E-mail is qualitatively different from the “snail mail” and fax machines that preceded it in the workplace. First, e-mail is usually connected to the same computer networks that house much of a company’s sensitive information. As a result, an employee can attach anything—from the corporate payroll (to a confidential deal memorandum to your wholesale price [...]
Since a distributed system will have, as a given, the fact that data should be shared between users the decision to share an entity such as a relational table is not a decision that is taken by the designer. However, underneath the fact that data is shared are a number of design decisions which can [...]
There are a number of ways in which companies can make money from the Internet. Probably the best known way of making money is by selling some commodity; this could be a non-IT commodity such as a CD or item of clothing or it could be some piece of application software, a font, a browser [...]
We’ve become quite casual about the mainstreaming of the Web—we can’t get through a nightly TV news show or morning classical radio program without being told there’s more on a story or a playlist available on the station’s Web site. Pointers in printed marketing, collateral, newsletters, magazines, journals, and books—including this one!—to visit Web sites [...]
Properly speaking, ‘Internet‘ is the name of a communication protocol (IP = Internet Protocol), which unsurprisingly is central to the communication between your computer and the rest of the world. However, the name has also come to be applied to the global network of computers connected using this protocol; this is perhaps the most common [...]
It is an odd thing about the Internet that one can easily have a substantial number of people actively looking for studies to participate in. One can equally have a substantial number of people searching the Web looking for ways to test their skills in cracking into systems and having an impact on them. In [...]
Hyphenation. List the treatment of frequently used terms that raise questions: Are they hyphenated, not hyphenated, or have they grown together to form one word? Is it day trading, day-trading, or daytrading? fiberoptic or fiber-optic? health care or healthcare? longer-term agreement or longer term agreement?
Capitalization. A style guide needn’t instruct writers to capitalize the first [...]
Which is more frustrating to people in search of help with style: having to flip through pages of badly organized and cryptically indexed rules, or having to scroll through long screenfuls of unsearchable items with many irrelevant links to get to the point? It’s a wash. Very few people read style guides for fun.
What you’ll [...]
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How Legal Wire tapping Works
CALEA requires that communications providers allow law enforcement officials to be able to listen in on phone conversations and get information about those phone calls, but only when the law enforcement agency has gotten approval for the tap.
The law enforcement agency goes before a judge and presents reasons a wiretap is [...]
Throughout the history of the United States, one of the greatest political tensions has been that which balances personal privacy against the need for law enforcement to protect individuals and the country as a whole.
That tension has been with us from the very earliest days of the Republic. The Founding Fathers were extremely cognizant of [...]
It gives me a chance to rave about some of the cool new functionality in SQL Server 2000. Plus, I can show you some of the things that are not totally relevant to our application but that you definitely will want to know as you continue developing and maintaining SQL Server.
Although the enhancements to the [...]
