(n.) One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
(2) The author of the new bill, Mike Rogers, the Republican chair of the House intelligence committee , has said it is aimed at tracking the nefarious activities of hackers, terrorists and foreign states, especially China.
(3) FBI v Apple hearing: 'Apple is in an arms race with criminals and hackers' – live Read more This all comes on the heels of a judge in New York strongly rebuking the FBI and Department of Justice in a court decision on Monday.
(4) A few months later, the certificate was discovered being used in Iran to fool people who were accessing Gmail into thinking that their connection was secure; in fact any suitably equipped hacker could have monitored their emails.
(5) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
(6) His deputy, Dokuchayev, is believed to be a well-known Russian hacker who went by the nickname Forb, and began working for the FSB some years ago to evade jail for his hacking activities.
(7) There is a perverse irony that people who have cracked their iPhones are now being targeted by hackers.
(8) The AP reported last month that Russia-linked hackers sent Clinton emails in 2011 – when she was still secretary of state – loaded with malware that could have exposed her computer if she opened the attachments.
(9) The conflict began when an unidentified computer hacker tried to break into Google's servers before Christmas.
(10) The hackers also sold accounts to be used for fraud, it said.
(11) The only discordant note came from the former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson, who said the hacker's human rights case had been rejected by judges in 2009 and claimed May had made the decision "in her party's best interest; it is not in the best interests of the country".
(12) On the day that Sony Pictures decided to cancel the release of The Interview – a comedy about the fictional assassination of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un – the firm’s employees were advised to cover their keyboard with a cloth when logging into email “so that hackers can’t see what you are typing”.
(13) The site was set up in Ukraine in 2001 and was described by the cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs as “the most brazen collection of carders, hackers and cyberthieves the internet had ever seen”.
(14) In 2014, hackers stole information on an estimated 56 million debit and credit card customers from Home Depot .
(15) Citing two people familiar with the investigation, the WSJ said investigators were unable to confirm that the hackers had been eradicated from Sony’s systems.
(16) Weakened encryption safeguards could be exploited by hackers and nation states intent on harming the UK’s interests.” The British government is not alone in moving against consumer use of encryption, however.
(17) She's as indifferent to physical pain as she is to people, a world-class computer hacker with a fierce intelligence and a photographic memory.
(18) Thousands of US moviegoers were planning to watch screenings of the controversial comedy about the assassination of North Korea’s dictator on Christmas Day, openly defying threats from hackers who have warned of dire consequences for people who visit the cinemas.
(19) Today’s secret NSA programs are tomorrow’s PHD theses and the next day’s hacker tools,” he added.
(20) An internet video has threatened to expose allies of Mexico's Zetas drug cartel in the local police and news media unless the gang frees a kidnapped member of the international hacker movement known as Anonymous .
Lacker
Definition:
(n.) One who lacks or is in want.
(n. & v.) See Lacquer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lacker and George are among the Fed policymakers who most urge an active fight against future high inflation.
(2) It mainly depends of lacker cracks initial location if macular quite wrong, if intramacular, quite right.
(3) Lacker, who is not a voting member of the Fed’s policy-setting committee this year but participates in its discussions, said recent strong job growth suggested the US economy was still on a solid growth path.
(4) Ongoing strength in the US job market could give the Federal Reserve justification for multiple interest rate increases this year, Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker said on Wednesday.
(5) 5.57pm BST Europe's financial strains are likely to abate next year, according to US Federal Reserve member Jeffrey Lacker.
(6) This perspective would bolster the case for raising the federal funds rate target,” Lacker said.
(7) The statement was approved on a 9-1 vote, with Atlanta Fed president Jeffrey M Lacker dissenting for the second straight meeting.
(8) These lacker cracks happen early in the myopia degeneration evolution in young patients.
(9) Lacker said one reason to believe rates should rise is that estimates of the economy’s so-called natural real rate of interest, the rate when economists think there will be normal economic growth and stable inflation, are at or just above zero.
(10) Lacker has proposed a simple mathematical model of follicle development that can account for the regulation of ovulation number.
(11) Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker – who is not a voting member of the Fed’s policy-setting committee – said last month that recent job growth would justify multiple rate hikes this year.
(12) Federal Reserve meeting minutes show uncertainty about global economy Read more “I still think prospects for rate increases this year is the logical” view, Lacker said in a presentation to a business school in Baltimore, adding that economic data did not indicate that a recession was imminent in the United States.
(13) Lacker had pushed for the Fed to begin raising rates by moving the federal funds rate up by a quarter-point.
(14) A theory of follicle selection (Lacker, 1981) is tested in the primate by simulating the effects of estradiol administration at different times, strengths, and durations during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle (Clark et al., 1981; Zeleznik, 1981; Dierschke et al., 1985).
(15) Voting against the action was Jeffrey Lacker, who opposed additional asset purchases and preferred to omit the description of the time period over which exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate are likely to be warranted.
(16) The statement said Lacker doesn't "anticipate that economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate through late 2014".
(17) However, the vote was not unanimous – as it normally is – with Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Fed’s Atlanta regional bank, casting a vote for an increase.
(18) That is the same proportion as in September with Jeffrey Lacker, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, being the only member to push for a 25 basis points increase.
(19) Both fundic and pancreatic IRG9,000 were devoid of glycogenolytic activity and lacker adenylate cyclase stimulating activity and 125I-glucagon displacing activity when tested on partially purified rat liver membranes.
(20) Both Lacker and Fisher are considered Fed hawks and if they say something supportive of a December taper, it could trigger dollar buying in the afternoon session.