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...thumbs up" for a violent film is equivalent to a "thumbs up" for violence. But that seems to be his argument. He further suggests that the deleteriousness of today's "cutting edge" films is advanced by the fact that "there are no 'good guys,' no right side to root for." This is called film noir, and it's nothing new. There doesn't have to be a "good guy" for a film to be good, and the posters on the walls of college dormitories to which Savage points just might be in appreciation of a good piece...
...this will take commercial root. The marketplace, for example, will weed out even technically feasible devices if they prove too complicated for the average consumer to use. For the next decade at least, the key to the consumer's heart will be less in the technology itself than in the masking of technology to make it more user-friendly...
SPOOFING: This is a technique for getting access to a remote computer by forging the Internet address of a trusted or "friendly" machine. It's much easier to exploit security holes from inside a system than from outside; the trick is to gain "root" status, the top-level access that the computer's administrator enjoys. With root status, a hacker could install a password sniffer or bogus software, like a "back door"-a secret return path into the machine. Mitnick was able to break into Shimomura's Fort Knox-like computer using a spoof...
...best thing we can do is to think critically and try to understand the root cause of what is going on so that we can eventually propose reasonable solutions...
...root of the disaster, analysts contend, are the politics of cronyism, a web of incestuous relationships between business and government that formed after the inauguration of President Carlos Andres Perez in 1989. If during his first term as President, from 1974 to 1979, Perez had turned the economy into a state-dominated behemoth, he moved in the opposite direction during his second: toward privatization, deregulation and free- market economics...