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...agents searched Lee's office and discovered three computer tapes - VCR-size cassettes in metal jackets - containing downloaded weapons codes. Computer-forensics experts concluded that Lee had used his classified computer in the X Division, where nuclear warheads are designed and assessed, to download voluminous mathematical descriptions of the characteristics and performance of various thermonuclear warheads to an unsecure portion of the computer-storage system. Prosecutors say he stored the data in a subdirectory protected only by a password that consisted of his initials. Then, the evidence showed, he went to another division at Los Alamos and borrowed a colleague...
SAYONARA, VCR Another death knell chimes for the venerable VCR as Panasonic unveils the first-ever home DVD video recorder. That's right, it doesn't just read DVDs, it makes them too. But don't junk your old VCR quite yet. At $3,999.95, the DMR-E10, above, isn't cheap, and it uses a controversial format called DVD-RAM, which means that the discs it records aren't compatible with most other players...
...Boies starts by saying copyright does not apply to noncommercial uses like Napster. The service is free, and users don't charge one another for the music. So, he argues, it isn't piracy at all. He also notes that in the VCR case, the Supreme Court endorsed the idea of "fair use"--that if a product could be used for a legal purpose (like taping TV shows to be watched at a more convenient time), the product itself was legal. Boies says Napster also relies on fair use. In addition to copyrighted songs, it offers files from...
Aside from last Tuesday, when my office VCR broke right before Timmy the Living Doll was knocked overboard from the prom boat on Passions, the worst part of my job is having my co-workers mock my wardrobe. My new sunglasses are somehow "too Ray Charles," my black T shirt is "too Bruce Vilanch" and my raincoat "too Statler Brothers...
...reassuring tonight to have the VCR malfunction. We pay a price for constant global electronic access. Paradoxically, such access closes our routes of escape...