhvania, started working in Tesla's office in Berlin as a developer. Also Lako Grigalashvili girl, who started working in Amazon and we have many talented IT staff, but they are not famous even in Georgia and there are reasons for that. Due to strict political regime in Georgia and corruption, it is very difficult to maintain your status. Mafia is always after rich and successful people and to be also more direct, it is not always safe to just walk in the streets. That is why many people, prefer to be unnoticed and 90% of them leave the country. Children from very early age are interested ...

Week 7 Know where you are in cyberspace

 I can never forget first time i had access to internet i was very little kid less than 5 years old when i saw people chatting over the internet from different places. Firstly it seemed regular just because i didn't have the knowledge what was happening and then i started to realize. Cyberspace is full of users and they are near us talking about something and we can hear it. You really cannot feel the distance anymore. Whether, it is good or not, it is fascinating. Cyberspace is everywhere and still we don't know what it is. One of the Ten Commandments by Virginia Shea "Know where you are in cybersapce"... As easy as it may sound, it is not very understandable and difficult to explain, but let's start asking ourselves questions, how do we communicate with millions of people within seconds. Practically, it is impossible, but enormous space and speed simplifies the action. "Lurk before you leap: Learning the rules of the space you want to be in". Lots of p...

Week - 6 Copyleft

Intro      While Copyleft can be granted to users to change and distribute the intellectual property under the derivation of the "host", Copyright exists in order to protect author of documentation. During the Copyleft author is capable of placing his/her copyright into the document. Strong Copyleft     As I said Copyleft is set to guarantee the freedom of the software distribution and modification but first creator has most of the rights. It means source code should be available with the copy of a license and acknowledgment from author. Lets mention a little bit of history. Firstly we met Copyleft license in 1985 by Richard Stallman the Emacs General Public License  and it is still used in many copylefted software such as GNU. But everything is not as easy as it seems. While you are in the head of a company and trying to choose between licenses you should carefully think about it. What kind of company business are you going to deal with in the future? What...

The Case For Copyright Reform week-5

Copyright is unbalanced in many aspects of our everyday life and compared to last two decades It became big problem. Of course copyright law should exist in order to avoid plagiarism, ownership, shareware etc. But it must be regulated.   Even though, we face regulation problems in internet my opinion about The Pirate Party is equivocal. Copyright regulation introduces lots of vulnerabilities for millions of users. As mentioned in the Rick Falkvinges’ and Christian Engström s’ book The case for copyright reform, the content cannot be filtered without surveillance and how does that feel for other users who even don’t know about content. Its’ true that mostly we by ourselves agree on privacy policies in internet when visiting specific website, but still not fair. Sharing content between peers without any commercial use should not be an issue. Netflix for example is very good example. People often say that we download torrent movies so that we can watch offline and it is true. Netf...

2004 Information Society Report to the Parliament of Finland by Pekka Himanen Week 4

 Resources: https://web.archive.org/web/20170221105053/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/tietoaeduskunnasta/julkaisut/Documents/tuvje_1+2004.pdf      After reading 2004 information society report to the Parliament of Finland by Pekka Himanen I just could not disagree with even one word. Seems like a man really saw what was coming and put his efforts to display it on the paper in front of Committee.     Changes we can do together is so simple and that it is funny just to watch 75% of the world to sink in the ocean. The distribution of money is very unfair. Gap between rich and poor people. With just simple distribution everyone can get education at universities and schools and have food at home. USA is printing so much money and invest in military trillions of dollars. The mentality still kills the world. Preparing army for "star wars" ? More than half the earth dies in poverty, even more the natural life is destroyed daily. Animals are dying, Trees are cut, ...

Multi-user online games week 3

    We all remember the enjoyable days of playing Warcraft sci-fi spin-off that inspired numerous imitations and development of modern gaming. Warcraft as we know consists of several expansions and basically it is a strategy game Blizzard's first creation. The success of Warcraft made Blizzard the most successful developer of gaming industry. Many of you maybe heard about eSports and unfished competition between millions of players worldwide. Well the funding would be without Blizzard.     Lets move on to next stage of Warcraft's creation. This is the period when strategy games were gaining the power of mainstream and gatherings tons of users daily making gaming enjoyable. But the birth of World Of Warcraft was beyond fantasy, It was actually the real world with magic creatures and dungeons and raids for players. Thousands of quests with exciting stories. It actually started in 1994, with Warcraft's :Orcs and Humans predecessor of World of Warcraft's first expansion ...

Week 2

 FROM PHOTO BOOTHS TO MOBILE PHONES. Everyone has seen red booths on the streets in a form of a rectangular parallelepiped with payphone inside. A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, public call box, or whatever you may call was an essential monument to the history of the telephone and currently is just a tourist attraction or somewhere to shelter from the cold. Why did they become useless you may ask and the answer is quite simple- because of the rise of mobile phones. There's rarely going to be any need for a coin-operated telephone when you have one in your pocket.   Where it all started.  In 1889, William Gray constructed the first phone booth in a bank in Connecticut. Many people are still convinced that England was the home of the phone booth, however, they were introduced in London in 1903. The distinction between the model of Gray and its predecessors was that until after the end of the call, callers had to wait to pay. By 1902, payphones ha...