Word: downloaders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short after being swarmed by hundreds of randy Uruguayan boys eager to cop a feel. Following a press conference, the teens shouted vulgarities at poor Pam, then attempted to grope her. Unnerved, Anderson fled back to the relative safety of the States, where teenage boys are happy just to download her naked image from the Internet...
...pessimism over the prospect of malfunctioning modems, randomly strobing traffic lights and zero-balance money-market accounts is that one person's darkest nightmare is quite often another's dream come true. In rural Montana, where, it seems fair to speculate, more people know how to gather firewood than download a video image from the Web, the prospect of a massive high-tech meltdown is not only nothing to panic over but also, for a lot of folks, something to be welcomed...
...would you make a gene chip? Let's say you want to identify which genes get turned on, or "expressed," by the immune system in the first few weeks after the AIDS virus begins its attack on the body. First you download the sequences of perhaps 10,000 genes--every A, C, G and T of the hereditary alphabet--into a computer. Then, still using the computer, you figure out what the mirror image of each sequence would be. (DNA can mirror itself as well as RNA.) The aim is to transform the mirror-sequence data into actual strands...
Billy Idol released two songs online today that anyone can download for free -- and as if that weren't enough bad news, a coalition was formed today to protect the rights of musicians and the music industry from Net pirates. The Secure Digital Music Initiative, the group of consumer electronics, technology and record companies whose existence was revealed at a press conference in New York on Tuesday, announced it plans to create yet another new standard for the secure online distribution of music, within a year. "Secure" of course, means no more pirated stuff, kids...
They wish. Stung by the seismic popularity of a standard known as MP3, the recording industry has been fighting back. But they're hardly in time. Scores of pirate MP3 sites have sprung up online where anyone can download near-CD quality music for free. MP3s are so popular that Diamond Multimedia, a consumer electronics company popular for its video cards, began selling a $199 Walkman-like player, the Rio, that plays the Net tunes. The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the company, attempting to immediately prevent it from selling the device, but a judge...