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...helped build Linux are "a beautiful thing," says Torvalds. "New ideas come from bouncing an idea off another person and seeing it modulated by that other person's idea." That's a thought to be pondered by media giants, which are vexed by how to profit from offering copyrighted content online. If a certain Norwegian programmer has a few good ideas about digital security and delivery, media moguls should be ringing his doorbell, not sending in the econo-cops. So is Jon Johansen an enemy at the gates, or could he be the industry's new best friend? The court...
...White House was content to watch last week as searchlights shone on FBI headquarters. Mueller played his best Janet ("The buck stops with me") Reno, admitting to "misstatements" about what the FBI knew before 9/11 and announcing plans to reorganize the sclerotic bureau into a nimble, terrorist-foiling machine. Was the White House concerned that Mueller may have gone too far? "Our goal was to position him as the reformer," says a senior White House aide. Which explains why the words reform and reformer kept tripping off the lips of Administration spinners as they refuted charges--from FBI whistle-blower...
Some advertisers quailed, but viewers responded--3.6 million a week, by far the most in the little-watched network's history--and FX stood only to gain from taking the chance. That extended to the content: frontal nudity, extreme violence and, instead of the standard TV euphemisms, nearly every curse word short of the big F. "Whenever I hear somebody on a cop show say, 'Get on the ground, dirtbag,' I think, 'Oh, for Christ's sake, I'm an adult,'" says Chiklis. More important, The Shield did what network cop shows have lately abandoned: it created a richly imagined...
Prevented by my slight stature and my academically driven parents from excelling in athletics, I began to follow professional baseball, basketball and football religiously. Jordan, Maddux, my precious Blue Devils—those larger-than-life athletes all fulfilled my athletic aspirations, and I was content to cheer from the other side of the television...
Gates says he’s perfectly content with members of his department focusing their time on traditional scholarly pursuits, rather than activism...