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...determined by GPS satellites. Movie studios, for example, have been afraid to release films digitally for the same reasons record companies hate Napster: once loose on the Internet, there's little to stop someone from posting the latest blockbuster DVD on the Web for all to see and download. With Denning's system, however, only subscribers in specified locations--such as movie theaters--would be able to unscramble the data. The technology works as well for national security as it does for Harry Potter. Coded messages that the State Department sends its embassies, for example, could only be deciphered...
...recalcitrant military commanders. Quinn-Judge kept a daily dairy of his experiences reporting from the front lines of the war, a place where patience was of the essence because waiting is the main job of war correspondents in Afghanistan. Read excerpts of his diary at time.com/quinn-judge or download the complete diary as a PDF file...
FISHNET A clever new screen saver adds a twist to the old virtual aquarium. Download DALiworld, available free at www.daliworld.net and gorgeously realistic angelfish, parrot fish and other sea dwellers will swim around your desktop. But don't get too attached: after a while the fish will swim away over the Internet, off your desktop and onto someone else...
TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge spent six weeks near the front lines in northern Afghanistan with Northern Alliance troops battling the Taliban. This is an excerpt from his diary of that time. To read the complete diary, download the PDF version here...
...Read More: Download the complete diary