Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final game of last year's match, for instance, Deep Blue let its bishop get trapped on the edge of the board, with little power and zero mobility. The awful tragedy of the edge-locked bishop wasn't fully salted into its code base at the time, so the poor computer was oblivious to the depth of its positional peril, and Kasparov won the game handily. But things won't go so easily for mankind this time around. Says a pleased Benjamin: "Deeper Blue understands more about bishops--when they're good, when they're bad, how to use them...
...just before the start of the New Deal, he went underground for the party. Based in New York City or Baltimore, Maryland, Chambers--code-named "Bob" and later "Karl"--made his furtive way in the world of disappearing ink and microfilm. It was serious enough espionage, although the U.S. authorities were fairly heedless of it at the time. One of Chambers' Soviet accomplices remembered, "If you wore a sign saying, 'I am a spy,' you might still not get arrested...
...Code translated, Breyer understood my question to be, "Do you agree that the Supreme Court has become accustomed to deciding cases, not based on the text of the Constitution, but rather on what the justices think the meaning of Constitution should be (a question betraying a Scalian mind set)? I understood his answer to be, "There is no such thing as a 'textual' argument, or one that is self-evident from the text. Rather, the Constitution is an evolving document that must be understood in relation to changing circumstances...
...programs stored on the hard drive, nefariously designed links could bypass the browser's security systems and automatically access programs, from e-mail to files and basic functions, that reside on the user's hard drive. All the site's designer would need to know is the location and code of a program on the drive. Such locations, unfortunately, are commonly standardized with operating systems' installation, and thus easily deduced. The bug could be a dose of publicity poison for Microsoft, by focusing computer users' fears about security onto both Internet Explorer and the operating systems the browser...
...coming months, users can expect to see a Pentium Pro machine with MMX that will run at a speedy 266Mhz. Dubbed Pentium II, Intel's hopes this will become the new desktop PC standard. By the end of the year, Intel expects to release a 300Mhz MMX processor code-named Deschutes...