This week saw the official unveiling of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) which, as its name suggests, will specialise in the investigation of crimes that involve net and computer technology.
Perhaps less surprisingly, females are more likely to visit retail sites, whereas males surf the net in search of computer games, cars and sports.
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Graham Cluley, a computer security expert from net security company Sophos, told the BBC that there were ways for computer owners to protect their machines from this type of fraud - for instance, by using up-to-date anti-virus software.
Net 1 operates a mainframe computer, loaded with customer information and tied into every transaction.
Always-on net connection: If your computer is always connected to the web in someway this will be a lot easier, but if needed, it can dial up and send the images off too.
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Its reaction with the odour molecules changes a detector's electrical resistance, and this signal is fed into a neural net (the closest that computer technology has got to imitating the pattern-recognising abilities of networks of nerve cells) to work out what is being smelt.
The Net lets anyone with a computer and a modem compete mouse to mouse with mainstream media. (Drudge's publishing empire is the living room of his Hollywood apartment.) But many of the Net's would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins are journalistic novices and wouldn't think, say, to ask court or police sources to confirm a rumor.
In 1962, ARPA launched a nationwide effort to build a computer network called ARPA-NET.
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Even though you increase single-computer power usage when consolidating, net power decreases as you take other systems offline.
Don't believe the bandwidth gurus who tell you that the computer you hook up to the Net no longer matters, as long as your connection is fast.
Sandra Bullock starred in "The Net, " a thriller centered on a computer analyst whose finds her identity completely erased when she becomes embroiled in a vast government conspiracy.
Prof Nicolelis said the experiments could lead to the creation of a biological computer -- or "brain-net" -- linking multiple brains.
Wal-Mart Stores and Compaq Computer want all their suppliers on the Net.
With Berners-Lee's "http protocol, " computer jockeys the world over began making the Net easier to use with point-and-click programs.
Computer geeks call it war-driving or Net stumbling: roving around with a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop to scan for nearby Wi-Fi access points, then trying to see if they can use them for free.
Along these lines, last June, Google connected together 16, 000 computer processors into a giant machine vision learning neural net and let them loose on YouTube.
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Political leaders and religious establishments are placed in a dilemma by the rise of cyber-hedonism: do they follow their youngsters onto the net, or try vainly to lure them away from the computer?
The Net Heads, on the other hand, mostly come out of the computer-and-software world.
The result is that letting someone else's aglet on to your computer should be about as risky as downloading an applet from the Net, which is generally considered safe.
By letting me control the information delivered to my computer, my love affair with the vast array of apps on the net has been reignited with a passion.
The net-powered PC has come out of a project to create specifications for powering almost any kind of computer hardware through Ethernet cables.
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