Glory to the sons of the internet

Sometimes, by making a product accessible, easier to maintain, and faster to produce, some crucial aspects are sacrificed, which can end up in an awful way. In the 20th century, a new patent for building houses was approved and brought to life in most of the USSR countries. That’s how “panel houses” emerged, filling cities and towns. They are easier, faster, and cheaper to build, and they have just perfect stability for climate with no natural disasters. However, such houses have one issue, which was underrated until these times - it falls down just like a house of cards. I remember an accident on June 21, 2021, when after an explosion in one of such houses, 5 people died, and dozens were left without a place to live. But gas explosions are rare in houses, and they were always considered more like an exception, not a tendency. However, after February 24th, the issue became crucial. Basements in these houses are opposite to safe in cases of selling, as they often become burial...

To start with, Ukraine can always be found in the top countries for software outsourcing. It is because of a combination of competence and lower salaries compared to the US, which has the biggest number of software engineers. And competence there is playing not the least role - Ukraine’s ranking in Coding skills is #11, compared to other countries all over the globe. However, in my opinion, because of the fact that most IT specialists work in outsourcing, they lack the motivation to become the real professionals - outsourcing is just a factory, where thousands of workers do routine work, and there is no need to invent something new or expand your skills. In my opinion, because of that, the definition of IT professionalist in Ukraine is a little bit offset and is also behind more technological countries. I think the most crucial aspect of professionalism here is motivation. There are a lot of good workers, but most of them chose this career just because of money. However, tho...

Copyright is clearly a very slippery topic, as it is about humans in the first place - and there are as many points of view as people living on the Earth. However, while reading the suggested Copyright Reform, I found the solution covering most of the problems perfectly.  I definitely agree with the Pirate Party’s 1th, 3th, 4th, and 6th ideas - in the rapidly-changing world, protection time should be decreased, and newly-suggested terms are reasonable and logical. I also agree that moral rights should be left as they are. However, I think the second and fifth points are not rational. Speaking about 2nd point, which is “Free Non-Commercial Sharing”, this rule can be a loophole for pirates, and it can be used as an excuse for many copyright infringements. Speaking about Free Sampling, in my opinion, it can be an excuse for plagiarism, and therefore, violate the moral rights of the author. I think a written permission must be presented to those striving to use other’s parts of cre...

  I honestly know only a few countries, where an average user is aware of their security on the Internet, and Ukraine is definitely not on that list. The “Informational Technologies” course in public schools included obtaining skills, such as Paint and PowerPoint in middle school, and some basics of HTML in high school. As you can see, the program is a bit old-fashioned, and teenagers, who are the most active internet users, do not even think of their safety and how much it can be violated. People tend to use the same password everywhere (often containing their name or DOB), download unverified files and apps from unverified websites, skip instructions on how to avoid phishing, and lose their head while seeing pretty suspicious and too profitable offers. In my opinion, lack of awareness and knowledge is the biggest problem for users in Ukraine.  Technology and policy, which are two other aspects of security, described by Kevin Mitnick, are pretty developed in Ukraine. More and...

 Wikipedia vs E ncyclopedias I'm sure everyone is used wikis before. Wiki made access to verified information way more simpler. You can find anything you're interested within 5 minutes. And you can gain knowledge of any depth of accuracy by following links to more and more clarifying articles. As my mom said, when she was in the university before to learn something e.g. to write a thesis you'll be need to go to the library and hope that the book you're searching isn't taken yet. Before the Web people couldn't study as easy as now. The other question is how much can you rely on information from Wikipedia? What is the error rate? It turns out that if this is at least a little popular article, then the error will be noticed and corrected faster than in encyclopedias. Millions of people visit different pages and there're always people that have some knowledge and which can correct the mistake. Whereas an error that appeared in one paper encyclopedia can be repli...

     Has become obsolete: Before online streaming people bought DVDs. This also applies to music. CD's was invented in 1979, DVD was invented in 1995. Then in 2001 Apple came out and presented iTunes. People could buy songs online individually instead of buying whole CDs. Almost the same happened with DVD/Blue-Ray. Platforms like Netflix, HBO and Hulu had ~1231% of sales income. So, since 2008 DVD sales have declined more than on 80%. Personally I've never bought CDs with music or films. Online streaming platforms have taken over this niche.      Survives to this day: Ray Tomplison invented email in 1971 by creating ARPANET's network mail. He developed Username@nameOfComputer format. And by the 1976 3/4 of all traffic was emails. Everyone is aware of email spam, but when did it started? Spam can be charted back almost to the start of Arpanet, but in early 90s it became a conspicuous issue.  To sum up, email is 51 years old technology but...

Phone Phreaking  Phreaking is a way (art) of hacking the telephone network. It began its history at the turn of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The thing is that in that times telephones used special sound signals of certain frequencies in their systems for managing calls. For instance, one particular beep could switch the line. Firstly it was discovered by John Draper, who drew attention the gift whistle, which was placed in cookies packages. He saw that this whistle produces sound the same tone as the sound telephone company used to switch lines. The practical usage was in free calls, all you had to do was whistle into the phone so that the system takes this as an operator code. Afterwards, it got more usage, and you could make a telephone conference with more that 2 subscribers at the same time, listen to someone else's number, make call redirection or create/delete subscriber number. Gift whistle To do this task easier phone phreakers created devices called boxes (Eg. Blue box,...