Word: virtually
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...Meier: Yes, he went into his first election as a virtual unknown, but he won it on the basis of his tough military campaign in Chechnya. And an attack on the oligarchs will play out even better in the hinterland than going to war in Chechnya. Ordinary Russians shed no tears for the oligarchs, although in some quarters Khodorkovsky's arrest could turn him into a martyr. But unlike in the West, in Russia he's not seen as an icon of the new breed of businessman. For common Russians he's an icon of all the sins...
...wireless Packer works in big ways, and in little ways too. There's a virtual lost-and-found bulletin board--sweatshirts are a hot item--and another one where kids can post opinions about the war in Iraq. Last year the school set up an electronic link with a laptop school on an Indian reservation in Alaska, and the kids swapped poems and pictures of themselves. "I've been sick for the past two days," chirps Annie, a Packer eighth-grader, "but instead of just doing nothing and waiting to get the assignments from my friends, I could...
...Austin Lone Star RV Resort. The birds are chirping merrily, but Kara Cox, 19, is oblivious to the unfolding beauty of the day. She's inside her Gulf Stream trailer, still in her pajamas, a week's worth of clothes on the floor, playing in the 3-D virtual world of EverQuest via a wireless connection to the Web. "She's on it four hours a day," says husband Jesse, 22, with an indulgent laugh--and with no exaggeration at all, he swears. "They call it EverCrack for a reason...
...hoboes who left chalk markings outside the most charitable houses. It was hard for me to imagine a gang of digital hoboes so hard up for Internet access that they had to squat outside my house, huddled around a Thinkpad. But if they did, I could hardly chase these virtual varmints away with a broom. After all, my network was open. It was as if I had left milk and cookies on the sidewalk. They wouldn't be trespassing on my property. Or would they...
...websites like warchalking.org debate rages over whether the practice is legal--or moral. The law is kind of fuzzy here, especially since each state has its own definitions of trespass in the virtual world. In California, thanks to a recent state supreme court ruling, it's relatively clear. A former Intel employee who used the company's network without permission to send 35,000 anti-Intel e-mails was cleared of wrongdoing. Since he hadn't injured the network itself, the court ruled, he hadn't broken any trespass...