Word: hacks
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...like Treehorn, Pharrell at first appears to be the mastermind of an elaborate cultural scheme (the arrhythmic cracking tribal drums and snaky fusion-hop synths on the track), upon closer inspection it turns out he’s just a hack who’s drawing some dude with a giant wang on a personalized Post-It. Figuratively speaking...
...card in which they had installed a preprogrammed chip. Other computer scientists have also breached electronic voting machines. Congressman Vernon Ehlers, a Michigan Republican who has been holding hearings this fall, says manufacturers "have produced machines that are very vulnerable, not very reliable and I suspect fairly easy to hack...
...game. Will Lawrence hack through it in order to save his family? And kill another man in the process? "If you do not kill Adam by six o'clock," the torturer, Jigsaw, says on a tape recording, "then Alison and Diana [Lawrence's wife and child] will die, and I will leave you in this room to rot. Let the game begin." It's Jigsaw's favorite, and only, game: confining his victim in some medieval-looking device made of old found objects (the movie takes its anachronistic notion of production design from Terry Gilliam's Brazil), then telling...
...requirement much more easily than Chem 161, “Statistical Thermodynamics,” don’t swoon for the lower course number. Chem 161 is something of a physics-lite course, replete with a handful of physics concentrators. Give it a chance if you can hack a few Taylor expansions, or just appreciate the easy-to-follow full-color lecture handouts. The biological applications will at least keep your ears up, and Prof. Xioawei Zhuang is one of the perkier members of the department. If, however, you prefer consulting numerical tables to learning a few easy integrals...
...sectarian interests. Never mind a Mandela; there's not even an Iraqi Hamid Karzai. The beleaguered Afghan President has more credibility with his people than any Iraqi politician can honestly claim. In the absence of statesmen, I fear the sectarian furies that have been unleashed in Iraq will hack away at the last vestiges of sense and decency and drag the country into a final fight to the death...