Content and Website Abuse

Net CONVERGENCE AND ITS USE IN SOCIETY

Convergence and the Web means the incorporation of the wide reaching and linking aspects of the web with other mediums,This convergence has led to the development of new forms of media technologies.

The obvious angle is Internet Telephony, which allows audio communication over web lines, rather than by means of the dedicated transmission lines that regular phones use. The advantage of VoIP technologies in society is that by being connected to the net, the user is connected to the rest of the world.

IPTV is an additional internet convergence that is a system where a digital television service is delivered utilizing Internet Protocol  over a network infrastructure, that is, a broadband connection. It’s not so lengthy away prior to the internet and the TV turn out to be nearly the identical factor. We’ll surf the web on our TV, although also subscribing to web TV shows, buying video downloads, and watching TV broadcast over a broadband connection.

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The reason that lying is so common is that most people aren’t very good at communication in the first place, which means they then have to run to keep up with the misinformation they gave out originally. One reason is that it’s so easy to misconstrue what people say they mean, especially when they don’t bother to explain and they’re too lazy to correct you. A good example from my youth is the time that I went to visit a particular young lady that I was keen on. It was a Sunday afternoon, she had nothing much to do and we went for a walk. Going back to her house, I was introduced to her Dad. He started to ask me who I was, who I was related to and what my own Dad did for a living. It turned out that this man was a teacher and had actually taught my sister in one year at the school they both attended. About that time in the conversation, although he hadn’t said anything negative, I was getting the feeling he wasn’t impressed with me. Still, he didn’t say anything. The next thing that happened was that the girl’s mother looked in the room and said that tea would be ready soon. The man, the fierce father, looked hard at me and reiterated the words. ‘Tea will be ready soon’, he said. Great, I thought: I’m feeling a bit peckish. He said it again, and I nodded happily. It wasn’t until he said it the third time that he plucked up the courage to say to me, ‘I think you’d better go’. Ah, I suddenly realised. He was saying that he didn’t want me around for the meal. He wanted to spend time with his family, and he wanted me to scoot. Why hadn’t he said so before? Embarrassment? Maybe he thought it would sound too hostile to simply tell me to leave. Well, it was, and it did, when he eventually lost patience with my ability to read between the lines and so he was forced to come right out with it. Hell, I was a teenager: I knew no better. He was the adult: he should have said what he meant. He should have told the truth, right at the beginning.

In the world of Traditional Publishers, there is the same problem. Many hopeful authors post off their latest offering to a publishing house and are confused by the response. One good example is when a publisher says, ‘This work needs the services of a good Editor’. When someone wrote that to me in a letter, I thought, ‘Great. You’re the publisher, you edit it and then it will be good enough to publish’. After all, most publishers employ people called Editors and it’s those people’s job to tinker with submissions, smarten them up and make them ready for publication. What they don’t tell you, face to face, is that this part of their repertoire is like the Rolls Royce silver service; it’s reserved for the bestsellers and potential big names. They’re not offering it out to just about anyone who comes to them with a book. So what does the phrase mean? Someone says, ‘You need an Editor’ and that translates as, ‘Go away’. No more, no less. Because, after all, if it was true, then all you would need to make your story sellable is the input of a person with Editorial experience. That gives you two possibilities: one is that the publisher sits you down and introduces you to their staff member, as above, but – as above – they aren’t going to do that. The second choice is that you, the author, go out and hire a freelance person who can do the job. Well, there’s plenty of them about. But here’s the strange thing: if you suggest that to the publisher, they look aghast and change the subject. You see, they didn’t meant it. Yes, I know, the words they spoke was, ‘Use an Editor’, but the curious fact is that they didn’t mean it. If they did, then their staffer or your freelance would tackle the task and, at the end of the process, turn in a publishable work. No, they don’t want that. What do they want? To put you off, turn you away, turn you down, make you leave and otherwise stop bothering them. The fact that they said anything about ‘an Editor’ was a mere ploy. They didn’t mean it. It wasn’t true. Even if it was true, they didn’t mean you to act on it. If you did, then miscommunication results and things just get worse. Either way, you get turned down. The book gets rejected. Believe me, that’s the bottom line.

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Computer Forensics is the scientific study of computers or computer related data in relation to an investigation by a law enforcement agency for use in a court of law. While this technology may be as old as computers themselves, the advances in technology are constantly revising this science.

In the technological old days, computer forensics was mostly related to data dumps, printing out every keystroke that had been logged on a computer in a series of eight digits, all of them zeroes and ones. Literally cases of paper would be used for the printing of the materials. Systems analysts would then have to convert all of the data into hex and then translate the value into whatever the actual keystroke was. In this way, it was possible to go over all of the data and figure out at what point the computer and the corresponding program crashed. Like computers and technology, Computer forensics has evolved by leaps and bounds since those days of old.

While all computer language still ultimately boils down to ones and zeroes or binary and then hex, the means by which programs are created, run and utilized has changed drastically. This new science has done well to keep up with the task at hand. Now hard drives can be wiped clean. However, without an unconditional format (and in rare cases, even with the unconditional switch) the data can still be retrieved. It takes an expert in computer forensics however. It takes someone who is familiar with the technology of the computer to reconstruct all of the data that has been wiped off of the hard drive.

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