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Somewhere, anywhere, on any given day, there are are a few guys in a garage working on the next big thing. In many cases that the garage is in Israel. The country that brought you the technology for instant messaging, cell phones, etc. has now come up with the next big thing its called CamSpace. CamSpace turns any PC with a web cam into a "WII." It is a software that can track objects in real-time using any standard webcam and the program tracks in three dimensions. The program was designed not to use tons of RAM. Read More about...

Users of modchipped gaming consoles could face fines of thousands of dollars when new copyright protection laws are introduced this year by the Federal Government. The new laws, which were released in draft form last week, are being introduced to honour Australia's free trade agreement obligations with the US, and will effectively prohibit the use of devices and services designed to circumvent copy control technological protection measures (TPMs). Until now, it has only been illegal to distribute or sell services or devices seeking to disable or override copy control technologies, but now users of such tools will also fall foul...

As I was growing up in West Texas in the 1950s, I had plenty of relatives and neighbors who had served in WW2. Uncles and cousins had fought in all branches of the services and in all the theaters of war. Mostly, we kids learned about WW2 from movies. Most relatives and neighbors would only admit to WW2 service. Rarely, we might hear part of a war story when the adults thought we were out of hearing range. War at this stage of life centers on the "glory" of war. As young boys, we sought to emulate our heroic...