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  • "And finally, Front Three: The Progress Reports: We're going to hack into the faculty computer network and use their grading database to send out letters to Kevin et al.'s families saying that they are failing some of their classes."†   (source)
  • The questionnaires were long and involved, and over time Hofstede was able to develop an enormous database for analyzing the ways in which cultures differ from one another.†   (source)
  • 6 seconds for Cinder's scanner to measure the points of his face and link his image to the net database.†   (source)
  • A search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database turns up more than seventeen thousand patents involving HeLa cells.†   (source)
  • He did his learning through his desk at home, tapping into libraries and databases, studying and thinking and, above all, talking to Valentine.†   (source)
  • In what may seem a futile gesture to many, the Art Loss Database The story was continued on the next page; but just then Mrs. Barbour came into the room and I had to put the newspaper down.†   (source)
  • Know thine enemy was Artemis's motto, so he immersed himself in the lore of the People until he had compiled a huge database on their characteristics.†   (source)
  • A database review by Times researcher Nona Yates showed that publishing their full names would make Enrique readily identifiable to authorities.†   (source)
  • It's always present, a gigantic subconscious database of poetry (and fiction, since she's read that, too).†   (source)
  • There were a few I had to use the feds' database for.†   (source)
  • He uploads it to the CIC database-the Library, formerly the Library of Congress, but no one calls it that anymore.†   (source)
  • She knows that my father now has a mistake logged against him in the permanent database.†   (source)
  • The family was so extensive that he was forced to create a database in his iBook.†   (source)
  • She used to work for the Department of Defense, but got fired when she refused to register me in the IAAN database.†   (source)
  • Not knowing how to reference the tri-county library database quickly in the event of a system crash: now that would be a problem.†   (source)
  • The Boston Times had an excellent database of articles published in previous years from a variety of magazines.†   (source)
  • It made available a database of the test answers for every CPS student from third grade through seventh grade from 1993 to 2000.†   (source)
  • I guess my fingerprints haven't been de-registered from the Valkyrie database yet."†   (source)
  • One aid group, innocently trying to gather names of local people for a database, asked for the names not only of men in each household, but also of women and girls.†   (source)
  • Puller said, "Let me have copies and I'll get them run through the federal databases too."†   (source)
  • "For six hundred dollars a month, Mortenson rented a small wood-paneled office space in a nondescript building a block from Bozeman's Main Street, and hired four employees to schedule his speaking engagements, produce a newsletter, maintain a website, and manage CAI's growing database of donors.†   (source)
  • I'd started work on a database with all the books listed by title, author, and subject, like the real library, but it wasn't finished yet.†   (source)
  • Our database has been analyzed by researchers James Pennebaker and Cynthia Chung at the University of Texas using their so-called Meaning Extraction Method, which scanned the more than seventeen million words in the essays, finding that writers used seventy-one thousand different words.†   (source)
  • Or some sort of database?†   (source)
  • The Oxford English Dictionary now has to maintain a New York office to keep its database and publications current with American usage.†   (source)
  • It escapes… *–% rest of letter page 86-88 not in database because could not be read.†   (source)
  • The office kept an electronic database of every voter and potential voter we encountered, and then those that it reached through regular mailers.†   (source)
  • Landers ran Erlene Barlowe's name through every database the TBI had.†   (source)
  • My database was eventually used to design a uniform product that eliminated the flaws inherent in wood.†   (source)
  • Dina was the Office's top terrorism specialist, a human database who could recite the time, place, perpetrators, and casualty toll of every act of Palestinian or Islamic terrorism committed against Israel and the West.†   (source)
  • They had databases of all the really enormous amounts of stuff, comets, asteroids, bits, pieces, minor moons, rocks and just general debris, that filled the system.†   (source)
  • Most databases have a search function built in—libraries, museums, universities, governments.†   (source)
  • Today I finally managed to hack the Los Angeles deceased civilians database.†   (source)
  • Then I pulled up the United States Citizen Registry database and attempted to log in.†   (source)
  • I believe I had a few rangers in my database.†   (source)
  • Even the CIC database can only hold so much garbage.†   (source)
  • It's much safer to go through the lists of poets in the Hundred Poems database instead.†   (source)
  • But still …. what could the database be for?†   (source)
  • He or she will be chosen at random from a database of known fugitives worldwide.†   (source)
  • He wondered what the database would have to say about "a knight a Pope interred."†   (source)
  • Big red INTERPOL on the Missing Art Database.†   (source)
  • His genetic database, now called OMIM, can be found at ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/omim/.†   (source)
  • Each family member was given his or her own document in the database.†   (source)
  • He really would have to put together a database of witty responses for occasions such as this.†   (source)
  • We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases?†   (source)
  • Macri sighed and pulled up the connection to the BBC database.†   (source)
  • Besides," he added with a wink, "I can always hack into their database and wipe my record clean."†   (source)
  • In his laptop he had created a database with a list of more than a hundred women.†   (source)
  • Certain database search techniques ate up a lot of memory.†   (source)
  • I couldn't spend the rest of the week exploring the Sixer database, like I'd planned.†   (source)
  • If you're not already in the database, well, you are now.†   (source)
  • Not offhand, but let's see what we can pull up in the database.†   (source)
  • By now, Sorrento would know I'd somehow gained access to the Sixers' private database.†   (source)
  • Within a few seconds, if you're in the database already, the owner fmds out who you are.†   (source)
  • Who knew the deceased civilians database was so difficult to hack?†   (source)
  • Most of the information transmitted to and from the CIC database passes through my networks.†   (source)
  • It was the only area of the database I couldn't seem to access.†   (source)
  • The largest section of the database appeared to be devoted to information on Halliday.†   (source)
  • When I logged out of the database a few minutes later, Bryce Lynch no longer existed.†   (source)
  • And how did you get those files from the Sixer database?†   (source)
  • Because I hacked into the Sixer Database and downloaded it myself.†   (source)
  • Salander did not want to be an official entry in all the databases.†   (source)
  • What he was building, in those nights in the storerooms, was a kind of database in his unconscious.†   (source)
  • I'm running the prints through our database."†   (source)
  • We can make anything that Gorku has on its database.†   (source)
  • Drawn from a pair of "smart" databases, here is a sampling of today's high-end names.†   (source)
  • "Follow up on it," Blomkvist said, "and see if you can find him in some database.†   (source)
  • I figure they've got computers, databases …"†   (source)
  • For now it just means that we have an example in the database.†   (source)
  • Have you been able to access the tri-country database with my password?†   (source)
  • I didn't spend a lot of time on it, but I looked through all the major online databases.†   (source)
  • I couldn't find a Zalachenko in any database in all of Sweden.†   (source)
  • They had a database, they boasted, with forty thousand separate entries in it.†   (source)
  • Dial into the BBC database, will you?†   (source)
  • Now it was just a matter of time before the doctors and nurses looked through the missing-persons database to find him.†   (source)
  • Here are the top five "uncertainty avoidance" countries, according to Hofstede's database, that is, the countries most reliant on rules and plans and most likely to stick to procedure regardless of circumstances: 1.†   (source)
  • The android's innards hummed as it processed her statement, searching its database for a logical reaction.†   (source)
  • What this book represents is not a database of all the cultural codes by which writers create and readers understand the products of that creation, but a template, a pattern, a grammar of sorts from which you an learn to look for those codes on your own.†   (source)
  • And then there was something called a database, which allowed for easy storage and manipulation of vast amounts of data.†   (source)
  • Trish navigated to the "who is" database and ran a search for the IP, hoping to match the cryptic numbers to an actual domain name.†   (source)
  • And in fact, there are precedents for such a case, including one in which a woman successfully had her father's DNA removed from a database in Iceland.†   (source)
  • For example, plenty of boys in this database have blue eyes and dark hair like Ky, but I am positive that not one of them looks as he does.†   (source)
  • Even though I hadn't put down a name, it worried me that I'd tried to check out the database from my school's IP address.†   (source)
  • The BBC database showed their distinguished network as having picked up and run six stories in the past ten years on the brotherhood called the Illuminati.†   (source)
  • I mean, you cross-reference any voting rolls with the names in our TruYou database, and you'd find half the missing voters right there and then.†   (source)
  • CINDER LOOKED UP AT THE MAN, HER LINK TO THE NET database informing her that he was Konn Torin, royal adviser.†   (source)
  • Next he checked International BioSciences Services, a computer database in America, But he found no references to basilisk bites, or hospitalization for lizard bites.†   (source)
  • Langdon's plan was less certain—to take the tube to nearby King's College, which was renowned for its electronic theological database.†   (source)
  • The database beeped.†   (source)
  • …on the computer at school, I'd seen that there was a book about Carel Fabritius (a tiny book, only a hundred pages) but they didn't have it at the school library and our computer time at school was so closely monitored that I was too paranoid to do any research on line —especially after a thoughtlessly clicked link (Het Puttertje, The Goldfinch, 1654) had taken me to a scarily official-looking site called Missing Art Database that required me to sign in with my name and address.†   (source)
  • Traditional search engines often required a full day to crawl across the entire online universe, find new documents, digest their content, and add it to their searchable database.†   (source)
  • He compiled information about known genes and the research done on them into a database called Mendelian Inheritance in Man, the bible of the field, which now has nearly twenty thousand entries and is still growing.†   (source)
  • "My database informs me that androids have not come equipped with direct communication abilities since 89 TE:' "Which would explain why it didn't work with her programming."†   (source)
  • "And meanwhile," Jackie said, "the crew here at the Protagorean Pavilion has been working to coordinate all student measurements—to make sure that all homework, reading, attendance and test scores are all kept in one unified database.†   (source)
  • This computer, by calculating the current number of hits and multiplying by the percentage of the database left to search, provided a rough guess of how much information would be found.†   (source)
  • "About an hour ago," Parrish said, "we snagged a guy named Zoubianis trying to access a file on one of our internal databases.†   (source)
  • November 22 It turns out the deceased civilians database has more information about the plagues than I guessed.†   (source)
  • The results are shot back to dC, which has a database of several tens of millions of scanned retinas.†   (source)
  • I keep wondering how he knew that I'd hacked into the deceased civilians database, and all I can think of is that I left a trace, and the tech guys who fixed that security hole found it and mentioned it to him.†   (source)
  • According to the Republic's databases," she goes on, "Daniel Altan Wing died five years ago from smallpox, in one of our labor camps."†   (source)
  • He's probably got a mental database of everyone who has ever used one of his toys and what happened to them.†   (source)
  • A central database was necessary, among other reasons, because some of the me had to be properly timed.†   (source)
  • But my brother was Metias, and we never had trouble finding our way into the Trial databases with his hacks.†   (source)
  • Hiro has his computer memorize their names so that, later, he can check them against the CIC database and find out who they are.†   (source)
  • In any case, the repository for the me was the local temple, which was a database of me, controlled by a priest/king called an en.†   (source)
  • Using my gloves, I began to manipulate these windows, navigating my way through the database's file structure.†   (source)
  • The visor presented me with a three-dimensional view of the Sixers' database, with dozens of overlapping data windows suspended in front of me.†   (source)
  • The CIC brass can't stand these guys because they upload staggering quantities of useless information to the database, on the off chance that some of it will eventually be useful.†   (source)
  • One of your principals was kind enough to search the student database for the avatar name Parzival, and guess what?†   (source)
  • A baseball hypercard could contain a highlight film of the player in action, shown in perfect high-def television; a complete biography, read by the player himself, in stereo digital sound; and a complete statistical database along with specialized software to help you look up the numbers you want.†   (source)
  • There are four men in the life raft: Hiro Protagonist, seW employed stringer for the Central Intelligence Corporation, whose practice used to be limited to so-called "dry" operations, meaning that he sat around and soaked up information and then later spat it back into the Library, the CIC database, without ever actually doing anything.†   (source)
  • I attached one of the video clips I'd retrieved from the Sixer database to the message—the video camera footage of Daito's execution.†   (source)
  • Using these, I was able to log into the database and access my existing citizen profile, which had been created when I enrolled for school.†   (source)
  • Most of that time was spent copying as much data as possible from the Sixer database to my stolen flash drive.†   (source)
  • While the data and video on the Third Gate was copying over to my flash drive, I continued to delve deeper into the Sixer database.†   (source)
  • Then, last night, just before I'd succumbed to exhaustion, I'd finally managed to navigate my way through the intranet's labyrinth of firewalls and into the main Oology Division database.†   (source)
  • From there, I was able to use a series of back doors and system exploits left by the original programmers to tunnel through the network and hack directly into the Sixers' private database."†   (source)
  • Once I infiltrated the building and got behind the company firewall, I would use the intranet passwords to hack into the Sixers' private database, then figure a way to bring down the shield they'd erected over Anorak's castle.†   (source)
  • My new status as a world-famous gunter gave me all kinds of underworld credibility, which helped me get access to a highly exclusive illegal data-auction site known as the L33t HaxOrz Warezhaus, and for a shockingly small amount of money, I was able to purchase a series of access procedures and passwords for the USCR (United States Citizen Registry) database.†   (source)
  • As we talked, in fact, there were several key moments when he seemed to probe me for information, to find out what I knew, so he could add it to his own formidable database.†   (source)
  • I made up names of databases, I put in quotes from students who didn't exist (Paige Turner and Art T. Ficial), and devoted a paragraph—deep in the story—to the "special shelves" where all the banned and challenged books were held.†   (source)
  • Officer Romanello had wanted information on Richard Franklin, and though he'd searched the database without success, he knew he'd heard the name before.†   (source)
  • Blue Team had their databases and matrixes and methodologies for systematically understanding the intentions and capabilities of the enemy.†   (source)
  • We still flag Salander for monitoring whenever she turns up in any database, and I saw to it that Bjurman became her new guardian.†   (source)
  • The fingerprints hadn't helped; though Morrison had decided to use the FBI database as well, they were backlogged with cases from around the country, and he'd been informed it could take at least a week to process.†   (source)
  • "You can't imagine my surprise when your name popped back up in the bounty database—and with that kind of reward?†   (source)
  • These pages include tips for writing and submitting an essay as well as a database of essays submitted to our project by those under eighteen.†   (source)
  • She sat down at her desk, accessed the database at Harvard again, and typed in the words MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Because articles in the library system were indexed by subject or headline, she chose to scan by headlines to speed up the search.†   (source)
  • This database houses information about how individual educators have been using our project with various age groups and scholastic disciplines.†   (source)
  • Drawing from the entire California database, here are the names that signify the most poorly educated white parents.†   (source)
  • A fundamental part of the effort involves assembling a mammoth database of American English usage, printed and spoken.†   (source)
  • He seemed to realize his mistake a second late, and, with more patience than I thought he possessed, explained, "Three years ago, the League hacked into the government's Psi databases and tried posting information about the camps online for everyone to see.†   (source)
  • All morning long, Bethany and Amanda bustled and chattered as they updated the database and organized the invoices for all the periodicals that had come in during his absence.†   (source)
  • Terra, or rather the LFD Corporation, is now authorized to produce anything that Gorku had in its designs and patents database.†   (source)
  • When completed, with a hundred million words in its database, Rosenthal says, "It will provide a definitive portrait of how the English language is used in the United States today."†   (source)
  • His address was listed in the tax records, the weapons registry, and the vehicle licencing database; it was even in the telephone book.†   (source)
  • Here, ranked by frequency of mention, are the crime-drop explanations cited in articles published from 1991 to 2001 in the ten largest-circulation papers in the LexisNexis database:†   (source)
  • I contain a full database of the most up-to-date designs in ships as well as various parts, materials, medical and IT systems and even …. entertainment devices.†   (source)
  • He's not in any telephone book or tax records or on the vehicle licencing database, or anywhere else.†   (source)
  • Looking at the two previous words, the system then decides which word sequence would best match the spoken sounds it has been given and the linguistic model constructed from the database.†   (source)
  • If it's even in the database."†   (source)
  • The address on Lundagatan was on every public register and database, and in all those years she had never had the means to improve her security; she could only stay on her guard.†   (source)
  • For sophisticated usage, the database would have to have a vocabulary wider and more current than Microsoft's popular word-processing program, MS Word, whose spell-checker has limitations.†   (source)
  • He was not listed, which was not surprising, since as far as she knew he had never been convicted of a crime in Sweden and was not even in the national database.†   (source)
  • Any database would have to be rich in common idioms to avoid the charming mistakes one finds in public signs in non-English-speaking countries, such as this in a Norwegian cocktail lounge: "Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar."†   (source)
  • She'd have to check the database.†   (source)
  • Noting that databases can now be searched for texts hundreds of years old, writer John Rosen thai believes computers are giving descriptivists an advantage: For years when it came to settling language disputes, the pre-scriptivists have held the upper hand.†   (source)
  • Naturally, information about how the police investigation was proceeding was kept on the computers used by the investigating detectives, and their databases were stored on the server at police headquarters.†   (source)
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