Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sideshow: ?We went through all of this a few weeks ago, and now we?re getting four more days of it. Roth is playing to the gallery,? says Van Voorst. ?The problem with the U.S. internal revenue system isn?t the agency; it?s the irreparably complex tax code -- which was created by Congress...
Perhaps newsworthiness does trump this warm and fuzzy issue of spirit, but does it trump a commitment to a basic code of reporting policies? After all, most Kuumba members did not have a problem with the story itself, but rather to how the story was reported. "I agree it was newsworthy, and I am glad the story was written," says Brunton, "but not this way, not by pulling people's private e-mails. You don't expect this from a reputable news source, you don't expect it from The Crimson." Kristin Williams '00, vice president of Kuumba, was more...
...response to this electronic explosion, The Crimson needs to rigorously reexamine its policies to come up with a consistent, robust code of e-reporting guidelines. At present, glaring inconsistencies remain. For example, The Crimson's own Editorials Board refuses, on principle, to publish any e-mail letter without first confirming the content of the letter with the writer. Why should the News department allow itself to by any more lax? Granade allows, "Our standards must evolve in this area." With some conscientious thought into these evolving standards; hopefully the minimal guidelines will also be exacting enough to prevent stepping...
...adapt ancient legal principles to the new digital age. When the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act last year, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor repeatedly cited his article "Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace" in her separate opinion. He has written famously about the "tyranny of code," how seemingly insignificant details of software design can have far more impact than any law. "With respect to the architecture of cyberspace, and the worlds it allows," he once wrote...
Microsoft's initial revenues come from software licensing; the code for the hit travel site Expedia, for instance, will soon fuel sites for American Express and Northwest Airlines, among others. And the financial sector is next. Last week Microsoft unveiled its Investor Platform Kit, which lets banks and brokers put mix-and-match versions of Investor on their own sites...