Tuesday, October 1, 2013

SKorea urges united global effort against NKorea's nuclear weapons program.


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/27/skorea-urges-united-global-effort-against-nkorea-nuclear-weapons-program/

             This article addresses that South Korea continues their strong stance toward North Korea in order to gain the international community support against North Korea's development of nuclear weapons. South Korea asserts that people have to express strong opposition to the nuclear weapons program of North Korea as it has against the use of chemical weapons in Syria. According to Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, North Korea continues to conduct a nuclear test this year and to develop long-range missiles to threaten other neighboring countries. He also says that many nations should strive together for preventing the advent of another nuclear-armed state.
            I completely advocate the hard-line policy toward North Korea and agree with Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se. In my opinion, the blatant attempt of North Korea is to attract people's attention for money. North Korea needs tons of capital and technology for nuclear weapons, but their funds are gradually running out. That is why North Korea acts childish toward advanced countries through nuclear threats. They should stop nuclear threats for money and also must be criticized for their inhumane decision to postpone planned reunions of families separated by the past Korean War. South Korea, however, has to stand ready to help them if North Korea changes their threatening stance.


6 Reasons We Share Too Much Online, According to Behavioral Scientists

I read the article on MotherJones.com called "6 Reasons We Share Too Much Online, According to Behavioral Scientist".  The article claimed that the six reasons that we share too much online are: 1. our willingness to sell our privacy is greater than our willingness to pay for it, 2. we reflexively accept default privacy settings, 3. we're caught in a privacy/control paradox, 4. we fall for misdirection, 5. we're addicts, and 6. ignorance is bliss.  The article gave each reason, along with a little bit of an in depth explanation of each one in order to back up the claims.  The argument that the article provided was well supported by the evidence that was given with each reason.  Each reason was backed up by studies that have been performed or by professionals in this area of study.  The article also claimed that sometimes it's even better to not worry about protecting your privacy too much because, for example, "the NSA target people who use Tor anonymity software--just because."  I can definitely agree that many of these reasons make sense as to why so many people share so much personal information online, even when they are concerned about strangers being able to hack their information.

Read more here: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/10/science-behind-why-nobody-cares-about-online-privacy