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Sweetnurse shows how easy it is to be an Internet rip-off artist. The warnets provide an anonymous way to go online, and they are cheap at 30[cents] an hour. The hackers start by firing up an Internet Relay Chat program--software that connects them to a worldwide network of chat rooms. The next step is to make up a user name and find a chat room dedicated to credit-card fraud. There Sweetnurse verifies credit-card numbers--even numbers picked at random--to determine their credit limits and expiration dates, using the same types of automated programs deployed...
Sensors--devices that detect environmental changes--have been around forever in analog form. Traditional thermometers, for instance, use mercury that rises and falls as it responds to temperature changes. More recently, in the information-technology age, network-linked digital sensors are starting to take note of everything from soil conditions to water pollutants to electricity usage. Measurement equals management. The idea is to get optimal use of such resources as fertilizers and energy. But one restriction on modern sensors is that they are built with rigid materials like hard plastic and metal, which give them shape and volume, restricting where...
...blur.” Travia was one of five honored as “National Outstanding Advisors” at the assembly, which hosted 148 colleges and is the largest conference of peer educators in the country. The annual event is held by the BACCHUS Network, an international organization dedicated to promoting peer-based education on drug and alcohol use. (The acronym stands for Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students.) The five winners were chosen from a pool of twenty nominees. “We look for someone who goes beyond the expected duties on campus; someone...
...going to mention it, but it would be cool [to win one for Amaker],” Housman adds.Adding to the excitement, the game will be nationally televised on ESPNU, the first of two games this season in which the Crimson will appear on the college sports programming network. Harvard’s Ivy battle with Princeton in early February will also be broadcast. “It’s far down the road, but I’d be lying to you if I said that guys weren’t excited,” captain Brad Unger...
...According to Facebook’s Network Top Ten statistics, there are some subtle but meaningful distinctions between the average Harvardian and the average Yalie. On a typical day, Joe “Eli” Yale relaxes to the music of his favorite artists, U2 (Yale’s #1, Harvard’s #2), The Beatles (#3 and #5, respectively), and, of course, Beethoven (Yale’s #7; not on Harvard’s list). He engages in his favorite activities—reading, politics, and music, in that order—as well as some other...