Word: modem
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Dubbed the Harvard High-Speed Data Network (HSDN), the project will enable students and faculty, for the price of a pair of in-line roller skates, to communicate with students from Thayer to Australia--without any messy modem cables or huge phone bills...
...Rockies are especially fertile ground for a proliferation of workers who, like Tipple, are variously known as the telecommuters, the modem cowboys or, as Philip Burgess, president of the Denver think-tank Center for the New West, puts it, the "lone eagles." Burgess agrees that "what's happening in the Rockies is not unlike what happened in California in its golden years." But he emphasizes a big difference: "In the Rocky Mountain region, it's not taxi drivers anymore -- it's professional people who realize they can locate anywhere and live by their wits. Many were middle managers who were...
...March federal agents raided bulletin boards in 15 states searching for evidence that they were trafficking in child pornography (which, unlike most pornography, is illegal in the U.S.). Parents' and women's groups complain that sexually explicit material is still available to any youngster who can operate a modem. "The last thing this culture needs," writes Stephanie Salter in the San Francisco Examiner, "is yet another method for reducing women to sex objects...
Hacking was popularized in the movie "War Games." It took a young high school student nothing more tan a 300-baud modem and a computer less powerful than some calculators to bring the would to the brink of nuclear war. Prior to this he had changed his grades form borderline passing to honor roll. This was an exploit everyone could relate...
...have been monitoring modem transactions" into the HUSC systems, Steen says. If access demand remains high- as it surely will as more and more students fall in love with the internet, the international network that originated with the Pentagon- funded networking research- more lines will be opened...