- Prove time travel then destroy the evidence or never tell the world that it exists
- Find out what lies at the bottom of the ocean/exploring the bottom of the ocean
- How to colonize planets by using artificial gravity/creating life on planets
- Contacting alien life forms/communicating with them
- Make it into a textbook so I can be remember by my contributions to society from new theories, new discoveries, or by being a great leader
- Become leader of a country and make serious reforms. More education, less international affairs, building of a nation and more
Monday, March 31, 2014
Goals/Dreams/Stuff I would like to accomplish
Literature Analysis #3
NONFICTION
ANALYSIS
TOPIC(S) and/or EVENT(S)
1. The life Leonardo Da Vinci was a mysterious one. Little
is known about his life except for his inventions and drawings.
2. I think the author choose to write about Leonardo Da
Vinci because he was an amazing inventor and artist. He was ahead of his time
when it came to the inventions so the author may be curious to know how his
life was.
3. I choose this book because I admire Leonardo for being a
great inventor in the Renaissance era. I like the Renaissance part of history
and he is one of the people I wanted to know about other than Michelangelo,
Donatello, and the other famous artists of that era.
4. I did find the book to be realistic because it was a
biography about Leonardo's life and what he did that made him such a famous
inventor and artist of that period in history. He's work is amazing and I
wished that I could paint as well as he could.
PEOPLE
1. The author did not make the character up because it was a
biography. He told the story of Leonardo's life and included all the people
that he met (that were documented of course). The authors speak highly of
Leonardo. If I met him in person I would be curious to know how he thought of
such ideas in that time frame.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Literature Analysis #2
FICTION
ANALYSIS
1. Harry Potter is an
average bespectacled 11 year old boy who has lived with the Dursley family ever
since his parents died in a car crash. For some reason the family has always
mistreated him. On his 11th birthday a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid hands him
a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a student at the Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry learns that his parents were wizards
and were killed by an evil wizard Voldemort, a truth that was hidden from him
all these years. He embarks for his new life as a student, gathering two good
friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger along the way. They soon learn that
something very valuable is hidden somewhere inside the school and Voldemort is
very anxious to lay his hands on it.
2. The theme of this book is the finding of oneself. Harry
undergoes various challenges that out him to the test and he finds it within
himself to overcome them. He also finds things out the he has never found out
before which make him change what he is or what he was.
3. The tone is straightforward and simple, with few purely
decorative elements or artistic features, few metaphors and figures, and little
playful irony. The language is easy to grasp.
4. 1) Simile:
"There was a face, the most terrible face Harry had ever seen. It was chalked
white with glaring red eyes and slits for nostrils, like a snake." Pg. 293
This simile helps describe what Voldemort's face looks like in back of
Quarrel's head.
Monday, March 24, 2014
IS THERE AN EXPERT IN THE HOUSE?
The way I imagine an expert to be is that he needs to know what he is talking about or else he wouldn't be considered an expert. Also I imagine him/her to be respectable with dignity and have some kind of way with words or something like that.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
MY TEAM
Elias Barriga: http://eliasbarrigarhs14exposcomp.blogspot.com/
Jake Dickens: http://jdickensrhs14exposcomp.blogspot.com/
Jorge Garcia: http://jorgeg0396.blogspot.com/
Chance Miranda: http://cmirandarhs14exposcomp.blogspot.com/
Carlos Serrano: http://carlosserranoexpo.blogspot.com
Jake Dickens: http://jdickensrhs14exposcomp.blogspot.com/
Jorge Garcia: http://jorgeg0396.blogspot.com/
Chance Miranda: http://cmirandarhs14exposcomp.blogspot.com/
Carlos Serrano: http://carlosserranoexpo.blogspot.com
I, ENTREPRENEUR
I did not design my ten questions for a single expert but rather all the experts. I think that my experts are entrepreneurs based on what we discussed in class because they went out to fulfill their dreams. They established relationships with out people and used that to succeed further. I am using open source learning as a way to get in touch with people and make a network. People just assume that entrepreneurs are experts at what they do but at one point they weren't. People don't realize that entrepreneurs started at the bottom and had to research and gather information to make it to where they are now.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
10 QUESTIONS
My 10 questions that I would as one of my experts:
1. Was it as difficult as you thought it would be to get to where you are now?
2. What made you start wanting to pursue that field?
3. Did you do well in school in term of grades?
4. What was a weakness that held you back?
5. What is a strategy you used to achieve your goals?
6. Is there any type of process you do when it comes to work?
7. Do you have any regrets?
8. Are you satisfied with the work you have done?
9. What do you do in your spare time?
10. What have you given to society?
1. Was it as difficult as you thought it would be to get to where you are now?
2. What made you start wanting to pursue that field?
3. Did you do well in school in term of grades?
4. What was a weakness that held you back?
5. What is a strategy you used to achieve your goals?
6. Is there any type of process you do when it comes to work?
7. Do you have any regrets?
8. Are you satisfied with the work you have done?
9. What do you do in your spare time?
10. What have you given to society?
SUPER 5
My top experts in no particular order are:
William Sanford "Bill" Nye
Stephen William Hawking
Vice
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
National Geographic
William Sanford "Bill" Nye
Stephen William Hawking
Vice
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
National Geographic
Monday, March 17, 2014
The Hidden Underground part of the Internet
There is a part of the internet that the majority of
internet users don't know about and that is the deep web; it is the largest
part of the World Wide Web. You may be asking yourself "Well, how come I
never heard of it if it is the largest part of the internet? “ The answer is quite
simple. The average internet user surfs only what is called the surface web.
The surface web consists of your daily internet activities such as Facebook,
YouTube, Instagram, etc.
According to this picture
http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/23608000/ngbbs4eff588f1ef5a.jpg, what your average
internet users search categorizes them into an innocent internet user. They
don't know the full potential of the internet. As you go further down the
internet levels, you gain more knowledge of the internet. Personally, I don't
what level two is, but I have experience on level 3 and 4. I do agree with the
image that level 3 is for the advance internet user such that you can download
you movies, TV shows, music, games, pornography, and other things. There is not
that many people who know to do it or if they do then it's in bad quality. Levels
1-3 from that picture are all found on the surface web. Level 4 and 5 can only
be accessed through the deep web, and you better use a proxy or say hello to
the FBI.
No, the deep web isn't bad. In general, the majority of the
deep web holds valuable information. A report in 2001, which is the best to
date, estimates 54% of the websites in the deep web are databases, the next
batch are private pages by companies that charge a fee to see them, 13% of
pages lie hidden because they are only found on an Intranet, then there's the
darkest part of the deep web, Tor.
The Tor browser was made by the U.S. Naval Research
Laboratory as a method for communicating online anonymously. It was later
released as the Onion Routing project in 2002. Though some use it for private
communication like politics or for nefarious purposes like drugs, weapons,
assassinations, etc.
Tor contains a collection of secret websites that end in
.onion. They can only be accessed by special software and remember what I said
about level 4 of the picture well this is it. Tor has a lot of illegal content
and all of it is located in Onionland. Onionland contains the hidden services
of the Tor browser. The most known service and the starting point of Onionland
is the infamous Hidden Wiki. There you can go and explore the hidden services.
The thing about the hidden services is that you can only access them with the
full URL. Of course you won't be able to remember that so the Hidden Wiki took
it upon itself to provide the links on its page. From there you can explore
what Tor has to offer, but be cautious because there are lots of sites that you
don't want to be on.
The sites that are on the Hidden Wiki are different, and
that is the best I can describe them. The internet version of the black market
is there, and the best part for the people who get involve with these
activities is that the browser is anonymous. It is hard to track who gets in
and out because the browser uses a proxy. Furthermore, the currency that they
use, Bitcoin, is almost untraceable. It is hard to know who the original buyer
was using an outside source, but there is a flaw. Bitcoins can be tracked only
inside Tor. There is a program in there that I read about on Tor that makes
this possible.
Something that I found while on the Hidden Wiki is the
Amazon of the drug trade. The site, Silkroad 2.0, is just that. The drugs are
categorized from prescription, cannabis, ecstasy, and much more. You can also
buy other stolen goods on there as well. The site is well organized and even
has customer reviews as well as comments. One such comment was "The level
of customer care you go to often makes me forget that this is an illegal drug
market". Here is an image of what the website looked like before they had
to make the 2.0 version
http://images.smh.com.au/2013/10/23/4852634/HP-Greenguide-aw-20131023100605822261-620x349.jpg
Another thing that I found was that you can even put a hit
on someone you want dead. They’re assassins out there that are willing to put
their skills to the test, but for a fee. They are on the Hidden Wiki as well,
and I assumed some of them to be not real, yet there were other sites that were
quite convincing. To know that you can end the life of a fellow human being for
thousands of dollars is frightening or we are only worth thousands of dollars.
The one thing that all the "Hitmen" had in common is that they don't
do top ten politicians. Here is a picture of one hitman’s description http://www.sickchirpse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Deep-Web-Hitman-for-hire.png
There are more sites that are related to the black market.
Another one is where you can buy your unregistered guns ranging from your
standard pistol to your military grade assault rifle, but after looking at
those sites I stumbled and found the dark twisted part of Tor. I landed on a
child pornography wiki. I was at first scared of finding pictures, but I was
relieved to only find information about it. I investigated further and found
that in the wiki they listed famous child porn stars with their full name and
age. I was mortified after seeing this. To think that they would have this kind
of information on there, but then again it is Tor. I almost decided to turn
back, but I kept on going. I found pedophile chats, forums, and blogs. The
thing that surprised me the most about this was in how "normal" it
appeared to them. There were no comments saying "I hope you die" or
"Burn in hell", but positive reinforcement. In my opinion, I do hope
those people die a slow painful death for being pedophiles and sharing tactics,
tips and secrets with each other. There is some content that I read about on
there that I will try to forget. Don't go near these sites while on Tor.
Believe me I learned the hard way.
There was a certain thing I was trying to look up while on
Tor and that is the organ business. I couldn't find the market for it, but I did
find the prices for what a lung and kidney go for in various countries around
the world. Another thing that I tried to find was human trafficking because of a
blog post I found, while searching the surface web for information. This really
got me worried https://img.4plebs.org/boards/x/image/1365/48/1365487520904.jpg
I tried to find anything related to this on the deep web, but I couldn't. It
wasn't until searching again through the surface web that I found that the site
where this originated from was taken down. I was disappointed that the site was
taken down because I wanted to look more into it. Although I don't condone
those actions, I was interested a bit. I did find the post to be revolting and
inhumane. Why would someone want to do that to an innocent little girl? Why? It
is just so sick and twisted.
Hacking is also a part of Tor and there are forums and blogs
about it. The information from these ranges from inexperienced to expert level
in hacking. I learn while searching through these how to create a virus but a redundant
virus. It can be stopped but deleting the file and it was to be manually
created. The hackers in don't mess around either. I read some stories that
people have hacked into the person's computer/laptop while on the hacking
forum. That is the reason I didn't stay that long on there.
Tor isn't all about illegal content; there are also blogs
and forums from the Middle East because of a lack of free speech. I couldn't
find that many forums or blogs about the oppressed, and yet this was the only
silver lining to be found in Tor. It is as small and thin as a single strand of
hair.
In all, the deep web isn't that bad, but Tor is. The
majority of Tor is quite bad and filled with malicious and illegal activity.
There are some good things about Tor with helping oppressed people share their
ideas without their government knowing and the fear of being killed by them,
but there is a ton of drugs, hacking, scamming, and the rest of what the black
market has to offer. This was a long research endeavor for I spent my entire
weekend doing this. I got to say that it was a weekend well spent, and I
learned so much. If you plan to visit Tor or the deep web all I have to say to
you is be careful. There are places in Tor that you don't want to visit.
Resources:
How I bought drugs from 'dark net' – it's just like Amazon
run by cartels - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/06/dark-net-drugs
Darknet: Touring the Hidden Internet's Illegal Markets -
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/darknet-touring-the-hidden-internets-illegal-markets
Meet Darknet, the hidden, anonymous underbelly of the
searchable Web -
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046227/meet-darknet-the-hidden-anonymous-underbelly-of-the-searchable-web.html
The disturbing world of the Deep Web, where contract killers
and drug dealers ply their trade on the internet -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2454735/The-disturbing-world-Deep-Web-contract-killers-drug-dealers-ply-trade-internet.html
The Deep Web you don't know about -
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/10/technology/deep-web/index.html
Saturday, March 1, 2014
MY VOCABULARY #4
Entanglement - n. Something that
entangles; snare; involvement; complication.
But the biggest threats to these whales are collisions with
shipping vessels and entanglement in fishing gear.
Monogamous - adj. Practicing or
advocating monogamy.
Whether they are more unstable than monogamous marriages
may be hard to say.
Cryptography - n. The procedures,
processes, methods, etc., of making and using secret writing, as codes or
ciphers.
Unfortunately, much of the information online about email
encryption and cryptography is unnecessarily detailed and
complex.
Envision - v. To picture mentally,
especially some future event or events
As a good mental exercise try to envision money
as deleted from a mental image of the problem.
Arbitrary - adj. Subject to
individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's
discretion
The result is an overly complicated and somewhat arbitrary system,
but still much better than nothing.
Vicinity - n. The area or region
near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood
Using the application a tourist can stroll through the streets of
a city and view the names of the landmarks in the vicinity.
Distinguished - adj. Made conspicuous by
excellence; noted; eminent; famous
Antarctic terns can be distinguished by their
bright red bills, feet, and legs.
Oblivious - adj. Unmindful;
unconscious; unaware
People surge into the shallows, oblivious of the
shark danger.
Advocates - v. To speak or write in
favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly
But many solar advocates wonder why the
government is not acting as cautiously when it comes to drilling for oil and
gas.
Ardent - adj. Having,
expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent
The young cosmetics
salesman now is discovering that women are ardent shoppers.
Implementations - n. The act of implementing, or putting into effect; fulfillment
The implementation of policies to conserve energy will involve personal sacrifice.
Notion - n. A general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something
A notion of how something should be done.
Reconciled - v. To cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired
He was reconciled to his fate.
Emitted - v. To send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
Mouse pheromones are chemicals emitted in the urine.
Inevitable - adj. Unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary
In his mind, the outcome was always inevitable-and triumphant.
Coalesced - v. To blend or come together
Their ideas coalesced into one theory.
Celestial - adj. Pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in celestial body
Although humanoid in form, he has two hearts and almost-celestial intelligence.
Repulsive - adj. Causing repugnance or aversion
The scene at the depot was repulsive and nauseating, but no more revolting to witness than any surgical operation.
Immensely - adj. Vast; huge; very great
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
Recoil - v. To spring or fly back, as in consequence of force of impact or the force of the discharge, as a firearm.
But while those countries recoil from atomic energy, others are committing to a nuclear future.
Implementations - n. The act of implementing, or putting into effect; fulfillment
The implementation of policies to conserve energy will involve personal sacrifice.
Notion - n. A general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something
A notion of how something should be done.
Reconciled - v. To cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired
He was reconciled to his fate.
Emitted - v. To send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
Mouse pheromones are chemicals emitted in the urine.
Inevitable - adj. Unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary
In his mind, the outcome was always inevitable-and triumphant.
Coalesced - v. To blend or come together
Their ideas coalesced into one theory.
Celestial - adj. Pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in celestial body
Although humanoid in form, he has two hearts and almost-celestial intelligence.
Repulsive - adj. Causing repugnance or aversion
The scene at the depot was repulsive and nauseating, but no more revolting to witness than any surgical operation.
Immensely - adj. Vast; huge; very great
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
Recoil - v. To spring or fly back, as in consequence of force of impact or the force of the discharge, as a firearm.
But while those countries recoil from atomic energy, others are committing to a nuclear future.
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