Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly, the men in charge could have pulled the plug 24 losses ago; maybe even after two consecutive winless seasons. Why after...
...director of safety and technology. "They were trying to computerize everything, but you can't computerize human reasoning or decision making." After investing $2 billion and watching the projected costs balloon from $8 billion to $37 billion, still with no functioning system in sight, the FAA pulled the plug...
...This really is a week for them to make mistakes," Maurer says. "We are not here to evaluate but to help people to become better teachers. Grad life can be isolating; we are trying to plug them into Harvard...
...picture databases that, according to the Bavarian state police, violated German pornography laws. The suspect newsgroups are all part of the freewheeling computer conferencing system called Usenet, which is distributed globally via the Internet. The only way CompuServe could promptly comply with the German request was to pull the plug on the newsgroups throughout its system. As a result, U.S. subscribers who try to reach them will find that their access has been blocked...
...Internet. The move by CompuServe Inc., prompted by threats from a German prosecutor probing child pornography, means that the company's four million subscribers will not be able to access some 200 different "newsgroups" on a portion of the Internet called Usenet. "This shows that if you pull the plug in one country, you pull the plug on all countries," says TIME's Philip Elmer DeWitt. "But anyone who wants to regulate the Internet has to come to terms with the fact that it has no boundaries. I have a feeling it won't hold, since CompuServe will likely find...