In the ever-changing realm of the Internet, lawmakers face a steady stream of new areas potentially requiring regulation and oversight. This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the 21st century. This volume of the series discusses topics on computer networks, the internet and green IT; remote automatic checking systems for multiple emergency lights via the internet; internet gambling; internet pharmacies; internet infrastructure in native communities; and China's censorship of the internet and social media.

In the ever-changing realm of the Internet, lawmakers face a steady stream of new areas potentially requiring regulation and oversight. This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the 21st century. This volume of the series discusses topics on internet domain names; internet governance; ICANN's top level domain name program; global internet freedom; broadband internet access and the digital divide; China's censorship of the internet and social media; the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act; virtual currencies; and internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder.

In the ever-changing realm of the Internet, lawmakers face a steady stream of new areas potentially requiring regulation and oversight. This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the 21st century. This volume of the series discusses topics on cybersecurity, innovation and the internet economy; service overlay network use in enabling end-to-end QoS guarantees in the next generation internet; internet governance and the domain name system; state taxation of internet transactions, as well as laws and taxation for "Amazon"; internet policies in China; the application to the internet of the Americans with Disabilities Act; and a statement on the Cable Act at 20.

Hundreds of millions of people search the Internet everyday throughout the world. In the process, they are exposed to the ever-confusing jargon, which envelops it: ISPs, protocols, search engines etc. Yet few have the foggiest clue what the words means. This glossary presents the words of the New and the meanings along with introductory articles explaining searching as well as indexes reaching deeper into the terms and their meanings.

In the ever-changing realm of the Internet, lawmakers face a steady stream of new areas potentially requiring regulation and oversight. This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the 21st century. Collected here are papers discussing the wide range of topics impacting Internet expansion, E-commerce, computerised voting, and cyber-security threats. Such a selection makes this volume important to developing an overview of the key issues in the dynamic and wired world.

The Internet has grown to over 1,000,000,000 websites and a medium for millions of e-mail communications each day. This revolutionary development in the sphere of information and communications has taken place in less than a decade. This hypergrowth has been totally uncontrolled, which has resulted in not only growth but also problems.

Many people tend to lump all the homeless together into a single, faceless category. It's easy to see why. We seldom actually hear the voices of the homeless. When we see them on television or read about them in newspapers, the homeless often blur into a single group of poor, desperate people with little initiative and few aspirations.

Fearful people turn aside when they see a homeless person. Youths harass them, thieves rob them, psychopaths burn them. Only recently have they appeared in large enough numbers to enter the public consciousness as a group apart -- part pity and part fear. The curious wonder who they are, how they became homeless, why they live on the streets, and if perhaps they themselves may one day become one of them. But for most people, the homeless remain as they have always been -- essentially invisible -- most of them passing their days unseen by the rest of us.

These are people many of us would prefer not to know -- "losers, " people down on their luck. They also rootless, unwanted, very much alone and afraid. And who of us has not experience these very same feelings?

This new and revised volume presents coverage of books, magazine articles, congressional documents and other materials up to 1999. The entries are conveniently grouped under the following headings:

-- 1. General; Legislation; Social Issues

-- 2. Housing Policy; Shelters

-- 3. Homeless Children

-- 4. Mentally Ill

-- 5. Urban Poverty

-- 6. Welfare; Health Issues

-- 7. Alcohol and Drug Abuse

The dot.coms may be dying by the droves but the internet is growing both in size and users. This book examines the latest issues of this monster which won't let go of contemporary people -- not that they would be without it for a day.

The Internet continues to worm its way into the fabric of the world communications system with information of all types imaginable from the good to the bad to the ugly. In addition we have daily viruses, worms, spam galore and all sorts of ailments. This new book brings together the latest issues in the cyberworld, which is faster by the day, darker by the night and more elusive than ever.

This book discusses key policies and legal issues such as security, useless e-mail, Internet navigation, access, gambling, searching techniques, copyright, indecency, privacy and the next generation Internet. Features: an overview of six key policy issues affecting its use and growth; Internet gambling -- overview of federal criminal law; online service provider copyright liability -- analysis and discussion; protecting privacy on the Internet -- a summary of legislative proposals; restrictions on minor's access to material on the Internet; point and click -- Internet search techniques; Internet technology; Internet indecency -- the Supreme Court decision on the Communications Decency Act.

This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the Internet in the 21st century. Collected here are papers discussing a wide range of topics and issues impacting and relating to the Internet, such as the proliferation of online support groups for HIV/AIDs patients; dissociation in the virtual world; the Internet and entrepreneurship in Poland; Internet domain name problems; designing effective Internet policies; virtual learning and classroom sites and the role of the Internet in citizen science.

This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the Internet in the 21st century. Collected here are papers discussing a wide range of topics and issues impacting and relating to the Internet such as: internet traffic conditioning methods applied to wireless networks; design knowledge management and sharing using XML; FGPA-Based video streaming; internet traffic modelling and an analysis of XOR-based flat routing protocols.

In the ever-changing realm of the Internet, lawmakers face a steady stream of new areas potentially requiring regulation and oversight. This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the 21st century. Collected here are papers discussing a wide range of topics impacting Internet expansion such as: broadband infrastructure programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; net neutrality's background and issues; broadband internet access and the digital divide, the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative; spyware; and the Google Library Project. Such a selection makes this volume important to developing an overview of the key issues in the dynamic and wired world.

The issues covered in this book cannot be called hot issues but instead must be called 'boiling' issues. Who, except the senders of this dangerous and ever-more sophisticated material, is not attacked everyday? What laws protect us if any? What is being done about it if anything? This book presents the latest progress on these issues which rate extremely high on everyone's list of concerns.

The internet countries its wild and unpredictable growth and spread each year. Some good, some bad and a lot of uncertain. Porno has continued its grip on the cyberturf. Viruses have become so common that they have joined spam and identity robberies as the plagues of the net. This new book brings together the leading issues which have surfaced recently.

This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the Internet in the 21st century. Collected here are papers discussing a wide range of topics and issues impacting and relating to the Internet, such as exploring the relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, attitude and subscribers' intention toward using 3g mobile service; access to broadband networks; cybersecurity; broadband infrastructure programs in the American recovery and reinvestment act; spectrum policy in the age of broadband and collecting error data from open source system websites.

This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the Internet in the 21st century. Collected here are papers discussing a wide range of topics and issues impacting and relating to the Internet such as: text mining in electronic health records; search engine types, interfaces and use in proteomics; computer middleware theory and uses; using digital watermarking classifications and applications in analogue channels and IP networks and in identifying audio and video software products; instant messaging in primary schools and social motives; broadband internet access and the digital divide; net neutrality, and others. Such a selection makes this volume important to developing an overview of the key issues in the dynamic and wired world.