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Even more surprising than Wall Street's reaction was how much the hackers had done with so little. The kind of software used for the attack is practically public property. You can download it in the form of programs, or scripts, like Trin00, Tribal Flood Network or the nightmarish-sounding Stacheldraht (German for barbed wire). Each program can accept a kind of plug-in to make it even more adaptable, with names like Stream, Spank or Raped. "These tools have been out there for years," says Emmanuel Goldstein, editor of the hacker journal 2600. "Hackers have known about these...
...less, but it won't be pretty. If you got the computer before last fall, check with the maker to see if there's a BIOS upgrade needed for W2K. And if you need one, pray that it's a simple software download, not a chip that needs to be replaced...
...beginning of what Lee hopes will become a new way of making comics: simple online animated shorts Lee calls "webisodes." Designed to accommodate slower modems, they will run between 3 and 5 minutes--complete with bone-crunching, cape-swishing sound--and take between 1 1/2 and 3 minutes to download at 28.8K. The site also features trivia quizzes and fan pages designed to foster community (just as, Lee notes, print comics did, with their pals-y tone and rowdy letters sections). The first new series, The 7th Portal--about multicultural computer geeks who travel cyberspace to protect Earth against...
...only did Enrique betray his self-description while attending my high school, but he confesses that his virginity lends itself to particularly effective pick-up lines. Case 2: Anna Kournikova. Kournikova is a tennis player--which may come as a shock to her zillions of teenage fans who download fake images of her off the Web and set up dedicated fan sites to the Russian Lolita. But Anna, after all, can be best characterized as the Brad Pitt of the sports world--after five years of playing, she still hasn't won a single thing, and still...
...online education site. I would get Robin Williams to teach an algebra class and Michael Jordan to teach a class on physics. People could download it in 20 installments...