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INTERNET CONNECTIONS   (02/13/2010) We can all agree, the Internet has made life a lot easier for us. The ability to gather information, communicate, and conduct what we now consider routine activities like: reading the latest news, recording and listening to music, viewing video, and playing games are just a few of its benefits. Do you have a favorite activity the Internet allows you to persue?   I've asked a few people recently and the answers really don't surprise me. The biggest  activity is web chat on Online Community sites like: Facebook and Twitter and obviously still huge are places like: IM (Instant Messenger.) It's the way people communicate today. Also big, and this seems to cut across all age groups is listening to music. The Internet has become a unique and very powerful tool in the music industry. It has created a convenient way for non national recording groups to promote themselves and for national acts to continually remind viewers who they are and even to make us remember entertainers from the past through their music. More than a few bands have found success through the web. I love viewing You Tube videos, especially those vintage clips that "based on their quality" were probably bootlegged, at the time. I've had more than a few people admit that they enjoy viewing sexual content on the web. When you think about it, the web is the perfect vehicle for it. High quality video and audio delivered in the privacy of your home. Without even thinking about it, my favorite activity is listening and watching sports. Like with porn and music, the web is perfect for it. I remember when Major League Baseball first  licensed the Internet for audio broadcasts of baseball games. It allowed me to hear "often for the first time"  home town announcers in other markets. Back then, the broadcasts were free, as were the first video broadcasts and instant reply. I even love the Instane "play by play" text updates, similar now to what you can have on your cell phon. It goes without saying that "often without really thinking about it, or being aware of it" we use the Internet -including some of its other avenues -like FTP -for software downloades, stock market news, basic research and even telephone calls, including the use of applications like: Skype. But perhaps in a global way the Internet or or truly, The World Wide Web, because of its intrusion into countries across the planet, has been responsible for the break-up of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, and more specifically the Iron Curtain across Eastern Europe and other dictatorships. Because a government can control the information its own citizens are exposed to thru censorship within that country, but it becomes a lot harder when those same citizens are able to get a more accurate view of the world through tools like: satellite dishes and the internet. Knowledge is indeed power. THE TEXT LANGUAGE One reason for the surge in texting abbreviations—more than 2,000 and counting, according to NetLingo—is the boom in social-media sites like Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters. Text messages, too, are limited in length, so users have developed an alphabet soup of shorthand abbreviations to save time, and their thumbs Say What? A sampling of some popular shorthand texting terms. UG2BK . . . . .You got to be kidding   GBTW. . . . . . . . Get back to work   NMP . . . .Not my problem PIR . . .Parent in room     GFTD. . .Gone for the day     FYEO. . . . . . . . . For your eyes only BI5 . . . Back in five minutes    DEGT . . Don’t even go thereBIL . . . . . Boss is listening PAW. . . . Parents are watching   99 . . .Parents are no longer watching     PCM . . . . Please call me IMS. . . . . I am sorry    TOY. . . . . Thinking of you    KUTGW. . Keep up the good work   CID . . . Consider it done     FWIW. . . For what it’s worth      HAND . . . Have a nice day    IAT . . . . . I am tired     NRN . . . . No response necessary     4COL. . . For crying out loud WRUD. . . What are you doing      LMIRL. . . Let’s meet in real life^5      H5 . . . High five

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1 Viruses are self-executing, self-replicating programs. They alter the way a computer operates without the knowledge or permission of the user. When activated,, viruses may damage files, cause erratic system behavior, or display annoying messages. The ability to self-replicate differentiates viruses from Trojan horses and other virus-like programs.

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3 A Trojan Horse uses unprotected ports to open lines of communication with your computer, and can ultimately give hackers control over your machine. Active Trojan Horses are also called Remote Access Trojans. 4 Malware short for malicious software is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent.