week 4 tasks

When choosing which facts were real or not I would use several search engines that check that at least two sites contained the same information and then finally choose the most reliable site. The reliability of a site was determined by its professional appearance and also by its previous recognition, such as any thing found on a CNN websites would definitely be the truth as it is a well known and very trusted media organisation.
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1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?
Onel de Guzman

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html

2. Who invented the paper clip?
William D. Middlebrook

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/paperclip.htm

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
The Ebola virus was named after a river in Congo in Africa where it was initially recognised.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola/qa.htm

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
The largest recorded earthquake was in valdivia in Chile.

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/largest7.html

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
1000,000,000 kilobytes in a terabyte

http://www.cctsolutions.com/HowManyBytes.pdf

6. Who is the creator of email?
Ray Tomlinson

http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm

7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?
The storm worm is a computer virus that is also known as a botnet/Trojan horse/malware because of its methods of infection. It initially spread threw emails that contained the title, “230 dead as storm batters Europe,” and since has developed many other clever means to entice web browsers to click on them. Computing security experts estimates the number of machines infected by storm worms from 1 million to 10 million however this varies with different experts. Nonetheless no one can argue that many thousands of pc’s are being attacked by the worms daily as worm authors are continuously thinking up new methods of tricking web browsers.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/10/the_storm_worm_maelstrom_or_te.html

8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly, what is the most efficient way?
By sending a letter to: The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister, Parliament House, CANBERRA ACT 2600. Or call 61 2 6212 3930 or email primeministers@naa.gov.au
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=83T9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?
Black Assassins

http://blog.myspace.com/danik0

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?
Web 2.0 is basically the second stage to the development of the current world wide web. It is refers to a transition from static html to a more dynamic web that is more organised and more open with the sharing of information. Blogs and wikipedia type sites and web services are all seen as components of web 2.0.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_2_point_0.html