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- 1241: Regulating Big Companies
- ... early 1997, and believed that Washington would approve the purchase after Moscow signed a total ban on nuclear tests. The computers can improve Russia's ability to simulate nuclear weapons testing. The sale of any computer to a Russian nuclear weapons facility requires federal approval, which IBM never received. After the 18 month investigation, there was no evidence that IBM's American executives were aware of the illegal selling of the ... during the investigation. In January 1997, a Russian official boasted that he had acquired some advanced American computers from IBM, and this prompted federal investigators to begin an inquiry into why none of the Russian computer sales had been licensed. Without that statement by the Russian official, the United States may never have found out about the unlawfully shipped computers. The Moscow-based subsidiary was found guilty on all 17 counts ... export control laws. The Russian company will separately pay a civil fine of $171,000 levied by the Commerce Department. The Russian company also agreed to accept the Commerce Department restrictions on some of its computer sales in Russia for the next two years. "This case illustrates the difficulties of adhering to U.S. legal standards in markets like Russia, where the full rule of law has yet to be ...
- 1242: Censorship and the Internet
- ... is Hot-Wired magazine. This publication has been one of the most informative, if not the most informative, magazine published online and off. Hot-Wired, has received numerous industry awards such as Best Online Publication, Computer Press Award and Top Web Sites of '96, Time Magazine. It is also now attars more monthly readers than the Wall Street Journal Interactive, and ABCNews.com. Hot-Wired, now famous for rallying one of ... real time chatting to occur among thousands of people, Gopher, which works similarly to the WWW but for a more academic purpose, and File Transfer Protocol (FTP), which allows the transfer of files from one computer to another. Another service that is not Internet but is carried along with it in many instances is Usenet or News. In Usenet there are many newsgroups which center their conversations on many varied topics ... same token you can also do the same with most other topics. There are many answers to the problem of Internet censorship; the only problem is that the answers require most people to become more computer literate. As one author stated "While this theme might push some buttons for the many parents who recognize that their children are more computer literate than themselves and who fear their own ignorance."(Steele) ...
- 1243: The American Constitution
- ... to 23 citizens in most states, decides if the evidence against the defendant justifies bringing the case to trial. The purpose of the grand jury is to protect the defendant from being accused of a crime with insufficient evidence. Many cases are settled by plea bargaining. In this procedure, the accused agrees to plead guilty in exchange for being charged with a less serious crime or being promised a shorter prison sentence. About 90 per cent of all defendants plead guilty, most of them through plea bargaining. The trial. When a criminal case goes to trial, the defendant chooses to ... the individual is found guilty, the judge pronounces sentence. If the defendant is found not guilty, he or she is released. In most cases, the judge determines the sentence for a defendant convicted of a crime. The judge imposes punishment that he or she feels will best serve both the offender and society. Laws may provide a maximum and a minimum sentence according to the crime involved. In some cases, ...
- 1244: Rockefeller Drug Laws
- ... else left to do. Unfortunately the laws have had little positive effect. The Rockefeller Laws should be repealed. The Rockefeller laws are indiscriminate. The same punishment, usually 15-30 years is applied even if the crime was nonviolent. This means that armed drug thugs are getting the same time as the small town nonviolent pusher. Drug dealing is a crime but nonviolence should have an effect on the sentence. All that is being done is that the prisons are being filled and non violent criminals are learning how to become better at crime and get deeper into it instead of becoming rehabilitated. Also they don’t discriminate between the dealer and the mule or sibling or wife of the dealer. They can all be sentenced to the ...
- 1245: Math Is The Language Of The Un
- ... 2 would be more of a hinderence then a help. Computers are simply, complex (no pun intended) calculators with the ability to preform massive amounts of calculations at once. Though the basic underlying method of computer “comprehension” is bianry code, the computer transforms the “on” “off” sequence into algorithms. Bianary code is a series of “0” and “1”, “0” meaning off and “1” meaning on, which when arrranged in a certian specified order gives the computer instructions for what to do. In the nintee’s, computers have gone a step above that simple and restrictive way of programming to algorithms. An algorithm is “a series of computational steps” [7]or, ...
- 1246: Microsoft
- Microsoft Microsoft was founded in 1975 by two smart and unique individuals, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. These two life-long friends had a single vision - Microsoft computer software in every home in America. (Microsoft Homepage, Personal Computer, April 12th, 1999) This dream has long since become a reality for Microsoft whose marketing strategy and organizational goals have earned it a place in history as a computer software pioneer. Always three steps ahead of the competition, Microsoft constantly strives to do all that must be done to remain at the top, which is exactly where they are. Ever since Microsoft was ...
- 1247: Technology To Improve Education
- ... expanded the way in which information can be delivered to the students of today. Today's networking technologies provide a valuable opportunity to practice new learning techniques. Educators are discovering that computers are facilitating learning. Computer based communications, or Telecommunications, can offer many educational opportunities; therefore, educators will need to adapt current teaching methods to incorporate this new media into the classroom. Computers have made a fundamental impact in most industries, providing a competitive advantage that has come to be essential to many businesses. Therefore, schools must also use technology to improve the educational process. School systems often consider purchasing a computer network, and justify its purchase by applying it to routine administrative tasks, such as attendance records and grading. While these tasks are very important, they only show a small part of what technology can do ... video links between teachers and students in remote areas. Video conferencing allows groups to communicate with each other. Desktop video conferencing promises to bring students together from geographic and cultural distances, face to face via computer. Not only will the teacher talk to the students, but the students will be able to interact with each other. This will make students more interested and fascinated with learning. Not only does the ...
- 1248: Microsoft Vs. U.S. Government
- ... Windows Operating System (OS) by integrating the web browser Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE4) into it. The integrating of Internet Explorer with the Windows OS is the logical step in enhancing everyone’s ease of computer use, and it is not an anti-competitive practice on the part of Microsoft. This type of integration is vital to the advancement of technology. It makes products better. We may not realize it but ... system for more than 17 years. By putting the web browser into the Windows OS it allows the user to do much more. It will be easier to transfer data from the web into the computer when they can work as one. Computer has become a very important part nowadays. Why? The Internet, because it gives us a lot of information at our fingertips. That is exactly what an integrated browser would do for the Windows OS. ...
- 1249: Luciano
- ... New York gangster in the twentieth century matched the capabilities of the sinister, crafty, powerful, and secretive Charles “Lucky” Luciano. Who with the help of his closest friends and allies, even enemies, established the National Crime Syndicate in the early 1930s, which still remains today (Nash 251). Lucky Luciano, the “true” American gangster, rewrote the rules of the Italian Mafia, under control of old-line Sicilian rule, and created an organization ... Capi”(the Boss of All Bosses), the highest ranking in the Mafia (Dewey). During his reign, Charles Luciano decided that in order to make the most money possible, he needed to combine all of the crime “families” in the United States. He established this organization, la Cosa Nostra, and appointed a board of directors, including the legendary Al “Scar-face” Capone, with himself as the Chief Executive Officer. Luciano’s presence ... death of Masseria and the win of the war for Maranzano, for making Luciano his number-two man (Nash, 252). Maranzano agreed but, as Luciano thought, marked Luciano for death after he eliminated his own crime boss. Luciano’s hit men sent out for Joe “The Boss” while Luciano took a bathroom break during lunch between the two, for an unwritten rule states that a Sicilian cannot kill another Sicilian ...
- 1250: Communication Technology
- ... communication system involves the use of computers in processing information. These systems are a part of any technical communication process. Data communication systems have evolved from the abacus(3000 B.C.) To the high-tech computer chips of today. The only thing similar about the two things is what they are used for; processing information. Calculators and computers have three basic functions: input, process, and output. The input is the information that is entered into the computer. The process is the computer processing the information. It calculates the data and gives an answer. The answer is the output. 2. A technical design system is any drafting, mechanical drawing or engineering design. They are used in buildings, ...
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