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To: Kirk © who wrote (7132)	9/10/2003 9:47:57 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25522

Where is the outrage? Grasso Helped Set His Own Pay, Documents Show newsday.com

To: Kirk © who wrote (7132)	9/11/2003 2:02:46 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 25522

sharing more than 1,000 songs through the Kazaa software. I read that they use a loose definition of "sharing" when they determine the totals shared. For example if you have 100 CDs and you upload them to your computer and place them in your kazaa folder for other people to pick up, the RIAA calls that "illegal file sharing". I suspect the 1000 songs were part hers already, some downloaded, just whatever existed in her Kazaa folder. Goodbye corrupt US music industry... don't let the door... you know.

To: Kirk © who wrote (7132)	9/11/2003 8:20:42 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Applied obtains DARPA funds for new e-beam tools By Mark LaPedus Silicon Strategies 09/10/2003, 10:30 PM ET MONTEREY, Calif. -- Amid growing speculation that it has dropped its existing electron-beam, reticle-writer tool line, Applied Materials Inc. today (Sept. 10, 2003) disclosed it has received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for use in developing next-generation, e-beam machines. Reports surfaced at the Bacus Symposium on Photomask Technology in Monterey that Applied has scrapped its existing e-beam for use in advanced photomask production. Applied's e-beam is based on a "raster shaped beam" (RSB) technology for 65-nm chip designs and beyond. Sources added that the company will continue to develop and sell its pattern-generation tools for advanced mask making. But instead of selling its existing e-beam line, Applied is now working on two separate tools, including a multi-beam, e-beam product and a combination e-beam/pattern-generation machine, according to sources. Gilad Almogy, corporate vice president in charge of Applied's e-beam unit, Etec Systems Inc. of Hayward, Calif., denied the company has dropped its existing e-beam. "We're still supporting it and we are working on future tools," he said in an interview with Silicon Strategies at Bacus. Almogy added that there has been some "restructuring" within Etec, including a move to shift the service headquarters from Hayward to Hillsboro, Ore. He added that Applied has received funding from DARPA to develop next-generation products, but he did not elaborate. Sources believe that it is working on a multi-beam, e-beam and a combination e-beam/laser tool. Some speculate that the tools are geared for both photomask and maskless applications.