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Computer Crime
<view this essay>.... into computers to learn the system or get
information. I found out in the book Computer Crime written by Judson, Karen:
That "Salami Slicers" steal small amounts of money from many bank customers this
adding up to a great deal of money. I also read about phone phreaks more known
as "Phreakers." They steal long distance phone services. Phreakers commit many
other crimes against phone companies.
In the book Computer Crime it states, most people commit thesis crimes, because
they where carious and wanted to explore the system. All they want to do is
exploit systems not destroy it. It is purely intellectual. I know one reason
is that is can be very reward .....
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Year 2000: Fiction, Fantasy, And Fact
<view this essay>.... In fact, Mike Elgan
who is the editor of Windows Magazine, says " . . . the problem could cost
businesses a total of $600 billion to remedy." (p. 1) The fallacy that
mainframes were the only machines to be affected was short lived as industry
realized that 60 to 80 million home and small business users doing math or
accounting etc. on Windows 3.1 or older software, are just as susceptible to
this "bug." Can this be repaired in time? For some, it is already too late. A
system that is devised to cut an annual federal deficit to 0 by the year 2002 is
already in "hot water." Data will become erroneous as the numbers "just don't
add up" anymore. Some PC owners .....
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Windows 95 Beats Mac
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the issuer of compatibility between the large number of different hardware
setups available in the PC world. Is a particular board going to work with
my PC? With Windows 95, these problems were alleviated with plug and play
technology. With plug and play compatible boards, the computer detects and
configures the new board automatically. The operating system may recognize
some hardware components on older PCs. Mac userw will claim that they
always had the convenicnce of a plug and play system, ubt the difference
shows in teh flexibility of the two systems.
Another set of arguments Mac users use in favor of their sysstems over
PCs is in multimedia an .....
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Internet Regulation: Policing Cyberspace
<view this essay>.... by a vote of 84-16, the United States Senate passed the
amendment. It is now being brought through the House of Representatives.1
The Internet is owned and operated by the government, which gives them the
obligation to restrict the materials available through it. Though it
appears to have sprung up overnight, the inspiration of free-spirited
hackers, it in fact was born in Defense Department Cold War projects of the
1950s.2 The United States Government owns the Internet and has the
responsibility to determine who uses it and how it is used. The government
must control what information is accessible from its agencies.
This material is not lawfully available .....
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Maglev Consequences
<view this essay>.... have become stressed. Congestion on highways
and at airports not only wastes time and fuel and increases pollution, but
constrains mobility to the extent that economic growth and productivity are
adversely affected.
Increased demand. Between 1980 and 1990, with deregulation and consumer
demand for fast inner-city travel leading to lower airline fares, commercial air
traffic has increased by 56 percent. Adding to the congestion and delay is
increased commuter and regional air traffic. Those short distance flights take
valuable landing slots that could be used for larger planes on more profitable,
longer flights. With the maglev vehicles the shorter trips exc .....
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The Growth Of The Internet
<view this essay>.... the Cold War the Government wanted a reliable line of communication. If a network link became damaged by enemy attack, the information on it could be rerouted automatically to other links. This was the birth of the Internet. In order to use anything on the Internet, it is required that you learn to operate a separate program, one for the mail, one for news groups, and several different programs for accessing databases.
This all changed in 1989. A researcher at CERN (a big European physics laboratory) named Tim Berners-Lee started to work on hypertext. By using hypertext he could link together all the different kinds of information available on the Inter .....
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Why You Should Purchase A PC
<view this essay>.... this definition gives one a very narrow view of what
a computer is capable of doing, it does describe the basic ideas of what I will
expand upon. We have been living through an age of computers for a short while
now and there are already many people world wide that are computer literate.
According to Using Computers: A Gateway to Information World Wide Web Edition,
over 250 million Personal Computers (PC's) were in use by 1995, and one out of
every three homes had a PC (Shelly, Cashman,& Waggoner, 138).
Computers are easy to use when you know how they work and what the parts
are. All computers perform the four basic operations of the information
processi .....
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Video Games
<view this essay>.... on the market for a longer period of time than Nintendo 64, this is why it has more games than Nintendo 64.
When it comes to graphics, the Playstation wins again. All of the Nintendo 64 games have polygonal graphics, where the Playstation can also support film graphics for games that star real life actions. If the gamer enjoys watching a story line in a real life situation, Playstation would be the better choice to go with.
When it comes to wait time, the Nintendo 64 blows away the Playstation. Some games for the Playstation take up to a minute to load. This is due to the fact that the system uses compact discs for software. On the other hand, Nintendo 64 use .....
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