WASHINGTON -- A House panel voted unanimously late Tuesday to expand the types of
hacking crimes that would be punished by life imprisonment.

Citing the possibility of terrorists wreaking havoc electronically, the House Judiciary subcommittee
on crime voted 8-0 to rewrite the Cyber Security Enhancement Act and forward a more Draconian
version to the full committee.

Hack a PC, get life in federal prison

WASHINGTON (AP) - The four regional Bell
telephone companies, capping a two-year lobbying
and advertising blitz, won a House vote Wednesday
in their battle to offer unregulated high-speed
Internet services nationwide.

House OKs Bells

The Simulcam technology made its broadcast debut in 1999 during coverage at the World Championships for skiing in
Vail, Colorado. The technology caught the eye of U.S. ski team coaches, who saw it as a potentially powerful tool for
fine-tuning a skier's performance.

Cool Olympic Technology

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 - A camera mounted on the roof of
police headquarters here peers down at pedestrians
approaching the steps of the Capitol half a mile away.
Then it zooms in on a couple who are climbing the stairs,
unaware they are being watched. Inside headquarters, a
huge digital image of the couple is displayed on
floor-to-ceiling monitors in a darkened high-tech
command center, the hub of what will soon be one of the
nation's most extensive public surveillance networks.

Big brother is watching you in DC...whats next?

"The genie is out of the bottle, as evidenced by Morpheus' success," said Miller. "The hackers will win. It
would be very difficult to ever go back with as many music files and other intellectual property already out
there."

'The Hackers will win' - Unrippable music CD? Impossible

Theo de Raadt, founder project leader of another open-source Unix variant, OpenBSD, said that
the Linux development process has problems that code review may not fix.

"Linux has some diseases in the land of security," he said. "Featuritis in low-level code is
growing out of control, almost to Microsoft levels, and this is just plain complexity that becomes
difficult to control quality in."

Site to pool scrutiny of Linux security

The business model for online gaming is still evolving, but at least one popular online game
has already created a powerful free-market economy, according to a study.

'EverQuest' spins its own economy

an. 24 - Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, which has
already been shown to help prevent heart disease and strokes,
may also cut the risk of Alzheimer?s disease by nearly half, a
Dutch study found.

Alcohol may ward off Alzheimers

To determine specific weaknesses and/or strengths possessed
by "Marshmallow Bunnies".

Bunny Survival Tests

The computer industry's most famous garage tinkerer said he believes the time is right to
develop a new class of consumer electronics to take advantage of advances in satellite
tracking, wireless networks and more powerful computer chips.

Apple Creator Steve Wozniak Forms Mobile Start-Up