... sever the relationship (Karmi). Despite the repercussions of its actions, WikiLeaks is receiving support from free speech activists. The Swiss Pirate Party, a group that formed two years ago to campaign for freedom of information, provided the site with its new domain. WikiLeaks.ch is getting about 3,000 ... hits per second. Furthermore, supporters are creating "mirrors" of the site on their own servers, which means that diplomatic cables will remain available even if WikiLeaks loses its own site. "Even if you take down ... the server in Sweden, it's too late. There are hundreds of mir...

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... been put forward about this issue, especially, the issues of decency and morality. In this essay, I will consider arguments for having the right to free speech on the internet and point to some of the problems with these views. I will then state why laws which prohibit ... this need. By trying to do so, our First Amendment rights are being violated. The Communications Decency Act is an organization currently fighting for restrictions on internet content. However, in a decision issued on June 26, 1997, the Supreme Court held that the Communications Decency Act violated ... Court's opinio...

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... court case it ensued, the question of whether downloading music is ethically sound or not has been on the public mind. The case against downloading free music has some valid points such as the loss of income for musicians and the music industry as a whole. However, when looked at through a larger perspective, the downloading of music on such sites as Morpheus, Kazaa ... . The selling of these albums will not only help the music industry as a whole, but will also help the musicians themselves. Ironically, the free distribution of music can lead to greater sales. As musician Tim Quirk, fro...

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... and Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, probably said it best when he said, "Information just wants to be free (Platt 11)." If one were to take this viewpoint and apply it to the usage of computers, they would get the hacker ... for nearly three hours before the site was taken offline by the New York Times as a last resort (Penenberg 132). Another example of an elite network with a chink in its armor would be NASA (Vistica and Thomas 61). In 1997 after the space shuttle Atlantis docked at the Mir space station, an anonymous hacker managed to shut down ... several Nation...

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... an enormous popularity. This idea stimulates already scares and unlimited wants of the music lovers. Of course, the fact that everybody who owns computer could download any music he likes for free is very attractive. There are limits, however, as to how much pleasure we can have by using something that is morally judged. This question arises in any other piracy-related ... about thirty percent of artists that were struggling to get back the popularity did so because of an easy and free access to their music. Thus public could check their music for progress without having to pay money fo...

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... another and to harbor relationships in a group. Before the advent of the written word, the oral tradition of story-telling served as a means for cultures to pass down history, folklore, and anecdotal stories that demonstrated the proper way to conduct oneself in a society. Today story-telling is just as important, and ... have a more positive view of the value of close relationships. Conversely, if an individual spends too much time on the internet at home or for these purposes at work, he or she will exhibit more depression than an individual, who has the opportunity to relate with ot...

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... . This makes me believe that the college needs a very high bandwidth internet connection, either T-1 or SDSL. I have chosen to recommend SDSL. SDSL stands for symmetric digital subscriber line, meaning that the upstream speed is the same as the downstream speed. It has the ability to support data rates anywhere up to ... three megabytes per second in both the up and down direction; this makes it a very fast and powerful connection. SDSL works by sending digital pulses in the high-frequency area of telephone wires and can ... not operate simultaneously with voice connections over the sam...

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... Baltimore Sun The article I read is from a local newspaper The Baltimore Sun. It is titled Searching for Suckers and was found in the editorial section on the internet. This article was published on January 27, 2003 and urges you to be careful of internet scams. My mission ... that the people being taken advantage of by these internet scams have only themselves to blame. Although it is wrong that people are doing this we need to be responsible for ourselves. Be wary, be smart, and be educated and you will not fall into the clutches of these internet con-artists. There are many points o...

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... the internet, I have everything at my fingertips just a few keystrokes away. There is a large drawback to using the internet for researching, but it can be limited to a manageable level. Although with some pitfalls, I believe the internet has become the best available avenue ... research, there may be a negative one. After gathering information and checking my sources, I have a bigger picture of what I am looking for. Along the way of gathering resources, I am normally bombarded with flashy ads and annoying pop ups. My e-mail and other social media apps ... company are my favorite sour...

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... ). Shortly after the release of Windows 95 an upgrade package with the Internet Explorer and Java programming was released in order too keep Microsoft up-to-date in the rush for the Internet, but they were still behind. "Netscape Communications Corp. already has incorporated Java language in the latest version of its Internet browser known as the Netscape Navigator. The Netscape ... pure lunacy. More important than what was said at Microsoft's announcement, was what was not said -- Netscape." Stephen Auditore was referencing to a press conference with Microsoft concerning the current rac...

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... thorough information about people because of the advances in computer technology. This can prove to be beneficial for law enforcement looking to track down criminals, prevention of fraud within banks, and consumers becoming more educated about new products and services. However, this also ... creates opportunity for misuse of such information. Information sent over the Internet has the potential to pass through dozens ... he has been there before and may offer products or ads based on the data in the retrieved cookie. A potentially valuable source for profits for online services is encl...

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... access. A dedicated Internet connection makes a business a permanent part of the Internet on a full-time basis. This type of access is usually provided for a flat rate well within the reach of most large- and medium-sized businesses. Even smaller businesses may find a dedicated Internet connection to be a ... their customers. In some areas, businesses may reduce the cost of going online by leasing the use of a dedicated line from a local access provider for their World Wide Web site. Some providers now make this service available with a dial-up connection. The World Wide Web can be used...

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... Julie spent a lot of her spare time practicing what she learned. She had applied her new self-defense skills to create a secure web connection for the Gordon's home computer. Question 1 Does Julie face an ethical dilemma? What should she do? The Internet is fairly new and the original inventors ... include doing unauthorized break-ins herself, to master the skills. Julie's goal in learning hacking in the first place is to provide better network security for her family PC and this would not be wrong. On the other hand, if she uses these skills to commit credit card fraud, steal ... good...

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... enterprise consciousness surrounding disasters has significantly risen, and it has become increasingly clear that disasters of unfathomable sizes can occur at any given time. Therefore, companies must be prepared for the worst. These myriad events have launched a high anxiety over data protection and recovery among IT professionals across the globe, in particular among Database Administrators (DBA). This concern ... in "today's enterprise environment is attributed to the Internet, faster computers, more powerful applications, and the conversion from analog to digital data" (Sun, 6). It ...

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... to the Internet and how 88% of them access their email multiple times weekly. Diebert shows how ICT has influenced Canadian industry by how most public libraries in Ontario have free Internet access. This has only been a recent change, whereas five, six years ago it would of been impossible. Diebert beleives that more Ontarians are getting connected every year to higher ... ...

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... . Intranet The Intranet is an internal facility that operates along the Internet, within the Universities website. It is another efficient way of gathering information but goes more in depth. Class notes, discussion topics and lecture reviews can be accessed on here. E-mail This system is another main and useful source of communicating and is used both internally and externally. It allows ... class. Telephone extension This is an easy way of communicating with staff if they have a personal extension number and if they are present in their office. This method is convenient for any small o...

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... , we wouldn't be living through an Internet revolution now "because the Internet would not exist. And if Lick, as he was known, had followed his initial instinct to turn down the job at ARPA (the Advanced Research Projects Agency), we might have missed out on a pretty big chunk of the personal computer revolution, too. Except that Lick did accept the ... ...

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... be the largest minority group in the generation, making up 17 percent of the population. There seems to be a recent scramble for young audience among the media, especially among the newspaper industry. The Media Management Center at Northwestern University reports that a "cliff" is in sight, with daily newspaper readership among the adult U.S. population declining from nearly 80 percent in 1970 to 50 ... at Northwestern University, said she uses the Internet to download MP3s, digital music files that can be obtained online for free and played on free MP3 software. MP3s, especially popula...

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... age. People can do almost everything on a computer. "People can make a phone call over the Internet" (Armey). The Internet allows people to shop for a new or used car and shoes, plus order a pizza online. The only thing that is wrong with the Internet is people's privacy is jeopardized. ... that . Since the terrorist's attacks on September 11, the government has wanted to shut down terrorism. They say the way of doing that is to check and put surveillance on citizens e-mail accounts. By doing that, the government can look ... article, Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a...

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... scrutiny it would be appropriate to rely almost exclusively on sources available from the Internet (as well as my lecture notes). Habermas sees the public sphere as the essential vehicle for the furtherment of democracy. In his approach he combines the liberal view of democracy (i.e. to keep the state in ... is allowed to express his attitudes, desires and needs. 3. No speaker may be prevented, by internal or external coercion, from exercising his rights as laid down in (1) and (2). He advocates an equality of access and voice, a representation of society's different interests through pu...

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... a digital library is much lower than that of a traditional library. A traditional library must spend large sums of money paying for stuff, book maintenance, rent, and additional books" (Kresh, 2007, page 2). However, we must not think that a digital library would be free. There would have to be a power source behind the operation, and personally by the way the Internet is now, I would ... is similar with scholars and their documents. They have worked hard and are not going to share their findings and results for free or charity. Even libraries now have to pay for access to scholarly doc...

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... in love. When they met finally in person they were in shock but they still got together and this is because of e-mail. Without e-mail it would have been harder for the two people to fall in love. E-mail makes is easier to communicate with your professors. If you have a problem and can not attend class you can simply send your ... professor an e-mail explaining your reasons for not being able to come. Then your professor will be able to e-mail you the class notes or let you know who you can get the notes from in the class that you missed. Also e-mail is valuable in the fact that if a pro...

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... voices. If Drudge is silenced by the White House goon squad, the media world will definitely become a little less interesting and a little less free in the news realm. Steve Silberman, a writer for Wired magazine, had a grudging praise for Matt Drudge with his role in the Clinton/Lewinsky story in one of his columns: "It's a Drudge World After All": "In Drudge's world, which is ... ", says Shirley Anne Warshaw, associate professor of political science at Gettysburg College and author of "The Domestic Presidency". The Clinton-Lewinsky story "is all based on a series of leaks," she notes. ...

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... because the members of the group understand and feel comfortable with one another, and also because they draw social strength from each other- (118). Lederman also notes five other assumptions. 1. That people themselves are a valuable source of information. 2. That people can report on and about themselves, and that they are ... been exhausted.) 2. "The next issue to be discussed is the tasks that you plan on using in the future."" A. "Please begin by writing down another list that consists of those tasks that you have not used in the past, but plan to use at any point in the future on t...

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... years ago that in order to write to someone, paper, a pen, an envelope and a postage stamp were needed, then it took several days for the recipient to receive the letter; today's communication is instantaneous, but lacks the warmth of an old fashioned hand written note. In "Class ... anywhere, anytime" (642). This style of communication is fast, but it is very impersonal, especially considering the fact that phones aren't only for talking anymore; many people prefer to send a quick text. At least with traditional telephones the people talking could hear each other's voices. With today's...

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