... have 38 million online households, one third of all households. The reasoning, or thesis, of the article is the question of whether the Web should be used for information purposes, or for a new marketplace in this expanding goldmine of information. The potential for businesses is enormous. Fifteen million people is a very large consumer marketplace. Consumers are not the only ones "surfing" around for info. Businesses also focus on other companies to sell their products. General Electric sold machine and appliance parts using a new business to business technology called "extranet". GE used its successful "extrane ...

... destination networks "read" the addresses on packets and forward them toward their destinations. E-mail is a very fast and efficient way of sending information to any internet location. Once an e-mail is sent, it arrives at its destination almost instantly. This provides people with a way to communicate with people anywhere in the world quickly without the costs of other forms of communicating such as telephone calls or postage for letters. The savings to be gained from e-mail were enough of an inducement for many businesses to invest heavily in equipment and network connections in the early 1990s. The emplo ...

... public appreciates computer viruses as something inherently bad. It is also considering several of the proposed models of "beneficial" viruses and points out the problems in them. A set of conditions is listed, which every virus that claims to be beneficial must conform to. At last, a realistic model using replication techniques for beneficial purposes is proposed and directions are given in which this technique can be improved further. The paper also demonstrates that the main reason for the conflict between those supporting the idea of a "beneficial virus" and those opposing it, is that the two sides are assum ...

... possible very quickly all over the world. Telecommunications is one of the reason we live in such a fast-pace and high-tech society today. The first invention in the telecommunications field is the telegraph. It was invented by Samuel Morse and utilizes an electrical current to send signals in the shaped of dot and lines called the Morse Code. It was first used in 1844 and it was mainly reserved for companies which needed information quickly such as banks, this helped them grow and more efficient. With the telegraph one could pass a message across any distance almost effortlessly and it was cheap, so the need for ...

... essay has nothing to do with making love. In fact, the entire posting is a recipe for the torture, and eventual killing, of a homosexual, repeatedly referred to as a “faggot� in the essay. Another such posting came from an elderly man who was angered by all the minorities and foreigners moving into his neighborhood and pleaded to any white supremacy group to come and exterminate them. Should these people have the right to say these things? Concerns such as these have led many to demand that hate material be removed from the net. Some Internet Service Providers are already starting to block access to sites the ...

... same way that the public is getting access to countless bytes of information, the accomplished computer user gets access to the private preferences and thoughts of the public. Wright suggests that people should be careful when publishing a Web page containing personal thoughts because anyone with Web-authoring software can easily trace the URL (electronic address) back to its origin. In short, people’s visions about a totally anonymous Internet are false because of the electronic trail that is left for others to find. Linda Tripp, who taped her conversations with the former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, expos ...

... files. If your system crashes, these files will help you get it going again. In addition, back up any files with an extension of .sys. For Windows systems, all files with an extension of .ini and .grp should also be backed up. Next any time you work inside you computer turn off the power and disconnect the equipment form the power source. Before you touch anything inside the computer, touch and unpainted metal surface such as the power supply. This will help to discharge any static electricity that could damage internal components. Now you should periodically, defragment your hard disk. Defragmenting your h ...

... {CANST}). For a fee of $49/year, the user was enabled to download such software as WordPerfect, Microsoft DOS,Windows, Lotus, Borland C++, dBase IV, and IBM LAN which are all copyrighted by The Canadian Copyright Act. The RCMP acted in response to concern from the users who stated that they were not sure whether this software could be distributed electronically. Yves Roy, sergeant of RCMP stated that charges will be laid in early December under paragraph 42 of The Copyright Act. Conviction under this act carries a maximum punishment of a fine of $1 million dollars, and/or 5 years imprisonment. Becaus ...

... loss of jobs to machines is also apparent in the small work place as well. One of the problems that are arises from automation is the tendency to raise average wages over time, but in reality a lowering of wages for people with obsolete skills is taking place. The image that keeps popping up is the one of the elimination of the need for human work. This bleak picture is probably never going to occur on such a drastic scale, but it has happened to millions of hard working people. One concern is what the people as a whole going to do about losing their jobs. The only real answer to this problem may not be d ...

... of the possibilities the technology could offer to society. Then with the heightened press, of the information super highway coined by their campaign, would only further catapult the development of the Internet. As this new technology momentum grew it made the world accessible to everyone and certain group's willingness to take advantage of the Internet. This would lead to need for regulation in what is acceptable content on the Internet, and how the first amendment has blocked many policy attempts trying to regulate the technology. We can point to the fact that emergence of any new technology is always th ...