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...spreading. The notion of privacy of any sort is rapidly diminishing. There are already those in the electronic community working against this rising tide--individuals who write anonymous re-mailer programs, who disseminate easy-to-use cryptography programs. But all this seems equally perverse, the product of some semi-fictional Pynchonian conspiracy theory...
Chase's visit to the Lampoon--a semi-secret Bow St. social organization which occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine--coincided with the society's annual Spring Carnival...
...upon learning of the mistake, chose not to inform the two applicants, because "we still had a glimmer of hope our students would be considered," according to Director of OCS William Wright-Swadel. We find this odd, considering that Carnegie had already chosen its finalist and semi-finalist. OCS should have been forthright with the two applicants as soon as it learned of its mistake. In fact, the students did not become aware of the problem until one of them actually called the Carnegie Endowment and was told of the error. The initial oversight was bad enough, but we find...
...discovery of the missing computer came on the same day that the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization, distributed an authentic-looking parody of the Independent...
...discussing the proposed topic. Individuals read the proposal and then send votes to a volunteer vote-collector who tallies them. The vote results are completely non-binding; as mentioned, every institution can decide for itself which newsgroups it wishes to maintain. This voting process is, however, a widely accepted semi-official means of maintaining order on the Internet. System administrators generally won't carry newsgroups that haven't been officially voted on, and vice-versa...