Word: gibberish
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...best defense against this type of computer wiretapping is the use of encryption devices, machines that turn electronic messages into gibberish. The armed forces in most countries have long used such equipment to protect their secrets. A few aggressive small firms like Datotek in Dallas are having success selling encryption devices to companies. Some of Datotek's best customers are oil firms, which fear that competitors will steal the results of oilfield tests that reveal promising drilling sites. Computer-security specialists predict that the demand for electronic scramblers will soon explode. Says Donn Parker of SRI International, a California...
...jokes. They hear satire, not nobly expended pain, in these lines: ". . . who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall"; "who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish"; "who drove cross country seventy-two hours to find out if I had a vision or you had a vision or he had a vision to find out Eternity"; "who demanded sanity trials accusing the radio of hypnotism and were left with their insanity and their hands and a hung jury...
...ahead of the backup. For human beings, a 25th of a second is a mere blink of the eye. But for the computers it was a yawning gap that put communications between the overeager main machines and their back-up badly "out of sync," turning their exchanges into electronic gibberish. Said an exasperated controller in Houston: "The back-up computer simply couldn't talk to the other four on board. The computer guys have never seen anything quite like this...
...huge black cutout of a man who repeatedly swings a hammer. Whatever its meaning, this piece is visually more interesting than the "environment" that greets one on the fourth floor of the Whitney, Robert Wilson's chic '20s-style set for his short piece of dramatic gibberish from 1977, / Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating. With Borofsky, at least, you do think you are hallucinating. But then, why should a stage set not be "sculpture"? In the Whitney, pretty well anything that isn't flat or a photograph...
Noting that one of the segments of "Sganarelle" is written entirely in a gibberish he called "Neo-Siberian." Brustein said. "The play communicates itself easily anywhere." Brustein expects to play a role in "Sganarelle...