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Use a firewall, go to jail, and send Bill Gates too

Consider a cure for pernicious infobesity: Fundamentally, a person can absorb only so much information. For many centuries, we have assumed there was a shortage of information and, like our hunter-gatherer bodies, we have always been anxious to absorb more. But maybe we have reached the point where we should begin restricting our information intake to avoid infobesity.

Japan's Generation of Computer Refuseniks: Most teens and young adults in Japan rarely use computers to surf the World Wide Web. Instead they use cell phones to access a scaled-down wireless Web. The result: A growing computer literacy problem among Japan's youth.

What's So Free About This DVD? The documentary film Revolution OS was released Friday on DVD. The film features interviews with Linus Torvalds of Linux fame; Richard Stallman of the GNU/Free software project; Eric Raymond, author of Cathedral and the Bazaar (a treatise on marketing and open source); Rob Malda of hacker discussion and news site Slashdot; Larry Augustin, co-founder of VA Linux Systems; and others. In the spirit of open source, the DVD was released without CSS, the content scrambling system used on most commercial DVDs.

What to Do With All That Information: Why is data growing so fast and what should we do about it? Can companies take advantage of it to gain strategic advantage? Who is doing it right? What about our identity and security as consumers? Who, if anyone, is responsible for gathering and maintaining the mountains of information about each of us that grows daily in corporate and government databases? These were the topics to which Esther Dyson devoted her cutting-edge Platforms for Communications conference this year. She called it "Who? What? Where? Data Comes Alive."

NY Press' hidden text: If you highlight the left side of the page in the NY Press article, you get the hidden text in the page designed to be picked up by search engines

When a Free Download Isn't Free: Last week, writer Glenn Fleishman offered his book, Real World Adobe GoLive 6, as a free download. But instead of the few hundred downloads Fleishman expected, the book was downloaded about 10,000 times in just 36 hours. And because he's charged incrementally for bandwidth, Fleishman estimates he could be billed $15,000 at the end of the month -- possibly a lot more. "It's a financial catastrophe," said Fleishman.

'Social software' effectively combines the best of real and virtual worlds: The smaller the group, the more immediate value in the relationship. That's one notion behind an emerging phenomenon called "social software,'' products that help groups work with each other more effectively.

3D holo video arrives: Researchers from the University of Texas have devised a three-dimensional video system that cuts down the compute power needed to project three-dimensional images by using an 800,000-mirror device designed for two-dimensional digital projectors as a sort of holographic film.

UK workers succumb to email paranoia: UK workers are becoming increasingly paranoid about who exactly is reading their e-mail and also accidentally forwarding personal mails.

HP Thinks in 3D for Web Browsing: You are traveling through a dimly lit maze of brick walls with various posters looming back at you. Suddenly, you turn to view one and with a click of a mouse, a movie starts playing. It's not the latest video game - it's Hewlett-Packard's future vision of shopping online.

Terms of Disservice: The arrogance of technology companies knows no bounds. Consider the Terms of Service at a new company called Mailblocks, which says it'll block spam (unsolicited commerical e-mail) for you, for a price that includes not just money but also the right to send you commercial e-mail.

News sites at risk from cyber warfare: As the number of malicious Internet attacks escalates as a knock-on effect of the Iraq war, security companies have warned that online news sites are at risk. "News sites are primary targets for counterattacks, especially given the focus placed on a 'war of words' in the lead up to the conflict," said Kevin Foster, strategy director for security tester NTA monitor.

Is the CIA spamming Iraqi generals? It's the latest in high-tech psychological warfare: E-mail and voice-mail invitations to surrender. But so far there are few signs that the strategy is working.

The changing face of search engines

Blair Tagged as Privacy Threat: London-based Privacy International announced Monday its 2003 U.K. Big Brother Awards, which the group presents annually to "the most persistent and egregious privacy invaders in Britain." Simon Davies, the director of the civil liberties group, said the pool of candidates for the unprestigious prize had greatly expanded since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Portable PC pioneer dead at 64: Adam Osborne, whose successes and failures pioneering the first portable computer became one of Silicon Valley's great cautionary tales, is dead at 64 after a long illness.

Now It's Really Space War And for satellite outfits, it's time to roll up their sleeves The Pentagon's tactical Internet - a war too early? The Pentagon is furiously buying up commercial satellite capacity in order to meet the bandwidth needs of a new kind of IT-driven war, reports the Washington Post. But Register sources suggest that the US military has other, rather larger problems in delivering on the digital battlespace vision. The Wired War Has Arrived: Unproven technology is seeing its first action as the U.S. Army outfits soldiers with latest computers and telecom devices

E-mail reveals real leaders: Want to know how your organization really works - who speaks to whom, who holds the power? Then study the flow of internal e-mail, say scientists at global technology firm Hewlett-Packard.