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...B stick from her pocket and attached it to the phone. Instantly, specialised spy software started installing itself on the mobile. The whole process... ...loss of life and preferably without drawing too much attention to the fact that rogue police officers were at large in the hospital. Given that the...

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...rt II After the Stall—63 4 The Generative Pattern—67 5 T ethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement—101 6 The Lessons of Wikipe... ... to program the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software written and then shared or sold by their more skilled or inspire... ...inker with it. Hobbyists wrote programs. Businesses began to plan on selling software. Jobs (and Apple) had no clue how the machine would be used. The... ...vate for the Apple II, only Apple would innovate for the iPhone. (A promised software development kit may allow others to program the iPhone with Appl... ...t’s Windows operating system for PCs, it does not allow just anyone to write software that can run on it. Bill Gates sees the Xbox as at the center of... ...f applications could not risk being compromised by poorly coded or downright rogue applications. Perhaps they simply could not grasp the potential to ... ... down. An inventory of the running code on the ma- chines showed a number of rogue programs demanding processor time. Concerned administrators termina... ... the Internet. With tethered appliances, the dangers of excess come not from rogue third-party code, but from the much more predictable interventions ... ...es, 12, 15, 24, 57; minicomputers, 15; professional man- agement of, 17, 44; rogue applications for, 24; unbundling of, 12, 14; vendor programming, 8–...

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...le marketplace, the hardware (e-book readers) was clunky and awkward, the software unwieldy, the e-books badly written or already in the public domai... ...onsider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but such software is likely to conquer ... ...er Scindex and its Academic Resource Channel. Established by academics and software experts from Bulgaria, it epitomizes the tearing down of geograph... ...rongly attribute it to oneself. It is a close kin of piracy. But while the software or content pirate does not bother to hide or alter the identity o... ...s not bother to hide or alter the identity of the content's creator or the software's author - the plagiarist does. Plagiarism is, therefore, more pe... ...m) contracts came to light, the implicated ISP's blame the whole affair on rogue employees. PC World begs to differ: "Ronnie Scelson, a self-descr...

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...e. Returns increase - rather than decrease - with each additional copy. An original software retains its quality even if copied numerous times. The ... ...free abundance. Demand always initially exceeds supply. Internet backbone capacity, software programmers, servers are all scarce to start with - in ... ... Moreover, Basle 2 demands extra equity capital against operational risks such as rogue trading or bomb attacks. There is no hint of the role insu... ...ld returns skyrocket and revenues contribute directly to the bottom line. Consider software applications. The first units sold cover the enormous f... ...ons. The first units sold cover the enormous fixed and sunk costs of authoring the software and the machine tools used in the manufacturing process... ... spreading to scholarly publishing and other form of intellectual property such as software, films, music, and e-books. Consumers are divided on t... ...g both international and domestic laws and by providing international outcasts and rogues with alternative routes of supply, and with goods and ser...

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...cost to the provider) are the commonest of contracts. We open a business. We sell a software application, we publish a book – we engage in helping ... ...The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors.... ...dren", the results of "brain-storming", conceived by "minds". What is a computer, a software application, a communications network if not a (materia... ...etaphors develop, they trace the developmental phases of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (ho... ... enhanced should organic or quantum computers transpire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in machine languag... ...fe it is. Therapeutic cloning - with its mounds of discarded fetuses - will allow rogue scientists to cross the boundary between permissible (cura... ...nce of global, border-hopping terrorist organizations, of totalitarian regimes, and rogue or failed states - requires these principles to be modifie... ...d in the way of rampant experimentation with human genetics (with the exception of rogue scientists and madmen dictators). One is the consensus tha... ...ans regard America itself - and especially the abrasive Bush administration - as a rogue state, prone to jeopardizing world peace and stability. Ob...

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...cost to the provider) are the commonest of contracts. We open a business. We sell a software application, we publish a book – we engage in helping ... ...The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors.... ...dren", the results of "brain-storming", conceived by "minds". What is a computer, a software application, a communications network if not a (materia... ...etaphors develop, they trace the developmental phases of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (ho... ... enhanced should organic or quantum computers transpire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in machine languag... ...fe it is. Therapeutic cloning - with its mounds of discarded fetuses - will allow rogue scientists to cross the boundary between permissible (cura... ...nce of global, border-hopping terrorist organizations, of totalitarian regimes, and rogue or failed states - requires these principles to be modifie... ...d in the way of rampant experimentation with human genetics (with the exception of rogue scientists and madmen dictators). One is the consensus tha... ...ans regard America itself - and especially the abrasive Bush administration - as a rogue state, prone to jeopardizing world peace and stability. Ob...

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...Semi-failed State By: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The US State Department's designation of "rogue state" periodically falls in and out of favor. It is used ... ...sm and the manufacture and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Most rogue states are not failed ones. A failed state is a country ... ... (hostility towards Pax Americana), some scholars claim that the USA is, itself, a rogue state (q.v., for instance, William Blum's "Rogue State: A ... ...nstance, William Blum's "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" and "Rogue Nation" by Clyde Prestowitz). Admittedly, the USA's unilat... ... represents a constant threat to world peace and stability. But labeling the USA a "rogue state" may be overdoing it. It better fits the profile of ... ...ording to the UN. A thriving black market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets ... ...d. Kosovo is one of the global centers of piracy of intellectual property, notably software and movies. The Central Fiscal Authority of Kosovo esti...

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...The country’s current account deficit is widening despite steady growth in software services exports and a rise in workers’ remittances from overseas ... ...ling client Paulson & Co. Although attention is often paid to the role of “rogue trader” for incurring huge losses (e.g., Jerome Kerviel of Societe Ge...

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...rature, feminism, shamanism, linguistics, and microcomputer hardware and software. He is one of the founders of the International Association for t... ...Fire and Fur. Her favorite, his silliest, was about how he had battled a rogue dragon, a dragon that had been killing cats. He always began with t... ...o Rue, Ao Rue! He's fading. "Was he really big?" "He was a monstrous rogue. All the ancient blue-eyed sorcerers couldn't have stood before him...

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...dianapolis Center. 142 The reasons are technical, arising from the way the software processed radar information, as well as from poor primary radar co... ...t our people in the event these terri- ble weapons are ever unleashed by a rogue state, a terrorist group, or an international criminal organization. ... ...rrorism and probably provided adequate authority . But mindful of the old “rogue elephant” charge, senior CIA managers may have wanted something on pa... ...r responsible for Pakistan, wrote Berger that Islamabad was “behaving as a rogue state in two areas—backing Taliban/UBL terror and provoking war with ... ...he air at the same time in different parts of the world.They used the game software to increase their familiarity with aircraft models and functions, ... ...ommand Center located on the 22nd floor of the North T ower. Damage to the software controlling the system, resulting from the impact of the plane, pr... ...s leading to the roof were kept locked for security reasons, and damage to software in the security command station prevented a lock release order fro... ...ystem, the “supplemental” radar had poor primary coverage, and the FAA ATC software did not allow the display of primary radar data from the “tertiary...