... it will be "safe" for everyone to enter. The Government passed a law known as the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In the TA there is a part called the Communications Decency Act or CDA. This part of the bill arose because of the recent surge of pornography on the Infobahn. The CDA criminalizes indecent speech on the Internet(Wallace: 1). The CDA describes indecent speech as anything "depicting or describing sexual or excretory acts or organs in patently offensive fashion under contemporary community standards." First take the word "indecent". This word is used because of its vague definition. Not only does this word ban sexually explicit materials, it also bans s ...
... chip (chip) on the market. The downside to this chip is that it did not follow the same format as Intel chips. It needed a different motherboard, a socket-7 motherboard. This hurt AMD’s chances at the beginning, but in early 1998 they unveiled their mighty K6-2 processor. The K6-2 Processor was “bigger, better, and cheaper.” The processor ran on a 100mhz bus, while Intel’s chips still ran on a 66mhz bus, this made AMD’s chip faster. It also was nearly 16% cheaper than any Intel based Pentium!! computer. The gaming community accepted the k6-2 with cautious, but open, arms. With their new SIMD-Enhanced (Single Instruction ...
... account number. Purchases will be made by debiting the account upon comparing the customer’s retina scan with the one in the database of the account owner and making sure the funds are available to cover the entire purchase. If the purchase is approved the account will be debited in real-time. Transactions can be denied for lack of funds, retina scans not matching, the person has missed a court date or is wanted by the government for questioning or committing a crime. If the transaction is denied, the reason is displayed on the cashier’s screen and security is immediately notified if the customer is wanted by the government or if the retina scans do not ma ...
... can be purchased by just supplying a credit card number (Gorman 30). can help with a lot of problems. For parents, can be extremely helpful. At certain websites, such as http://www.stlmoms.com, parents can get help about child illnesses, breast-feeding, pregnancy, childcare, or any other parenting problem that may arise (Licklider C1). Another thing that is very helpful is that if something were to go wrong with a computer, chat rooms area available that have many people in them to help fix the computer, as long as it is something within reason (Gay 1). Internet in the classroom is an excellent thing. is very colorful so it keeps students attention. I ...
... (de Jager 1). The '19' is "hard-coded" into computer hardware and software. Since there are only 2 physical spaces for the year in this date format, after '99', the only logical choice is to reset the number to '00'. The year 2000 problem is unlike any other problem in modern history for several reasons. William Adams points out some of the most important ones. "Time is running out- the Year 2000 is inevitable! The problem will occur simultaneously worldwide, time zones withstanding. It affects all languages and platforms, hardware & software. The demand for solutions will exceed the supply. Survivors will survive big, losers will lose big. There is no 'silver bu ...
... configures the new board automatically. The operating system may recognize some hardware components on older PCs. Mac userw will claim that they always had the convenicnce of a plug and play system, ubt the difference shows in teh flexibility of the two systems. Another set of arguments Mac users use in favor of their sysstems over PCs is in multimedia and networking capabilities. Mac users gloat that the Mac has networking technology built in the system. Even if a user did not use it, the network is included with the system. They cited that for the PC users and Pc users hate the fact that they need to stick a card in their computers to communicate with any othe ...
... vast amounts of information from one network to another. The internet knows no boundaries and is not located in any single country. The potential the internet has of shaping our world in the future is inconceivable. But with all its potential the internet is surrounded by questions of its usage. The intemet was named the global village by McLuhan and Fiore in 1968, but recently the internet has been more properly renamed the global metropolis. Robert Fortner defines the internet as a place where people from all different cultures and backgrounds come together to share ideas and information. "Communication in a metropolis also reflects the ethnic, racial ...
... beneficial must conform to. At last, a realistic model using replication techniques for beneficial purposes is proposed and directions are given in which this technique can be improved further. The paper also demonstrates that the main reason for the conflict between those supporting the idea of a "beneficial virus" and those opposing it, is that the two sides are assuming a different definition of what a computer virus is. 1. What Is a Computer Virus? The general public usually associates the term "computer virus" with a small, nasty program, which aims to destroy the information on their machines. As usual, the general public's understanding of the term is inc ...
... waiting for to sign, but Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resist singing it. And also she is giving the information about the position of Albanians and the NATO's attack. (Johanna Mcgeary, Standoff in Kosovo,Time weekly news magazine, March 29,1999) A person who doesn't know anything about the Kosovo events and read Johanna Mcgeary will hate from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic . Most of the people who read this media item may feel hostility to the Serbs and may try to help Muslims. And also support the NATO's attacked. As a result this article can be very effective article for the Muslims. Nowadays Kosovo events have a big place on the mass media. ...
... area that provides license-free operation in Europe, Japan, and the United States. What makes so special is its ability to create a wireless link between devices equipped with this new technology. opens us up to a new level of data communications. By making it possible to communicate wirelessly to any device equipped with a chip. Mobile phones can communicate with lap top computers, digital daily planners can be linked to personal computers and have e-mail down loaded to them the moment it is sent a multitude of possibilities are born. works on a 24.5 GHz ISM "free band" which means that there is no restrictions for travelers using enabled equipment. For trans ...
