A new technology uses users’ computers to retransmit streaming audio and video, which may make live streaming less of a bandwidth hog. But, Wired wonders, why would anyone sign up to let their computer do retransmissions?

Wired looks into reasons some of the biggest magazines haven’t started putting anything online besides subscription blurbs. Yet.

The Register’s take on various hackers’ responses to the SDMI $10,000 prize offered to the first person to crack the music industry’s latest proposed encryption scheme.

Okay, it’s not a story about Open Source or the Internet, but face it: you’re interested (and so are we). The Washington Post delves into the ins and outs of reproduction in microgravity.

PCWorld article mentions a few big online marketers and contains platitude-type quotes from them, but doesn’t talk about shutting down the toner and MLM bozos. Oh, well.

“Teenagers are immersed in technology, from hand-held computers to mobile phones. But fewer of them are choosing to go into engineering careers than a decade ago,” laments the Dalla Morning News.

Configuring Linux to stream MP3 music over a TCP/IP network is a matter of installing and configuring just two RPMs. These are Icecast – an MP3 server, and Shout – which streams MP3 data to the MP3 server for broadcasting. On the client side, you’ll need MP3 players like Winamp for Windows, or X11amp and Mpg123 for Linux. So, let’s get going on how to configure Linux for playing MP3s over your network. Read full article-Anonymous Reader

Nothing hurt the mission-critical systems, says MSNBC, but the www.nasa.gov site and some email services were affected. Evil crackers at work? The possibility is raised but not confirmed.

“A big drop in its share price rubbed off on investors, who carried the selling trend over to the rest of the technology
sector.” Upside recaps Friday’s tech stock unhappiness.

A Technocrat.net reader wonders if it might not be possible to rewrite some functions of the Linux kernel to make Linux comply with U.S. government purchasing requirements for POSIX.