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In the News (Thu 3 Dec 09)

  
  EFF: DES Cracker Project
On Wednesday, July 17, 1998 the EFF DES Cracker, which was built for less than $250,000, easily won RSA Laboratory's "DES Challenge II" contest and a $10,000 cash prize.
EFF set out to design and build a DES Cracker to counter the claim made by U.S. government officials that American industry or foreign governments cannot decrypt information when protected by DES or weaker encryption, or that it would take multimillion-dollar networks or computers months to decrypt one message.
Less than one year later and for well under US $250,000, EFF's DES Cracker entered and won the RSA DES Challenge II-2 competition in less than 3 days, proving that DES is not secure and that such a machine is inexpensive to design and build.
www.eff.org /Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker   (0 words)

  
  Cracker Barrel
It is Cracker Barrel’s policy, fully consistent with federal, state and local law, that no Cracker Barrel employee may discriminate against any Cracker Barrel guest or would-be guest on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, gender, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.
Any Cracker Barrel employee who observes what he or she thinks may be a violation of this policy must report it to a store manager, district manager, regional manager, or to Cracker Barrel’s Home Office (1-800-333-9566).
Cracker Barrel and its employees cannot and will not reprimand, penalize, or otherwise retaliate in any way against any employee who, in good faith, opposes or reports alleged discrimination, either to Cracker Barrel or to the applicable local, state or federal enforcement agencies.
www.crackerbarrel.com /about-outreach.cfm?doc_id=912   (244 words)

  
  Cracker Biography - AOL Music
Cracker may be considered a somewhat traditional rock band (almost comparable to roots rock at times), yet singer/guitarist David Lowery's roots are anything but traditional, since he fronted the '80s alternative outfit Camper Van Beethoven.
A year later, Cracker issued their best-known album, Kerosene Hat, which spawned the popular MTV/rock radio hit "Low." But by the time of their third release, 1996's The Golden Age, Faragher had been replaced with Bob Rupe, while the drum spot was occupied by a trio of players: Charlie Quintana, Eddie Bayers, and Johnny Hott.
During the early 21st century, Cracker continued to tour and even enlisted the help of several of Lowery's former Camper Van Beethoven members on select dates (bassist Victor Krummenacher, guitarist/violinist Jonathan Segel, and guitarist Greg Lisher).
music.aol.com /artist/cracker/26306/biography   (434 words)

  
  Cracker: Tutte le informazioni su Cracker su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In ambito informatico il termine inglese cracker indica colui che entra abusivamente in sistemi altrui allo scopo di danneggiarli, lasciare un segno del proprio passaggio, utilizzarli come teste di ponte per altri attacchi oppure per sfruttare la loro capacità di calcolo o l'ampiezza di banda di rete.
I cracker possono essere spinti da varie motivazioni, dal guadagno economico (tipicamente coinvolti in operazioni di spionaggio industriale o in frodi) all'approvazione all'interno di un gruppo di cracker (come tipicamente avviene agli script kiddie, che praticano le operazioni di cui sopra senza una piena consapevolezza né delle tecniche né delle conseguenze).
I media hanno l'abitudine di definire hacker i cracker, mentre, sebbene alcune tecniche siano simili, i primi hanno scopi più costruttivi che distruttivi, come accade invece ai secondi.
www.encyclopedia.it /c/cr/cracker.html   (580 words)

  
 White cracker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Usage of the term "cracker" generally differs from "hick" and "hillbilly" because crackers reject or resist assimilation into the dominant culture, while hicks and hillbillies theoretically are isolated from the dominant culture.
With the huge influx of new residents from the North, the term "cracker" is now used informally by some white residents of Florida and Georgia ("Florida cracker" or "Georgia cracker") to indicate that their family has lived there for many generations.
When used in pop culture, the term "white cracker" or "cracker" is sometimes intended to be humorous, though the distinction is not always clear.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_cracker   (1509 words)

  
 Black hat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A fl hat (also called a cracker or Darkside hacker) is a malicious or criminal hacker.
The term cracker was coined by Richard Stallman to provide an alternative to abusing the existing word hacker for this meaning.
Crackers who rely on the latter technique are often referred to as script kiddies (unskilled crackers are far more common than highly skilled ones).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Security_cracking   (1007 words)

  
 Cracker Glossary Term
Crackers can be leavened, such as soda crackers that are made with flour, water, and seasonings and then leavened with bicarbonate of soda.
Many crackers have holes spread throughout their surface, which is aaccomplished in manufacturing to enable the cracker to be evenly baked so that the texture can be flat, thin and uniform as well as crispy.
Crackers have become a snacking item, an appetizer served with a topping such as meat, cheese or spreadable butters, or as an enjoyable addition to lightly enhance a soup, stew, or a main dish.
www.recipetips.com /glossary-term/t--37558/cracker.asp   (205 words)

  
 Hormel Foods - Glossary - Cracker
Crackers can be leavened, such as soda crackers that are made with flour, water, and seasonings and then leavened with bicarbonate of soda.
Many crackers have holes spread throughout their surface, which is aaccomplished in manufacturing to enable the cracker to be evenly baked so that the texture can be flat, thin and uniform as well as crispy.
Crackers have become a snacking item, an appetizer served with a topping such as meat, cheese or spreadable butters, or as an enjoyable addition to lightly enhance a soup, stew, or a main dish.
www.hormel.com /kitchen/glossary.asp?id=37558&catitemid=   (245 words)

  
 Cracker@Everything2.com
To use the cracker, place a canister of nitrous inside with the sealed end pointing toward the protrusion and hole.
You can buy plastic or metal crackers, though metal is best as the extreme cold may cause the plastic to become brittle.
Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe themselves as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life.
www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=cracker   (869 words)

  
 Information Security Glossary - Cracker
A cracker is either a piece of software (program) whose purpose is to 'crack' the code to, say, a password; or 'cracker' refers to a person who attempts to gain unauthorised access to a computer system.
Crackers operate quite simply by testing large numbers of possible passwords much faster than a human being could hope to perform.
Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open hacker poly-culture; though crackers often like to describe themselves as hackers, most true hackers consider crackers a separate and lower form of life, little better than virus writers.
www.yourwindow.to /information-security/gl_cracker.htm   (330 words)

  
 jargon, node: cracker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe *themselves* as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life.
Ethical considerations aside, hackers figure that anyone who can't imagine a more interesting way to play with their computers than breaking into someone else's has to be pretty losing.
Some other reasons crackers are looked down on are discussed in the entries on cracking and phreaking.
www.jargon.net /jargonfile/c/cracker.html   (185 words)

  
 Cracker the Crab LLC is pleased to bring you the motivational childrens book, Cracker the Crab and the Sideways ...
Cracker the Crab LLC is pleased to bring you the motivational childrens book, Cracker the Crab and the Sideways Afternoon, by Michael and Jill Cogdill -- and other gifts to improve your life, or the life of someone you love!
Cracker the Crab LLC, formerly Two Bear Products, is proud to announce the debut of Cracker the Crab and the Sideways Afternoon.
Cracker the Crab is already making a difference in the lives of children of all ages.
www.crackerthecrab.com /index.html   (318 words)

  
 Cracker
"Cracker" is a dangerous beast, no matter what side of the law you view him from.
The Cracker series is a hybrid, an inevitable narrative evolution at this point in history.
As Hollywood continues to pander to adolescents with its retinal strobing and fantasy imprinting, the lack of substance in its stories is obvious from the empty spaces between the propaganda and the thrill-kills.
www.culturecourt.com /M/LR/Cracker/Cracker.htm   (4986 words)

  
 Breeds of Livestock - Florida Cracker Cattle   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Florida Cracker Cattle, Texas Longhorn Cattle and the various breeds of Central and South America cattle known collectively as Criollo cattle all descend from the original cattle imported into the Americas by the Spanish.
While Florida Cracker cattle are, in general, similar in appearence to Texas Longhorn cattle, they are smaller in size and do not have the same extreme horn length as the Texas Longhorn.
Several herds of Cracker Cattle in Florida as well as similar types in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia were preserved by families that appreciated their hardiness, heat tolerance and heritage.
www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/cattle/floridacracker/index.htm   (385 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Cracker Barrel customer says bias was 'flagrant'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cracker Barrel, which is owned by Lebanon, Tenn.-based CBRL Group, agreed to a settlement while admitting no wrongdoing.
Cracker Barrel says the lawsuits are baseless, contain false claims that the company has debunked under cross-examination, and recycled plaintiffs.
Cracker Barrel, over and over, says it has often found reasonable explanations for what plaintiffs perceive as discrimination — underscoring how difficult it might be for plaintiffs to win.
www.usatoday.com /money/companies/2004-05-07-cracker-barrel_x.htm   (1584 words)

  
 Governor Blunt's Ironic Choice In Restaurants For MLK Day | Fired Up! Missouri
That's a rather ironic choice in restaraunts for an MLK Day dinner, given that in 2004, Cracker Barrel was forced to enter into a consent decree with the United States Department of Justice over their racially disciminatory practices.
The Justice Department's complaint alleges that Cracker Barrel violated Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by engaging in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American customers and prospective customers on the basis of their race or color.
Cracker Barrel is one of four companies that were indicted in Texas for their role in Tom DeLay's money laundering schemes.
www.firedupmissouri.com /mlk_blunt_cracker_barrel   (685 words)

  
 Pete Nema Indie Music Reviews - Cracker / The Mod Club - July 20, 2006
Cracker created more straight ahead rock with songs that reached a wider audience such as Low and I Hate My Generation, but still managed to keep the irreverent lyrics.
But before Cracker was to take the stage, the opening band, The Golden Dogs, a local Toronto band with True North Records performed for about an 8 song set (I didn't count, but that seems close).
Cracker even threw in the Camper Van Beethoven song Take The Skinheads Bowling, originally composed in conjunction with Victor Krummenacher who played bass on their most recent album.
www.petenema.com /article.php?story=concert-cracker-20060720   (979 words)

  
 cracker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In his poem, West refers to himself and White southerners as "crackers." The term is generally of a derogatory nature, and seems to be resident to the South.
The first is that a "cracker" was a slang term used by 19th Century Georgian slaves to refer to the slavemasters.
The other theory Major suggests is that, in light of the extreme racial tension of the 19th Century, "cracker" came straight from "the white soda cracker as opposed to say, ginger cookies" (Major 42).
athena.english.vt.edu /~appalach/essaysA/cracker.htm   (920 words)

  
 Florida Cracker Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The formation of the Cracker horse breed was parallel to that of the Spanish Mustang and Spanish Barb further west.
Florida cowboys were nicknamed "crackers" because of the sound made by their whips cracking in the air.
Today, the Florida Cracker is promoted as a valuable and vital part of Florida's heritage, though it is still quite rare with almost 300 horses having been included in the registry.
www.imh.org /imh/bw/flcrack.html   (718 words)

  
 CRACKER
According to some, cracker is short for corn-cracker, which was a name for a Southern highlander in the nineteenth century (Allen, 50); but early quotes leave this doubtful.
Interestingly, the word cracker in reference to white people by Blacks is possibly derived from association with the whiteness of soda crackers.
This definition of cracker is the racially charged one and is best understood after carefully considering all previous definitions as to how it evolved.
kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu /Dictionary/cracker.htm   (1612 words)

  
 cracker - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Cracker, Southern U.S. derogatory term for "poor, white trash" (1766), is from c.1450 crack "to boast" (e.g.
Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open hacker poly-culture; though crackers often like to describe *themselves* as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life, little better than virus writers.
Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe _themselves_ as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life.
dictionary.reference.com /browse/cracker   (902 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Crackers
Folk etymology claims the term originated either from their cracking, or pounding, of corn (rather than taking it to mill), or from their use of whips to drive cattle.
Linguists now believe the original root to be the Gaelic craic, still used in Ireland (anglicized in spelling to crack) for "entertaining conversation." The English meaning of cracker as a braggart appears by Elizabethan times, as, for example, in Shakespeare's King John (1595): "What cracker is this.
Among African Americans cracker became a contemptuous term for a white southerner; among some southern whites it has become a label of ethnic and regional pride, boosted by the election of south Georgian Jimmy Carter to the presidency in 1976.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/Folklife/CustomsandLocalTraditions&id=h-552   (384 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : Cracker
Cracker road-tested the eight twangy covers on Countrysides, with a 2002 series of honky-tonk shows under the name Ironic Mullet.
If only David Lowery really had been as giddy about selling out as he seemed, Cracker might have been the big slobbery raspberry in the face of alt-rock sanctimony he pretended it was.
Cracker's rootsy backbeat thrust swaggered with a populist immediacy supposedly more democratic than the collegiate whimsy of Lowery's old band, much-lauded eclectic absurdists Camper Van Beethoven.
www.rollingstone.com /artists/cracker   (139 words)

  
 Cracker Country Tours   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cracker Country’s programs bring history to life and transform you into a Florida pioneer.
Cracker Country’s docent/volunteer program gives its members the opportunity to journey back to 1890s Florida to experience rural living first hand.
Cracker Country is a great place to wind down after the excitement of the midway.
www.floridastatefair.com /cracker_tours.asp   (1113 words)

  
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 Cracker Farmhouses: 1840 - 1920 - Oldhouseweb.com
Described locally as a Cracker house, the wood-frame building is a museum of life in Florida before air- conditioning.
In its simplest form, a Cracker house is a wooden shelter built by the early Florida and Georgia settlers.
These cottages are included are Cracker style houses for their folk characteristics and double pen or saddlebag layout.
www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/12106.shtml   (1243 words)

  
 Cracker Barrel has history of backing GOP - Thursday, 09/23/04   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cracker Barrel has doled out roughly half a million dollars in political contributions in the past decade, but a $25,000 donation two years ago has landed the restaurant chain in trouble with the law in Texas.
The indictment alleges that Cracker Barrel was part of a scheme to funnel corporate money to political candidates in violation of Texas campaign law.
Cracker Barrel's political action committee, Citizens for Political Accountability, has been a major corporate backer of GOP politics at the state and national level.
www.tennessean.com /business/archives/04/09/58206073.shtml?Element_ID=58206073   (441 words)

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