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...making a Princeton education truly and entirely affordable to all students regardless of family income, creating even closer and more rewarding student-professor interactions than ever, and offering a wider range of living and social options than are now available to students, making the campus even more lovely and user-friendly than ever before,” she said...
Sometimes the spy is an "E.T." program, so called because once it is embedded in your computer it is programmed to "phone home" to its corporate master. RealNetworks' RealJukebox program was found in 1999 to be sending back information to headquarters about what music a user listened to. The Federal Trade Commission decided in May that zBubbles, a now defunct online shopping service once owned by Amazon, probably deceived consumers when it told them that the information it collected about a user's Web surfing would remain anonymous...
...biography detail the curious way in which he pursued this breakthrough: in true self-destructive, Wellesian style, he hooked up with a variety of collaborators who were immaculately talented, but were further along in their alcohol- and drug-dependency than he was (Hill sketches Southern as a functional "user" whose biggest weaknesses were drink and Dexamyl - used to complete manuscripts on short deadlines): William Burroughs and a far-gone Dennis Hopper on an adaptation of Burroughs' "Junky"; Larry Flynt and Hopper on a biopic of Jim Morrison; singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, another "grand" soul, on the aforementioned "Telephone...
...poverty and illiteracy. The $45,000 community-financed project - the brainchild of district collector Rajesh Rajora, who supervises it with Nitesh Vyas, CEO of the local government - strings together villages through a series of 34 rural cyberkiosks and links them to the district administration through an intranet. Half the users earn less than $300 a year each, and one out of six has to walk at least 5 km to reach a computer. Charging about 10 cents, a kiosk manager records villagers' complaints or provides them with information. That user fee makes kiosks self-sustaining...
...Smart airplanes can't just decide to go to some other destination even if the smart airplane calculates, through sophisticated algorithms based on detailed user profiles, that everyone on board really wants to go there. Say Martinique, for example...