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...carry out, from buying floss at the drugstore to getting cash from an ATM, that's not videotaped. Last week the city of Tampa, Fla., unveiled 36 cameras in its entertainment district downtown with new software to scan the crowds and compare the recorded faces with mug shots on file. But those cameras are also capturing the mug of the guy stopping by for a drink who told his wife he was working late at the office. It has got so we are all stars of The Truman Show...
...software that came free with my external CD-R drive (a Hewlett-Packard 8200, one of the most popular). It refused to recognize most of the tunes on my hard drive, which meant I had to hunt for another program that would convert those songs into a more amenable file format. Even then, the ungrateful software served up a CD with pops and clicks after every track...
...next few weeks, as the summer holiday season takes off. The death last October of Briton Emma Christofferson, 28, after flying home on Qantas from Australia triggered an avalanche of claims. Melbourne law firm Slater & Gordon has collected 2,300, of which 120 involved deaths. It hopes to file test cases later this month in what all sides see as a legal watershed for the aviation industry. "The cases involve just about every airline flying to and from Australia," says Paul Henderson, heading Slater & Gordon's suit. "And we're the tip of the iceberg...
...obvious as Milosevic's culpability might appear, the tribunal's verdict will not come soon. Even the start of the trial remains months away: Milosevic's lawyers will likely file a raft of procedural appeals to delay the hearings. The three judges who will hear the case - Richard May of Britain, Patrick Robinson of Jamaica and Mohamed Al-Habib Fassi Fihri of Morocco - will make the ultimate determination of Milosevic's guilt; but the tribunal's brand of painstaking jurisprudence means that his fate may not be settled for years. If he is found guilty, Milosevic will probably face life...
...general search engines, don't write them off just yet. AltaVista last month unveiled search and retrieval software that can handle more than 200 different file formats on company intranets. Over the past few weeks, Google has begun indexing text held in Adobe's popular Portable Document Format (pdf) and has added five years' worth of postings on the Usenet discussion group network, plus a five-language webpage translation service and a search facility for more than 150 million images. The San Francisco company says it plans to float a share offering before the end of the year, though with...