Once the malware infects the computer it generates a covert channel back to the cybercriminal.
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When the worm infects a computer it sends out the "lol" message to the user's contact list.
With its lock on making the microprocessors for the dominant personal computer it seemed positioned to stay on top forever.
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Microsoft was launching the first computer it has ever made in the form of its Surface tablet.
It is like trying to design a chair without understanding who will be sitting in it, or creating software without considering on what kind of computer it will be installed.
"To get a useful computer it needs to be probably a million times more complex, so a full-scale useful factoring machine is still at least two decades away, " he said.
Every time the iPod is connected to the computer it launches the iTunes 2 software, a required download that itself requires the computer to have the very latest versions of Mac OS 9.2.1 or Mac OS X version 10.1.
Given Apple's early lead in wireless networking using the Wi-Fi standard, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to see Apple creating what is essentially a touch-sensitive screen that can display the contents of any computer it is connected to.
When it relies on the computer, it delivers breathtaking effects, such as liquid hydrogen trees, which are as majestic as anything in sci-fi artwork.
Not just because it's a powerful gaming computer (it is), but also because of its modularity.
Just plug it into a USB port on your computer and it does the rest.
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But even if it remains safely locked away in a computer, it gives pause for thought about the extent to which people might influence the climate with a specific end in view.
The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer: it will shape with your pocket.
It transmits the signal via the cellular telephone network to a computer where it can be interpreted.
But it has been dogged by controversy almost annually, if not for the confounding system of opinion polls and computer rankings it uses to determine the nation's No. 1 and 2 teams then for the undefeated teams those rankings kept out of the title game.
"That's normally a very fluid action, but to a computer, it's confusing, " says Lazaridis.
Despite the fact that he was just a computer, it was hard not to like him.
With the player program installed on the computer, it is time to get some songs to play.
Last week, Apple Computer said it would have to restate earnings after finding irregularities in its options accounting.
But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
When you're done using your computer, it might seem green to shut it down and not waste electricity.
This might not sound like much to a human, but to a computer virus it is an age.
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Although the Mac mini was very cheap for an Apple computer, it was still expensive compared to many PCs.
While this Web app can be viewed on a computer, it also works fairly well on smartphones and tablets.
The information may also have been saved to a user's computer if it had been synched with an iPhone.
At a trendy coffee shop in the French Quarter, nearly every table has an open laptop computer on it.
Eschewing a computer, it took him four months to draw the manifold layers.
If the company wanted to release an expensive touch screen computer, it could.
We're a long way from that, I can't do that yet from the keyboard and have the computer process it.
You bought a computer, it had Windows OS on it, and many of you would also buy a copy of Office.
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