Word: hacker
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Army Coach Rob Riley had promised a bloodbath reminiscent of last year's Tate clash and sure enough, a Cadets hacker sent sophomore wing Matt Mallgrave to the bench in the second session with a reinjured shoulder. Since senior wing John Weisbrod was already sidelined with a sore back, Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni was forced to go with a three-line rotation the remainder of the game...
...term virtual reality and co-founded VPL in 1985. A legendary eccentric in a field famous for its oddballs, he grew up in a New Mexico desert, dropped out of high school to take up music composition and eventually drifted into video games, earning a reputation as a prodigious hacker. Amiable and rotund, he sports shoulder-length dreadlocks that make him look more like a Rastafarian reggae singer than a computer scientist...
...have had a terribly damaging effect on the psyche of young people." In urging a revised syllabus, the task force argued, "Children from European culture will have a less arrogant perspective of being part of a group that has 'done it all.' " Many intellectuals are outraged. Political scientist Andrew Hacker of Queens College lambastes a task-force suggestion that children be taught how "Native Americans were here to welcome new settlers from Holland, Senegal, England, Indonesia, France, the Congo, Italy, China, Iberia." Asks Hacker: "Did the Indians really welcome all those groups? Were they at Ellis Island when the Italians...
...course aims to draw upon the best aspects of the hacker ethic, the ideas that people learn most effectively when they are having fun and building things that they care about...
...trespassing hacker is just one of the problems that can bring a computer system to its knees. Technicians were installing extra disk drives in an underground computer in Tulsa last May when they triggered a collapse of American Airlines' SABRE reservation system. Last September a Parisian computer creatively misread magnetic labels on 41,000 traffic-violation files and began charging delinquent motorists with crimes ranging from murder and drug trafficking to prostitution. A fire in a Tokyo utility tunnel several years ago wiped out circuits connecting Mitsubishi Bank's mainframe computers with branch offices, shutting down automated-teller machines across...