better than the kid that was caught. Maybe it was that he took the original virus and modified it, not created it. Maybe the original creator was the corporate discontent. Oh well, just as everything else that happens in the world, it is all meant to make us think about something, about some part of [...]
August 30th, 2003
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I wonder what this guy or gal is like? As a person. All the PR he gets is negative. I was thinking about what the virus does. It gets into a network and clogs it up. Send millions of messages and commands to bring the network to its knees. It tried to do it to [...]
August 28th, 2003
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Disconnected from society
By Ron Harris
Post-Dispatch
07/21/2003
In this era of high tech, the machines sit like aging relics in a near north St. Louis neighborhood.
But for area residents like Donald Lee and Bessie White, the two pay phones on opposite corners of North Florissant Avenue and Angelica Street are a modest entry ramp to [...]
August 19th, 2003
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New Students Admit Themselves to UBC Over the Internet
The University of British Columbia has announced a new admission technique. Exerpt:
“Imagine that you are in your last year of high school, applying to university for the first time. It’s mid-December and you have just received your report card. When you get home from school, you [...]
August 18th, 2003
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Paying to play
Industry spreads subpoenas and fear over music copying.
By David Hechler and Aaron Lauchheimer
STAFF REPORTERS
When singer-songwriter John Hiatt performed with his band in Westbury, N.Y., this month, he did what every performer on a promotional tour does: He announced that his new CD was available in stores.
“Or,” he added with an impish grin, “you [...]
August 13th, 2003
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New study shows kids who use Net get better grades, scores
Cox News Service
Jul. 28, 2003 05:45 PM
Maybe the Internet isn’t so bad for kids after all.
Results of a Michigan State University study released Monday shows that low-income children who spend a good deal of time on the Web do slightly better in school than [...]
August 5th, 2003
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