Word: techs
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...also get around CAPTCHAS by being clever. They work only because there are things computers can't do, and there are fewer and fewer of those things all the time. Headlines on tech blogs regularly announce the cracking of CAPTCHAS--Gmail's, Hotmail's, Yahoo!'s. Von Ahn doubts the headlines are true--and companies aren't eager to confirm this kind of rumor--but it's possible for an amateur, poorly conceived CAPTCHA to be hacked. (He gives an example: a CAPTCHA in which each letter was always formed out of the same number of pixels. All the malware...
...their medical colleagues what's possible. "We'll ask aloud if we can do this or that cool thing," Nehring says. "Bob figures out how to make it real in two minutes." The interaction works because the whole team has one thing in common, Lemon says: "We're all tech-geeky types...
...While the headline-grabbing weapons in this war have been high-tech wonders, like unmanned drones that drop Hellfire missiles on the enemy below, troops like LeJeune are going into battle with a different kind of weapon, one so stealthy that few Americans even know of its deployment. For the first time in history, a sizable and growing number of U.S. combat troops are taking daily doses of antidepressants to calm nerves strained by repeated and lengthy tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The medicines are intended not only to help troops keep their cool but also to enable the already...
...Sheikh Mohammed told U.S. military judge Ralph Kohlman on Thursday that he would represent himself at his tribunal, and that he welcomed the death penalty that would make him a "martyr." But Mohammed was clearly taking advantage of the opportunities offered by his arraignment in a heavily guarded, high-tech courtroom at Guantanamo on charges of helping to murder nearly 3,000 people in the 9/11 attacks. For one thing, his courtroom appearance offered him his first chance in five years of near-total isolation to communicate with his four co-accused...
...lead? The next administration is going to have to make some difficult choices on matters affecting its core constituencies. There is looming generational conflict about health care reform and entitlement spending. Hispanics and working class whites and blacks are likely to have varying perspectives on immigration reform. Well-traveled, tech-savvy young college graduates are going to view globalization and international environmental crises a little differently from laid-off manufacturing workers in Ohio and Pennsylvania...