Something else maybe a cellphone, maybe a string of computer code will have to stand as this century's emblem of American prowess.
He was about be sentenced for a string of computer crimes, making him the latest hacktivist to be punished for disrupting computer systems.
After some initial struggles in the studio's early years, DreamWorks scored big with a string of computer animated movies, often outperforming Disney at the box office.
It is possible for a criminal, for example, to conceal his or her activities by connecting to a target computer through a string of innocent computers, each connected to the Internet on different continents, making law enforcement investigations time consuming or even impossible.
Fortunately for Konami, which has produced a string of hit computer games like "Metal Gear Solid" and "Duel Monsters," just one-tenth of the 2,000 Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh cards have been translated and released in the United States.
Antivirus software companies like McAfee, Symantec and others, using conventional Internet security methods, find a copy of such a malicious program, identify a signature string of computer code unique to it, then circulate to customers a software application to block programs with that signature.
Granted, chances are slim that a string of Y2K-related computer failures could do more than isolated damage to society's infrastructure.
Typically, the user provides a string of characters, and the computer searches the database for a corresponding sequence and provides the source materials in which those characters appear; a user can request, for example, all records in which the contents of the field for a person's last name is the word Smith.
Vizzacarro describes this data, known as a user agent, as a string of information that a computer uses to identify itself.
Using little more than a single computer and a dial-up modem, Mr McKinnon was able to break into a string of Pentagon and Nasa computers from his north London bedsit, largely because employees had left default passwords on their accounts.
That is needed because the computers that translate the address into a string of digits carrying the destination computer's "internet address" have previously only functioned with Latin letters.
