This Week in Tech 42

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• Thanks to Nitrozac and Snaggy for the cartoon
• Amazon is going head to head with Apple - opening its own music store
• The OS X Worm is nothing to worry about but it does herald the end of innocence for Mac users
• FON has found an interesting way to promote itself
• Is World of Warcraft the new golf?
• Funny how consumers and experts completely disagree on which LCOS display is best
• Want to know why Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas and Sen. John Ensign of Nevada are so hot to stop municipal wi-fi? Follow the money trail to ATT.
• The Firefox memory leak is a feature not a bug
• Is it illegal to play poker online? It's not clear but if two Congressmen have their way it will be, with a five year penalty to boot
• BitTorrent is proposing end-to-end encryption to foil ISPs who block the protocol
• Skype encryption prevents wiretapping. Or does it?
• And what's going on with Intel and Skype? Is it fair to artificially limit Skype's capabilities unless you use Intel?
• Careful watching "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in Germany. Fox has planted a rootkit on the DVD.
• The ladies of the evening want families to boycott Grand Theft Auto
• Do two podcasts ending production make a trend? Some call it "podfading"
• Halo 2 will only ship on Vista, not XP
• And Vista will require a DirectX 9c capable video card
• More significantly, no video card has HDCP support yet, and Vista will require that for output to an HD display
• Careful playing solitaire around Mayor Bloomberg
• Microsoft antivirus uninstalls Norton. Oops.