Word: commandant
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...type "nofinger" at the prompt to disable this information, and many have decided to do so. What many people don't know (but your average CS50 graduate can tell you) is that this does nothing to deter someone who wishes to know where you last logged on. The command "last " will list without complaint the whereabouts of any student who regularly checks e-mail from a terminal in the past week. The command "finger | grep " (or, "who | grep " will supply the data that "nofinger" is supposed to disable...
Leaving aside that fact that I can't know who has "finger"ed or "last"ed me and thus have no basis for complaint, the idea that privacy should be protected only when someone feels in personal danger is rubbish. They also remarked that to disable the "last" command, or the "finger | grep " loophole would "significantly reduce the functionality of the computer systems". This is also rubbish, again as any CS50 graduate can tell you: a few keystrokes will remove the last command from/usr/bin or make is accessible only to the administration...
...while Americans pay top dollar for their hams or BLTs, Muller and the rest of America's 115,000 hog farmers may as well give their animals away (some are doing that). His 220-lb. pigs, which a little over a year ago fetched 60[cents] per lb., now command around 15[cents] per lb. When he's not selling his livestock at a loss, he's trying to rearrange his bank payments and save his century-old family farm from going under. "We're getting killed out here," he says...
...resigned. And so did Robinson. Through his resignation, Mandelson gained the last measure of respect he could command and left Britain's government stable, precisely what President Clinton could have done last year...
...Angeles and Sydney. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with her performance except that any of 20 other competent stage actresses could have done it. Not many of them, of course, would also look as good in the buff (from behind, for about 10 seconds) or be able to command the kind of hype of which great letdowns are made...