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• Poll Technica: of bit rates and music sales (arstechnica.com)
  Let's face it, there are a number of issues that make the current 1st-gen online music sales models unattractive. I want you to forget abou…
• Mac.Ars takes on Best Buy, Piracy (arstechnica.com)
  Mac.Ars is back this week with a look at Apple's decision to test the waters at Best Buy (again). The inimitable Eric takes a look at what…
• Microsoft accused of antitrust violations by the EU (arstechnica.com)
  The EU has released comments indicating that the committee charged with looking into possible antitrust violations by Microsoft has found t…
• SCO unveils 'see, linux is cheap' price sheet (arstechnica.com)
  SCO just won't quit. Without showing a shred of real evidence, the SCO lunacy has moved up a notch, with the company revealing its licensin…
• LG’s portable 4K TV gets a US launch. (theverge.com)
  The upgraded StanbyMe 2 Max TV that was unveiled in April is now available to buy in the US for $1,299.99. The 32-inch display provides up…
• Et Cetera: Day of Troubullets for Microsoft (arstechnica.com)
  Sorry we were slow on the news yesterday. The Anti-Spam bit was doin' rather well, plus I had only one day to clean and iron out all my tog…
• The best anti-spam solutions for Windows (arstechnica.com)
  Perhaps pairing "the best" and the plural "solutions" in the title is a bit confusing to some of you, but we've done that because our inves…
• Novell buys Ximian (arstechnica.com)
  Found this morning on Ximian's own website: Wow! To say that this is a surprise is an understatement. Since a large majority of us consider…
• One step closer to a cyborg nation (arstechnica.com)
  According to this article, Japanese researchers are devising a method of generating power from the glucose in human blood. The article goes…
• Game.Ars: a potato cannon of gaming news (arstechnica.com)
  Last week's revival of Game.Ars proved to be a rousing success, so it's with pleasure that I'm unveiling the second edition in this new gen…
• Et Cetera: cutting through the bullets (arstechnica.com)
  So yesterday I took various bits of video I've collected on my computer, AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc., and tried to burn them onto a DVD for playba…
• Game.Ars ushers in the holiday season (arstechnica.com)
  Carl's back with the latest edition of Game.Ars, in which we receive some details about some Neverwinter Nights expansions and how Master o…
• From gas cloud to Jupiter in a blink of an eye (arstechnica.com)
  Relatively speaking that is. For years, astronomers have relied on a standard model of planet formation. This model was based on a rocky pl…
• Humor: Switching to Mac in da hood (arstechnica.com)
  Dialectizers are nothing new, but that won't stop me from sharing this laugh with you. In case you don't know, a dialectizer can transform…
• Look, up in the sky! (arstechnica.com)
  Its a...uh...flying triangle! Ed sent in word that several Dearborn (Mi) High School students have created an "antigravity beamship."
• Massachusetts to appeal Microsoft ruling (arstechnica.com)
  The state that can't fix its own budget to save its life (or finish the Big Dig, for that matter) has decided that the government'
• We don't need no education (arstechnica.com)
  In the UK, a group of educators convening in an "online virtual staffroom" were found discussing disciplinary fantasies in a way that's rat…
• Golly gee Wally, the 'net's not invincible? (arstechnica.com)
  From the "someone-got-paid-for-this?" department, researchers at Ohio State have revealed in a "new study" that, were natural disasters or…
• Would the real insecure OS please stand up? (arstechnica.com)
  This story has been popping in and out of my inbox for a week now, so I figured it was time to post this to put an end to my typing lots of…
• Mozilla 1.2 hits the streets (arstechnica.com)
  Yeah, dat's right. Aside from fixing a number of bugs, the new release includes a handful of new features that you may or may not find comp…
• Consumer profiling can make you gay (arstechnica.com)
  As this article points out, many consumers are finding themselves presented with odd choices when they return to their favorite websites. J…
• Smaller electronics from...bacteria??? (arstechnica.com)
  Problems may develop as semiconductors are shrunk to smaller and smaller processes, Nvidia can attest to that. New techniques and methods n…
• Updated system guide (arstechnica.com)
  Just in time for the holiday wish lists, the Ars System Guide returns to offer three tiers of computing goodness. This month sees a return…
• Physics professor's search code nets 48 expulsions (arstechnica.com)
  Professor Louis Bloomfield made news last year when he unleashed a search code to detect plagiarism in his Physics 105 class at the Univers…
• The other Kamen invention gets closer to market (arstechnica.com)
  With all of the hype surrounding the Segway, I wondered what happened to Dean Kamen's much cooler invention, the iBOT 3000 Transporter. The…
• Hi, this is Elvis. I'd like to order a pizza. (arstechnica.com)
  I just saw an interesting piece discussing a recent sting involving identity theft on News.com. Allegedly, a helpdesk worker for Teledata C…
• Operation "Beat into Submission" is a resounding success (arstechnica.com)
  Yaz refererenced this BBC story in his post on copy protected CD's, but I'd like to call special attention to it. Digital Rights Management…
• Game.Ars loosens its belt (arstechnica.com)
  While I've been inundated in schoolwork and travelling all over the place for interviews, it appears as if other people have plenty of time…
• "Computer, where was Captain Picard at 3:15 PM, on March 27th?" (arstechnica.com)
  At 3:15 PM, on March 27th, Captain Picard was in the can." Ok, so maybe not that perfect, but almost. My good buddy Microsoft is currently…
• Getting an edge on standardized testing (arstechnica.com)
  Reputation and funding for school districts can rely heavily on standardized testing scores. Many schools think long and hard to find ways…
• Jerry Lee Lewis should be a Vaio spokesman (arstechnica.com)
  Ok, it's good to be back. This has been all over the Ars IRC server today, but since it's Friday I think we all need to step back and laugh…
• Poll Technica: Keyboard stylin' (arstechnica.com)
  This week's topic is pretty simply in concept, but it's a topic that at least a few users feel really strong about: what's your keyboard st…
• Pre-weekend Humor: Ms. Feiss Speaks (arstechnica.com)
  Ok, so I'll freely admit that I was one of those people who was totally cracked up by the Ellen Feiss switch ad. I know that some, like Cae…
• Microsoft security flaw opens big hole for hackers, foot (arstechnica.com)
  This one is big enough that it warrants mention: a bug found in an older version of Microsoft's Data Access Component (MDAC) exposes both I…
• Quick update on the next PPC 970 article (arstechnica.com)
  I'm getting a steadily growing stream of emails asking me about the publication date for Part II of my recent article on IBM's PPC 970. Thi…
• Mad scientist Venter seeks to create life (arstechnica.com)
  Even though I may not like the guy personally, Craig Venter is a visionary with some revolutionary ideas. Newspaper headlines today have be…
• The DMCA strikes again (arstechnica.com)
  A day after the U.S. Copyright Office began accepting public comments on the "anticircumvention" section of the DMCA, another situation has…
• Are common treatments for myopia wrong? (arstechnica.com)
  New Scientist is reporting a decades long treatment for myopia (near-sightedness) may not work and in fact make a patient's vision worse.
• When singularities collide (arstechnica.com)
  Astronomers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have spied a colossal collision in the making. Deep inside the galaxy NGC 6240, two superma…
• Itanium 2 gets a boost from Dell (arstechnica.com)
  Dell has been the only major OEM who sells servers and workstations to cast suspicion on the prospects of Itanium 2. Indeed, Dell's brief f…
• Of LEDs and solar cells (arstechnica.com)
  An unexpected discovery working with LEDs may help in making more efficient, low cost solar cells. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Nationa…
• Tech companies question FCC's actions (arstechnica.com)
  Several days ago Caesar wondered how the Comcast-AT&T Broadband merger would affect current AT&T Broadband customers. Now several tech and…
• Ace's on DDR400 difficulties. DDR II the answer? (arstechnica.com)
  A few posts ago, Caesar mentioned the impending release of Intel's 800MHz FSB P4 chipset. The question on everyone's mind about this chipse…
• A new, super-human level of computing power? (arstechnica.com)
  A press release issued today at the Supercomputing 2002 conference by both the Department of Energy and IBM announced that IBM has won a co…
• Finding a problem for the Segway solution (arstechnica.com)
  Amazon.com has recently started selling the Segway to the public for the low, low price of $4,950.00 , with a non-refundable deposit of $49…
• Clawhammer to be called Athlon 64; FSB battles (arstechnica.com)
  Comdex is on, so there's a run of stuff comin' at ya in the next couple of days. In the marketing department, AMD has announced that its up…
• NV30 christened GeForceFX (arstechnica.com)
  The NV30 has arrived, at least at Comdex, and a number of authorized Previews of the GPU are now available (e.g., AnandTech, HardOCP).
• Wake up sleepy head, meteor showers a' comin' (arstechnica.com)
  Consider this a public service announcement: this year's Leonid meteor shower is being touted as the best one we'll see for another 30 or s…
• Movielink's less than spectacular debut (arstechnica.com)
  Last week Hollywood put together their collective handful of neurons and finally launched their movie download service, Movielink. Their se…
• Game.Ars looks back at gaming's roots (arstechnica.com)
  From where did humans' desire to play games originate? While many biologists may staunchly advocate that play amongst humans may have emerg…