Jeffrey Rosen : A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance
"I had gone to Britain to answer a question that seems far more pertinent today than it did early last month: why would a free and flourishing Western democracy wire itself up with so many closed-circuit television cameras that it resembles the set of "The Real World" or "The Truman Show"? ... The promise of cameras as a magic bullet against crime and terrorism inspired one of [John] Major's most successful campaign slogans: "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.""
George Sanderson : Apache::RedirectDBI.pm
"allows you to create a virtual path in your document hierarchy. All requests for access to this virtual path should require a username and password
to access. When the user attempts to access this virtual path their username is
looked up in one or more database tables. The table in which the username is found
in determines the physical path from which files are served."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is epicene
| source : web1913 |
Epicene \Ep"i*cene\, a. & n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. ?; fr. 'epi` + ?
common; cf. F. ['e]pic[`e]ne.]
1. Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to
such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the
masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes;
as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to
eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
2. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
The literary prigs epicene. --Prof.
Wilson.
He represented an epicene species, neither churchman
nor layman. --J. A.
Symonds.
| source : wn |
epicene
adj 1: having an ambiguous sexual identity [syn: {bisexual}]
2: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: {effeminate}, {emasculate},
{cissy}, {sissified}, {sissyish}, {sissy}]