Word: bug
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...toddler playing with Legos or Tinker Toys. Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A Bug's Life. As the precocious builder's parent, you would be proud--especially if you were told that what she did on her own has long eluded the world's most powerful computers...
BEWARE GEEKS BEARING GIFTS O.K., the Love Bug struck 10 million computers worldwide, but at least your little Palm Pilot is safe, right? No longer. Last week saw the first-ever outbreak of a Trojan horse--a precursor of computer viruses--on PDAs running the popular Palm operating system. Liberty Crack, as the bug is known, masquerades as a game program, but when you install it and run it, it immediately erases all other programs on your Palm. Security experts say this is just the beginning. The smarter our appliances get, the more vulnerable they are to viruses. The next...
...muskie remains passive-aggressive, indifferent. For days he has been sliding along in his surly way, down there among the sunken, rotted logs of Elephant Lake, inhaling a perch now and then, ignoring our hors d'oeuvres tray of glittering Mepps spinners and Bush Hogs and Muskie Bug lures as gaudy as totem poles. Next, I'm going to try dynamite...
...mine for the evening as a sort of private gag, a dumb, spur-of-the-moment stunt. 2) He makes a habit of this (how else explain what he knows about me?) - he's a sick and mischievous character, a con artist with a personality disorder. Get out the bug spray...
...cause pneumonia, blood poisoning and even meningitis. Screening for the bacteria used to take days. Now doctors have come up with a speedier test, called a rapid PCR. It can determine on the day of delivery--in less than an hour--whether strep is present. If so, the bug can be wiped out with intravenous antibiotics a few hours before the baby is born...