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Tuneup on ethics: A college professor's study indicates that technology blurs ethics for some people, whether we're talking about owning unlicensed copies of software, snooping on a network where you're not allowed, or stealing time.

Everyday in every way, we're getting smarter: We know of a house on an island in a mountain lake that was built with smart technology, much to the amazement of the locals. The fellow that owned it was a multi-millionaire. He came to a bad end, but the technology is starting to filter down to mere mortals who may soon be able to use remote door locks, and monitor heart devices. Just avoid the super-rich who have death wishes.

Yahoo, Ma, it's Brokaw: Yahoo and NBC have a deal in which entertainment stars from the television network will appear in chats on the online search engine (which is reinventing itself as a entertainment channel, it appears).

Investing in the future: Applied Materials is sinking $430 million into production development and demonstration labs. Applied Materials is the world's largest supplier of semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment. And SanDisk, maker of data, audio and image storage gear, is putting $45 million into a joint venture semiconductor manufacturing plant headed by United Microelectronics Corp. in Taiwan.

Very early returns from an online survey of dedicated Mac users reveals an even split between those who think Apple should make a "strategic surrender" by building Windows NT machines. None (so far) are willing to abandon the Rhapsody OS, and almost all want Apple to open up its OS licensing process even further. The survey's still live; you can weigh in at the link listed above.

Industry standard beckons: Sun's newest workstations will feature PCI interface technology and there's going to be one that costs less than $5,000.

It's all in the wrist: Wrong, wrong, wrong. It's also in the eyes. The computer-related body stresses, that is. The most common problems stemming from too much computer use are vision-related more than musco-skeletal disorders.

Now downloading... If you weren't in the first 10,000 to try out Microsoft Explorer 4.0, scramble on over to www.microsoft.com and wait your turn for the download.

Inquiring minds want to know why InterNIC claims ownership of .net, .com and .org when they're supposed to be running a public trust. AlterNIC redirected web surfers who were aiming toward InterNIC to a protest site last weekend to bring up the issue.

It's not nice to fool mother search engine: Infoseek has had it with web page authors on GeoCities who salt their HTML with frequently-searched words that may have nothing to do with the content of their pages. So Infoseek has banned GeoCities pages from its automatic URL-submission procedure.

Hmmm.... Here's the problem, GMSV readers -- a certain Brand X newspaper which requires you to pay to read its stories has some decent tech pieces now and again (they ought to, since many of their reporters came from here). We can't excerpt them here; but we can point to them, but non-subscribers will get a request for a credit card number to get in. So tell us -- do you want to know?

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