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CyberPorn: On A Screen Near You
Number of words: 293 - Number of pages: 2.... seems to make children and adults for that
matter, a little crazy.
In an 18 month study, the team surveyed 917,840 sexually explicit pictures on
the internet where pornographic. Trading in explicit imagery is now "one of
thelargest recreational applications of users of computer networks." The great
majority (71%) of the sexual images on the newsgrouls originate from adult
oriented bulletin-board systems (BBS). According to BBS, 98.9% of the consumers
of online porn are men. The women hold a 1.1% in chat rooms and on Bulletin
boards. Perhaps because hard-core sex pictures are so widely .....
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Questions Of Ethics In Computer Systems And Their Future
Number of words: 2876 - Number of pages: 11.... may be construed by that government
regulator as a violation of some regulatory act. The flip side to this is if you
did this through another medium such as the phone system nothing would ever come
it. The bigger question here is how much government do people want in there
lives? The Internet was brought into the picture for the public as the next
great technology of this century. It is without a doubt as big if not bigger
than any other public means of communication that has come before it. With that
in mind I think the government is trying to extract it's pound of flesh for what
they bel .....
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The History Of Corvettes
Number of words: 2978 - Number of pages: 11.... Since the body survived with minimal damage, they decided to keep the fiberglass for the body material for the upcoming Corvette. The year was almost over when they had to decide what name to give the new Chevrolet. The Chevrolet EX-122 is named the Corvette after a fast type of Royal Navy warship, by Myron Scott. He was an employee of Cambell-Ewald, Chevrolet's advertising agency. Strong consideration had been given to naming the car "Corvair", a name picked from the dictionary.
The debut of the first Corvette was on January 17 of 1953. It was displayed at the GM Motorama show at .....
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Computer Security And The Law
Number of words: 4533 - Number of pages: 17.... issues[1]. This problem could be mitigated by involving technical
computer security professional in the development of computer security law and
public policy. This paper is meant to help bridge to gap between technical and
legal computer security communities.
II. THE TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
A. The Objectives of Computer Security
The principal objective of computer security is to protect and assure
the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of automated information
systems and the data they contain. Each of these terms has a precise meaning
which is grounded in basic tech .....
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The History And Future Of Computers
Number of words: 953 - Number of pages: 4.... his
father, who was a tax collector. In 1694 Gottfried Leibniz improved the machine
so that with the rearrangement of a few parts it could be used to multiply. The
next logical advance came from Thomas of Colmar in 1890, who produced a machine
that could perform all of the four basic operations, addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division. With the added versatility this device was in
operation up until the First World War.
Thomas of Colmar made the common calculator, but the real start of
computers as they are known today comes from Charles Babbage. Babbage designed
a machine .....
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The Motor And How It Works
Number of words: 346 - Number of pages: 2.... 2 or 3). When part 5 spins, the direction of the current through 2 and 3 are reversed every time the motor spins half way around. The metal pieces touch the solenoids in just the right places to give solenoids 2 and 3 a magnetic field that attracts 1 and repels 4 and visa versa.
The end result is that as 2 or 3 approaches 1 or 4, it is given a magnetic field that is opposite to that of 1 or 4. Therefore, the two are attracted to each other. As the moving solenoids line up with the other solenoids, the metal things on top of 5 reverse the current. That means that 1 and 4 now repel the rot .....
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Snowmachines: How It Started
Number of words: 877 - Number of pages: 4.... those machines were very good. Then I discoved what
I should focuse on in project it was the loaltiy to a brand I thought that
this is true for so many different things such as cars skiies and just
about any thing eles. After the first observation the reat were very clear
to how it was going to be and then I did a interview. This is how it went.
Finding Out More
What brand of snowmachine do you ride and why this brand?
I ride a skidoo summit 670 the reason is that I got a very good
deal on this machine and so far it has been very good.
Why do you snowmachine?
The reasone that I snowma .....
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DVD VS. DIVX: Consumer Product Investigation
Number of words: 1440 - Number of pages: 6.... that is
really all that necessary.
DVD is a relatively new format, but it has made a huge impact in
the consumer video market since it's relapse only a year ago. DVD is DVD,
which stands for Digital Video Disc, Digital Versatile Disc, or nothing,
depending on whom you ask, is the next generation of optical disc storage
technology. It's essentially a bigger, faster CD that can hold video as
well as audio and computer data. DVD aims to encompass home entertainment,
computers, and business information with a single digital format,
eventually replacing audio CD, videotape, laserdisc, CD-ROM, .....
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Telnet
Number of words: 669 - Number of pages: 3.... and news reading. Telnet made library catalogs,
online services, bulletin boards, databases and other network services available
to casual computer users, although not with the friendly graphic user interfaces
one sees today.
Each of the early internet functions could be invoked from the UNIX
prompt, however, each of them used a different client program with its own
unique problems. Internet software has since greatly matured, with modern web
browsers (i.e. Netscape and Internet Explorer) easily handling the WWW protocol
(http) along with the protocols for FTP, gopher, news, and email .....
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Fast Car Physics
Number of words: 1557 - Number of pages: 6.... behind car design. The Bernoulli Effect states that the pressure of a fluid, in gaseous or liquid state, varies inversely with speed or velocity and a slower moving fluid will exert more pressure on and object than the same fluid moving slower (Yager). The goal of car designers is to make the air passing under a car move faster than the air passing over the car. This causes the air passing over the car to create more downforce than the air passing under the car creates upforce creating a force additional to the car’s weight pushing the car to the road. Large amounts of downforce are nee .....
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