Word: screen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keyboard, watching his every mouse click, mindful, of course, that when he starts typing numerals--1,2,3,4--he could be using the chat signal that says "parental unit nearby." If the count reaches five, he's telling his chat partners there's a parent reading the screen...
...frightening evidence of how, as the medium has matured, its architects' noble commitment to the user's privacy was becoming inverted. What was once a protective shield has now morphed into an obscuring cloak of anonymity. Inventive screen names and coy e-mail addresses have replaced those conventional signs of identity: a name, a face. Under the banner of privacy, Internet anonymity has become the ultimate plain brown wrapper. Some parents who decline to monitor their kids' online chatting liken it to eavesdropping on their phone calls, which they say they would never do. But there's a difference: when...
...between Lee and another Taiwanese-born scientist who was under investigation for passing U.S. neutron-bomb secrets to the Chinese. The FBI then administered a polygraph test on Lee. He passed with flying colors. In the mid-'80s, he and his wife again appeared on the FBI's radar screen, when they approached the Albuquerque field office and volunteered to inform on visiting delegations from the People's Republic and on Chinese scientists in the U.S. The FBI dropped the Lees from its rolls in 1991. But in 1995 the CIA obtained a Chinese document showing that Beijing had classified...
...mail reminder to clean up for the cleaning lady. But then I had trouble. For two days, the website wouldn't come up on my Mac at work. One day my horoscope didn't show up, and another day the local weather report (usually in the screen's upper right corner) was missing. The novelty was wearing thin, and I was back to Post-it notes for writing down appointments...
...video games can have ill effects on children. While our daughters have so far shown little interest in the muscle-bound assassins that populate their dad's beloved Tekken 2 disc, several neighborhood boys play at our house and sit mesmerized by the game, kickboxing their way across the screen. Then they go outside to practice head slams...