Sentences with phrase «say computers and the internet»

When it comes to changing schools, what's to say computers and the Internet are any different?

Not exact matches

Yesterday at the International CES, for example, home improvement giant Lowe's announced a new wave of products and services associated with Iris, the company's tool that allows you to customize and monitor your internet - connected home devices — like, say, a water shut - off valve that cuts supply when a leak is detected — from a single app on your smartphone or computer.

Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with data to crash it.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — An Internet company offering inexpensive live broadcast television feeds to computers, tablets and smartphones doesn't violate U.S. copyright law, a divided federal appeals court said Monday.

Iberdrola and Gas Natural, along with Vodafone's unit in Spain, asked staff to turn off computers or cut off Internet access in case they had been compromised, representatives from the firms said.

«3D printing is freeing access to material objects in the same way that the computer and Internet revolutions has been liberating information for the last 30 years,» said Adrian Bowyer, the founder of one of the most popular 3D printing open source platforms, the RepRap project.

In another document taken from the NSA by Snowden and obtained by NBC News, a JTRIG official said the unit's mission included computer network attacks, disruption, «Active Covert Internet Operations,» and «Covert Technical Operations.»

That being said, plenty of the businesses mentioned below require, at a minimum, regular access to a computer, the internet, and perhaps a car.

Furthermore, 82 percent said that they access the Internet with laptop computers and 47 percent with tablets (up from 26 percent in 2012), both significantly higher than older generations.

While computers and the Internet hold revolutionary possibilities, he said, they will not affect living standards or productivity the way the innovations of the last 150 years did, citing developments like railroads, electrification, indoor plumbing and the like.

«Electronics has already had its revolution with the Internet, the personal computer and e-commerce,» he said.

Danny Yang, the founder of the virtual currency security firm BlockSeer, said he had traced several attacks to internet addresses in the Philippines, though other attacks have been tracked to computers in Turkey and the United States.

Buffalo Grove Police Commander Jim Newton said a Buffalo Grove police officer who is a member of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force got information that Welstead had downloaded pornographic images and films of children onto his computers.

Councilors said the previous computer use policy would have given the Miner administration access to their emails, Internet browsing history and subject them to discipline if they violated the policy.

This unwillingness to let computers override the terrible decisions of terrible drivers is rather ironic, says Brad Templeton, an influential Internet entrepreneur and expert on civil rights in the digital age; accident avoidance is one of the most appropriate ways to have computers intrude into our lives.

«As you make the system more technical and more automated, there are more ways to game it,» says Bruce Schneier, a computer - security expert at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Internet hosts in western countries appeal to criminals for the same reasons that regular computer users like them, says Santorelli: the machines are extremely reliable and enjoy high - bandwidth connections.

The visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier once said: «The internet perceives censorship as damage and routes around it».

A long - term implosion of the Internet is unlikely, says David Kotz, a computer scientist and director of the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College.

«It is the internet's greatest strength and its greatest weakness,» says Marc Goodman, a computer security consultant who blogs at futurecrimes.com.

«With recent events, such as censorship of Internet traffic, suspicious «boomerang routing» where data leaves a region only to come back again, and monitoring of users» data, we became increasingly interested in this notion of empowering users to have more control over what happens with their data,» says project lead Dave Levin, an assistant research scientist in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

Still, Sheehan said neuroscience already is one of the leaders in data sharing and management, with such resources as the NIH - funded National Database for Autism Research; an NIH - Defense Department sponsored data base on traumatic brain injury; the NIH - funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.

«It is time for the Internet community to start addressing the more difficult, deeper security problems,» says Wenke Lee, professor in the School of Computer Science and an adviser to the team.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center say that their first - of - its - kind study of a telemedicine program which transports stroke specialists via computer desktop or even laptop to the patient's bedside, using highly sophisticated video, audio and Internet technology, could have an immediate and profound impact on the treatment of stroke patients throughout the world.

But we also know that the internet can be a dark place where people say and do things that they probably would be ashamed of it they weren't behind a computer screen.

It is fair to say, it is no exaggeration that technology and the use of computers is integrated as an element in our ways that do not have Internet access or connection to a computer has become a challenge or oppose.

The usual potted history is offered, from 1960s computer dating (erroneously called «early internet dating» by Ansari — there was nothing online about those IBM mainframe, punchcard - operated services), to lonely hearts ads with their complicated, expensive voice mail services and video dating in the 1980s, followed by the emergence of Match.com in 1995 and the amazing numbers of people who use internet dating (here he reproduces the stale 2013 figure that a third of American marriages today began online; Pew recently drastically downsized the figure to say that only five per cent of married Americans have met online).

Pew found 19 percent of non-Internet users cited the expense of owning a computer or online connections, and just seven percent said the Internet was not available to them.

In early February, according to a Reuters report, 127 Internet cafes in Shanghai were forced to close and their computers were confiscated because, said the Shanghai News, the cafes had failed to obtain licenses.

«Many times, I worked with a science teacher to help students use the Internet to learn about planets, hurricanes, earthquakes, and so on,» said retired K - 8 computer teacher / coordinator Betty Kistler.

«This is the first generation to grow up digital — coming of age in a world where computers, the internet, videogames, and cell phones are common, and where expressing themselves through these tools is the norm,» said MacArthur president Jonathan Fanton.

The boys, ages 15 and 17, learned through the Internet global computer network how to make the bomb, authorities said.

«Those that use the Internet every day do the worst,» said Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills, and author of «Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection,» the OECD's first report to look at the digital skills of students around the world.

But given the strain on school budgets in recent years, experts say middle - income districts also need help to reach federal goals for Internet speed and the deployment of computers.

While having a school completely wired for the Internet and a computer for every child may not be necessary to give online tests, some school officials said those kinds of upgrades would help to ensure that testing doesn't interrupt classes and other academic pursuits.

Looking specifically at technology use at libraries, we found that as a group, patrons under age 30 are more likely than older patrons to use libraries» computers and internet connections, but less likely to say these resources are very important to them and their families — particularly the youngest patrons, ages 16 - 17.

• 77 % say free access to computers and the internet is a «very important» service of libraries.

And not too many year ago I used to say, «I don't really need a computer and I don't see me ever getting the internet.&raqAnd not too many year ago I used to say, «I don't really need a computer and I don't see me ever getting the internet.&raqand I don't see me ever getting the internet.»

In response to this, Acer chairman JT Wang, who also happens to be the president of the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), said that in the era of smart internet connectivity, Microsoft should quit setting rules on its own, and should do things based on various opinions reflecting the entire IT ecosystem.

«Editors can make changes on a computer and then send the updated packages to users via the Internet,» he said.

That said, if there will be a computer available and an internet connection, you should be able to download a book to the computer then upload the book from the computer to your Kindle.

Don't do it at Internet cafes and public computers, where security may be lax, says Chen.

In the 2008 NSA document, titled «Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments,» the agency said that «terrorist target selectors» — which could be a computer's Internet Protocol address or an email account — «have been found associated with Xbox Live, Second Life, World of Warcraft» and other games.

The idea that the race would feature heavily in the next Skyrim DLC began when Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax, filed, and later extended a trademark for «Redguard» in regards to «downloadable computer game software offered via the internet and wireless devices,» a long winded way of saying DLC.

«In an era before Twitter and Internet forums, computer and game enthusiasts used these magazines to come together, interact with each other, and gain inspiration for their own work,» said Gifford.

The work, said Mr. Shulan, is all over the place but shares a «running sense of humor that's influenced by trolling on the Internet and computer hacking.»

«What's fascinating about Rafman's work is the way he uses the very familiar visual language of the internet, social media, and computer games to create immersive narratives that reveal the anxieties and desires of contemporary life,» says Maitreyi Maheshwari, program director at Zabludowicz Collection and curator of the exhibition, which also offered up a waterbed, ball pit, massage chair, and filing cabinets streaming video games in first - person shooter.

Cortright has said that all she needs to make work is a computer and that all the tools and content she needs are available on the internet.

You have to have resources in your home, like a copier, Internet, and computer,» Nur said.

«There are 44 states where this is an opportunity for Internet gaming to become regulated and normalized,» he said If that happens, it may be safer to gamble with your computer than your friends.