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When they divvy up the $27 billion intelligence budget each year, it's not the well-known CIA that takes the lion's share. The real haul goes to an obscure agency called the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and deploys the country's high-tech, supersecret spy satellites. For the billions of dollars it receives, the NRO produces portfolios of invaluable high-resolution pictures (which can indeed read license plates from space). The photos give the U.S. a jump on adversaries as diverse as North Korean missile builders and South American drug lords...
...competing newspapers. And Woodbury is correct about the effectiveness of JOAs - in the late 1970s, 28 cities had two papers joined at their wallets via JOAs; today, only 13 do. "It's one of the great mysteries of newspaper economics," says Woodbury. "Denver is a boom town, going high-tech and attracting a lot of transplants. Part of it might just be bad management at the News." Part of it also might be that those tech-savvy transplants are content to hit the newsstands in cyberspace and read the Times from L.A. or New York online - at zero dollars...
Other states are not rushing into this legal thicket. UCITA has not been introduced in California or Massachusetts, both high tech centers. Illinois and New Jersey have it on hold. Iowa is even considering "bomb shelter" legislation that would make contract clauses valid under UCITA ineffective against Iowa customers...
...proponents have used myths to promote it in state legislatures; they say that UCITA will bring in high-tech businesses, that it is necessary to prevent software piracy, and that it will promote legal certainty. But industry experts say an educated workforce is the key to drawing high-tech businesses. Piracy is already subject to stiff civil and criminal penalties. And far from creating certainty, UCITA will increase tensions between high tech producers and customers, adding legal planning and litigation costs. Consumers will not benefit from this law: the only clear winners will be lawyers...
...evidence that any of that works as a deterrent." By the time the cybercops barged through Reomel Ramones' front door Monday and started seizing computer equipment (but no computer, which was apparently disposed of while police tried to find a statute to prosecute on and a judge tech-savvy enough to issue a warrant), most offices and government agencies ravaged by the Love Bug last week had put their digital lives back together and passed out software patches to plug this Herbie's favorite holes. But no matter what their IT guys tell them, says Grossman, "virus writers will always...