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Economic Consequences Of Software Crime
Number of Words: 3879 / Number of Pages: 15
... software manufacturer. Many software managers are
concerned with the legal compliance, along with asset management and costs
to their organizations. Many firms involve their legal departments and
human resources in regards to software distribution and licensing.
Information can qualify to be property in two ways; patent law and
copyright laws which are creations of federal statutes, which are subject
to Constitutional authority. In order for the government to prosecute the
unauthorized copying of computerized information as theft, it must first
rely on other theories of information-as-propert ...
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Internet Censorship
Number of Words: 1406 / Number of Pages: 6
... citizens being introduced to new ideas, which may cause discontent and unrest in some cases. 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 ...
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Beam Me Up Scotty: Teleportation
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... don't try to think of a scientific answer to it, they just
know that they can move something from point A to point B.
There are many kinds of teleportation, one kind is transferring a
picture of an image to a piece of film in a special camera called a tele-camera,
the teleporter sticks the lens of the camera to hiser fore head and thinks about
the picture as hard as they can, most of the time it doesn't show up on the film
but a couple of times the picture usually a picture of a building or historical
marker barely shows up.
Another kind of teleportation is Water Witching, which is the act o ...
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Computer Simulations
Number of Words: 2260 / Number of Pages: 9
... events in educational institutions. Designed and built using modern computer technology, modern software engineering techniques, and validated algorithms and databases, it will allow units world-wide to train using their organizational equipment. A key feature of the system will be its use of technology to minimize the total Army's overhead associated with supporting training. The system will be designed to meet emerging Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) standards and protocols to facilitate linkages with DIS compliant simulators and live training events. b. The WARSIM 2000 simulation syste ...
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Coping With Computers
Number of Words: 491 / Number of Pages: 2
... all the
through today with the Internet and e-mail.
One of her first experiences with a computer involved sending a message
over the AP news wire. As it turns out, she expressed her candid opinion on
some very sensitive topics at the time, including but not limited to the Vietnam
War. Consequently, the AP was not amused with the message and she was fired.
At the time, this incident was popular enough to make it into Newsweek magazine.
Later on, she moved into television as a reporter, but now owns her own
production company, Lucky Duck Productions. Here, she realized that computers
act as the dri ...
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Limitations On Robotic Technology
Number of Words: 2027 / Number of Pages: 8
... and robots are in the main stream of this tidal wave.
In the movie, Terminator, robots take over the world in their future. Are movies like these foretelling the future of mankind? Some Swiss scientists say that the end may be close (Kelly 1). An autonomous robot that learns from its environment sparked all of this "Armageddon" talk (Kelly 1). The robot learned not to bump into a barrier without any programming of that sort. This may not seem like a big deal, but this is a major breakthrough in this area. Scientist believe that in ten years the technology will be more advanced and the robots wil ...
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Technology To Improve Education
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... than simply keeping attendance; it must focus on keeping students interested and productive.
Since 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 t ...
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Software And High School
Number of Words: 609 / Number of Pages: 3
... software. These help develop
youth's mental pathway in the way of logic, reflexes and the ability to make
quick and concrete decisions [Lipcomb, 66]. The next step requires them to think
more seriously about the machines. Secondary students learn the first steps in
computer programming by creating simple programs. Here, the assistance of useful
software is necessary. The computer software has many applications in the real
world and is found virtually everywhere.
The new generation of very fast computers introduces us to a new type
of software. Multimedia is a of computer program that ...
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Piracy
Number of Words: 588 / Number of Pages: 3
... source of test data for
the software companies. This is an effective way to catch any unfounded bugs in
the software program. From debugging to hacking, hackers can benefit the most.
They can study and learn from the advancements with in the programming.
So what does all this activity tell us? This tells us the people are
willing to go to great lengths to get software at a lower cost, or possibly in
exchange for other software and that they are succeeding in their efforts.
Although more than 50% of their software income is from other companies which do
not pirate, this poses a problem fo ...
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Artificial Intelligence
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... to such programs is the ability of the system to generate grammatically correct sentences and to establish linkages between words, ideas, and associations with other ideas. Research has shown that whereas the logic of language structure—its syntax—submits to programming, the problem of meaning, or semantics, lies far deeper, in the direction of true AI.
In medicine, programs have been developed that analyze the disease symptoms, medical history, and laboratory test results of a patient, and then suggest a diagnosis to the physician. The diagnostic program is an example of so-called expert systems ...
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