If you need a quick fix, call a hacker

Article Abstract:

The Department of Trade and Industry promotes research enabling users to modify their own IT systems quickly, as many businesses need fast changes to their systems to compete in marketing. However, most software companies develop their software carefully with many documents. Software engineering courses emphasise the need for this, but ignore business requirements. In evolutionary development the customer repeatedly suggests modifications to a prototype. Then software team then eliminate errors and document the system.

Business, Software, Software engineering

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Can all human life be processed here?

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Teh Human Genome Project aims to map the human genetic structure. Molecular biologists use database technology for their research. There are about 100,000 human genes each containing between 2,000 and two million pairs of nucleotides. Existing database management systems would not be able to cope with this amount of data. Relational databases store data in tables but cannot store sequences. Possible solutions would be to use object-oriented databases or deductive databases.

Methods, Database industry, Design and construction, Human Genome Project, Database administration

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'I'd like people to experience the thrill of hacking.' (Emmanuel Goldstein, editor and publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly)(Interview)

Article Abstract:

Media coverage of computer hacking has given hackers a negative image which is unjustified, according to Emmanuel Goldstein, editor and publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. He believes that hacking is actually a good thing, but that people will not appreciate this until they trying hacking for themselves. Hacking is about learning, and most hackers are responsible people who do not simply want to gain free access to on-line services or phone calls.

Interview, Computer hackers, Goldstein, Emmanuel

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