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- 4991: History And Development Of The Internet
- ... computer network connecting millions and millions of users throughout the world. (Leiner, 2). It has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication today. (Marshall, 1). The Internet started as a Defense Department Cold War experiment in the 1950 s. (Academic American, 225). The government needed a way to relay information between tanks and headquarters so the APRA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) sought a way to let signals from the battlefield reach a headquarters computer using satellites and radio signals. At the same time the command posts of the nation were located deep underground in mountains in fear of nuclear war. (Diamond, 3). Paul Baran, working for the U.S. Air Force, developed a network that could reroute itself around damage caused by the impact of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile by using "redundancy of connectivity". This ...
- 4992: The Great Depression
- ... in who they were. “ African Americans pointed with pride to athletes like Joe Louis, who was the world heavyweight boxing champion.” (Cayton, Perry, Winkler, 764 ) Louis also went on to become a hero for the war effort and gave inspirational speeches. Jesse Owens great accomplishments on the track field made him one of the most famous in history. While on the Ohio State University track team in 1935 he set a ... in who they were. “ African Americans pointed with pride to athletes like Joe Louis, who was the world heavyweight boxing champion.” (Cayton, Perry, Winkler, 764 ) Louis also went on to become a hero for the war effort and gave inspirational speeches. Jesse Owens great accomplishments on the track field made him one of the most famous in history. While on the Ohio State University track team in 1935 he set a ...
- 4993: Beginners Guide To Hack
- ... BBS will be zipped. A zipped file is a file that has been compressed. Zipped files end with the extension \\".zip\\". Then you need to get yourself a good prefix scanner.(also known as a War Dialer) This is a program that automatically dials phone numbers beginning with the three numbers (prefix) that you specify. It checks to see if the number dialed has a carrier.(series of beeps that tells ... Features Turquiose Understanding Information Security Violet Controlled Access Protection Light Pink Understanding Covert Channels E. Cool hacking and phreaking magazines Phrack Magazine 2600 Magazine Tap Magazine Phantasy Magazine F. Hacking and phreaking movies Movie: Hackers War Games G. Hacking and phreaking Gopher sites Address: ba.com csrc.ncsl.nist.gov gopher.acm.org gopher.cpsr.org gopher.cs.uwm gopher.eff.org oss.net spy.org wiretap.spies.com H. Hacking ...
- 4994: Hackers Misunderstood
- ... of a computing system. In short, the dividing line comes when hackers damage or corrupt the person’s uses of a computing system. Okay, but if hacking is a crime, should it be considered a civil or criminal offense? True hackers argue that zero-impact (harmless) hacking should be treated as a civil offence. “Crimes with no ill intent and crimes of curiosity should be treated as such. In regular society, when a crime is committed by a first-time offender or by someone not considered a threat ...
- 4995: Hypnotism Is It Magic Or Reality
- ... brain was awake, and nerve impulses could still reach the brain (Bryan 12). Throughout the 1900 s hypnotism has taken great strides and has become better known to the public. Interest especially increased after World War I and World War II when doctors found out that it was useful for treating soldiers with repressed memories of traumatic battle situations. By using hypnosis, the soldiers could recall various tragic situations in their minds, relive them, and ...
- 4996: 1984: Summary and Reactions
- ... Works at Ministry of truth. Ministry of truth is one of four government buildings in destroyed London, the main city of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania. Year is 1984 and three contries are at war, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. Oceania is run by the party whose leader is Big Brother. Winston is sick of his life in the ruined city and decides to keep a diary. This is against the ... new world. Also we are shown how the computer age has taken over peoples minds. The language is easy to understand, it has not really changed much over time. Seems like nothing left after nuclear war, just ruins remaining. We are introduced to Tom Parsons which Winston is contrasted with. The city is very drab. Quotes "Big brother is watching you, the caption beneath it said" "Thoughtcrime was not a thing ...
- 4997: Terrorism in the US
- ... done to prevent it from engulfing the basic carefree lifestyle of the American. Terrorism is not new to the United States, in fact it's been around for quite some time. Ever since the first war in America broke out terrorism has been a constant threat. One of the earliest terrorist acts was committed in 1963 when four young girls were crushed after a bomb demolished a Baptist Church in Birmingham ... infamous Unabomber (Hauser 40). It is now known to the nation that Timothy McVeigh is responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. It is also known that McVeigh was a decorated veteran of the Persian Gulf War. The intended purpose of terrorism is to create alarm. The goal is to attract publicity to the terrorists and their cause. McVeigh's actions were in protest of the Waco Standoff, he believed that the ...
- 4998: The Reformation
- ... Church. Jesuits set up colleges and seminaries and sent missionaries to spread Catholicism to other lands. The Counter-Reformation created many conflicts. In Germany, Catholics and Protestants began to fight, and the Thirty Five Years War erupted. The war left Germany devastated. Results of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation The Reformation and Counter-Reformation devastated Europe. The religious unity that once held Europe together had been broken. In both Catholic and Protestant countries, the ...
- 4999: George Orwell's 1984
- ... Plenty” where economic affairs were handled, they decided who got how much of something almost always being too little of a ration. The last branch is called “The Ministry of Peace” which handled all the war affairs such as where the next bomb they launched would hit and who they needed to destroy next. Big Brother had a slogan that read “WAR IS PEACE”, “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY” and “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”. Winston worked in the Ministry of truth where he's job was to rewrite the news on the newspaper called Times. Another character is O'Brien ...
- 5000: Wyrd
- ... in different times, the same forces are still at work throughout the novel. The c change of setting is incidental, and the characters are a constant equalling force. The children's crusade, the concepts of war and peace, good and evil are all tied together in the plot, past mirroring future. However, another theme that is important is the power of the undecided (* - wyrd, the blank Viking rune, is the rune ... only lead to Horniman's defeat, it was substantial, and the cosmic superbeing could have turned to favour the powers of 'good' (Berengaria, Trace, the wyrd sisters/the three women) or 'evil' (De Ville/Horniman, war, etc). The future is merely a continuation of the past, but events may be replayed. Change only occurred with respect for the future, the past remained stained, but was a valuable lesson. The repetition of ...
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