Cyber Shopping

Safe Site:


1. What online shopping site are you researching? Put the url here and the site name.
Kenmore Collectables - http://www.kenmorecollectibles.com/cards_coins_and_sports_collectibles_for_sale.html

2. Does this site use cookies to identify you as a return shopper? How do you know?
Yes. They state the reason for using them in the privacy statement


3. Is the site secure? Identify the security measures that this site uses to keep your credit card and personal identity safe.
They use encryption to keep your credit card safe

4. Does this site offer person to person payments? 
Yes, it uses pay pal as a payment method


5. How can I verify that this site has not compromised individual's credit card or personal information?
When examining the payment process, I checked that the url changed to a https. The website has also has been verified and uses an encryption to protect your information.


6. Identify 3 methods I can use to keep my credit card and personal data safe from hacking while shopping online(identify at least 1 from reading in the text) 
What you should first look for is that it has a privacy policy. After that you should check that it is secure payment, and that it has also been verified by a third party.


http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/online-shopping.aspx


Unsafe Site:



1. What online shopping site are you researching? Put the url here and the site name.
 Fox Jewelery -http://foxjewelry.com/showCart.asp

2. Does this site use cookies to identify you as a return shopper? How do you know?
It does not have a written policy so it is hard to tell.


3. Is the site secure? Identify the security measures that this site uses to keep your credit card and personal identity safe.
It has not been verified


4. Does this site offer person to person payments? 
.No, it does not offer secure payment methods


5. How can I verify that this site has not compromised individual's credit card or personal information?
You can't really since it does not give information on their policies

Off The Shelf vs. Custom Built

Benefits of Custom Built:

• You can find parts that are good for what you are doing
• You can get a good computer for a cheaper price
• You are able to more easily select specific parts
• If you know a lot about computers you can make a better computer than an off the shelf.

Benefits of Off The Shelf Computers:

• You don't have to assemble it yourself
• If you don't no much about computers you can get advice on what to get
• It is easier to get and requires less research
• It has been put together by experts

Resources:

http://www.davewaytech.com/custom-pc-build-or-off-the-shelf-which-is-right-for-your-business

Computer Project

Motherboard
Intel H61
$69.99
INTEL H61
This is a good motherboard and should work well with our computer.

RAM
Crucial 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory

24.99
Tiger Direct
This is inexpensive memory and given the cost of the rest of the components of the computer, we had few options

Hard Drive(s)
Western Digital 500 GB
$45.22
Amazon
This item provides a good amount of memory, for a reasonable price. As it is a school computer, it shouldn’t need more than 500G. For this price, this is a great deal.

CPU
Intel Pentium
$69.99
Intel Pentium
We chose this processor because we needed an effective processor. With this processor, the computer will function well.
OS

Ubuntu 11.10
Free
(Open Source)
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a great deal because it is free, visually appealing, and fully functioning.

Case
XON-810P-Red
$39.99
Tiger Direct
This case is appealing and reasonably priced, also very spacey and comes with a cable. It also looks awesome.

Video Card
Comes built in with motherboard

Sound Card
SIIG SoundWave
$29.99
Amazon
It is important to have a good sound card so that students will be able to effectively work in class.

Power Supply
Comes With Case
Free

Write down the sites you used to research this project. Be sure that each person on your team has an assignment and is contributing to your final build.

Tiger Direct
New Egg
Amazon
Google Shopper
http://www.tigerdirect.com/
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/build-a-computer.htm

Computer for Grandma

Sorry this is late, in the past I did not know how to put this on my blog

iCloud