Sentence examples for war dial from inspiring English sources

Until there are no more self-dramatising young men who prefer the abstraction of death to living a meaningful life, until there are no more wealthy pious bigots to fund them, until there are no more disenfranchised migrants pressed against the border fence and no more hard-faced "realists" eager to turn the war dial up to 11, this will go on and we will have to live through it.

In the old days of hacking, "war dialling" involved making a phone dial consecutive numbers, and seeking those that answer with a data tone.

In addition to spam and ads, founders visited business writers and VCs uninvited, war dialed to get access to Sand Hill Road cash cows, and added sex and violence to their Facebook ads to get that last click that would put them into "exit" territory.

War driving originated from something called war dialling.

War dialling involved calling up a bunch of numbers, either randomly or in sequence, and trying to detect which ones were modems and consequently a possible hack.

He got in by war-dialing — a hacker's trick made famous in the movie War Games.

The social networking wars have dialed it up to 11 this week, with Google unleashing its highly anticipated (and highly leaked) Google+ social initiative upon the world on Tuesday — to not a bad response, to be honest.

Here is Serge as a young teen­ager, at the start of World War I, turning the dial of his wireless transmitter in search of signals: "The air is rich tonight: still and cold, high pressure, the best time of year.... Above 650, the clicks dissipate into a thin, pervasive noise, like dust.

The intrusion team once carried out a massive attack on such an organization using war dialing automated scripts that dial all of the numbers in an area and discovered backdoors in the system that were eight years old.

In the face of world events that undermine the monolithic simplicity of cold war thinking, Mr. Clancy has dialed backward through history to find more accommodating times.

At the National Defense University (NDU) last Thursday, President Obama, so media reports and editorials assured us, gave a speech in which he promised to dial back the war on terror as a "global" operation, curtail U.S. drone operations abroad, and launch another effort to whittle down, if not close, Guantanamo.