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Government Intervention Of The Internet
Number of Words: 2647 / Number of Pages: 10
... of obscene
graphics, Anarchists' cookbooks and countless other things that offend some
people. 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 Inte ...
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What Is An Information Systems Project
Number of Words: 509 / Number of Pages: 2
... project manager.
2. Stud the enclosed article “HOW MUCH TECHNICAL TRAINING DOES A PROJECT MANAGER NEED?” Then, answer the question, supporting your answer. For support, you are not limited to the enclosed article.
As stated in the article a project manager needs enough knowledge not to be snowed. In the military commissioned officers are put into positions that they have little or knowledge of. These Officers are placed there for leadership. To take ideas from their subordinates make the ideas into a singe objective and complete the mission on time. This is a prime example of a project ma ...
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Fiber Optic Cable
Number of Words: 452 / Number of Pages: 2
... he reported transmitting the image of a light bulb filament through a short bundle. However the unclad fibers transmitted the images poorly, and the rise of the Nazis forced Lamm, a Jew, to move to the USA and give up his dream of becoming a professor of medicine.
A lot of things have changed since then. Fiber optics has come along way, and it is being used a lot more. is now made so that it transmits light waves through one destination to another, and we all know that the speed of light is the fastest speed of all. People can log into networks and communicate and send data faster than ever. It is al ...
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The Linux Operating System
Number of Words: 747 / Number of Pages: 3
... have taken Linux's source code and adapted it to meet their individual needs. At this 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 ...
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What Is A Computer
Number of Words: 389 / Number of Pages: 2
... solving problems in which several quantities vary continuously over a period of time, making 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 s ...
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The Telephone System
Number of Words: 904 / Number of Pages: 4
... transmitter is composed of a thin disk of
metal-coated plastic held above a thicker, hollow metal disk. This plastic disk
is electrically charged, and creates an electric field. The sound waves from
the caller's voice cause the plastic disk to vibrate, changing the distance
between the disks, thus changing the intensity of the electric field. These
variations are translated into an electric current which travels across the
telephone lines. The receiver of a telephone is composed of a flat ring of
magnetic material. Underneath this magnetic ring is a coil of wire where the
electric current fl ...
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Hate On The Net
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... as these have led many to demand that hate material be removed from the net. Some Internet Service Providers are already starting to block access to sites they see as harboring extreme material.
Why is this happening? Have we all lost the ability to reason for ourselves? People are quite capable of making up their own minds about what they read or see on the net.
Freedom of speech is often misunderstood to be a gift to crackpots, racists, or demagogues. But the truth is the opposite. The people who are really empowered by free speech are not the speakers but the audience. Free speech puts a pr ...
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All About Disk Geometry And The 1024 Cylinder Limit For Disks.
Number of Words: 1103 / Number of Pages: 5
... sector 0 (known as the MBR - the
Master Boot Record) from the first disk (or from floppy), and jumps to the code
found there - usually some bootstrap loader.These small bootstrap programs found
there typically have no own disk drivers and use BIOS services.This means that a
Linux kernel can only be booted when it is entirely located within the first
1024 cylinders.
This problem is very easily solved: make sure that the kernel (and perhaps other
files used during bootup, such as LILO map files) are located on a partition
that is entirely contained in the first 1024 cylinders of a disk that the BIOS ...
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Modems
Number of Words: 467 / Number of Pages: 2
... Per Second) the reason for the increase in 14.4 and 28.8’s is that they are cheap and fairly recent and haven’t gone out of date yet.
There are two types of modem external and external internal plugs into a 16 bit port inside your computer and external connects through either a serial (mouse)port or a parallel (printer)port most people like the external because they don’t take up an extra space in your computer (according to PC Computing) prices in range price from $100 (28.8bps) to $500(software upgradable 56k). Facsimile machines also have a form of modem in them, usually a 2400baud modem to ...
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“Sin In The Global Village”: Privacy In Cyberspace
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... because of the electronic trail that is left for others to find.
Linda Tripp, who taped her conversations with the former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, exposed President Clinton’s recent oral sex scandal by means of surveillance. Wright is suggesting that this could happen to anyone. Computer surveillance isn’t all that uncommon these days so people should look out for what they write and where they go on the Internet because someday it might be used against them.
Disintegration of privacy complicates life. Wright lists some of the precautions people have to think about in ordering a hotel r ...
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