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General Lee's Peking writes:
According to this article, this woman was held responsible for the pornographic ads that popped up after one of the students went to browse a site on hairstyles. Although she may be spared prison, or even go to prison for a year to 18 months, the conviction carries a maximum of 40 years.
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General Lee's Peking writes:
From this article:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs may be calling for an end to digital-rights management (DRM), but engineers at his company continue to develop data security technology.
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General Lee's Peking writes:
From the article:
Music company EMI Group PLC — home of The Rolling Stones and Coldplay — has been talking with online retailers about possibly selling its entire digital music catalog in MP3 format without copy protection
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General Lee's Peking writes:
From the article:
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.
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General Lee's Peking writes:
From the article:
Even while Cisco is suing Apple for violating its iPhone trademark, an open-source enthusiast is accusing Cisco itself of infringing copyright in the same product.
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General Lee's Peking writes:
According to this article, the iPhone's CPU may be ARM instead of PowerPC. A previous article which had been retracted had jumped the gun and reported Intel as the supplier of the iPhone's CPU. So it appears Mac OS X has been ported to yet another architecture.
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General Lee's Peking writes:
A PC World article in Yahoo! news announces the release of Firefox 2 for October 24. From the article:
Not to be outdone by Microsoft's recent release of Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla will release the second major version of its rival Firefox browser on Tuesday, October 24.
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General Lee's Peking writes:
From the article:
After Stanford University won a Pentagon robot race through the Mojave Desert last year, engineers and students hoisted an oversized $2 million check... Next year's winners won't be as rich. The Pentagon's research arm, which has twice hosted the high-tech contests since 2004, blames an obscure section in a defense spending law signed by President Bush this week.