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Computer crimes are hardly new. In California prosecutors have been pursuing high-tech crime in Silicon Valley for a couple of decades. But the focus and nature of the crimes have changed dramatically. When the Department of Justice set up a computer-crimes unit in September 1991, it was intended to cope primarily with threats to computer security posed by hackers, toll-fraud artists and electronic intruders. But the new crimes, says Jim Thomas, a criminology professor at Northern Illinois University, ``aren't simply the esoteric type they were five years ago.'' They are ``computer crimes,'' he adds, ``only...
...owners listed politics online as one of their highest priorities. And the newest political parties and movements often show a high-tech underpinning. Ross Perot's 1992 organizers, for example, drew their highest ratios of petition signers in high-tech strongholds -- from Massachusetts' Route 128 across the nation to Silicon Valley and Silicon Prairie. Upbeat theorists are prognosticating a ``virtual Washington'' in which members of Congress can debate and vote from back home, and several Representatives have asked to be allowed to vote from their districts. Newt Gingrich, the first self-proclaimed futurist to become the Speaker of the House...
...principal means of bringing the electronic highway into the home is a game everyone in the information industry plays. One side argues that the familiar ``boob tube'' will hold its ground. ``The TV set will continue to be the dominant home consumer appliance,'' declares Tom Jermoluk, president of Silicon Graphics, which built the microchips for the set-top boxes and huge media servers that are being used to shuttle movies to and from households in Time Warner's Florida test. Others say television will soon be passe. ``There is a critical limitation in set-top boxes,'' argues Theodore Waitt, chief...
...Future Sound of London, one of Britain's trendiest club bands, performed ``live'' last November at the Kitchen in New York City -- while physically remaining in its studio on Chapter Road in Dollis Hill, London. The group's banks of synthesizers and samplers, as well as its three-dimensional silicon graphics, were wired through the Internet to speakers and screens 5,000 miles away. The band members promise that within 18 months they will produce a 3-D film of themselves performing in a virtual environment. Piqued by the possibilities of a new medium, Old Guard rockers are seeking...
...last week for one of the most bizarre confrontations in the history of American antitrust enforcement-one that could derail the strategic plans of the world's largest PC software company while raising questions about how effectively the U.S.-or any government-can control monopolies carved in silicon, software or the borderless regions of cyberspace...