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- 691: The First Generation of Computers
- ... used vacuum tubes, drum memories, and programming in machine code. Computers at that time where mammoth machines that did not have the power our present day desktop microcomputers. In 1950, the first real-time, interactive computer was completed by a design team at MIT. The "Whirlwind Computer," as it was called, was a revamped U.S. Navy project for developing an aircraft simulator. The Whirlwind used a cathode ray tube and a light gun to provide interactively. The Whirlwind was linked to ... to be the prototype for a network of computers and radar sites (SAGE) acting as an important element of U.S. air defense for a quarter-century after 1958. In 1951, the first commercially-available computer was delivered to the Bureau of the Census by the Eckert Mauchly Computer Corporation. The UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was the first computer which was not a one-of-a- kind laboratory instrument. The ...
- 692: Serial Killers, the Minds, the Methods, the Madness
- ... of victims to be classified as a serial killer. The word string implies something beyond sheer number. A serial killer must commit a number of random killings with an emotional “cooling-off” period between each crime. This “cooling-off” is what distinguishes the serial killer from the mass murderer, someone who erupts in an explosion killing a whole group of people at once. “The official FBI definition of serial homicide is ... year-old daughter. Among the most gruesome of killers are the necrophiliacs, cannibals and vampires. Necrophilia is the practice of having sex with the dead. It is not surprising then that this monstrous of a crime is committed by some of the most monstrous - serial killers. The most famous of these necrophiliacs was Ed Gein. Gein was completely uninterested in living women. Jeffery Dahmer was not only interested in sex with ... Whatever the reason, the crimes of the unknown still serve to haunt officials today. Many times we see the victims of serial killings. Either through the television media or pictures, the victim is seen. This crime however goes beyond the one individual life. There are many unseen victims. These crimes not only affect the individual but go beyond into the society. “Sometimes, in the daily lives of many citizens, the ...
- 693: The Death Penalty
- ... abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a major crime. It isn’t meant to inflict pain or torture, but rather another form of punishment. It removes the punished criminals from society forever, instead of letting them sit in prison. The death penalty has been ... four different types of execution. These punishments are lethal injection, gas chamber, hanging, and electrocution. These types of execution aren’t meant for torture, but to see that the convicted receives punishment fit for the crime. For the past decades, capital punishment has been one of the most widely contested political issues in writing. Most of us assume that we execute murderers because of the fact that it might discourage future ... assumption. An assumption it is not. If we are to dismiss capital punishment, we might as well eliminate all prisons as well because they don’t seem to be anymore effective in the deterrence of crime. In 1985 a study was published by economist Stephen K. Layson at the University of North Carolina that showed that every execution of a murderer deters, on average, 18 murders. The study also showed ...
- 694: Illinois vs. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb
- Illinois vs. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb The crime that was to capture the attention of the nation in 1924 all began as a fantasy in the mind of eighteen year old Richard Loeb. Although Loeb was the handsome and privileged son of a retired Sears and Roebuck Vice President, he was obsessed with crime. Loeb, despite his high intelligence and reputation for being the youngest graduate ever of the University of Michigan, read mostly detective stories. In the “twisted” mind of Richard Loeb, crime became sort of a game. He read about crimes, planned crimes, and committed crimes, although none until 1924 involved the physical harm of another person. Loeb simply wanted to commit the perfect crime just ...
- 695: Internet And Internet Security
- ... small amount of the population does not. Legislative regulation of the Internet would not be a good thing for our government. “The Communications Decency Act” is an amendment that stops the Internet from becoming a computer "red light district." On June 14, 1995, by a vote of 84-16, the United States Senate passed this amendment. It’s now being taken through the House of Representatives. The Internet is owned AND ... normally associated with the Internet, are members of a rebellious society that are corrupting these networks with information that contains pornography, racism, and other forms of explicit information. When they start looking around for a crime, new ‘cybercops’ are coming into a pretty mean environment. Cyberspace, especially the Internet, has a ton of people who look for a culture that hates authority and scared that any trespass of police or government ... a police department. Right now, anyone can put anything he or she wants on the Internet with no penalties. The Communications Decency Act gives law enforcement new tools: to prosecute those who would use a computer to make the equivalent of obscene telephone calls, to prosecute 'stalkers' who terrorize their victims,to clamp down on electronic distributors of obscene materials, and to better the chances of prosecution of people that ...
- 696: DNA: The Thread of Life
- ... Scientists have known since 1952 that DNA is the basic substance of heredity. This was hypothesized, and later confirmed by James D. Watson and Francis Crick. They also know that it acts like a biological computer program over 3 billion bits long that "spells" out instructions for making the basic building blocks of life. DNA carries the bodies genetic code, controls the development of an embryo, is capable of duplicating itself ... change in a protein synthesis. DNA is damaged by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light. The DNA does have the ability to repair it self, however. DNA can also be used to match suspects in a crime. Each person's DNA is different from everyone else, except in the case of identical twins in which it is identical. By comparing substances left at a crime scene (blood or semen samples) law enforcement agencies are able to match the DNA at the crime scene with a certain suspect. A recent example of this is the O.J. Simpson case, in ...
- 697: Susan Smith
- Susan Smith In the blink of an eye, North America was informed of Susan Smith's tragic loss of her two young boys. No one would have guessed that such a violent crime could have occurred in a small town . Throughout the ordeal , police began to see the flaws in Susan Smith's story. This lead to suspicions, causing the police to make Susan Smith their prime suspect. Days later, Susan Smith confessed to the hideous crime she committed, leaving the nation in disgust. The actions of Susan Smith, which were based on her background and the events in question have left a profound social and legal impact on society's views ... children, Michael and Alex. She was described as "well-known and well-liked" by her friends, neighbours and relatives. None of her friends or neighbours could have expected Susan Smith to commit such a horrible crime. The event took place in a small town in Union, South Carolina. On October 25th Susan Smith explained that she was "heading east on Highway 49 when she stopped at a red light at ...
- 698: 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 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 this ... regulate what types of Internet access its students had, with results reminiscent of a 1960's protest. A research associate, Martin Rimm, at Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study of pornography on the school's computer networks. He 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). Pictures of similar content had recently ... tries to impose censorship (Elmer-Dewitt 102). Currently, there is software being released that promises to block children's access to known X-rated Internet newsgroups and sites. However, since most adults rely on their computer literate children to setup these programs, the children will be able to find ways around them. This mimics real life, where these children would surely be able to get their hands on an adult ...
- 699: Neuromancer By William Gibson
- ... science fiction had appeared which rendered merely ordinary SF obsolete. Informed by the amoral urban rage of the punk subculture and depicting the developing human-machine interface created by the widespread use of computers and computer networks, set in the near future in decayed city landscapes like those portrayed in the film Blade Runner it claimed to be the voice of a new generation. (Interestingly, Gibson himself has said he had ... out. His terminology continues to pop up here and there. Whereas an earlier generation borrowed names from its favorite author, J. R. R. Tolkien, like "Shadowfax" (a new-age music group), "Gandalf" (a brand of computer data switch), and "Moria"; (an early fantasy computer game), today there is a proliferation of references to Neuromancer: " Meat Puppets" is a rock group, there was a computer virus called " Screaming Fist," the Internet is commonly referred to as "Cyberspace" or--occasionally--" ...
- 700: Abortion: Life or Death Ä Who Chooses?
- ... much less save it." As an opponent to abortion, I will readily agree, as will all those who are against abortion, that pregnancy resulting from rape or incest is a tragedy. Rape is a detestable crime, but no sane reasoning can place the slightest blame on the unborn child it might produce. Incest is, if that is possible, even worse, but for centuries, traditional Jewish law has clearly stated, that if a father sins against his daughter (incest) that does not justify a second crime - the abortion of the product of that sin. The act of rape or incest is the major emotional physical trauma to the young girl or women. Should we compound the psychic scar already inflicted on the mother by her having the guilt of destroying a living being which was at least half her own? Throughout history, pregnant women who for one crime or another were sentenced to death, were given a stay of execution until after the delivery of the child: it being the contention of courts that one could not punish the innocent child for ...
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