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This article presents highlights of the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual Bill Gates' keynote kicked off the show. This year his demonstration crashed only twice, which for Microsoft qualifies as seamless computing. The real surprise came when Gates declared he had decided to quit the software business, and renounce his wealth. Among other attractions, Sirius Satellite Radio hosted an autograph session with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.

Reports on the highlights of the Networld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2000. Information on the interoperability specification for application service providers being planned for the construction industry; Details on the system used by Hewlett-Packard for rating employees; Problem identified with the Biologon Security Software from Compaq.

Narrates experiences while attending DEF CON I, a computer event at Las Vegas, Nevada held in July 1993. Encounter with computer hackers, crackers and phone phreaks; Lecture given by a computer security personnel from Sun Microsystems on how to break into Unix systems; PC World personnel's receipt of auto demo disks of MS Publisher and Word contaminated with the Forms virus; Suboptimal viruses; Other problems discussed.