REGULATORY CAPTURE THEORY Capture theory assumes‚ firstly‚ that all members of society are economically rational. Therefore‚ each individual will pursue his or her self-interest to the point where the private marginal benefit from lobbying regulators just equals the private marginal cost. Regulation has the potential to redistribute the wealth. Therefore‚ people lobby for regulations that increase their wealth. Second‚ the capture view assumes‚ as with public-interest theory‚ that the government
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10 Architecture of BitTorrent 11 Vulnerabilities of BitTorrent 21 Conclusion 24 1. Introduction 2.1 Overview BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used to distribute large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files. Its main usage is for the transfer of large sized files. It makes transfer of such files easier by implementing a different approach. A user can obtain multiple files simultaneously
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Internet Protocols NAME CIT/278 May 27‚ 2013 Professor Internet Protocols Internet protocols‚ or Internet rules‚ are the standards used to send data from one computer to another. The protocols that expedite data transfer include Internet Protocol Versions Four and Six‚ Remote Access‚ Hyper Transfer‚ File Transfer‚ Electronic Mail‚ and Network News Transfer. Communication and information transfer on the Internet is becoming available in constantly increasing speeds. Internet protocols use these increasing
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The Kyoto Protocol was created to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that are supposedly affecting Earth’s climate change. The protocol calls for a five percent reduction of emissions by 2012 from what they were in 1990. Canada was given a goal of six percent by 2012‚ and a seventeen percent reduction by 2020 (Kyoto and Beyond). The six traces of gas blamed for global warming only make up one percent of the Earth’s atmosphere. Is one percent really going to make a difference in
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Kyoto Protocol In the world today there are talks about why and how the people of this planet are polluting the rivers‚ lakes‚ soil‚ and even air. With these talks countries are coming up with great ways to reduce this problem. They see the effects and they are happy and life goes on but there is another problem‚ the one the everyday people just can ’t solve with their own hands‚ that problem is the theory of global warming. During December of 1997‚ a meeting in Kyoto‚ Japan‚ started a huge
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The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams (packets) across an internet work using the Internet Protocol Suite. Responsible for routing packets across network boundaries‚ it is the primary protocol that establishes the Internet. • An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label that is assigned to any device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes. • Internet
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Kyoto Protocol What is it? The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change‚ which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets. When was it first announced? The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto‚ Japan‚ on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. The detailed rules for the implementation of the Protocol were adopted at COP 7 in Marrakesh‚ Morocco‚ in 2001‚ and are referred
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Kyoto Protocol 1) Why did the Kyoto protocol take so long to be put into practice? The Kyoto protocol took so long due to the fact that some countries did not sign the “treaty” and other countries were getting more nervous because it isn’t that easy to sign the order of the Kyoto Protocol because that would lead to large economic changes for every country which signed. 2) What was the target for a reduction in greenhouse emissions? The target for the reduction in greenhouse emissions of greenhouse
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MONTREAL PROTOCOL: The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect theozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible forozone depletion. The treaty was opened for signature on September 16‚ 1987‚ and entered into force on January 1‚ 1989‚ followed by a first meeting in Helsinki‚ May 1989. Since then‚ it has undergone
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to communicate in a given language. This arrangement is governed by a set of rules or laws called a protocol. The protocol must define many different aspects of the communication language however given rules dictate that a protocol must as least classify The rate of transmission (baud or bps) Synchronous or asynchronous Half-duplex or full-duplex mode There are a variety of standard protocols from which programmers can choose. Each has particular advantages and disadvantages; for example‚ some
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