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...This wasn't purely a function of fate, but rather a tragic collection of small mistakes...
...although Beijing was doing its best Tuesday to spin the defense budget increase as a warning shot, Taiwan may not be the primary motor driving Beijing's military spending. The primary function of the People's Liberation Army lies not across the Taiwan Strait or anywhere else in the region; China's military's primary purpose remains maintaining order at home. And as the social consequences of its transition to capitalism manifest in mounting threats to domestic stability, the military becomes an increasingly indispensable instrument of power to the leadership in Beijing. But the military is not unaffected...
Recessions have a function, experts say--restructuring the economy to prepare it for new growth. Recessions are very complicated, see. Let's just hope this one works...
...found Napster liable for contributory infringement, it fortunately reiterated the Supreme Court's standard that devices capable of substantial non-infringing uses are still legal. The Napster protocol, which is merely a set of instructions for sending and receiving files, is no more illegal than the Windows "copy file" function. Beneficial, content-neutral technologies can easily be hijacked by pirates who find them useful, but they should not be banned for that reason alone. Otherwise, VCR's and tape decks would have been banned long ago for contributing to copyright infringement--as they almost were until the Supreme Court stepped...
...called a Buddyizer. This means that theoretically you can trade your MP3s with some 60 million "buddies." Hey, presto: an instant Napster-size network. As a bonus, Aimster currently searches Napster as well. "People already have thousands of MP3 files on AOL. All we did was add a search function," says Johnny Deep (his real name), 43, a software engineer who is Aimster's founder and CEO. "It's Napster squared." Since his software doesn't actually meddle with the proprietary code for AOL's Instant Messenger itself, Deep believes it is "litigation proof...