Word: programming
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...amid the despair, at least two countries have managed to address these problems. Led by President Yoweri Museveni, Uganda started a public AIDS-education program in 1990 that has driven the rate of new infections down dramatically in some places. And Senegal, with its own awareness program, has also cut taxes on condoms and got religious leaders to participate in AIDS education. As a result, Senegal's infection rate is a mere 1 in 50 adults, one of the lowest in Africa...
...name conjured up images of a razor-fanged software program gnawing through millions of Internet e-mails and collecting any with keywords like "explosion" or "drugs." Thus, so the speculation went, an overheated lover who messaged, "You hit my heart with a mega-ton of dynamite - let's escape for more ecstasy tonight," might find the feds on his trail. House Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde and Rep. Charles Canady, chairman of the Constitution subcommittee, alarmed at potential Cointelpro-type abuses - and possibly sensing a wedge issue to drive tech heads out of the Democratic camp - have scheduled a hearing...
...blame the politically incorrect name on a couple of FBI computer engineers who toil deep in the bowels of a classified facility on the tightly secured FBI Academy campus in Quantico, Va., and who were trying to convey that they had refined an older, less discriminating e-mail search program called Omnivore. The moniker was never run past Washington-based officials devoted to burnishing the bureau's image - and ducking trouble. "Yeah," one FBI official said glumly. "We're looking at the names of a lot of our projects right now from the perspective of if they...
...computer specialists insist that Carnivore is actually a pussycat of a program. "The tool," or simply "it," as the program is now gingerly called, doesn't sweep the Internet for key words in text or subject line. Rather, deployed within an Internet service provider network known to be used by a criminal suspect, it searches out unique "authentication strings" - screen name, password, telephone number - that are generated whenever the suspect connects to the ISP. All the e-mails identified by those strings are downloaded to an FBI computer housed in a closed container at the ISP office. When the surveillance...
...Summer school is an eight-week program, not a four year program," Queen said. "So our long-term commitment is significantly less. There's not that much at stake for the student, so asking a student to leave is not as momentous a decision...