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...they worried about skinned knees from slipping on the concrete and wet clothes due to water pistols? Or is it simply a deeply ingrained fear of college students running amok with plastic toys? Whatever...
...disagree that these commands should be removed. By disabling commands, one reduces the ability of the network to function as intended. In addition, one can introduce a security hole in the system. For example, a hacker figures out my password and logs in to my account to run amok in the network. I use the "last" command to see when I last logged in, and I notice a location or time that I know I did not login. (One caveat--"last" only works on the current machine, for example, login4, so to be thorough, one must...
Later that night, one member of FM visited the Fly Club, where blood alcohol apparently turned to testosterone--transubstantiation run amok as a fight broke out and some Fly guys wrinkled their khakis. One female party-goer, disgusted with the machismo demonstration, remarked, "No matter how much renovation they do, this place will always be a dump...
...doesn't tend to stabilize the country the way that Indonesia's does. "Malaysia is a traditionally passive society, which occasionally explodes in a violent frenzy -- like the anti-Chinese riots in the '60s," says Dowell. "Remember, it was Malaysia's Bahasa language that gave us the phrase 'run amok...
President Clinton this morning warned the country about the danger of computers running amok come January 1, 2000, saying that although there could be serious problems, there's no need to panic. Indeed, the President's mixed message illustrates his dilemma -- if he ignores the millennium bug, he seems out of touch; if he dwells on it too much he opens himself to charges of not having done more sooner, and risks sowing panic. Stung by Republican complaints that he hasn't addressed the Y2K problem, Clinton said he'll ask Congress to approve a "Good Samaritan" law to encourage...