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- 141: What Should and Shouldn't Computer Be Allowed To Run
- What Should and Shouldn't Computer Be Allowed To Run Computers have always scared people. Not just because they can be confusing and hard to operate, but also because how they affect peoples everyday lives. What jobs should highly advanced computers be able to run? This question can involve ethics, privacy, security, and many other topics. What jobs can and can't we leave to the computer? As computers grow more and more advanced, not to mention complicated, so grows the number of job applications that can be filled by computers. But can we leave a job such as doctor to a highly advanced computer system? There are a great deal of moral issues involving that. What would happen if the doctor made a mistake? Could you sue the computer? What about the computer programmer? One error in the ...
- 142: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- ... Examiner was changed to Director of the Bureau of Investigation. When the Bureau was established, there were few federal crimes. The Bureau of Investigation primarily investigated violations of laws involving national banking, bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, naturalization, and neutrality violation. With the April 1917 entry of the United States into World War I (1914-1918), the Bureau was given the responsibility of investigating espionage, sabotage acts, sedition (resistance against lawful authority ... Union), the FBI began conducting background security investigations for the White House and other government agencies, as well as probes into internal security matters for the executive branch of the government. Civil rights and organized crime became major concerns of the Bureau in the 1960's (by that time the number of Agents stabilized at about 6,200). At the same time, Congress gave the FBI new federal laws with which ... rights prosecutions allowed the FBI to play an influential role in enabling African Americans to vote, serve on juries, and use public accommodations on an equal basis. In the 1970's counter terrorism, drugs, financial crime, and organized crimes became new concerns. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Statue of 1970 allowed organized groups to be prosecuted for all of their diverse criminal activities, without the crimes being linked ...
- 143: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... the illusion of life and movement to cartoons, drawings, paintings, puppets, and three-dimensional objects. Beginning with crude and simple methods, animation has become a highly sophisticated form of filmmaking, involving the use of automation, computer, and even laser technology to achieve its effects. Some animation techniques overlap with those used to produce special effects in live-action cinematography. In watching such films as 2001--A Space Odyssey (1968) and Star ... and with other innovations as drawing images directly on film. Beginning in the 1960s, films showing abstract color designs in motion were programmed by means of computers that calculate intricate movements with amazing precision. Today, computer animation has achieved the ability to create moving images and backgrounds of great complexity. The basic tool, usually called a PAINTBOX, is an electronic surface on which the artist draws figures and backgrounds and selects colors. Other devices manipulate the figures and change the backgrounds. The work is reproduced on a TV monitor and stored on a computer disk. Computerized animation is widely used in television commercials, titles, and in making music videos (see VIDEO, MUSIC), and provides many of the special effects in the films of directors like George Lucas (see ...
- 144: Knowledge is Power: How To Buy A Computer
- Knowledge is Power: How To Buy A Computer Buying a personal computer can be as difficult as buying a car. No matter how much one investigates, how many dealers a person visits, and how much bargaining a person has done on the price, he still may not ... for this uncertainty. Computers change at much faster rate than any other kind of product. A two-year-old car will always get a person where he wants to go, but a two-year-old computer may be completely inadequate for his needs. Also, the average person is not technically savvy enough to make an informed decision on the best processor to buy, the right size for a hard drive, ...
- 145: White Collar Crime vs. Street Crime
- White Collar Crime vs. Street Crime One problem that plagues our society is crime. Crime is all around us in our everyday lives. Daily we hear of murders, robberies, and rapes. These are categorized as "street crimes." For many people, such crimes are the only "tragic" crimes, the ...
- 146: Knowledge is Power: How To Buy A Computer
- Knowledge is Power: How To Buy A Computer Buying a personal computer can be as difficult as buying a car. No matter how much one investigates, how many dealers a person visits, and how much bargaining a person has done on the price, he still may not ... for this uncertainty. Computers change at much faster rate than any other kind of product. A two-year-old car will always get a person where he wants to go, but a two-year-old computer may be completely inadequate for his needs. Also, the average person is not technically savvy enough to make an informed decision on the best processor to buy, the right size for a hard drive, ...
- 147: Controlling Computers With Neu
- ... able to communicate with one of the alien computers. They do this by connecting themselves to glowing head probes. By doing this the space travelers thoughts and feelings are directly conveyed to the alien computer over a neural link. In the science-fiction movie The Matrix, the world is run by machines that use humans as batteries so sustain themselves. A group of humans brake the grip of the machines ... oppressors. These people are able to fight the machines with the help of computers. Each one of these people has a jack in the back of his or her head that is connected to a computer. By doing this, the people are able to turn their thoughts, such as dodging bullets and knowing Kung-Fu, into reality. The idea of people having their minds linked to computers has appeared throughout works of science-fiction. The way this idea works is very simple. A person thinks of a command and the computer immediately responds. Thought recognition would be the ultimate computer interface, the machine acting as an extension of the human nervous system itself.(Lusted, Hugh S. and Knapp, R. Benjamin Controlling Computers with Neural Signals ...
- 148: Computer History
- ... lives of nearly everyone living today. No matter where it is that someone calls their home; there is almost a certainty that they have some sort of daily interaction with computers or some kind of computer driven device. Every morning, millions of people of every field imaginable go off to work and start up their computers. These daily activities occur often without much thought, but there are more than just minor factors that have led up to the development of today's computer. Through research and advances made as early as the late nineteenth century, and even before that in some instances, today's computer related technologies have emerged. A major influence in the development of what is now known as the computer were made by the United States military in the 1940's and 1950's. The needs ...
- 149: Hate Crimes
- ... involve bias indicators-pieces of evidence like bigoted name-calling and graffiti. Hate Crimes usually involve convenient and vulnerable targets who are not able to fight back. In order for something to be a hate crime, there must a crime such as-assault, homicide, robbery, and something that demonstrates hatred or bias, for example: · Involves use of language or symbols, such as anti-gay slurs, racial epithets, or swastikas. · Involves use of objects or items ... been found that thrill crimes were the most common (58%), and most of these (70%) involved assaultive behavior. Reactive crimes accounted for only (42%) of the hate crimes but it is also the type of crime that in the past has also involved an assault on a stranger who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hate crimes not only involve physical crimes but also crimes ...
- 150: Computer Multimedia
- Computer Multimedia Computers have come a long way very fast since there start in the 1940's. In the beginning they were mainly used for keeping financial records by banks and insurance companies, and for mathematical computations by engineers and the U.S. Military. However, exciting new applications have developed rapidly in the last few years. Two of these areas is Computer Graphics and sound. Computer graphics is the ability of the computer to display, store and transmit visual information in the form of pictures. Currently there are two main uses for this new ability. One is in the creation ...
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