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...good old days," account strings were only 14 digits long. Transactions that were made regularly in the lab were identified by a series of about 20 2-digit object codes...
Another increasingly ubiquitous, albeit less visible high-tech object is the smart card. Many a European wallet now includes one or more cards embedded with a memory chip, which may hold anything from a cash balance to be spent on small purchases to personal information that reduces the possibility of credit-card fraud--or even, as in France, a complete medical history. Three French companies produce more than two-thirds of the world's smart cards, a $12 billion business set to explode as companies discover the limits of the familiar magnetic-strip card, which can hold relatively little information...
Java, which replaced MIPS, is now taught due to its elegant presentation of object-oriented programming, he says...
...auctioneers. In the early 1990s, the Justice Department turned its scrutiny on private dealers in an effort to nail the ones who indulged in "ring" bidding--the technique of defrauding sellers by agreeing not to bid against one another in the auction room so that the low-balled object could then be sold by the ring at a second, informal auction of dealers only. About a dozen dealers and collectors were convicted. But Justice decided that the paper trail compiled in those cases might lead further--to Sotheby's and Christie's. It subpoenaed truckloads of letters, documents, phone books...
...interest and declares, "You are the woman I'd most like to...be." However, given that the two actors are basically playing themselves, the movie has a kind of lightness that helps it to rise above other plodding plotlines concerning the unconventional family, such as 1998's The Object of My Affection...