Word: servers
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...back to advertisers; others insinuate themselves as browser toolbars and deliver "search results" that favor marketers. And then there are the keyloggers, which are designed to record your keystrokes as you type, potentially collecting your bank account passwords and credit card numbers and transmitting them back to a central server. "The amount of spyware out there has grown significantly, and it's gotten more malicious, and trickier to stop," says Forrester analyst Natalie Lambert...
...dating to her skepticism toward marriage when it means staying faithful to one man. This fall the Beijing resident posted a recording of her own lovemaking sounds that would make Paris Hilton blush. More than 50,000 people simultaneously tried to download the 25-minute podcast, crashing the host server. Despite government attempts to censor it, the sex diary is so popular that Li's pen name is intermittently the most searched keyword on China's top search engine. "I express my freedom through sex," says Li, unapologetically. "It's my life, and I can do what I want...
...London's Soho in October, the film had played every day for more than a month - but not once did it shudder, skip or pop out of focus. This picture-perfect vision comes courtesy of a brand-new digital cinema system, a combination of high-tech projector and computer server that could one day kick celluloid out of the projection booth for good. The old mechanism ran 3,600 m of delicate 35-mm film through a series of giant reels. Every screening added another layer of blips and blotches to the film. The new system plays the movie from...
...satellite or cable, cutting out transportation costs altogether.) A more diverse range of films could be offered, too, because studios could afford to take on riskier projects, while distributors would be able to send smaller, alternative films to wider audiences. And with up to 10 films sitting on one server, movie houses could change their programs to suit demand. If a showing for a film sells out, add a copy on a second screen; if a film bombs, replace it with anything starring Julia Roberts. Projector makers and server manufacturers that have been selling equipment in ones and twos...
...addition to causing fire safety concerns in Lamont, this den of dessert allows each individual server to have a different birthday specialty. So, pick your waitress wisely and with your tastebuds in mind, as you can end up with anything from the Crème Brulée to the thick Finale Cheesecake...