Word: transmits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer networks may be no more ready than the TV networks to handle the freight of the information superhighway. Today's personal computers are too low-powered -- and the modems that connect them to the phone lines too slow -- to transmit and process video signals in real time, as they are broadcast. Even if everybody were to replace their PCs with the new, more powerful models coming into the market, someone would still have to build an electronic highway fast and wide enough to carry the traffic...
...order called for Walsh to resign and for the city manager, Robert W. Healy, to transmit a copy of the order to the attorney general "with a request that he take steps to enforce...
...Some domestic cats in the rural Southwest have become carriers of human plague. A new report says the cats can pick up the disease from rodents or fleas and transmit it via licks, bites or scratches. Only 15 cases of plague have been traced to cats, however, and such simple precautions as removing trash where rodents thrive can limit risk to humans...
Kirshner says the Internet is increasinglybeing used to transmit scientific information...
...would have been to enter his home and plant a device in the computer that would broadcast every keystroke. A more efficient method would have been to plant a bug enabling them to turn on the computer from another location, call up the internally stored files and transmit them by either radio or telephone modem to the FBI's waiting machines; the computer and modem would have been turned off by a remote signal. While in his house, the FBI might also have copied the diskettes he had on hand. And, surveillance experts say, they could have done all this...