Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with this added convenience, of course, has come the need for some regulation, a code of conduct, some controlling authority which is sorely lacking. There's nothing worse than the crush of students in line at kiosks between classes in the Science Center or at Boylston, where the line snakes so hellishly far out of the hallway that it blocks the stairs. It's impossible to prevent this kind of traffic jam, but common courtesy would help alleviate it. By standards much less severe than those of Mayor Guiliani, the typical e-mail check at a kiosk should be brief...
...week by a federal court after the Federal Trade Commission uncovered the brazen scheme. It worked like this: first, according to the FTC, the perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling up these pages would automatically be shunted to their porn site. Once there, the visitors often could not leave: "mousetrapped," with their computers' "back" and "close" commands disabled. Users were thus caught in what the FTC called "an unavoidable, seemingly endless loop...
Last but, thanks to Buckcherry, not least was 311. The band's name, police code for indecent exposure, becomes more relevant with each progressive year, as their rehashed material becomes increasingly distasteful. Far from their "grassroots" of energetic short sets in sweaty small venues, 311 performed in a large outdoor half-shell for almost two hours. At first, the crowd was psyched and ready to groove, but 311 lost their attention by reserving all of their radio hits for the final twenty minutes. Almost the entire set was devoted to tracks off their upcoming album, Soundsystem, and only the recently...
There was something oddly charming about the geeks who made up the first wave of Internet entrepreneurs. Social misfits pounding out code in their computer-science labs--these people deserved professional success. But after the Wright Brothers, you get Frank Lorenzo. And so this summer Silicon Valley was flooded by the Second Wave: fast-talking business-school grads whose interest in technology is limited to how it will make them money. This is Silicon Valley in the IPO age. Geeks are history; they're all capitalists now. Netscape founder Marc Andreesen stars in a Miller Lite...
...Tandy from Radio Shack," Lanzot says. "You had to subscribe to the magazine and in the magazine they sent you code, and if you ran the code it would create pictures that would move. You'd leave the pictures on your screen all day long...