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...report harps on spying, what China stole is dwarfed by what it got legally. It's no secret that once Washington threw open the doors 20 years ago, a lot of Chinese exploited this country's freedom to soak up material from unclassified publications, study at the best universities, download technical reports from the Net. Beijing skillfully stitched the tidbits together into the rudiments of a new nuclear arsenal. The high-tech revolution here has moved cutting-edge military information into the civilian mainstream, making a lot of dangerous know-how available to potential enemies. That's the price...
...very noisy place. It takes a lot of raw computing power to find the wheat in all that extraterrestrial chaff, and with budget cuts and all, SETI can't afford the computers it needs to do the job. That's where your humble home (or office) PC comes in. Download its software over the Internet, and SETI central at Berkeley will send chunks of data for your machine to process. Amateur astro-geeks everywhere are pitching in. In the two weeks SETI@home has been available, more than 390,000 users have signed...
Although it is unclear whether the "data jacks" would allow for Internet access, Murray said "in theory a student could download documents from a professor while sitting in the same classroom...
...chicken. I never downloaded Linux because I figured it would be too hard. While plenty of "distributions"--the files and tools you need to work in Linux--are available on the Net, it takes hours to download and unpack them. And if my computer survived the daunting Linux installation process, could I actually use the thing? The interface is user friendly only if the user happens to be a comp-sci Ph.D. Linux, after all, is based on Unix, an industrial-strength operating system one dabbles in but never really masters. I waffled. (Visual: calendar pages flipping...
...record companies have yet to agree on a standard for distributing music digitally online, but hope to have one by June. They're worried about protecting copyrights and being able to charge money for downloads. Meanwhile, the Net has already settled on a standard, called MP3, which squeezes CD-quality music into files about one-tenth their original size while retaining most of the music's high fidelity. The standard is controversial because it allows people (kids, mostly) to swap music online--piracy, the record companies charge. Yet millions do it, despite the irritating download wait...