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...term finally entered the Oxford English Dictionary, which defined it as "an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector." And it has remained there ever since. But not for much longer if McDonald's gets...
...chronicling of unflattering slang. Last year, Britain's Potato Council complained that the definition of couch potato implied that the nutritious tuber was inherently unhealthy, thus driving down business. Instead, the Council campaigned for the term to be replaced by couch slouch, even staging protests outside the OED's Oxford headquarters - but to no avail...
...wonder if, based on all that we already have, Harvard can ever satisfy us. In fact, I wonder if anything will ever satisfy us. This year, two of Harvard’s recent Rhodes Scholars penned myriad complaints about the scholarship program and Oxford University, including the inadequacy of its library system, on the pages of this newspaper. I have the feeling that no institution we enter hereafter will ever fulfill our expectations or the standards we’ve become accustomed to, just as Harvard “never” did. Are we insatiable...
...Estonians even vote and settle their taxes online. So, while Denial of Service attacks typically only target pre-selected websites, if they're the ones we're clicking on most, "we're that much more paralyzed," says Jonathan Zittrain, an Internet governance and regulation expert at the University of Oxford...
...asks. "Given their command and control, I have no doubt they have experts doing this." For now, though, there's reason to suspect that terrorists might not attempt the sort of online barrage to which Estonia was subjected. "Terrorism is about creating true fear with spectacularly lurid attacks," says Oxford's Zittrain. Groups like al-Qaeda would "rather do something physical...