The Newspaper Shop -- Tuesday edition

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Intel breaks 3GHz speed barrier
Intel's new 3GHz Pentium 4 chip should soon let loose a torrent of new, high-performance desktop PCs. It may be a year before the 3GHz chip, expected this week, and its hyperthreading feature catch on among business buyers, but gamers and affluent consumers will have them both on hand for the holidays. PC makers such as Dell Computer will offer the 3GHz chip in their performance-oriented desktop models, which sell for $2,000 and above. A Dell representative on Tuesday confirmed that the company would offer the new chip when it is made available.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-965411.html

States to rekindle Net tax push
A plan to tax Internet shopping could take a big step forward Wednesday. Officials from more than half of the 50 states are meeting in Chicago to vote on a plan to simplify tax rates, a move that state governments hope will prompt Congress to permit levying sales taxes on online purchases. Last year, Congress extended a moratorium on Internet taxes that expires November 2003. Over the next year, mayors and governors will lobby Congress to permit taxes, while online retailers and free-market groups will ask for another extension on the moratorium. Americans are supposed to pay taxes voluntarily on items they order from Web sites and mail-order companies that are located out of the state in which they live.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-965418.html

MS invests in India -- to stave off Linux?
The software giant plans to spend $400 million over the next three years to boost its presence in India, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates revealed today. The planned investments will be in several areas including education, partnerships and localization, the company said in a statement. "Today, India is of strategic importance to our business and will continue to be so, as its developer and skill base continues to grow," said Gates, who was visiting India for the third time. Gates' visit to the Asian IT hotbed could be an attempt to stop Linux from gaining momentum in the populous country.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-965378.html

Supreme Court to rule on library filters
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it would hear a challenge to a controversial law placing filtering software in public libraries. In May, a three-judge panel in Philadelphia ruled that a federal law designed to encourage the use of filtering software violated library patrons' rights to access legitimate, non-pornographic Web sites. Called the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), the law represents the third attempt by the federal government to restrict online pornography. Congress' first attempt was the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which the Supreme Court tossed out as an unacceptable infringement of the First Amendment. The second, the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, remains sidelined by an injunction handed down by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and upheld by the Supreme Court.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-965434.html

Online politics: ISPs launch attack ads
Mudslinging in advertisements isn't just reserved for politics anymore -- it's becoming a favored pitch for some Internet companies. MyWay.com, an upstart Web portal, announced plans Tuesday to take aim at Internet stalwart Yahoo with cheeky ads forecasting that company's demise. The campaign, featuring the slogan "Yahoo is toast," will run in print, radio and online. The campaign joins a growing number of pitches from Web companies that aim to turn the spotlight on a competitor's alleged shortcomings, rather than tout the companies' own merits. Last week, Internet service provider EarthLink starting running ads in newspapers that maligned America Online for its new pop-up advertising policy, saying it is misleading consumers. NetZero also takes swipes at AOL in ads for its high-cost Internet service, offering consumers better value.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-965408.html

P2P pioneers take on new challenges
Having helped spark the file-trading revolution, some stars of the peer-to-peer networking world are swapping their original anarchistic philosophies in favor of capitalism. Napster co-founder Sean Parker -- perhaps best known for writing some of the ill-fated company's most legally damning memos -- is launching a new company called Plaxo on Tuesday, focused on helping Microsoft Outlook users keep their address books up to date. Ian Clarke, creator of the still-active Freenet, has opened the doors on a second business venture, this one aimed at letting him and a co-founder write whatever software they dream up and bring it quickly to market. The company's first project is a set of tools for Web developers.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-965351.html

Tech needs to stop getting pushed around
The National Rifle Association rates politicians on whether they support the Second Amendment. The Club for Growth supports politicos who pledge to lower taxes and limit government, while aiming to defeat tax-and-spenders. Is it time for the technology industry to come up with a similar way to reward friends and punish enemies? There's certainly good reason for it. Over the last two years, U.S. Congress has considered a series of benighted plans to regulate, restrict and otherwise hamstring technology. Take Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., the powerful chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee who is Hollywood's champion in its legislative assault on Silicon Valley. Hollings is up for re-election in 2004. A well-organized effort to target him for defeat in the primary and general elections could make Hollings and other congressmen think twice before cozying up to Jack Valenti's Motion Picture Association of America and other groups clamoring for more government regulations.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-965229.html

Apple Web app opens doors to others
A new version of Apple Computer's Web application development software released on Tuesday aims to be more compatible with emerging Web services standards. The company's new WebObjects software is part of a broader effort at Apple to make products that are more compatible with standard computing equipment used by businesses. Although Apple's Mac OS X does not run programs designed for Microsoft's Windows operating system, Apple has been trying to make the deeper layers of its technology more compatible with the outside world. The biggest step toward opening up the Mac was the move to Mac OS X itself, which is based on Unix. Apple has also moved to support other standards such as Open Directory to make Macs fit better into corporate networks.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965489.html?tag=fd_top

DOJ indicts alleged British hacker
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Tuesday a British man who allegedly hacked into military computer systems and shut them down in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Gary McKinnon, a 36-year-old former systems administrator from London, was charged by a grand jury in New Jersey with intentionally damaging a federal computer system, according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia. McKinnon is believed to have shut down the computer network at the Earle Naval Weapons Station, a U.S. Navy command center responsible for supplying munitions to the Atlantic fleet, immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks last year.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965490.html?tag=fd_top

Motherboard makers waiting on Nvidia
Leading graphics chip maker Nvidia is experiencing delays with some versions of the nForce2 chipset, according to several PC motherboard manufacturers. The nForce2 chipset, which controls the flow of data between Advanced Micro Device's Athlon processor and other system components such as the memory, graphics engine, hard disk and other peripherals, was unveiled in July. It comes in two versions, and it appears to be the more highly anticipated version that is suffering from delays. Motherboard manufacturers say they had been told that both versions of the chipset would arrive at the same time. The two versions are the Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP), which includes a built-in graphics processor, and the System Platform Processor (SPP), which performs only chipset functions.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-965484.html?tag=fd_top

AMD builds in more flash memory
Advanced Micro Devices is expanding the variety of chips based on its flash-memory technology that allows twice as much data to be stored on cell phones and other consumer electronics devices. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker said Tuesday that it's sending samples of its MirrorBit flash chips to engineers in 16-, 32-, 128- and 256-megabit densities. The company currently offers a 64-megabit chip based on MirrorBit, which stores 2 bits of data per cell -- flash memory's smallest unit of data storage -- instead of the typical 1 bit. AMD said it's expanding its MirrorBit products at both the high end and the low end to keep up with the call for more complex features in devices including cell phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants).
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-965420.html?tag=fd_top

Where workers and investors will find opportunities in the years ahead
As the holidays approach, Silicon Valley is brimming with jobless workers and tapped-out investors. Happy chatter about vesting stock options has long since morphed into a cacophony of woe. Today it's more common to hear comparisons about the length of time since the last job, complaints about stingy severance packages and calculations of the number of résumés sent out. Home foreclosures are up. The latest news: Nearly 4,000 more layoffs at Sun Microsystems, which let those heads roll a few days before the valley's ballast, Stanford University, slapped a freeze on all new hiring.
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/beat/

What's next in computer displays? Depth and shadows
Fast-forward to 2002. I'm sitting in a darkened room at the Media Research Laboratory at New York University, staring at a device called an autostereoscopic display. The setup looks very odd: a computer monitor lies on its side, and a sheet of liquid crystal -- called a parallax barrier -- is positioned about three inches in front of the screen. On each side of the screen is a small camera surrounded by tiny infrared lights. When the system is turned on, I see a ghostly 3-D image floating in the space between the screen and the parallax barrier. It's a skeletal model of a human foot, with the tarsals, metatarsals and phalanges highlighted in different colors. The image slowly rotates, and it seems just as gruesomely real as that severed fish head from Jaws 3-D. But now I'm not wearing any red-and-blue glasses.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...88EEDF&catID=2

Weapons inspectors count on new technology
Some of the world's best scientific detectives soon will be shipped off to one of the planet's harshest environments, with the prospect of war hanging over every move they make. Armed with some of the latest sleuthing technologies, international inspectors will be searching through Iraq, looking for weapons that may or may not exist. What they discover amid Iraq's heat, dust and hostility could not only determine whether that country comes under attack from the United States, but also could have global implications for arms control and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...al/4499147.htm

China: Up Against the Firewall
Why are American corporations, which have labored hard to present positive global images, providing censorship and surveillance technologies to what many see as China's Big Brother Internet? The short answer: money. Building China's Internet means making lots of it, and companies that want access to this new market often must give the Chinese leadership what it demands. Their willingness, however, to placate the leadership has begun to attract the attention of journalists, dissidents, and hacktivists, as well as, most ominously, for U.S. business interests, shareholders, and Congress. On May 30, Cisco Systems and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission received a proposed shareholder resolution. The underlying dilemma -- adhering to American democratic ideals while placating Chinese autocratic demands -- explains why Cisco's lawyers were tied up for weeks refuting a shareholder proposal that by most accounts likely won't amount to much.
http://www.herring.com/insider/2002/...all110802.html

Sprint offers service to halt spam
Telecom giant Sprint announced Monday a new service aimed at stopping computer viruses and unsolicited e-mail sent to its corporate customers. The e-mail protection service bolsters Sprint's other security offerings, such as managed firewalls and Web content filtering, and is available to customers for a fee based on the number of computers protected. Managed services such as e-mail protection have become a popular alternative to do-it-yourself security, said Mickey O'Dell, director of managed network services for Sprint. "With the economy downturn, one thing that (these) services offer is a predictable cost to dealing with security," he said. Companies that manage their own security have to deal with a variety of unknowns, including hacker attacks and responding to those attacks, which can significantly increase costs.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965330.html?tag=cd_mh

IBM bakes new 3D circuit design
IBM says building better microchips is kind of like baking a cake. Researchers at Big Blue have devised a new 3D circuit design that uses two or more layers of transistors, the basic building blocks of a chip, stacked in the same way a baker would create a multilayered cake. The 3D design "adds second or multiple...layers on top of what's already there," said Kathryn Guarini, IBM's lead researcher on the project. So "instead of a single layer of transistors, we have two or three or more." This new circuit design, which is in its early stages at IBM Research, could one day lead to more powerful chips, Guarini said. By layering transistors instead of placing them side by side as is done now, Big Blue can increase the number of transistors in a chip, boosting performance.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965263.html?tag=cd_mh

Qualcomm translates USB for phones
Cell phone chipmaker Qualcomm announced Monday it is licensing technology that lets cell phones connect directly to printers, cameras and PCs or any other device with a universal serial bus port. The San Diego-based company plans to incorporate so-called USB On-The-Go technology into the chips it sells to handset manufacturers, but didn't disclose any additional details about product plans. Qualcomm licensed USB On-The-Go technology from Irvine, Calif.-based developer TransDimension. Terms of the deal were not released. The chips will be part of the newer generations of cell phones, which have vastly improved processing power in comparison with the older generations of wireless devices, Qualcomm indicated.
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-965294.html

ICANN to consider three new domains
A key Internet address administrator has recommended taking steps to add three new top-level domains to the Web's navigation system. Stuart Lynn, president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a recommendation last week proposing preparations begin for a new expansion of the Net namespace even as the group prepares to evaluate the effects of a similar expansion implemented last year. The report did not recommend the specific top-level domains to be considered.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965428.html?tag=cd_mh

Liquid Audio ends merger plan
Those trying to shut down Liquid Audio scored another win in their battle Monday. Bowing to shareholders, the company said it's ending a proposed merger agreement with Alliance Entertainment. The companies said they mutually agreed to end the merger plan after a large number of Liquid Audio shareholders opposed the proposal. However, they said that both management teams still support "strategic aspects" of the plan, which was struck in June. Dissident shareholders have been fighting to shut down Liquid Audio and liquidate its assets for some time. In September two members of a group trying to close the company were elected to its board. At the time, the company said the election would have no effect on the merger.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965246.html?tag=cd_mh

Movielink ready to roll
After nearly two years in production, Hollywood-backed Movielink is giving the green light to its online movie rental service. The Web site, a joint project of MGM Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Studios, will debut Monday with a limited selection of first-run and classic films from the five major motion pictures studios, in a test of the technology to select U.S. residents. Though the film studios have licensed content to other video-on-demand sites, it is the first time they've introduced a service of their own. "With more than 25 million broadband residences, we believe the market is now ready for the launch of a new Internet movie rental service," Movielink CEO Jim Ramo said.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-965194.html?tag=cd_mh

ViewSonic picks Microsoft Smart Displays
ViewSonic plans to announce on Tuesday the details of some of its first portable displays that will use Microsoft software to expand how PCs are used in the home. The Walnut, Calif.-based monitor maker's new devices will use Microsoft's Windows CE for Smart Displays software, technology previously code-named Mira. So-called smart displays are portable monitors that can communicate wirelessly with a PC. With a stylus, a person can surf the Web or respond to e-mail using the monitor's touch screen. ViewSonic's Airpanel V110 measures 10.4 inches and will sell for $999, while the company's Airpanel V150 measures 15 inches and will sell for $1,299. Both portable monitors will include integrated 802.11b support, a USB wireless adapter and an upgrade to the Windows XP Professional operating system.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-965350.html?tag=cd_mh

Macromedia to sell light-duty Web tool
After years of targeting professional Web developers and designers, Macromedia has a new type of customer in mind for its latest product -- you. The San Francisco-based company on Monday is set to unveil Contribute, a simplified Web publishing tool that will allow ordinary office workers to make text changes and other minor fixes to Web sites. Such work is typically left to Web professionals, who have to juggle requests to fix a typo here or add a product description there while tackling bigger design and development projects. "There are a lot of inefficiencies in the processes most companies use," said Kevin Lynch, chief software architect for Macromedia. "The business-side folks want to get changes up as fast as possible, but it all has to get funneled through the Web team."
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-965085.html?tag=cd_mh

Study: PDAs Good for Education
Handheld devices, once solely the province of CEOs needing a small electronic organizational device, are another step closer to being accepted as teaching aids in public schools. Classroom technology proponents, always desperate for institutional proof that new gadgets can improve the learning process, can thank a study by nonprofit research and development firm SRI International. The study showed PDAs not only help organize calendars and phone numbers, but are also useful to students. PDAs can help in collecting data, writing papers, checking facts, synching data with desktops and laptops, and collaborating on projects. It may not seem like much at face value, but a study like the one released Monday can have a domino effect.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,56297,00.html

New York Wine Law Struck Down
A law banning out-of-state wineries from directly shipping their products to New York consumers is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman made the ruling in a case brought by Swedenburg Estate Vineyards in Middleburg, Va., a small winery which produces about 2,500 cases of pinot noir, chardonnay and Riesling annually. The New York law, similar to laws in 29 other states, requires that imported liquors be distributed only through licensed wholesalers and retailers to ensure accountability and responsibility and that taxes are paid. A spokesman for the New York attorney general's office did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. Berman found the state law to be discriminatory since New York allows in-state wineries to ship directly to New York consumers.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56338,00.html

Businesses Set on Slinging Slang
Use a little slang and you've got their attention. That seems to be the growing thought in corporate America and the media, eager to hook the younger crowd. Some sportscasters have started describing impressive plays as "sick." Before that, Budweiser ads helped place the greeting "Whassup" in the American lexicon. But those are the rare cases that don't draw groans and eye-rolling from the young crowd. More often, young people say adults shouldn't even think about using lingo from the streets, hip-hop clubs and school hallways. "Uh-uhhh, they need to quit," says Aurielle McIntosh, a seventh-grader from the Chicago suburb of Oak Park.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56336,00.html

Now Online: All of Calif. Coast
Equipped with a digital camera, an Apple PowerBook and a Robinson R-44 helicopter, Kenneth Adelman and his wife are taking high-resolution pictures of every mile of the California coastline, 500 feet at a time. These detailed images are posted on the Internet as part of the California Coastal Records Project, an aerial photographic survey intended to create a permanent record of the state's 1,100-mile coastline as it is today. The photographs record every beach, landmark and high-rise development on the coast -- from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Los Angeles airport. "We're documenting the coast and how it's changing," Adelman said. The site, which launched three weeks ago, is drawing both praise and criticism. Environmental activists say the website is an invaluable tool for coastal protection.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,56213,00.html

Online Test Prep Free-for-All
The steep prices of commercial test preparation services no doubt keep many low-income high school students from receiving the same rigorous pre-test instruction as their wealthier friends. But a free online service could give the poorer students a leg up. The California Virtual High School Test Prep Center provides interactive tutorials designed to help students boost scores on their college entrance exams. The site features hints and practice questions for the SAT and ACT exams, and offers a separate vocabulary builder. The goal is to make sure low-income students have similar college prep opportunities as their peers, said Francisco Hernandez, executive director of the University of California College Preparatory initiative and vice chancellor for student affairs at UC Santa Cruz.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,56117,00.html

'Duty' of telecoms to assist snooping
The Government has introduced new legislation requiring telecommunications companies to help the police and security agencies snoop on emails and listen in on mobile phone calls. The Telecommunications (Interception Capability) Bill, tabled in Parliament yesterday, will mean telephone and internet service providers will be legally obliged to ensure their systems are capable of isolating and intercepting suspect emails and mobile calls while still protecting the privacy of others. The companies will have a "duty to assist" the police, the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) and the Government Communications Security Bureau if they have a warrant to intercept calls or emails.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydispl...ection=general

The Power of a Shooting Star: Leonids Pack a Punch!
When comet debris peppers Earth’s atmosphere during this year’s Leonid meteor shower, the sky will be ablaze as tiny bits of cosmic mass moving at incredible speed are converted to heat and visible light. But how much energy is involved in these shooting stars? With predictions for a wild meteor storm early on the morning of Nov. 19, I wondered what sort of energy is dissipated by a typical meteor, and what the total power output of the Leonids would be this year. So I asked Bill Cooke, a meteor expert at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. To understand a meteor’s energy, Cooke explained, one needs to consider its mass and speed.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ce_021112.html

EU's XXX Clause is Obscene
Last summer, the EU passed a new Copyright Directive, which is intended to limit your future ability to listen to, share, trade and enjoy digital music, films or books. The UK's proposed implementation of that Directive appears to have been written solely with industry -- and not consumers -- in mind. In short, we all may lose our ability to share digital media unless we speak up. While there are problems with the Directive and its UK implementation which may only be interesting to a copyright lawyer (and I am one), there is one provision in particular which should scare everyone (except a few global media conglomerates). A new section is proposed for the Copyrights, Designs & Patents Act 1988 entitled “XXX.” The XXX provision will virtually eliminate all vestiges of fair dealing, and eventually of file sharing. Here's why.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28015.html

Quantum encryption secures high-speed data stream
A quantum encryption system developed by two Northwestern University professors can encode entire high-speed data streams and could potentially encrypt data sent at Internet backbones speeds, its inventors said. The approach developed by Prem Kumar and Horace Yuen uses quantum codes to encrypt the signal transmitted down the Internet's optical fiber backbone. "No one else is doing quantum encryption at these high speeds," said Kumar. The pair's current prototype can encrypt data moving at 250 Mbits/second, and a second-generation model that can encrypt the 2.5-Gbit/s streams typical of Internet backbones will be developed within five years, Kumar said. A quantum encryption system disclosed this week by Magiq Technologies Inc. encodes only an encryption key, not an entire data stream, at rates of 1 kbit/s. Northwestern has applied for several patents for its technology.
http://www.eet.com/at/news/OEG20021107S0031

Simultaneous solar flares intrigue scientists
Scientists say they have made the unprecedented discovery of solar flares erupting almost simultaneously on opposite sides of the sun. The flares — massive eruptions of hydrogen from the sun’s surface — were observed by researchers at the National Solar Observatory in southern New Mexico on the morning of Oct. 31. Simultaneous solar flares have been seen in the past, but never so far apart. Scientists at the observatory are trying to determine whether the eruptions were linked or a coincidence, said solar physicist Don Neidig. Experts said the discovery could have far-reaching consequences if more cases are observed. “Now we have only one example of two flares that go off simultaneously that far apart, so it could be an accident. If we see more of these ... then it becomes extremely important,” said Stephen Greggor, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of New Mexico.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/833778.asp?0dm=C19LT

Her picture became a porn ad
“Don’t put your picture online” was a common warning in the early days of the Internet. Sound paranoid in the era of online dating? Don’t tell that to Laura, who 18 months ago put up an online personals ad for one month. Since then, her photo has been stolen and used in dozens of fake personals ads soliciting hard-core sex and pornography. “You have no control,” she said. “What’s hardest is you have no idea who’s seen it. What if someone really believes those things?” Online personnal ads are all the rage, and it seems everyone is doing it. — a recent survey by Jupiter Research indicated some 34 million people have at least taken a peek at the Internet’s dating scene. But taking such personal matters into such a public place has risks. In September, MSNBC.com revealed a widespread scam that has infiltrated all the major services. Someone is peppering sites like Match.com and Yahoo.com with tempting fake personal ads, almost exclusively women seeking men. The fraudster even engages legitimate ad posters in e-mail conversations, offering to strike up relationships, inviting them to online chats — all to lure the unsuspecting would-be lovers onto expensive porn Web sites. But now, it’s clear men aren’t the only victims. Real women’s pictures are apparently being stolen and used in the fake ads.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/832518.asp?0dm=C13LT

New Evidence that Dark Energy Rules the Universe
Astronomers have provided new evidence that so-called dark energy may effectively rule the universe by making up two-thirds of the total energy and pushing galaxies and everything in them away from each other at an ever-increasing pace. In recent years, researchers have been looking for an explanation for why the universe is not just expanding, but doing so at an accelerated rate. Exotic dark energy, said to work over long distances to push things apart and overcome the local effects of gravity, is one theory that’s been put forth. Now, an international team of astronomers led by scientists at the University of Manchester, have conducted a 10-year census of the sky for examples of gravitational lenses. This phenomena is observed when a galaxy bends the light from a distant bright galaxy called a quasar to form several images of the same quasar.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...er_021112.html

Iraq war 'could kill 500,000'
A war against Iraq could kill half a million people, warns a new report by medical experts - and most would be civilians. The report claims as many as 260,000 could die in the conflict and its three-month aftermath, with a further 200,000 at risk in the longer term from famine and disease. A civil war in Iraq could add another 20,000 deaths. Collateral Damage is being published on Tuesday in 14 countries and has been compiled by Medact, an organisation of British health professionals. It comes as the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, is deciding how to respond to a series of deadlines on weapons inspections imposed by the United Nations. If he fails to meet any conditions, the US and the UK have threatened to destroy Iraq's presumed weapons of mass destruction using military force.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993043

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Intel breaks 3GHz speed barrier
Intel's new 3GHz Pentium 4 chip should soon let loose a torrent of new, high-performance desktop PCs. It may be a year before the 3GHz chip, expected this week, and its hyperthreading feature catch on among business buyers, but gamers and affluent consumers will have them both on hand for the holidays. PC makers such as Dell Computer will offer the 3GHz chip in their performance-oriented desktop models, which sell for $2,000 and above. A Dell representative on Tuesday confirmed that the company would offer the new chip when it is made available.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-965411.html

i hope this brings the price down on some of the 2000mz chips!

thx 4 the news WT!

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