Due Date: Thursday May 4, 2023
Blow to Bits book pages 39 to 42


Listen here "Convenience of the Customer" (www.cusack2.com)
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(Start here) Convenience of the Customer The most obvious reason not to worry about giving information to a company is that you do business with them, and it is in your interest to see that they do their business with you better. You have no interest in whether they make more money from you, but you do have a strong interest in making it easier and faster for you to shop with them, and in cutting down the amount of stuff they may try to sell you that you would have no interest in buying. So your interests and theirs are, to a degree, aligned, not in opposition. Safeway’s privacy policy states this explicitly: “Safeway Club Card information and other information may be used to help make Safeway’s products, services, and programs more useful to its customers.” Fair enough.
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Only sects such as the Amish still live without electricity. It will soon be almost that unusual to live without Internet connectivity, with all the fingerprints it leaves of your daily searches and logins and downloads. Even the old dumb TV is rapidly disappearing in favor of digital communications. Digital TV will bring the advantages of video on demand—no more trips to rent movies or waits for them to arrive in the mail—at a price: Your television service provider will record what movies you have ordered. It will be so attractive to be able to watch what we want when we want to watch it, that we won’t miss either the inconvenience or the anonymity of the days when all the TV stations washed your house with their airwaves. You couldn’t pick the broadcast times,(stop here)

Due Date: Thursday May 4, 2023
Near Hundred
Purpose: Expand your knowledge of Java by learning
about boolean logic.
* Given an int n, return true if it is within 10 of 100 or 200.
* Note: Math.abs(num) computes the absolute value of a number.
*
* nearHundred(93) → true
* nearHundred(90) → true
* nearHundred(89) → false

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Due Date: Thursday May 4, 2023
Positive Negative
Purpose: Expand your knowledge of Java by learning
about boolean logic.
* Given 2 int values,
* return true if one is negative and one is positive.
* Except if the parameter "negative" is true,
* then return true only if both are negative.

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