Word: smart
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...really smart or really rich?" strangers ask when I tell them I go to Harvard. Last week's grade report settled the issue: from now on, I'd better be able to say rich...
Fiercely protective of their reputation, longtime hackers are locked in a love-hate relationship with web site designers, who grudgingly appreciate hackers' talent for pinpointing serious security lapses. "Hacking is generally accepted to be the arena of very smart people," says Stuart McClure, president of Rampart Security Group in Irvine. "Denial of service attacks, like what happened to Yahoo and eBay, are seen as bottom-of-the-barrel assaults; they don't require a lot of brains...
...TICKET You felt so smart buying Broadway tickets on the Web. But at the theater, you still got stuck in the will-call line. Now Ticketmaster has a better way--tickets you print yourself from ticketmaster.com Just order tickets online, ink-jet them at home, and head out on the town. You get your tickets right away and save on delivery charges. One catch: box offices first have to install bar-code scanners to prevent fraud...
...just another phone call for Carson, but we all sit in silence, impressed and anxious to overhear. Girls ask him to sign dollar bills, t-shirts, old receipts, anything that they have on them. One girl in a binding tank top gets him to sign her hand. A smart-ass friend of hers reminds her that she'll have to wash her hand eventually. I can't tell whether the girl is going to cry or punch her friend in the nose. She rubs the writing to her face...
John McCain's insurgency may be catching fire with the South Carolina GOP rank and file, but the Republican leadership nationwide is more determined than ever to stop him from spoiling the Bush coronation - and they intend to fight smart. New York governor George Pataki announced Thursday that the state party would drop its efforts to keep McCain off the ballot in a number of congressional districts, after the Bush camp had reconsidered the wisdom of a tactic that's been grist to the Arizona senator's anti-establishment mill. The solidly pro-Bush party establishment had been locked...