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...have had a terribly damaging effect on the psyche of young people." In urging a revised syllabus, the task force argued, "Children from European culture will have a less arrogant perspective of being part of a group that has 'done it all.' " Many intellectuals are outraged. Political scientist Andrew Hacker of Queens College lambastes a task-force suggestion that children be taught how "Native Americans were here to welcome new settlers from Holland, Senegal, England, Indonesia, France, the Congo, Italy, China, Iberia." Asks Hacker: "Did the Indians really welcome all those groups? Were they at Ellis Island when the Italians...
...course aims to draw upon the best aspects of the hacker ethic, the ideas that people learn most effectively when they are having fun and building things that they care about...
...trespassing hacker is just one of the problems that can bring a computer system to its knees. Technicians were installing extra disk drives in an underground computer in Tulsa last May when they triggered a collapse of American Airlines' SABRE reservation system. Last September a Parisian computer creatively misread magnetic labels on 41,000 traffic-violation files and began charging delinquent motorists with crimes ranging from murder and drug trafficking to prostitution. A fire in a Tokyo utility tunnel several years ago wiped out circuits connecting Mitsubishi Bank's mainframe computers with branch offices, shutting down automated-teller machines across...
...spike the weapons systems. If you're in media or if you're an electronics whiz, you might break into a boring Bush speech with a jest, or loudly repeat BO-BO-BO, or insert a blinking image of a gunman shooting down a child. What an imaginative computer hacker might contrive boggles the mind...
...widely publicized virus, called the "Friday the 13th" or "Columbus Day" virus, is a program written by an unknown "hacker" designed to become active on October 13. But it took time for the virus to reach the computers at the Kennedy School, said Yvonne Amundson, the PC lab coordinator...