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- 3571: COMPUTER CRIME Hackers And Security Measures
- ... computer crime? Computer crime is a more serious problem than most people think it is. According to the FBI, the average take in bank robbery is $4000; the average computer heist exceeds $400.000. The American society for industrial security calls computer-related crimes a multibillion dollar annual business . Although a lot of people agree that computer crimes are increasing rapidly, there is a disagreement on what the computer crime involve ... company's computer to embezzle a mere £720. In the United States, disgruntled employees of the Honeywell Corporation sabotaged the Metropolitan life computer network and made it inoperable for more than a month. 1986: The American Medical Association filed a lawsuit charging the GTE Telnet communications Corporation with sabotaging its on-line medical information service. A financial analyst changed the district of Columbia treasure's secret computer code to deny his ...
- 3572: Prescribed Burning
- ... later wildfires. A similar dramatic event on the Boise occurred several years ago at Tiger Creek, where a crowning wildfire stopped dead in its tracks upon reaching an earlier prescribed burn (see "The Boise Quickstep," American Forests, January/February 1993). * Wenatchee National Forest, Washington: Assistant fire-management officer Michelle Ellis reports that previous prescribed burns helped to protect a number of homes from last summer's devastating Tyee Creek incident, a ... Southwest often used fire to send up smoke signals, burn out forests controlled by their enemies, and improve hunting habitat. And they used smoke to imaginatively corral game over thousands of years, as did other American natives. So-called "controlled fire" was used in New Jersey as early as 1928 to reduce fires along railroad rights-of-way, while pioneers of the Allegheny mountains burned huge expanses of their homeland to ...
- 3573: The Y2K Problem
- ... htm Time.com, http://www.time.com I took their article about The History and the Hype from their WebPage, and you may get a hard copy by obtaining Time Magazine JAN 18 Edition. Scientific American, http://scientificamerican.com I took their article about Y2K: So Many Bugs
So Little Time from their WebPage, and you may get a hard copy by obtaining Scientific American Magazine JAN 1999 Edition.
- 3574: Chromosome Probes At The Unive
- ... chromosomes. "What we're trying to decide now is whether to isolate probes for the other chromosomes, or whether we should utilize the eight we have," he says. Dr. Willard is currently negotiating with an American company to develop prenatal diagnostic tests, which, because the current tests are time consuming and technically difficult to do, are restricted to women over 35 and those who have a family history of chromosomal abnormalities ... Diabetes Mellitus, Twelfth Edition, Lea and Febiger. 7. Kilo, C, (1987), Diabetes The facts that let you regain control of your life, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 8. Seefeldt, V, (1986), Physical Activity and Wellbeing, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
- 3575: Bridging Technology And Academ
- ... journals have hesitated in making issues available on-line because of cost considerations and copyright issues, though they commonly make available on-line abstracts and tables of content for current and back issues, such as American Sociological Review and others. Peer-reviewed, wholly electronic journals can be distributed either via E-mail to subscribers, or globally via the Web. Web bibliographic tools include library catalogs and selected reference works. There are ... that presents the Web for research and awareness in a significant, practical manner. Communications Electronic mail is perhaps the most oft used networked technology by faculty and students. Green (1994) estimates that one-third of American faculty are currently using electronic mail, and this figure is likely to be higher today with increased access account availability, university-wide infrastructure development, and GUI-based electronic mail programs such as Pegasus Mail and ...
- 3576: Breast Cancer
- ... a one in thirty chance of getting the cancer, but if that person had family history of the disease, their chances have been measured up to a one in six chance. 69 percent of African American women survive from it, and there are predicted to be nearly two million new cases reported this year in the U.S. The disease is breast cancer. Breast cancer is a group of rapidly reproducing ... of the hydrogen nucleus to produce an electric chart or visual. While the most common form of breast exam is mammography, there are many critics of that procedure. In a cancer study conducted by the American Cancer Society due to be released to the public in June, the organization does a twenty year follow up on an experiment started in the early 70's. Based on a 96% follow up from ...
- 3577: Internet 2
- ... stole one hundred credit card numbers. According to the article, the hacker used a "packet sniffer" program to gather the information from a dozen companies selling products over the internet. A survey conducted by the American Bar Association revealed that forty five percent of the companies surveyed claimed that they suffered from computer crimes. The article states that some companies do not report computer crimes because they do not want to ... R. Cheswick & Steven M. Bellovin,Firewalls and Internet Security Repelling the Wily Hacker, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, New York,1994. Mary J. Cronin, Doing Big Business on the Internet How the Electronic Highway is transforming American companies, VanNostrand Reinhold, New York, 1994. P.C. Magazins, 03/10/97, vol.159 Issue 5, p170 Sarah Schafer; P.C. Magazins, May96, vol. 18 9126 Steven Levy, Newsweek Magazine, 2/6/95, vol. 125 ...
- 3578: Information Warfare
- ... a sufficient plan of attack in both economic and political situations, information has become the most valuable key to a nation. Part II The first amendment of the United States Constitution explicitly states that the American people are entitled to free speech. The people s thoughts and writings should be free from censorship, and they have the right to say and feel what they want. The safety of the people relies ... and have to pay a $50,000 dollar fine. Any company making material available for the public to be seen on the Internet, without requiring a credit card number could be found liable. The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), said that this new statute is restricting adults from being able to access constitutionally protected speech. Another problem is how do we define what is in fact harmful to minors? There has ...
- 3579: Healthcare And Coranare Heart Disease
- ... high cholesterol, increased blood pressure, and can even cause diabetes. As a society is seems that Americans have decided to live the way they want and to hell with what is good for us. The American Heart Association provides enough free information, which if used properly, could drastically reduce the amount of heart disease in this country. They give dietary recommendations and nutrition information on just about every type of food ... org/index.htm Mayo Clinic Health Oasis www.coloradohealthnet.org Colorado Health Net http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute www.ama-assn.org/med-sci/amapsite/index.htm American Medical Accredation Program www.baptisthealthsystem.org Baptist Health System
- 3580: Genetic Engineering 3
- ... NIH/gene01.html. April 12,1999. Greegad, Samuel. "Genetic Testing: Should You Be Afraid? Its No Joke. Workforce v. 76 n. 7 July 1997 pg. 38. Jones,Valerie. "In The Same Boat." The Journal Of American Medical Association. v. 280 n. 17 Nov. 4,1998 pg. 1537. Kighorn, Warren. "Indecision." The Journal Of The American Medical Association. v. 280 n. 17 Nov. 4,1998 pg. 1538. Kinsley, Michael. "Oh My Aching Genes!" Time . v. 150 n 13 Sep. 1997 pg. 102. Lewin, Seymour. "Nucleic Acids." 1994 Microsoft Encarta. CD-ROM ...
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