Breaking our chains

Breaking the chains.

M. Christopher Boyer 5/16/2010 1 This is one of those wonderful and beloved old stories that many of us learned in our earliest days in Sunday School, at least in part. The image of Paul and Silas, bravely and joyfully singing hymns while chained in a dreadful dungeon, awaiting who knows what kind of awful fate, is one that has inspired artists and songwriters over the ages. You can’t for examp...

Breaking news for our journal.

The Italian Society of Surgery has been acting to spread information about Italian medical research in the field of surgery within an international context. This project has been going on since 2007. Since then, we have been publishing Society monographs in English in the new series ‘‘Updates in Surgery,’’ and the wide diffusion of these books has induced us to increase our international visibi...

Breaking our password hash habit

Attackers only get better at guessing the passwords users will create under a given set of passwordcomposition constraints. They learn more about users’ password-selection behaviors each time they compromise a passsword, regardless of whether they obtain the password by breaching a password database, installing a key logger, phishing, or by guessing. Defensive analysis of user-chosen passwords ...

Breaking the Chains: A Dissection of the Caribbean's Tourism Mirage

e - commerce and supply chains – breaking down the boundaries

Many companies learned the expensive way that supply chains are complex beasts. More effective approaches to improving supply chains through e-commerce are now emerging. Internet technologies have already had a dramatic impact on the way that people around the world think and act. In the six or so years since the World Wide Web’s inception, its speed of acceptance has been unprecedented. The fi...