Word: cowing
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...Love You" virus retrieved passwords from victims' computers to send back to its creator. Other viruses are programmed to strip e-mail addresses from your address book. Back Orifice, a notorious piece of software created a few years ago by a hacking group called Cult of the Dead Cow, takes over a host computer completely. Among its privacy-invading features: it can dig up passwords and monitor every keystroke typed into...
...night, going through the budget line by line. Then the caucus found an $8.4 million agriculture item no one could explain. "Cut it! Cut it!" The item was slashed. But the next day someone pointed out that the money was earmarked to help prevent the spread of mad-cow and foot-and-mouth diseases. The caucus quickly restored--even increased--the funding...
...have to look far to find folks who are freaked out by genetically modified foods, who won't drink cow's milk laced with growth hormones or touch diet colas sweetened with aspartame. Since we have so many hang-ups about the purity of what we eat and drink, you'd think that any company foolish enough to add substances whose quantity and quality are notoriously difficult to control to their snacks or beverages would quickly founder. Instead the exact opposite is true. In the U.S. last year, according to the market-research firm Frost and Sullivan, consumers bought...
...grocer beams in to tell me there's a special shipment of organic beef. It's contraband, but I'll take it! Ever since the Mad Cow Plague finding real beef has been impossible...
...have an easier time identifying the country if the leadership were tending in one direction and the people were tending in another. But the people aren't tending. Everyone seems contented as a cow to stay at home, order out for pizza and plan a vacation to Virginia Beach. Should I write a book about America being bored with itself? I need a title. Yawning in America...