... play around with another person's computer. An example of this type of hacking is the most common for beginner hackers. With a simple program you can open and close another persons CD-Rom drive and restart their computer with a click of a mouse. This type of hacking also involves viruses, which sometimes no matter how many anti-virus programs or how good they ... to find valuable information. A huge example of this, which happened only a few years ago, is when a 19 year old teenager hacked into the pentagon in September 1999. He got through a protected U.S. Army network at the Pentagon ...

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... emerge of preserving and protecting an individual's liberty and security because of the immense dominance the majority has. Therefore, the individual's liberty and security must be formally recognized and protected, usually within a written constitution, so that the liberties and securities of the individual may not be infringed upon by the will of majority. Individuals must take responsibility for the ... discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability"(Yates, 330), must be rec...

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... speech, and how it affects you as Americans. I will discuss the meaning of this part of the first amendment and what speech is not protected by the first amendment. Although this censorship may seem trivial to some, I believe that almost any infraction of First Amendment rights is a serious ... climate in this nation, the possibilities are endless. Yes, one can also express dissatisfaction by burning one's draft card. However, burning a flag is protected speech, but burning a draft card is not. This is a good example of the bureaucracy and inconsistencies that can occur with the judicial...

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... the Three Fifths Compromise in which they were allowed to count five slaves as three free men. "[ ] slavery, though never specifically mentioned, was well protected within the body of the constitution (qtd in Ferris 9)". The northern delegates were afraid that any attempt they made to abolish slavery would have caused the ... hundreds, but in the new constitution it was still legal because all of the Northern and Southern delegates had signed the new constitution. "The constitution protected existing slaves but envisaged the ending of the slave trade by 1808 (Barker 43)". The Northern sh...

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... would not be threatened by the government. A multitude of colonists came to America because they wanted religious freedoms. The Founding Fathers wanted to make sure that religious freedoms would be protected. This amendment was also created to ensure the separation of church and State. Even with religion as an important aspect of the Founding Fathers lives, they wanted to make sure ... taken for granted. This right is important in a Republic, as a means of protecting public participation in the government. The Supreme Court has regularly said the students, while at school, are protected...

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... , the fact remains that to do wrong is in every sense bad and dishonorable for the person who does it"(911). Crimes should not go unpunished and should not be protected under our rights to liberty. In order for society to function properly, a restriction to our rights should exist. If all humans were entitled to natural rights regardless of their behavior ... now and then, without being harassed or stalked by paparazzi, without having their private lives exposed to the whole world through the Internet. In most areas of the U.S, privacy is protected as a common law, not a constitutional r...

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... the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Although it does say that Americans have the right to free speech, not all speech is protected. The Amendment does not protect seditious speech (speech that promotes immediate and real acts of violence against the government), some forms of commercial speech (advertising statements that describe products), libel ... from an intent to do harm, and must result in actual harm. Speech definitely must meet very specific criteria for it to be considered slander. To determine the difference between pr...

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... , furniture or maybe their kidney. These days, instead of having a garage sale, people sell their junk on the Internet through online bidding services. If you want to get rid of a CD, for example, all you have to do is get on the Internet and a service like eBay will connect you with potential buyers who bid on the item. So, when a recent ... ...

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... but not let anyone hear it wrong. Parents have the responsibility to teach what is real and unreal, and what is right and unacceptable. If your child comes home with a CD read the lyrics, 94% of Americans agree that it is the parent's responsibility to monitor the music their children listen to. In the late 80's a group of White House wives ... ...

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... . They are the international organization responsible for global copyright protection and enforcement. The basically fight overseas piracy by encouraging governments to identify and warn infringers. The IFPI mainly targets illegal CD manufacturing plants and develops automated anti-piracy technologies for the Internet. As with the RIAA, the IFPI also engages in litigation against violations. The consumer-sponsored mp3.com is a good ... ...

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... . Good reasons for censoring music is that it can prevent kids from growing up to early and that may lead to some bad things. By listening to foul language on CD's and inappropriate content, kids will repeat this in life and may not understand what they are truly saying. Cross Examination: -Why do you think that the ex-presidents, that you ... ...

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... it. Distance learning and tutoring over the Internet will become easier and more popular, and one day, will reach a stage where the classroom is no longer necessary. Also, tutorials on CD or DVD will become more popular since they allow students to work at their own pace, and to work when it is convenient to them. The acquisition of a proper education ... ...

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... free or slave states. The document states that no state past the Louisiana Purchase can be a slave state which is contradictory to document A which states that the inhabitants will be protected in free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion. The government wanted to keep slavery confined to just the states it was already in. This began some of the many ... problems that the Southern States had. They believed that slaves were property, and the 5th amendment of the Constitution protected that property and they could move to settle new areas with their slaves. Document C is sta...

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... against personal rights. It enables personal rights and protects them. I don't understand why anyone would not want to live in a land where you're protected by laws that are punishable when broken, where your rights are protected, where there is no government interference with economic gain or markets, where you can be a self made man, where you can speak your mind and ... ...

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... ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" (Friendly). Music, like any other form of expression in this country, is protected by the first amendment from anyone who tries to censor it; and it would be a violation of constitutional rights to censor music. Of all the rights and freedoms guaranteed us ... and private, assume that they should determine what is good and what is bad for their fellow-citizens (Norwick 136 par. 2). Should we sacrifice our freedom in order to be "protected" against what others think may be bad f...

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... nonrivalrous. This means that use of a public good by one person does not prevent use of that same good by another person. Just because a gate prevents one person from entering a protected area does not mean that the gate will then be useless against other trespassers. Public goods are nonexcludable. Nonexcludable refers to the fact that their benefits cannot be kept from ... those people who do not contribute to covering the costs of the use of the public goods. People who do not pay taxes are equally protected from crimes as people who do pay their taxes. The people that do not pay th...

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... needed to call for federal protection for whistleblowing police officers. Because of the Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act, passed this year, other officials who witness this discriminating act are protected. It says, "The identity of a law enforcement officer who complains in food faith to a government agency or department about the unlawful practices of a law enforcement agency shall remain confidential and ... shall not be disclosed by any person except upon the knowing written consent of the law enforcement officer. This section shall not preempt any right of confrontation pro...

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... that there are no standings laws, indifferent judges, or reliable executive powers. All these problems encompass one main issue. This issue is that property, physical and material, needs to be protected in a more secure way. The way to obtain this higher security is to move out of the state of nature and into a society. Locke first moves out of the state ... has property, and since no one would consent to society if it were worse than the state of nature, it follows that it must be true that property must be protected for society to be legitimate. Since Locke's argument proves validity ...

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... that you may be a terrorist. They can even tap your phone conversations. Why do we allow them? I guess we just want to be protected but is there not other ways. The price that we pay to be protected has taken away a lot of our freedom. Pretty soon we will probably have to have special permission to leave the state in which we ... ...

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... accountability of government to the public by increasing official secrecy and expand on the definition of "terrorism" in a manner that threatens the constitutionally protected rights of Americans. The new legislation would allow government to spy on First Amendment-protected activities. By applying an overly broad definition of terrorism, organizations using protest tactics such as those used by Operation Rescue or protesters at ... ...

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... cause problems. The stronger people would try to take advantage over the weaker people and the weaker people would join together against the stronger people for protection. Everyone wouldn't feel protected and there would be a constant state of war. He felt that in the natural state that there is no protection for the individuals" natural rights and he concluded that the ... legislative, executive, and judicial branches of our government. His government also had checks and balances which is one of the most important aspects of our government today. His government, I felt, protected the ...

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... for love of country. We are fighting for the values that make us different as a nation: freedom, equality and the rule of law. Who would want it said that America protected those values in peacetime, when it was easy, but not in wartime, when it was hard? The United States was attacked on September 11th because of our civil liberties. "If ... , we need to stay focused on the issues that concerned us before the attacks on September 11th. Finally, we must demand that the government assure us that our rights are protected. We "need to remind the attorney general that the powers to enter hom...

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... concerning environmental groups and government environmental policies. Factions have formed which either oppose or support drilling in national parks, allowing recreation vehicles in natural preserves, developing near protected land, etc. These minority factions are however protected by the basic form of a republican government, which allows an elected representative of the people, to voice the opinions and concerns of his constituents. Therefore surpassing ... ...

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... government itself would never stray far from the constitutional ideals inasmuch as the Supreme Court - and not any other branch - had the final say on all questions of constitutionality. This protected the stability of the government by preventing it from straying too far from a stable democracy into, for example, an unstable dictatorship (dictatorships are generally characterized by constant overthrows) and also ... protected the rights and liberties of the people. This, therefore, ensured the support of the people of the government; as with any democracy, it is, by definition, the peo...

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... Constitution, they did not feel that a republican form of government could work on a national scale. They also did not feel that the rights of the individual were properly or sufficiently protected by the new Constitution. There basic thought process was along the lines or having faith in the common people, that people could overcome their selfish ways. The Federalists responded that ... why there should be a group of educated elites to represent the common people, backed by a system of checks and balances. This is the separation of powers into three independent branches protected the r...

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