Pushing the impossible
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Arts & entertainment:  Cory Doctorow: Movie studios believe they can create the perfect copy protection system. But it would be easier to break the speed of light.
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The deep thinkers are at it again. They are pondering. They are studying. They are working overtime to solve a problem that can not be fixed.
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Don't give up your dreams for expensive goals.
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Chess is very hard. As the game proceeds through its early and middle stages, the number of possible moves greatly increases.
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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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Inside the unfathomable superhuman future after the 'singularity.' By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.
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Business & money: Industry reluctant to make the ultimate sacrifice of speed and acceleration.
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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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Perfection is the impossible dream in the NFL. No matter how hard you try, there will be some weeks when things don&#39;t go as planned.
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Fans of open-source programming and multiplayer gaming explore ways to bring the concept of the metaverse -- an infinitely expandable virtual world -- closer to fruition. By Daniel Terdiman.
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New masters of the universe or creators of too much leverage?
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Can 'unsettle a country's foundations'
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New masters of the universe--or creators of too much leverage?
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Paul Kariya and Peter Forsberg are difficult enough to stop at even strength. On the power play, they become almost impossible to contain.
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There's only one thing better than riding a halfpipe ramp in "Tony Hawk's Underground 2" - doing it in real life. Since I'm pretty sure that's never going to happen, I'll keep on defying gravity in this new game from Activision.
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Reverse your thinking to find opportunity.
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Yes, and the explorers can drop even harder. Therein lies opportunity.