Word: screening
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...popularity into political support, occasionally without even superficial justification. In his advertisement for Bradley, Bill Russell did not mention Bradley's support of initiatives in race relations. He didn't mention Bradley's plans to reduce handgun violence. The advertisement opened with "Bill Russell for Bill Bradley" on the screen. The rest of the spot was dedicated to Russell urging Iowan voters to participate in the caucus, with nary an explanation of Russell's support for Bradley. It came across as a basketball star endorsing another basketball star, with absolutely no substance behind...
...only not shown in two South American countries, Playboy TV, a channel that boasts such programming as "Night Calls," in which viewers's fantasies are carried out on screen, has been broadcasting in Chile...
...Newsweek analyst, Howard Fineman, Matthews leaned down to us, and said "Keep it short. Use small words and DON'T BE A TIME HOG." Apparently he understood Harvard students to be unnaturally loquacious. Noah braced himself, and when Chris held up a copy of The Crimson to the screen and announced that Hardball was suddenly becoming intellectual, he turned to Noah and asked him why we chose McCain as our choice for president. I barely remember what he said, but it was good because all the real authorities agreed and deemed we were collectively intelligent. The rest of us just...
ROTC students keep a low profile. Hidden away at MIT since 1969, when the University pushed the program off campus, the hardy band of students would probably duck the radar screen completely if not for their mandatory uniformed-Mondays. But their military existence, packed with discipline and drills, is more than just days of slick dress blacks and hats...
Given that such an attack is normally executed from a variety of compromised agent computers, it is exceedingly difficult to defend against. With the malicious traffic coming from many different sources, possibly sent with forged return addresses, the systems under attack are unable simply to screen out the attackers and continue business as usual. Indeed, even the best protections can sometimes be overcome by the brute force of thousands of network requests. The implications of such defenselessness are twofold...