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Oct 1995 Collection of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica [homerxxx.xxx] 348
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Nov 2004 Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2, by H. Stowe[4][?smflxxx.xxx]6931
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Nov 2004 The Faerie Queen Volume 1, by Edmund Spenser [faerixxx.xxx]6930C
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Nov 2004 Poemata (William Cowper, trans.), by John Milton [poemaxxx.xxx]6929
[Subtitle: Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton]
Nov 2004 Who Wrote the Bible?, by Washington Gladden [?wwrtxxx.xxx]6928
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7wwrt10.txt and 7wwrt10.zip]
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[HTML version with accented characters in 8wwrt10h.htm and 8wwrt10h.zip]
Nov 2004 The White Feather,byP. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse#17][thwhtxxx.xxx]6927
Nov 2004 Memories of Hawthorne, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop [memrhxxx.xxx]6926
Nov 2004 The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself [htelxxxx.xxx]6925
[Author's Full Name: Thomas Ellwood]
Nov 2004 Richard III, by William Shakespeare [ws#55][?r3wsxxx.xxx]6924
[Translator: August Wilhelm von Schlegel]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7r3ws10.txt and 7r3ws10.zip]
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(See Also: #2257, #1768, #1503, and #1103)
Nov 2004 The Miser, by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin [Moliere#17][?misrxxx.xxx]6923
[Author AKA: Moliere] [Translator: Charles Heron Wall] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7misr10.txt and 7misr10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8misr10.txt and 8misr10.zip]
(See also: #6318 for the same play in French)
Nov 2004 De Liereman, by L. Schipper [?dlrmxxx.xxx]6922
[Language: Dutch]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7dlrm10.txt and 7dlrm10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8dlrm10.txt and 8dlrm10.zip]
Nov 2004 Temporal Power, by Marie Corelli [Corelli#11][?tmprxxx.xxx]6921
[Subtitle: A Study in Supremacy]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tmpr10.txt and 7tmpr10.zip]
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Nov 2004 Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, (trans. Long) [#2][tmrcrxxx.xxx]6920
Nov 2004 Darwiniana, by Thomas Henry Huxley [?thdrxxx.xxx]6919
[Subtitle: Collected Essays vol. II]
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Nov 2004 History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 [?rfi1xxx.xxx]6918
[Author's Full Name: William H. Prescott]
[Subtitle: The Catholic]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rfi110.txt and 7rfi110.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8rfi110.txt and 8rfi110.zip]
Nov 2004 The Gerrard Street Mystery, by John Charles Dent [grrsmxxx.xxx]6917
[Full title: The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales]
Nov 2004 English Men of Letters: Coleridge, by H. D. Traill[clrdgxxx.xxx]6916
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Nov 2004 Last of the Huggermuggers, by Christopher Cranch [hggmgxxx.xxx]6914
Nov 2004 Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson,by Peter Radisson[vgrdnxxx.xxx]6913
Nov 2004 School and Home Cooking, by Carlotta C. Greer [scckgxxx.xxx]6912
Nov 2004 The Majesty of Calmness, by William George Jordan [mjcmnxxx.xxx]6911
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Nov 2004 Queen Victoria V1, by Sarah Tytler [lqvc1xxx.xxx]6910
[Full title: Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1.]
Nov 2004 Old Caravan Days, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood [crvndxxx.xxx]6909
Nov 2004 The Air Ship Boys, by H.L. Sayler [rsbysxxx.xxx]6908
Nov 2004 From Wealth to Poverty, by Austin Potter [wlpvrxxx.xxx]6907
Nov 2004 The Lost Trail, by Edward S. Ellis [#2][lstrlxxx.xxx]6906
Nov 2004 Boy Scouts in an Airship,by G. Harvey Ralphson[#3][bsarsxxx.xxx]6904
Nov 2004 Miss Ludington's Sister, by Edward Bellamy [#2][ldgtsxxx.xxx]6903
Nov 2004 On the Eve, by Ivan Turgenev (trans. Garnett) [#4][nthvexxx.xxx]6902
Nov 2004 The Happy Adventurers, by Lydia Miller Middleton [hppdvxxx.xxx]6901
Nov 2004 Rudin, by Ivan Turgenev (trans. Garnett) [#3][rudinxxx.xxx]6900
Nov 2004 The Children's Pilgrimage, by L. T. Meade [#3][chplgxxx.xxx]6899
Nov 2004 Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron,G. B. Forbes[bchgrxxx.xxx]6898
[Full author: Graham B. Forbes]
Nov 2004 The Little Savage, by Captain Marryat [#4][ltsvgxxx.xxx]6897
Nov 2004 Brief History of the United States, J. B. McMaster[bhntsxxx.xxx]6896
[Full author: John Bach McMaster]
Nov 2004 Campfire Girls Go Motoring, by Hildegard G. Frey [cfgmtxxx.xxx]6895
Nov 2004 Chimes of Mission Bells, by Maria Antonia Field [?cmsbxxx.xxx]6894
Nov 2004 In the Quarter, by Robert W. Chambers [?inqtxxx.xxx]6893
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Nov 2004 Complete Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Sata[8][?msvcxxx.xxx]6892
[Full Title: Complete Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan]
[Author's Full Name: Wilhelm Hauff] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7msvc10.txt and 7msvc10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8msvc10.txt and 8msvc10.zip]
Nov 2004 Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan V2 [#7][?msv2xxx.xxx]6891
[Author's Full Name: Wilhelm Hauff] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7msv210.txt and 7msv210.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8msv210.txt and 8msv210.zip]
Nov 2004 Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan V1 [#6][?msv1xxx.xxx]6890
[Author's Full Name: Wilhelm Hauff] [Language: German]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7msv110.txt and 7msv110.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8msv110.txt and 8msv110.zip]
Nov 2004 Laokoon, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [?laokxxx.xxx]6889
[Subtitle: Oder, Ueber die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie][Language: German]
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Nov 2004 The Gatlings at Santiago, by John H. Parker [thgtlxxx.xxx]6888
[Subtitle: With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition]
[Full Title: History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, At
Santiago]
Nov 2004 Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina, by Cesare Cantu' [?smacxxx.xxx]6887
[Subtitle: Episodio della riforma religiosa in Italia, 1832]
[Language: Italian]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7smac10.txt and 7smac10.zip]
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Nov 2004 First footsteps in East Africa,byRichard F. Burton[?ffeaxxx.xxx]6886
[Subtitle: An Exploration of Harar]
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[8-bit version with accented characters in 8ffea10.txt and 8ffea10.zip]
Nov 2004 The Indolence of the Filipino, by Jose Rizal [#2][?indfxxx.xxx]6885
Nov 2004 Sleeping Fires: A Novel, by Gertrude Atherton [slpngxxx.xxx]6884
Nov 2004 Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois, Anon [lsmbgxxx.xxx]6883
Nov 2004 This Simian World, by Clarence Day Jr [tsmnwxxx.xxx]6882
Nov 2004 Notebook of an English Opium-Eater,de Quincey[#13][ntbpmxxx.xxx]6881
[Full author: Thomas de Quincey]
Nov 2004 The Coming of Bill, by P. G. Wodehouse [#16][cmbllxxx.xxx]6880
[Title AKA: The White Hope] [also AKA: Their Mutual Child]
Nov 2004 The Gold Bat, by P. G. Wodehouse [#15][gldbtxxx.xxx]6879
Nov 2004 The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes [lnpppxxx.xxx]6878
[Full author: Demosthenes, trans. with notes by Charles Rann Kennedy]]
Nov 2004 The Head of Kay's, by P. G. Wodehouse [#14][hdfksxxx.xxx]6877
Nov 2004 The British Association's visit, by Clara Kayleigh[bvsmtxxx.xxx]6876
[Full title: The British Association's visit to Montreal, 1884: Letters]
Nov 2004 Count Frontenac, by Francis Parkman [#3][?fcnfxxx.xxx]6875
[Full title: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV]
Nov 2004 Canada and the States, by Edward William Watkin [cnstrxxx.xxx]6874
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Moore's Law -- the theory espoused by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that
the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every 18 months
or so -- is still valid, says Moore, who sees "no apparent roadblocks" for
at least another decade. "It gets complicated and expensive, but the
technological solutions seem to be there." Even if we get to the point where
we can't squeeze any more [transistors] in there, we'll be putting billions
of transistors on a chip. It's certainly not the end of creativity in the
industry." Moore predicted that growth in the semiconductor industry would
equal growth in the world's gross domestic product by 2017 if the industry
continues at its current pace. (AP 10 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030211/D7P4C9S81.html
[Something I Have Been Pushing For Years]
LAPTOP HANDOUT COULD FREE UP CLASSROOM SPACE
The president of Miami-Dade County's teacher's union has told Florida
Governor Jeb Bush that the state could save $30 million by giving laptop
computers to all high school students and teachers and converting 1,680
computer labs to classrooms. United Teachers of Dade president Pat Tornillo
says buying the 644,000 laptops would be much cheaper than building 1,680
classrooms, noting that the number of computer labs represents the
equivalent of 34 high school buildings. (AP/Miami Herald 11 Feb 2003)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/5154090.htm
LIGHTBULB IDEA
Incandescent lightbulbs, neon tubes and fluorescent lamps are expected to
go the way of the gas lamp: into the history books. The emerging
"solid-state lighting" industry, based on LED (light-emitting diode)
microchips is expected to make its presence felt in the general home and
office lighting market as early as 2007. Currently used mainly in
large-scale projects such as the Nasdaq sign in Times Square, Chicago's
Goodman Theatre, or the White House Christmas tree, offer huge performance
advantages. An example: an LED traffic light consumes 80% less electricity
and lasts ten times longer than a traditional light.
(New York Times 11 Feb 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/technology/11LIGH.html
[Of Course It's MBA's. . . .]
THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF ONLINE GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Tens of thousands of students are now obtaining MBA degrees using courses
taken over the Internet, and online programs through institutions such as
Phoenix University and Regis University produce more MBA graduates than
such schools as Harvard or Yale. The target market for such programs? The
traveling executive who completes the work on airplanes and in hotel rooms.
Degree programs offered by Regis or Phoenix might cost $25,000 or more;
institutions such as Duke University, which offers a Global Executive Program
which combines online learning and traditional classroom sessions meeting
every eight weeks, costs $100,500, which includes everything but airfare.
(USA Today 10 Feb 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-02-10-mba_x.htm
POWER COMPANIES TEST BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY
Energy utility Ameren Corp. and other power companies are testing
technology that would deliver high-speed Internet access over their power
lines, making every home electrical outlet an always-on Web connection. The
FCC has applauded the energy companies' efforts, with chairman Michael
Powell saying the technology "could simply blow the doors off the provision
of broadband." But existing broadband providers and others are skeptical,
saying that while they consider the technology intriguing, talk about it
has been around for years, with nothing to show for it. "I think they're a
long way from proving it, let's leave it there," says Larry Carmichael, a
project manager with the Electric Power Research Institute. "The tests to
date have been so small as far as looking at the financial and technical
viability. It's still at the very early stage of development."
(AP 10 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030210/D7P3R6801.html
AIRLINE TRAVEL DOWN, AIRLINE BOOKING SYSTEM UP
Profit margins for Sabre Holdings, the world's largest computer system, are
higher this year than airlines themselves ever achieve -- and certainly
better than in this year, when overall travel is down. An executive of
America West Airlines says: "They charge exorbitant rates relative to the
value they add. It is a cost that we don't find justified." But Sabre chief
executive William J. Hannigan brushes that accusation to the side: "I make
no apologies for our pricing structure. It is a structure that was created
by the airlines, and you always have to take it with a grain of salt when
they complain about it." A number of airlines are threatening to bypass the
reservation system and pull more of their best fares off of Sabre and its
rivals (Galileo, Worldspan, and Amadeus); if they follow through on their
threats, travel agents will find it harder than ever to find for their
customers the best itineraries at the best prices.
(New York Times 10 Feb 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/technology/10SABR.html
BUSH SIGNS ORDER AUTHORIZING CYBER-ATTACKS
President Bush has signed a secret order allowing the government to proceed
with developing guidelines on circumstances under which the U.S. could
launch cyber-attacks against foreign computer systems. The directive
signals Bush's desire to pursue new forms of potential warfare -- already
the Pentagon has moved ahead with development of cyber-weapons that could
by used by the military to invade foreign networks and shut down radar,
disable electrical facilities and disrupt phone service. (AP 7 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030207/D7P1UJDO0.html
REPORTER PERPETRATES WEB HOAX ON FELLOW JOURNALIST
Although it violates journalistic ethics for a reporter to misrepresent his
identity, freelance journalist Brian McWilliams (whose work has appeared
Salon and Wired News) used a fake Web site and phony [name] to deceive
Computerworld's Dan Verton into believing that he was a Pakistan-based
terrorist who unleashed the recent Slammer network worm on the world.
Computerworld published, then quickly retracted, Verton's story. McWilliams
says he wanted to teach reporters "to be more skeptical of people who claim
they're involved in cyber-terrorism." Computerworld editor-in-chief
Maryfran Johnson says, "I couldn't believe a journalist could do this to
another journalist," and Verton says, "I feel like I've been had, and
that's never an easy thing to swallow. So, I'm left here scratching fleas
as the price you sometimes pay for sleeping with dogs."
(AP/San Jose Mercury News 7 Feb 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5127584.htm
[Why? Floppy drives don't COST anything.]
DELL FLIPS THE OFF SWITCH ON FLOPPIES
Dell announced it will stop installing floppy drives in its desktop
computers next month, offering them only as an option. "What Dell has done,
I expect every major vendor to do in the next 12 months," says technology
consultant Tim Bajarin. "The utility of the floppy disk is just no longer
there for most users." Instead of the floppy, Dell brand 16-megabyte USB
flash memory drives will be offered in high-end models, and the company
will consider making them standard equipment on all desktops, depending on
customer response. (AP 6 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030206/D7P13FU00.html
[What Have I Been Saying About Pay-Per-Everything?]
STREAMING PATENT HAS NET RADIO SITES STEAMED
A company that says it owns patents on the process of transmitting
compressed audio or video online is flexing its muscle, demanding fees from
a host of Internet multimedia companies. Acacia Media Technologies says its
patents may even cover pay-per-view movies on cable TV and in hotel rooms.
And while Acacia's move has outraged Internet entrepreneurs, many of them
are reluctantly forking over the fees. "We did research on the claims and
found that they were pretty clear -- somewhat broad, but specific enough to
cover us," says Zack Zalon, general manager of the Radio Free Virgin Web
site. "We realized that they were tight enough that a license would be
substantially less expensive in the long run than litigation." Meanwhile,
the trend toward companies exercising ownership over what generally are
viewed as overly broad patents has drawn the ire of many experts, but
analysts admit it's a strategy that's likely to increase in popularity.
"With the economy the way it is, you see a lot more people trying to
leverage their intellectual property. It's one of the few ways left that
people can actually make money," says Rich Belgard, an independent patent
consultant. (CNet News.com 6 Feb 2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983552.html?tag=lh
MICROSOFT SAYS ITS BUSINESS MODEL IS THREATENED BY OPEN-SOURCE
In its quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
(SEC), Microsoft writes: "The popularization of the open-source movement
continues to pose a significant challenge to the company's business
model... The company's revenues would be unfavorably impacted if customers
reduce their purchases of new software products or upgrades to existing
products because new product offerings are not perceived as adding
significant new functionality or other value to prospective purchasers."
Not surprisingly, Microsoft also asserted its belief that "the commercial
software development model offers superior consumer value compared to the
open source model" because of its "powerful incentives to develop
innovative software that is useful, reliable, and compatible with other
software and hardware." (InfoWorld 5 Feb 2003)
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/05/HNmsthreat_1.html
HP OFFERS CONSUMER INCENTIVES FOR COMPUTER RECYCLING
Hewlett-Packard will offer e-coupons exchangeable for HP products when
users recycle old computer hardware through the company. The coupons will
range from $20 to $50 in value, depending on the amount a consumer spends
on recycling services, which cost from $17 to $30 depending on the size of
the equipment to be recycled. An HP executive said: "This is a way to learn
what our customers want. Do they even want an incentive? Or do they just
want to fill out a form and leave a box on their doorstep? We know that
waste is a growing problem in the industry, but no one has really studied
what consumers want to do to get rid of their computers.'' (AP/San Jose
Mercury News 6 Feb 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5119968.htm
PEOPLE WHO PLAY AT WORK, WORK AT HOME
What employers lose in productivity when workers goof off, bidding on eBay
and circulating jokes, is made up in the home, according to a survey by the
University of Maryland and Rockbridge Associates. The study found that
employees with Web access both at home and at work spend an average of 3.7
hours a week doing personal online chores in the office. Those same
employees, however, spend an average of 5.9 hours a week at home catching
up on work. "I think what this says is the Internet is actually helping
business productivity," says Roland Rust, director of the Center for
eService at the U. of Md.'s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Rust warns
that, based on his findings, employers should think twice about banning
personal online activities in the office. (Wall Street Journal 6 Feb 2003)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1044486883322049333.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
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Mr. CARD: Every single day, the president gets a report on how we're doing
in the war against terror, and we're making
tremendous progress, I think unprecedented progress, thanks to the
assistance of allies around the world. We'd like to see
more of the leadership of al-Qaeda brought to justice, and we're working to
make that happen, but Osama bin Laden is clearly
not as great a threat as he was prior to September 11th, but his network and
he are still planning to do nasty things to us and
the president knows the challenges of being in a war on terrorism is
something that strains the country and the world, and yet it's
very important that we help to eliminate threats that would be compounded by
terrorists if they got access to weapons of mass
destruction. After all, the president's job is to make sure that that
ultimate fear of society, which would be anarchy, doesn't
happen, and terrorist acts are acts inviting anarchy, and this president's
going to do everything he can to make sure that we do
not have anarchy in this country.
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***From Multiple Sources***
THE ULTIMATE FEAR OF AMERICANS IS ANARCHY [or is it???]
Andrew Card, President Bush's White House Chief of Staff, said,
in a trial-balloon just before The State of the Union Message:
"After all, the president's job is to make sure that that ultimate fear of
society, which would be anarchy, doesn't happen, and terrorist acts are acts
inviting anarchy, and this president's going to do everything he can to make
sure that we do not have anarchy in this country."
Apparently when they ran this up the flagpole to see who would salute it,
the hoped for support failed to materialize, and this was not included.
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From Edupage
[Carivores To Be Leashed/Muzzled By Civilians?]
ADVISORY GROUPS TO OVERSEE TIA PROGRAM
The Pentagon formed an internal and an external committee to address
privacy concerns arising from the Total Information Awareness (TIA)
program in a move to prevent Congress from monitoring the program too
closely. Headed by John Poindexter, TIA aims to identify terrorists by
monitoring Internet usage and commercial and financial databases in the
U.S. and abroad. A Senate amendment last month banned deployment of the
program and curbed research for it. The Pentagon formed the advisory
panels to minimize the scope of the provision, now before a House-Senate
conference committee, by convincing Congress that the committees
will adequately address balancing security and privacy concerns.
Senator Ron Wyden, who sponsored the provision, noted that the panels
"did not get an election certificate" and that "Congress on a
bipartisan basis is going to continue to demand accountability,
oversight, and legally established safeguards."
New York Times, 8 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/national/08PRIV.html
["1984ism Still Remains A Fundamental Threat After All These Years]
ELSEVIER SCIENCE REVISITS DELETION POLICY
Elsevier Science has adopted new procedures for managing journal
articles in its databases that it considers tainted by plagiarism,
fraud, or other scholarly misconduct. Critics had charged that the
publisher's earlier approach of removing articles from its databases
with little explanation could damage scholarly endeavors. The new plan
specifies rules by which Elsevier will delete or replace articles in
its ScienceDirect database or flag them as having problems. A
retraction notice explaining why an article has been retracted will
link to the original article. Articles that pose a legal threat will be
removed completely, leaving only the title and author's name with a
note to that effect. The publisher did not explain whether the new
policy will be applied to articles already removed from ScienceDirect.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 February 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003021002t.htm
[RIAA Says Courts Too Slow To Protect Them, Can't Wait For Appeal]
RIAA OPPOSES VERIZON'S STAY
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) objected to
Verizon's motion for a stay of the court order that demanded the
company provide the name of a subscriber who allegedly downloaded in
excess of 600 copyrighted music files. Verizon filed the stay to avoid
providing the user's name until its appeal of the court order is
resolved. A hearing on the stay request will be held later this week.
Internet News, 10 February 2003
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1581771
ELECTRICAL OUTLETS OFFER POTENTIAL FOR INTERNET ACCESS
St. Louis-based Meren Corp. and other utilities are testing a
technology that would provide high-speed Web access through power
lines, potentially making every electrical outlet a connection to the
Internet. Federal regulators support the concept as a means of
bolstering broadband access, among other benefits, and tout the
advantage of employing an existing infrastructure of power lines.
Broadband providers, meanwhile, point out that the idea has been around
for years without concrete results. Network interference, transformers,
and surge arrestors have hindered broadband delivery, although improved
technology over the past few years has reduced many of these problems.
Tests to date have been small, and none of them has demonstrated the
concept's technical and financial viability.
Nando Times, 9 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/757525p-5471954c.html
BUSH ORDERS CYBERATTACK PLAN
Administration officials have confirmed that President Bush signed a
secret directive in July 2002 ordering the development of a national
plan to guide when and how the United States would launch cyberattacks
against enemy computer networks. The cyberwarfare plan would establish
rules under which the United States would penetrate and disrupt foreign
computer systems. Critics point out that the United States' dependence
on computer networks makes the country highly vulnerable to
counterattack and that collateral damage to civilians would almost
certainly result because of the interconnectedness of government,
military, and civilian computer networks around the world.
Washington Post, 7 February 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38110-2003Feb6.html
[I HAVE NO FLOPPY DRIVE!!!] [Anyone Remember Foxtrot?]
NO MORE FLOPPY DRIVES FROM DELL
Dell Computer Corporation announced that it plans to stop installing
floppy disk drives on its high-end Dimension computers in March,
offering them only as an option. The company has already stopped
providing floppy drives with its standard notebook computers. The
change comes in response to a move by consumers to newer, larger
capacity technology such as portable hard drives and rewritable CDs.
Dell will provide its 16-megabyte USB flash memory drives in the
high-end Dimension model first and then in all desktop computers if
customer response is favorable.
Associated Press, 5 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/751847p-5442465c.html
GEORGETOWN SHUTS DOWN E-MAIL SYSTEM
After learning of a mass e-mail message from the public-safety
department at Georgetown University that inadvertently contained
private student information, administrators at Georgetown shut down the
university's e-mail system and deleted the message from thousands of
student accounts. The system was down for more than 12 hours. The
technical staff used an automated program to replace the message with a
blank one, although messages automatically forwarded to private
accounts could not be deleted. A message to students, staff, and
faculty notified them that the message had been deleted and assured
them that e-mail messages and accounts were not otherwise touched.
Those who received the message were urged not to share its contents.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 February 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003020701t.htm
[So, If You Pay the $13, Does That Make Your Downloads All Legal?]
GERMAN TWIST ON COPYRIGHT COMPENSATION
A nonbinding recommendation from the German Patent Office calls for
makers of personal computers to pay copyright owners about $13 (U.S.
dollars) for every PC they sell. The fee is intended to reimburse
copyright owners for the digital copies of copyrighted works that PC
users are likely to make. This latest move in Germany is the first
attempt at levying a copyright fee on computers, though other levies
already exist in some countries on products such as blank compact
discs, recordable digital videodiscs, and CD writers. The new
recommendation comes on behalf of so-called "collecting societies,"
which have been formed to represent copyright owners in ongoing
disputes with hardware manufacturers. Collecting societies endeavor to
collect monies from users or device manufacturers to compensate content
owners for copies that computer users are likely to make but that
otherwise would be subject to royalties. A spokesman for the law firm
representing Fujitsu Siemens said that company, as well as the rest of
the industry, are likely to fight the PC levy in court.
Wall Street Journal, 5 February 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1044385225838491533,00.html
[Just The Opposite of the RIAA Commentary, Above]
MICROSOFT WINS STAY OF JAVA RULING
A federal appeals court has stayed a judge's ruling that Microsoft
must include Sun Microsystems's Java in new versions of its Windows XP
operating system and in Internet Explorer. Judge Frederick Motz, who is
overseeing several cases against Microsoft, including one by Sun, had
ordered Microsoft to begin shipping Sun's Java on Tuesday. Sun's
lawsuit argues that Microsoft attempted to undercut the Java platform,
developed by Sun, by building its own, incompatible with Sun's, and
shipping it with its operating system and browser. The U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit accepted Microsoft's motion that the
order to ship Sun's Java should be held until the suit is resolved by
the appellate court. A spokesman for Sun said the company "regret[s]
the Fourth Circuit Court's decision" and hopes the appeal of Motz's
ruling will be handled quickly.
InfoWorld, 3 February 2003
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/03/HNjavarule_1.html
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