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Carnivore, a system that has already been used in more than 20 cases, is designed for such limited taps. Run on a standard PC installed on the network of an Internet service provider (ISP), Carnivore receives a copy of every data packet and picks out, in real time, incoming and outgoing e-mail addresses or Web requests for a given user. As a result, the government has argued that the system poses no threat to civil liberties--its strength is not in widespread surveillance, but in recording addressing information equivalent to the numbers dialed on a telephone...
...making it easy for lazybones like me to tune in to the rest of the world from the comfort of home. Its new iM Remote Tuner is a handheld remote control for Internet radio that not only lets you switch stations from up to 100 ft. away from your PC--even if you're in another room--but also lets you play the music through your home stereo speakers. You can get it online at sonicbox.com for $99, and it went on sale last week at Fry's Electronics stores, under the name Acer NeWeb iRhythm...
...Poland. And the Backstreet Boys have hit the airwaves in Bulgaria. The reason I know all this, even though it's been years since I've been overseas, is that I've spent the past week tuning in to radio stations around the world on my home PC. I've tapped my toes to Celtic rhythms on LiveIreland.com caught the latest Euro-pop from Eldoradio in Luxembourg, and discovered my new favorite station: Radio Slovenia. I wasn't even sure where Slovenia is, but its Internet radio station plays some of loveliest classical recordings I've heard in a long...
...Amsterdam--so I didn't have to spend hours online looking for sites. I loved being able to lie on my bed and flip from a ska music station in New Jersey to pop music from Greece in less than a second. Unfortunately, I can't turn my PC and Net connection off with the remote. So, just when I'm about to drift off listening to Beethoven.com I have to sleepwalk to my PC, log off and power down...
...Sonicbox unit was just the gadget to rekindle my interest in Net radio. But since a software-only version is free on the Sonicbox site, and because my computer's speakers are quite good and my apartment is small enough that walking to my PC to switch channels is not a big deal, I think I'll send the hardware back and save my $100. I'm spending my money on an airline ticket so I can find out firsthand what people are listening to in Paris and Prague...