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    “As a young boy, I was taught in high school, hacking was cool.” - Kevin Mitnick Tell me what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘hacking’? Brighten up your imagination a bit more and tell me how do you portray a ‘hacker’? Well, I am sure most of the will imagine a hacker as a geek, who is mysteriously attractive and is surrounded by many computers with codes running in them. One term that is used by the majority of the population to describe a hacker is ‘cool’.…

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    Jean Reyes Period 5 12-13-16 Mayan’s Most Remarkable Achievement The Mayans have accomplished many remarkable things like, their Mayan calendar, trade network map, and building cities, Even though those are remarkable, I think that their number system was the most remarkable thing that they have. The next remarkable thing that the Mayans did was their trade network map. The Mayans really had no transportation to get to where they wanted to be, and they had to carry everything themselves…

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    exception. Her clock moved counterclockwise (Cushman B6) and was an expression of her gravitation towards creative change instead of always solving problems in the same way. Throughout her career, her personal conviction shone through as she shook up computing for the better. As a naval computer engineer, Hopper developed a dream goal of democratizing software to make computers accessible to everyone so that they could make their own impact on the world. She turned computers from the mystical…

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    It’s the year 3000, and you walk into a hospital and notice that everything is done using the computers. If someone gets injured, the computer will take care of the issue. If someone needs a life saving treatment, the computer will print out a report for the patient and you’re thinking, “what happened to the doctors?” Back in 2015 there was a controversy in the article “Medical Technology and Ethical Issues” between authors William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey on the R.I.P system; which is a…

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    The Dangers Of Computers

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    Computers have become vital to our everyday lives. We use them for just about everything. Why wouldn’t we? They’re quick and pretty simple to use. From using them to online shop to recording data of your businesses precious information. Computers have become completely necessary in keeping a company alive and thriving. Without having them to do some of the simplest things, it would be extremely difficult to survive in the business world. This invention is an incredible helping hand, but having…

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    same name, in fact it wasn’t always about programing either, before Computer Science there were other tools used to help in calculations like the abacus used to keep track of adding high numbers. Before the abacus women would be given the task of computing, which involved a lot of repetitive calculations. Repetition could be very boring and boredom leads to a lot of mistakes. In the 14th century John Napier invented Napier’s rods a machine that made it easy to do multiplication (Shallit). In…

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    As the world of technology advances and new technology comes out. Individuals need to know of the risks and the threats that are out there. Computers are a great piece to have with you, but you can’t become ignorant in the world of the internet. Individuals will be using the internet to check out different websites, do their shopping online, and some will be doing their banking online. As I have mention in my research paper and in my presentation, computer security is something individuals need…

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    To overcome the limitations of manual switching; automatic exchanges, having Electro-mechanical components, were developed. Strowger exchange, the first automatic exchange having direct control feature, appeared in 1892 in La Porte (Indiana). Though it improved upon the performance of a manual exchange it still had a number of disadvantages, viz., a large number of mechanical parts, limited availability, inflexibility, bulky in size etc. As a result of further research and development, Crossbar…

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    Computer Repair Technician

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    All of my life I have enjoyed using computers, it was until recently that I had wanted to be able to fix them, to build them. It is a major dream of mine now that I am older and more readily prepared for such complex thinking and analyzing skills that are required when being a computer repair technician. Computers, how they work, how to fix them, is all in a day's work for a computer repair technician. They jump to the rescue to fix and pull a computer back from the brink of death, whether it…

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    One of the first challenges scientists faced in building the modern society was the unavailability of a convenient, reliable, and cheap method of communication - a dream window through which one could see and talk to the whole world. When the first computer was invented, no one could have known that this amazing device would be the basic need of life for humans in the near future. In the modern era, a person without access to a computer or the Internet is as good as an alien- with whom we can’t…

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