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...past few months, several drivers have made public appearances for their benefactors at military installations around the world. Over the New Year, Nadeau spent a week in Afghanistan and Kuwait, hanging out with the troops and even driving a tank. Shortly thereafter, a number of drivers accompanied team owner Richard Childress on a five-day tour of U.S. bases in Spain, Germany, Sicily and Bosnia. In March, Rudd visited Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base and, according to the Charleston Post and Courier, “got about as close as a civilian can get to an F/A-22...
...Kazaa, now the most popular file-sharing software, is built around a floating, distributed network of individual PCs that has no center. There's no single plug to pull. Kazaa has savvily chosen a decentralized business strategy too: it's a mirage of complicated partnerships with the official owner, Sharman Networks, tucked away on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu. So far, its diffuse structure has kept its management off U.S. soil and out of U.S. courtrooms...
...plan is not to prohibit copying, just to keep us from doing it quite so much. In theory, the CD of the future will be smart enough to let its owner make one copy of a song for the computer, one for the iPod, and maybe burn an extra for the car, but that's it. But even that might annoy consumers who are used to making as many copies as they want. Even if the smart CD of the future becomes a reality, to work at all it will have to work absolutely perfectly. If just one copy leaks...
Captivate charges a building owner about $8,000 an elevator to install the screens and collects a $100 monthly service fee on each. Captivate divides the ad dollars with the landlord, who earns revenue from an asset that would otherwise rack up only service costs. Sam Gilliland, 41, CEO of Travelocity, a Captivate client, says elevator placement enables him to send location-specific ads to potential customers in different cities. "This is an opportunity to break through clutter," he says. Unfortunately, Captivate screens offer no audio (so far at least), so elevator music has yet to be vanquished...
...What that means is, even if Harvard were to buy the land and buy [railyard owner] CSX’s lease, we would still have the ability to require Harvard to accommodate the commonwealth to provide for mass transit needs,” he said...