Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been impressively sophisticated as well. In 1991 DEA and U.S. Customs Service agents watching fence posts filled with cocaine being off-loaded in Miami were stunned to discover that Cali agents were watching them watch the fence posts. Last year Colombia seized a cartel computer with an unbreakable code encrypting its files. The computer was being used to analyze Cali phone records, determining which of the cartel's lines were tapped...
...cues for edible plants such as dandelion, licorice root and nettle. His most important asset was a 28-oz. PRC-112, a survival radio, barely larger than a Walkman, that can operate for as long as seven hours on a single battery and can broadcast a locating beep, Morse code or voice...
...standards Levin mentioned at the annual meeting, then inviting in recording artists, producers and executives to answer a few critical questions: Do they in fact have standards of decency? What are they? What if anything is over the line? After that could come an explicit code of behavior for artists and distributors-and a retreat from some of the more egregious offenders. The process may well be slow and deliberate, if only to make sure the desired results stick...
...hard to imagine a human being who holds on to more odd items than Geller. Above his fireplace he has beanie caps with propellers on the top (required dress code for CS 50 teaching fellows, thanks to Geller); on his trunk lies an 8-inch plastic green locust and a roll of electric cable warning tape in Hebrew, English and Arabic. And we haven't even opened his drawers...
...behavior is within the normal range of human-computer interactions. I know an editor at a computer magazine who treats his machine as if it were organic, a delicate ecology of microchips and electric pulsing code. He's put a word-processing program and some bland communications software on it. Nothing more. While every new, cool program comes to him (laser-'em-up games, flight sims, goofy utilities that promise to make his computer bark like a Schnauzer), he refuses to put any of them on his hard drive for fear that doing so would expose it to grave biological...