Word: signaller
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...those graduating seniors at the business school who contracted to receive half their salaries in options where the strike price was set a month ago will not be in the same state of panic as they were this past weekend. More likely, however, Friday's "bloodbath" was the first signal that the economic boom we've experienced will begin to reverse itself somewhat--and that we need to accept the fact that even the roads in cyberspace aren't paved with gold...
Drake, alas, detected nary a peep. Nor has anyone else since then. Even after spending thousands of hours scanning the skies, at myriad frequencies, at a cost of more than $100 million astronomers have yet to detect a single credible signal, though the most distant star probed is barely 1% of the way across the galaxy...
...join the 1.7 million people who have downloaded SETI@home, a free screen saver (available at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu that uses your computer's downtime to help sort through the reams of noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody's going to burn you at the stake...
...cases, the court has upheld Fourth Amendment rights, but only in striking down the most outrageous and vague ordinances. On the whole, the court is not limiting discretion so much as teaching police departments the rules. In Whren and Weaver, the court is sending a strong signal to cities that they will give broad latitude to racial profiling. Tell me a story, they say. Make it borderline believable, and we will deny motions to dismiss on the basis of Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment challenges when minorities claim unreasonable searches and discriminatory treatment...
...trying to obtain military secrets from a Russian citizen, was simply expelled, Captain Pope (if that really is his name) could face a lengthy jail term if convicted. The arrest also appears to be a calculated attempt by Russia?s new president, Vladimir Putin, to send out a political signal both at home and abroad. "This reeks of an effort to make political capital," says Meier. "It's illustrative of a new mood in official Moscow which maintains that Russia has its national interests, and those will be aggressively defended. Five years ago this might have all been quietly settled...