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Acoustic Kitty

Although it is not entirely clear on whether he is the originator of the concept, British author Len Deighton prefigured the concept of Acoustic Kitty in his novel, Billion Dollar Brain (1966), where the unnamed hero (Harry Palmer) notes that "Even the cats of East Berlin are wired" for sound recording.

Air War Plans Division

German agents monitoring American newspapers wired the compromised secret program to Berlin where Franz Halder, Chief of the German General Staff, realized its critical importance.

Blake Ross

In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine's top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart.

Camp Marcella

State of the art smoke and fire detectors, with emergency lighting, have been installed in each cabin and are wired into a central system which will report any activity directly to the nearby Rockaway Fire Department.

Centrino

Laptops with Intel vPro technology have hardware features that allow a system administrator to remotely access wired and wireless laptops for maintenance and servicing if the operating system is unresponsive or crashed and, when a laptop is connected to AC power (not on battery power), allow a sys-admin to remotely access the laptop when the system is asleep or laptop power is off.

Changi Depot

A Swiss national, Oliver Fricker was charged with three charges of trespassing into the depot on the early hours of May 17 and vandalising the train by spraying paint and damaging public property by cutting a wired fence into property belonging to the Land Transport Authority.

Chris Imlay

He has been the art director of the magazines Gearhead, MacAddict, Mobile PC, PSM, Nintendo Power was a senior designer at Wired and currently is a creative director at Future US.

Christopher Null

Null has written for numerous publications, including Wired, Business 2.0, PC World, Men's Journal, San Francisco Magazine, Yahoo! Internet Life, Working Woman, San Jose Magazine, The Austin Chronicle, and The Austin American-Statesman.

Computer Magazine

Site contributors include many of the well known technology authors, experts and publication sources, content and articles are provided by major technology syndicators and by external expert technology sources (such as Computer World, Information Week, Network World, Wired, Time, etc.

Constance Hale

Her journalism has appeared in metropolitan newspapers and national magazines, but she is best known for her books on language: Sin and Syntax and Wired Style.

Danger at Dunwater

Ken Denmead of Wireds GeekDad listed the module as one of the "Top 10 D&D Modules I Found in Storage This Weekend".

Digital Harbor High School

Digital Harbor is a first among Baltimore City Schools, with millions of dollars in equipment devoted to modernizing all of the classrooms and the adding of Wi-Fi and wired internet access all over the school.

DSL modem

DSL routers, the most common form of DSL modem, the are external to the computer and wired to the computer's Ethernet port or its USB port, whereas voice-band modems are usually internal devices installed in the computer itself in a PCI interface slot in the back.

Easy to Wed

Van Johnson's biography, MGM's Golden Boy states that Lucille Ball's performance as Gladys "reveals the embryo of her Lucy Ricardo role in the later I Love Lucy television series," and also states that Keenan Wynn had been in a motorcycle accident before filming, had his mouth wired shut, and as a result, he had to talk between his teeth while losing thirty pounds in four weeks.

Egosurfing

The term was coined by Sean Carton in 1995 and first appeared in print as an entry in Gareth Branwyn's March 1995 Jargon Watch column in Wired.

EmDrive

In September 2008, Wired magazine reported that a team of Chinese researchers from Northwestern Polytechnical University led by Dr. Juan Yang (杨涓) claims to have confirmed the theory behind the drive and are proceeding to build a demonstration version.

Good for Grapes

They officially began their career playing in coffee shops, such as The Wired Monk, charity shows, small venues, and eventually began by opening up for bands such as Paper Lions, The Matinee and Mother Mother.

Home network

Most wired network infrastructures found in homes currently utilize some form of category 5 or category 6 twisted pair cabling with RJ45 compatible terminations.

IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession

Jon Katz (Montclair, N.J., Wired, Rolling Stone and Slashdot.org): For his book, Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho.

Illinois Instant Riches

Splashdown was renamed Niagara for NY Wired after Niagara Falls.

JAUS Tool Set

Present transport options include UDP and TCP in wired or wireless networks, as well as serial connections.

Jersey barrier

The 2010 G-20 Toronto summit used a modified modular Jersey barriers with wired fencing bolted onto the concrete.

Joe Renzetti

Renzetti also scored; Fatso, Elvis, Vice Squad, Poltergeist III, an episode of Tales from the Crypt, Child's Play, and Wired Angel.

John Roach Straton

During the Scopes Trial when the judge was considering letting scientists testify for the defense, William Jennings Bryan wired Straton to come to Dayton, Tennessee to be a rebuttal witness.

KMSP

KMSP Tower, a high guy-wired aerial mast in Shoreview, Minnesota

KWQC-TV

The KWQC-TV Tower is a 1,381-foot (421 m) high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and television programs in Bettendorf, west of the Scott Community College campus.

Let's Fish! Hooked On

Created by Sims Co., Ltd and published by Wired Productions with character designs by Poyoyon Rock.

Lutheran West

The building has total Wi-Fi access and is also wired for computer access throughout.

Mosul Dam

In early April 2003, following the invasion of Iraq by a U.S.-led coalition, military intelligence had developed several scenarios, including one in which Iraqi forces had wired the dam for detonation.

Mr Bingo

He also does editorial illustrations and other work for both The Financial Times and The Guardian newspapers, and has had work featured in magazines as diverse as Bearded, Dazed and Confused, WIRED, Esquire and GQ, while his art has also been featured in Creative Review and Icon magazines.

Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology

Many renowned bands like Bhayanak Maut, Pin Drop Violence, Demonic Resurrection, Zygnema, Devoid,Gutslit, Atmosfear, Wired Anxiety, Abraxas etc. have performed in this event.

Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music

Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-4727-3) is a book by Chicago Tribune rock critic Greg Kot who is the cohost of the Chicago Public Radio show, Sound Opinions.

Rose Center Theater

The lighting system encompasses 192 dimming circuits, networked wired and wireless DMX512-A data connections, ETC and Altman lighting instruments, Strand dimming and control systems.

SCADA

-- citations as support of the statements are fine --> In electric and gas utility SCADA systems, the vulnerability of the large installed base of wired and wireless serial communications links is addressed in some cases by applying bump-in-the-wire devices that employ authentication and Advanced Encryption Standard encryption rather than replacing all existing nodes.

Soultone

Marshall, Fender, Gibson, and Vox all currently offer entirely hand wired re-creations of their vintage products, often at costs lower than boutique competition.

SY4307A

Two SY4307As were used, wired in parallel, as the output stage, or "final", in a transmitter constructed clandestinely by the Australian soldiers of Sparrow Force in Japanese occupied Portuguese Timor in 1942.

TCHO

Karl Bittong specializes in the engineering aspect of chocolate production and has worked on factories in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the U.S. Today, its CEO and President are Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe, respectively, co-founders of Wired magazine as well as the first magazine website, Wired.com.

Telecommunications in Barbados

By 1935 a hard wired cable-based radio network was later deployed throughout the country to broadcast the Rediffusion service directly from London to homes and business across Barbados.

The Pee-wee Herman Show

With $3,000 (mostly money wired from his parents), and help from 60 people working for him (including his fellow Groundling Phil Hartman), Reubens created the show.

Tony Mendez

After declassification of records, the full details of the operation were reported in a 2007 article by Joshuah Bearman in Wired magazine.

University of the East College of Computer Studies and System

Recently the University is labeled as "One of the Most Wired Universities in the Country", conducted by the Computer World Magazine and Enterprise Magazine.

Why The Future Doesn't Need Us

"Why The Future Doesn't Need Us" is an article written by Bill Joy (then Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems) in the April 2000 issue of Wired magazine.

Winterhaven, California

Telephone service is provided by Winterhaven Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, and wired telephones in the area have numbers following the format (760) 572-xxxx.

Wired All Wrong

Wired All Wrong released their first LP, Break out the Battle Tapes, on September 12, 2006 which features the singles "Lost Angeles," "Nothing at All" and "Elevatin".

Wired communication

These communications technologies are simply short radio apparatus(devices) which are closing much larger distances covered by wired communications defined in the Communications Act of 1934.

Wired Records

2006 saw the release of "The Wired Ones", a compilation CD featuring artists such as Kevin Blechdom, Dynasty Handbag, Angie Reed and Scream Club.

Wireless transmission

Wireless communication, all types of non-wired communication

Worldchanging

Wired columnist Bruce Sterling called Worldchanging "the most important website on the planet," and architect Richard Meier named it as his favorite site and praised it as "a wealth of information on sustainability".

Zealand, New Brunswick

The community is one of the first rural communities in the province to be wired for broadband Internet.


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