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...them from Canada--had to learn that if the local weather doesn't make you sweat, the cuisine will. The concession stands serve red beans and rice, jambalaya and Cajun sausage. (Alligator, served elsewhere in town, is banned at the rink. "Bad luck to eat your mascot," a server explains.) All the food is spicy: even the rink's martinis and Bloody Marys come with pickled okra and peppers. Says Gators coach Don Murdoch, a star right wing for the New York Rangers in the 1970s: "I went from Rolaids to Zantac pretty quick...
Other services, such as a program called Gnutella, lack a centralized server and are thus much harder to block--technologically or legally...
...technical standpoint, the Love Bug is not radically new. Hijacking your e-mail address, for example, has been done--most notably by Melissa. The difference this time was a mix of shrewdness and ruthlessness. While Melissa sent out its tainted e-mails one by one, sometimes overloading the very server that was supposed to distribute them, the Love Bug spewed them as a single batch--and it didn't stop at the first 50 names...
...Voice recognition, server-based applications, new ways to stream audio and video, handheld devices...
...decision in this particular lawsuit obsolete; new programs known as "Gnutella" and "FreeNet" may allow the Napster-like sharing of all types of data, not just MP3 files, and such services would be difficult to shut down because they would not rely, as does Napster, on a central server for searches. However, if carried to its conclusion, the spirit in which the lawsuit was filed would make universities into electronic gatekeepers, watching each packet of data sent across the network and monitoring students' activities online for fear of being held legally responsible for any of their misdeeds...