Essays on Barnaby

Hackers

Keren Elazari talks about Hackers and their importance in society. At the start of the talk, she mentions about Barnaby Jack, who developed a mechanism to hack ATMs. Instead of using those loopholes to cheat or do any fraud, Barnaby presented a report based on his hacking that could enable to make ATM machines more robust. Keren recalls that Barnaby Jack famously said that it is sometimes important to give a demonstration of a threat so that people can work on a solution. Keren cites another example of Khalil Shreateh; a Palestinian hacker who found a potential vulnerability in ...

Introduction

Equity, equality and access are pertinent issues that have a considerable bearing on the education of K-12 school going pupils in the United States. The state of Pennsylvania has adopted strategies and policies tailored to ensure that students have equal access to educational facilities and resources (OpenCongress, 2014). This paper discusses the organizational structure and the structure of governance adopted by the state of Pennsylvania in addressing educational equality concerns. Subsequently, it presents an analysis of the policies of the state with regard to funding of the equality projects and concludes with a discussion on the effects of equal access to ...

Introduction

While on his way to Hiroshima, it was around 7:30 a.m. when Captain William Parsons inserted the detonator along with the explosive charge into the bomb. It was around 8:16 a.m. (Japanese time) when the bomb exploded in Hiroshima over Dr. Shima’s Clinic. The glowing fireball had a temperature of about 50,000 degrees. Soon after this attack, another major city of Japan was attacked. It was basically the idea of General Leslie Groves, General Farrel and Admiral Purnell to launch two atomic bombs on Japan; the first bomb would demonstrate power and the second would tell the Japanese ...

“Football’s not a matter of life and death, it’s more important than that.” These are the famous words of former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, in response to the statement that football is a trivial pastime, just a game. Even though his remark may appear to be an exaggeration, I don’t believe he was just joking. There are few activities that generate as much human interest, as much passion, as football. Football is without doubt the most popular sport in the world. It is played in every continent. The major competitions of football are international events, topics of everyday ...

ABSTRACT

Vision, the window through which we assess and adjust our reality, is a filter affected by passion, memory, circumstances and other factors. James Elkins argues that the act of seeing is more than a simple matter of mechanical motor functioning. It is, in fact, a metamorphic phenomenon that continually re-creates identity. Elkins’ The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing is an impressively ambitious attempt to analyze a massive yet thought-provoking subject.

Jonathan Swift’s pithy comment on vision is an apt but obtuse observation about the interplay between the eyes and the brain, the transmission of data and consequent interpretation resulting ...

Academic Honesty

The concept of academic honesty is an issue which has become increasingly prevalent with the advent of the internet and its readily available information. The issue arises out of students who simply just copy-and-paste information into their essays rather than researching, composing and referencing a competent essay of their own volition. The fundamental issue central to academic dishonesty for educators is “because its occurrence distorts the assessment of learning” (Ravenscroft et al, 2004, p173). In short, ‘cheating’ is academically wrong in terms of it being an unfair representation of the student’s abilities. Cheating can take a number of forms: either, ...