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Suggestion for April 1st.
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From
04/04/2005 20:47:10
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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04/04/2005 10:37:16
Jay Johengen
Altamahaw-Ossipee, North Carolina, United States
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>>>What would you think about banning, from the UT - say, for a few weeks - anyone who intentionally posts wrong information - a vice which some people find funny.
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>>Here is Opera's contribution to the silliness - relatively harmless, this one:
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>>http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/04/01/
>
>I got a 404 error on that link.

It seems they deleted it. Here are the first two paragraphs, from the Google cache:

Opera Software's R&D department today announced the discovery of a new technology dubbed 'Opera SoundWave' - a platform-independent speech solution for short- and medium-range interpersonal communication. Based on open standards, Opera's patent-pending P2P speech technology uses analogue signals carried through open air, enabling users to communicate in real- time without the use of computers or mobile phones.

Opera is spearheading the development to let people communicate without using a keyboard, and the new SoundWave technology was accidently discovered during an R&D study to speech-enable Opera's e-mail client. One of Opera's desktop developers needed to find an alternative way to relay a message to his colleague at a time when the e-mail server was down, and was startled to notice that his verbal outcry was intercepted and understood immediately.
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Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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