Highly-Scalable Remote Computing for Small and Medium Businesses
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Vikrant Agarwal, Ron Bandes, Mike Hanley, Devon Rollins
In this paper, we have mainly looked at the marketing details for different cloud businesses, and how beneficial it would be for startups to take up these cloud-based infrastructures. After looking at all the different statistics and costs of the various parameters offered, we concluded that each cloud has its own niche. Some are better at processing, some are better at storage etc. Also, depending on the business model of the company, their requirements would change, and hence the type of cloud they would select would change as well. Also addressed are the issues and concerns regarding clouds, such as privacy as well as security.
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The Response of the G-20 to the Global Financial Crisis
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Daniel Aiello
As global leaders work to develop policy responses to the recent international financial crisis, the Group of 20 (G-20) emerges as the forum of choice for coordinating among the leaders of “systemically important” global economies, usurping this role from the G-8. In a rapidly changing global economy no longer dominated by traditional Western powers, the G-8 lacks the legitimacy necessary to respond to the crisis. As a result, the G-20, a forum more inclusive of the major emerging market power and more geographically representative comes to the fore.
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Vikrant Agarwal, Francis Gbormittah, Mike Hanley, Devon Rollins
In this paper, we have analyzed the Facebook chat application. We implemented a Man in the Middle (MITM) attack on the same. Our analysis indicated that if users A and B are chatting, the MITM can redirect A’s messages to a third friend, C. The MITM can also edit these messages. Hence, C will think that A is chatting with him/her and A has no knowledge of the same. This was accomplished by capturing the Facebook chat packets and analyzing/editing them. The paper also contains detailed comments on this situation from the policy, privacy as well as managerial aspects of the Facebook chat application’s security.
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Impacts on sub-Saharan Africa
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Rachel Carey
There is a general consensus that Africa’s present condition is no longer one of extreme economic fragility. African countries have signed trade agreements with the EU, the US and Asian countries and most markets are theoretically open to African exports. Although these trade agreements are often asymmetrical in the benefits provided to non-African countries, there appears to be the sense that the situation could certainly be much worse. The inability of African nations to take full advantage of trade opportunities is largely tied to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS on the continent.
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A case for immigration reform in the UK
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Lauren Gilchrist
Globalization has fundamentally changed the way we think about our world, function in it, and interact with others. These interactions span both the routines of our daily lives and the systems that affect the ways that we live and work. One of the most striking examples of these sweeping changes is in the world labor market and the way it is shaped by labor market policy. Macroeconomic labor market policies determine what workers from what countries can migrate or emigrate to a nation or group of nations to seek employment. These policies are of critical concern in developed and developing economies around the world as they have the ability to elevate families out of poverty while efficiently providing the right workers for growing industrial and service sectors, thereby boosting the overall productivity of a market. The wrong policies, however, can create problems that threaten the security of the individual: poorly designed policies can cost local workers their jobs, result in exploitative wages and conditions for immigrant workers, unduly burden social systems, and create xenophobia. Labor market policies have important economic, political, and moral implications, and existing labor market theories plus historical records often draw conflicting conclusions about which policies are the right ones.
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