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Term Papers on Computers
Computer Crime 2
Number of words: 2800 - Number of pages: 11.... smart houses and cars will thwart burglars and auto thieves. Implanted bodily function monitors and chemical drips (such as "sober-up" drugs and synthesized hormones) will keep most of the sexually and physically violent offenders under control.
But computer criminals--ranging in age from preteen to senior citizen--will have ample opportunities to violate citizens' rights for fun and profit, and stopping them will require much more effort. Currently, we have only primitive knowledge about these lawbreakers: Typically, they are seen only as nuisances or eve .....
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Surfing The Internet
Number of words: 1486 - Number of pages: 6.... was developed for physicist
so they could send and retrieve information more easily. The WWW basically is a
tool for exploring or surfing the Internet. The WWW is an attempt to organize
the Internet so you can find information easier moving threw document to
document.
Why do I need to know this?
Well now that I got threw all the techno-babble, let's get down to it. If you
know how to utilize the Net, in just five minutes you could trade information
and comments with millions of people all over the world, get a fast answer to
any question imaginable on a scie .....
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Computer Crime Is Increasing
Number of words: 1410 - Number of pages: 6.... complex embezzlements that might occur
over long periods of time, or when a computer operator uses a computer to steal
or alter valuable information from an employer.
Variety and Extent
Since the first cases were reported in 1958, computers have been used for most
kinds of crime, including fraud, theft, embezzlement, burglary, sabotage,
espionage, murder, and forgery. One study of 1,500 computer crimes established
that most of them were committed by trusted computer users within businesses i.e.
persons with the requisite skills, knowledge, access, and resources .....
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INTEL Knows Best? A Major Marketing Mistake
Number of words: 1773 - Number of pages: 7.... went public, IBM, a major purchaser of Pentium chips, stopped all
shipments of computers containing the defective Pentium chips. Intel's stock
dropped 5% following this bold move by IBM. IBM's main contention was that it
puts its customers first, and Intel was failing to do this.
Intel's handling of this defective chip situation gives rise to many
questions. During the course of this paper I will address several of them. The
first of which is how did a company with such a stellar reputation for consumer
satisfaction fall into the trap that the c .....
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Nuclear Power Plants
Number of words: 430 - Number of pages: 2.... Because of these facts, I do not think that the U.S. should renew its efforts to develop more nuclear plants.
The United States should put the money which they would have used in order to renew their power plants, and use it to research others ways of receiving power. For example, if the U.S. developed solar power more and made it less costly, as well are more convenient for the average person, then there would be no more problems. In the past century many advances have been made in terms of energy. Power plants became the main source of energy, and toward .....
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History Of The Computer Industry In America
Number of words: 2612 - Number of pages: 10.... all ordinary
arithmetic operations can be performed (Soma, 14). The next innovation in
computers took place in 1694 when Blaise Pascal invented the first "digital
calculating machine". It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by
turning dials. It was designed to help Pascal's father who was a tax collector
(Soma, 32).
In the early 1800's, a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage designed an
automatic calculation machine. It was steam powered and could store up to 1000
50-digit numbers. Built in to his machine were operations that in .....
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Beam Me Up Scotty: Teleportation
Number of words: 418 - Number of pages: 2.... then vaporize your body and relay
the information to your friend's teleporter, which would rebuild you using basic
molecular elements.
Some people don't try to think of a scientific answer to it, they just
know that they can move something from point A to point B.
There are many kinds of teleportation, one kind is transferring a
picture of an image to a piece of film in a special camera called a tele-camera,
the teleporter sticks the lens of the camera to hiser fore head and thinks about
the picture as hard as they can, most of the time it doesn't sh .....
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Battle Of Computer Bytes
Number of words: 1008 - Number of pages: 4.... subdirectories in DOS. Windows 95, unlike the Mac, logically groups data and resources. A Taskbar menu lets you call up and switch between any software application at any time. Thus feature is better than the Mac's because its use is more obvious. It clearly shows what is running and allows you to switch programs with a single click of the mouse. Control panels have been added so you can configure your hardware. There is easy access to frequently used files. You can make very long file names on Windows 95 instead of short and strange names that leave you wonderi .....
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