The Net

We are watching a movie called  The Net

What is the first scene of the movie? The first scene of the movie is when Michael Bergstrom, commits suicide.

The star of the movie is  Sandra Bullock

What is the main characters name? The main characters name is Angela Bennett

What does she do for a living? She  is a system analyst who  works for Cathedral Software.

What is her typical day at work and at home? what kind of life does she live? She is very isolated, she works all day in the computer and then orders fast food for dinner.

Where is her mother and what kind of life does she live? Her mother lives in a  institution for  Alzheimer's  patients. 

What does she receives that changes her life? A  disk labeled with "π",with a backdoor to a commonly used computer security system called "Gatekeeper".

Some examples of the impact of computers and society in this movie what happens when ..........

When she receives the damage disk? She finds secret information on it and people start looking for her to get the disk.

When her colleague wants to fly to see her? His private plane's navigation system malfunctions and crashes.

When she is at the airport? The cyberterrorist group delays all the planes so that they can catch her and get the disk back.

When she is on her vacation?  A guy sweet talks Bennett  into getting on his speedboat, she finds his

 gun and confronts him.

When she returns home? She finds that her home is empty and listed for sale.

When she calls her friend the psychiatrist? He checks her into a hotel, offers to contact a friend at the FBI, and arranges to have her mother moved for her safety.

When the police check her records in their database? The cyber terrorists change her records so that she  appeared as a criminal. 

E-Waste

            What is E-waste?


E-waste is electronic products that people throw away, e-waste is  dangerous because of all the chemicals that were use in the making of the products, also some  companies ship this e-waste to developing countries were it's burned to separate the metal and all the harmful chemicals that causes cancer and other illness are release into the air many times over small communities. And even when they reached the landfills in major cities the chemicals could leak into the water bed and later into lakes were it would cause illness all over the food chain, which includes us.



    
                                      
                                         Where does e-waste end up? By Greenpeace

In this video by green peace we can see that the e-waste, is shipped to developing countries such as Ghana. Although companies know that the e-waste is being dispose of in a harmful way they ignore this in order to raise company profit. If we all demand when buying their products that companies will dispose of our e-waste in a more environmental  and human friendly  way we can stop people from getting sick because of our waste. 

   Hidden Flow - The rising tide of European e-waste in West Africa.

By Consumers International

In this video by consumers international we learned that thousands of used PCs arrive in Lagos every month, 75% of which go straight to landfill. This is just some of the 6.6 million tons of European e-waste dumped on the developing world every year, despite international laws against it.                             

                             
                             E-Waste: Dumping on the Poor

In this video we  look at electronic waste or e-waste shipped overseas and the toxic effect it has on places such as Guiyu, China. This Chinese town is known as "trash town" because of the incredible amount of e-waste that is dumped here every year. It also takes a look at the countless people working there and at how they stay there because of the "good pay", which is 6 dollars a day without knowing that everyday they are exposed to highly toxic materials and fumes.

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/recent/apple-amazon-microsoft-dirty-energy/

Discussion Section:1. Identify some potential e-waste products that exist in our classroom/or school.The countless TVs, DVDs, computers even the one I'm using right now will eventually with time become e-waste.
2. What is the lifespan for each product? How can we help extend this, i.e. how can we reduce our usage?The life span of all those products are pretty long, but they are thrown away before they lifetime ends because they become the old model and there fore "useless". as it happens with almost any electronic products such as cellphones.
3. What do you believe is done at the end of the product's life, i.e. how is it disposed of?
I'm pretty sure that they are thrown away and provably sent to a developing country to be "recycle".


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