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- 7751: Wire Pirates
- ... error that designers seem to repeat is adoption of the "security through obscurity" strategy. Time and again, attempts to keep a system safe by keeping its vulnerabilities secret have failed. Consider, for example, the running war between AT&T and the phone phreaks. When hostilities began in the 1960s, phreaks could manipulate with relative ease the long-distance network in order to make unpaid telephone calls by playing certain tones into ...
- 7752: Virtual Reality
- ... have to accept it's risks as well. In the government's perspective use of virtual reality it is easy to see how this technology proves useful. Supposing that the United States got into a war, by using virtual reality pilots instead of real pilots the number of casualties would obviously be less. Pilots would fly their aircraft from a remote location via video and audio equipment in the form of ...
- 7753: The Inter(esting)net
- ... States Defense Department's ARPAnet (Advanced Research Project Agency, produced by the Pentagon) Project in 1969 (Krol). Military planners sought to design a computer networking system that could withstand an attack such as a nuclear war. In the 1980's, the National Science Foundation built five Superconductor Computer Centers to give several universities academic access to high powered computers formerly available to only the United State's military (Krol). The National ...
- 7754: The Evaluation of the Microprocessor.
- ... decade. Over the years their has been a constant battle over cutting edge technology. In the 80's Motorola won the battle, but now in the 90's it looks as Intel has won the war. The microprocessor 68000 is the original microprocessor(Encarta 95). It was invented by Motorola in the early 80's. The 68000 also had two very distinct qualities like 24-bit physical addressing and a 16 ...
- 7755: The Computer
- ... make to this such as a Modem, a Joystick, and a Mouse. The personal computer was developed during the year 1945 by the Americans to help them decode enemy secret codes during the Second World War. At this time the computers were huge and only used by governments because they were as big as room. This was because the main thing they used were vacuum valves which made the computer enormous ...
- 7756: Telecommunications
- ... to develop and realise a completely new communication system that would be either fully damage-resistant or at least functional even if an essential part of it was in ruins, in case the Third World War started. The scientists did what they had been asked to. By 1972 there were thirty-seven nodes already installed and ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NET), as the system of the computer nodes was named ...
- 7757: Ethics in Cyberspace
- ... Information." Library Trends 40, no. 2 (Fall 1991): 199- 375. Johnson, Deborah G. "Computers and Ethics." National Forum 71, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 15-17. Journal of Information Ethics (1061-9321). McFarland, 1992- Kapor, M. "Civil Liberties in Cyberspace." Scientific American 265, no. 3 (1991): 158-164. Research Center on Computing and Society, Southern Connecticut State University and Educational Media Resources, Inc. "Starter Kit." phone: (203) 397-4423; fax: (203-397 ...
- 7758: Escapism and Virtual Reality
- ... been that of the computer. The Age of Computing began with Charles Babbage in the late 19th century Babbage , grew in the calculating machines between the wars EarlyIBM , continued during the cryptanalysis efforts of World War II Turing,Bletchley and finally blossomed in the late 1970's with mass market applications in the developed countries (e.g. JapanSord ). Computers have gone through several `generations' of development in the last fifty years ...
- 7759: Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age
- ... thousands of other infringements on individual rights now taken for granted make no sense at all in the Third Wave. For a century, those who lean ideologically in favor of freedom have found themselves at war not only with their ideological opponents, but with a time in history when the value of conformity was at its peak. However desirable as an ideal, individual freedom often seemed impractical. The mass institutions of ...
- 7760: Coping With Computers
- ... a computer involved sending a message over the AP news wire. As it turns out, she expressed her candid opinion on some very sensitive topics at the time, including but not limited to the Vietnam War. Consequently, the AP was not amused with the message and she was fired. At the time, this incident was popular enough to make it into Newsweek magazine. Later on, she moved into television as a ...
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