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...mail, then free PCs. Now a marketing company, Broadscape.com is giving away free 19-in. computer monitors to applicants who sign up at their website. As always, there's a catch: in exchange for the hardware, consumers must share personal data, like income and interests. And ads will stream across the screen while users are online. With hardware so cheap these days, and advertising so pervasive, consumers will have to decide if the trade-off--mind share for monitor--is worth...
Members of the media are friendly with many of Gore's top campaign advisers, and they will write a steady stream of headlines at any hint that Gore is tinkering with his strategy...
...Matrix, the recent box-office hit now on DVD, Keanu Reeves and his leather-clad gang spend quite a bit of time staring at green columns of digital characters that stream down their computer monitors. These columns, our protagonists explain, represent the incredibly complex digital reconstruction of the 20th century human world--a vast computer program affectionately known as, well, the Matrix. By staring at these columns, those outside the Matrix can "see" what's going on within. "I don't even see the code," boasts one of the male techies as he points to various spots in the flickering...
These days, I too have been spending quite a bit a lot of time staring at green columns of digital characters that stream down my computer screen. The ASCII characters on my screen don't look nearly as cool as the ones created by Warner Brothers. Nor do these characters represent anything close to an elaborate human prison designed by intelligent robots gone sour. But Keanu's Matrix is my Unix, and like my stolid friend, I can see what people are up to. Sort...
...John and Patsy Ramsey to know it. In a press conference on Wednesday, Owens announced there would be no special prosecutor to investigate the death of JonBenet Ramsey, the six-year-old beauty queen whose 1996 murder prompted an uproar in her hometown of Boulder. Owens also unleashed a stream of vitriol at JonBenet?s parents: "If I could speak to John and Patsy Ramsey, I would tell them to stop hiding behind their attorneys, come back to Colorado and work with the investigators in this case, no matter where that trail may lead." Police still consider the Ramseys...