“The idea of forcefully having people live with a religious symbol they do not believe in is sheer stupidity. Crosses should go. The government is acting stupidly on the issue.” I can make such a statement because I live in a democracy. Not everyone has this luxury. In some countries, such a statement directed at […]
Rsync – A Top-View Introduction
Even with today’s ultra fast fibre optic data lines, the tangible throughput people actually get when transferring files is still functionally limited. This is compounded further by the fact that the majority of uses have low upload speeds compared to higher download speeds. For example a typical home internet connection would promise 4Mbit download while […]
Cyber Crimes
WHAT IS CYBER CRIME? Being by far the latest puzzler amongst law-enforcement agencies, Cyber crime is perhaps the most complicated problem in the cyber world. “Cyber crime may be said to be those species, of which, genus is the conventional crime, and where either the computer is an object or subject of the conduct […]
Zimbabwe: Using New Technologies to Fight for Democracy
– by Ndesanjo Macha In countries such as Zimbabwe where media freedom is extremely restricted, new technologies have become powerful tools for political campaigning, communication, advocacy and mobilisation. Since Robert Mugabe turned the country into a dictatorship, bloggers and civic organisations have resorted to using new tools and applications such as blogs, Flickr, Facebook, SMS, YouTube and mashups to […]
Does the plagiarism program Turn It In violate student intellectual rights?
How many of you out there go to schools that use the program Turnitin.com for tackling the problem with plagiarism in the classroom? Well, in doing some research it seems as if Turnitin is a violation of students’ intellectual property rights on a large scale. Yet this hasn’t been proven in a court of law […]
Can drunk sex lead to something more?
We’ve all lived it- that dreaded morning after feeling waking up to someone you barely knew on the opposite side of the bed and looking at the evidence of last night’s activity spread out through the room. For women the agony lies within having to wake up next to a man she barely knew or […]