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Using the Domain Name System to Thwart Automated Client-Based Attacks

Taylor, Curtis R; Shue, Craig A - 2011

On the Internet, attackers can compromise systems owned by other people and then use these systems to launch attacks automatically. When attacks such as phishing or SQL injections are successful, they can have negative consequences including server downtime and the loss of sensitive information....

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Computer Technology, Human Labor, and Long-Run Economic Growth

Elliott, Stuart W. - 1998

Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing many of the skills now performed by human labor. This paper describes three models of the aggregate economic changes that occur when capital becomes capable of performing human work skills. The basic model,...

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The growth and valuation of generic skills: SKOPE Research Paper No. 26, Spring 2002

Dickerson, Andy; Green, Francis - 2002

, controlling fo all other indicators of skill, conventiona or otherwise. Moreover, advanced and complex usages of computers earn a … computers raises pay. Together with b), this finding suggests that computing may be having an effect on the way structure in …

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2004

differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

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Experience and Technology Adoption

Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2004

technologies. Because technological progress in general, and computers in particular, may be skill-biased and because human capital …

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The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement

Webbink, Dinand; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Lindahl, Mikael; … - 2004

schools with at least 70 percent pupils from different disadvantaged groups extra funding for computers and software. The …

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2004

differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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Do home computers improve educational outcomes? Evidence from matched current population surveys and the national longitudinal survey of youth 1997

Beltran, Daniel O.; Das, Kuntal K.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006

Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in …. Teenagers who have access to home computers are 6 to 8 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school than teenagers … who do not have home computers after controlling for individual, parental, and family characteristics. We generally find …

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Computer skills, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2005

multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are more likely to use computers than the Australian born. As the level of computer …

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