Word: hackers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contained units that could be slotted into one another like Lego blocks. It had to be robust, which is to say crash-proof, doing without many standard programming tools that give developers flexibility but can lead to unpredictable results. Finally, it had to be secure, even in the hostile hacker- and virus-filled environment of the Internet. Before Java allows any line of code to be executed, it determines whether the command is a legal one, using powerful encryption to ensure that the program hasn't been tampered with...
...hacker," he said, "you can do it at Harvard just as easily as anywhere in the country," he said...
...thriller sends the well-worn message--and any budding young Clancy will tell you that a message of some sort is advisable, if not down-right moral--that the world always remains just a skilled hacker's keystroke away from complete annihilation by large balls of fire and other painful things...
DIED. PAUL EDDINGTON, 68, actor; of cancer; in London. Eddington enjoyed his best notices playing Jim Hacker, the full-voiced, empty-headed politician dominated by his staff in the popular British TV series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister...
Blacks seethe when Cochran's attack on Detecttive Fuhrman is denigrated in the white-controlled media as merely "playing the race card." Such a tactic could hardly have been avoided in a case that, in Hacker's phrase,"was dripping with race" from the start. How could it have been otherwise when a black man stood accused of cutting the throats of two white people in a city that exploded just 3 1/2 years ago after four white cops who beat Rodney King were set free by a jury from which blacks were conspicuously absent? Few would disagree with Thelma...