Word: coded
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French microchip engineer Jean-Pierre Gloton slips a thin rectangle of plastic into a port linked to a PC and types in a code. Voila! A personalized Web navigator blossoms on the screen. "With this, I can access various e-mail accounts and websites, trade stocks, buy goods and pay bills with a single click, using personal and banking information stored in a fraud-proof way," says Gloton, 56, as he removes the "smart card" that gives him these powers and returns it to his wallet. "This card contains a microchip that makes it a veritable minicomputer--with memory...
Both seemed to be addressing each other and their advisors rather than the general public, speaking in code words and bullet points that require significant interpretation. On the debate's major issues of on foreign policy, discrimination issues, health care and the environment, voters must know where their candidates stand in order to make the right decision in November...
...passion was tea bowls - the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism. The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior. It connoted roughness, naturalness and - at its origins, at least - lack of pretension. In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint...
Powered claimed that the notHarvard name was merely an internal code name that stuck and said it had been planning to change its name since early...
...that certain information is relevant to an investigation, the government could get a court order to install a box on a network with access to every packet that passes through. The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy advocates have called for the FBI to open the Carnivore source code to the public, and the FBI has recruited a university to investigate the program, but neither plan represents a real solution: Seeing the source code to one version of Carnivore doesn't tell you anything about what's running on the next box the FBI installs...