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- 381: The Year 2000 Bug
- ... as expected. What is the Y2K bug, you ask? How does it affect my life? The Y2K bug is a possible glitch inside of older computers in which the prefix 19 is inputted into the computer to save time when writing new computer programs that deal with the date and time in any way. With the change from 1900s to 2000s, programmers are afraid that computers will think it is 1900 all over again and will ... such as credit card problems and electrical problems. But the problems are minor compared to others. Assuming the worst is human nature, if the worst happens then we will be a society of chaos. However, computer developers are currently working on re-building their computers to be Y2K compliant, costing big name computer companies millions in fees. Other effects that the bug is having today are that the home PC ...
- 382: Should Gambling Be Legalized?
- ... to every length to analyze what makes a gambler bet, stay longer, and loose as much money as possible. Gamblers who come to casinos with the intention of winning money are habitually disappointed. As casino crime lord, Meyer Lansky's universal gambling truth states; "Gamblers never win, the house never loses"2 Slot Machines and most table games allow players to make bets where the probability of winning is relatively high ... schools, police, and city services. So by forcing voters to make a quick decision, they are actually forcing them to open Pandora's box. There are two general ways in which the gambling industry encourages crime. The fact that gambling leads to crime has even been measured. In 1994 the national crime rate fell two percent, while in the thirty-one places that got new casinos the year before, saw a 7.7 percent increase in crime. ...
- 383: Crime And Punishment
- Crime and Punishment The main character of the novel Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov, is in reality two totally contradicting personalities. One part of him is the the intellectual. He is cold, unfeeling and inhumane. He exibits tremendous self-will. It is this side that enables him to commit the most terrible crime imaginable - taking another human life. The other part of his personality is warm and compassionate. This is the side of him that does charitable acts and fights out against the evil in his society. ...
- 384: Gun Control
- ... almost as long as guns have been around gun control has been a major issue throughout the world. As we look back on the past we find that gun control doesnt really help reduce crime. Another down side of gun control is that if the government takes away the right to own weapons then they will start to think they can take other rights away. With every new anti gun law passed the crime rate in the United States escalates. For example if you look at the state of Texas or any other state where pro gun laws were recently passed, that allow non felon citizens to purchase and carry a handgun, you can see that crime rates have gone down in these states. It appears that if criminals feel threatened, because their victims may have a gun, they are less likely to attack people. This example shows how gun laws ...
- 385: Hate Crimes
- ... hatred between blacks and whites despite emancipation, desegregation, and integration; some would argue that the condition of African Americans in the United States is still one of a subservient nature. Federal law defines a hate crime as whenever a victim is attacked on the basis of his or her race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender; hate offenses are directed against members of a particular group simply because of their membership ... by three young white males. There are over a hundred homicides committed every year, but the manner in which this life was taken and the apparent motive of his perpetrators leaves no doubt that this crime was one rooted in hate. In this brutal murder, the motivation is obvious and clear-cut, the bigotry so blatant that it virtually hits you in the face. James Byrd Jr.s death is America ... walking down the road late at night and dragging him to death is not a common circumstance. Another characteristic of hate crimes is that they are usually perpetrated by multiple offenders; it is a group crime frequently carried out by young perpetrators operating together for the purpose of attacking the members of another group (Levin 16). The murder of James Byrd Jr. satisfies these characteristics, and unmistakably qualifies as a ...
- 386: The Use Of Psychics In Police
- ... is able to sense what is going to happen in the future or about an event that has occurred that they have no mental knowledge about prior to the vision. Stories about supernatural solutions to crime or psychic powers date as far back as biblical times. One instance is the story about Saul and his servant sent to look for some livestock by his father. After three long days of looking ... sheep would turn up, and like the psychic said on the third day the sheep returned home(Wilson 18). During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it was common for people that were victims of a crime to seek the help of a psychic. These psychics known during this age as "cunning men" or " wise women" worked much like many modern day psychics do when trying to solve a case. The cunning man or wise women would often begin with a list of possible suspects that the victim had made or a piece of evidence left at the crime scene, anything that would help them to be linked to thecrime or victim. The cunning man or wise women might also help the client who had no leads orplace to start. As stated in ...
- 387: Crime and the Death Penalty
- Crime and the Death Penalty What is our world coming to? Four rapes, seven-teen robberies, forty-five aggravated assaults, 163 burglaries, 434 larceny-thefts, eighty-eight auto thefts, and four arsons all in one New Jersey day-- a period of twenty-four hours. The word crime is not an unfamiliar word to any of us. We read the shocking headlines in newspapers, hear the broadcast announcements on television, we ourselves may have been victims of a crime. However, is there being anything done to end it. In recent years crime in America has been on a rise. This has not only led to an overcrowding in prisons, but also in an ...
- 388: The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence
- ... s Egg: Cliff's Persistence "The Cuckoo's Egg" is a story of persistence, love for one's work and is just plain funny! The story starts out with Clifford Stoll being "recycled" to a computer analyst/webmaster. Cliff, as he is affectionately called, is a long-haired ex-hippie that works at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He originally was an astronomer, but since his grant wore out, he became a mainframe master. He was glad that instead of throwing him out into the unemployment office, the Lab recycled their people and downstairs he went, to the computer lab. A few days after he becomes the master of the mainframe, his colleague, Wayne Graves, asks him to figure out a 75cent glitch that is in the accounting system. It turns out that a computer guru, "Seventek" seems to be in town. None of his closest friends know that. The Lab becomes suspicious that it might be a hacker. To fill you in who Seventek is, he is a ...
- 389: An Insight Into Virtual Reality
- An Insight Into Virtual Reality Virtual Reality is a creation of a highly interactive computer based multimedia environment in which the user becomes a participant with the computer in a "virtually real" world1 We are living in an era characterized by 3D virtual systems created by computer graphics. In the concept called Virtual Reality (VR), the virtual reality engineer is combining computer, video, image-processing, and sensor technologies so that a human can enter into and react with spaces generated by ...
- 390: Computers In Society
- Computers in Society My report is on the development of the computer for personal use by home consumers and their impact on society. Computers were being developed as early as the 1800s and were more of a machine than a computer. The first digital computer that worked electronically was built by Clifford Berry and Dr. John V. Atanasoff in the late 30s and early 40s. The first computer as we know it was designed by Howard Aiken ...
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