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...variant of this rumor alleges that American banks and "financial experts" are wagering that peace will come within a few months. Here again there is no supporting evidence. As one member of the stock exchange put it, "We haven't enough for a small ham sandwich these days, much less to bet on so risky a proposition as this...
...started with the January 27 release of Mydoom.A. At its peak, this first variant of Mydoom accounted for 8.3 percent of all e-mails moving across the Internet—one out of every 12 e-mails processed—according to the e-mail-filtering firm MessageLabs. The virus launched a vengeance Denial of Service attack against the SCO Group, a company that has claimed ownership of some of the code used in open-source Linux distributions. With millions of computers sending token bits of data 12 times every second, Mydoom’s attack would have easily overrun...
Apparently angered at Bagle’s success, another group of hobby virus-writers created Netsky in the same mold. Netsky.D, its most successful variant, took the additional step of uninstalling any versions of Bagle it found on systems it infected. The war had begun, and l33t h4x0Rs on both sides struck back in the only way they could: “Hey, NetSky, fuck off you bitch, don’t ruine our bussiness, wanna start a war?” read the internal code of a new Bagle variant...
Soon Mydoom joined the verbal assault against Netsky in a new variant, Mydoom.G. Part of the internal code drew a poor comparison between Netsky and the “Skynet” of the Terminator movies: “imho, skynet is a decentralized peer-to-peer neural network. we have seen P2P in Slapper in Sinit only. they may be called skynets, but not your shitty...
...more, such ancient sports and kindred traditions are very much alive and, er, kicking in 21st century Britain. The Cotswold "Olimpicks" - events included cudgel fights and bearbaiting - survived until the intervention of tut-tutting vicars, landowners and justices of the peace in 1852. The sport of shin kicking, a variant of wrestling - with heavy boots and few rules - hung on a few decades longer. It even enjoyed a brief vogue in the U.S. In 1883, New York's Sunday Mercury ran a wince-making account of one bout in which a certain McTevish "gave Grabby what is known...