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- 871: Electronic Money
- ... CARDS Stored value cards are another form of electronic cash. These cards have money in the form of credit stored electronically. Ellen Stark provided information that these cards either use a magnetic strip or a computer chip. My first encounter with such cards was here at WSU. I also found out that these cards are sold by public transit systems in New York City, San Francisco and other cities. The cards ... I have chosen to discuss CyberCash's service that allows Internet shopping. The Internet has become so much more than a place to go for information. It is now possible to actually shop through your computer. How convenient this, no more long lines and crowds of people. That is a definite plus for me. I had a lot of questions prior to my research, but luckily I found many answers and ... CYBERCOIN SERVICE CyberCash created the CyberCoin service which allows a consumer to use an existing bank account to transfer money to an electronic wallet. The wallet is a graphical software program installed on a personal computer. The wallet supports multiple credit cards including Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. A log is part of the wallet which records all activities. CyberCash offers their services totally free to consumers. Obtaining a ...
- 872: Hooked on the Internet
- ... How do you know when you're addicted to the Internet? You tilt your head sideways to smile. You dream in HTML. Your wife says communication is important in a marriage, so you buy another computer and a second phone line so the two of you can chat…. The above list of "symptoms" can be heard in various permutations as often as the "blond" jokes. For many people the very idea ... they started to report symptoms. But though some think Internet Addiction is a joke, for the growing numbers of people it is no laughing matter. "Intended as an informational conduit for researchers, academicians, students and computer professionals, the Internet… now hosts a growing number of lay users, and a growing number of addicts", says Sarah Lehrman, a psychiatrist who, realizing the problem, has started an on-line support group for users ... every nine Internet users", estimates the author of Digital Drug Marilyn Elias (13). According to many experts, it is becoming clear that millions cannot control the habit of spending endless hours in front of the computer screens, and that addiction to Internet can cause as much damage in people's lives as alcohol, drugs, and gambling. Why is this new epidemic so widespread? Computers are rather inexpensive: even one thousand ...
- 873: East Of Eden
- ... was rejected as a child and then she grew up with resentment in her creating evil. The resentment never went away so the evil just built up. This is a step in the direction of crime and guilt. Revenge is pursued when a person is rejected by others. With revenge comes more evil and crime. "I am sure my self that there would be fewer jails"(Steinbeck p.355) Revenge causes people to do bad things which gets them into trouble. When revenge takes over the person becomes obsessed and ... human would not be who he is. Maybe there would be fewer crazy people"(Steinbeck p.355) The people are crazy becasue they have been rejected and obsessed with revenge. This revenge just manifests to crime and more evil. After anger and revenge the person commits crime and goes crazy they then go through guilt. Guilt comes after the person is obsses with revenge. "One, child refused the love he ...
- 874: Virtual Communities
- ... to Rheingold and others, the notion of virtual community is not to be dismissed as a technological, cyberpunk fantasy in which people increasingly live in what Mills (1959) terms "second-hand worlds"; chained to their computer terminals, experiencing life through dehumanizing technology rather than through human contact and intimacy. People in virtual communities use words on screens to exchange pleasantries and argue, engage in intellectual discourse, conduct commerce, exchange knowledge, share ... You can't kiss anybody and nobody can punch you in the nose, but a lot can happen within those boundaries. To the millions who have been drawn into it, the richness and vitality of computer- linked cultures is attractive, even addictive. (p. 3) Example of Virtual environment: IRC One of these rich and vital computer-linked cultures is the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), a multi-user synchronous "chat" line that was designed for social rather than business use. The IRC is comprised of various channels that indicate the subject ...
- 875: Nullsoft's Winamp Review
- ... a high quality website at http://www.winamp.com. The Winamp homepage provides support, information, software downloads, and music downloads for Nullsoft’s music products. Winamp is a high quality music player for your personal computer. The first thing to look for when considering a program to play music on your computer is sound quality. Nullsoft Winamp has the ability to play CD quality sound from MP3, MP2, CD, MOD, WAV and other audio formats. Winamp has a ten band graphic equalizer and built-in pre-amplifier ... this include Jazz, Rock, Reggae, and many more. Winamp users even have the ability to create and save song-specific pre-amplifier and equalizer settings. Another important factor in choosing a music program for your computer is customizable features. Winamp meets this criterion well. The ability to customize your music player makes the program easier to use. The user has the ability to make a “Play list” from the music ...
- 876: A Look at Public Key Encryption
- ... which to encode the messages, like the system used by Captain Video but these algorithms are complex enough that if you tried to crack them it would take you decades with even the most powerful computer today. This complex mathematical code is what makes the text secure to anyone who tries to crack it. Some similarities we can find in these two examples are their use of the key, the unlocking ... or at least outside the government's control, performed any serious work in cryptography. The National Security Agency (NSA) was in charge of all advancement of cryptography, and that changed when a 31-year-old computer wizard named Whitfield Diffie came up with a new system, called "public-key" cryptography. Diffie tended a complicated multi-user computer system at MIT. He became troubled with the problem of how to make the system, which held a person's work and sometimes his or her intimate secrets, truly secure. The traditional, top-down ...
- 877: Battle Chess
- Battle Chess Battle Chess is a very detailed game. You can set it up for many different levels of play, ranging from beginner to advantanced. You can watch the computer play itself or you can have it play against you. One of the good features in it are the option to switch players once you start the game. You can switch with the computer with the click of one mouse button. You can also play this game over the modem, which means you can play with a friend that is across the United States. You can save your games so if you wish to, you can later finish them. you can have the computer generate a move for you of you can have it suggest a move. This can be very handy if you are a beginner to chess. You can play the game in 2d or 3d. ...
- 878: A Clockwork Orange: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
- ... evil side of the main character. Great Britain had this film removed from theaters across the country because the government justly illustrated there was a connection between the movie's graphic violence and an increased crime rate. In Clockwork . . . , there are unquestionably violent and graphic actions. Multiple beatings, a rape, and a murder are performed by the lead characters. These crimes are drug induced. Before going out, the gang goes to ... triggered an onslaught of violent crimes across the country of Great Britain. Numerous copycat crimes were reported which mimicked to exact detail the grotesque murder and rape scenes found in Clockwork. The most notable copycat crime was in Britain where a woman was raped and beaten by a group of thugs who sang "Sing'n in the Rain" as they carried out their ruthless act of violence. When questioned by police ... personal message. Kubrick believes that contemporary society is a very tragic and violent place. This message comes across very clearly in Clockwork Orange. It is through this film that Kubrick explores the nature of violent crime and in doing so brilliantly satirizes the deterioration of society and its values. Although Kubrick's message may be sincere, his methods exploit the intentions of video imagery and demean his viewing audience. Films ...
- 879: Robotics
- ... input to the machine as well, so that it can make appropriate adjustments to changing operating conditions. The most important 20th-century development, for automation and for robots in particular, was the invention of the computer. When the transistor made tiny computers possible, they could be put in individual machine tools. Modern industrial robots arose from this linking of computer with machine. By means of a computer, a correctly designed machine tool can be programmed to perform more than one kind of task. If it is given a complex manipulator arm, its abilities can be enormously increased. The first such robot ...
- 880: Terrorism
- ... that started many wars came from a terrorists match, foremost the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand. 3) Seven important questions that could adequately describe terrorism are: 1. What police groups are involved in preventing international crime? 2. Do governments give in to the demands of terrorists? 3. Do certain countries and their governments endorse terrorist activities? 4. What methods do terrorists use and what do they accomplish? 5. Where are felons ... for hijackers landing in foreign countries to get away. Interpol relays messages through a central intelligence system that filters down into the systems of each countries police stations. By sharing information and man power international crime becomes less appealing to criminals thanks to interpol. Peru has a new anti-terrorist directorate called Dincote. General Maximo Rivera Diaz has established this new “Delta” force to shut down the terrorist activity of the ... want, which would divert greedy terrorists from the States. Clinton began a harsh anti-terrorist bill as a result of the Oklahoma bombing. He wishes to make terrorism a priority among the police and other crime fighting agencies such as the FBI. He wishes to accomplish this by giving these forces the best surveillance equipment and crime fighting tools available. A chemical applied to all bomb making chemicals would make ...
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