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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another possibility lies in the nature of the fat. Nutritionists refer to both simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates, so it seems logical that there could be both simple fats and complex fats, and the latter would take the form a + bi, where i is the square root of negative one. Clearly, the imaginary component would throw off the calculations, although the body could digest it merely by reading the diet book Think Yourself Thin...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Annenberg | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

...actual hacking of a Web site is, in actuality, not an extremely complicated process. For the hacker, the only obstacle is getting the password for the root user to the server...

Author: By Daniel J. Mahr and Carrie P. Peek, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: It's Hip to Hack | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

...logging in as root, a person gains universal access to do whatever they want to the files on that server. For hackers, this generally entails first changing passwords, so that only they can gain access to the server, and then altering the site, while taking care to delete all the logs that might be used later on to identify them...

Author: By Daniel J. Mahr and Carrie P. Peek, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: It's Hip to Hack | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

There are two commonly used methods of gaining root access to a server. The first is through anonymous FTP access into the Web page's server...

Author: By Daniel J. Mahr and Carrie P. Peek, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: It's Hip to Hack | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

...even if by doing so he has made himself into a country-music mogul with a bodacious estate of his own. Still, every country singer since Hank Williams has made his fans want to burn the mansions on the hill to the ground. It's simply not American to root for a guy who has elevators in his house. This is why the American people still won't turn on Bill Clinton--he's a lifelong renter and lives in mansions at the public's whim. If Clinton owned a Xanadu in Little Rock, he would have been drummed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palace Envy | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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