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- 1701: Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age
- ... effect is not technology per se (the shift from printed books to electronic storage and retrieval systems), but rather the shift from a mass- production, mass-media, mass-culture civilization to a demassified civilization. The big change, in other words, is the demassification of actionable knowledge. The dominant form of new knowledge in the Third Wave is perishable, transient, customized knowledge: The right information, combined with the right software and presentation ... mainframe computers were the market, and America's dominance was largely based upon the position of a dominant vendor -- IBM, with over 50% world market-share. Then the personal-computing industry exploded, leaving older-style big-business- focused computing with a stagnant, piece of a burgeoning total market. As IBM lost market-share, many people became convinced that America had lost the ability to compete. By the mid-1980s, such alarmism ...
- 1702: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
- ... knife stabbing and serial rapist it can find. The news stations have to put this type of news out because of the blood thirsty society which we live in. Levines clams that television plays a big role in the actions that children make. These actions are brought upon themselves and other youths. Television is not the only way children get crazy ideas in their head. Movies, magazines and the Internet also play a big role in these extreme ideas. Detachment is not considered a major problem for parents. Although Levines claims that attachment to a another youth is very important, but the detachment from the parents is painful for ...
- 1703: "Computer Security" by Time Life Books
- ... to absolutely secure a computer would be to lock it up but with computer networks these days that cannot be easily done unless dealing with a single personal computer. Computer security has become such a big issue due to the huge amount of loss in profits by businesses. This happens because the computers were not totally secure from unwanted visitors. An example of how this could happen is a big business was to spend millions of dollars on research and development that would only stolen by another to profit themselves. Businesses lose three hundred million to about five billion dollars yearly due to these computer ...
- 1704: Affirmative Action: Will It Every Work Right?
- ... been greatest in the area of government, state and city, because this type of work is easier for affirmative action to watch over and regulate. Affirmative action has experienced considerably less success in integration in big business. This is do to the fact that big business has been more resistant to affirmative action and harder to regulate. However, this is an area that most supporters of affirmative action expect to see a change. Sher’s Argument Any affirmative action policy ...
- 1705: The Trancontinental Railroad
- ... also managed to persuade Mark Hopkins, Huntington’s partner, Charles Crocker, who owned a grocery store, and Leland Standford, who operated a wholesale grocery business, to invest” (Blumberg 22). These men became known as the “Big Four”; they became the men who operated the Union and Central Pacific Railroad Companies. Standford was appointed president of the Union and Central Pacific companies, Huntington became vice president, Hopkins became treasurer, and Crocker became construction supervisor. Although “The Big Four” were the key men involved in the progress of the Transcontinental Railroad, the manual laborers made the true accomplishments. Because of the gold rush, it was difficult to find good workers. They were looking ...
- 1706: Solutions For Trash And Landfi
- · Introduction Did you know? Americans use enough cardboard each year to make a bale as big as a football field and as high as the World Trade Center Towers. We even throw away so much aluminum every three months that we can rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. Each person, yes ... track. What happens is things become mummified? There have been hot-dogs that were found and could been recooked, and perfectly legible newspapers. Gerald Backhouse, Waste management director in Chandler, Arizona, said, "Landfills are like big Tupperware bowls preserving the trash." · Polluted Air Less than 30% of all packaged software is recycled. That leaves over 5.5 million boxes of software headed straight for our landfills and incinerators. In landfills, diskettes ...
- 1707: Computer Crime
- ... to $14.9 billion in 1994. An additional 23 countries surveyed this year brings the 1994 worldwide total to $15.2 billion. As we can see that software piracy is on the increase with such big numbers. Many say that the Internet is great, that is true, but there's also the bad side of the Internet that is hardly ever noticed. The crime on the Internet is increasing dramatically. Many ... you with enough proof that no doubt computer crime is on the increase in many areas such as hacking, hardware theft, software piracy and the Internet. Hacking can be seen in everyday news and how big corporations are often victims to hackers. Hardware theft has become more popular because of the value of the computer components. Software piracy is a huge problem, as you can see about $15 billion are lost ...
- 1708: Computer Crimes: Laws Must Be Pass To Address The Increase In Computer Crimes
- ... computer program. Logic bombs are implanted so that the perpetrator doesn't have to physically present himself or herself." (Phrack 12,p.43) Another form of a hidden code is "salamis." It came from the big salami loaves sold in delis years ago. Often people would take small portions of bites that were taken out of them and then they were secretly returned to the shelves in the hopes that no ... accounted to be $88 billion." (Blumenthal, B 1:2) All this information is vulnerable to greedy employees, nosy-teenagers and general carelessness, yet no one knows whether the sea of computer crimes is "only as big as the Gulf of Mexico or as huge as the North Atlantic." (Blumenthal,B 1:2) Vulnerability is likely to increase in the future. And by the turn of the century, "nearly all of the ...
- 1709: Muckrakers
- ... and Cruelties of the Tariff." In this tariff article, from 1910 to 1911, Tarbell challenged the tariff legislation. In a series of seven articles she wrote of the strong connection between the tariff legislation and big business. She also showed that the tariff legislation gave no protection to the laborer and hinted that it had no concern for the laborer at all (Reiger 125, 144-145,155-156). Another notable muckraker ... grievances. Most importantly though, people, partly because of the information which muckrakers revealed, partly because of the visions of better things which reformers brought forth, and partly because of horrid personal experiences, began to regard big business as an enemy rather than a friend (Reiger 194-196). Works Cited Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Josephson, Matthew. The Robber Barons. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company ...
- 1710: Computers and Crime
- ... computer program. Logic bombs are implanted so that the perpetrator doesn't have to physically present himself or herself." (Phrack 12,p.43) Another form of a hidden code is "salamis." It came from the big salami loaves sold in delis years ago. Often people would take small portions of bites that were taken out of them and then they were secretly returned to the shelves in the hopes that no ... accounted to be $88 billion." (Blumenthal, B 1:2) All this information is vulnerable to greedy employees, nosy-teenagers and general carelessness, yet no one knows whether the sea of computer crimes is "only as big as the Gulf of Mexico or as huge as the North Atlantic." (Blumenthal,B 1:2) Vulnerability is likely to increase in the future. And by the turn of the century, "nearly all of the ...
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