Chapter 5 Quiz

1. Finding truth in questionable information is done by visiting a website named snopes.com. It verifies information and notifies a user whether or not information may be false or accuate. 2 false statements I found on the website were African Americans are entitled to 5,000 tax credit for slave reparations and that the U.S government grants a 7 year tax holidays to immigrants.

2. Websites change regularly; there are ways of being notified of change and theres a way of checking to see if a site's information has expired. If one wants to be notified of an alteration in a website, enter the Website of interest in changedetection.com/monitor.html along with their email address; Change detection will visit the site and notify the person each time a change is made. If information expires and one wishes to save that information, they can click "Save page as.." from the "File" menu and choose "Text" from the "Save as type:" pull down menu. This saves the Web page's information in a folder on the computer's hard drive.

3. Fundrace.org can be used to track people's campaign contributions in local neighborhoods or to check contributions on a national scale. Fundrace.org can, also, be used to organize a block party to raise funds for your party/candidate. Another use of Fundrace.org is to check National News. The most recent donation made by television personality,Jerry Springer, was one of $4,600 to Hillary Clinton.

4. Liveplasma.com is a visual music "discovery engine." By entering the name of an artist it displays related bands. After entering an artist in liveplasma, it displayed several other artists in a web-like design and the artist that closest pattern the artist i searched was seen closest to my artist in the web.

5. A bitTorrent is used to speed up the process of filesharing and makes everyone's computer pitch in on the job of sharing the files. While files download, the smultaneously upload downloaded parts far other users. Legal and ethical issues arises when copyrighted information is downloaded. One may be fined or even face imprisonment for breaking such laws.