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The Future Of The Internet
<view this essay>.... of people and organizations, like the military, businesses, colleges and
universities, and common people with no specific purpose to even use it (Dunkin
180). Phillip Elmer-Dewitt stated it perfectly, “It is a place for everyone.”
The rapid growth of the internet has many positive aspects to it. The
new technology that is developing with this rapid growth will help keep
computers up to date with what is being developed on the internet. With these
technological advances, systems will be faster, more powerful, and capable of
doing more complicated tasks. As more people with different interests,
thoughts, and ideas get involved with the interne .....
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History Of The Internet
<view this essay>.... There are thousands of service providers
and networks that connect home or college users to the backbone networks. Today,
there are more than fifty-thousand networks in more than one-hundred countries
worldwide. However, it all started with one network.
In the early 1960's the Cold War was escalating and the United States
Government was faced with a problem. How could the country communicate after a
nuclear war? The Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA, had a
solution. They would create a non-centralized network that linked from city to
city, and base to base. The network was designed to function when parts of it
were destroyed. The ne .....
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Internet
<view this essay>.... money, they again had forgotten too much. I believe I
have found the answer. On the Internet your students will be able to find
literally thousands of links to help them with their future enterprises. In
almost every city all across North America, no matter where these students move
to, they are able to link up and find everything they need. They can find links
like "Creative Ideas", a place they can go and retrieve ideas, innovations,
inventions, patents and licensing. Once they come up with their own products,
they can find free expert advice on how to market their products. There are
easily accessible links to experts, analysts, consultants and b .....
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Computer Crimes
<view this essay>.... They use programs called
scanners which randomly dials numbers any generating tones or carriers are
recorded. These numbers are looked at by hackers and then used again, when the
hacker calls up the number and gets on he's presented with a logon prompt, this
is where the hacking really begins, the hacker tries to bypass this anyway he
knows how to and tries to gain access to the system. Why do they do it, well
lets go to a book and see "Avid young computer hackers in their preteens and
teens are frequently involved in computer crimes that take the form of
trespassing, invasion of privacy, or vandalism. Quite often they are mearly out
for a fun and gam .....
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Telecommunication
<view this essay>.... telecommunications this is a connection of peripherals together so that they
can exchange information. The first such exchange of information was on May 24,
1844 when Samuel Morse sent the famous message "What hath God wrought" from the
US Capitol in Washington D.C. across a 37 mile wire to Baltimore using the
telegraph. The telegraph is basically an electromagnet connected to a battery
via a switch. When the switch is down the current flows from the battery
through the key, down the wire, and into the sounder at the other end of the
line. By itself the telegraph could express only two states, on or off. This
limitation was eliminated by the fact tha .....
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Censorship
<view this essay>.... a fear that the expression if not curtailed will do harm to individuals in its audiences or to society as a whole. "Obscene material is attacked because of the fear that it will corrupt personal morality" (Grolier, Inc.). The first amendment states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. In no way does violate the first amendment. prevents broadcasters from infringing on the rights of the viewers. has really been limit .....
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The Computer Underground
<view this essay>.... ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
ABSTRACT
This paper examines the social organization of the "computer underground"
(CU). The CU is composed of actors in three roles, "computer hackers,"
"phone phreaks," and "software pirates." These roles have frequently been
ignored or confused in media and other accounts of CU activity. By
utilizing a data set culled from CU channels of communication this paper
provides an ethnographic account of computer underground organization. It
is concluded that despite the widespread social network of the computer
underground, it is organized primarily on the level of colleagues, with
only small groups approaching pee .....
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The Torpedoes
<view this essay>.... it was replace by the T5, which was faster, had a greater range and could be used with either magnetic or contact detonators.
The Zaunköning (Gnat) came into service during the autumn of 1943. Intended to be an escort-killer, it achieved some early minor success only to be countered by the allied Foxer noise-making decoy. It was scoring hits against escort and merchants to the end of the war though.
The weapon was designed to lock onto the loudest noise after a run of 400m from its launch. This often proved to be the U-boat itself and standard issue-orders were to dive immediately to depth of 60m after launch from a bow tube while a stern shot was to be foll .....
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