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...slowing your studious Internet endeavors, Selsby notes that Harvard is purposely tempering Internet related activities that “don’t have a direct academic purpose.”“There are certain types of applications which we specifically limit, like file-sharing apps,” he says. “If you don’t control that on our network, it will literally eat up the entire network. [...] Yes, those apps will run slowly, and that is by design.”In addition to trouble connecting in the first place, some students...
...dunk. Option grants to top execs in the early and mid-'90s made them wealthy when the markets caught fire later that decade. In part to ward off criticism and in part because options were seen as free money then, many CEOs shared the bounty with the rank and file. This was most often true in cash-strapped start-ups in Silicon Valley. But the equity-for-all ethos spread. Fewer than a million people held options at the start of the '90s, but the number swelled to 12 million in 2001. It stands at 9 million, and shrinking, today...
These losses are tough on all recipients, but the rank and file suffers most. Many top execs have been bailed out with supplemental grants and so-called reloads. What may be most interesting about this saga, though, is that after stock prices tumbled from 2000 to 2002 and another bull market was calving, broad-based stock-option plans began to fade. Some 8 million workers received grants in 2000; the number dropped to 3 million by last year, Kay says. The total value of grants has slipped by a third, says the NCEO...
...those individuals.” The University has contracted the security firm Kroll Inc. to offer identity protection services, including credit reports and setting up fraud alerts. The hacker made a portion of the server’s contents available for download through a popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing site, “The Pirate Bay,” where users can easily obtain large files. The data made available through that site contained no personal information, Moriarty said, but the hacker would have had access to all the information on the server. Moriarty added that the server?...
...messages that still haven't been definitively authenticated - an audio file delivered to a specialized U.S. intelligence website, and a written communiqué to an Algerian daily - the Algerian group al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility this week for kidnapping two Austrian tourists on Feb. 22. A man identifying himself as an AQIM spokesman said the couple - identified by Austrian media as Andrea Kloiber, 43, and Wolfgang Ebner, 51 - were in good condition, but warned that any armed attempt to free the captives would gravely imperil their lives...