About This Particular Macintosh 6.04 - eDisk

If the scheme is as successful as Apple hopes, they plan to pull out of Europe altogether, untileventually the whole of Apple is operating on a small fishing boat, just outside of Steve Jobs’cosy house.Apple and the FAAWell-placed sources at Apple tipped us off to secret meetings between Apple and the FAA,where discussions of replacing aging aircraft communication systems with Apple-brandedAirPort-based wireless network devices are moving forward, with possible in-the-air testingto begin by Q3 2000. As an added bonus, AirPort-enabled iBooks and PowerBooks will beable to piggyback on this signal to communicate with terminal concierges to prepare transportation,show reservations, and other services.Net Granny Nears BetaReliable sources confirm the long awaited adult offering from Net Nanny (we broke the storysome time ago, but noooo, you weren’t paying attention or maybe you forgot) is about to gobeta. A person close to an associate of Mahatma Kane Jeeves, who was recently interviewedfor the position of promotion intern for this product, tells us, “…[name of Net Nannyemployee] tells me they’ve dropped the name ‘NetNumbskull’ because it fails to obfuscatethe product’s position in the market. We’re going with Net Granny, not only because grandmothersare notoriously bullbleep resistant, but because granny rhymes with nanny. Get it?”Net Granny, which sounds very much like Net Nanny, deletes hoaxes from your email. Likethe email and site sex-and-spam filters that block anything with ‘sex,’ ‘XXX,’ ‘hot,’ ‘money,’‘free,’ or ‘!!!’ in the subject, Net Granny scans the first paragraph of your email messages for‘true,’ ‘research proves,’ ‘experts confirm,’ ‘reliable sources,’ and any reference to gangs, theCenters for Disease Control, or Arizona State Troopers.Filtered mail is removed and replaced with an alert from Net Granny, such as “Someone outthere must think you’re a real idiot,” “I heard that one when I was your age,” or, “If yourfriends think you’re stupid enough to believe this, maybe you need different friends.”The full-featured Net Granny Pro(active) also filters any email the user forwards to otheraccounts, adding headers such as, “Your so-called friend [sender] thought you’d like to readthis groaner one more time. Click here if you don’t want any more of this rubbish.” If clicked,ATPM 6.04 ← 45 →Columns: Rumors