These are cold-hearted, weather-beaten, bug-experienced soldiers of the programming world who are hungry for the next opportunity.
Those looking for a more subtle introduction to entomophagy (the scientific term for bug-eating) can visit the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the insecectarium serves up gourmet bug-eats every day at 10 am.
Given the topic of this conference, it is important that we understand what it might mean if the United States is not prepared for the consequences of the Millennium Bug -- or "Y2K" -- problem that will, all other things being equal, afflict us 641 days now.
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Bug-for-bug compatibility is a problem, but breaking backward compatibility would be a much bigger problem, so even as the lowest layers of the operating system are revised and rewritten, the layers that applictions talk to (the application programming interface, or API) are carefully tested to ensure that no changes are visible to the application.
Clinton and Gore should be under no illusion: Whether fairly or not, they will be held accountable if, as a result of a failure to ensure that both the public and private sectors are induced to take corrective action on the Millennium Bug -- and helped to acquire the means to do so -- a long-predicted, well-understood and utterly avoidable cataclysm befalls the Nation, its people and interests.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Protecting against the 'millenium bug'
In this, the researchers scraped away moss much as before, but they left narrow moss paths to bridge the no-bug's-land between islands.
There are more cases of norovirus - or winter vomiting bug - around than in recent years, but we are a long way off the peak of early 2010.
Visitors of all ages took part in a range of activities including landscape drawing, photography, bug-hunting, dressing-up as Georgians and learning country dances.
Snap-up bank-note holders that press while they sterilise are also available, as are bug-killing tissues, floors, wallpaper, stuffed toys, bicycle child seats, sand boxes, origami paper and steering wheels.
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He was a master at defusing rows caused by over-promising salesmen, the premature release of bug-ridden software or the downright arrogance that Oracle can sometimes demonstrate.
Earlier this week, Consumer Reports called the issue a hardware failure-disputing the company's prior claim that it was simply a software bug-and said it would not recommend the product for purchase.
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The norovirus bug - which causes vomiting, stomach cramps, fever and diarrhoea - is easily spread from person to person.
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The 3D effect was impressive and tastefully presented with minimal things being thrown at you -- although the score bug in the upper-left will take some getting used to.
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Microsoft cannot get away with bug-ridden software and hope to send fixes later on.
And because of the program's complexity, even the best produce their share of bug-ridden software.
The Roomba uses a more powerful version of the artificial intelligence in Angle's original Genghis bug-bot.
Detectives planted the bug anyway - telling the French it was a tracking device.
The WHO is looking for other cases, but for now most bug-watchers seem cautiously relaxed.
Once you've learned a programming trick or two, you can try a robotic arm or a bug-eyed anthropomorph.
Frankly, I think you could really benefit from another three or four more weeks for polish and bug-fixing.
Companies may be confident that their own systems are bug-free, but they are less sure of those of others.
Gates may have realized his best defense lies in a strategy alien to Microsoft's bug-ridden history: offering products we can trust.
He's the short, sort of bug-eyed character who turns up in movies by Quentin Tarantino, the Coen Brothers and Jim Jarmusch.
Insurers say that the huge effort lavished on bug-squashing was not wasted.
Open source by the very nature of its construction will most likely be bug-ridden, designed by committee and present a huge security risk.
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Second gen hardware is generally expected to atone for the bug-ridden sins of its predecessors, so hopefully a short delay now means avoiding a quick patch later.
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Roaring, brawling, exploding lights beside their bug-eyed skulls!
Hardware and software purchased within the last two years are for the most part bug-free or "Y2K compliant, " although there are so many hardware and software permutations there are no guarantees any system is 100% safe.
This gamified bug-finding hunt was wildly successful.
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