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- 71: Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
- ... computers control humans. One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humans might become too dependent on computers. In one of the stories, Profession, Asimov writes about people being educated by computer programs designed to educate effortlessly a person. According to the Profession story people would no longer read books to learn and improve their knowledge. People would rely on the computers rather than "try to memorize enough to match someone else who knows" (Nine Tomorrows, Profession 55). People would not chose to study, they would only want to be educated by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them ...
- 72: R.I.C.O
- ... playing the role of Caesar Enrico Bandello (a.k.a. Rico), dies at the hands of the police while uttering his last words: "Is this the end of Rico?" While Rico's career in organized crime had been terminated, the film's implied message is that the mob survived as a never-ending circulation of brotherhood. The methods employed by police to put an end to organized crime are shown to be quite ineffective. The police simply wait out the gang hoping that one of the mobsters will grow tired of the rackets and willingly become an informant on his fellow gangsters. What our cities need, according to the movie's forward, is a more effective way of eliminating organized crime. Some have suggested that the acronym RICO had its origins in the Edward G. Robinson character (Greek 1991). Some forty years later, in 1970, after many hearings and protected debate, the Congress enacted into ...
- 73: Internet Security
- ... is, therefore, who has the obligation to put these security measures into place? Is it the individual users of the computers and the Internet? Is it the responsibility of the companies that develop the different computer applications to place certain security measures in place? Or is it the responsibility of the governments of the world to unite and create rules and regulations that secure the Internet and guard the citizens of ... Internet transcends geographical locations, and is the first example of a true global village. Unfortunately for regular users of the Internet, much like the real world, criminals exist on the Internet as well. "Hackers," the computer wizards who use their knowledge for evil, are rampant on the Internet. Sometimes they do seemingly harmless acts, such as just going into a computer system and observing, but at other times, they steal, destroy or alter data. On some occasions, these cyber-felons perform even more malicious acts, such as infecting systems with "viruses," computer programs that "infect" ...
- 74: Ucr Vs. Ncvs
- Uniform Crime Report vs. National Crime Victimization Survey Arguments over crime statistics have existed ever since governments began counting criminal activity. The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) are two methods in which the government collects data, and monitors criminal ...
- 75: William Gibson and The Internet
- ... is visible from within the experiences and trends of the current moment, from this perpscetive, cyberpunk can be read as a sort of social theory. Chapter 1 Internet history The Internet is a network of computer networks, the most important of which was called ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork), a wide area experimental network connecting hosts and terminal servers together. Rules were set up to supervise the allocation of addresses ... Projects Agency , or ARPA, to build a network that would survive a nuclear attack. Only four government mainframe computers were originally linked up, Unfortunately, ARPANET was also dependent on the involvement of hundreds of US computer scientists. Because the ARPANET was a military project, it was managed in true military style - the project manager appointed by ARPA gave the orders and they were carried out. It was therefore easy to tell ... of all of these inter operating networks is the Internet. Up until 1990 the Internet was only a complicated and uninteresting text format of communication and most of the people using the net were either Computer programmers, students, Hackers, Societies, Governments officials and a few artists interested the digital media. Everything changed in 92 when a British programmer came up with "Mosaic", a text and graphic based window (web browser) ...
- 76: Hollywood and Computer Animation
- Hollywood and Computer Animation Computer Graphics Table of Contents Introduction 3 How It Was 3 How It All Began 4 Times Were Changing 6 Industry's First Attempts 7 The Second Wave 10 How the Magic is Made 11 Modeling ... effects created with computers have been embraced by television networks, advertisers, and movie studios alike. Film editors, who for decades worked by painstakingly cutting and gluing film segments together, are now sitting in front of computer screens. There, they edit entire features while adding sound that is not only stored digitally, but also has been created and manipulated with computers. Viewers are witnessing the results of all this in the ...
- 77: Computer Graphics
- Computer Graphics Table of Contents Introduction 3 How It Was 3 How It All Began 4 Times Were Changing 6 Industry's First Attempts 7 The Second Wave 10 How the Magic is Made 11 Modeling ... effects created with computers have been embraced by television networks, advertisers, and movie studios alike. Film editors, who for decades worked by painstakingly cutting and gluing film segments together, are now sitting in front of computer screens. There, they edit entire features while adding sound that is not only stored digitally, but also has been created and manipulated with computers. Viewers are witnessing the results of all this in the form ... of before. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of all this, however, is that the entire digital effects and animation industry is still in its infancy. The future looks bright. How It Was In the beginning, computer graphics were as cumbersome and as hard to control as dinosaurs must have been in their own time. Like dinosaurs, the hardware systems, or muscles, of early computer graphics were huge and ungainly. The ...
- 78: Hackers
- Hackers By: Richard Love Hackers, Good or Evil?? Since the introduction of personal computers in the 1970's, the art of computer hacking has grown along with changing roles of computers in society. Computers have taken over our lives. People could not function without them; our electricity is run by computers, the government could not function without computers, and there are many others. Hackers are people who illegally gain access to, and sometimes tamper with, information in a computer system. Due to recent media coverage and corporate interest, hackers activities are now looked down on by society as criminal. Despite the growing trend of hacking, very little research has been done on the hacking world and its culture. The image of a computer hacker has grown from a harmless nerd into a vicious techno-criminal. In reality most hackers are not out to destroy the world. The hackers in today's society are not bored teenagers. Imagine ...
- 79: Computer Viruses
- Computer Viruses It is morning. You awaken to the sweet smell of flowers and the sound of birds chirping. You turn on your new I B M compatible computer only to find that every bit and byte of information has been erased. A computer virus has struck. Yes, these small bits of computer code have slowly overtaken the world of computing. A computer virus is a small program that attaches itself to disks and computer systems with instructions ...
- 80: Are "Good" Computer Viruses Still a Bad Idea?
- Are "Good" Computer Viruses Still a Bad Idea? Research Associate Virus Test Center University of Hamburg Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30, 22527 Hamburg, Germany bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de [Editor's note: Vesselin's current email address is bontchev@complex.is] During the past six years, computer viruses have caused unaccountable amount of damage - mostly due to loss of time and resources. For most users, the term "computer virus" is a synonym of the worst nightmares that can happen on their system. Yet some well-known researchers keep insisting that it is possible to use the replication mechanism of the viral programs ...
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