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...passworded access to different versions of the same computer's desktop, and the new system delivers souped-up handling of photos, music and videos. But XP's main advantage over older Windows versions is improved reliability, some of it achieved by ditching the crash-prone Windows 95 and 98 code. "It's like an iceberg," says Mark Specker, an analyst at Soundview Technology Group. "All of its biggest improvements are below the surface...
...Congress, police chiefs and reporters for weeks that further attacks by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network were virtually certain. But now the government was telling the people directly: We're in danger. As if to underscore the point, the Web address for the warning included the code "skyfall," before the bureau changed it. A young aide had chosen the blunt word only so she could find the statement easily on her computer, but there was no doubt that her fears were also ours...
...Reagan Democrats,” now called swing voters, who “became the voters to whom all election appeals would be directed, a narrowing of focus with predictable results, not the least significant of which was that presidential elections would come to be conducted almost exclusively in code.” Didion hopes Political Fictions will begin to unlock, or at least to make readers aware of, this “code...
...such code word is the term “faith-based,” applied frequently by “compassionate conservatives,” including our current president. It is “employed to suggest that certain worthy organizations have been prevented from receiving government funding solely by virtue of their religious affiliation”—even though only “pervasively sectarian” organizations are denied aid, not all “religiously affiliated” charities. Didion suggests that these terms are a smokescreen designed to hide from the American people...
FM’s crack Morse Code team dusted off the ol’ telegraph machine to get the full report from waters near...