Search Details

Word: computerizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Jim Stickley and his accomplice, Dayle Alsbury, adjust their fake fire-inspector uniforms, then saunter into a brown brick credit-union building. Their walkie-talkies are blaring with a recorded dispatcher's voice, downloaded from the Internet and transmitted from their getaway car. After they flash their homemade badges, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Hackers For Hire | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

TIME accompanied TraceSecurity on a recent string of in-person "heists" on the West Coast. At one credit-union branch, Stickley flirted with female staff members in the break room while Alsbury, who played the straight man to Stickley's goofy charmer, had four minutes alone in a credit union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Hackers For Hire | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

So how does a company that boasts the ability to crack any system convince clients that it's safe to hire that firm? Stickley says the company's 50 employees have extensive background checks, supplied to clients if requested. Typically, employees are drawn from lines of work such as corporate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Hackers For Hire | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Classes like this, which teach key aspects of information literacy, remain rare in public education, but more and more universities and employers say they are needed as the world grows ever more deluged with information of variable quality. Last year, in response to demand from colleges, the Educational Testing Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

His solution: draw on the Wikipedia model to create a collection of online courses that can be updated, improved, vetted and built upon by innovative teachers, who, he notes, "are always developing new materials and methods of instruction because they aren't happy with what they have." And who better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Previous | 342 | 343 | 344 | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | 349 | 350 | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | 355 | 356 | 357 | 358 | 359 | 360 | 361 | 362 | Next