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So I was up late sunday night or technically monday morning I guess. I was up watching Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. I admit it, I'm an adult and I watch cartoons!

I was waiting for Cowboy Bebop to come on. It's a great anime (japanesee animation) series, trust me! Anyways, I was flipping through the movie channels around 1am and found a show called Out Of Order on Showtime...

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Read an opinion article over at The Register. Of course being over at The Register was my first mistake but I won't digress.

The jist of the article is that on monday the FCC is lifting regulations that currrently prevent companies from owning too many newspaper, tv and radio stations in an area. As a result of this action...

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MSNBC is reporting that Microsoft has settled an antitrust lawsuit with AOL.

Microsoft will pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner. However as usual it's probabbly more of a win for Microsoft than AOL...

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According to CNet there's a college in Calgary, Canada planning on teaching an entire course on computer virus writing. Read the article here.

I for one find this interesting but...

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I saw a news report on NBC news about a visual study that found that people that play video games do better. Here's the link over at MS NBC to read up.

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In the May 19th, 2003 issue of InfoWorld there was a short insert about a new wireless standard in the works called 802.16a. It's suppose to have a 30 mile range and peak out around 70Mbps, shared-data speed.

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