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- Sometimes all a person needs is one person to believe in them. If you believe in someone's idea or quest, speak up and be that person.May 16, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Three monitor set up back online. It's good to be home. http://t.co/unGTRDQj
- Wait Postgres Hstore lets you do noSQL in Postgres? This seems like a paradox. http://t.co/RyyD67mQMay 11, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @keisukeinoue @likesoy @mprattico @dougiebuckets I am leaving Syracuse Wednesday morning. #whiteboard
- @Cbeck527 @littletinkerco It uses the wall power plug. I bet you could use a transistor to pick up when it's done and send a tweet?May 06, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @Cbeck527 This instrutable senses when a washing machine is done. http://t.co/oTjcNWat @littletinkercoMay 06, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- The best solutions are simple yet enormously elegant.
- @SamiiRuddy Can we bring a cheat sheet to the exam tomorrow?May 02, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- This is what finals does to you @ecbanas http://t.co/NGanI4cl
- @adamlafave @ericcandino We all know you lost that a long time ago.
- @SamTheCobra Check out this javascript library. I think it could work really well for your website - http://t.co/NXsGqNo1Apr 30, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- My Professor's refusal to use BlackBoard to help her students boggles my mind. When will #highered push policy to fix this?Apr 30, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @doctorcypher Good luck Billy Mayes!
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- Technical Support Representative at SIDEARM SportsInformation Technology and Services | Greater New York City Area, USSummarySpecialties: information systems, software development, server management, computer maintenance, computer installation, technology design and implementationExperience
- Oct 2011 - PresentDirector of Technology / Syracuse University Student Association
- Sept 2011 - PresentTechnical Support Representative / SIDEARM Sports
- Jun 2010 - PresentAssistant for Program Coordination and Logistics / Timber Lake CorporationI assist the Program Director in logistics and coordination for all events.
- Feb 2009 - PresentChief Technology Officer / Indian Hills High School School StoreI develop and maintain all school store technologies.
- Feb 2007 - PresentCEO / LazerTech ConsultingWe provide comprehensive consultation for your business and personal technological needs.
- Mar 2009 - Oct 2009Easy Computer Technician / StaplesI fixed computers.........
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2011 - 2015Syracuse UniversityManagement Information Systems in Information Studies
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2007 - 2011Indian Hills High School
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Honors:4th place (Honorable Mention) New Jersey Institute of Technology’s 2010 High School Web Design Competition, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ.
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Interests:new technology, reading, fitness, politics
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- Nov 02, 11
A few weeks ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed a whole slew of new Facebook features at the f8 conference. The one that struck me in particular was the new facebook profile redesign called “timeline.” It takes all of your Facebook activity since joining and arranges it in a date-driven timeline for the world to see. You can easily go back and see every year, month, and day from your entire facebook career. Going back to 2007, I could see videos and pictures of people I forgot I was ever even friends with.
Timeline as a Digital Scrapbook
The inherent creepiness of timeline does not stop there. In my mind, the scariest scenario that timeline will bring won’t happen for another 10, maybe 20 years. Think of the timeline as a digital scrapbook of your life. Only, this scrapbook is one that you will see everyday when you hastily log in to your facebook account, dying to see what your friends are doing. Then at that exact second, you see the culmination of 20 years of facebook usage. Your profile becomes a spitting image of everything that you are and ever have been. With every log in, you watch and you age more and more.
Imagine the endless ramifications this feature will have 20 years down the road. When your teenage child asks to go to the mall with some friends alone for the very first time, and you say no; they will go back to your timeline and pull up a picture of you when you were 13 at the mall with friends. Even better, every bad relationship you went through will be fossilized digitally. Your future wife or husband will be able to log on and read all of the gooey transfers that went on with you and your former lovers.
Is Timeline Too Creepy?
I suppose that the timeline does have some merits to it. It seems nice to be able to go back and cherish all of the fun times you had with your friends, but at what expense? In the end, no one really knows yet whether or not facebook, or the timeline, will last 20 years. Still, the prospect of being able to go back and look at the past with such preciseness is a bit unsettling.
Have you enabled the timeline feature? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments!
Contact Ross at rosslazer@gmail.com or on Twitter @RossLazer.
- Nov 02, 11
Information Technology is the kind of term that sparks the imagery of computers, the internet, cell phones, and silicon. However, I recently found out that IT can help me in a lot more places than the lab. I just began my freshman year at the School of Information Studies. My first few weeks here have been mind-expanding in more ways than one. Although I am an Information Management & Technology major, my interests are far more expansive than solely IT. Still, I have learned that no matter how remote my courses may be, I still draw connections to IT. For example, my Philosophy and Psychology courses have more in common with IT than I would have ever guessed.
The Logic of Information Technology
On the third day of my course, my Professor gave a very thought provoking on logic. When I looked up from my iPad, I almost fell out of my chair when I saw this on the board:If A then B
Not A
Not B
If A then B
B__
A.
Logic in philosophy is very similar to the logic used in programming. I soon found myself having an easier time understanding all of the complex logical proofs in philosophy, because of my programming experience. Boolean logic comes in handy in more places than a compiler.
The Biology of Computing
Then, I sat down in my Psychology class. We have just started to learn about the biology of the brain; the first slide was about how the brain uses electrical impulses and terminals to send information throughout the body. Once again, I almost fell out of my chair! The brain is an organic computer, and while it does not work in the same way as a computer, there are still a lot of similarities. For example, I learned that the brain uses compression when processing information from our eyes.It’s worth noting how far IT knowledge can go. Once you unplug the chord to the computer and shut off your cell phone, knowledge of IT can still impact your life. Occurrences like this reinforce my decision to go into the information field. I have also realized that it’s just as important to study psychology or philosophy as it is to study IT, as the lessons in many different areas in IT have deep foundations in other subjects as well.
Have you noticed IT connections in other areas? Let us know in the comments, or contact Ross at rosslazer@gmail.com or on Twitter @rosslazer.
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- Law firm of Jay I. Lazerowitz - www.lazerlaw.comNew jersey Chapter of History Educators - www.njche.comShutting down -http://www.IHFan.net
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