Word: suddenness
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...Washington, D.C., and works as the managing director for DDB Issues & Advocacy. She no longer looks or acts like the awkward teenager who penned those heartfelt letters, and she threw out her old Breakfast Club VHS tape years ago. And yet, when she heard of the director's sudden death last week at the age of 59, she felt like she had lost a family member. She wrote about her relationship with Hughes on her blog as a way to sort out her emotions. "I did it just for me, but I knew a few friends would...
Wait Time: Eternity Put movies in your rental queue and most will be marked "Now" for immediate rental. Some, however, will be designated "Short Wait" or "Very Long Wait." That often applies to old films that have a sudden surge in popularity and of which Netflix has only a few copies. (Did you want to compare the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three with this summer's remake? At Netflix, you could have waited five weeks to see the 1974 film.) Other titles, which may have vanished from the stockroom, are called "Unavailable"; the wait time for those...
...fact, there are a growing number of warning signs that the Iraqi government is no longer under the sway of the U.S. forces that brought it into being. Reese notes a "sudden coolness" being displayed by Iraqi commanders toward their American counterparts after June 30, the date when the Status of Forces Agreement, concluded between Baghdad and Washington last December, required that U.S. combat forces withdraw from Iraq's towns and cities. Following that date, suspects detained by U.S. soldiers were freed by Iraqis. And the Iraqi government openly disdained the recent offer by Vice President Joe Biden during...
...that's not how extinction works in practice. Throughout our planet's history, mass extinction has occurred five times - most recently 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs finally died out - taking out vast amounts of life all at once, usually due to a catastrophic and sudden climatic change. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...ready to launch the assault, the master computer awakens its zombie army, and the attack begins. Because DDoS utilizes multiple computers from multiple locations - and because hackers may use their network for only a single attack - there's no way to protect against a seemingly random array of computers suddenly going rogue. Once the attack begins, websites can try to trace the sudden flood of traffic back to the source computer and filter it out, but even that's a complex process. Internet service providers say they're rarely able to identify the master computer behind a DDoS attack...