Anti-government Censorship On The Internet
.... could get uncensored porn pictures off the Internet created chaos among the politicians. the Time cover story looked very convincing for many Americans who are uneducated about the Internet access. It suggested there was a sincere problem with uncensored material on the Internet. According to Time article 917,410 sexually explicit pictures, descriptions, short stories and film clips were studied on an 18 month period. Along with porn there are more concerns on the Internet with images that cannot be found in the average magazine rack. Such images include photos of children, images of bondage, sadomasochism, urination, def .....
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History Of Computers
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This project was taken up by Dr. J. Presper Eckert Jr., and Dr. John W. Mauchly, with help from a few of their colleagues, in the spring of 1946. For two and a half years, they work diligently to construct a machine called the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, or ENIAC. This machine was a complex of 500,000 connections that linked over 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 30 tons, and occupied a room the size of an average three-bedroom home. ENIAC was capable of performing 5,000 additions in one second.
At around the time ENIAC was being created, a man by the name of John Atanasoff was hung up on a problem: .....
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Computer Viruses
.... software, and we are left feeling isolated and vulnerable. I do not feel that this defensive posture is effective because it is not pro-active. Society is still being attacked by highly skilled computer criminals of which we know very little about them, their motives, and their tools of the trade. Therefore, to be effective in defense, we must understand how these attacks take place from a technical stand-point. To some degree, we must learn to become a computer criminal. Then we will be in a better position to defend against these victimizations that affect us on both the financial and emotional level. In this paper, we will e .....
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Computer Science
.... data storage medium. To read data, a tape drive must wind through the spool of tape to the exact location of the desired information. To write, the tape drive encodes data sequentially on the tape. Because tape drives cannot randomly access or write data like disk drives, and are thus much slower, they have been replaced as the primary storage device with the hard drive. The hard drive is composed of thin layers of rigid magnetic platters stacked on top of one another like records in a jukebox, and the heads that read and write data to the spinning platters resemble the arm of a record player. Floppy disks are another .....
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Trespasser: Computer Game Review
.... Throw in a rock, and it will sink. Trespasser also features some interesting sound technology and light sourcing techniques to add to the realistic environment.
Working with the realistic physics is a real time sound system based on your character's actual manipulation of the environment. Sounds are generated based on composition, structure, and velocity of two objects colliding. What this means is that if you throw a rock and hit a barrel, it will sound different than if the same rock hit a tree. The sound is top-notch, with great ambient sound effects, and effective dinosaur sounds, most coming quite close to what the movies .....
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History Of The Propeller
.... The basic propeller had evolved from the simple concepts of da Vinci, and was slowly becoming an effective means of aerial propulsion. To reach the next plateau of flight an increased knowledge of the propeller would be needed, and the mysteries of the propeller and mechanical power would need to be solved. These substantial tasks remained for aviation’s pioneers to tackle during the 19th century.
Throughout the 19th century, aviation pioneers explored and tinkered with the concepts of flight to design a viable airship. Some pioneers tried to transform the balloons into navigable cigar shaped airships by experimenting with .....
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What Is A Computer
.... exact answers difficult or impossible to obtain. Digital computers are capable of providing exact answers to problems.
The basic concept of a computer is very simple. A computer processes step by step, performing one operation at a time. For example, a computer reads a number from memory, stores it, reads another number from memory, stores it, retrieves the first number, adds it to the second, and writes the answer into memory. This is a computers way of adding two numbers.
The process just described may seem slow and tedious. The average computer, however, can add two numbers in 1/100,000 of a second. The speed at which a com .....
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Aeronautics: Aviation Powerplants
.... aircraft of the war: The Fokker Dr.1 Triplane flown by Baron Von Richtofen. A unique feature of these engines is that they had no throttle, but ran at a constant speed. Also the cylinders were not fixed in place as one might expect. They instead rotated around a fixed crankshaft. The propeller was attached to the cylinders. The advantage of this configuration was lowered production time and elimination of a costly and vulnerable cooling system. Speed control was gained by cutting the fuel supply and thus shutting down the engine. The engine would retain enough momentum to allow the pilot to simply turn back on the fuel system a .....
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The Computer
.... construction to advanced calculus. Educators use computers to track grades and prepare notes; with computer-controlled projection units, they can add graphics, sound, and animation to their lectures. Computers are used extensively in scientific research to solve mathematical problems.
How Computers Work
The physical computer and its components are known as hardware. Computer hardware includes the memory that stores data and instructions; the central processing unit (CPU) that carries out instructions; the bus that connects the various computer components; the input devices, such as a keyboard or mouse, that allow the user .....
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Censorship And The Internet
.... the CIEC, or Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition. The CIEC soon began to find problems with this bill as the so maticulously stated on their web site "It is also important to note that the CDA is not about child pornography, obscenity, or using the Internet to stalk children. These are already illegal under current law."(CIEC) The article then states "instead, the CDA prohibits posting "indecent" or "patently offensive" materials in a public forum on the Internet -- including web pages, newsgroups, chat rooms, or online discussion lists."(CIEC) This law would prohibit "texts of classic fiction such as the "Catcher in the .....
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Internet Regulation: Policing Cyberspace
.... accessible from its agencies.
This material is not lawfully available through the mail or over the telephone, there is no valid reason these perverts should be allowed unimpeded on the Internet. Since our initiative, the industry has commendably advanced some blocking devices, but they are not a substitute for well-reasoned law.4 Because the Internet has become one of the biggest sources of information in this world, legislative safeguards are imperative.
The government gives citizens the privilege of using the Internet, but it has never given them the right to use it.
They seem to rationalize that the framers of .....
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The Internet Contributes To The Process Of Globalization
.... it is immutable proof that the Internet is perhaps the most powerful tool of globalization
It has been argued that the opening presumption that there exists a "coercive, sometimes wholly unconscious force of American imperialism over the Net." It's a statement that depends on some obsolete notions about the nation-state, propaganda, media, and imperialism. The Internet doesn't promote imperialism - it eradicates it. The underlying force threatening the paranoid enemies of so-called American Imperialism is progress itself. The Internet is no more American than electricity. It may have been invented there, but electro .....
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