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| allows computers to communicate and negotiate with customers through electronic funds transfers and electronic data interchange |
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| the removalof supply chain intermediaries |
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| ergonomics (human factors) |
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| scientific application of information about humans to the dessign of objects, systems and environments that humans interact with (makes computers more comfortable through keyboards, mouses etc) |
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| assistive technology products include |
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| public access, text to speech, dragon naturally speeking |
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| an assistive technology product that ensures public with disabilities have access to public accomidations |
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| an assistive technology product that is software that aids in reading documents through typed word to sound |
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| dragon naturally speeking |
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| an asistive technology product that is a speech recognition program that allows the computer to use spoken commands |
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| social concerns with computer use include |
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-child protection (protecting and preventing inappropriate material)
-computer addiction
-pornography (wide spread and addictive, said to be first use of e commerce)
-dangerous information (banned books, political discussions, how to etc) |
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| the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently with a world wide perspective (buying green, save trees, recycle etc) |
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| "computer as the target" crime |
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| crimes in which theft of intellectual property, marketing information, computerized files, and other info |
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| "computer as the instrument of the crime" crime |
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| involves converting legitimate computer processes for illegitimate purposes |
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| "computer is incidental to other crimes" crime |
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| not related to teh criminal act but assisted it to make it easier / faster |
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| "crimes associated with the prevelance of computers" crime |
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| single presence of computers generate new versions of traditional crimes |
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| ways to protect data include |
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-discard unnecessary materials
-seperate job functions
-allow audit checks of data and security systems |
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| a plan that is made to recover necesary information from a backup and recover a system fast and efficiently without downtime |
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| intput data > process data > output information |
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| processing of providing a context for data |
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| using bits (1s and 0s) to make code and context and shit |
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| the american standard code for information interchange, states a standard for bit pattern representations |
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| when comensation techniques are used to reduce the number of bytes required to store certain kinds of data (used for faster transmission of data) |
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| one component of the computer that ties the rest together |
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| components of a motherboard |
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| the processor on teh motherboard |
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| main body of a computer that provides an enclosure of the important shit |
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| Central Processing Unit CPU |
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| processes data by intrepreting and executing instructions that are contained in computer programs |
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| CPU manufactured wuth integrated circuits |
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| manager that keeps things organized and synchronized in teh system unit |
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| where the mathematical and logical operations are performed within the system unit |
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| processor that combines 2 or more independent processors into one package (also called chip level multiprocessing) |
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| processor speed is displayed in... |
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| one billion hertz (one billion cycles per second) |
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| instructions per second (one million per second, used to benchmark processors) |
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| floating point operations per second (performance based) |
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| a subsystem that transfers data between components |
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| temporary but fast storage |
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| within the computer and closely connected to the processor (programs are held here while running) |
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| the time between the processor initiating a request for a byte or word in memory until it is retrieved |
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| special high speed memory (not necessary to communicate with RAM) |
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| read only memory, hard to edit so its main uses are for distribution of firmware |
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| software closely related to hardware |
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| allows multitasking computers to think that teh computer has more primary memory that it actually has |
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| mainframe (category of computer) |
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| used by large organizations for the use of bulk data processing |
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| super computer (computer category) |
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| processes data exceptionally fast (forecastting and simulation) |
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| microcomputers (computer category) |
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| personal coputers, one user, desktops adn laptops |
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| workstations (computer category) |
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| powerful high end microcomputers used for applications requesting more power |
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| minicomputers (computer category) |
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| multiple users for processign transactions |
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| types of input devices include |
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keyboard
mouse
microphone
camera
scanner
barcode readers
card reader
speech recognition |
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-mechanical (ball on bottom)
-optical (light on bottom)
-touchpad (on laptops used through tough)
-trackball (rotating ball on top) |
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monitors
graphic cards
printers
plotters
speakers
digital music players |
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| expressed in dot pitch and dots per inch |
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| number of individual pixels on display. given in ratios of horizontal x vertical |
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| the frequency with which the monitors display is refreshed |
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| array of colora a computer can display, (24 bit is up to 16million colors) |
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| 2 measures of printer performance are |
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-DPI dots per minute
-PPM pages per minute |
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-laser
-ink jet
-dot matrix (impact printer that runs back and forth and prints by impact)
-photo printers (ink jets that are made to do high quality pics)
-thermal printer (heated and shit, does receipts) |
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| devide that modulates a carriers signal to encode a computers digital data, and then demodulates the signal to decode the data |
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| used to trasmiit the modems signal to a computer (access point is the router and knows as WIFI) |
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| the master program controlling all resources within a computer |
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| tasks of operating systems |
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process management
memory management
file system
mapping
file association |
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| runs programs and allocates memory, deals with running multiple processes, uses context switching |
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| when the OS tracks what is needed and what is available and then reallocates memory (virtual memory management) |
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| files must be managed and kept track of by teh OS, keep from fragmenting |
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| OS nagigating in a logical way of physical location of content to the logical content of a file |
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| al files that are the same type will have the same extension |
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| OS that multitasks teh ability to run several programs at once, opened door to many people unable to use command syntax |
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| OS that is used in servers and workstations, programmed in language C, open systems/free software, master program is Kernel, strings together small programs to do bigger shit |
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| OS like Unix, best example of open source development and free software, all programs are available to use by anybody, cameras/ps3/phones/mainframes/supercomputers |
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| OS that eliminated possibility of one program crashing others, unix style multitasking |
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| copies of different OS's can run on one computer at the same time |
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| scans and searchign for errors in files |
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| scans an entire disck drive and looks for segments of unused disk area (helps computer run better and prevent data loss) |
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| allows you to remove unused or little used files |
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| overcomes sluggishmess from background idle programs running in RAM |
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| extends amount of RAM available by external memory used as an addition cache |
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| allows users to control hundreds of teh computers individual components |
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| like an OS, enables other software to run properly |
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| like word processors, enables a user to perform a task |
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| devide drivers link software to hardware |
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| software is an intermediary between hardware and data (data=input and output) |
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| computer programing relationship |
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| application software is usually written in high level programming language called source code and translated into machine language |
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| programs execute by users telling it what to do |
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| everything goes through the operating system |
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-used in computers cabinets or externel drives that are fast and store a large amount
-round rotation plates called platters
-sectors are pie shape part of platter
-organizaed in rigns called tracks |
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| stores data on a rotating surface (1.44 MB's) |
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| USB drives and solid state (up to a few GB's) |
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| RAID redundant array of independent disks |
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| technique that devides or replicates data among multiple hard drives (in tolerant computers, adds reduntand data, reduces data loss) |
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| replication of logical disk volumes onto seperate hard disks in real time to ensure continuous availability of data, helps disaster recovery |
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| optical storge device that contains data that is assessable to a computer from cd rom drive, stored by microscopic indentions called pits and read into bianary data, about 650 MB of data |
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| like a cd but 4-5 gb of storage |
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| unharmful data loss not intended to damage |
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| an aggressive attempt to prevent ligittimate users of a service from using that service or the server its installed on |
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| protection of propriority information between employeed and viruses |
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| prevent through geolocation and order velocity monitoring |
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| how can a copany protect against fraud |
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-information acquisition (does the business have a good reason to access info?)
-storage (what computer security measures are placed aroun the systems storing personal data?)
-data access (is personal identifying info available only to those that need to know)
-data disposal (once data isnt needed is it disposed)
-personnel (are background checks and shit done?) |
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| [iece of data stored in a text file on a computer |
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| cookie that accesses personal data and sends it to a server somewhere over the fucking rainbow |
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| virus attached to an email for transportation between computers |
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| written in scripted language and spread by inflecting documents and spreadsheets |
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| shitspread through emails |
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| travel through messaging networks |
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| file sharing networks worms |
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| copy themselves to shared folders on hard disks |
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| use TCP/IP communication ports |
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| pretend to be something else to trick a user |
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| technique embedded in a program that enables recording and reporting of users key strokes |
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| trickign a person into giving away private account info |
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| tools used to monitor the activity of consumers at a website |
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| abuse of email or messaging networks to send unsolicited and undesired messages |
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| is a ocmputer attached to teh internet that has been compromised by a securiy hacker or trojan or virus |
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| set of software tools intended to conceal runnign proceses, files, or system data from the operating system |
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| when someone elses personal information is used to commit fraud or crimes |
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| crime and involves using illegally obtained information to committ fradulent tasks |
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| password hacking (cracking of passowrds) can be done by... |
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-guessing
-dumpster diving
-shoulder surfing
-brute force attack (going through options)
-distionary attack (tries all combos likely to succeed)
-packet sniffing (interccepting and logging traffic through a network) |
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| tomaintain a high standard of data quality and define acceptable behaviors |
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| what to consider when backing up files |
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-schedule back ups
-making multiple copues of backups
-storage of backup copies should be physical and away from source
-data compression is important when there is more data than media space |
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| process of obsuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge |
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| using alogorithims to encrypt and decrypt |
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| electronic funds transfer |
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| provides payments and collection of receipts using electronic networks and equipment |
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| electonic data interchange |
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| thecomputerto computer interchange of structured information |
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| using computers and networks to automate commercial transactions |
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business to business
business to comsumer
customer to customer
business to governmet
citizen to government
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| what lures businesses towards e commerce |
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lower transaction costs
larger purchases per transactions
business cycle integration
people shop in different ways
larger catelogs
enhanced customer interaction
new business models |
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| 4 main types of intermediaries who participate in e commerce |
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brokers
auctioneers
exchanges
dealers and resellers |
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| success factors of e commerce |
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market research
interface
documentation
security
inviting
value
incentive |
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unfulfilled expectations
unsatisfactory web experience
navigation
motivation
awkward proceesses
security
suitability |
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| fraud concerns related to e commerce |
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stolen credit cards
phishing
click fraud
auction adn retail schemes
markt manipulation
spam |
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| software as services model |
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| sensor so small that it floats in teh air, monitors the environment |
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| system for collecting, storing, managing, and analyzing data which are referenced to the earth |
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| little medical things that patrol the body and repeal invaders, like an artificial immune system |
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| focus on learning on users interests and act on users behalf |
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| little deals that compare prices on the internet and disable viruses before they reach a computer |
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| basically an internet with more artificial shit |
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| family of digital video compression standards |
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| graphic interchange format (8 bit per pixel bitmap image format |
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| standard digital audio file format for storing sound data, allows audio recording to be captured and stored often on a cd |
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| allows peripheral devices to be connects without the need to plug expansion cords into the computers |
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| describes the process for attaching a new device to the computer system, allows the addition of a new device without requiring reconfiguration or manual installiation |
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| basic input/output system, small program run by a computer when first powered on, used to stabilize the machine and shti |
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| graphical user interfaces |
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| allows users to navigate a computer using a mouse |
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