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- 331: Computer Crime 2
- ... of crime. What are the major computer crimes being committed, how, and by whom? More importantly, where is computer crime headed in the twenty-first century? Let's look at five crime categories: communications, government, business, stalking, and virtual crimes. COMMUNICATIONS CRIMES Already, cellular theft and phone fraud have become major crimes. Low-tech thieves in airports and bus terminals use binoculars to steal calling-card access numbers as unsuspecting callers ... specific key to decrypt the system. Experienced hackers can easily discover the key and use it to obtain passwords, gaining full access to encrypted systems. Newer, more-secure encryption systems for protecting government and international business transactions require storing the "keys" in "escrow" with a specific government agency--usually the U.S. Treasury Department. Hackers find this security solution unacceptable because it slows the free flow of information and puts almost ... eliminate their tax liability, a highly destructive method would be to plant a computer virus in government computers to destroy large numbers of records. In this way, suspicion would not fall on an individual. TARGETING BUSINESS Today, most banking is done by electronic impulse, surpassing checks and cash by a wide margin. In the near future, nearly all business transactions will be electronic. Thus, access to business computers equals access ...
- 332: Overview of Video On Demand Systems
- Overview of Video On Demand Systems SCOPE INTRODUCTION THE INITIATIVE FOR WORLDWIDE MULTIMEDIA TELECONFERENCING AND VIDEO SERVER STANDARDS NEW BUSINESS IMPERATIVES STARTING WITH STANDARDS TWO STANDARDS, ONE GOAL STANDARDS FIRST SUMMARY CONTENT PREPARATION: REQUIREMENTS: CODECs/Compression Object Oriented Database Management Systems Encoding Verification SUMMARY VIDEO SERVER REQUIREMENTS LIMITATIONS PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTION NETWORK: LAN TYPES PROTOCOLS WAN ... implementation. INTRODUCTION The Initiative for Worldwide Multimedia Teleconferencing and Video Server Standards The market for multipoint multimedia teleconferencing and video server equipment is poised for explosive growth. The technology for this necessary and much- anticipated business tool has been in development for years. By the turn of the century, teleconferences that include any combination of video, audio, data, and graphics will be standard business practice. Compliance with teleconferencing standards will create compatible solutions from competing manufacturers, feeding the market with a variety of products that work together as smoothly as standard telephone products do today. Specifically, with the ...
- 333: The Great Gatsby 9
- ... that he can get her back if he can accomplish what he could not before, which is become wealthy. This drive will justify whatever Gatsby does in life to obtain his wealth. All Gatsby s business dealings are not made clear, but what we do learn about them paints Gatsby as a man with no morals. He, just as he did as a young man, looks for the easy way. He admits to his neighbor and Daisy s cousin Nick Carraway that he Was in the drug store business (95). The drug store business during prohibition meant that the person was a bootlegger. Bootlegging was a highly profitable business, but it was also extremely violent. People were often killed for their rackets (their bootlegging operations). Bootleggers were commonly ...
- 334: Al Capone
- Al Capone’s Rise to Power Johnny Torrio was a notorious bootlegger from Chicago. He needed a man to run his illegal business. He chose Alfonso Capone from Five Points Gang in New York to be his lieutenant. Capone was able to rise to power by handling the emergencies and by handling political connections. In 1920, mobster Johnny Torrio had an inspiration. He discovered that there was big money to be made with an outlawed liquor business. He needed a lieutenant to run his business, and picked a 23-year-old bullheaded roughneck Al Capone from Five Points Gang of New York to run his business, to go to Chicago and bootleg. He promised him half the profit for ...
- 335: Total Quality Management
- Total Quality Management TQM stands for Total Quality Management, which is “a cooperative form of doing business that relies on the talents and capabilities of both labor and management to continually improve quality and productivity using teams”. (Joseph R. Jablonski Implementing TQM) The origin of TQM was derived during the 1980's ... value, quality, and satisfaction; (4) To continue to train ourselves and our associates so that the services we give will be more and more intelligently performed; (5) To improve constantly the human factor in our business; (6) To reward men and women in our organization through participation in what the business produces; (7) To test every policy, method, and act in this way: “Does it square with what is just and right?” The Penny Idea exercises customer satisfaction, fairness, quality, value, associate training, and rewards ...
- 336: Data Warehousing
- ... data warehouse users. Usually, the need is for a far greater level of detail and/or for far more history and/or for a series of reports of both a high deal of technical and business complexity. It can be quite expensive and time consuming to satisfy the needs of these far more demanding users. On the other hand, these users can have a peculiar need that is especially beneficial to the business and/or can be people whose support is vital to the success of the project. What Requirements Should Be Frozen; When Should Requirements Be Frozen (And Unfrozen) Data warehousing development is iterative. This does not ... at their own discretion (though this may strike terror in a data warehousing purist) 3) The desire not have to work with other groups on resolving data definition issues. - Some reasons sometimes do make good business sense. Unfortunately, it can get quite expensive to support a proliferating number of data marts. In How Timely A Manner Are Data Corrected Sometimes users are used to being able to make a correction ...
- 337: Catch 22: What’s Fair Isn’t Fair
- ... nature motivates them to serve their country as a destroyer of evil and preserver of justice (although, through our insanity, we may speak of it as such); rather, the military actually operates as a huge business machine, whose operators’ primary concern lies in that of personal advancement instead of the well-being of their country. Although the title of General, Sergeant, or Major may make one seem distinguished and well-learned ... the reader. Milo (the military) does not keep his loyalties to Yossarian (the soldier), but does all which is possible to honor the contract, which provides him with money. It is purely a matter of business. The purpose of any war is to preserve the nation. The government has no financial interest in the war—the military’s only purpose is to kill the enemy and leave. Why would the military ... difference. The government’s primary concern is to kill the enemy, not to gain material wealth, such as land or gold. Then why does not the government leave wars to private industries? Perhaps because "the business of government is business," (275). There is a financial interest in the war. Our beliefs that the military’s only interest is to preserve democracy is unfound, yet, through our insanity, we do not ...
- 338: Money And Information
- - MONEY AND TROUBLE- An analysis of motive within Europe Wolfgang Stoltzenberg’s business Castor Holdings displayed the illusion of being a very successful company and the large banks of the world continued to lend to Stoltzenberg despite the fact that in reality the business had not made a profit in years. Castor Holdings was a parent company to York-Hannover that was run by Kersten Von Wersebe. Eventually when the banks began to foreclose and call back their loans ... between the different areas of computer crime that I will be discussing. Crime committed with the aid of computers can be separated into four distinct categories. First of all, crime which is committed by corporate business. This type of crime is committed either for the benefit of the corporation itself, i.e. tax evasion, or the corporation is used as a ‘front’ in order to legitimise or launder ‘dirty’ money. ...
- 339: Management From The Corps
- ... three-person fire team; a Sergeant has a squad of three fire teams; and a Staff Sergeant has a platoon of three squads; and so on, up to the Colonels and Generals. For the typical business, decentralizing and flattening organizational structure involves “gutting several layers of management, often leaving managers overwhelmed with as many as a dozen direct subordinates” (Freedman). In contrast, the Marine Corps has been able to push out ... available at this writing, the extraordinary number of ex-Marine managers has been documented. Dillon and Macht, in their article, “The few, the Proud, the CEOs: Former grunts on the Marine Corps way of doing business,” elucidate the transition from dress blues to business suit. Phillip Rooney, vice chairman of ServiceMaster Co. and countless other ex-Marines, there is no better preparation for running a business than the intense training of the U. S. Marine Corps. “Nothing can ...
- 340: Consumerism
- ... produce that is bigger and lasts longer than non-engineered produce. Questions of safety have been raised with respect to this practice, and some consumer groups have voiced concerns. Advanced technology has also made a business of fertility problems, making fertility treatments a possibility, and the selling of human eggs has become a booming business. All this poses new challenges and ethical dilemmas to the consumers of today. Credit has become another key feature of the fourth era of the consumer movement. Direct marketing is widely used to target individuals ... credit are simply false. The use of credit as a way to purchase goods and services has greatly altered the world in which we live, and has changed the way that consumers operate in the business world. 1B. The key media forms of the new era are television, radio, image advertising, direct marketing, and of course, Internet advertising and sales. The key individuals of the new era are David Kessler, ...
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