The study, conducted by LegitScript, an online pharmacy verification service, and KnujOn, an Internet compliance company, found that 90 percent of the reviewed Internet pharmacy advertisements were from fake or illegal Internet pharmacies.
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Rogue pharmacies still a problem for search engines | Health Tech - CNET News - 1 views
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(IT systems: communication system): the idea that 90% of the pharmacies advertising online through the internet are fake and illegal , and is providing people with a unreliable communication system.
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"We were able to purchase potentially addictive drugs without a prescription or any age verification via Bing.com ads," LegitScript President John Horton told CNET News. "We also received counterfeit medication. Microsoft profits from these illegal ads, which put Internet users at risk."
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fake unreliable advertisements selling addictive drugs without a prescription and giving out incorrect information in order to get money. (can cause serious health issues and creating an unreliable communicating environment)
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"the Internet has become a haven for drug seekers and abusers, particularly (regarding) controlled substances. It is a much more serious and dangerous phase of the Internet."
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unreliable, illegal communication system
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The NABP's own analysis of search results from Google and Yahoo turned up many drug ads from sketchy purveyors.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Green domain sparks war of words - 0 views
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Both groups are hoping to win the right to sell .eco "top-level domain names", which are similar to .com or .uk.
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Social & Ethical Issues- control & intellectual property
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Big Room also would like to see companies use .eco sites to publish all of their green information.
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IT Systems- Communication systems
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Big Room, which is endorsed by WWF International and Green Cross, also plans to generate money from the sale of .eco domain names to fund "sustainability projects".
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Areas of Impact- Environment & business
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Where tech and philosophy collide - 0 views
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"At the moment, people live longer, healthier and for the most part happier lives than they used to because of medical technology.
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areas of impact- health
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Laurie thinks the future will see a class divide between those who can afford the latest technology and those who can't.
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social and ethical issue- equality of access.
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Among the futures envisaged is a world where human consciousness can be uploaded onto storage devices to live inside virtual environments.
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It systems in a social context-applications
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Nations May Reuse More Electronics Than Thought - 0 views
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"At least 85 percent of discarded computers imported to Peru are reused, as opposed to going directly to recycling. [... Thus,] the image of the trade in e-waste as mainly being about dumping unusable junk is, at least for Peru, inaccurate."
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"highly dynamic flow [that] reuses and recycles almost every part and material found in a computer,"
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that it is possible to stop the environmentally damaging practices without diluting or eliminating informal dismantling and collection. This informal reuse and recycling sector is valuable for generating employment in the country and in making computing technology more accessible to low-income families and small businesses, the paper contends.
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AREAS OF IMPACT: business, science&the environment
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony to back open e-book format - 0 views
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The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format.
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IT systems in a social context-software & application
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Sony said it would have its store converted to the format by the end of 2009. Most Sony Readers can already handle books in the ePub format.
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areas of impact-science and the environment
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This may not mean the end of all locks on books readable on Sony's device as the ePub format has an option to implement copyright controls.
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social & ethical issues-intellectual properties
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DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated - 0 views
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they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
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there is no individuality, aynbody can be "created".SOCIAL
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You can just engineer a crime scene,”
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Science and the Environment, Politics and Government IMPACT
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A potential invasion of personal privacy is another.
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Control, Policies and Standards, Integrity SOCIAL
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they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart sensors power interaction - 0 views
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A range of novel ideas in human-computer interaction has been demonstrated a conference this week in Cambridge.
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students ... - 0 views
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Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops for the world’s poorest children
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The availability of Windows, in addition to Linux, on the XO laptop will allow customers to have an expanded choice of operating environments that best fit their requirements.
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Transforming education is a fundamental goal of Microsoft Unlimited Potential, our ambitious effort to bring sustained social and economic opportunity to people who currently don’t enjoy the benefits of technology
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