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Informational Terrorism The introduction of the computer has created a new type of terrorism known as informational terrorism, which presents a threat, equal to or greater than physical terrorism. E-mail bombs and attacks on internet servers are the lowest forms of informational terrorism in te...
Managing a Retail Website Simulation Electronic commerce allows organizations to become larger in scale without the need for a physical location in the marketplace. The ability to increase sales through the Internet without creating more physical stores is a real opportunity for the traditional ...
Internet CensorshipThe Internet is a wonderful place of entertainment and education, but like all places used by millions of people, it has some murky corners people would prefer children not to explore. In the physical world, society as a whole wants to protect children, but there are no social or ...
The Internet supports mass customization and one-on-one marketing asfollows: * Mass customization aE" The capacity of the Internet is found in the use of information technology (IT), data storage and data processing instead of the traditional approach of relying on physical location ...
a. E-commerce sites and their security – is there any impact of the cost of their security on the prices they charge? As more and more consumers make purchases online, e-commerce continues to grow. With this growth comes an increased prevalence of threats to e-commerce sites. As such, s...
One of the main aspects of e-commerce study is to learn how to actually build and host an e-commerce web site. There are many choices for building a web site, ranging from complete in-housed development to complete outsourcing. In-house development means that you need to have staffs, hardware and so...
The issue that I chose to research and write about is domestic violence. I chose this particular issue because my family has been tragically affected by domestic violence. In 1983, my mother was stabbed to death by her long-time live-in boyfriend. At the time I was eleven years old, and I do not rec...
In this day and age, computers have become a common necessity of everyday life. Anyone who has not joined in this new era of technology will soon be left in the dark ages. Along with the computer advancement has come the Internet, which is an intricate connection of millions of computers around the ...
Everyone looks at Internet dating as a bad thing. It's only a bad thing if you don't take it seriously. See, this Christmas I just met my girlfriend of 14 months. We'll call her "KK". We drove all the way to a small town in Missouri to meet her. She is a great girl and we clicked instantly, jus...
Amazon.com is now an online retailer of books, toys, music, DVDs, clothing, house-wares and a variety of other products. Its services are aimed primarily at the internet consumer, the person who goes online and uses Amazon.com's website to find a product. It all began in 1994 when Jeff Bezo, Am...
Many parents feel that Internet filtering by programs such as BESS really do work effectively. However, by blocking information from reaching students by means of an automated filter may actually cause more harm than good. Teachers have forgotten their duty to supervise students while they use the ...
With the public emergence and worldwide explosion of the internet, Identity theft has become one of the most rapidly increasing crimes. What was once a personal crime requiring criminals to have some form of contact with the victim, if nothing more than rummaging through the trash, can now be done ...
Censorship of pornography continues to be a controversial issue; many arguments have been generated by this topic. I believe that censorship of pornography is wrong. Pornography is simply a depiction in words or pictures of sexual activity. Advocates of pornography claim it is a form of sex discri...
Arranged marriage is a concept that does not take precedence in the United States, where love marriages are most popular. In this presentation we will explore the reasons for arranged marriages and look at the process that goes on. Our group will also relate this topic to such anthropological term...
Before gophers, hypertext, and sophisticated web browsers, telnet was the primary means by which computer users connected their machines with other computers around the world. Telnet is a plain ASCII terminal emulation protocol that is still used to access a variety of information sources, most no...
1.0 Introduction The internet has played a major roll in the development of business and domestic industries. It is an everyday element in each and everyone's lives. Through chat, surfing, shopping and banking. But society has now been confronted with the issue of security, primarily securit...
Intelligent Multibrand Diagnosis in Vehicles Industry: Automotive Product: Data Acquisition, Labview The challenge: Developing an equipment to perform accurate online diagnosis of all components of the engines of European, Asian, and American cars. The solution: Creating a system based o...
The question Putnam poses in reference to social isolation and social involvement is a very debatable topic in today's society (Burns, 12). Today there is an abundant and growing presence of social isolation in terms of social capital. Social capital is defined as participation in v...
Computers store all information as binary numbers. The binary number system uses two binary digits, 0 and 1, which are called bits. The amount of data that a computer network can transfer in a certain amount of time is called the bandwidth of the network and is measured in kilobits per second (kbps)...
The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite. In the late 1960’s the U.S. military was desperately afraid of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. The United States formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense to establish a bombp...
Cyber-shopping and the Consumer Christmas holidays are synonymous with laughter, carols and family gatherings. Along with these pleasurable holiday experiences, another more frustrating task must be confronted: the long and arduous task of shopping for gifts for friends and loved one...
Many people accomplish tasks by making goals and working to achieve what they set out to do. I do not think of it like that. To me, life is almost like the high jump: In order to go places, one must consistently raise the bar. In American History, my \"bar\" is at an area where I am comfortable w...
BOOKS OR THE INTERNET? Today, information is more readily available than at any other time in History. As well as books, we can now look up the Internet to find information about virtually anything. This essay will give you examples of both the advantages and disadvantages of both books and the...
Money was originally any physical substance that was desired by others, such as gold, silver, or even cattle. Today when someone mentions money you think of bills or coins, but in reality you should be thinking e-money or electronic money, the future of all commerce. With the digital age approaching...
Web Sites and the Internet Throughout time man has constantly been trying to process and send information. Before the Internet we used mail and telephone. In order to get information about any topic people would have to travel to a library and research a lot to find things for a paper. With the ...