A New Technology
.... away, and only take two to four seconds to find, photograph and match your iris.
The security benefits are obvious: no two people, not even identical twins, have the same iris. While cards and PINs can be stolen, irises cannot. Van Naarden says iris-scanning is also being used overseas at teller windows, kiosks, vaults, and safety deposit boxes.
Stopping Fraud, Saving Money And in an industry that loses billions each year to various forms of fraud, a near-foolproof identification system might just come in handy. "We will significantly reduce, or even eliminate, fraud with this system," van Naarden says.
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DNA Technology
.... be ethical and positive to one may not be to another. So, specific restrictions must be made on the uses; such as, it must only be used on a life threatening disease or life altering problem. However, even these restrictions could be used to ones discretion, obstacles such as these are problematic and must be dealt with carefully and monitored closely.
Human cloning is a major ethical problem. There are many issues in the arena of human cloning. One argument against it is that there is absolutely no need for human cloning, why would one need a duplicate of themselves? Another argument is that what if this technology fell into th .....
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How To Computerize Your Accounts
.... and training.
When looking at the need to change from a manual accounting system to a computerized accounting system you also need to look at the future demands of your company. How do you know when it is time to make the change? When your company has grown so large that it no longer has access to the data used to make decisions, then it is probably time to switch to a computerized data management system. These computerized data management systems are often called information systems. The company now has two choices. It can either hire a professional consulting firm to help select and install the computer system .....
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Manual Labor To Industrial Automation
.... what the people as a whole going to do about losing their jobs. The only real answer to this problem may not be determined for years to come. As automation continues to grow, many people will be negatively affected.
My feeling on the entire picture is spit both ways. On the one side, many applications for a machine exist, which man cannot perform. I know that I would not want to be the person that has to tell the people that they are going to lose their jobs to automation. I am in favor of manual labor because it is the job of a person with a family to support that is at stake when people a laid off because of automation.
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The Year 2000 Bug
.... hospital? (Also see “WHAT IS Y2K” later on)
Food is one essential thing that is crucial to survival and many people think that we may need lots of canned and dry goods. As in any crisis situation, some believe that the worst will happen: We will all die, go to war, or the world will explode, etc. Then again, others think that maybe we should be prepared just in case all of our electricity goes out and we have no way to store our goods. Personally, I believe that we have prepared enough to the point where even if we do have the power go out, I think it will only be a matter of hours, if not less, before it is restored. Since ou .....
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Computer Integrated Manufacturing
.... customers and suppliers, sales and marketing activities, financial management and the overall control of the enterprise.
At one extreme, a Computer-Integrated Manufacturing process may be fully automated, with computers (and robots) controlling the entire production process with minimal human intervention. However, CIM is typically employed at a level short of total integration. Many manufacturers who are leaders in CIM typically have concentrated their efforts in two areas: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM). Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applies the computer to the creation, modification, and .....
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Technology
.... computer that will direct the driver into using the fastest and most efficient way to get to the destination. It will plan your route around any construction, traffic jams, and even inclement weather. If and when these cars break down, a mechanic will simply ask the car's on-board computer what is wrong, rather than having to go through a series of complicated troubleshooting tests. As I have clearly stated, computers have greatly improved something that most of us use every day.
Another advantage of the computer that until recently I was unfamiliar with is the role of the computer in the workplace. I have worke .....
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The Introduction Of Computers In Education
.... students can obtain all the information he/she needs for an assignment. The time that was spent running to the library has been cut by about ninety percent. This is due to the new and ever improving software that is produced for personal computers.
Secondly, the computer has become a strong teaching tool in many schools across the nation and maybe the world. Since the introduction of computers in the classrooms, students have shown a progression of their skills in reading and mathematics. There are many tutorial software programs that are readily available for the students who are having problems in these areas. The software t .....
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Government Intervention Of The Internet
.... With over 30 million Internet users in the U.S. alone (only 3 million of which surf the net from home), everything is bound to offend someone. The newest wave of laws floating through law making bodies around the world threatens to stifle this area of spontaneity. Recently, Congress has been considering passing laws that will make it a crime punishable by jail to send "vulgar" language over the net, and to export encryption software. No matter how small, any attempt at government intervention in the Internet will stifle the greatest communication innovation of this century. The government wants to maintain control over t .....
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Reality - What It Is And How It Works
.... This is done with several computer-user interfaces used to simulate the senses. Among these, are stereoscopic glasses to make the simulated world look real, a 3D auditory display to give depth to sound, sensor lined gloves to simulate tactile feedback, and head-trackers to follow the orientation of the head.
Since the technology is fairly young, these interfaces have not been perfected, making for a somewhat cartoonish simulated reality. Stereoscopic vision is probably the most important feature of VR because in real life, people rely mainly on vision to get places and do things. The eyes are approximately 6.5 centimet .....
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Setting Up A Computer Network
.... cable of the network this backbone cable is necessary because we will be using a bus topology on this network, which physically consist of a single cable (backbone) with multiple nodes attached to it. The RG-58 will not be attached to the backbone directly because there are too many computers to be attached to each other. We also understand that you have 40 computers that need to be connected to the network. The 40 computers in the office area will have to be divided into two strings of 20 computers each. These two strings will have to be attached to an internetworking device called a repeater. According to the IEEE Standar .....
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Should The U.S. Government Be Scared Of Cyber Terrorism?
.... of police, fire and rescue services. There are also a lot of cyber attacks within the United States, which are referred to as domestic attacks. In 1996, there were 128 cases of cyber attacks on the FBI's files, in 1998 there were 550.
If a terrorist wanted to black out New York City he would have to make physical contact with the power plant by means of bombs, or actual hands on in destroying the power grid. Now experts say it is very possible for a trained computer hacker to create the blackout, and even worse he could be as far away as Tehran, Iran. This hacker could also have full technological and financial backing of .....
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