Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter asks Rudenstine and others if their universities have any "rules of engagement for student, faculty, and employee use of your university's net." If so, the Wiesenthal Center wants to know about those regulations. If not, the center will propose a code of ethics that university presidents might want to adopt...
Universities could choose to adopt a code of ethics for their users, restricting access to offensive material in the same way private companies might. The Wiesenthal Center is pushing for such a solution, because its leaders know that bigotry and anti-Semitism on the Internet would be harder to find if universities did not allow access to such material, either by forbidding students to post it or by eliminating links to specified sites...
...what they call a "new platform" on which to write new, hot-selling software. The virtual Java machine represents, as Sun co-founder Bill Joy puts it, "the lightest-weight platform we've ever had"--made not of metal, plastic and silicon but of a few thousand lines of code...
...mind in 1990, when he started work on the language he called Oak (after the tree outside his office window). The veteran programmer wanted to get the microprocessors inside consumer appliances (TVs, VCRs, car alarms) to talk to one another--a programming challenge that required writing software code that was not only highly compressed but also virtually idiot-proof. Most consumers, unlike most computer owners, don't expect their toaster ovens to "crash...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Flanked by Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole, former housing secretary Jack Kemp presented the long-awaited report of his tax commission at a press conference, proposing "a roadmap for a totally new tax code for America as we enter the 21st century." The 14-member panel called the current tax code a "7 million-word mess" and endorsed a flat tax, while leaving out specifics on what percentage should be taxed and what, if any, deductions should be preserved. Instead, the plan's centerpiece is "The Tax Test:" twelve principles to guide the creation of a fairer, flatter...