Word: controller
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...appears sports stars are more successful at convincing adolescents to buy snazzy sneakers than they are at persuading voters to support political candidates. People realize that while Shaq may dominate under the basket, he ought not to control the ballot...
...world - the senior has several West Coast job offers under his belt and no thesis deadline to worry about. Jacque spends his nights at Grafton in lieu of more trivial pursuits like the Bee formal. Friends of Jacque worry that his ego is spinning totally out of control...
Luckily, the attacks did not involve any control of the e-commerce giants' computer networks. In these "distributed denial-of-service" attacks, the attackers found unprotected computers anywhere on the Internet and installed software on them to make them agents, doing the dirty work of the attack. When the time for the attack came, each of the captured agent computers flooded the intended targets, (such as Yahoo) with network requests, making their computers too busy to do anything but respond. The type of attack does not so much resemble breaking into a bank as running in circles inside the revolving...
First, it demonstrates shows how, in an interconnected world, the biggest systems are only as safe as the most unprotected. Although the attackers would not have been able to take actual control of their targets' computers, instances of lax security elsewhere on the Internet allowed the attackers to make their targets inaccessible, which under certain circumstances could be almost as bad. Last October the General Accounting Office released a report castigating government agencies as well as businesses for poor security practices, and it argued that even vital services such as national defense, law enforcement and air traffic control could...
...Christian Democratic Union rocked by scandals and searching for a new leader, things seem to be going well for Germany's Social Democratic Party. Perhaps too well. The Social Democrats rode the wave of the centrist "Third Way" politics that swept Western Europe in the late 90s to wrest control from the CDU in 1998 and end Helmut Kohl's 15-year reign as chancellor. Now Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is enjoying high approval ratings and the weakened CDU isn't even opposing the Social Democrats in two key upcoming state elections. But the Social Democrats' top brass weren't gloating...