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- 1111: Government Intervention of the Internet
- ... to offend someone. The newest wave of laws floating through law making bodies around the world threatens to stifle this area of spontaneity. Recently, Congress has been considering passing laws that will make it a crime punishable by jail time to send “vulgar” language over the net, and to export encryption software. No matter how small, any attempt at government intervention in the Internet will stifle the greatest communication Innovation of ... attempted to regulate what types of Internet access its students had, with results reminiscent of a 1960’s protest. A research associate at Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study of pornography on the school’s computer networks. Martin Rimm put together quite a large picture collection (917,410 images) and he also tracked how often each image had been downloaded (a total of 6.4 million). A local court had recently ... its approach to the censorship and encryption issues, allowing the Internet to continue to grow and mature. Works Cited Emler-Dewitt, Philip. “Censoring Cyberspace: Carnegie Mellon’s Attempt to Ban Sex from it’s Campus Computer Network Sends A Chill Along the Info Highway.” Time 21 Nov. 1994; 102-105 Levy, Steven. “The Encryption Wars: is Privacy Good or Bad?” Newsweek 24 April. 1995; 55-57 Miller, Michael. “Cybersex Shock.” ...
- 1112: The Need for Capital Punishment
- ... inside this room reading, thinking and worrying. You aren't in any ordinary room, you're in a cell on death row. A cell reserved for people who were sentenced to death for committing a crime. Death could be by firing squad, lethel injection, the gas chamber or electric chair. Chances are you've been in this room for many years and will be for many more. Your lawyers have began ... house the found a human head in the fridge, 3 heads in the freezer, a human heart in the refridgerator freezer compartment, a blue barrel jammed with body parts and bones, 2 skulls in a computer packaging box, 3 skulls and some bones in a filing cobinet, 2 skulls in a kettle and a penis and some hands in another kettle. These criminals and many others are sitting in a jail ... luxery of cable T.V. They are permitted 15 magazines, 25 books, 4 newspapers, 15 personal letters and a bible. They are allowed to participate in weightlifting, leather work and learning to use an IBM computer. They can also study to get a University degree, all using public tax money. They are allowed to smoke. God help us that a Sadomistic, Necro philliac should have to go through nicotine withdrwel. ...
- 1113: Racism - The Future
- ... that they can’t succeed in anything. I have friends that act this way. There isn’t but one 4 true pure science that blacks have furthered in. Phillip Emeagwali programmed the world’s fastest computer in 1992, due to his exceptional mathematics. Superiority is a big part of racism. Blacks think that they are superior to whites, and whites think they are superior to blacks. That’s one of the ... but the reality is, that it doesn’t matter who you are or what color you are, its unsafe to be who you are. Hate in America is getting worse and worse everyday. Every hate crime that happens has to do with race or being prejudice. No less than one month ago, two teenage boys committed the worst school shooting this country has seen, killing 13 helpless teenagers and 1 courageous ... then drove to a clearing and beat Bryd severely. Then he was chained to the truck and dragged, to his death. The two men who had many white-supremacist tattoos were charged with a capital crime offense (Boven). The Texas born Dennis Rodman paid for the funeral for his stand against racism. The future, when you hear that word you start to think about advancing our technology and furthering science. ...
- 1114: Click Vs. Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Mp3
- ... all copyrighted. This is hypocritical and removes credibility to the Napster supporters’ claim that information should be free. Another point raised by Lars Ulrich is that; theft of intellectual property is viewed as a lesser crime that physical theft (as divulged above). To argue this point, he uses an analogy; professing that downloading free music is like “winning one of those contests where you get turned loose in a store for ... on older stereo systems. BMG plan to remedy these initial problems and continue with this anti-piracy strategy. Sony and Universal, conversely, plan to make legal downloading of their music easier and less expensive for computer users. “Consumers now will be able to purchase digital singles under the Universal label for less than one dollar and albums for about US$10 through several online retailers, including Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and ... the law, copying is not fair use. Whereas this does not automatically make it unethical, it must be respected that it is theft. In an attempt to justify this, many say it is a victimless crime, or that the major record labels are corrupt, unscrupulous, and make too much money anyway. As the prior text demonstrates, however, piracy damages an industry upon which many people rely including: musicians, technicians, producers, ...
- 1115: A Breif History Of Comics
- ... Much as the television censorship of today, comics then were considered a bad influence on children. Parents and educators were concerned about the content. This issue was taken so far, that the Canadian Parliament outlawed crime in comics in 1949! Individual cities also passed ordinances against the crime and violence in these book. They also tried to curb the sales of these books to minors. Although the technological advances in press had allowed these comics to become popular, technology also put an end ... 30s, taking more than two years to create "Snow White". Today, the time required to design an animated movie has been greatly reduced due to technological advances like computers. A drawing is scanned onto a computer then the picture can be manipulated instead of drawing each frame by hand. The old way of producing a cartoon was very difficult and timeconsuming, considering that thirty hand-drawn frames would be one ...
- 1116: Work Force
- ... factor of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of horses in agricultural production was first diminished and then eliminated by the introduction of tractors." Obviously, the effect of the computer revolution and re-engineering of the workplace in manufacturing sector is more than elsewhere. In this article, management consultant Peter Drucker estimates that "employment in manufacturing is going to continue dropping to less than 12 ... but created millions of new jobs. In truth, the new products and services replace much more employment than they provide. As machines takes over more work, Americans fear for their financial futures. So the violent crime is going to increase as the new industrial revolution spreads through the economy. As employment is likely to be phased out, Rifkin makes three recommendations to restructure the work force. In his first recommendation, he ... the government could award grants to nonprofit organizations to help them recruit and train the poor for jobs because greater employment would generate more taxes for government. Moreover, a rise in employment would decrease the crime rate and lower the cost of maintaining law and order. In Rifkin's third recommendation, he suggests to grant a tax credit for every hour a person volunteers to a nonprofit organization that helps ...
- 1117: Plagiarism
- ... credit for those ideas or words. It doesn¡¦t matter whether you copied an entire article or you just copied a sentence, without proper citation to show another writer¡¦s credit, you have committed a crime of stealing. Just like the ordinary law, it is not what or how much you have stole, it is the action and the intention of stealing. There are different kinds of plagiarism, laziness and sloppiness ... recognition and fame. More often than not, these people copy the works of other writers without giving them credit; they use the copied work for their own self-fulfillment. In recent years, the use of computer and World Wide Webs (WWW) has become one of the main tools for writing and word processing. The commonly used copy and paste have just made plagiarize much more easily. But is copying the material ... World Wide Web. It is a computerized systematic global information system using Internet as its transport mechanism. It is called web because everything on the Internet is link to each other. If you have a computer, a modem and phone line, you are opened to a wide range of information, entertainment, and computerized resources. The information in the web is unlimited. On the web, you can be talking to a ...
- 1118: Cryptography
- ... time. Crackers like to break into systems for the pure joy of destroying. Some hackers have decided to help system administrators either make their system more secure or catch a person who has committed a computer crime. This is where I fit in I anonymously help others find security leaks and help them seal them.I look for bugs in software that must be fixed, test different methods of cracking codes or ... and transposition was developed by MIT. In 1976, the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed a cryptographic technique called the Data Encryption Standard (DES). DES was based on LUCIFER and makes use of the computer binary code consisting of 0's and 1's. Each unit is called a bit. DES transforms 64-bit message segments into 64-bit segments of ciphertext, using a 56-bit key. Each user ...
- 1119: Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ... of $2.8 billion. This budget covers funding for all operations, training, and expenses, as well as the salaries of the agents. The training program educates FBI agents in the techniques of scientific investigation and crime detection. Applicants must be between 23 and 40 years of age. To qualify for training as a special agent, an individual must be an U.S. citizen, or a citizen of the Northern Mariana Islands ... or a related work experience. These positions include Electronics Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Attorney, Contract Specialist, and Chemist. The administrative positions also require a four-year college degree. They include Personal Security Specialist, Intelligence Research Specialist, Computer Specialist, Management Analyst, and Language Specialist. The technical positions require individuals to be over 16 years of age and have a high school diploma. Examples of these jobs are Fingerprint Examiner, Evidence Technician, Computer Operator, Telecommunications Equipment Operator, and Accounting Technician. The craft/trade/maintenance positions also require an individual to be over 16 years of age, to have a high school diploma, and have technical training. The ...
- 1120: Watergate Scandal
- ... were Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, they discovered that one of the suspects had an address book with the name and phone number of a White House official who could have been involved in the crime. The reporters suspected that the break-in had been ordered by other White House officials. In a press conference on August in 1972, President Nixon said that nobody on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted Nixon's word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial four months later, the story changed rapidly from a small story to a national scandal. It ... election campaign. McCord testified that people in higher office had paid people "hush money" to the burglar who were involved in Watergate. With the money they were supposed to conceal White House involvement in the crime. After they investigated for awhile, they quickly found out that the break-in was approved by the attorney General, John Mitchell. Even thought John Mitchell was one of the most trusted advisors, Nixon denied ...
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