.... hackers stole over 10,000,000 dollars in fraudulent wire transfers by exploiting a hole in it's systems provision for money transfers. It cost the Italian government over 225,000 to repair a glitch in The Rome Air Force Base's system. The telecommunications giant of the west Southwestern Bell had a problem with a hacker named Christopher Schanot that cost them around 100,000 dollars. According to the CSI FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 246 organizations reported over 100,000,000 dollars in financial loses due to security breaches in 1997 (Intranet Security xvii). The survey, keep in mind, represents only 246 out of 10 .....

.... world is not something they concern themselves with; they do not see it everyday and therefore it does not exist. This could not be farther from the truth. The developing world is in need of help but the developed world constantly turns a blind eye. Our current love affair with technology may provide the answer for underdeveloped nations problems. The standard of living is so low in these countries that our everyday conveniences are a struggle for the entire population to obtain. If the developed nations could meet these base needs, these countries may be able to overcome their current problems. The first issue that must be .....

.... no loss of efficiency of effectiveness however long the tasks took. The only problem was the expense of the machines. This was solved by the introduction of large Scale Integration (LSI), newly invented components and improving manufacturing techniques, which made the devices in these machines cheaper to build. Due to these advances IBM unveiled the first online transaction processing system in 1964. It was designed for American Airlines and its speed meant that bookings could be made and confirmed immediately at the travel agents. This right-now culture is what we have now come to expect from IT in today's society. As storag .....

.... features to create brochures, advertisements, and newsletters. An electronic spreadsheet enables a user to organize data in a fashion similar to a paper spreadsheet. The difference is the user does not have to perform calculations manually; electronic spreadsheets can be instructed to perform any computation desired. The contents of an electronic spreadsheet can be easily modified by the user. Once the data is modified, all calculations in the spreadsheet are recomputed automatically. Many electronic spreadsheet packages also enable a user to graph the data in his or her spreadsheet (Wakefield 98-110). A database manag .....

.... Consisting of a few young adults, they were not progressing as much as they would like too. Their competitor, Digital Research, created the first operating system, known as the CP/M-86 system. Though, not glamorized, CP/M did exist. Their competitors had it a little worse, working out of their not so tidy two story house, made up of a husband and wife. The massive change occurred when a couple of IBM representatives showed up at the door of the CP/M founders only to be turned away. Very rare to happen, since IBM was so highly respected by programmers at the time. IBM is introduced to a young man named Bill Gates, mistaken for .....

.... all happens due to the rotation of the camshaft which is geared to the crankshaft (which is connected to the pistons) which is all part of the four stroke cycle. The four-stroke cycle starts with the intake stroke. On the intake stroke, the piston moves down from its top dead center or the farthest "up" position creating a partial vacuum which draws in the fresh air-fuel mixture from the open intake valve. Think of the vacuum like a syringe with no needle. "If you put your finger over the end of the tube and pull back the plunger, then pop your finger off the tube, the suction will draw fresh air into the tube" (Freiburger 76 .....

.... was the first came ever to be created on the computer. Now there is one more thing you have to know about this computer, the computer was half the size of West High Schools gym. And it was thought that when it was ecomoical for people to own there own computer it would fill a decent size room. Could you imagine a computer filling up your entire living room, where wolud you put your TV? But with the invetion of keyboards and nanotechnology they reduced the size of the computer by nearly 200% and every year the keep getting smaller and smaller and it is estimated that nearly 85 to 90 percent of American homes have at least one com .....

.... from its new position, still producing the same measurement results. Before repairs, Shark provides you with the ability to prove existing damage. This information is good to the vehicle owner and insurance company because it not only explains the cost of repair, but eliminates unnecessary work and surprises. During the straightening procedure, Shark will monitor selected underbody and upperbody reference points. Shark then calculates deviations from the manufactures specifications. You can view the whole pulling process, as it happens, live on the colored monitor. When the job is complete, you may command Shark to .....

.... very little technical explanation. A Typical BIOS POST Sequence Most BIOS POST sequences occur along four stages: 1. Display some basic information about the video card like its brand, video BIOS version and video memory available. 2. Display the BIOS version and copyright notice in upper middle screen. You will see a large sequence of numbers at the bottom of the screen. This sequence is the . 3. Display memory count. You will also hear tick sounds if you have enabled it (see Memory Test Tick Sound section). 4. Once the POST have succeeded and the BIOS is ready to call the operating system (DOS, OS/2, NT, WIN95, etc.) you wi .....

.... is what the people as a whole going to do about losing their jobs. The only real answer to this problem may not be determined for years to come. As automation continues to grow, many people will be negatively affected. My feeling on the entire picture is spit both ways. On the one side, many applications for a machine exist, which man cannot perform. I know that I would not want to be the person that has to tell the people that they are going to lose their jobs to automation. I am in favor of manual labor because it is the job of a person with a family to support that is at stake when people a laid off because of autom .....