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7097
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7096
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7089
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[Author AKA: Edward Baldwin]
[Subtitle: An Account of the most eminent persons in successive ages who
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7070
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7067
[Translated by Charles Heron Wall]
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5) This week in history
Literary Dates of Interest this week
Birthdays this week:
12th Jack Kerouac
13th Mahmoud Darwish
14th Armas Aikia
15th Ben Okri
16th Rene Sully-Prudhomme
17th Patrick Hamilton
18th John Updike
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6) Headline News from around the world
AOL'S ANSWER TO TIVO TO BE LIKE TIVO, SORT OF
Recognizing the threat TiVo and similar personal video recording technolo=
gy
is posing to TV networks and Hollywood studios, AOL Time Warner has been
secretly developing its own version of the technology, called Mystro TV.
Mystro uses the cable system itself to let viewers watch programs on thei=
r
own schedules (just as TiVo does), but it lets networks retain a level of
control (dictating which shows users can reschedule) and offers them a wa=
y
to insert commercials, which TiVo allows its set-owners to avoid. (New Yo=
rk
Times 10 Mar 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/03/10/technology/10AOL.html
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MCDONALD'S JUMPS ON WI-FI BANDWAGON
McDonald's announced ten stores in Manhattan will begin offering one hour=
of
Wi-Fi high-speed Internet access to anyone who buys a combination meal, a=
nd
plans to extend the program to 300 McDonald's restaurants in New York,
Chicago and a yet-unannounced California town. "You can come in and have =
an
extra value meal and send some e-mail," says a McDonald's spokeswoman.
McDonald's joins more than 400 Borders bookstores, hundreds of hotels and=
a
couple of U.S. airports where Wi-Fi access will be available by summer. (=
AP
11 Mar 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030311/D7PMRGO80.html
LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH DIGITAL COPYING RIGHTS
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D, CA) is reintroducing legislation called the Balance
Act, intended to give people the right to make back-up copies of copyrigh=
ted
digital works for use on other devices (such as car CD players) and to
protect consumers who break technological locks in order to view DVD movi=
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on their computers. Lofgren says, "Most people -- at least, most adults -=
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to,
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the
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which is thought to have just a long-shot chance of being passed. Arguing
that such legislation "would provide safe harbor for pirates," Jack Valen=
ti
of the MPAA said, "As drafted, this legislation essentially legalizes
hacking." (San Jose Mercury News 11 Mar 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5365373.htm
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CORNELL TO CHARGE BANDWIDTH HOGS
A new billing system at Cornell University will charge network users
whose usage exceeds two gigabytes of data per month. Cornell's
expenses for providing Internet service are rising an average of 40
percent per year, and officials at the institution decided they had to
implement a new billing model. Formerly Cornell charged per port,
though this became problematic when some users installed multiport
repeaters, allowing them to run several computers on a single port. The
new, so-called "pay by the drink" program retains the per-port charge
but adds an Internet use fee, which covers usage up to two gigabytes
per month. Every megabyte of usage above that limit will incur a fee to
the user. Officials said the new approach to billing is designed in
part to recoup some of the costs of providing bandwidth but also to
educate users about how much bandwidth they are using. With that
information, said administrators, users can make informed
decisions--and pay for them--regarding their use of the network.
Officials at the school said that the two-gigabyte limit will allow 90
percent of users to avoid paying an extra fee.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 March 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/03/2003030601t.htm
{We wonder how much they would charge?}
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COMPUTER WASTE BILL REINTRODUCED
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) last week reintroduced the National
Computer Recycling Act, which died in last year's Congress. The bill
would add a $10 surcharge to the price of every computer and monitor
sold in the United States, to be used to fund what Thompson called a
national infrastructure for recycling computers and dealing with
computer waste. Specifically, the Environmental Protection Agency would
administer a grant program to fund state and local computer recycling
programs. The bill is also intended to encourage electronics
manufacturers to set up programs for consumers to return unwanted
computers and monitors for recycling. Some computer makers, including
Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and IBM, already offer return and recycling
programs, but consumer participation has thus far been modest.
ZDNet, 10 March 2003
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-991638.html
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