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...Washington was also pleased this week when Blix told the Security Council that his inspections would be effective only if the UN body was willing to "exercise the influence that may be necessary to ensure the implementation of its resolutions" - in other words, to signal Baghdad that there would be negative consequences for non-compliance. The U.S. took those words as support in its battle with France over just how strong an "or-else" clause to include in a new resolution. But Blix also raised some practical difficulties with aspects of the U.S. draft resolution, such as questioning Iraqi scientists...
Then there's the issue of quality. Every pixel that crosses your satellite dish starts and ends its life as a digital signal. A lot of cable channels are still transmitted in lower-quality analog; you usually have to pay extra for digital channels. As someone who has spent the past year hooked up to both DirecTV and AT&T cable, I can testify that shows on satellite are better-looking than the same broadcasts on cable, even on digital channels. (Then again, AT&T has yet to seed my block with fiber optics...
...uncertainty in the satellite business faze you. DISH and DirecTV are both well-funded services. They aren't about to disappear. Where I live, in San Francisco, they offer better value and a better signal than cable. To get the lowdown in your town, just ask your neighbors...
...make a point to an audience of skeptics about just how vulnerable they might be. Shortly before speaking to a group of corporate-intelligence specialists, Mitchell, 59, flipped open his laptop, plugged in an antenna and within moments slipped through the back door left open by the unprotected signal of the Seattle conference hotel's wireless network. "I was looking at their firewall from the inside," Mitchell says. "All the things they were using to protect themselves were useless," because he could have deactivated them at will. In the middle of Mitchell's talk--during which he projected in front...
PRINCETON, N.J.—With 8:51 left in the second quarter at Princeton Saturday, the Harvard football team’s quarterback controversy took a new twist when senior captain Neil Rose re-emerged as an effective and efficient signal-caller...