Archive for March 2008
InformationWeek reports that in a contest of hackers, a MacBook Air was easily compromised within two minutes using a zero-day vulnerability (a vulnerability that is exploited for hacking before it generally becomes known) in Apple’s Safari 3.1 Web browser.
The March 17 issue of Computerworld reports that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asserted before Congress recently that U.S. companies may lose jobs if they can’t bring in “world-class engineers” from abroad via more H-1B visas. That begs the question: What’s wrong with U.S.-based engineers?
As someone who deals with language and its vagaries on a daily basis, I am sometimes amazed at the way certain widely-used terms creep into—or unexplainably flee from—the vernacular.
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