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Since then, his company has developed the FortiGate security system, the only ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) accelerated network-based antivirus firewall system. As viruses attack a computer network, the FortiGate system, like a bouncer at the entrance to a popular nightclub, screens out the rogue operators before they can get to the computers. "Computer viruses are like the avian flu," Xie says. "You can vaccinate each person against the flu, or you can stop the virus before it gets there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walling Off Computer Viruses | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...national championship. Her name is Lily Lorentzen, and don’t let the “Class of 2009” tag fool you. While she’s new to college squash, Lorentzen brings ample experience from a year spent training and competing on the professional circuit. The Greenwich, Conn., native was accepted into Harvard a year ago, but deferred her enrollment to concentrate on squash. Now finally a member of the second-ranked Crimson, her presence at the top of the ladder may give Harvard the advantage necessary to topple two-time defending Ivy League champion Yale...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frosh May Be Key to Victory | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...exports can’t stop the raw power of a human. Well, a hologram of a human, in this case.Apparently, Sony invented four robots that can dance. They’re a foot high or so, look like the main character from the film “Short Circuit,” and can be programmed to do all manner of silly shakes. So, of course, Beck’s people hired all four of them to dance in front of a camera. They move slowly on a little stage while a bunch of people watch. It?...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Bernard L. Parham, and Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

Some gambling-industry lawyers are building up a body of international case law to bring their clients onshore. In the U.S., for example, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2002 that only sports gambling is covered by the Wire Act, a 1960s law aimed mainly at mobsters that prohibits anyone in the gaming business from transmitting bets by wire communication. And in March the World Trade Organization in Geneva upheld a complaint by Antigua that U.S. restrictions on cross-border Internet gaming amounted to a breach of free-trade rules. Says lawyer Mark Mendel, who represented Antigua: "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: How the U.S. Is Getting Beat in Online Gambling | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

Judge Richard A. Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals criticized the use of foreign precedents in American jurisprudence—an issue that has been thrust into the spotlight by a recent court decision on juvenile execution—at the Harvard Law Review’s (HLR) annual Supreme Court Forum yesterday evening. In the case, Roper v. Simmons, the justices decided that the execution of juveniles violates the Eighth Amendment, relying in part on foreign law to justify their decision. Vicki C. Jackson of Georgetown University and Ernest A Young of the University of Texas also...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs Debate Foreign Law | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

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