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It must be really nice at the Bonds household these days.........

Barry will make $13 million in 2002 and again in 2003, $16 million in 2004, $20 million in 2005, and $18 million in 2006. A club option on the fifth year of the deal will kick in if Bonds fails to reach performance standards of either 500 plate appearances in 2005 or a total of 1,500 in 2003-05 with a minimum of 400 in 2005. Either way, it's an option the Giants can take or leave, so if for some reason Bonds doesn't meet those standards the Giants could still kick in the fifth year on their own.

Also, a 10-year personal services contract for after his playing days is included in the deal. The personal services contract will pay $1 million to the Bonds Family Foundation.

Among items that help the Giants control their payroll is $5 million of deferred payments for each year of the contract, leaving more flexibility for the team to retain and acquire players.

Boras had said from the beginning of Bonds' short foray into free agency that Bonds would get a five-year deal, in part because Boras figures Bonds to be on pace to break Hank Aaron's all-time record of 755 career homers in five years.

Bonds, who ranks seventh on the all-time home run list with 567 in his career, won an unprecedented fourth MVP award with his record-breaking 73-homer season in 2001. His monumental campaign not only saw him set the all-time single-season mark for slugging percentage (.863) and walks (177), besting legendary slugger Babe Ruth, but also saw him post the highest on-base percentage (.515) by any National Leaguer in the modern era, while hitting .328 with 137 RBIs.

Baseball's only member of the 400-homer and 400-stolen base club, Bonds needs just 16 more stolen bases for 500 in his career. The 16-year Major League veteran has a lifetime batting average of .292 with 1,542 RBIs, 2,313 hits and 484 steals in 2,296 career games. The Sporting News Player of the Decade for the 1990s, he has also captured eight Gold Gloves and been honored as a National League All-Star 10 times.

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Earnings alert: eBay sees big sales jump. eBay beats earnings estimates and says sales rose nearly 65 percent...DoubleClick ekes out a profit...Handspring posts narrower-than-expected loss. [CNET News.com]

What is everyone BUYING & SELLING?........

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Our first look at Intel's Northwood P4. A hint of things to come [The Register]
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ComputerWorld publicizes security problems in airport/airlines use of Wi-Fi: a superb report details some of the recent exposures of holes in the airports and airlines use of Wi-Fi. The challenged institutions claim that even if hackers (in some cases, people who obviously just select an SSID) get on the network, data is still secure. Maybe. Getting on the network is a good first step in getting to applications: it allows iterative probing and buffer overflow attempts.

[80211b News]
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SanDisk introduces new dual-slot readers. CES 2002: SanDisk has today announced a range of new ImageMate dual-slot card readers, the readers will be available in three flavors - CompactFlash & SmartMEdia, CompactFlash & Memory Stick and... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Beta: Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool. In a nutshell, it lets you mirror your Radio 8 weblog to any centralized CMS that supports the Blogger API. Today we tested with Manila, Blogger, and by surprise, found out that Movable Type already supports the API, and MBBT works with it too! Now there's something to stand up and cheer about. It's still a beta, I expect there will be updates, but if you've been waiting for this, please give it a try. Praise Murphy!  [Scripting News]
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Bob Dylan. "He not busy being born is busy dying." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
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New Film: Enemy at the Bill Gates. Nothing So Strange chronicles an imaginary assassination of the Microsoft chief, using websites as props to further explore the would-be killing. Jason Silverman reports from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. [Wired News]
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