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Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Are there nations without airlines? What happened to Nigeria Airways? How safe is Syrianair? The pilot knows all.
We don’t need your stinkin’ amnesty!
Farhad Manjoo
File sharers scoff at the recording industry's offer of forgiveness for repentant downloaders.
Canada’s safe haven for junkies
Mark Follman
Vancouver hopes to save hundreds of lives by opening street clinics where heroin addicts can shoot up safely. But the White House is accusing Canada of going AWOL from its war on drugs.
Letters
Salon Staff
Don't blame users for Microsoft's sins: Readers respond to Farhad Manjoo's "Dumb Software for Dumb People."
Baghdad’s shame
Brandon Sprague, Adam Shemper
Babies die daily of treatable diseases while their doctors search for black-market drugs, because the U.S can't fix Iraq's corrupt, crime-plagued health system.
Dumb software for dumb people
Farhad Manjoo
The Windows world is fertile ground for infinite virus plagues, especially when users refuse to take proper care of their computers.
Keeping the Net neutral
Farhad Manjoo
A coalition of big-name tech companies -- Microsoft, Amazon, eBay and others -- wants the feds to make sure that cable companies don't ruin the broadband Internet.
Monkey gone to heaven
Larry Smith
In Part 2 of Salon's series on Ecstasy, a controversial study on E's effects on the brain creates fear; a breakthrough moment in MDMA's therapeutic use sparks hope; and Generation X ponders its drug days ahead.
Meet the spam Nazi
Brian McWilliams
What does a former white-power activist do after being drummed out of the movement? He turns to peddling penis-enlargement pills.
God’s hip language
Steven Kotler
The Kabbalah Centre has turned centuries' worth of impenetrable Jewish mysticism into a self-help fad for Madonna, Winona and 200,000 others.
Air Osama
Joshua Tompkins
The newest flight simulation video games are so realistic that a terrorist can learn how to fly a jumbo jet without ever leaving his laptop.
The war off drugs
Nell Bernstein
The success of a California measure that offers drug offenders treatment before prison points a way out of the drug-war stalemate.
The Google backlash
Farhad Manjoo
The king of search rules the Web -- but now some of the natives are growing restless.
Filter mojo
Andrew Leonard
The institutions struggling to rid the Internet of porn and spam may have found the one weapon that works: The Net itself.
Sen. Brownback’s proposed bill
Salon Staff
A draft version of the Republican congressman's legislation.
Can anyone stop the music cops?
Farhad Manjoo
As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
Lawyers against Linux
Farhad Manjoo
A software company launches a billion-dollar suit
against the open-source operating system's biggest backer, IBM -- and only
succeeds in underscoring Linux's strength.
Warning. Warning. Warning. Fatal error. Stop.
Ellen Ullman
Ethan Levin wasn't worried. Programming mistakes were inevitable. He'd fix it, and move on. An excerpt from Ellen Ullman's new novel, "The Bug."
Bugged out
Scott Rosenberg
"The Bug" author Ellen Ullman talks about the Gothic terrors that lurk between the rational lines of computer code.
Your TV is watching you
Farhad Manjoo
Advertisers want to use new technology to monitor your every click -- and prevent you from tuning out their ads. And don't even think of trying to escape.
The free-software tango
Matt Dorn
In Argentina, a miserable economy is encouraging computer users to look for low-cost, nonproprietary solutions. Bill Gates is paying attention.
Masters of “Doom”
Wagner James Au
David Kushner's new book about id Software calls the company the "Nirvana" of computer gaming. But did John Romero and John Carmack revolutionize the genre, or ruin it?
Letters
Salon Staff
ITunes: A step in the right direction, but not enough to make me give up my Kazaa. Readers respond to Farhad Manjoo's "I Have Seen the Future of Music and Its Name Is iTunes."
How may we Web service you?
Scott Rosenberg
At the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, "Web services" were all the rage. But what will happen when companies get cold feet -- and the lawsuits start?
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