Is the Internet a hero or a villain?
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both because it helps you with homework \nit's bad because it wil give you spyware or some sort of virus.
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PEOPLE!!!\n\nOur government is NOT intrested on anyones search for a great chicken recepie or shopping or anything a law-abiding citizen searches for.  They are trying to protect us and are looking for terrorist acitivity!\n\nLet me re-phrase your question: Would you be angry if an attack occurred and the details could have led to the prevention if the government had looked at internet activity?\n\nYES!!........People would be whining about that.  So it is a "NO WIN" situation.  Our government is critized for doing and for not doing.  I for one am glad they decided to have people angry and trying to protect me and my family rather than accomodating whiners.  Besides, if you are doing nothing wrong, why do you care?  If I have private informaition that I do not want anyone to know about, rest assured, I will not post on yahoo or google..or any other internet source.\n\nBy the way, I don't think that an internet search is protected anyway.\n\nGood luck and take care.
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I' ve realized that nowadays respect and responsibility towards others is like a lost treasure, there s every day more people that just don't care for other's feelings and needs, we can see that here on the Internet better,people here act freely and show their evil side more because they feel safe and hidden behind their computers, so  they don't have any sense of shame and say just whatever.
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i talk to my son about the dangers of the Internet and predators we also have a content filter that i can use to block things that i dont want him to go into like chat rooms and porn i also have a log of all sights visited on my computer that i can check periodically the Internet can be a very useful tool for many things and is a integrated part of our culture but i want my son to know there are risks and encourage him to use the net for things other than chatting and he does. good question good luck god bless
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I would say morality is taking a backseat to technology.  I don't agree that a decline in morality is due to technological innovation, but you hit the nail on the head with the Rome comparison.  History tells us that society as a whole reaches a plateau, then starts to decline.  \nGood question.
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I know I don't have a brain or any self control if that's what you're asking. Other than that the FBI, CIA, and other government/government agencies monitor the internet for suspicious activitiy but the internet is so huge they can't keep up with it all. The internet is like a vast library with books spread out all over the world. The information is so widespread no one can completely track or control the movement of the information that passes from all given points at once. Hope this helps.
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If the internet was centralized then yes, this would be possible. However due to the nature of decentralization, users being able to host their own sites off their PC's, protected websites, etc etc, it is really upto the webmaster to keep this under control. It is not possible with the current internet architecture to sustain a force that people will be afraid of.
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Obviously it is, but there's nothing anyone's going to do to stop it.  Watch the Terminator movies, especially the third.  The internet is going to turn into Skynet thanks to technology like this.
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It's both.  Hooray for the internet!
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That's the nature of the Internet. It's been that way for decades.
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I read in The New Paper some days back and i saw that a teenager was caught for mass downloading Music and other stuff online. To make this worse...the teenager still used other people internet connections by connecting to them and using them(do not ask me how he did it, I am not too sure)...
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It could be an oxy moron because it seems like the internet has no security at all since its a world wide web where everyone and anyone can get access to anything in the world. Some children get on unknowing what they might discover and sometimes its not all for the best. And then there are hackers who are the ones that build the security softwares, whos to say they wont be in your computer when we trust their software in the first place? Security to us means security, safe, and protected.\n\nIt could definitely be thought of as an oxymoron =)
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Probably but, how could they have targeted the Net? (I'm assuming you're talking about the internet) It's not like it's one specific entity that could be taken down by blowing up a specific location.
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i wouldn't think so knowing the fact that the internet already is internet and it is virtual but its like this if you figure the internet is virtual and people are always working to make it better and improve it but what if they fail and the whole thing jusr crashes its not really going to get any better cause poeple dont want to work too hard it might make them quit or tired or something its just how it goes so my answer is NO!!
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Al Gore invented the internet.  He said so.
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One of the most readable and enjoyable histories of the Internet is a wonderful book named, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late."\n\nit gives a much more intersting and humane history than the long article re-published here.  Among other things, it shows that the Internet pre-dates Sputnik and ARPANET.  The original effort was launched not too very long after President Dwight D. Eisenhower took office in 1953 and got around to establishing one of his think tanks, known as Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA).  Eisenhower just LOVED  experts.\n\nThe initial motivation was to figure out how to link early military command-and-control computer resources despite destruction from an enemy attack.  And the problem, it turned out, was that monopoly phone company AT&T was very happy with how it managed communications.  Unfortunately, that management meant one enemy strike could shut down everything in the country - or near enough.  Eventually, the DARPA crew was forced to figure out how it could completely by-pass the phone company, which refused to help with the task, so that computers could talk to each other when needed.\n\nThat is the germ of the Internet.  Later, all the things the others have published happened.  But LATER.
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Maybe his website was hacked.  But don't call it a largespread conservative plot or anything.  Could have been one stupid person trying to start trouble.