Word: silicon
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Computer crimes are hardly new. In California prosecutors have been pursuing high-tech crime in Silicon Valley for a couple of decades. But the focus and nature of the crimes have changed dramatically. When the Department of Justice set up a computer-crimes unit in September 1991, it was intended to cope primarily with threats to computer security posed by hackers, toll-fraud artists and electronic intruders. But the new crimes, says Jim Thomas, a criminology professor at Northern Illinois University, ``aren't simply the esoteric type they were five years ago.'' They are ``computer crimes,'' he adds, ``only...
...last week for one of the most bizarre confrontations in the history of American antitrust enforcement-one that could derail the strategic plans of the world's largest PC software company while raising questions about how effectively the U.S.-or any government-can control monopolies carved in silicon, software or the borderless regions of cyberspace...
...automotive industry is finally moving from the Iron Age to the Silicon Age," says Timothy Leuliette, president of ITT Automotive, which produces electronic and structural components for the Big Three. "No one should think of Detroit anymore in terms of steel stampings and iron castings. It's the largest consumer-electronics industry in the world. The vehicles are going to become smarter in how they stop smart, how they handle smart, and how they keep you from getting into trouble...
...cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain and a silicon chip where his heart should be. They and a very good supporting cast often ground Disclosure in some kind of behavioral honesty, almost turn it into a realistic portrait of the modern American workplace--full of false camaraderie, anxious rumors and secret status warfare. But not to worry. When truth...
There are some who argue that Gates may be overreaching by taking on the Internet-that online services could become, as an America Online executive put it, "Microsoft's Vietnam." Dave Winer, president of a Silicon Valley software company called UserLand, sees the extraordinary growth of the Internet as a rebellion against Microsoft. "The users outfoxed us," he says. "While the software industry was following Bill Gates, the users went another way. They took control. And once the users take control, they never give it back...