Word: coding
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...rival Lucent is still slashing costs, according to the WSJ, which quoted CEO Henry Schacht as saying, "These are uncertain times. We've got on our belts, suspenders, parachutes and skyhooks." But that?s Lucent. And at Microsoft, business marches on - it?s presenting the finished version, or "gold code," of Windows XP to PC manufacturers on Friday. Along with a dead fish wrapped in newspaper...
...that even if the Missouri state board of pharmacy doesn't vote to revoke his license, she very much doubts he will just slide right back into his white coat when all this is over. "Nothing like this has ever happened before," Winckler says. "Pharmacists are bound by a code of ethics, and an oath - they?re bound to hold patients above everything...
...arrest, say federal investigators, was in the suitcase he was carrying. Not bombs or secret government documents, but software to make other kinds of documents--electronic books--less than secret. Working for Moscow-based ElcomSoft while finishing his Ph.D., Sklyarov had used his head and hands to write code that cracks the security on an e-book reader sold by software giant Adobe. What Sklyarov did is perfectly legal in the rest of the world, and it was legal here until last year. "I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Sklyarov told TIME in his first interview...
...Napster. And there is some justification for this. Consider companies like FileOpen Systems, a tiny New York firm that sells extra e-book security for scientific journals and financial newsletters--small publishers that really need paying customers. Last year ElcomSoft produced a piece of software that cracked FileOpen's code--potentially driving it out of business. CEO Sanford Bingham spent hours on the phone to Moscow in vain. "If they were doing this with credit cards, nobody would have any qualms about seeing this guy in jail," he says. "Ultimately there has to be a legal sanction...
...mean all particular books. Not everyone can write books. Too many people write books who should not do so. Many books are junk. Some are evil. I am talking about the idea of books, the magic transmission, which is itself sacred. Language is the profound code and work of creation with which we approach divinity. I realize there are other, newer, superseding codes, but I cling to the traditional mysteries. In the beginning was the word...