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...software that converts DVD-quality movies into easily-transferrable files is also difficult to find. Under the Digital Media Copyright Act, it is illegal to distribute DeCSS, the program used to decrypt DVD movies and copy them onto disk. The MPAA has routinely threatened those who post the program on their websites or servers with legal action...
Solution? Buy an MP3 jukebox. Not those little MP3 players that store maybe 10 songs at a time, but the new sandwich-size devices that have enough hard-disk storage for 120 hours of music and are flexible enough to plug into your home stereo, car stereo...
Still, the Nomad was good enough to get me started. Its hard disk, unfortunately, was not sufficiently spacious to store my entire collection. Creative Labs claims the average CD collection is much smaller than mine, between 80 and 120 CDs, and the Nomad certainly has space for that. The rest of my bulky medley is now squatting happily on my computer's hard drive; I just swap tracks as necessary...
Other voting anomalies which are drawing attention are the allegations that voters were turned away in Dade County, and a judge's decision to designate the Volusia County polling place as a crime scene after a computer disk of voter information was lost...
...little reason to upgrade an older PC. The browser and media player have been available as free downloads since July. And if your computer has anything less than a Pentium-150 with 32 MB of memory, the bloated Windows Me (which can gobble as much as 2 GB of disk space) won't work...