Wiki So Far

I haven't contributed to our class wiki yet. However, after looking over the topics, I've researched for the topics "Love" and "Recruitment." As corny as it sounds, I wanted to do "love" because I have always been interested in horoscopes and how different signs get along with each other. Maybe it only applies to me, but I find horoscopes so true and fascinating. When I look for advice in the love area, I always turn to horoscopes and signs because I feel like they truly explain how a person is and why. I also decided on recruitment because I am in the Human Resources field. When I first got into the field, I found it super cool deciding who is qualified enough to have an interview and who wasn't. I was able to use my judgement in screening resumes and pulling appropriate candidates. In this section, I will discuss what recruiters usually look for and certain tips that could help people going for interviews. I think this would be useful for our class because we will all eventually look for our full-time positions and it will be information they could take with them for a long time.

P2P

File sharing is allocating, public or privately, computer data or space in a network. The levels of access privilege can vary amongst people and allows the convenience of multiple people to view the same data. This allows them to modify it, write to, read, copy or print the information on the shared network. Users are allowed personal space for them to store data that they do not want other users to have access to.

            P2P, or peer-to-peer file sharing is the sharing of digital content such as eBooks, music, movies, and video clips between two people over the P2P network. The person who hosts the content shared is called the seed and the receiver is called the leech. The two roles can interchange and allow you to “give and take” during the process. However, there has been a lot of controversy and trouble that comes along with P2P file sharing. In an article in the New York Times, written by Eric Pfanner, he discusses the ongoing criminal violations of copyright law that occur over these networks. There has been an increase in piracy among popular file-sharing services such as the Pirate Bay and RapidShare. In an effort to try to stop piracy, some sites have been starting to charge users if they want access to these digital files, so they can track down the users.

            A popular P2P file sharing client program is called LimeWire, which allows users to share music to other people and download songs they don’t already have. Another example is called iMesh, which allows the sharing of media and files, available in nine languages. Lastly, Kazaa has been a P2P file sharing application that allows the sharing of MP3 music files and other types, such as videos, applications, and documents.