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...many. Airlines and cruise operators owe their passengers a "duty of care" not to expose them to unreasonable risk. If the company has breached this (e.g. with inadequate hygiene), then you may have cause for compensation. But proving that can be difficult - the spread of a contagious virus in an enclosed setting like a ship is not necessarily the result of negligence. And as the fine print on most tickets spells out, that dream cruise isn't even guaranteed to take you to the ports shown on the brochures. Travel companies know it's good business sense to keep passengers...
...Using security holes in AOL Instant Messenger, Internet Explorer and other popular programs, these parasitic spyware applications can auto-install themselves and harvest your personal information after just one mistaken mouse-click. Unfortunately, it will be hard for Congress to regulate this kind of spyware. Just as spammers and virus coders are rarely found, so the creators of this kind of spyware will be hard to identify and punish. To address this problem in part, Bono’s law should prescribe harsh penalties for the Internet service providers that host the servers to which the spyware reports back...
Since Congress does not seem to see spyware as a priority right now, we are on our own for the moment. Protect yourself with anti-virus and anti-spyware software and a good firewall, and you will be fine 99 percent of the time...
...unplugged, lost in a nightmare realm between the Matrix and the machine world. He's pursued by Smith, who has gone free-lance and has become a fatal computer virus. Neo's friends Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) can't count on him, so they must plan the defense of Zion with the help of only the fractious rebel commanders. Their immediate obstacle: the pruny, petulant, dangerous Merovingian (Lambert Wilson). Their possible key to Neo's location: the Oracle (Mary Alice), who, we learned in M2, is a computer program and not always trustworthy...
...never even imagined that the video would get off campus. I thought Bryan’s girlfriend would watch it and then go ‘awww!’ and that’d be it,” says Nguyen. Instead, the video spread like a virus over college networks and brought worldwide fame to their residential complex House I, whose name they spell out with their bodies at the end of the video. It has been particularly popular on Harvard servers. “A friend told me she had seen the video and that it scared...