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  • Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Project Initiation / Planning Phase October 7, 2019 - 10:17am
    Please write one goal and one objective of one of your projects or major sub-projects.   One project I’m currently working on is the creation of a prototype web-app for entering financial data and a corresponding server-side API which...
  • Describe the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia. Why does this course (and many others) not allow wikipedia references to be used as primary references in academic papers (i.e. TME1, TME2, RLO project)?  Wikipedia has more information and...
  • Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Unit 2 - Examine and Use Internet Search Engines September 20, 2019 - 7:31pm
    I'm not fully decided on the area of my graduate project or my RLO (reusable learning object) but one idea I'm exploring is basic linux server maintenance. It's an area I feel comfortable with and would like to work with more, if not primarily then...
  • Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 1 Food for Thought: Online Materials September 20, 2019 - 6:43pm
    This week's food for thought is pretty straightforward. First, describe any on-line materials you regularly visit. Things like blogs (i.e. Joel on Software), professional help pages (i.e. stack overflow and all it's sub-groups), Slashdot, Mac news,...
  • Philip Kirkbride created a wiki page Week 2 Food for Thought: Search Engines September 17, 2019 - 7:09pm
    I apologize for my abnormally long answer. This subject is one I’m particularly passionate about as a minor contributor to DuckDuckGo, an alternative search engine, and supporter of Brave Browser a Google Chrome alternative. How much do you...
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    • Nicole Heaton September 23, 2019 - 10:53am

      Great read!  Regarding "pizzagate" It is good and bad that the internet can be scrubbed, not that I believe that is possible.  Good if you are a good person and someone hacked photo's of you or something innocuous that is no one else's business, but bad if someone like Epstein can participate in such underground activity and all the people involved are basically absolved because of the scrubbing.  Once it is out there it is out there.  Somewhere someone has it.

       

      Your comments regarding Project Veritas, Interesting that it takes an Independent journalist to blow the whistle on Google.  This is world-wide censorship, it has been around as long as the search engines controlled the results to display what they want.  Google is certainly not going to have the top 10 results about Google censorship! ( I did Google it to see, and I was pleasantly surprised by the results)  Censorship in North America is not as bad as it is in other countries but it still exists and always will, not that it's right, but as long as there is a medium to get a message out be it word of mouth, printed word or the internet and soon news on a biomedical display on your arm, there will always be the skewed information.  This leads me to my next comment you made regarding voting.  20 years ago if all the television stations broadcasted only things about one particular party, it would have been the same "control" of the results as the internet is now capable of.  It is really unfortunate that younger generations are not taught about internet censorship, the bombardment of advertising and subliminal messaging they are receiving so they can make their own decisions!  With social media and at such a young age I fear that parents who allow it are losing the ability to raise their children.  The censorship of Google and Instagram are now doing that job.

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    • Maiga Chang July 8, 2019 - 9:54am

      Hi Philip,

      Please remember to
      1. not use SAVE button but use AJAX with either onChange or onBlur event to save the individual updates for each variable;
      2. integrate with the earlier sign in and logout functions that I have already provided instead of spending time on them;
      3. consider the management UI should also allow administrator to add/edit another language for all the cards with existing tables (absolutely no change on any existing tables as I mentioned earlier).

      Sincerely,

      Maiga Chang
      maiga.chang@gmail.com
      http://maiga.athabascau.ca
      07, 08 '19

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