... for teen pregnancy. In his "survey- he found that 984 out of 1000 unwed mothers became pregnant while listening to rock music. Suspicious questioning by the press led him to alter his story, stating that he hadn't conducted the survey himself, but found the information in a scientific report ... for the increasing popularity of drugs over the last few decades, as if rock musicians were the first people to broaden their artistic vision by way of chemical alteration. In reality, drug use among musicians has been recorded as far back as the 1800's, at a time when ... that then-President Nix...

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... winning favor as the preferred medium for backing up primary storage. This increase in speed has been made possible by servers that are saving data to Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) arrays that have an "average seek time of 8.5 milliseconds and 100 megabytes per second data transfer rate" (Connor). ATA hard drives have, until recently, been built into ... is the most important strategy that a company can put into effect. According to a recent national survey conducted by Imation Corp, "about thirty percent of companies lack a formal disaster recovery strategy, and sixty-four perce...

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... the cost of their goods. The need for technology was evident. In 1820 Charles Xavier invented the Arithmometer. Mostly banks, insurance companies and other businesses used the Arithmometer. Before it they had to have mathematicians do the calculations by using tables and they were not always accurate. The tables were used to map out square roots, cube roots, interest rates, hyperbolic, exponential functions ... . They were plugged together to form a "route" for the stream of information. ENIAC is known as the first successful high-speed electronic digital computer and was used by the Mil...

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... business proprietor. The customer gives up a certain amount of anonymity when he/she allows information to be collected about him/her. This information can be used for questionable and leveraged positions by businesses. A consumer may experience information overflow. From a business perspective, the availability of information to the customer is dangerous to a certain extent. Perfect information implies perfect competition. Perfect ... market capitalization. Discount rates are even more interesting. The discount rate is the rate at which cash flows are adjusted. These rates reflect expec...

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... definition for it. 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". Given this definition, we must also understand that cyber-terrorism isn't limited or exclusive to foreign groups, but on the ... so. This is because cyber-space isn't a zone or sphere. Since cyber-crimes are based on cyber-space, we must understand that cyber-space is owned by ...

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... of the ordinary. This desensitization effect can also be attributed to viewing violence on television in any form, whether via video game, movie and television show. Alertness Children who do not have their video game playing time limited by parents may find themselves playing late into the night. This can be especially true if there is a game level that is close to ... information, data, programs or materials which may be deemed offensive, controversial or inappropriate are accessible. Parents or guardians are responsible for internet resources accessed by their children. Internet user...

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... for the business aspect. As far back through the documented times of our society that we look, people have always argued the definition of art. Is the existence and quality of art determined by the creator? The viewer? Is there such a set definition? Thousands of years have passed without an agreeable concrete answer to that question. George Berkeley (1685 - 1753), a philosophical idealist ... services offered. Although typically used as a place for people to see a representation of the artists work, it is possible for anyone to save images from the site and represent them as their own,...

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... issue gotten better or worse? Within the last ten years, studies have shown that this issue has Improved. The survey by the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that sexual material on cable and broadcast television fell by 29 percent and "serious violence- decreased by 17 percent. Sex declined more than violence, but that might have been because there was a lot more sex than violence ... because these behaviors are frequent, everybody does it'. Sex between unmarried partners is shown 24 times more often than sex between spouses, while sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pre...

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... when describing illicit access on computers with malicious or criminal purpose. The Atlantic Magazine, Feb. 17, 2002 par. 1 "It has been widely noted that last week's attack by hackers against the Internet sites Yahoo, Amazon- and it continues, "the fact that hackers were able [ ] to cripple these major sites- How can such important magazine permit such barbaric mistake? Many other important publications ... to the Hands-On Imperative. q All information should be free. q Mistrust authority -- promote decentralization. q Hackers should be judged by their hacking. q You can create art and...

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... feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. --E.Y. Harbug Different technologies have affected every single aspect of modern life. The field of music alone has grown by been leaps and bounds with new inventions continually improving the way listeners obtain and enjoy music of all sorts. One pairing of technological advancements that has recently been causing controversy in the music industry is the collaboration of ... . Napster, although it only lasted a couple of years, became a social phenomenon that will not soon be forgotten. It completely has changed the way people listen to music by...

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... A culture exists when a group of people exhibits cohesion through the sharing of values, language, ritual and icons. Cyberculture is used to refer to the concept of a group, or groups of people achieving cohesion by means of 'the information infrastructure' - which currently means the Internet (Clarke 1997. Sv "Encouraging Cyberculture ... In so doing, a third culture has emerged, which finds its roots in technology. Though aided by art and science, Kelly argues that if the purpose of science is to pursue the truth of the universe and the aim of art is to express the human condition - the...

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... when describing illicit access on computers with malicious or criminal purpose. The Atlantic Magazine, Feb. 17, 2002 par. 1 "It has been widely noted that last week's attack by hackers against the Internet sites Yahoo, Amazon- and it continues, "the fact that hackers were able [ ] to cripple these major sites- How can such important magazine permit such barbaric mistake? Many other important publications ... to the Hands-On Imperative. q All information should be free. q Mistrust authority -- promote decentralization. q Hackers should be judged by their hacking. q You can create art and...

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... concerned civil libertarians who believe that this is the slippery slope to the erosion of civil liberties. At this point I will give an analysis of Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (H.R. 3162, The "USA Patriot Act"). It was passed just six weeks after September 11 attack that this act was hastily passed in the house ... provisions in the USA Patriot Act sound two themes: they minimize the role of a judge in ensuring that law enforcement wiretapping is conducted legally and with proper justification, and they p...

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... Since its introduction to the mainstream in the early 1990's, the Internet has grown at an astronomical pace. A few years ago, it was a relatively small network used mainly by computer engineers, the government, and the educational community. Since then, it has blossomed into a global communications infrastructure which anyone from a housewife in the U.S. to a 7-year old in Africa uses on a regular basis. In ... convenience offered in the graphical user interface (GUI) of Navigator, motivated Netscape to include services other than http browsing like email, new The Web Becomes a Househo...

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... concerned only with treatments that help patients to recover a natural state of health. Instead, expanding abilities allow doctors to preserve physical life disconnected from psychological and spiritual experience, and to alter human experience by artificial instrumentations. Such practices raise fundamental questions about the end of medicine. Is it a proper aim of medicine to preserve the "life" of comatose patients ... as playing a major role in the political realm, allowing politics to be regularly subjected to criticism. This criticism provides a vehicle to identify irrationalities....

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... , Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) commissioned a study in 1999 entitled Help Wanted: The IT Workforce Gap and the Dawn of a New Century. This groundbreaking survey clearly and accurately measured the labor shortage and variables currently experienced by both IT and non-IT companies. A major part of ITAA's effort has also been the initiation of an education awareness campaign, ... rather than the source of knowledge. The performance required for this new role is far more complex than traditional classroom teaching. The teacher engages the children by helping to organiz...

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... . $1383 for traditional methods Spending for online recruiting is expected to increase by 52% and print ad spending to decrease 31% by 2004 74% of people with internet access 18 years of age and older have used the internet to search for a job in the past ... maintain a presence on the Internet that can be accessed any time, anywhere. Internet recruiting has a multitude of distinct advantages for an employer and most companies are only beginning to realize the advantages. Advantages to Employers for Internet Recruiting There are numerous reasons why firms have decided to ... reach or sa...

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... come from? 2. Violence is Everywere? 3. Do we use violence as an scape-goat? 4. Does violence on television impact youth minds and behaviors? 5. Is it to late for change The paper will refer to different satistics and facts that were gathered by professors and researchers to discuss the five questions. Where Did Violence Come From In the 1950's the development of the television was huge ... has increased. In 1988, there were fifteen to twenty acts per hour . Today we have more than forty studies that have been done by scientists to show that seventy-three percent of individuals who comm...

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... carrier that touches that e-mail can read it if they choose. Not only can the carriers see the message on the e-mail, but it can also be electronically intercepted and read by hackers. This can all be done without the sender or the receiver ever knowing anything has happened (Lewis 195). E-mail is the most intriguing thing to hackers because it can ... full of important data from secret corporate information to credit card numbers. The only way to secure e-mail is by encryption. When you send your credit card number by e-mail, assure yourself that the data is encrypted with the latest s...

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... carrier that touches that e-mail can read it if they choose. Not only can the carriers see the message on the e-mail, but it can also be electronically intercepted and read by hackers. This can all be done without the sender or the receiver ever knowing anything has happened (Lewis 195). E-mail is the most intriguing thing to hackers because it can ... full of important data from secret corporate information to credit card numbers. The only way to secure e-mail is by encryption. When you send your credit card number by e-mail, assure yourself that the data is encrypted with the latest s...

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... basic definition comes with a weakness--in some cases, individuals can become "certified" simply by paying a particular membership fee or by attending the required seminar. Such certifications are meaningless and a waste of time and money. Certifications that mean something are about achieving designations that demonstrate to your employer and/or clients that you are, indeed, an expert in a particular area or areas ... Microsoft Certification, reported that companies pay 12% more to certified workers. In each of those studies, as well as another by Novell Corp., employers also said cert...

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... already in place for regular analog phone communications. There are different types of DSL available to the consumer, each with unique characteristics. They are distinguished by upload/download bandwidth and cost. The other available technology is provided by the Cable companies. It is referred to as Cable Internet. A cable modem is a device that allows you to hook up your PC to a local cable ... less then 56 Kbps (thousands of bits per second). "The ability of your computer to receive information is constrained by the fact that the telephone company filters information that arrives as ...

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... arises when there is network congestion - too many users retrieving information at once. ISPs can contribute to this problem by signing on vast amounts of users, when they are unable to accommodate them. There is a protocol called TCP/IP that handles the order and formation of the transmitted 'packets', thus controlling traffic on the net. Yet, net congestion is still a problem with ... had more users than they could provide access to. However, they've turned it around in 2001 by offering customers BT Anytime (un-metered access). The service isn't aimed at online gamers, and is very sta...

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... rates, all of which have made it where it is today (http://www.ups.com). These principles have guided UPS to where they are today, are summarized by Jim's slogan: "Best Service and Lowest Rates." There are many services that are offered that are all geared toward our customers. Examples include taking advantage of Next Day Air, Next Day Air Saver (Saturday ... is Ali Sands (the gatekeeper), which is the secretary at Electronics.com. She also added they do business on the Internet they are trying to go global and reach new markets by guaranteeing their products and service are not like a...

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... up with the demands or the impatient customer, or he/she will look elsewhere for a quicker solution. Cable connectivity is the way forward now and we are seeing great 1 & 2 Mb services being offered by companies like BT, Blueyonder and NTL at very competitive prices. 2) Switching Circuit switching, as opposed to packet switching, sets up a dedicated communication channel between two end systems. Voice calls ... traffic, cell switching supports asynchronous traffic. Cell switching also supports different classes of traffic: loss-sensitive, delay-sensitive, delay-variance sensitive, and v...

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