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VOLUME 1 ISSUE
S T A T E U M I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K A T F A R M I N G O A L E
America Online Hiding A Secret
By Chris Weppler
A f you are an
America Online subscriber,
it isn't new to you when you
hear of problems with the
service. Some of you have
probably heard of the new
pricing plan that is going to
be launched sometime in
the near future. This plan
apparently involves
charging an extra $1.95 per
hour for the use of AOL
chat rooms.
Sounds a bit strange?
Well,cons?'' ring that most
people nre receiving the
service for $19.95 per
month for unlimited access,
this means it is unlimited
when they say it is. This is
just the lip cf the iceberg.
Three programmers that
worked lor America Online
were placed in charge of
writing the new version of
America Online software,
AOL 4.0, and were
terminated for what they
found. Here is a copy of the
letter they sent out:
From a former AOL
employee:
77/ try and cut through the
crap and try to get to the
point of this letter. I used to
work for America Online,
and would like to remain
anonymous for that reason.
/ was laid off in early
September, but I know
exactly why / was laid off,
which I will now explain:
Since last December, I had
been one of the many people
assigned to design AOL 4.0
for Windows (AOL 4.0 beta
code named Casablanca). In
th^ beginning, / was very
proud of this task, until I
found out the true cost of it.
Things were going fine until
about mid-February, when
me and 2 of my colleagues
started to suspect a problem,
an unexplainable 'Privacy
Invasion* with the new
version. One of them, who is
master programmer, copied
the finished portion of the
new version (Then 'Build
52'), and took it home and
we spent nearly 2 weeks of
sleepless nights examining
and debugging the program,
flipping it inside out, and
here is what we found.
Unlike all previous versions
of America Online, version
4.0 puts something in your
hard drive called a 'cookie*.
However, the cookie we
found on Version 4.0 was
far more treacherous than
the simple internet cookie.
How would you like
somebody looking at your
entire hard drive, snooping
through any (yes, any) piece
of information on your hard
drive. It could also read
your password and log in
information and store it deep
in the program code. Well,
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Activites In Roosevelt Hall
By Gary Jambor
Are you a bored
student with nothing to do in
between your classes? Do'
you skip classes because you
do not want to wait for your
next class? For those thai do
not know it, Roosevelt Hall
has activities to pass the time.
Roosevelt Hall is not only
home to the Student Govern-ment
but aU five fully funded
units; Campus Activity
Board, Inter-Dormatory
Council, Islander (Student
Yearbook). WCTF (Student
Radio Stauon and the Ram-bler.
Most likely all the fully
funded units are looking for
people to join. I know as a
member of the Rambler staft^
that we are always looking
for contributions from stu-dents
or new members to the
staff.
This is not all
Roosevelt Hall has to offer.
In the basement of the build-ing
you can fmd^e Rec
Center, where students can
bowl, play pool or ping pong^.
There is also an efft^ to
arcade games and a juke box.
The pooltables have new
lops, new sticks were bought
and new balls will soon make
their appearance. The bowl-ing
lanes are under contract,
and will be redone soon. They
are also adding another ping-pong
table that wUl be there
before the Grand Reopening
on OcL 30.
Another place to
spend your time is the Flab
Factory. If you like to work
out, this is a great place to do
it They just updated the
equipment and are open for
all students. If you're not in
the working out mood, you
can relax in the Rams Den
and watch some television.
For all those stu-dents
who want something to
do, Roosevelt Hall offers a
lot for students. Clubs are
always looking for new
members, so go and see
what's here for you!
B r e a s t
C a n c e r
Still A
M a j o r
Problem
By Scou Jambor
reast cancer has become,
unfortunately, a more common
occurrence over the years. The disease
affects about 1 of 9 women. This is a
very scary statistic. Excluding skin
cancer, breast cancer is the most
common form of cancer among women.
The fact remains that living on Long
Island puts you more at risk. We have
one of the highest rates of breast cancer
in the nation. It is estimated that there
will be 2,000 new cases diagnosed on
Long Island. I know that's not a statistic
that we are typically fond of.
What is breast cancer? Breast
cancer is a malignant (cancerous) tumor
that has developed from cells in he
breast Breast cancer is most common
in women and very rare in men. One
man for every 129 women develops the
disease. Most of the tumors that are
found in the breast are not malignant but
benign (non-cancerous). These tumors
do not spread outside the breast and are
not life-threatening. Malignant tumors,
however, are potentially fatal, the most
common type of breast cancer is called
Infiltrating (or Invasive) Ductal
Carcinoma, I.D.C. for short I.D.C.
accounts for 80% of all breast cancer
cases.
Some key statistics about
breast cancer: It is the most common
type of cancer among women, aside
from skin cancer. Breast cancer is the
second leading cause of death. Lung
cancer is the first. It is the leading cause
of death among women 40-55. Between
1982 and 1987, breast cancer rates had
increased about 4% a year. That rale
has since leveled off, probably due to
increased usage of mammography. The
American Cancer Society estimates that
in 1997, 180,200 new cases wUl be
diagnosed among women and 1,400
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