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- 4661: William Gibson and The Internet
- ... to be immortal and travel through space and time. They are also libertarians who want to privets the oceans and air. One member Jay Prime Positive wants to upload his consciousness to a computer "I'd probably want to spend most of my time in data space......i imagine having multiple bodies and multiple copies of myself. I have problems with gender identification, so I'd definitely have a female body in there somewhere". The group have many idea's of the future. You perhaps never considered the idea of setting loose molecule-sized robots in your body to clean out ... too much real estate to lose . The new battle field is people's mind's. B) The megacorp's are the new governments. C) The U.S is a big bully with lackluster economic power. D) The world is splintering into a trillion subcultures and designer cults with their own languages, codes, and lifestyles. E) Computer-generated info-domains are the next frontiers. F) there is better living through chemistry. ...
- 4662: OpenVMS: Using a Virtual Operating System by the International Securities Exchange
- ... multiprocessing because of its clustering features. OpenVMS is very reliable because it is a product that can easily be upgraded. "We've handled up to $2.9 trillion in U.S. Government securities transactions per day, our core transaction applications depend on Compaq's Digital platforms, and they've never let us down," said Rob Palatnick, Managing Director of Information Technology, Government Securities Clearing Corporation, New York, New York. "We began ... we can see, the Securities and Exchange Commission shouldn't reject the bid for the operating system. We can now understand why the International Securities Exchange wants to implement the OpenVMS operating system into their day-to-day activities.
- 4663: Technology
- Technology Just imagine a society where each of the blue-collared working class members has the privilege to lie around their homes, watching Jerry Springer and indulging in the fine delicacy of junk food all day. A worldly population that is trapped within the massive corporate world is unavoidable. Cities run by powerful, bloodthirsty executive committees, seeking to increase their profit margin by providing a surplus amount goods for the people ... salvaged from the ruins testify to the ferocious power of the heat and blast from the atomic bomb. Of the approximately 12,000 Catholic believers living in the Urakami district, some 8,500 were kille d. Nuclear Technology has also been introduced in Space exploration. The United States Department of Energy has developed a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that "produces reliable and maintenance-free power supplies capable of producing several kilowatts of ...
- 4664: Ethernet
- ... buy a PCI Ethernet card. If you have a 486 or slower you want to buy an ISA Ethernet card. At the bookstore, they sell a Kingston ISA Ethernet card for $19.95 and a D-Link PCI Ethernet card for $26.95. Now comes the frustrating yet simple task of putting the card in the computer. Make sure you unplug the power supply cord from the back of the computer ... cover. Plug in the power cord and turn on the computer! If you thought that was easy, go grab something to drink and relax, the rst is a piece of cake. All cards now a day are Plug and Play ready. What that means is Windows 95 or 98 will automatically detect the cards. Long ago, before Plug and Play, you had to tell the computer to look for the card ...
- 4665: Computer Pornography
- ... putting offensive material on their BBS [Bulletin Board System]. Their BBS was accessible by people all over the world as long as whoever wanted the information called the California number they had setup. Someone one day out of Memphis, Tennessee called the number and found something disturbing to themselves. The two sysops were convicted because of the community standards in Tennessee not the ones in California(Wallace: 3). There is no ... needed to be given to an ISP [Internet Service Provider] to get connected to the Net(Wallace: 4). Passwords may be added security. Parents let their children "veg out" in front of the TV all day so of course you would figure that those same parents are going to let them surf the net when they want to(Bruce: 3). Donna Rice Hughes, formerly with Sen. Gary Hart but now a ... in a circle in a room full of strangers. The first of the two interviews I did was with GMoney. I first asked how often he traded pictures. He said usually once or twice a day. He told me he tried to do it fast so his mother wouldn't catch him. So I immediately asked how old he was. He replied, "13/M I guess I shouldn't be ...
- 4666: Computer Crime
- ... computer crime o f theft of computer services when he accesses or causes to be accessed or otherwise uses or causes to be used a computer system with the intent to obtain unauthorized computer services. (d) Interruption of computer services. A person is guilty of the computer crime of interruption of computer services when he, without authorization, intentionally or recklessly disrupts or degrades or causes the disruption or degradation of computer ... people lost their telephone service completely. During the nine hours of effort that it took to restore service, some seventy million telephone calls went uncompleted. Because of the date of the crash, Martin Luther King Day (the most politically touchy holiday), and the absence of a physical cause of the destruction, AT&T did not find it difficult to rouse suspicion that the network had not crashed by itself- that it ...
- 4667: A Long Way From Univac
- A Long Way From Univac Adv. Eng. 9 Computers Can you imagine a world without computers? You most probably interact with some form of a computer every day of your life. Computers are the most important advancement our society has ever seen. They have an interesting history, many interesting inner components, they are used nearly everywhere, and continue to advance incredibly fast. Because ... Systems. This is one adverse affect that IBM had not thought of. However, all of IBMΉs copyright violation lawsuits against these companies ended in IBMΉs favor. IBM has continued to grow to this day, however, the clone manufacturers make far more personal computers than IBM, while IBM makes more business machines, and the Power PC microprocessor, used in Macintosh computers. IBM clone are now made by Packard Bell, Sony ... but one more ace up their sleeve, and they released it in January of 1984. They called it the Macintosh, and it was very popular. Apple still uses the Macintosh series of computers to this day. In 1995, Apple finally allowed other companies to use their OS, and manufacture clones. Some clone manufacturers include: Power Computing, Umax, Radius, and Motorola. Unlike IBM, Apple still sells more computers than itΉs ...
- 4668: Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
- ... applications, the object-oriented approach seems quite appropriate in spite of the problems that still have to be solved. Works Cited Brown, A.W. Object-Oriented Databases: Applications in Software Engineering. McGraw-Hill, 1991. Burleson, D.K. Practical Application of Object-Oriented Techniques to Relational Databases. Wiley/QED, 1994. Chorafas, D.N. and H. Steinmann. Object-Oriented Databases. Prentice-Hall, 1993. Delobel, C., C. Lecluse, and P. Richard. Databases: From Relational to Object-Oriented Systems. ITP, 1995. Gray, P.M.D., K.G. Kulkarni, and N.W. Paton. Object-Oriented Databases: A Semantic Data Model Approach. Prentice-Hall, 1992. Hughes, J.G. Object-Oriented Databases. Prentice-Hall, 1991. Kemper, A. and G. Moerkotte. Object-Oriented ...
- 4669: The Y2K Problem
- ... Problems Several machines have already started to exhibit millennium bug. The Unisys 2000, ironically named, uses a signed integer to represent the 8th bit of the year field, meaning that it failed on the first day of 1996. Several credit card systems have problems that cause cards entered with a year of 00 to be designated as invalid. Some insurance companies cannot sell 5 year annuities because their systems will not ... Allows independent startups to show up with "magic bullets" that IT managers that are unprepared will be looking for at any cost towards the end of the millennia. Unfortunately, it also has pitfalls: High R&D cost. Whether absorbed by a independent software house or a client corporation, such programs are expensive to develop on a large scale, but will represent a large portion of the fixes for small Point-of ...
- 4670: Even from it's humble beginnings, the Internet has always been a battlefield between phreaks and administrators
- ... from it's humble beginnings, the Internet has always been a battlefield between phreaks and administrators. I. Introduction II. Background of the Internet A. Origins B. Growth 1. Colleges 2. Private Institutions C. Early Users D. Recent Changes 1. Easy Accessibility a. Online Services b. Public Dial-Ups 2. Resource Explosion III. Design A. No Central Hub B. Easy Additions 1. Little Discipline 2. Hard to Remove IV. Breaking In A ... Mellon University gives advisories and support to systems that have been broken into or are at risk of being broken into ("Internet History"). Another method of preventing break-ins are new security measures. Almost every day, another operating system or communication protocol comes out which covers holes found in previous copies of the software. This is good as a temporary solution, but as soon as the new software comes out, a ...
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