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- 551: Computer Communications
- Computer Communications Communications. I could barely spell the word, much less comprehend its meaning. Yet when Mrs. Rubin made the announcement about the new club she was starting at the junior high school, it triggered something ... Cleveland Freenet that summer, sending e-mail and posting usenet news messages until my fingers bled, I began to notice the little things. Electronic mail addresses started popping up on business cards. Those otherwise-incomprehensible computer magazines that my dad brought home from work ran monthly stories on communications-program this, and Internet-system that. Cleveland Freenet's Freeport software began appearing on systems all over the world, in places as ... weren't interested in that. They didn't care about political or ethnic boundaries; they only cared about the abstract. As a result, the parallel world they conceived contained a true form of equality. "One computer is no better than any other, and no person is better than any other," wrote Levine and Baroudi, and the only way this right can be taken away from you is if you choose ...
- 552: Censorship On The Internet
- ... their rights to obtain pornographic or indecent material on the net. Under the first amendment the government must not regulate cyberporn. Online sex has been around since the first bulletin boards were available over the computer in the early 1980's. People would pay to down load pornographic pictures and talk dirty to each other. Usenet groups took control of porn after the Internet came about. They did not charge people ... They could also be subjected to cybersex in a chat room full of people that could be three times their age. Worst of all pedophilias could influence children to meet with them outside of the computer. The government and the United States citizens must now figure out how to protect our children from the effects of cyberporn, and yet at the same time protect the adults from loosing their constitutional rights ... pornographic materials, one can pay a one-time fee of $9.95 to an “Adult Check” service (Levy 54). Also the Child Pornography Protection Act has been passed. It is to combat the use of computer technology that enables a pornographer to alter a picture of a child to make it seem as though the child engaged in an explicit sex act (Quittner 74). Rulings about child pornography have existed ...
- 553: Ethics in Cyberspace
- ... an organization should inform users of expectations and responsibilities. Sample AUPs are available on the Internet at gopher sites and can be retrieved by using Veronica to search keywords "acceptable use policies" or "ethics." The Computer Ethics Institute in Washington, D.C. has developed a "Ten Commandments of Computing": 1) Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people. 2) Thou shalt not interfere with other people's computer work. 3) Thou shalt not snoop around in other people's computer files. 4) Thou shalt not use a computer to steal. 5) Thou shalt not use a computer to bear false witness. 6) ...
- 554: Gun Control- A Firing Issue
- ... been exposed to. In 1989, guns killed 11,832 Americans. The National Rifle Association (NRA) members believe that it is their constitutional right to own guns, stating that guns are not the root of the crime problem in the United States. Gun control activists like the members of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) argue that guns are responsible for the majority of violent crimes that take place. They wish ... lobbying for 7 years for the passage of the Brady Bill, which makes a waiting period mandatory for all national firearm sales. Ironically, the passage of this bill in 1993 has done nothing to reduce crime; in fact violence has risen still since the passage of the bill. This bill, which was most definitely oversold by its supporters, has become the prime distinction in most American’s minds with gun control ... is beneficial to a civilian in the event of a robbery or intrusion, because the victim would be able to use the gun for defense. The gun control activists are right- there is too much crime in the United States. Instead of attempting to reduce the amount of firearms in circulation, this energy and money should be diverted into anti-crime applications. Many law-abiding citizens own handguns and other ...
- 555: Internet Laws
- ... t started by just one man it was a collection of many men who worked for the government of the United States. They stumbled across something that was new to everyone…transporting information from one computer to another. This breakthrough in technology lead to the greatest invention known to man. However when the Internet was discovered it wasn't perfect. It was slow and it didn't seem to be that ... as one answers the question of "Are you 18 years of age?" they completely remove themselves from becoming offended. Which is why the government set up the Reform act, which makes the user of the computer, specifying if they are above the age of 18. If such a question isn't answered then the owner of the comment or of the web page has broken an Internet law. However some laws ... to protect children on the Internet against pedophiles and prevent anonymous communication in cyberspace. "U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in New York ruled that a 1996 New York State law that made it a crime to transmit pornographic material to minors over the Internet was a violation of a constitutional revision that bars states from intruding in peoples activities in other states. She added that only congress could legislate ...
- 556: Gun Control - A Firing Issue
- ... been exposed to. In 1989, guns killed 11,832 Americans. The National Rifle Association (NRA) members believe that it is their constitutional right to own guns, stating that guns are not the root of the crime problem in the United States. Gun control activists like the members of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) argue that guns are responsible for the majority of violent crimes that take place. They wish ... lobbying for 7 years for the passage of the Brady Bill, which makes a waiting period mandatory for all national firearm sales. Ironically, the passage of this bill in 1993 has done nothing to reduce crime; in fact violence has risen still since the passage of the bill. This bill, which was most definitely oversold by its supporters, has become the prime distinction in most American’s minds with gun control ... is beneficial to a civilian in the event of a robbery or intrusion, because the victim would be able to use the gun for defense. The gun control activists are right- there is too much crime in the United States. Instead of attempting to reduce the amount of firearms in circulation, this energy and money should be diverted into anti-crime applications. Many law-abiding citizens own handguns and other ...
- 557: Internet Regulation
- ... a segment of the population does not. Legislative regulation of the Internet would be an appropriate function of the government. The Communications Decency Act is an amendment which prevents the information superhighway from becoming a computer "red light district." On June 14, 1995, by a vote of 84-16, the United States Senate passed the amendment. It is now being brought through the House of Representatives.1 The Internet is owned ... great length to make certain that above all else, the profiteering pornographer, the pervert and the pedophile must be free to practice their pursuits in the presence of children on a taxpayer created and subsidized computer network.3 People like this are the ones in the wrong. Taxpayer's dollars are being spent bringing obscene text and graphics into the homes of people all over the world. The government must take ... most popularly associated with the Internet, are members of a rebellious society that are polluting these networks with information containing pornography, racism, and other forms of explicit information. When they start rooting around for a crime, new cybercops are entering a pretty unfriendly environment. Cyberspace, especially the Internet, is full of those who embrace a frontier culture that is hostile to authority and fearful that any intrusions of police or ...
- 558: PRIVACY
- ... more and more people using the Internet, more and more information being passed over the Internet, more problems arise. The Internet has been an advance in technology that has greatly increased the capacities of a computer. These new capacities have been the cause of some serious problems though. One very important trouble is the lack of privacy on the Internet. People pass much important information over the Internet and they expect ... and it has always been a problem, but with more and more information being passed through, people want something to ensure their privacy. The government does not want to allow everyday people the privelage of computer security. Although they have tried to place laws on the uses of some methods of privacy, they have not been as successful as they had hoped. Privacy is important to people, governments and businesses, and ... how personal information about them is circulated and used by companies (Summers, 23). Some of the most powerful companies and corporations are powerful because of their ability to obtain private information at anytime. Microsoft, the computer software company, is powerful because it designs the operating system that millions of people use to organize and transmit data. The Washington Post is powerful because it screens, sorts, and defines "the news" for ...
- 559: Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov's Mathematical Evaluation of Moral Dilemma Presented To Him Exemplifies The Empirical View of Utilitarianism
- Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov's Mathematical Evaluation of Moral Dilemma Presented To Him Exemplifies The Empirical View of Utilitarianism "One death, and a thousand lives in exchange--it's simple arithmetic." -Raskolnikov Raskolnikov's mathematical evaluation of the moral dilemma presented to him in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment exemplifies the empirical view of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism attempts to distinguish between right and wrong by measuring a decision based on its calculated worth. Raskolnikov appears to employ the fundamentals of utilitarianism by pitting ... Unfortunately, Mill does not make allowances for competent judges, so any practitioner of utilitarianism must come up with his own scale to measure pleasure and pain (and in turn morality). As we see in the Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov is not a competent judge. Therefore, he commits an immoral act, while feeling justified because he the utilitarian theory protects him. In conclusion, utilitarianism is the most democratic of moral theories. ...
- 560: Juvenile Crime
- Juvenile Crime A headline reads, "Teen shot-- parents seek death penalty." In this incident a California teen was shot in a disagreement between him and a fellow classmate. The classmate, it seems, was the others constant victim ... DOA, dead on arrival. The victim, now the murderer, was being held for the murder of a fellow classmate. Although he is only 15, nearing 16, he will be tried as an adult for his crime. His plea? Self defense. The outcome of the short trial sentenced the boy, the murderer, to a life inside a prison. He was sent to a specially designed prison that held only the most violent ... of violence because their families or friends were first victims of violence. The distinctions are not always clear cut, after all, who knows what drives a person, especially a teenager, to commit violent crimes. Violent crime comes in many shades and colors, not just murder. There is also rape, assault, and robbery, just to name a few. What are we to do with the violent teens. asked a recent Gallop ...
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