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- 4921: Censorship And The Internet
- ... of Justice and Attorney General Janet Reno to make certain that the First Amendment of the U.S.A. would not be compr omised by the CDA. The sheer range of plaintiffs alone, including the American Booksellers Association, the Freedom to Read Foundation, Apple, Microsoft, America Online, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Commercial Internet eXchange Association , Wired, and HotWired, as well as thousands of netizens (citizens of the Internet) shows ... United States) has the largest share of servers, the Internet is still a worldwide network. This means that domestic regulations cannot oversee the rules of foreign countries. It would be just as easy for an American te en to download (receive) pornographic material from England, as it would be from down the street. One of the major problems is the lack of physical boundaries, making it difficult to determine where violations ...
- 4922: Censorship On The Internet
- ... four years in jail (Rosen 16). The Exon amendment, if passed, will make communication between adults limited and restrict kids from accessing these materials. This is part of the House of Representatives Contract with the American people saying that they need to protect children from the exposure to pornography over the Internet (Rafter A3). The Supreme court is having a lot of conflict with these new laws so until they can ... our democracy that our founding Fathers nether intended: constitutional rights would be diminished. First, the government censors cyberporn that leads to censorship of the entire Internet. If the judicial branch aloud this to happen the American public would have to fear what could be censored next. If the most technologically advanced form of media can be censored, why not books and magazines? Free speech would be no longer. The right to ...
- 4923: Limitations on Robotic Technology
- ... human were to go into an unstable environment looking for mines and accidentally triggered one then the military would have to send the soldier and a letter of regret back to the family with an American flag draped across the coffin. With a robot there will only be parts shipped back to the manufacturer. Another robot can very easily be made and put to use just as quickly as the other ... Description." Pioneer: Robots for Chernobyl Stabilization. Online. Internet. 20 April 1998. Available: http://www.crones.rec.ri.cmu.edulprojects/pioneer/index.html. Snell, Joel. "Orgasmatrom." Harper's December 1997: 29. Uttal, William R. "Teleoperators." Scientific American December 1989: 124-129.
- 4924: Internet Censorship
- ... them for free so the entire online community can see what you have to say. Unfortunately not everyone wants to set up homepages dealing with the spin rates of atoms or the airspeeds of South American swallows. Most ISP's are more than willing to set up homepages dealing with the most gratuitous of acts aimed at very specialized audiences. This is where the problem of net censorship arises. It is ... him most likely to overthrow the government. More damaging to Rimm are two books that he wrote, excerpts of which have begun to circulate on the Internet. One is a salacious privately published novel, An American Playground, based on his experience with casinos. The other, also privately published, is titled "The Pornographer's Handbook: How to Exploit Women, Dupe Men & Make Lots of Money". Rimm says it's a satire; others ...
- 4925: The Internet, Pornography, and Children
- ... online.3 While it is not clear how many these children have access to the Internet at home, it is clear what percentage of them have access at school. Currently, about 81.8% of all American schools have the Internet. It is estimated by the end of the 1998-1999 school year, about 95.9% of all American schools will be hooked up to the Internet.4 There are risks to a child that a parent should consider before allowing the child to access the Internet. Some of the risks include the following ...
- 4926: Machines: Are They Helpful Or Too Much Trouble?
- Machines: Are They Helpful Or Too Much Trouble? The historiography and various phases of the Industrial Revolution were very important. Population increase and the expansion of capital, credit and commerce were one of the phases. The role of entrepreneurs, workers and inventions in boosting production were another phase. Textiles, coal, transport and ... from underground floods. As population grew, people moved into urban areas. This was a very big problem, crimes and diseases increased, sometimes twenty families had to share the same toilets and water pumps. The industrial revolution had many problems, but here are some solutions I would propose. I would have limited work, better wages, and more windows, the people sometimes got lung cancer and suffocated from too much smoke. The children ...
- 4927: Internet Access
- Internet Access It would be helpful to provide a brief historical summary of the Internet before jumping into the different means of accessing "The Net". The Internet was developed primarily by Vinton Cerf, an American computer scientist, in 1973 as a part of a United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project managed by American Engineer, Robert Kahn. In 1984, the project was turned over to the private sector and to government research and scientific agencies for further development. In 1993, the Internet was turned over to the public and ...
- 4928: Development of the Submarine
- ... to launch sites near the U.S. east coast. Although these reports turned out to be false, the Germans had been developing a type of submersible barge to tow V-2s. This scare prompted the American development of ballistic missile submarines. Experiments in submarine design had concentrated mainly on improving the quality of power plants (usually diesel or electric engines), achieving better maneuverability through new hull designs, and developing quieter propulsion ... the power of the bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, the size of these missiles made them available for use only on B-36 or B-52 bombers. The Polaris missile changed this. The American Polaris class missile submarines, first launched in 1960, incorporated the new, smaller missile design. The first of these subs to launch a ballistic missile was fittingly called the George Washington, but it was her sister ...
- 4929: Maglev Consequences
- ... decrease air pollution and lessen US dependence on foreign oil. Also, maglev systems will complement existing transportation systems-by lessening the air traffic, highway traffic leaving the extra routes free for businesses to use. The American government has already put billions of dollars into the maglev projects and prototypes. I believe that we should just go ahead and spend a little bit more and work with the countries like Japan and ... them late at night when the air is still. Another is the cost many people think there is no reason to spend so much money on something that may not even take off in the American public nut there have been unpublished surveys of people asking if they would switch to maglev transportation if I was easier and will cost less than conventional travel methods that we have today.
- 4930: Coping With Computers
- Coping With Computers PROF. GARTNER While the twentieth century has proven to be a technological revolution, there has not been a single development with as much impact on our day to day lives than that of the computer. For many, the development of the modern computer has provided more widespread business ... it over the Internet. Of course, the bill is sent with e-mail as well. As of yet, she still has never seen the system administrator. Despite her negative or unusual experiences with the technological revolution, Ellerbee admits that she does appreciate the technology that she and her office uses. She says that she has come to peace with technology, and I would have to say that her adaptation to this ...
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