Internet Censorship
.... Whether the Internet should and can be censored is one debate which affects much of the modern world. Though there are strong arguments on both sides, by examining evidence it can be decided that there is no feasible way to regulate the Internet at the present time in the United States. Before any censorship can even be attempted, some serious questions must be answered. The most important of these is "What is the Internet's identity?" What this means is that the type of media the Internet represents has not yet been determined. It must be decided whether the "Net" is considered a broadcast system, which could be subject to regulat .....
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The Year 2000 Problem
.... several reasons. William Adams points out some of the most important ones. “Time is running out- the Year 2000 is inevitable! The problem will occur simultaneously worldwide, time zones withstanding. It affects all languages and platforms, hardware & software. The demand for solutions will exceed the supply. Survivors will survive big, losers will lose big. There is no ‘silver bullet’ that is going to fix things” (Adams 2). “It is too big and too overwhelming even for [Bill Gates and] Microsoft” (Widder 3). Separate, any one of these points makes Y2K, a common abbreviation for the year 2000 problem, an addition to the obstacle. Co .....
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Careers In Computer Engineering
.... degree in electrical engineering as a "generalist," with computer engineers as "specialists" who spend their time focusing on computer architecture and compiler design (University of Delaware / which_degree.html).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, considered one of the best schools for computer study, offers a similarly structured program (Glass 91). While both degree programs require courses in electronics theory, devices and circuits as well as basic and advanced theories of the nature and uses of electricity, the computer engineering curriculum also includes courses on hardware applications, programming languages, softw .....
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Programmers
.... be hired on a Monday, handed the technical specifications to a piece of hardware, then told to write an interface, or a patch, or some small, discrete project that takes only a few hours. Then on Tuesday, they might be moved to a different project, working on code inherited from previous projects. Systems programmers must prove themselves technically fluent: "If you can't code, get off the keyboard and make room for someone, who can, write one.” Both arenas accommodate a wide range of work styles, but communication skills, technical expertise and the ability to work with others are important in general. Programmers work together .....
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The Y2k Issue
.... 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 January 1, 2000. None of the utilities that were surveyed were assured after making inquiries that their suppliers, venders, and servicers would be Y2K compliant. Utilities are highly dependent on servicers, suppliers, and other upstream activities to transmit, and distribute gas and electricity. In fact, many power distribution c .....
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Computer Technology
.... will benefit us all. People use computers for research, organization, writing, communication for personal or business matters and even to look up stock updates. Whether it is personal or business, computers can help make our daily life easier. Typing is quicker and easier and its also a lot neater than hand writing. When you type on a computer you can look at them and open them a lot faster than having a folder of papers you have to carry around where ever you go. Computers can also help with editing a paper, they can even check spelling and grammar. Typing on a computer today is probably the most common way people write there r .....
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The Linux Operating System
.... time, there are dozens of ongoing projects for Linux to different hardware configurations and purposes.
Linux has an official mascot, the Linux Penguin, which was selected by Linus Torvalds to represent the image he associates with the operating system he created. Although many variations of the word Linux exist, it is most often pronounced with a short " i " and with the first syllable stressed, as in LIH-nucks.
Advantages: Linux is cheap, fast, flexible, efficient, stable, secure, reliable, legal, easy to install, low maintenance, thoroughly tested, and currently running somewhere around half the internet.
Linux ca .....
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Dell Computer Corporation
.... and home-PC users.
Dell’s award-winning customer service, industry-leading growth and financial performance continue to differentiate the company from competitors. At the heart of that performance is Dell’s unique direct-to-customer business model. “Direct” refers to the company’s relationships with its customers, from home-PC users to the world’s largest corporations. There are no retailers or other resellers adding unnecessary time and cost or diminishing Dell’s understanding of customer expectations.
- Price for Performance – By eliminating resellers, retailers and other costly intermediary steps – together with .....
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Microsoft Vs. U.S. Government
.... memory management, disk compression, or networking have been added to the system for more than 17 years. By putting the web browser into the Windows OS it allows the user to do much more. It will be easier to transfer data from the web into the computer when they can work as one.
Computer has become a very important part nowadays. Why? The Internet, because it gives us a lot of information at our fingertips. That is exactly what an integrated browser would do for the Windows OS. Other software companies have already done a similar thing with their operating systems at IBM. Not being able to improve on a product would be t .....
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Technology To Improve Education
.... computers and the Internet have expanded in such a way in which education can be delivered to students, it is currently possible to engage in "distance education through the Internet. Distance education involves audio and video links between teachers and students in remote areas. Video conferencing allows groups to communicate with each other. Desktop video conferencing promises to bring students together from geographic and cultural distances, face to face via computer. Not only will the teacher talk to the students, but the students will be able to interact with each other. This will make students more interested and fascin .....
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Hacking
.... First, the hacker runs the prefix scanner, usually at night, to get a list of dial-ups, phone numbers that contain carriers. Once he has dials-ups, he has places to explore. Next he uses his terminal to dial-up the carriers. When he connects to the network, he will need to gain entrance to it. The hacker uses his password cracker to find a suitable user name and password. The password cracker does not always work, so the hacker is forced to use a technique called "brute force" hacking. This is where the hacker randomly tries different user names and passwords to gain access to the network. Once inside the network, the hacke .....
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Nanotechnology: Immortality Or Total Annihilation?
.... device that is giving nanoscientists something to work with is also one of the many obstacles restricting the development of nanotech. The STM has been regarded as too big to ever produce nanotech structures (Port 128). Other scientists have stated that the manipulation of atoms, which nanotech relies on, ignores atomic reality. Atoms simply don't fit together in ways which nanotech intends to use them (Garfinkel 105). The problems plaguing the progress of nanotech has raised many questions among the scientific community concerning it's validity.
The moving of atoms, the gathering of information, the restrictions of the STM, a .....
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