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  SEX (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computing, the SEX assembly language mnemonic has often been used for the "
British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple.
As illegal copying (software piracy) has sometimes lead to the spread of computer viruses, it has been stated that "illicit SEX can transmit viral diseases to your computer".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SEX_(computers)   (344 words)

  
 EFF: Computers & Academic Freedom
A list of computer material that was banned at universities during (or before) 1991.
The first posted version of the list of computer material that was banned or challenged in academia in 1992.
This is a collection of the computer policies of many schools and networks.
www.eff.org /Censorship/Academic_edu/CAF   (698 words)

  
 computing machinery and intelligence - a.m. turing, 1950
The store is a store of information, and corresponds to the human computer's paper, whether this is the paper on which he does his calculations or that on which his book of rules is printed.
The reader must accept it as a fact that digital computers can be constructed, and indeed have been constructed, according to the principles we have described, and that they can in fact mimic the actions of a human computer very closely.
The digital computers considered in the last section may be classified amongst the 'discrete state machines' these are the machines which move by sudden jumps or clicks from one quite definite state to another.
www.abelard.org /turpap/turpap.htm   (11247 words)

  
 4.04: Sex, Lies and Avatars
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, published in 1984, was a broad-reaching study of the role of the computer as employed by its early users to think about themselves and their minds.
Computing would offer her endless moments of sweet epiphany, when theories that had seemed right but abstract were suddenly right and manifest.
It has to do with the cultural associations computers have: now it's not surprising that people like me, who are interested in people, in politics, in the world at large, are also into computers.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.04/turkle_pr.html   (7361 words)

  
 Sex Roles: A Journal of Research: Gender roles, computer attitudes, and dyadic computer interaction performance in ...
These sex differences tend to be consistent across age groups from elementary school through college-aged populations.
This is where the cultural milieu impacts in regard to computing attitudes and behavior.
The major theories of sex typing -- social learning theory (Mischel, 1970), cognitive developmental theory (Kohlberg, 1966), and social cognition theory (Serbin & Sprafkin, 1986) -- each recognize the role of the environment in the process of sex typing.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2294/is_n7-8_v29/ai_14853631   (355 words)

  
 Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Times noted that the economists' finding has split experts, with some suggesting the figure undervalued sex, while others argued it was absurd to put a financial value on physical and emotional satisfaction.
Her sex life was worth many times more than £30 000 a year to her, she said.
She admitted, however, that she would be prepared, for £400 000, to forgo sex for a year.
www.sundaytimes.co.za /2004/04/18/news/news04.asp   (717 words)

  
 Wired 4.04: Sex, Lies and Avatars
Mainframes were modernist, but computing slipped into postmodernism when people got personal computers.
Computing continues its postmodern odyssey through the Internet to the most dramatic extreme: the creation of online communities containing online personae.
Alongside Turkle's claim that computing is what brings postmodernism down to earth, we can put what Jay David Bolter, author of Turing's Man and Writing Space, once mischievously remarked: that the computer has transformed the knotty difficulties of postmodern theory into the trivially obvious.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.04/turkle.html   (736 words)

  
 Computing Machinery and Intelligence A.M. Turing
The speed which would have been available would be definitely faster than a human computer but something like I 00 times slower than the Manchester machine, itself one of the slower of the modern machines, The storage was to be purely mechanical, using wheels and cards.
I believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible, to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 109, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning.
It would not be possible for a digital computer to predict exactly what answers the differential analyser would give to a problem, but it would be quite capable of giving the right sort of answer.
www.loebner.net /Prizef/TuringArticle.html   (10279 words)

  
 Haynes The Sex Manual
Most sex is of the recreational variety, which is just as well or there would be even more people on the planet.
And also as with driving, sex is an activity which brings pleasure when skilfully exercised but can be dangerous if the risks are ignored..
As with driving, sex is an activity which brings pleasure when skilfully exercised but the risks shouldn't be ignored.
www.haynes.co.uk /webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BookFeature_SexManualView?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001   (472 words)

  
 Crazy Computing dot net! >> Censorship >> Malaysia targets mobile phone sex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The move follows reports by a local newspaper that young people were swapping sex videos and images on their mobile phones.
According to the Malay language newspaper, Harian Metro, teenagers are using their mobile phones to video mass sex parties and then send the pictures to each other.
The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 2003-2005 by Crazy Computing.
crazycomputing.net /index/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39   (320 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Technology
Beijing to ban sales of computers without software in anti-piracy move: Sales of personal computers without software – known as “naked computers” – will be banned in the Chinese capital to reduce software piracy, the city government said Friday.
Japanese watching movies to smells controlled by computer: A theater audience in Japan will be sniffing their noses – literally – at a new Hollywood adventure film when it opens here later this month.
Computer Sciences cutting 5,000 jobs, considers sale of the company: Computer Sciences Corp. on Tuesday said it plans to cut about 5,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its work force, over two years and is considering selling the company, a provider of information technology services.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/computing   (1248 words)

  
 Cultures of Computing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From virtual worlds of cyberspace to third world electronic sweatshops, new computing technologies have dramatically transformed many aspects of both personal identity and social community.
The course project can range from ethnography of cyberspace to community service computer programming, and may be done in teams (although each student must complete an individual write-up).
Sandy Stone, "Sex and death among the disembodied" in Star.
www.rpi.edu /~eglash/eglash.dir/cultcomp.htm   (411 words)

  
 Acknowledging the Significance of Gender - End Notes - The Research Center on Computing & Society - Computer Ethics ...
“Computing in America: A Masculine Mystique,” The New York Times, February 13, 1989; (10) Widnall, Sheila E., “AAAS Presidential Lecture: Voices from the Pipeline,” Science, September 1988; (11) Wilder, Gita, Diane Mackie and Joel Cooper, “Gender and Computers: Two Surveys of Computer-Related Activities,” Sex Roles, 1985.
“Becoming a Computer Scientist, A Report by the ACM Committee on The Status of Women in Computing Science,” Communications of the ACM, November 1990; (2) Frenkel, Karen A., “Women and Computing,” Communications of the ACM, November 1990.
Sources: (1) ACM Committee on The Status of Women in Computing Science, “Becoming a Computer Scientist, A Report by the ACM Committee on The Status of Women in Computing Science,” Communications of the ACM, November 1990; (2) Frenkel, Karen A., “Women and Computing,” Communications of the ACM, November 1990.
www.southernct.edu /organizations/rccs/resources/research/adap_tech/equity_access/lancaster/end_notes.html   (405 words)

  
 K7 Computing-Jungle Sex chain letter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The sex has now been sent to you.
If you don't then you will never receive sex again for the rest of your life.
Good sex, but please remember: 10 copies of this message must leave your e-mail in 96 hours or you will never have sex again for the rest of your life.
www.k7computing.com /Hoaxes/junglsex.htm   (182 words)

  
 Free Advice on Dating, Love, Sex, Career, Computing, Health and Small Business!
While Freud the father of Psychoanalysis speaks of sex when two individuals bump on each other; it may all be just a purely accidental occurrence for most people.
The answer is probably yes, since anyone who has looked into the annals of mobile computing history can probably attest how this visionary stuck to his vision that people are just waiting for mobile computing to happen.
Imagine being able to take vital aspects of your home computer with you, and being able to sync your contact list, calendar, notes and To Do lists at will--provided you have Internet connection, of course, which happily is no longer a rarity these days (thanks, Al Gore!).
archie-sicat.tripod.com   (4145 words)

  
 Secure Computing: 4.x Control List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Secure Computing relies on a combination of advanced technology and highly skilled Web analysts – the ideal combination for high accuracy and coverage.
Secure Computing® recommends that each school and library understand all categories available and apply a policy that best suits their school or community needs.
Well-known examples are the SETI program and the Human Genome Project, which use the computer downtime of thousands of volunteers to analyze data.
www.securecomputing.com /index.cfm?sKey=86   (3382 words)

  
 DHS Press Secretary Faces Internet Sex Charges - Computing -
Brian Doyle, Homeland Security's deputy press secretary, was arrested on sex charges resulting from a sting operation conducted out of Florida, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd disclosed Tuesday.
He has been charged with seven counts of using a computer to seduce a child and 16 counts of transmitting harmful materials to a minor, according to a statement issued by Sheriff Judd that also noted Doyle has confessed to the charges.
"He was on his computer communicating with the undercover detective who he believed was a 14-year-old girl at the time we knocked on his door in Maryland, took him into custody, and served a search warrant," Judd said in a CNN interview.
www.sci-tech-today.com /story.xhtml?story_id=01100187PPQH   (513 words)

  
 GENDER & COMPUTING: Housework and sex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I have been an associate at the department since 1998, when I startet working with a Ph.D. This was about how men and women experience that gender has something to do with computers, and how they position themselves in relation to computers - read more...
According to NRK.no, an English cleaning agency has done some research and found that the more housework women do, the more sex they (want to) have.
And if someone was to do a study like that, wouldn't it be much more interesting to find out how much sex men want when they to more housework - and the article says nothing about that.
www.genderandcomputing.no /000645.html   (333 words)

  
 College kids apparently know more about safe sex than safe computing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
U.S. colleges and universities are starting to take more stringent measures to keep college students' inattention to basic computer security from wreaking havoc on their networks.
For the life of me, I don't understand why so many college kids are flunking basic computer security.
After all, they've grown up with computers and are far more likely than the general population to surf the Internet and understand information technology.
arstechnica.com /news/posts/1063325273.html   (582 words)

  
 Begging to Differ - July 2005 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
There's a good overview of TC (aka "Trustworthy Computing", in Microsoft-speak) here, but it essentially boils down to the use of public key cryptography within the guts of your computer.
The first blames this on—wait for this—racism, because he thinks the public is overreacting to a fl man having sex with a white woman; the second calls a well-known pro-regulation crusader a Nazi; the third spends most of his words decrying the ratings system, which is the only thing keeping government regulation away.
This is like when a politician says something stupid, then half the people in his party start blaming the other side for making a big deal about it, instead of condemning their guy for making them look bad.
www.beggingtodiffer.com /archives/2005_07.html   (9820 words)

  
 Kategorija: Computers - Parallel Computin
Grid Computing Info Centre - An initiative to establish a global grid of computing power.
Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Research Groups - Academic research groups and projects related to parallel computing.
Vas's Parallel Computer Taxonomy - Discussions of past classification systems and development of a new one.
www.inter.co.yu /kategorije/Computers/Parallel_Computing   (514 words)

  
 Sex Emails Come in New Flavors - Computing News - Designtechnica
Sex Emails Come in New Flavors - Computing News - Designtechnica
Clearswift says that with most spam filters now easily blocking most sex related emails, spammers have shifted their sights upon health care and financial offerings.
These newer types of spam are “tried and tested money earners” which seem more likely to draw interested click-throughs.
news.designtechnica.com /article7849.html   (371 words)

  
 Acknowledging the Significance of Gender - References - The Research Center on Computing & Society
ACM Committee on The Status of Women in Computing Science, “Becoming a Computer Scientist, A Report by the ACM Committee on The Status of Women in Computing Science,” Communications of the ACM, November 1990.
ACM Curriculum Committee on Computer Science, “Curriculum 78: Recommendations for the Undergraduate Program in Computer Science,” Communications of the ACM, March 1979.
Lockheed, M.E., A. Nielsen and M. Stone, “Sex Differences in Microcomputer Literacy,” Paper presented at the National Educational Computing Conference, June 6 – 8, 1983.
www.southernct.edu /organizations/rccs/text-only/resources_t/research_t/adap_tech_t/equity_access_t/lancaster_t/references.html   (666 words)

  
 GENDER & COMPUTING
According to Forskning.no he has found that 'the Internet has become an arena for sexual experimentation where 1 out of 10 men who define themselves as heterosexual use the net to practice their fantasies about having sex with other men.'
Ross also has an article about this in Journal of Sex Research, Nov 2005
Some statistics about computer technology, mainly in the Nordic countries, which might be useful to the article I'm writing at the moment, about Norwegian computer history in a gender perspective.
www.genderandcomputing.no   (1217 words)

  
 Smart Mobs: Sports, Sex, Texting Scandal
She claimed further that the cricketer frequently called her, sent lewd text messages and that she was offered money to keep quiet about her relationship with Warne.
Mobile communication, pervasive computing, wireless networks, collective action.
Posted by Howard at 10:11 AM And now, a texting sports sex scandal
www.smartmobs.com /archive/2003/08/11/sports_sex_te.html   (182 words)

  
 Sex Crimes and Paraphilia - Prentice Hall Catalog
Sex Crimes and Paraphilia - Prentice Hall Catalog
Sex Crimes and Paraphilia offers a comprehensive examination of sex crimes, sex offenders, victims of sex crimes as well as intervention and treatment strategies.
Examining a wide range of sex crimes ranging from non-violent offenses such as exhibitionism, voyeurism and obscene telephone calls to serial rapes and lust murders, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia looks to uncover the roots and causes of these behaviors to aid in the understanding of sex offenders and their crimes.
vig.prenhall.com:8081 /catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0131703501,00.html   (111 words)

  
 Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This site encompasses what was formerly the High Performance Computing Research Group, the High Performance Computing Centre, the Parallel and Distributed Computing Group and the Concurrent Computation Group.
We are part of the DSSE Group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
Cost of Sex - Simple Ecological Models and the Evolution of Sex
www.hpcc.ecs.soton.ac.uk   (118 words)

  
 pdatrends - Miscellaneous - Sex with strangers, courtesy Bluetooth
pdatrends - Miscellaneous - Sex with strangers, courtesy Bluetooth
Miscellaneous - Sex with strangers, courtesy of Bluetooth
The latest craze in England, "toothing", uses high-tech gear to find the oldest form of entertainment.
www.wikipod.org /showthread.php?t=37   (113 words)

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