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walktalker · 17-05-01, 06:04 PM

Bill Takes On Ads at School
A proposed amendment to the omnibus education bill now before the Senate would require schools to get parental consent before allowing marketers to collect any information from kids at school. If approved, the measure could seriously affect the way students use the Internet.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,43847,00.html

Music Execs Find New Target
Digital music executives told Congress Thursday that online music systems could not thrive without an overhaul of the nation's copyright laws, drawing protests from songwriters and music publishers who depend on royalty payments for income. The hearing marked the third time in a year that Congress took a look at the rapidly evolving world of digital music.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,43898,00.html

Quantum-light processor may thrash supercomputers
Combining quantum mechanics and laser technology, scientists have constructed a lightning-fast computer that could render conventional supercomputers obsolete. The new processor is said to be capable of conducting myriad computations simultaneously, unlike traditional electron-powered ones that must trudge through number-crunching tasks in sequence.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science...ter/index.html

Boy, You Fight Like a Girl
In her flowing crimson cape, thigh-high leather boots and metal-studded red leather bustier, Cardinal is a bow-and-arrow-toting femme fatale. But not only is Cardinal not real--she's a character in the popular computer game "Ultima Online"--she's not really female. Cardinal is the alter-ego of Kenn Gold, a 33-year-old former Army sergeant with thorny green-and-black tattoos covering both of his muscular arms.
http://www.latimes.com/business/2001...000041409.html

Night and Day, Computers Collect Information
From morning until night, the mundane details of life are being tracked, recorded and analyzed. Cheaper computing power and a vastly expanding Internet have enabled businesses, government agencies and many others to watch what was once unwatchable and glean meaning and profit from the ephemera of daily activity. Data giants have created dossiers containing names, addresses, incomes, purchases and other details about 200 million American adults – and then flashed them to customers on demand. Profile specialists make models of what consumers are likely to do or buy.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/was...2001May14.html

Napster and the Middleman
This whole file sharing idea with all of its copyright and ownership laden rhetoric is nothing new. If you were any kind of astute user of bulletin boards before the world wide web or have been a user of the commercial Internet since the early days then its likely you remember pirating Doom, waiting hours for an early copy of Adobe’s Photoshop and even downloading .wav files that took just as long wishing someone would make it all easier. Luckily they did.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/news.php3?id=05152001a

Record Labels and Songwriters' Duet Turns Into a One-on-One
While record labels and songwriters have joined forces to fight Napster, they stood on opposite sides of the room Thursday on the question of how much in royalties should be paid to composers and publishers when music is legally distributed over the Internet. At a three-hour congressional hearing on digital music, both the recording industry and songwriters, including country musician Lyle Lovett, aired their growing dispute over the complicated web of music licenses needed to make music available online via legal alternatives to Napster by this summer.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,24573,00.html

Life after Eazel
Eazel, the open-source start-up that promised to do for Linux-based operating systems what many of its founding engineers had done for the original Macintosh -- make it fun and easy to use -- is dead. Another victim of the dot-com downturn, Eazel never even had a chance to test whether its fee-based service plans would work before it ran out of money. But before we shed any tears over yet another high-profile new economy flameout, let's get right to the most important question: Forget about the company -- what's going to happen to the code?
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2...one/index.html

Studios discuss plan to spur the spread of digital cinema
It seems like a simple and compelling idea: use digital technology instead of old-fashioned celluloid to project movies in theaters. But making it happen is proving more complicated than the story line of a “Mission: Impossible” film.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/574550.asp?0nm=T1BR

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The Dilbert strip of the day !
The Boondocks strip of the day !

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17-05-01, 06:04 PM	#3
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	what, you thought that was all ??? How could you ? LOL Bill Takes On Ads at School A proposed amendment to the omnibus education bill now before the Senate would require schools to get parental consent before allowing marketers to collect any information from kids at school. If approved, the measure could seriously affect the way students use the Internet. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,43847,00.html Music Execs Find New Target Digital music executives told Congress Thursday that online music systems could not thrive without an overhaul of the nation's copyright laws, drawing protests from songwriters and music publishers who depend on royalty payments for income. The hearing marked the third time in a year that Congress took a look at the rapidly evolving world of digital music. http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,43898,00.html Quantum-light processor may thrash supercomputers Combining quantum mechanics and laser technology, scientists have constructed a lightning-fast computer that could render conventional supercomputers obsolete. The new processor is said to be capable of conducting myriad computations simultaneously, unlike traditional electron-powered ones that must trudge through number-crunching tasks in sequence. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science...ter/index.html Boy, You Fight Like a Girl In her flowing crimson cape, thigh-high leather boots and metal-studded red leather bustier, Cardinal is a bow-and-arrow-toting femme fatale. But not only is Cardinal not real--she's a character in the popular computer game "Ultima Online"--she's not really female. Cardinal is the alter-ego of Kenn Gold, a 33-year-old former Army sergeant with thorny green-and-black tattoos covering both of his muscular arms. http://www.latimes.com/business/2001...000041409.html Night and Day, Computers Collect Information From morning until night, the mundane details of life are being tracked, recorded and analyzed. Cheaper computing power and a vastly expanding Internet have enabled businesses, government agencies and many others to watch what was once unwatchable and glean meaning and profit from the ephemera of daily activity. Data giants have created dossiers containing names, addresses, incomes, purchases and other details about 200 million American adults – and then flashed them to customers on demand. Profile specialists make models of what consumers are likely to do or buy. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/was...2001May14.html Napster and the Middleman This whole file sharing idea with all of its copyright and ownership laden rhetoric is nothing new. If you were any kind of astute user of bulletin boards before the world wide web or have been a user of the commercial Internet since the early days then its likely you remember pirating Doom, waiting hours for an early copy of Adobe’s Photoshop and even downloading .wav files that took just as long wishing someone would make it all easier. Luckily they did. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/news.php3?id=05152001a Record Labels and Songwriters' Duet Turns Into a One-on-One While record labels and songwriters have joined forces to fight Napster, they stood on opposite sides of the room Thursday on the question of how much in royalties should be paid to composers and publishers when music is legally distributed over the Internet. At a three-hour congressional hearing on digital music, both the recording industry and songwriters, including country musician Lyle Lovett, aired their growing dispute over the complicated web of music licenses needed to make music available online via legal alternatives to Napster by this summer. http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,24573,00.html Life after Eazel Eazel, the open-source start-up that promised to do for Linux-based operating systems what many of its founding engineers had done for the original Macintosh -- make it fun and easy to use -- is dead. Another victim of the dot-com downturn, Eazel never even had a chance to test whether its fee-based service plans would work before it ran out of money. But before we shed any tears over yet another high-profile new economy flameout, let's get right to the most important question: Forget about the company -- what's going to happen to the code? http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2...one/index.html Studios discuss plan to spur the spread of digital cinema It seems like a simple and compelling idea: use digital technology instead of old-fashioned celluloid to project movies in theaters. But making it happen is proving more complicated than the story line of a “Mission: Impossible” film. http://www.msnbc.com/news/574550.asp?0nm=T1BR The Garfield comic strip of the day ! The Dilbert strip of the day ! The Boondocks strip of the day ! phew... Done !