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Scientists believe they have figured out the relationship of certain protiens to the implantation of embryos, according to a story on Health Central.

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p>The parent article (paid access only) appears in the January 17 issue of Science magazine.

In this interesting story in the Washington Post, the congress is appealing to a private holding company in Arlington (NTP) to let the Blackberry stay alive.

People are going to have mixed feelings about this, but it is probably the most exciting Space news in years. According to a report in the LA Times, and shoiwng up in a summary on Space Today, the Bush administration is planning on including an additional $1B for funding nuclear rockets to be used as propulsion for a future manned mission to Mars.

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p>It true, it's the most colorful new initiative since the Space Shuttle.

An article in the New York Times today heralds the latest small blow in favor of consumers.

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p>It appears that Network Associates had a clause in the shrink-wrap license agreement that required that "The customer will not publish reviews of this product without prior consent from Network Associates Inc."

OK,

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p> I could be wrong here on this issue, but it seems to me that Microsoft has missed the point with their announcement this week that they will allow national goverments access to their source code for the purpose of security audits.

According to this article on MSNBC, Microsoft has announced today that they have a new technology for copy protection of CD's.

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p>This will create a multi-layer CD which contains information readable by consumer devices (CD players) and differently by computers, so that copy protection mechanisms will work.

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p>I haven't found anything about this on Microsoft's site, yet, but when I do I'll post something.

Since they charge for it on CD's, it was only a matter of time before the RIAA decided they needed to get more revenue by taxing ISPs.

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p>This article on Yahoo covers the latest ideas from that most loved of musical institution (tongue firmly in cheek at this point).

In the following article on PBS's website, Robert Cringely theorizes that Microsoft would do well to follow Apple's lead and lay their next version of the Windows GUI on top of a Linux base.

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p>Something tells me, that ain't going to happen, but if the old VMS guys are gone now, maybe anything is possible...

If you're running OS X server, you've probably noticed that certain things (basic file and mail service, basic web service, authentication) work very easilly using the built-in user interface.

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p>However, if you've gone beyond these basic requirements, the nice Apple UI breaks down a bit. I've been toiling for the last few months to figure out which things can be touched and which can't. Here's my latest info about Tomcat and Apache under OS X

One of the smallest announcements at MWSF2003 was Apple's release of an industry-standard X11 Server.

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p>My initial impressions of this package are very good.