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Just when MiniDV digital-tape camcorders are becoming fairly commonplace, the terrain changes again. You probably know a little about DVD camcorders, but did you know some manufacturers have decided to do away with discs and tapes altogether? Last year JVC introduced the first Everio hard-disk camcorder. Expensive and holding a paltry 4GB hard disk, the first Everio wasn't much of a threat to the mainstream. This year, the price went down and the size of the hard drive shot through the roof...
...beatings of prostitutes have long been standard features of Grand Theft Auto video games. But hidden sex scenes have crossed the line. The discovery that in the latest edition, San Andreas, avid fans can direct X-rated action-- by accessing code on the Internet to unlock content on the disk--has led the game-ratings board to slap it with a restrictive Adults Only label. No surprise there. Less expected, however, is the major role Democrats have played in the campaign to protect children from nasty video games. The Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature recently passed a bill that would make...
...services HAA recommended in its cancellation notice provide large inboxes at no cost to users—Gmail, Google’s popular mail service, provides the largest free inbox of the three, offering users over two gigabytes of disk space...
...copy-protection schemes that have frustrated so many customers all involve modifying the way information is stored on a floppy disk. On unprotected disks, digitized computer data are recorded in concentric rings called tracks. When ordered to copy a disk, a computer reads each track in sequence and reproduces it on a blank disk. Thus, to discourage pirates, publishers at first simply rearranged the order in which the tracks were recorded, a strategy that was sufficient to make any unauthorized copies inoperable...
...sooner would a copy-protection scheme come to market than some hacker would find a way to defeat it. At the height of the video-game craze in the early 1980s, youthful pirates raced one another to be the first to make a working copy of each new game disk. In one remarkable coup, a freebooter calling himself Bozo NYC posted instructions on a computer bulletin board for pirating Sirius Software's Phantoms Five two weeks before the game appeared in stores. Even Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak got into the act, writing, for private consumption, a "liberator" program...