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Vice City is the best demonstration so far that video games have come of age. As an interactive medium, one built around freedom of choice, video games are actually well suited to teach us about right and wrong. Tommy Vercetti is free to hijack that bus, but he must be prepared to live with the consequences, which may include being thrown in jail by Vice City's finest. Vercetti is equally free to give up his life of crime and become a taxi driver or a fireman or deliver pizzas for a living...
Tommy Vercetti has a problem: he's trying to hijack a city bus, but the bus won't move. He has kicked the driver out onto the street. He's even softened him up with a baseball bat. But Vercetti didn't do a good job of parking his car before he got on the bus, and it's blocking the street. Traffic is backed up halfway down the block, and there's nowhere to drive the bus. Before this busjacking thing goes any further, he's going to have to park his car properly like anybody else...
...practice. Many scientists, wary of restrictions and firm in their belief that the ends of science (that is, understanding the world) lie outside of moral considerations, just refuse to enter the debate. But an unholy alliance of national security mavens and self-appointed academic ethicists are now threatening to hijack decision-making over the bounds of scientific research. As a result, scientists will more and more be pressed into service to defend their work from creeping government regulation. Harvard students of science need to be well-equipped to repulse encroachment when it comes...
Though the report doesn't tap terror groups by name, the implication is clear: if you don't practice good PC hygiene now, al-Qaeda or some organization like it could one day hijack your hard drive. That's not just homeland-security hype. In 2001, viruses and other malicious code caused $12 billion worth of damage to the U.S. economy with the aid of unsuspecting users. How to stop that from happening? Most of the suggestions in the cybersecurity report are pretty familiar: don't open strange email attachments; do install a firewall; choose passwords that aren't easy...
Even from a distance, Binalshibh played a vital role on Sept. 11, according to U.S. investigators. From his base in Germany, he handled logistics and financial arrangements for the hijack team, funneling cash to them and also, on one occasion, to Zacarias Moussaoui, who was detained in Minnesota before the attacks and has since been charged with six counts of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism. Binalshibh also is thought to have worked closely with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 38, a Pakistani born in Kuwait with a long history of links to terrorist groups, who investigators believe was also involved...