Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, a computer virus is inserted into the aggressor's telephone-switching stations, causing widespread failure of the phone system. Next, computer logic bombs, set to activate at predetermined times, destroy the electronic routers that control rail lines and military convoys, thus misrouting boxcars and causing traffic jams. Meanwhile, enemy field officers obey the orders they receive over their radios, unaware the commands are phony. Their troops are rendered ineffective as they scatter through the desert. U.S. planes, specially outfitted for psychological operations, then jam the enemy's TV broadcasts with propaganda messages that turn the populace against its ruler...
...dabbling in hacker warfare. The National Security Agency, along with top-secret intelligence units in the Army, Navy and Air Force, has been researching ways to infect enemy computer systems with particularly virulent strains of software viruses that already plague home and office computers. Another type of virus, the logic bomb, would remain dormant in an enemy system until a predetermined time, when it would come to life and begin eating data. Such bombs could attack, for example, computers that run a nation's air-defense system or central bank. The CIA has a clandestine program that would insert booby...
...Buffett, money has its own logic. He does not enjoy what it can buy. In fact, spending money interferes with its real purpose from the Buffett point of view--the sheer pleasure of accumulation. "He views money as basically a way of keeping score," says Lowenstein, "a way of measuring his success." While a boy, Buffett told a friend, "It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow." As Lowenstein puts it, Buffett acquired while growing up "an overly reverent view of money's proper role, as if spending were...
...Unabomber, who writes as "we'' though authorities believe he acts alone, complains that freedom of the press is a sham: "If we had never done anything violent and had submitted the present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted." Hence the Unabomber's murderous logic: "In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we've had to kill people...
...there are times that I feel very liberal. When I read Jesse Helms' latest comments, for example. (mmm. By his logic, do people who smoke Carolina tobacco deserve lung cancer?) Or when Bob Dole starts ranting about violence in Hollywood. Or when Senator Exon starts pontificating about the dangers of Internet porn. You know. The times when some conservative person or group says or does something utterly idiotic...