Private Branch Exchange A Private Branch Exchange (PBX) is a telephone system within a business that switches calls between users on local lines, while allowing all users to share a certain number of external phone lines. ... PBX Applications Private Branch Exchanges can be used in many applications. ... These systems are specifically designed to process information in its digital format. ... The PBX is responsible for formatting pertinent information in regards to routing all outgoing calls. ... PBX System Benefits A Private Branch Exchange system can operate without the use of attenda...

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The private key is available only to the individual receiving the encrypted message. ... It uses heavy mathematics, but is susceptible to private key theft or breaking of the private key (this is virtually impossible and would constitute trying billions of possible key combinations). ... The Decryption Process The recipient uses his or her private key to decrypt the public key. ... An additional data encryption feature allows clients to encrypt all information so all information is sent and received safely and securely. ... A security Alert pop-up menu appears stating "Information y...

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Essentially the person wants their information kept private from unauthorized persons who should not be privy to such information, why should their personal lives or business details be advertised to the rest of the world. Hackers world wide have been known to intercept transactions or gain access to private files from which they gain personal details and will sometimes abuse the information they have accessed. ... The main problem is a customer can be quite trusting and hand over important information to someone who is not who they say they are. ... 2.1 Firewalls: As the name suggests a ...

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Using the information federal agent Elliot obtained in the scan, he was issued a warrant to search Kyllos home. ... Due to the fact that Kyllo did not try to hide the heat escaping from his garage, "he did not establish an expectation of privacy because the imager did not expose private details of Kyllos life" (United States pg. 2). ... On the other hand, Kyllo believed that since the imager gave the police information about the inside of his house, it did constitute a search. ... The dissent believed that there was "a distinction of constitutional magnitude" between through-the-wall surveilla...

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What if this information could have stopped another 9/11? ... "The standards of what we want to keep private and what we want to make public are constantly evolving" [Sin13]. Living in a democracy we, as American's, should have a say in what private information the government can access, but just as privacy evolves the laws need to do the same. ... How can the government just take our information without our knowledge or consent? ... Would I want my loved one, myself to know this information? ...

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But the disadvantages will outweigh the advantages when private institutions develop access to this database and use the information for discriminatory purposes. The impending usage of a national DNA database poses many possible risks of political and commercial abuse of such information, along with the danger this information falling into the hands of unfriendly parties, are unpredictable. ... For instance, if a private institution, such as a bank, an employer, or an insurance company, receives access to this information, it could influence decisions on loans, hiring practices, ins...

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Most of the information Mrs. ... Gutmann addresses the issue of recruits being referred to as soldier rather than recruit or private. ... The reason they are not called private is that many of them are not privates. In BCT (basic training) I was a Private First Class and my training class had numerous Specialists in it. ... When speaking to the group or of the group, it would therefore be inappropriate to say "privates" when some may not be. ...

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Most of the information Mrs. ... Gutmann addresses the issue of recruits being referred to as soldier rather than recruit or private. ... The reason they are not called private is that many of them are not privates. In BCT (basic training) I was a Private First Class and my training class had numerous Specialists in it. ... When speaking to the group or of the group, it would therefore be inappropriate to say "privates" when some may not be. ...

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It seems as if our online lives will be open to the government and nothing will be private. ... Privacy varies from information on the internet, work, even to social media. ... Generally goes around $5 to $20 to find out informations about their lives. ... There are positive and negative outcomes of being able to wiretap into societies personal and most private lives. ... This may even cause corrupt things if valuable information is found in the wrong hands. ...

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In some cases theft of money, in others, theft of information. ... Usually, information is stolen for the express purpose of making money, either directly, or through the sale of the information obtained, or by blackmail. ... At any given time, millions of people's credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other private data are flying through phone lines near your house. ... When a company or organization starts a web page, they must have a wall of some type to keep people on the Internet from accessing parts of their computer system they want to keep private. ... Perhaps th...

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McLellan states that, "companies must extend their reach into foreign markets through information technology, such as electronic data interchange, telecommunications activities and network management." ... Outsourcing vendors have developed new customer-focused technologies called Customer Information File (CIF) architectures, which allow companies to offer different products to the same customer. 2 How does a company decide which IT outsourcing partner is right for them? ... Supporters of this research are encouraging the government and private sectors to support the research with mon...

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Businesses have their organization's finances, records, and information on the World Wide Web (WWW). ... Some can see any information you have on your computer if your computer is connected to the Internet. ... Encryption on computers just takes the information when viewed as text or as a program, and it changes a few things that are used to access that particular information. ... Man created a diary to put his private thoughts in. ... If I, a simple student of the world of computers, can manage to find your name, address, IP address, phone number, and many additional private things on yo...

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This guarantees citizens of The United States a reasonable expectation of privacy for private belongings and protection against harassment from government officials invading personal property without a search warrant. ... Under the Patriot Act, without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, the government can issue NLTs to any public entity in order to gather private information about an individual. ... The Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights guarantees citizens of The United States the following: no one will be tried for the same crime twice, the right to due process if deprived of li...

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A menagerie is a private collection of animals, which is not open to the public as a zoo is in our times now. ... Yet there are no federal laws regulating private possession of exotic animals. ... It is estimated that there are 6,000 to 7,000 tiger species owned by private collectors. ... They also provide a great deal of information to the person who may be interested in buying an exotic pet. ... Based on the information given above it seems these animals do not belong as a personnel pet. ...

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Most schools are public, and some are private. Religion on the other hand is totally private. ... In the case of parents who want their children to attend private schools, they pay taxes, which go to public schools and pay the tuition for their child's attendance of the private schools that emphasize their religion. ... Will people who yearn to learn more seek out information? Is it not their right to choose to seek out information instead of having the decision made for them? ...

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There is always a crucial clue, which is the one piece of information that helps the main character finally solve the mystery. ... In the short story Black Dog, about a woman who hires a private investigator to help solve her case on who stole her money. The woman tells the private investigator that it was her niece who took the money. Throughout the story the reader is convinced that it was the niece, right up until the end when the private investigator reveals that the woman was lying all along and just wanted get rid of her niece. In mystery stories there are red herrings, which are bits of...

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It is an information source as well as a booming virtual market place for many businesses. The Internet is an enormous well of information that contains both good and bad. ... This is the only information that can be taken legally. ... One of the most common ways for webmasters to find out information about the user is to use passive recording of transactional information. ... Direct disclosure is just that, the user gives the website information such as their e-mail address, home address, phone number, and any other information that is requested. ...

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DNS information is configurable only on the primary server, and not on the backup server. ... If you think of a line as a pipe that that carries information from one point to another, the difference with ISDN is that the 'pipe' is a lot bigger, and a lot cleaner. ... VPN VPN is short for virtual private network, a network that is constructed by using public wires to connect nodes. ... ATM cells are 53 bytes in length, that includes 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information. ...

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All celebrities are expected to lose some aspects of their private life but they should be able to retain others. ... As trivial as these details seem, one must wonder what lengths the tabloid reporters had to go to get the information or the picture. ... The Mirror lawsuit, celebrities have a right to protect aspects of their life they deem as private. I agree with Julie Hilden when she states that, "A celebrity's private life is not an oxymoron" (Hilden 2). ... Losing the ability to maintain a private life is painful for anyone, celebrity or common person. ...

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Perestroika implemented more profit motives for the people and the private ownership in agriculture. ... Moreover, the reform encouraged private businesses and cooperatives- individuals could now own small businesses and hire workers. ... With the fostering of private businesses, 5 million people were employed. ... The sector of the agriculture could not restore despite its privatization. ... The U.S. long-term policy of withholding Soviet expansion while encouraging democratic reform in Central and Eastern Europe through scientific and cultural exchanges, information policy (e.g., Radio Free ...

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Assignment Develop an information pack outlining the arrangements for providing quality care for looked after children and young people Response Care is split into many different sectors, if a child or young person is put into the care system they will be in one of the following sectors; foster care, adoption, residential child care, young offenders institution and respite care. ... Foster Care This type of care can be run by the local authority or by the private sector, foster care focuses on recruiting, approving and training the best possible foster parents. they do this by getting social...

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As I mentioned before, this was a private, Catholic institution, that would suffocate students with what they must believe and how they must act. ... Teresa's was another private, Catholic school, the attitudes and practices of the administration were almost entirely different than what I had experienced prior. ... We were never forced to memorize static information, and our intelligence was never quantified through our ability to "be filled" with the teachers knowledge through testing. ... We were constantly forming opinions, learning new information, and adapting our perspec...

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It is a way of taking databases and turning it into useful information. ... This program is the Information Awareness Program (IAP). ... They could go through call logs and your credit cards which are both very private things to the average person. ... It is not ethical to track the information of citizens without informing the individuals first. ... According to Peter Piazza author of "Digging Deeper into Data Mining" many companies are practicing this tactic and are "using personal information, and many of these efforts use sensitive private-sector data such as credit repor...

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She believed that "overdoing it was better than doing nothing at all " (95), and she made the decision to do what not many other mothers were doing in her neighborhood and send her son to private school, and then military school when that didn't work. ... Going to private school kept Wes from the streets during the daytime and after school still created a bit of a barrier between him and the other kids in the neighborhood because he was the "private school kid ". ... However, at private school Wes could feel how different he was and struggled to overcome that discomfort. ... Even from the...

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Responses came from both the private-sector business industry and federal government bodies. ... However, the SEC recognized the importance of having a private agency set accounting standards rather than a government body. ... Why would the federal government let a private agency set the rules in accounting practices when the government has the final say? ... One of the SEC's responsibilities is to require companies provide accurate financial information to investors and the general public. ... The government cannot completely regulate the FASB because they are private. ...

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