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...tightened up and improved," Chepchugov remarks. "But these days you don't need to get a truck bomb into, say, a chemical plant or crash a plane into it. All you need is a group of hackers who get into the computerized control system, knock it out, and trigger a disaster." Michael Vatis - a former head of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, the lead U.S. federal agency for computer crime, cyberterrorism and cyberespionage - agrees. "We have seen a clear decision by terrorist groups like al-Qaeda to focus on critical infrastructures, financial networks and power grids," says Vatis...
There are risks with this approach. Like any medication, Zoloft can trigger side effects, including upset stomach, fatigue and agitation. Interestingly, those side effects could very easily be confused with the symptoms...
...among 18-to-24-year-olds, is getting into the computer-game business. In July it will release two titles: Soldiers, a Sims-style basic-training exercise based on interviews with more than 700 real-life grunts; and Operations, a fast-paced online game that puts you behind the trigger--and teaches you teamwork--in a combat situation. Operations is built with the same software as the popular shooting game Unreal, but Army know-how has made the scenarios significantly more, er, real. Both game CDs will be available for free in computer-gaming magazines. And at Army recruiting stations...
...game a gold mine for its owner, Sony, and helped put a relatively obscure genre--the massively multiplayer game--on the map. This week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, a select few VIPs will get an early glimpse of EverQuest II, a sequel likely to trigger another Norrath population boom. The game has become a global addiction so quickly that insiders jokingly refer to it as "Evercrack...
...making it easier to do backbreaking chores in no time. The Swiffer uses disposable cleaning pads (they pick up more grime and don't need wringing) instead of conventional mop locks and has a container of cleaning fluid built right into the handle. Pull on the mop's trigger, and a motor shoots fluid onto the floor while you swab. Bid farewell to hands-and-knees scrubbing and toting heavy buckets of messy mop water. --By Roy B. White