Papers on Computers & Technology
America And The Computer Industry
Words: 2608 - Pages: 10.... these beads are moved along the
wire according to "programming" rules that the user must memorize, all ordinary
arithmetic operations can be performed (Soma, 14). The next innovation in
computers took place in 1694 when Blaise Pascal invented the first "digital
calculating machine". It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by
turning dials. It was designed to help Pascal's father who was a tax collector
(Soma, 32).
In the early 1800's, a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage designed an
automatic calculation machine. It was steam powered and could store up to 1000
50-digit numbers. Built in to his machine were operatio .....
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Auditing Computer Security
Words: 1201 - Pages: 5.... audit policy determines the amount and type of security logging that window nt server performs on all domain controllers in the domain. On windows nt workstation or on member servers, the audit policy determines the amount and type of security logging performed on the individual computer.
You will first plan the policy, then implement it, and finally view the results.
You can set up on audit policy for a domain to: track the success and failure of events, such as when users attempt to log on, read a file, make changes to user and group permissions, change the security policy, and make a network connection. Eliminate or minimize the ri .....
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Masters Of Deception (MoD)
Words: 1215 - Pages: 5.... known as the "MOD BOYS"
(Masters of Deception). They were the hacker gang who dominated the hacking
underworld back in the late 1980s.
They all met through the phone lines. Back then there was no
Internet or AOL yet people could still communicate through computers. All
they needed was a modem and some phone #'s of other modems and they were in
business.
Paul met Eli first. They learned to hack together. After a while
they started looking for bigger and better hacks. They came across a
famous hacker named Phiber Optic (Mark). He taught them all he knew about
the telephone company. Then they were able to break into the New York
phon .....
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The Computer Market And Retailers: A Saturated Market
Words: 145 - Pages: 1.... at Nobody Beats the Wiz, Lechmere, Circut City, Staples, and
Office Max - all within minutes in one another.
Yet, computer retailers insist that there has been a need for more stores -
specifically their own - citing a nearly constant updating of equipment
and a growing emphasis on service. They also believe revenue potential remains
because computers are constanly changing and more people are becoming curious
about the Internet.
Still, many worry the market potential might be waning. Analysts believe the
market is very close to being saturated, if not already there. there are only
so many computers a person will buy, and only so ma .....
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The Y2k Issue
Words: 1450 - Pages: 6.... centers will be out cold. In addition transportation, hospitals, and food delivery will also be jeopardized. This does not mean that all of these will experience problems, or even that a majority will. But without question, some will. The extent of that "some" is largely unknown. Water treatment facilities, food & farming, defense, transportation, hospitals & emergency service, power, banking, law enforcement, communications, fuel, and government are all things in question.
Experts have testified before banking subcommittees that any major firm that has not already completed its assessment can not hope to become Y2K compliant by J .....
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Internet Pornography: Freedom Of Press Or Dangerous Influence?
Words: 2083 - Pages: 8.... speech and press. While arguments in this paper are international, almost
everyone of them cites the First Amendment of the United States. In many of the
papers it is implied that the United States sets precedent for the rest of the
world as far as laws governing the global world of the Internet. Paul F. Burton,
an Information Science professor and researcher, gives many statistics showing
that presence of pornography on the Internet is not necessarily a bad thing. He
gives one example that shows that "47% of the 11,000" most popular searches on
the Internet are targeted to pornography. This fact shows that pornography has
given the In .....
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Communication Technology
Words: 944 - Pages: 4.... the media influence what we wear, what we eat, and how we think without things like global communication our economy would be very different We wouldn't be able to buy cars from japan or sell crops to foreign countries. Government communicate using global technology. Mass meetings are held using video conferencing and speaker phones. Massive oversea trade deals are made overseas with the aids of phones, fax, and the Internet. Without these forms of communication we would have to take a plane across the ocean just to talk to someone on the other side of the pond.
Types Of Communication Systems
1. A data communication system involves th .....
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Propaganda In The Online Free Speech Campaign
Words: 5040 - Pages: 19.... the Internet in order to
gain support for their cause, and a small number of these organizations claim
this fight as their only cause. Some of these
organizations are broad based civil liberties groups, some fight for freedom of
speech based on the first amendment, and other groups favor the lowering of laws
involving the use of encrypted data on computers. All of these groups, however,
speak out for free speech on the Internet, and all of these groups have utilized
the Internet to spread propaganda to further this common cause of online free
speech and opposition to the CDA.
Context in which the propaganda occurs
Five years ago, .....
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Computer Communications
Words: 950 - Pages: 4.... news messages until my
fingers bled, I began to notice the little things. Electronic mail addresses
started popping up on business cards. Those otherwise-incomprehensible computer
magazines that my dad brought home from work ran monthly stories on
communications-program this, and Internet-system that. Cleveland Freenet's
Freeport software began appearing on systems all over the world, in places as
far away as Finland and Germany - with free telnet access!
I didn't live life as a normal twelve-year-old kid that summer. I sat in front
of the monitor twenty-four hours a day, eating my meals from a plate set next to
the keyboard, stopping .....
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Computer Literacy
Words: 508 - Pages: 2.... comes along demonstrating outstanding computer skills, he or she may
take a job that formerly belonged to another employee if that employee doesn't
even know how to check his e-mail. A good computer class would teach the basics
of computers: typing a document in a word processor, running a specified program,
and using a modem to check e-mail and access the Internet.
Personal computers now have a tremendous entertainment value due to
their versatility. Not only can a computer do all the things that are unique to
computers, it can be a television and a radio as well. Computers have also
attracted millions of people with games ga .....
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