Essays on Bug

Re: Regression Testing for All Information Systems (Project Change Request, M5A1)

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Executive Summary

This undertaking is a sub-project of the project of the total relocation of Pro Service’s employees and facilities from its current location in downtown Honolulu to a newer Hawaii Kai facility. This project’s goal is to move and re-install all IT/IS hardware and software into the new facility and to conduct training and support to all employees upon completion. Time is of a critical factor as IT/IS services ...

Perhaps one of the most commonly known rights guaranteed by the first ten amendments to the Constitution is the Fourth Amendment’s “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches” (U.S. Const. amend IV). Interestingly, while the meaning of the term “unreasonable” might seem intuitive, the Framers of the Constitution did not provide a specific or detailed definition of it. However, after the Supreme Court; relying on the fact that Article III of the Constitution vested the Court with the judicial power to “all cases” that arise under the “Constitution, ...

Bedbug manifestation has become more prevalent in the United States of late. Nowadays, the majority of the people with bedbug infestations at their homes have gotten them from hotels, public seats and from buying used furniture (Kells, 2016). I have chosen to write about this topic because it is one of the problems people in the United States are faced with. Bed Bug manifestation may also be brought about by the changes in climate. Changes in climate affect the breeding process of these insects because during warm weather; they may multiply to great numbers (Lai, Ho, Glick, & Jagdeo, 2016). ...

Parties: Charles Katz (Defendant-Applicant) v. United States (Plaintiff-Respondent)

Facts: Katz had long been suspected by police to be involved in the local illegal gambling scene. In an effort to obtain credible evidence of his illegal activities, the police placed Katz under surveillance (Katz v United States, 1967). That surveillance revealed that Katz liked to use a particular phone booth, which police suspected Katz used to place bets. Consequently, the police attached a “big” or listening device to the phone booth in order to record Katz’s conversation and hopefully obtain evidence against him. The bug was able to record Katz making bets and the police used those ...

Despite great advances in medicine like the vaccine or the external artificial heart, it is easy for forget that all it takes in one microscopic bug to unravel our entire society. This catastrophe is depicted in the 2014 film Contagion. This science fiction thriller follows the events of a global pandemic and the societal effects of a calamity of this scale. Our heroes, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to the World Health Organization (WHO) must race against the incredibly high rate of transmission. The epidemiological process is performed over the course of four months from the first day ...

How did the fear develop?

Suppose that a young girl is terrified of bugs, fear may have developed through classical conditioning by developing a kind of nervous disorder. This may have started through an early experience that transpired when she was younger. One day, she was out riding on a bike and when she started to get tired, she bowed her head down and that was when she saw a bug right at the center of the road. As the young girl looked at the bug, she failed to see a motorcycle that was coming right at her and so she lost her balance ...

Introduction

The Badlock bug is a vulnerability that got discovered by Stefan Metzmacher, who works for Samba developers (Mimoso, 2016). Stefan has worked for Samba for a long period; since 2002 and he now works as a Samba trainer and consultant at SerNet. The Badlock bug is a vulnerability that affects various kinds of Windows operating system known as the DCE. The DCE is utilized by chairpersons around the globe to get to the most profitable resource on any Windows. The windows network is an Active Directory, which goes about as a system with advanced security watch permitting an association's ...

Abstract

In the novel ‘Black Hole,’ teenagers who engage in sexual behavior contract a decision that leads to genetic mutations which are hard to conceal. The disease is a replica of the Aids Pandemic and the struggles which teenagers have to endure during their adolescent years. The importance of the study is to identify how teenagers in the book the black Hole relate to the youth in the current society. Teenagers experience hormonal imbalances which cause them to lose control and are mostly controlled by their sex drives. Sexual attractions are common during this developmental stage of life, and most ...

The reaction by a person being told they have HIV is often and very understandably very negative. Most people, even in the most undereducated countries in the world, understand very well that HIV is a life-shortening disease. Depending on a multitude of physical, mental, and socio-economic factors, living with HIV can be a horrendous damnation in which the person is shamed and shunned for the remainder of their life, or it can be another chronic illness among a list of others. In the United States and the United Kingdom, most people today who are the most susceptible consider HIV ...

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most beloved poets. She wrote of nature, love, and death. It is said that Dickinson wrote 1800 poems, the majority of which were untitled. Dickinson was known to be somewhat reclusive and introverted throughout her life. These traits, however, did not preclude her from observing and appreciating even the simplest forms of her natural surroundings. One of Dickinson’s poems involving nature is “A Bird Came Down the Walk-.” It is this poem that will be discussed here. Dickinson’s poetry is of a personal quality, not only to the poet, but ...

Spider-man has become a symbol of the ultimate underdog around the world. The 12-cent comic book has helped to create an empire of Marvel comics, tv shows, movies, toys and a culture that celebrates superheroes. The writer of the comic book (Lee, 1962) was able to witness the success a lot of his superheroes, as they became symbols of hope after World War 2 and during the very height of the Cold War (O’Neil, 2016). When it comes to this one character, Spider-man, the idea of a man being transformed into an insect was not new. It can ...

The metamorphosis of Gregor was not his choice. We can see it in the first sentence of the book: “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin” (Kafka, 1). We can see that he was surprised by the fact that he is not a human anymore. Even though it was a long time when he stopped to feel himself as a person, not an ugly insect. He was working hard to earn money for the family that even did not appreciate his efforts. When Greta and a ...

1- Telling a Strange Tale

- How would you characterize the tone in which the story is told—esp. at the beginning? What is the effect of using this tone for an account of such bizarre incidents? The tone of this story is very clinical and matter-of-fact. The presentation of the situation is always done with a minimum of excess modifiers; the author relies on nouns to tell the story rather than adding to the text with too many adjectives and adverbs. The effect of this is to present the story as perfectly normal and mundane – which is what makes it all the more ...

Question 1. The Article

“Clarity on Honey Bee Collapse?” is an article which tackles about the possible explanation on why honey bee colonies are rapidly decreasing.

Question 2. Type of Source

The source is a scholarly article in traditional print source. It is supported by scientific evidences and the article is under the provisions of a scientific journal. Moreover, it is featured in a science book; therefore, the source is highly credible (Purdue Online Writing Lab).

Question 3. Varroa destructor

a. Varroa destructor is a mite of the class Arachnida. Further classification states that it belongs to the subclass Acari (Bug Guide). b. The source for the answer in (a) can be ...

In 2014, JP Morgan Chase Bank experienced a data breach whereby 83 million customer accounts were compromised in what was deemed as the largest data breach in America. The hack affected 76 million American households, which were approximated to be 67 percent of the total households in America. The attack, announced in the month of September, was uncovered by the bank’s cyber security team in July 2014, but was not contained till mid-August. The hackers stole customers’ names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. It was reported that other personal information such as login details, social security ...

Introduction:

Global mobile manufacturing giants Apple Inc. and Samsung Inc. have been producing tablets designed to compete head-to-head. The iPad by Apple’s and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab have been the flagship tablet devices offered by each company respectively, and these devices have continued to evolve over the years in terms of design, performance, and other features. Since there have been many generations of Apple iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tabs, an honest and accurate comparison of these two devices can only be done if we compare the most recent versions. In this regard, this paper shall pit the iPad Air ...

The novel "On the Road" is a story of how Kerouac travelled across the great United States of America together with his friends. It is a great piece of work since the author was able to capture wonderful scenes and marvelous pieces of artwork. The main character is seen amidst a backdrop of poetry, drugs and drug abuse plus great musical jazz. 1957 was the year that the novel was published, and Kerouac is the narrator who tells the whole story in the novel (Kerouac 1). Kerouac came up with the idea of telling his travels story in the ...

Liferay Development Model vs Closed Source Development Model

Liferay uses an open source development model. Open source refers to software for which the source code is available freely over the internet from the original developers of the software (Niu, 2016). Android operating system is one of the most popular example of open source software. On the other hand, closed and commercial software is usually closely protected by the company that developed the software, using proprietary license agreements. For example, Microsoft windows is a closed source software protected by a license of Microsoft. Other users cannot use the source code of the software and develop variations of Windows ( ...

Entomology is the investigation of bugs, which are those creatures that have an exoskeleton, 6 legs, 3 body portions, 1 sets of radio wire, and 1 sets of compound eyes. The quickly developing field of measurable entomology is extensively characterized as the utilization of the investigative investigation of creepy crawlies and their arthropod relatives to lawful matters. Scientific entomologists regularly manage non-creepy crawly arthropods, for example, arachnids, bugs, and ticks. Thusly, the essential meaning of "criminological entomology" amplifies past "entomology." Inside of the scientific sciences, legal entomologists can set up a part of the after death interim (which is ...

One of the prominent stories written in the style of expressionism is a novel of Franz Kafka “The Metamorphosis”. The story embodies all the outstanding features of this modern trend in the world literature. The author does not try to point out the vices of the society but gives us the hints hiding them in grotesque and exaltation. "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy describes similar changes of an ordinary man. But, unlike the novel of Franz Kafka, this literary work does not exaggerate the state of a person by transforming him into an insect-like creature. The ...

The Ozark Big Eared Bat

The Ozark Big Eared Bats (Corynorhinus townsendii ingens) are found in different habitats accross the United States. They are limited in number and are found in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma; however, it was reported that they are no longer found in Missouri because of the destruction of the environment. In Oklahoma, they are found in Adair County and adjacent parts of Cherokee and Delaware counties. In the early 1970s, the Ozark big eared bats were documented to only be a hundred in Missouri. With efforts in the l980s, it was reported that an increase in number among these creatures have occurred. ...

SEO and SEM both relate to marketing and search engines. Though both of them are similar in some ways, there are manifest variances between the two. SEO deals with those techniques that ensure the accessibility of a website by a search engine with good chances of the website showing up in the results of a query from the search engine. The definitive goal of any fruitful SEO campaign is the accomplishment of a high-ranking spot in the results returned by major search engine pages such as; Yahoo, Bing and Google. There are also other smaller search engines. After searching, most users on the ...

The paper of Chuck Huff, fellow of the Psychology Department, St. Olaf College, entitled “Unintentional Power in the Design of Computer Systems” discusses on the problems that occur in the design of a computer system which results to harm, destruction or even instability. As the title says, the design glitch was done unintentional or simply, the author doesn’t know about it in the first place. His paper was a wake-up call to everybody in both software and hardware developers to be very careful in the design aspect of their modules. This is to help trim down the events that ...

1. In the article “Island of the Snakes” there is a captivating story about brown tree snakes and the fact that these seemingly harmless snakes have literally invaded the entire ecosystem in Guam. The article begins with an early morning call from someone in Saipan, 200 kilometers away from Guam, because a brown tree snake was seen on the runway at the international airport. Then it details the history of how the brown tree snake arrived in Guam in the 1940s, aboard planes that were shipping materials as the U.S. began building up troops in the Pacific to fight the Japanese ...

“There is reason that all things are as they are” (Stoker). In the written works of Dracula and The Metamorphosis, the authors use two very different styles to portray horrifying fantasy. In Dracula, Bram Stoker uses realism in the form of journal entries, letters, ships’ logs, and newspaper articles to tell the story of the vampire Count Dracula. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka uses surrealism in the form of third person narrative, to tell the story of Gregor Samsa, who wakes one day to find he has been transformed overnight into a huge, disgusting bug. Although the authors employ different ...

Abstract

Much as mobile payments are comfortable to carry out, there is the danger of money being stolen by cyber thieves. Criminals use plenty of malware tools like Heartbleed bug or Trojan viruses to gain access to sensitive information for further manipulation. SMS interceptors allow thieves to receive the authentication text messages sent by banks on a per-lo-in principle. As far the level of safety goes, Android platforms are second safest to Apple analogues based on a walled garden App Store and a closed operating system, yet not even this product can keep mobile users safe when their inquisitiveness and desire to download ...

Recently, BlackBerry had been infested by myriad of problems and managerial muddle. In fact, it was on the verge of losing its big title. It’s not until their realization of what they would lose that they considered a change in the management structure. Thorsten Heins who had been BlackBerry’s interim CEO stepped down after the foiled sale and was replace by John Chen; who has taken a new dimension and implemented policies towards the company’s success. There were many setbacks that even saw resignation of co-CEOs Mike and Lazaridis Jim Balsillie. Their resignation clearly showed faux pass and ...

This paper is aimed to give a brief outline of Edgar Poe’s life and a short analysis of one of his famous poems ‘Annabel Lee’ to trace the main peculiarities of the author’s style. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most prominent figures in the American romantic literature of the second half of the 19th century. Apart from being a critic, an editor and a poet, he is considered to be a founder of the short story in its modern form. Edgar Poe came from the family of professional actors, who died three years after the poet’s birth, and ...

Introduction:

Computer software is a non-tangible component of the computer. It is a collection of scripts, codes and files required to perform a specified task. Software may be developed to perform one task or a collection of related tasks. It needs to be tailored to fulfill the requirements of the end user. A systematic framework is required to develop software without any glitches, user friendly and bug free. The process of developing software involves five phases and is referred to as the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Technically, Software Development Lifecycle is a framework in which the tasks to be performed at each step are defined. ...

Software testing, also known as application testing is a collection of techniques whose purpose is to evaluate and verify the quality and integrity of computer software. Using this process, software developers can guarantee that a product is in agreement with the industry standards, the technical requirements and the user specifications. The goal of software testing is often mistakenly thought to be the discovery of each and every one of the bugs that exist in the vast majority of software products but to bring to light cases in which the client (individual or business) could be affected, to actualize the good use ...

Charles Darwin published his masterpiece detailing his theory of evolution by natural selection, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life in 1859. Despite the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community, there are still loud and politically active Creationists that insist that the earth is less than 10,000 years old because the Bible says so. However, the Bible never actually states how old the universe or the earth is. Belief that there is a Creator and in the theory of evolution are compatible for followers of ...

Introduction

Bash or Shellshock Bash Bug is a seriously dangerous vulnerability is present in a majority of distributions of Apple’s Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX. Stephane Chazelas was the discoverer of the Bash bug (Mimoso, 2014).

Type of Flaw/Condition within the Operating Systems

Bash Bug is a flaw that makes it possible for a system attacker or invader to remotely put together a variable and a malicious executable. The invoking of Bash then executes the damage. In other words, this security flaw allows the creation of environment variables consisting of malevolent code before the Bash shell is called by the system (Mimoso, 2014). It is a super simple vulnerability that can ...

Health information refers to any personally identifiable information about a person’s health, medical records, and history of illness, treatments and examinations. A person’s health information is some of the most private information a person “owns.” Health information is unlike other personal information such as your credit card PIN. Health information is much more intimate and provides a comprehensive picture about an individual other than just the products they bought online. Unwanted disclosure of a person’s health information can lead to embarrassment, shame and ridicule. Public knowledge of your health information can also have an important impact on how people view ...

Value of Community: Gregor’s Father vs. Van Helsing

Dracula was a Gothic horror novel that was written by an Irish writer named Bram Stoker. In the novel, Van Helsing is portrayed as a monster who had a desire to hunt for evil. It is believe that Van Helsing was becoming an ultimate threat to humans. But in the novel, The Metamorphosis that was written by Franz Kafka, there was a character named Mr. Samsa. Mr. Samsa was Gregor’s father, who is portrayed as a father who did not care about anything. When his son turned into a monster, it had no impact at all on him. The only thing that bothered him ...

Open source software offers substantial benefits over commercial software. Open source software promises reliability, quality, and a solid stability. The open source community is large and active. A thousand developers from around the globe create software packages. Anybody can have a hand in the development of given software. The availability of the source code of open source programs enables fast bug and security flaws detection, and fixes to these defects are applied in no time. Therefore, open source software is continually evolving, making it of better quality and bug-free. In contrast, with closed source software, bugs and security flaws need to ...

It is not the clones themselves that cause faults, inconsistent changes to the clones are what leads to the unexpected program behavior. The inconsistent bug fix of particular concern regarding cloned code. When a bug is found in cloned code it must be fixed in all clone instances or the system will probably continue to misbehave and exhibit incorrect behavior. . Clone detection approaches and tools can mitigate these problems. CCFinder, is one such tool. It functions as a multi-linguistic, token-based, code clone detection system and is designed for large scale source code. It permits the transformation of the input source text ...

INTRODUCTION

American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi that can result in acute inflammatory skin changes (chagomas) and may eventually cause infection and inflammation of many other body tissues. It was first found in Brazil in the year 1909. It is however mainly found in rural parts of Mexico, Central America or South America. The parasites enter the mammalian host through the bug bite, or breaks in the skin, replicate in mammalian cells, and eventually reach other organs through the blood. The disease is also found to be spread from mother to child (congenital). Chagas ...

Franz Kafka is the author of the famous anthology, The Metamorphosis. He was born in 1883, in Prague which is Czech Republic’s capital. He was brought up in a moderate Jewish family. After pursuing law in the University of Prague, he secured a job in the insurance field and wrote during the evenings. He later moved to Berlin in 1923 to carry on with his writing. However, he developed tuberculosis and died afterwards. He was the only son in a family that included three daughters since his two brothers died during infancy. He never had a smooth relationship with his mother because ...

UAV or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is an aircraft that can fly without an onboard human pilot. It is being controlled remotely by a computer or a pilot on the ground. There are numerous UAV shapes and sizes even characteristics and configurations. This type of aircraft started as a simple remote-controlled aircraft, but as time goes by, automatic control has been developed along with its increasing tasks including military operations and special applications.

The Evolution of UAV

The technology and idea of having an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle started and evolved from World War I’s Kettering Bug and then the World War II’s cruise missiles. Bill ...

One of the most complicated questions to answer in human behaviour is how a person becomes who he or she is. In this context, the main problem is in identifying the difference between inborn inclinations of an individual and subsequent influence of the surrounding environment of living. From one point scientists argue that the answer to who we are is in our genes and DNA chains, and we cannot go beyond what our DNA has programmed us to be capable of. From another point of view, we are what are made by totality of factors. Among these factors are our ...

Many authors have written significant and fascinating works about people in isolation; this isolation is often used to showcase their alienation from society (and subsequent subjugation). In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a timid housewife is prescribed a rest cure by her physician husband, involving her sequestering herself away from the rest of the world, diving into inaction. She experiences both tremendous psychotic episodes and incredible feministic tendencies and desires, echoing the frustrations that women in the 19th century had given their restricted autonomy and the forcefulness of their husbands. Meanwhile, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis tells the horrific ...

The case of Mathias v. Accor Economy Lodging delves into the question on whether failure by the motel to take preventative measures against a situation that result in offensive non-consensual touching and some degree of physical harm constitute intentional torts. It further looks at whether such failure as well as the subsequent non disclosure of possible harm is an intentional tort whose remedy can go beyond compensatory damages. The case is on the in intentional torts of fraud and battery. Battery involves the intentional offensive non-consensual touching while fraud is the act of a known misrepresentation (Barth, 2008). The ...

Problem statement

Web privacy is a critical issue that concerns all internet users, more likely to affect the frequent cyber freaks. The internet giants believe that even more people need to get access to the web as it helps them in many ways in their daily lives, business transactions etc. However government surveillance of e-mail contents considered a necessity for security reasons raises questions over user privacy. As a result, there is an ongoing debate between rights of ‘individual internet users against government’s obligation to counter terrorism’.

Stakeholders

Besides the general internet users, the web service providers, the people associated with e-commerce, online social-networking ...

INTRODUCTION

The hospitality landscape is evolving at a rapid pace along with the issues that are constantly biting the hospitality industry’s performance. The hospitality industry witnessed ups and downs in earlier years due to economic recession that significantly reduced the hotel occupancy rates. Moreover, the recent years have become more terrorizing for the hospitality industry due to the rising of unwelcome, bloodsucking bed bugs that are constantly infesting the hotel’s mattresses, bedding and clothing management. The aim of this assignment would be to evaluate that how come the issues related to bed bugs have become a catastrophic button for ...

NIBCO implemented ERP system from SAP because they would have many benefits from the program. ERP systems have been the most reliable and trusted tools that can bring the information various departments. The SAP ERP system serves as a central database that is used for information feeding for the various modules that make the ERP system. The modules operate in a common platform. With the use of ERP systems, the data will have one uniform standard and format. The ERP system, in this case, provide data which are consistent and of high integrity. One direct benefit if this feature is the ...

Abstract

There has been the introduction of architectures that are mutlicore in nature and for that reason; there has been the emergence of applications which are multi-threaded which are commonly susceptible to bugs of synchronization like data races. The development and use of software that are able to detect data races are known to incur a lot of costs due to increase in overhead costs. The use of hardware for the detection of the data race is a solution that can be used and is better and cheaper than that of software use. All the hardware solutions that have been proposed for ...

Franz Kafka, in his novel The Metamorphosis writes about a travelling salesman called Gregor Samsa. He one day wakes up to find himself transformed into a huge bug to the surprise of not only himself but also his family and everyone living around him. The novel is primarily about the thoughts, actions and feelings of Gregor in regards to his environment (Bloom 64). Environment and all that happens around a person therefore play a crucial role in shaping up or influencing a person both in thought and in action just as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels put it in his writings, The Communist manifesto. ...

The bug-bounty program is a current technological advancement in the computer networking and online internet world aimed at improving the online security and reducing or minimizing the vulnerabilities of the companies that run the program or intend to run the bug bounty program. The program is to have its various pros and cons since use by the various online tech companies, for instance, Mozilla and Google. The advantages for the firms that use or run this program are clear since the security professionals and specialists use it to resolve most current security issues. Another advantage of using this program ...

Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis no so long after he had finished writing The Judgment. It must be noted that the two stories have a lot in common. After reading The Metamorphosis if a look is taken into the biographical and historical context of Kafka, it can be argued that this story that the author published in 1912 expresses not only his own sense of self-alienation but other various other aspects of his life. Like Kafka, the main character of the novel, Gregor Samsa is a German Jew living in seriously anti-Semitic times. Samsa’s metamorphosis into an abominable insect can be ...

Documentary Analysis

Four corner documentary: Rise of Super Bugs

The four corner documentary is a quarter hour video that fairly discloses the use and misuse of antibiotics. While drugs have done wonders in the medicinal field, at the same time, its incorrect usage have lead to secondary and tertiary problems. With a view to kill the bugs through antibiotics, mankind has given rise to superbugs that tangibly and intangibly causes more harm to our body systems. The documentary on the rise of super bugs depicts the extreme positive effects of antibiotics. This documentary is a fine example of the use of drugs and medicines ...

Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis is considered one of the greatest pieces of absurdist horror fiction in the 20th century, telling a horrific tale of dehumanization and philosophical malaise. Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, suddenly finds himself having turned into a bug-like creature, the very nature of his self having been irrevocably altered. Of course, one of the most horrific aspects of the story itself is not the bug he becomes, but the setting he inhabits. The setting of the Metamorphosis, Samsa's room in his home, becomes symbolic for his deep and significant ennui about his own life and his feelings of entrapment.

The ...

Introduction

A database is defined as a repository or a collection of logically related facts and figures which are used for the information need of the organization. The meaning of logical is that the database cannot be changed by any user apart from the database administrator. It shows the immunity of the user to change the database. The management of the database is done by software known as the database management system. This kind of software controls the access of the database, changing of the attributes of the database, updating the database through the use of the data manipulation language (DML). ...

Careers in the Information Communications Technology field are becoming dynamic. Many confuse the job descriptions that are found in this field. This is so given the fact that the field of computers is still new. This paper will look at three careers in information technology because that is my interest. A systems administrator is tasked with managing the operating systems of all the computers that are found in the organization. Without proper management of the operating systems in an organization, there will be regular clashing in the operations of the systems in that organization. It is therefore imperative ...

The Gold Bug, While Influential on Other Writers, is Not a Typical Edgar Allen Poe Story.

I. Poe has been called the “father of the detective story.”

A. This is primarily for his C. Auguste Dupin stories

B. “The Gold Bug” is a detective story, but with a different protagonist.

II “The Gold Bug” is considered as being influential upon the modern day treasure story.

A. Most treasure stories of the time were about treasure seekers.

“The Gold Bug” is about a treasure finder.

III Some elements in “The Gold Bug” are common to many Poe writings.

A. It follows a successful series he ...

The present and future of computer based espionage and terrorism.

I. Introduction

Computer based espionage and terrorism

Computer based espionage is a form of spying through the use of computer devices and internet. It involves organizations, governments, or individuals obtaining confidential information without legal permission from the information holder. It is mainly done or kept secret because of the fact that it may be illegal thus punishable using the law. However sometimes computer based espionage may be considered legal as being part of intelligence operation. In such cases the organization or individual conducting the intelligence, does it using ethical means and mainly utilizes public sources of information. Governments are the ones mostly involved with computer ...

Materials and Methods

Animals

Armadillidium vulgare, common name pill bugs have been used in this experiment. These are the isopods and not the insects. They have 7 pair of legs and an exoskeleton. The bugs prefer damp places and are generally found under plant debris and logs. They have a tendency to roll into ball when disturbed.

Apparatus

Paper has been used to make alleys in which the bugs were made to walk. The alleys were of varied length, with the long alley being 23 cm long and short alley 3 cm long. The width of alleys was 1 cm each. 1 cm cubes ...

Fill in the blank Questions (4 pts. each, 20 pts. Total)

1) Field inputs are governed by input masks. 2) A computer program is an algorithm that has been customized to solve a specific task. 3) Intensity of color ranges from cosmic rays to electric waves. 4) Figuring out why a process or system doesn’t work is called debugging. 5) An algorithm must be simple and precise.

Short Answer Questions (5 pts. each, 60 pts. Total)

1) What is the Turing Test?

It is an examination of whether a machine has the ability to demonstrate capacities of intelligence.

2) Explain what a workaround is. This is the bypass of an identified particular problem in a given system. A workaround is basically a short time fix that consequently calls for a permanent solution to a problem, and ...

INTRODUCTION

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the best prominent writers whose work are continually appreciated by all generations in time immemorial, with often obsessive and gothic themes in Edgar Allan Poe’s work, they have had a hug e significant influence in the literature of America. In this paper I have selected some of his works and explained the impressive features of each in relation to their plots and design. This explains a clear reason for one to love his literature works. I have chosen carefully the works that illuminate Poe’s prolific and short carrier among them prefaces, reviews and ...