Word: dos
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...dangerous than soda and cookies in a San Jose, Calif., hotel lobby. Like hundreds of techies who help keep the backbone of the Internet properly aligned, Hannan had spent the morning at the North American Network Operators' Group conference listening to a talk on something called denial-of-service (DOS) attacks. "I thought I knew about them well enough," says Hannan. "I didn't pay much attention. I wish...
...Brazilian doctors performed a Caesarian section on Neide Neves dos Santos, 24. She has been in a coma...
...attackers brought down eBay and other sites using a method called "denial of service," or DOS. On a regular computer network, one computer sends a packet, or a bit of information, to another computer, and waits for a "ping" in return to verify that the information was received...
Indeed, if one were of the paranoid mind-set fomented by duck-and-cover cartoons and the Sid Davis oeuvre, one might believe that educators of a radical bent designed these films as reverse social engineering. They knew that kids would take dating dos as don'ts, and vice versa. Some children may never even have considered slouching until Posture Pals told them not to. Did the mental-hygiene cinema of the '50s create the hippies and druggies...
...from outer space or heroic oarsmen from South America; foreigners see Basque influences here; and locals speak of the statues walking inland from the coast. The monoliths, thought to be between 600 and 1,300 years old, reflect back mostly the faces of those who look at them. John Dos Passos, in 1971, saw the island's parabolic cycle--the construction of extraordinarily impressive monuments, followed by their destruction--as a warning to "college radicals"; others see an allegory of limited resources (as human bodies multiplied on the island, and resources did not, people were reduced to eating one another...