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According to an article on CNN's Money section, Democratic Congressman Joe Baca is preparing to introduce a modified version of the bill proposed last year as the "The Protect Children from Video Game Sex and Violence Act".

According to an article on LinuxDevices.com, IBM is showing a new reference platform for a PDA based on Linux and IBM's PowerPC chip.

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Gnome Foundation and Bitstream, Inc. announced in a press release that they have reached an agreement under which Bitstream will provide 10 fonts to Open Source software.

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p>Now, if somebody finds out what fonts, please drop me a note.

I'm not here to tell anyone how to think about this, or even ask anyone's opinion.

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p>However, the Economist has an excellent article about the mechanics of the debate and attempts to explain why this divisive issue still looms large over American politics.

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p>I think that whatever "side" you are on in the debate, you will find the article an interesting read.

The Register reports in the following story, that a user of HP's Wireless Keyboards in Norway was shocked to find his text show up on a neighbor's computer.

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p>After phoning HP's support group, he was told to coordinate with his neighbors within 100M to make sure they are all using different channels.

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p>He was then given the best advice at all, not to type anything sensitive on the keyboard.

In yet another travesty of justice that marks the DMCA, a report on CNET (also seen on other services) indicates that a Federal Judge has rules that Verizon's internet service will have to give up identifying information to the RIAA about a user who has been using the Kaaza service for music swapping.

This month's showing, scheduled for February 23rd at 2PM, will be the classic Lawrence of Arabia.

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p>As with last week's showing, please RSVP so that we can make sure we have ample seating.

Not surprisingly, Tom's Hardware has a very thorough review of the Linksys 802.11g access point.

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p>The short version is that it is OK for 802.11g only, but has some real problems with 802.11b.

Almost my entire LD collection will be up for bids, starting at 8pm PST (11pm EST) tonight. Wish me luck.

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p>I hope to fund the most recent phase of my DVD expansion with it.

Leave it to the UK's Daily Mail to fire the latest salvo in a war of words with the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.