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- 2891: Interactive Television
- ... the prime time bracket. So that what one person watches in their home might be different than what their friends watch at theirs. Interactive television is not a social form of entertainment and will not interest many Americans. Basic human nature implies that people are social beings who enjoy leaving the home. Interactive television assumes just the opposite. Corporations and advertisers who support interactive television say Americans will do their grocery ...
- 2892: Escapism and Virtual Reality
- ... from differing angles to consider how different rooms are illuminated. It could even be populated with imaginary occupants and the human traffic bottlenecks displayed as `hot spots' within the building. One long-standing area of interest in VR has been the simulation of military conflicts in the most realistic form possible. The flight simulator trainers of the 1970's had basic visual displays and large hydraulic rams to actually move the ...
- 2893: Ecodisc
- ... write their own scripts and produce the movie at the same time. Ecodisc would be very good for showing students (or anyone) interested in managing nature reserves, working for national parks or just as an interest thing. Ecodisc is an invention which would greatly help both the computer and television industries as well as the nature and wildlife organisations across the world. Already there are programmes that enable the user to ...
- 2894: Development of Computers and Technology
- ... as the first computer programmer. Daughter of an English poet (Lord Byron), went to work with Babbage and helped develop instructions for doing calculations on the analytical engine. Lovelace's contributions were very great, her interest gave Babbage encouragement; she was able to see that his approach was workable and also published a series of notes that led others to complete what he prognosticated. Since 1970, the US Congress required that ...
- 2895: Coputers In Modern Society
- ... it daily without need for improvement. In personal computers, the industry has began to create faster machines that can store much more information. For speed, the internal microprocessor has been tweaked to perform at high rates of speed. One such microprocessor is the Intel Pentium chip that is the fastest commercial microprocessor on the market. In addition to internal speed and to allow faster hook- up to the Internet, faster telephone ...
- 2896: Computer Crime Is Increasing
- ... crimes were added to the 1986 Act. These were a computer fraud offence, modelled after federal mail and wire fraud statutes, an offence for the alteration, damage or destruction of information contained in a "federal interest computer", an offence for trafficking in computer passwords under some circumstances. Even the knowing and intentional possession of a sufficient amount of counterfeit or unauthorised "access devices" is illegal. This statute has been interpreted to ...
- 2897: Computer Crime: The Crime of the Future
- ... may say it'll cancel your account, hell, they've even tried to suggest it may steal your password and send it to the author. None of this is true however. Free AOL does not interest me, as I have many ways to accomplish that. You should always keep that in mind when you hear such rumors. It's AOL and their sick pedophiles I'm against, not you, the user ...
- 2898: Computer Crime
- ... when an employee steals small amounts of money from a large number of sources though the electronic changing of data (like slicing thin pieces from a roll of salami). For example, in a bank, the interest paid into accounts may routinely be rounded to the nearest cent. A dishonest computer programer may change the program so that all the fractions of the cents left over go into his account. This type ...
- 2899: Computer Viruses: Past, Present And Future
- ... computers also increases the likelihood of infection. And the data superhighway promises to expand on today's Internet links with high-bandwidth transmission of dense digital video, voice and data traffic at increasingly cost-effective rates. Corporations, universities, government agencies, non-profit organizations and consumers will be exchanging far more data than ever before. That makes virus protection more important, as well. In addition to more opportunities for infection, there'll ...
- 2900: Computer Crime: A Increasing Problem
- ... created for discussing views and opinions in the science fiction world. The networks decentralized structure made the addition of more machines, and the use of different types of machines very simple. As computer technology increased, interest in ArpaNet seemed only to expand. In 1977, a new method of transmission was put into effect, called TCP/IP. The transmission control protocol (TCP) would convert messages into smaller packets of information at their ...
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