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...Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer whom the FBI had locked up for the better part of a month before he was freed on bail Monday, pending arraignment later this month. He wrote a little program that allowed you to take e-books, specifically ones in the Adobe e-reader format, and transport them wherever you liked. And he didn't even do that in this country, he did it in Moscow, where such a thing is perfectly legal. But Adobe purchased a copy of this software through a third-party vendor, and suddenly accused Sklyarov of "trafficking...
...about creating my own virus, the first created by someone who is not the manufacturer of antivirus software. By ?creating,? I mean writing about it and hoping a reader makes it for me. The Stein Virus Variant A will find Web users over 60 and e-mail them my column every week. Stein Virus Variant B will infiltrate the AOL home page and jam it with a big story about what Erik Estrada is up to now. You can imagine how disheartened I was to discover that that?s exactly what is already on the AOL home page...
...address. But that ends up junking a lot of useful stuff--such as the discussions on my journalism-school alumni e-mail list. AOL can turn away mail from anyone not flagged as a friend, but part of my job is to accept correspondence from strangers--like you, dear reader...
...what do I do with all these failed CDs? A colleague here told me her father hangs his in the garden to scare away birds and deer. Any other ideas? The reader with the most inventive use for a useless CD wins a box of coasters...
...ultimate fate of the cosmos too gloomy to contemplate, even at a few trillion years' remove? A lot of you got downright doleful at the faraway prospect. "Thank you for making me feel very, very small," griped a reader from Los Angeles. Even more despondent was a Californian from Castro Valley, who called our story "the most depressing thing I have ever read. It seems we are doomed no matter what we do. Pass the Prozac." A Houstonian was "extremely distraught to think of the universe as an infinitely large, charred nothing." But in Cincinnati, Ohio...