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...trespassing hacker is just one of the problems that can bring a computer system to its knees. Technicians were installing extra disk drives in an underground computer in Tulsa last May when they triggered a collapse of American Airlines' SABRE reservation system. Last September a Parisian computer creatively misread magnetic labels on 41,000 traffic-violation files and began charging delinquent motorists with crimes ranging from murder and drug trafficking to prostitution. A fire in a Tokyo utility tunnel several years ago wiped out circuits connecting Mitsubishi Bank's mainframe computers with branch offices, shutting down automated-teller machines across...
Alexis de Tocqueville neatly outlined every consequence of randomization 133 years ago in his immortal Old Regime and the French Revolution. As the book clearly shows, randomization could be the crucial step that turns University Hall into the greatest center of despotic power since the Parisian mob stormed Versailles...
...Zagat is no longer a practicing lawyer but the mogul of an ever growing mini-empire of restaurant and hotel reviews across the U.S. For New York City gourmets, the appearance of Zagat's annual survey of local restaurants has become an event anticipated much the way their Parisian peers await each new Guide Michelin. Zagat has extended his restaurant guides to ten other U.S. metropolitan areas (including Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans) and a two-volume hotel survey covering the Eastern and Western states. Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City and the Pacific Northwest will soon have their...
...would thus take a Parisian time to get into the spirit of a Los Angeles traffic school where motorists ticketed for a moving violation may attend eight hours of driving instruction in lieu of court. At the newcomer's school in the San Fernando Valley, an actor named Dick Corbin provided diverting impersonations of a woman driver on the freeway talking on the car phone, eating lunch and doing her lashes in the visor mirror all at the same time...
...Humanite. "The message of 1789 . . . is to build a society unconstrained by multinational capitalism." SOS-Racisme, a civil rights group, for example, will celebrate with a rally for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who led an 18th century Haitian rebellion against French colonialism. A group of prominent Parisian socialists is agitating to rename part of the Rue St.-Honore after Robespierre. "All revolutions have excesses," explains former Health Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered suspect." But so far Robespierre's defenders have had no luck, and even moderates are concerned that the government...