.... Great description of Hackers: Bright young men of disheveled apperance,Often with sunken, glowing eyes.Seen sitting at computer consoles, their arms tense and waitingTo fire their fingers which are already posed to strike at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems to dice.They work until they nearly drop,twenty or thirty hours at a time if possible.They sleep on cots near the computer,but only a few hours-then back to the console, or printouts.Their crumpled clothes, their unwashed, unsheven faces, and uncombed hair, testify that they are oblivious to their bodies and to the word in which th .....

.... conduct electricity flowing through the carbon. The sound waves hit the diaphragm causing the electrical resistance of the carbon to vary. The electret transmitter is composed of a thin disk of metal-coated plastic held above a thicker, hollow metal disk. This plastic disk is electrically charged, and creates an electric field. The sound waves from the caller's voice cause the plastic disk to vibrate, changing the distance between the disks, thus changing the intensity of the electric field. These variations are translated into an electric current which tr .....

.... an identical decimal computer operating on numbers of 50 decimal digits (or words) and having a storage capacity (memory) of 1,000 such digits. The machine was supposed to operate automatically, by steam power, and require only one person there. Babbage's computers were never finished. After Babbage, there was a temporary loss of interest in automatic digital computers. A strong need thus developed for a machine that could rapidly perform many repetitive calculations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Use of Punched .....

.... by prohibiting "indecent" speech or images from being sent through cyberspace."(Quittner) This law seems somewhat harmless at a first glance until you begin to read some of its clauses. One of the biggest groups that combated this issue was the CIEC, or Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition. The CIEC soon began to find problems with this bill as the so maticulously stated on their web site "It is also important to note that the CDA is not about child pornography, obscenity, or using the Internet to stalk children. These are already illegal under curren .....

.... used for computer data storage is the same technology used in the various forms of magnetic tape from audiocassette to videocassette recorders. One of the first computer storage devices was the magnetic tape drive. Magnetic tape is a sequential data storage medium. To read data, a tape drive must wind through the spool of tape to the exact location of the desired information. To write, the tape drive encodes data sequentially on the tape. Because tape drives cannot randomly access or write data like disk drives, and are thus much slower, they have been .....

.... industries have already discovered the advantages of . Some of the larger companies that already utilize speech recognition are Charles Schwab & Co., American Express, United Airlines, NationsBank, United Parcel Service, British Airways, and Sears Roebuck and Co. These companies focus on the fastest growing parts of the speech market, where the caller's voice replaces punching in letters and numbers on the telephone keypad. The other applications of speech technology are for the use of consumers. The users' voice can give computer commands as w .....

.... First Amendment of the United States. In many of the papers it is implied that the United States sets precedent for the rest of the world as far as laws governing the global world of the Internet. Paul F. Burton, an Information Science professor and researcher, gives many statistics showing that presence of pornography on the Internet is not necessarily a bad thing. He gives one example that shows that "47% of the 11,000" most popular searches on the Internet are targeted to pornography. This fact shows that pornography has given the Internet approximately .....

.... and then pick your battles wisely. I recommend that you read Marc Demarest's The Politics of Data Warehousing in conjunction with this paper. In his June 1997 paper, Marc comments on how little extended discussion of politics there is in the data warehousing literature. As of the writing of this paper, to the best of my knowledge, that situation still has not changed. This in unfortunate because ambitious data warehousing projects are rife with political issues. My working definition of a data warehousing "political issue" is a situation where the equall .....