However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has defined cyber-terrorism as "the premeditated, politically motivated attack against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data which result in violence against noncombatant targets by sub national groups or clandestine agents". ... On the contrary, a hacker is a person that enjoys learning programming languages and computer systems and can often be considered an expert on the subject. ...

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Douglas Gentile, "Pathological Video Game Use among Youth 8 to 18: A National Study," CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the study The youth of today no longer seem to spend their leisure activities like in the olden days; outdoor games or playing with toys, instead, they spend their free time in their homes, internet cafés or computer shops simply to satisfy their hunger; and that hunger is Online Gaming. ... Integrated circuits replaced transistors, and many computer languages came out in this time. ...

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INTRODUCTION "Global computer-based communications cut across territorial borders, creating a new realm of human activity and undermining the feasibility "and legitimacy "of applying laws based on geographic boundaries."" (Post and Johnson 1996) The Internet is a relatively new phenomenon and this "cyberspace- is causing problems for regulatory systems. The Internet is a world that is very difficult to govern and it is because of this that criminals are discovering the net as a place to conduct illegal activity. It is the government's goal to understand the reasons ...

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In 1964, the National Copyright Office began to register software as a form of literary expression. ... Therefore, it is not necessary that a copy of the software program be deposited with the National Copyright Office for the program to be protected as copyrighted. ...

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The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, "the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling" the invention in the United States or "importing" the invention into the United States. ...

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During this time period software, hardware, computer languages, and product capabilities were constantly changing. ... The National Center for Policy Analysis (1998) stated that "Experts contend that the nation's 6,000 hospitals, 50,000 nursing homes and 700,000 doctors all need to locate and repair billions of lines of faulty computer code- (p. 1). ...

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In today's business environment it is getting harder and harder for organisation's to not only survive but to compete against other organisation's. Information technology plays a big part in helping companies compete and survive. Companies that have branches or franchises need to make sure that they can communicate with the head office so that orders can be passed down. Most of a mangers time is spent 1 Passing information and ideas upwards to senior management to aid their decision making 2 Providing other department managers with information which will help them do their jo...

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