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Truth And Lies About The Computer Virus
Number of Words: 1126 / Number of Pages: 5
... could write viruses in
order to sell their programs. Software companies have and do distort the truth
about viruses. "Antivirus firms tend to count even the most insignificant
variations of viruses for advertising purposes. When the Marijuana virus first
appeared, for example, it contained the word "legalise," but a miscreant later
modified it to read "legalize." Any program which detects the original virus can
detect the version with one letter changed -- but antivirus companies often
count them as "two" viruses. These obscure differentiations quickly add up."
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Airplanes
Number of Words: 1727 / Number of Pages: 7
... also vary.
Airplanes with a single set of wings are referred to as monoplanes, while
those with two sets are called biplanes.
To help fly the airplane, the wings have two types of control surfaces
attached to the rear, or trailing, edges. They are referred to as ailerons
and flaps. Ailerons extend from about the midpoint of each wing outward to
the tip. They move in opposite directions - when one aileron goes up, the
other goes down. Flaps extend outward from the fuselage to the midpoint of
each wing. They always move in the same direction. If one flap is down,
the other one is also down. ...
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Computer Viruses
Number of Words: 1042 / Number of Pages: 4
... RECONDITION.)
- MODIFIED SOFTWARE ASSUME ATTRIBUTES 1 TO 4.
HOW DOES A VIRUS SPREAD:
A computer virus can only be put into your system either by
yourself or someone else. One way in which a virus can be
put into your computer is via a Trojan Horse.
-TROJAN HORSE IS USUALLY CONTAMINATED IN DISKS WHICH ARE
PARTICULARY PIRATED COPIES OF SOFTWARE. IT IS SIMPLY A
DAMAGING PROGRAM DISGUISED AS AN INNOCENT ONE. MANY
VIRUSES MAYBE HIDDEN IN IT, BUT T.H. THEMSELVES DO NOT
HAVE THE ABILITY TO REPLICATE.
Viruses also can be spre ...
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Gates World
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... directly from your own personal Gates Bank account to any account in the world. The Gates Computer will provide your home with digital clarity sound! And with the Gates Radio Network you can listen to any style of music any time! Forget all those annoying radio advertisements, you’ll get interesting and exciting news on up coming Microsoft products and services!
The Gates Home Network can also control any type of electronic product in your home. Imagine your lights automatically turning on when you return home at night because your Gates Computer knows you’re home! The Network also provides top-of-the ...
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Windows NT
Number of Words: 1129 / Number of Pages: 5
... is
designed so that packets always take the best available route at the time they
are travelling. 'Routers' which are boxes of circuit boards and microchips,
which do the essential task of directing and redirecting packets along the
network. Much smaller boxes of circuit boards and microchips called 'modems'
do the task of interpreting between the phone lines and the computer. The
packets are all switched into a destination and reassembled by the destination
computer. Today's Internet contains enough repetitious and interconnected
circuits simply to reroute the data if any portion of the netw ...
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Airships
Number of Words: 1766 / Number of Pages: 7
... internal structure; and the nonrigid blimp, which depends
on the pressure created by a series of air diaphragms inside its gas space to
maintain the shape of its fabric hull. Inventors sought to combine the best
features of these models in a semirigid type, but it met with only limited
success. Today only the nonrigid airship is used.
Rigid Airship
The rigid airship's structure resembled a cage that enclosed a series of
balloons called gas cells. These cells were tailored to fit the cylindrical
space and were secured in place by a netting that transmitted the lifting force
of their gas to the ...
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The Benefits Of Satellites
Number of Words: 1495 / Number of Pages: 6
... in all weather conditions. The GPS was initiated in 1973 by Navstar in the United States and then followed by the Soviet Union with their own GPS. Both GPS systems are free to use by anyone around the world and offers great benefits to the military, commercial companies and civilian residents.
On the military side, the U.S. Air Force uses the GPS to test unmanned prototype aircraft’s like the X-22, which can prevent unnecessary human casualties. The GPS is also used in military submarines, Reconnaissance vehicles, jets and carriers to constantly be able to track their location and instantly know if ...
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How The Internet Got Started
Number of Words: 887 / Number of Pages: 4
... in
the network would be equal in status to all other nodes , each node with its
own authority to originate , pass , and recieve messages. The messages would be
divided into packets, each packet seperatly addressed. Each packet would begin
at some specified source node , and end at some other specified destination node
. Each packet would wind its way through the network on an individual
basis.In fall 1969, the first such node was insalled in UCLA. By December 1969,
there were 4 nodes on the infant network, which was named arpanet, after its
Pentagon sponsor.
The four computers could even be progr ...
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Computer Fraud And Crimes
Number of Words: 993 / Number of Pages: 4
... is found, system administrators can pinpoint the user
who put the virus into the network and investigate whether or not there was any
malice intended.
One computer application that is becoming more widely used and, therefore, more
widely abused, is the use of electronic mail or email. In the present day,
illegal hackers can read email going through a server fairly easily. Email
consists of not only personal transactions, but business and financial
transactions. There are not many encryption procedures out for email yet. As
Gates describes, soon email encryption will become a regular addition to ema ...
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The Internet
Number of Words: 1386 / Number of Pages: 6
... parents can get help about child illnesses, breast-feeding, pregnancy, childcare, or any other parenting problem that may arise (Licklider C1). Another thing that is very helpful is that if something were to go wrong with a computer, chat rooms area available that have many people in them to help fix the computer, as long as it is something within reason (Gay 1).
Internet in the classroom is an excellent thing. is very colorful so it keeps students attention. It is very simple to use, so no special training is needed. Teachers can even hook their computers up to the television so the whole cla ...
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