.... a very specific subject in mind (as the majority of our fellow humans do) turns this tool into a horrific waste of time. And the vast information stored here is useless, as if it wasn't there. Secondly, to get anything interesting or informative from the web, no matter what the subject, one must know its exact location, else one is compelled to dive into a muddy flood of shit. This leads me to the point of clarifying the term "information": This word usually has two meanings, a fact that contributes to misunderstandings. It can mean a piece of wanted, useful and understandable data or it can also mean any piece of data. When a stupid chick posts som .....

.... to the conventional forms. In order to understand what all these topics are you must first understand what the internet is. The simple answer is that it is computers all over the globe connected together by telephone wires. It was first made by the military, "No one owns the Internet", to have a network with no centre. That way it could never be destroyed by nuclear war. Since then, universities have used it and it has evolved into what it is today. It is a library that contains mail, stories, news advertising, and just about everything else. "In a sense, freenets are a literacy movement for computer mediated communication today, as .....

.... being reprimanded for what they say, or how they choose to say it. The key to the world-wide success of the Internet is its protection of free speech, not only in America, but in other countries where free speech is not protected by a constitution. To be found on the Internet is a huge collection of obscene graphics, Anarchists' cookbooks and countless other things that offend some people. With over 30 million Internet users in the U.S. alone (only 3 million of which surf the net from home), everything is bound to offend someone. The newest wave of laws floating through law making bodies around the world threatens to stifle this area of spontane .....

.... population to be safe from their trespasses? To tackle this question, people have to know what a hacker is. The connotation of the word 'hacker' is a person that does mischief to computer systems, like computer viruses and cybercrimes. "There is no single widely-used definition of computer-related crime, [so] computer network users and law enforcement officials must distinguish between illegal or deliberate network abuse versus behavior that is merely annoying. Legal systems everywhere are busily studying ways of dealing with crimes and criminals on the Internet" (Voss, 1996, p. 2). There are ultimately three different views on the hacker .....

.... Joe? And those nice librarians, what about them? Will they be out of a job? Will they be forced to operate computers that are foreign to them? How do we as a society adjust to technological change? The answer lies in society's ability to effectively measure the costs and benefits of technological change. The rapid growth of technology brings with it a massive amount of hope, but also despair. Kids are growing up with computers. They are learning more and faster than other generations could. This is wonderful, right? Maybe not. Will computers deplete the social skills kids need to mature? Will being a member of America OnLine rather than a youth g .....

.... operating processors can be very complex, since there need to be dedicated communication paths between the processors, as well as software to divide the tasks among them. A practical multiprocessing system should be as simple as possible and require a minimum overhead in terms of both hardware and software. There are various techniques of arranging a coprocessor alongside a microprocessor. One technique is to provide the coprocessor with an instruction interpreter and program counter. Each instruction fetched from memory is examined by both the MPU and the coprocessor. If it is a MPU instruction, the MPU executes it; otherwise the coprocesso .....

.... it generates a force called "lift" that helps the airplane fly. Wings are contoured to take maximum advantage of this force. Wings may be attached at the top, middle, or lower portion of the fuselage. These designs are referred to as high-, mid-, and low-wing, respectively. The number of wings can also vary. Airplanes with a single set of wings are referred to as monoplanes, while those with two sets are called biplanes. To help fly the airplane, the wings have two types of control surfaces attached to the rear, or trailing, edges. They are referred to as ailerons and flaps. Ailerons extend from about the midpoint of each wing outward to the .....