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...some activists want the law changed--not because they don't believe in copyright protection, but because too much of it is bad for business. "This is not the make-everything-free crowd pushing this," says Brad Templeton, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and one of the earliest e-book publishers. "I made every dime I ever had from selling copyrighted material. The question is, Which do you make illegal: breaking and entering, or the locksmith's tool...
DIED. WAU HOLLAND, 49, one of the world's earliest-known computer hackers; after a stroke; in Hamburg, Germany. With several other early hackers, Holland founded the Chaos Computer Club, which advocated the free exchange of information and introduced the public to issues of inadequate Internet security. In 1987 the club hacked into NASA computers to demonstrate those security shortcomings...
...only trouble with this theory is that it's wrong. The earliest humans, it turns out, didn't live in grasslands. Dry climate or not, a companion paper published last week in Nature shows on the basis of the other fossilized flora and fauna, as well as the chemistry of the ancient soil, that Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba lived in a well-forested environment. That's also the case with other extremely ancient hominids found during the past several years, including Ardipithecus ramidus ramidus and a species called Orrorin tugenensis, announced last December by French and Kenyan researchers. And while...
Singer and Willett, both experts in the field of educational statistics, have been close collaborators from their earliest days as Harvard professors. Each was hired as junior professors in 1985. Quickly they began to discover that they had common academic interests and begun co-authoring papers and jointly presenting at conferences...
...Russians to accept the principle of building such a system, and he may be prepared to sweeten the kitty by offering sharp reductions in each side's nuclear arsenals. But the details of that proposal will wait for the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, due this fall at the earliest...