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PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 29 Sep '04

29 Sep '04

GWeekly_September_29.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, September 29, 2004 PT1 *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******* Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart(a)pobox.com or gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart(a)pobox.com TABLE OF CONTENTS [Search for "*eBook" or "*Intro". . .to jump to that section, etc.] *eBook Milestones *Introduction *Hot Requests New Sites and Announcements *Continuing Requests and Announcements *Progress Report, including Distributed Proofreaders *Permanent Requests For Assistance: *Donation Information *Access To The Project Gutenberg Collections *Mirror Site Information *Instant Access To Our Latest eBooks *Have We Given Away A Trillion Yet? *Flashback *Weekly eBook update: This is now in PT2 of the Weekly Newsletter Also collected in the Monthly Newsletter Corrections in separate section 43 New Public Domain eBooks Under US Copyright *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists *** *eBook Milestones We Are Over 92% of the Way to 15,000!!! 13,891 eBooks As Of Today!!! 1,109 to go to 15,000!!! 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It focused on a tiny Indonesian island that became, in the 17th century, a battle ground for the English and the Dutch, with, of course, the natives caught in the middle. They all wanted the nutmeg that grew there. In the 17th century, a man could sell a small sack of nutmeg for enough to build a large house and then retire there in comfort. The value of nutmeg came partly because of its rarity, but also because Europeans thought it had powerful medicinal qualities. So, for two centuries the English and Dutch battled over the Island, decimating it in the process. At first, when I read of these "nutmeg" wars, I thought how quaint that the European economy should depend on spices from obscure parts of the world. Yet, by the time I finished the book, I realized that my own world operates in exactly the same way. The electronic network that I live in - my computer, cell phone, and pager - depend on something call Coltan. Spelled C-O-L-T-A-N, it's as magic to us as nutmeg was to a 17th century European. Coltan looks like black mud. It's name is a contraction of columbium and tantalum. And it's that tantalum that's important to our world. A gray-blue, very hard metal, it's the key element [in the] called a pinhead capacitor. These electrical devices regulate the voltage and store energy in cell phones, pagers, and computers. In the last few years alone, tens of millions of these tantalum-filled capacitors were manufactured. Coltan is found in three billion year old soil, like that of the Rift Valley in Africa, which contains eighty percent of the world's supply. And, of the eighty percent, the majority is in the region. And much like the nutmeg of the 17th century, Coltan has brought ruin to the Congo. It has made the area attractive to neighboring countries, and Coltan has been a key force in accelerating the civil war within the Congo. By some estimates, these resource-based wars have killed about five million people, and displaced another ten million or so. No doubt, some generation after us will evolve past cell phones and pagers, and will no longer need to run their world with the tantalum that comes in the magic mud coltan. And, no doubt, they will look back at the coltan wars and think them as quaint as the "nutmeg" wars of the 17th century. The message is clear: As we use our cell phones today, we should remember those nutmeg wars, and keep a careful eye on how our technological systems affects the world. To use George Santayana's aphorism: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Copyright 2004 William S. Hammack Enterprises [Reprinted with Bill's direct permission] ***Continuing Requests and Announcements We're building a team to read our eBooks into MP3 files for the visually impaired and other audio book users. Let us know if you'd like to join this group. 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Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #2754 *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] >From NewsScan: TESTS SHOW CELL PHONES DON'T DISRUPT NAVIGATION SYSTEMS [For all those who thought it was always just a conspiracy to keep people on planes out of touch with the rest of the world. . . .] [BTW, a doctor told me the same thing about the signs in doctor's offices to turn off cell phones. . .says only the most primitive phones and medical equipment from decades ago had any interference.] Recent tests by Airbus and American Airlines/Qualcomm indicate that, contrary to popular lore, cellular signals do not disrupt airplanes' navigational systems. The two results were similar for both the CDMA and GSM cellular technologies, but the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Communications Commission say the tests can't officially be considered in their review of the rules because they were conducted without government oversight. The agencies say they are moving ahead with their own tests. (Wall Street Journal 23 Sep 2004) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109589672706925579,00.html> (sub req'd) SONY EMBRACES MP3 FORMAT [Sony learns faster than most. . .perhaps someday these companies will just totally STOP introducing those silly proprietary formats.] In a strategic shift, Sony announced it will add support for MP3 files to some of its portable music players, enabling it to compete directly against rivals such as Apple Computer, whose portable players support MP3 and other file formats. A Sony spokeswoman says new flash-based players with both MP3 and Atrac (Sony's proprietary format) playback will appear as early as this year in Europe, but it's unclear when those players will hit the shelves in the U.S. (AP/Washington Post 23 Sep 2004) www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44121-2004Sep23.html?nav=headlines [and on a related topic] DOES IM MEAN 'INSTANT MUSIC'? Yahoo's purchase of Musicmatch last week for $160 million in cash has raised speculation that it plans to use the acquisition to enable Yahoo Messenger users to share and interact with one another's digital playlists. "The whole advantage that (Yahoo) has is using its broad reach to push products and integrate them," says one source close to the deal. Meanwhile, Microsoft acknowledges that it's planning to do just that with its MSN Messenger and MSN Music services. In fact, MSN Messenger has already quietly begun experimenting with music playlist sharing using a test application called ThreeDegrees. The strategy gives Web portals a leg up in their pursuit of the online music market, currently dominated by Apple's iTunes. And adding more functionality to instant messaging is part of their master plan to transform IM from a simple chatting tool to a control panel for multimedia applications. (CNet News.com 22 Sep 2004) http://news.com.com/Can+IM+morph+into+instant+music/2100-1032_3-5376479.html LIVING LIFE WITHOUT A NET Paid $725 or more for their participation, [a] dozen families in the Northeast, Midwest and Northwest recently gave up the Internet for two weeks as part of a study by Yahoo and advertising firm OMD to demonstrate the emotional connection people have to the Net. The results? One participant admits, "I didn't realize how tough it would be," and reports that he missed online news and weather, door-to-door driving directions and e-mail. Some participants had to rediscover such things as the Yellow Pages, TV, newspapers and movies. In general, the study found that participants felt lost and disconnected (both literally and figuratively). (USA Today 21 Sep 2004) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-09-21-internet-usat_x.htm> IMAGES BEARING VIRUSES: DO YOU GET THE PICTURE? Security experts are saying it's possible for network vandals to use a flaw in Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003 systems to embed viruses into digital photos, thereby infecting vulnerable PCs. Marcus Sachs, director of the SANS Internet Storm Center, warns: "We always said there's no way you can be infected just by looking at a photograph online, but now it looks like we may have to eat our words on that. This year we've seen a lot of changes to the fundamental ways we thought we were secure." Microsoft users can download the latest patches from the company's Windows Update site. (Washington Post 23 Sep 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45126-2004Sep23.html> [RFIDs. . .coming to your house soon] IBM TAG TEAM Microsoft will be hiring 1,000 new employees and spending $250 million over five years to develop a new business unit to support products and services related to radio tags and sensor networks for inventory management. Radio tags can be read in groups, hold far more data than bar codes, and show when and where particular items were made and where they're being shipped to. They don't need batteries, because they receive enough energy to communicate from signals sent by the reader. Analysts such as Navi Radjou of Forrester Research think the challenge for IBM and other companies is to provide a road map laying out small steps toward deployment of radio-tagging and other sensor technologies, because "people won't do big-bang implementations." (New York Times 27 Sep 2004) <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/27/technology/27rfid.html> GOOGLE OMITS RESULTS FROM SITES BANNED BY CHINA Google's news service in China omits results from Web sites blocked by the government, according to Dynamic Internet Technology Inc., a research firm fighting online censorship. Tests by Dynamic found that Google omits results from the banned sites when search requests are made through computers connecting to the Internet in China. Google acknowledges that its Chinese language service is ignoring results from government-banned sites, but says it does so in order to make its search engine efficient and to shield computer users from clicking on links that lead nowhere. A Google executive says, "Google has decided that in order to create the best possible search experience for our mainland China users we will not include sites whose content is not accessible." Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li sympathizes with the company's predicament: "It's probably killing them to leave some sites out of its index, but they have probably decided they are doing greater good by providing access to all these other sites." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 24 Sep 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9753421.htm> iPODS ON THE HIT LIST They're ubiquitous and have changed the way we listen to music but iPods are proving to be a high-tech security risk. The Australian Department of Defense has followed the lead of Britain's Ministry of Defense in banning the use of iPods -- which have large storage capabilities and can be used to siphon information from computers -- in specific defense areas. An Australian government official explains, "The threat from iPods is considered the same as for all other forms of easily portable storage media. The use of such media and associated devices, or their presence within defense areas, is strictly controlled and in some cases prohibited." In July, Britain's Defense Ministry added the Apple music accessory to a list of devices banned in most sections of its UK headquarters and offices abroad. The fear is that devices with large storage capabilities and those with a USB (universal serial bus) plug can be a useful tool for data thieves. (The Age 25 Sep 2004) Rec''d from J. Lamp <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/24/1095961848693.html> MICROSOFT SUES SPAMMERS Microsoft has filed nine new lawsuits against spammers, and is now involved in more than 100 legal anti-spam cases throughout the world. The latest lawsuit is against Web hosting company National Online Sales and its owner Levon Gillespie, who offer "bulletproof" services for those seeking to send marketing e-mail. Aaron Kornblum, an attorney for Microsoft, says: "This is the first action against a Web host catering to spammers." His rationale for the suit is that National Online Sales and Gillespie are providing "a safe place for spammers to drive customers to." (Reuters/USA Today 25 Sep 204) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-09-25-ms-sues-spam- host_x.htm> SCHWARZENEGGER WANTS E-VOTE PAPER TRAIL California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation that will bar the use of any electronic voting machine that doesn't produce paper trails to verify votes. Another bill that received his signature will allow the California secretary of state, local election officials or the attorney general to file lawsuits against persons or companies suspected of tampering with voting equipment. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 28 Sep 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9778991.htm> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage CONCERN GROWS OVER JPEG FLAW Some security experts are warning users that a recently announced flaw in the way some Microsoft applications handle JPEG images could lead to the next large-scale virus infection. David Perry of anti-virus firm Trend Micro noted that the combination of several factors has his firm especially worried about the JPEG flaw. Those factors, Perry said, include the number of applications that are affected by the flaw--more than a dozen--and the fact that there has not been a significant virus attack for some time, which may have the effect of lowering users' attention to preventive measures. When the flaw was announced, no code had yet appeared that exploited it. Within the past week, however, such code has been written and has appeared on a private mailing list and a public Web site. Perry characterized the current situation as "the virus equivalent of a harmonic convergence." Others were not as worried about the threat posed by the flaw. Graham Cluley of anti-virus firm Sophos noted that so far no malicious code is being delivered using the flaw. "It is purely being done as a 'proof of concept,'" said Cluley. BBC, 24 September 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3684552.stm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** More Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media NEW SAT ESSAY PORTION FOCUSES MORE ON STYLE THAN CONTENT Schools and students are flocking to either take the SAT tests before March to avoid the change to handwriting as opposed to only content oriented scoring, while those in a position to only take the test later are practicing on their handwriting like mad, according to various reports I have heard and seen regarding the 2005 SAT [Scholastic Aptitude Test, now owned by College Board testing.] Decades ago research indicated that a typewritten paper, this was before the computer age, was much easier for an academic evaluator to read and grade, and would also get a higher grade, even though the content was the same. In 2005 we will apparently be taking a giant step back-- to the days where penmanship was more important than the ability to type, when the pen was mightier than the PC. All Things Considered reported on September 27, that the school system's "New Generation Takes Up Cursive Writing" and Robert Siegel watched as Bel Air, Maryland, students went back to the basics of formal handwriting, something had previously been going the way of the dinosaur as the computer had become the tool of choice for writing. Testing on analogies and quantitative comparison are now being de-emphasized, as are the reading passages, all in decline in the new 2005 version of the SAT, which vamped and revamped itself in the last few years, setting up an alternative new scoring system I reported on earlier. That scoring system was in response to the fact that the standarized tests such as the SAT and ACT [The "American College Testing" brand] scores had finally fallen so far that this could no longer be ignored. Of course, the solution was to revamp the scoring, not a solution to improve the U.S. educational system. [There have been several comments mentioning that many a recent winner of national awards has been homeschooled; include both last year's National Spelling Bee winner and runner up in that category, not to mention several earlier.] Without even a single decade to evaluate and refine that new scoring system, the SATs are already going through a new face lift that further removes today's scores from a historical perspective that previously dated to WWII. To those who say none of "1984" never happened, I submit that these are merely a few examples out of thousands. FLORIDA SCHOOLS CLOSED, BUT FOOTBALL IS STILL A PRIORITY Many students in Florida are still out of school, due to the effects of recent hurricane damage, but the football team is still going out for practice, as what has been a major effort at a "return to normalcy." RFIDs NOW TRACKING CHILDREN AT THEME PARKS RFIDs [Radio Frequency IDentification tags] are now used to keep track of your kids when they go to theme parks-- I guess you can just go to a "lost and found" and see on the computer screen where they are. Previous uses have been to keep track of school children in Japan, public officials in South America, and inmates in prisons, as well as for the County Dog Catcher to get a head start on those hard to catch dogs. This may be the first use not mandated by some officials of the various government agencies involved, at least as far as the tracking of living beings is concerned. Wal-Mart is reported to be putting RFIDs on every single piece of merchandise in their stores, so watch out if an item you are carrying gets out of your possession, their computers may realize this and have someone bring it out to the checkout counter as you are leaving. [Speaking of those Japanese school kids. . . .] JAPANESE KIDS TRACKED BY RADIO CHIPS [No more saying, "They didn't let me out until an hour ago."] Some schools in Japan are testing a system in which tiny antennae are attached to student backpacks or clothes so the students can be traced by radio. Public school teacher Ichiro Ishihara says, "More than 70 percent of parents supported the trials, indicating there is wide appreciation for this kind of effort. And the kids love it -- they think it's cool." There has also begun the testing in Japan of a system that will allow messages to be sent to parents' cell phones so they know what time their children left school. (Los Angeles Times 28 Sep 2004) <http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology11sep28,1,7887619.story? coll=sns-ap-toptechnology> *** The Bureau of Labor Statistics has published a new survey, which looks at how Americans spend their time. See http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf. "Reading as a primary [leisure] activity varied greatly by age. The oldest age group [65 and older] averaged an hour of reading per day, while the youngest [15 to 24] averaged about 8 minutes." The overall average is .33 hours/day (about 19 minutes) for men, and .40 hours/day (about 24 minutes) for women. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK TV ADS REDUCED DURING PREMIERES While I was watching the season premiere of a television show this week, I noticed something odd. . .no commercials, no ads. Nothing on that order until 21 minutes into the show, so I did a little note taking and found the ads to have been placed at: 21 mins 34 mins 45 mins 54 mins thus giving show viewing segments of: 21 mins 10 mins 8 mins 6 mins for a total of 45 minutes of show, when the usual time given for programs has now "Honey, I shrunk the TV shows" down to only about 40 minutes on the average day. Thus we got 3/4 show and 1/4 commercials during the premiere, and none at all for the first 1/3+ of the show, rather than the usual 2/3 show and 1/3 commercials. Yes, we usually get only about 40 minutes of programming per 60 minutes on the clock. For those keeping score at home, you might want to try it, and you will notice that once they have you hooked on the show, they put in more and more ads as the show goes on. If you buy any of the old shows, you will notice they have 52 minutes of show and only 8 minutes of commercials. 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Saturday, December 8, 1849, by Various 13550 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/5/13550 ] [Files: 13550.txt; 13550-8.txt; 13550-h.htm] The Art of War, by Baron Henri de Jomini 13549 [Translated From The French By G.H. Mendell and W.P. Craighill] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/4/13549 ] [Files: 13549.txt; 13549-8.txt; 13549-h.htm] The Rocks of Valpre, by Ethel May Dell 13547 [Author AKA: Ethel M. Dell] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/4/13547 ] [Files: 13547.txt; 13547-8.txt; ] The Dark House, by I. A. R. Wylie 13546 [Author AKA: Ida Alexis Ross Wylie] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/4/13546 ] [Files: 13546.txt; ] Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes. . ., by Edith M. Thomas 13545 [Title: Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/4/13545 ] [Files: 13545.txt; 13545-8.txt; 13545-h.htm; ] Notes & Queries, No. 18. Saturday, March 2, 1850, by Various 13544 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/4/13544 ] [Files: 13544.txt; 13544-8.txt; 13544-h.htm] People You Know, by George Ade 13543 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/4/13543 ] [Files: 13543.txt; 13543-8.txt; 13543-h.htm] Left Tackle Thayer, by Ralph Henry Barbour 13542 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/4/13542 ] [Files: 13542.txt; 13542-8.txt; 13542-h.htm] The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I, by Ambrose Bierce 13541 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/4/13541 ] [Files: 13541.txt; 13541-8.txt; 13541-h.htm] Notes & Queries, No. 53, Saturday, November 2, 1850, by Various 13540 [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/4/13540 ] [Files: 13540.txt; 13540-8.txt; 13540-h.htm] Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen., by Scudder 13539 [Full author: Dr. John Scudder] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/3/13539 ] [Files: 13539.txt; 13539-8.txt; 13539-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 101, September 5, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13538 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/3/13538 ] [Files: 13538.txt; 13538-8.txt; 13538-h.htm] Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming, by Ellen Eddy Shaw 13537 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/3/13537 ] [Files: 13537.txt; 13537-8.txt; 13537-h.htm] Notes & Queries, Index of Vol. 1, November 1849 through May 1850 13536 [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/5/3/13536 ] [Files: 13536.txt; 13536-8.txt; 13536-h.htm] Selections from Five English Poets, by Various 13535 [Edited With Introduction And Notes By Mary E. 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Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #2754 *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] >From NewsScan: MUSIC INDUSTRY SHOULD CHARGE LESS, SELL MORE The music industry is fighting a losing battle, says Newsweek columnist Steven Levy, who says the RIAA's legal tactics make about as much sense as trying to sue a hurricane: "Technology generates its own form of nature, a set of conditions that enforce an artificial, yet equally unstoppable, reality~E For the longest time, the labels viewed digital music as something that could hurt them with hurricane force but made no efforts to adjust to this new reality, let alone exploit it." Levy notes that Real Networks' experiment with sharply cutting prices for digital music -- to 49 cents per song -- was a losing proposition because they still owed 70 cents in royalties for each song sold. But what's impressive is that Real sold six times as much music and took in three times as much money as when they had prices pegged at the industry's 99-cent standard. Levy says that if labels and artists would agree to smaller royalties, everyone could get richer quicker: "Behind Door One is the money you can make by selling a million copies of a tune. Behind the other door is the money to be reaped by selling 6 million copies at half the price. Do the math, guys!" Not only that, but lowering prices significantly might just stamp out the scourge of pirated music -- and that's what the labels say they want, right? (Newsweek 27 Sep 2004) <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6037780/site/newsweek/> STEAL THIS MUSIC The editors of Wired magazine have compiled a CD whose contents are meant to be shared, copied, remixed and sampled in an experiment aimed at supporting the Creative Commons concept of intellectual property licensing. About 750,000 copies of "The Wired CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share" will be mailed along with Wired's November issue and the disc will also be distributed to audience members at a benefit concert headlined by David Byrne, whose "My Fair Lady" appears on the CD. Other artists include the Beastie Boys, Zap Mama and Gilberto Gil. "The artists were relatively easy to get on board," says Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson. "The labels have different priorities. Some of them, once briefed, got it, and some of them never really saw the advantages." Anderson says he approached 50-60 artists in order to come up with the 16 featured on the CD. (Wall Street Journal 20 Sep 2004) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109563044896921709,00.html> (sub req'd) PATCH DEALS FAVOR BIG BUSINESS Microsoft has quietly begun giving some of its largest customers early warning of what types of security patches it will be releasing. Under the free program, some customers are receiving three business days' notice as to how many security fixes Microsoft plans to release in its regular monthly bulletins, and which Microsoft products are affected. Customers also can learn how severe a threat the flaws pose several days before the general public gets that information. Microsoft began testing the program last year, and expanded it in April. It has not been widely publicized, and Microsoft has been offering the service to some customers individually through sales representatives. (The Australian 17 Sep 2004) Rec'd from John Lamp, Deakin U. australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10792467%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html FTC OKAYS CASH BOUNTIES FOR SPAMMERS The Federal Trade Commission has given limited endorsement to the idea of offering cash rewards to people who help identify spammers, noting that although technology buffs can often pierce the technical camouflage used to disguise spam's origins, it's far more difficult to gather the kind of information that would lead to successful prosecutions. The idea of offering cash for outing spam-mongers has been around for awhile, but gained credence last year when Stanford University professor and cyberlaw expert Lawrence Lessig told Congress he was so confident that such a system would produce results, he would quit his job if it failed to do so. The FTC noted in its report that in order to be effective, such a law would need to concentrate on rewarding whistleblowers and others close to the operation, and that cash amounts would likely have to be in the $100,000 to $250,000 range -- an amount that Congress would need to fund because it exceeds any damages likely to be won in court. Meanwhile, the FTC warned against taking any steps that would divert resources from enforcement efforts. "A poorly designed reward system would not only fail to achieve its purpose," but also result in significant costs to the commission." (Washington Post 17 Sep 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27220-2004Sep16.html> INTERNET ATTACKS JUMP SIGNIFICANTLY THIS YEAR The semiannual Internet Security Threat Report, which is based on monitoring by computer security firm Symantec, indicates that in the first six months of 2004 there were at least 1,237 newly discovered software vulnerabilities and almost 5,000 new Windows viruses and worms capable of compromising computer security. The numbers represent a dramatic increase over the same period in 2003. Even more troubling was the sharp rise in the number of "bot," or robot, networks, which comprise a large number of infected PCs that can then be used to distribute viruses, worms, spyware and spam to other computers. The survey notes that in the first half of 2004, the number of monitored botnets rose from fewer than 2,000 to more than 30,000. The botnets, which range in size from 2,000 to 400,000 "zombie" machines, are often "rented out" to commercial spammers who use them to distribute junk e-mail while concealing their identities. E-commerce was the industry most frequently targeted for attacks, accounting for 16% of the total, and report authors note that phishing scams are responsible for pushing up the numbers in that category. "We're seeing a professional hand in development that was pretty startling in terms of malicious code," says Alfred Huger, senior director of engineering for security response at Symantec. The report's findings mirror those of recent government-supported research. (New York Times 20 Sep 2004) <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/technology/20secure.html> SASSER CREATOR HIRED BY SECURITY FIRM A German teenager accused of creating the Sasser worm that infected millions of computers around the world is being trained as a security software programmer, the company that hired him said on Friday. Eighteen-year-old Sven Jaschan has been taken on by the Securepoint computer firm based in L|neburg, in northern Germany, and is being trained to make firewalls to stop suspect files from entering computer systems. "He has a certain know-how in this field," a company spokesman said. Jaschan has been charged with computer sabotage, data manipulation and disruption of public systems for allegedly hatching the Sasser worm. (The Age 20 Sep 2004) Rec'd from John Lamp, Deakin U. <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/20/1095532209897.html> HACKERS SEEK TO SAVE AMERICA Jason Larsen types in a few lines of computer code to hack into the controls of a nearby chemical plant. Then he finds an online video camera inside and confirms that he has pumped up a pressure value. "It's the challenge. It's you finding the flaws," he says when asked about his motivation. "It's you against the defenders. It comes from a deep-seated need to find out how things work." Larsen, 31, says his goal is not to wreak havoc, but to boost security for America's pipelines, railways, utilities and other infrastructure, part of a project backed by the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Idaho lab launched a new cyber security center last month where expert hackers such as Larsen test computing vulnerabilities. Spread across 890 square miles (2305 square km) in a remote area of eastern Idaho, INEEL gives experts access to an entire isolated infrastructure such as the one Larsen hacked into. "I don't think people have an understanding of what could be the impact of cyber attacks," says INEEL director Paul Kearns. "They don't understand the threat." In recent months, U.S. security officials have warned that the nation is not prepared against cyber terrorism. (The Age, 17 Sep 2004) rec'd from John Lamp, Deakin U. <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/16/1095221724884.html> AOL OFFERS SECOND LEVEL OF SECURITY AOL has become the first major U.S. online business to offer customers a second layer of security, which it will make available to subscribers for $1.95 a month in addition to a one-time $9.95 fee. The system uses a matchbook-size device displaying a six-digit log-on code that changes every minute; it requires that the second password be entered in order to check e-mail or access such services as calendars, stock portfolios and AOL's Bill Pay. Gartner analyst Avivah Litan estimates that no more than 5-15% of AOL subscribers will sign up initially but says that "you have to start somewhere." (AP/Washington Post 21 Sep 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37700-2004Sep21.html> CELL PHONES TRACK DOWN WI-FI HOTSPOTS If you're in the U.K. and you're looking for a Wi-Fi hotspot to download e-mail, you're in luck. A Web site called Totalhotspots.com, which offers a list of global hotspots, has teamed up with Mobile Commerce, a phone services company, to enable users to consult the Totalhotspots directory via cell phone while on the go. The user simply sends a text message consisting of the word "hotspot" to the 84140 SMS short code number, and the name, address and telephone number of the nearest Wi-Fi location will pop up on the screen. "It's like making a directory enquiries call," says Mobile Commerce exec Dan Jelfs. Currently, the system works only with the UK's GSM networks (Vodafone, Orange, O2 and T-Mobile) but compatibility with future third-generation networks is planned also. (BBC News 17 Sep 2004) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3665382.stm> THUMBS UP ON 'THUMB DRIVES' Thumb drives -- those tiny gizmos also known as USB flash drives, jump drives or keychain drives -- have been the "must-have" gadget among techies for the past couple of years, but now they're gaining popularity among students and business people who are replacing their recordable CDs used for transferring data from one computer to another. The thumb drives come in several guises -- Victorinox, maker of Swiss army knives, offers one squeezed in next to the nail file on its Swissmemory model -- and memory capacity has risen from an average of 64 megabytes in 2001 to 256 megabytes today. Meanwhile, during the same period prices have dropped from about $100 to about $40 and a Gartner analyst predicts the stand-alone versions are getting so cheap they'll soon replace coffee mugs as giveaways at corporate events. "It's a great low-tech solution. I used to have to carry a bunch of disks around. I don't have to do that anymore," says one banking executive. (Wall Street Journal 17 Sep 2004) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109537053772020139,00.html> (sub req'd) CHICAGO'S NEW SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM Chicago is installing a network of surveillance cameras that Mayor Richard M. Daley has said will make Chicago citizens much safer. Chicago official Ron Huberman says, "What we're doing is a totally new concept. This is a very innovative way to harness the power of cameras." Emergency center dispatchers will be able to tilt or zoom the cameras to watch suspicious people and follow them from one camera's range to another's. But ACLU spokesman Edwin C. Yohnka worries: "With the aggressive way these types of surveillance equipment are being marketed and implemented, it really does raise questions about what kind of society do we ultimately want, and how intrusive we want law enforcement officials to be in all of our lives." Huberman's response: "The value we gain in public safety far outweighs any perception by the community that this is Big Brother who's watching. The feedback we're getting is that people welcome this. It makes them feel safer." And Mayor Daley notes: "We're not inside your home or your business. The city owns the sidewalks. We own the streets and we own the alleys." (New York Times 21 Sep 2004) <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/national/21cameras.html> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage ATTACKS ON WINDOWS MACHINES ON THE RISE Computer security firm Symantec said that the number of viruses and worms that target Microsoft's Windows operating system jumped 400 percent in the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year. In all, nearly 5,000 new Windows viruses and worms were identified between January and June. Symantec's report echoed a warning from MessageLabs in August that spammers and computer hackers were working together to take advantage of weaknesses in the Windows operating system. According to Alfred Huger, a senior director at Symantec's Security Response team, hackers are increasingly selling illicit access to computers to spammers, who are having greater difficulty getting their messages past e-mail filters. Reuters, 20 September 2004 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6281135 [A little more about China] CHINESE ACADEMIC CALLS FOR SITE REOPENING A law professor at Peking University, He Weifang, has written an open letter calling on the government to reverse a decision to shut down the Yita Hutu bulletin board, commonly referred to as YTHT, its Web address. Last week, government officials ordered that the site be permanently shut down and quickly afterwards prohibited discussion about the closure in other online groups. YTHT was created in 1999 by a graduate student and reportedly grew to comprise more than 700 discussion groups with more than 300,000 registered users. Many of the topics covered on the YTHT site were banned from state-run media coverage, including human rights issues and questions about Taiwan. In his letter, He said the site was "an important source of information and a channel for discussion for tens of thousands of netizens around the world, including the teachers and students of our university." Xiao Qiang, the head of the China Digital News project at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, supported the importance of the YTHT site, calling it "the most politically provocative online community in Chinese cyberspace." Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 September 2004 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/09/2004092004n.htm PHISHING RIFE ON INTERNET Phishing scams are proliferating on the Internet, and some are sophisticated enough to fool even seasoned Web users. Phishing scams use bogus e-mails and Web sites designed to look like those of legitimate companies to trick users into revealing personal information, such as credit card numbers, that can then be used in any number of other crimes. According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, Citibank has become the most popular ruse, with nearly 500 separate scams designed to fool Citibank customers into divulging sensitive information. Scams directed at Ebay users totaled 285, according to the group. Lawrence Hefler, vice president of e-business and strategic alliances at Hilton Grand Vacations and the chairman of the Direct Marketing Association's Internet committee, was fooled by one of the fake Citibank messages. As Hefler noted, most of the more deft phishing scams, including the one he fell for, make a point of talking about security issues and the potential for identity theft. New York Times, 20 September 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/technology/20phish.html ATTACKS ON WINDOWS MACHINES ON THE RISE Computer security firm Symantec said that the number of viruses and worms that target Microsoft's Windows operating system jumped 400 percent in the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year. In all, nearly 5,000 new Windows viruses and worms were identified between January and June. Symantec's report echoed a warning from MessageLabs in August that spammers and computer hackers were working together to take advantage of weaknesses in the Windows operating system. According to Alfred Huger, a senior director at Symantec's Security Response team, hackers are increasingly selling illicit access to computers to spammers, who are having greater difficulty getting their messages past e-mail filters. Reuters, 20 September 2004 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6281135 UT DALLAS CONCEDES STUDENT ACCESS POINTS [This article doesn't mention that the student's network was working better than the university network, and at no direct cost to either the university or to users. More details available on request.] Administrators at the University of Texas at Dallas have withdrawn a policy that banned students from setting up Wi-Fi access points on campus. The policy was implemented to help deal with interference from 802.11b and 802.11g access points (802.11a access points were not banned) that some students had set up that were causing interference with the university's own wireless network. Students who disagreed with the policy noted that the Federal Communications Commission in June had issued a statement that supported individuals' right to operate access points using the Wi-Fi spectrum. University administrators conducted a review and decided to withdraw the policy because it was not clear that the university had the authority to enforce it. According to Steve McGregor, a spokesman for the university, the growing number of access points is causing interference in some areas of the campus, but the university will not try to regulate the access points. "Folks will have to figure it out individually," McGregor said. CNET, 16 September 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-5369921.html AOL DROPS MICROSOFT'S ANTISPAM TECHNOLOGY Following a new rift between Microsoft and the open-source community over a standard to fight spam, America Online (AOL) decided it will not adopt Microsoft's Sender ID tool. Sender ID is designed to identify spoofed return addresses in e-mail, allowing ISPs to reject those messages. Although Microsoft has said it will not charge royalties on Sender ID, the software company does hold patents for some of the technology on which the tool is built. Those patents have led to the recent dispute between Microsoft and advocates of an open-source approach to an antispam standard. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) rejected the Sender ID standard, and a statement from AOL released shortly after that decision said that the company "will now not be moving forward with full deployment of the Sender ID protocol." A spokesperson from Microsoft said that despite the IETF's decision, "It's still going to be one standard, there's just going to be two flavors." Reuters, 16 September 2004 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6258496 You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** More Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media 60 Minutes Not Aired In Major Metropolitan Markets In Swing States The last two Wednesdays, the CBS show 60 Minutes was not aired to many who would normally be in the audience, and perhaps even more who might have been tuning in for the latest on President Bush's National Guard service record. Various reasons were given by stations from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to Nashville, Tennesee, to Ft. Pierce, Florida, according to searches using "60 Minutes," "pre-empted," and "not aired." These reasons were listed as being from saying they thought 60 Minutes was going to be a rerun, to power outages that seemed to last only the hour 60 Minutes was scheduled to be on the air. More than one station ran a Billy Graham sponsored movie in place of 60 Minutes, at least one of which stated that this movie had originally been scheduled weeks ago. Most or all of the stations said they aired the 60 Minutes program later around 1AM or 2AM. Many calls and emails to the news media suggested that these stations did not want to run 60 Minutes until after they knew what was going to be said in advance, even though it is strict policy of the news media never to allow anyone to know this information or the questions that will be raised before the interviews take place or are aired. The locations named above were not the only ones missing 60 Minutes. If you find any others, please advise. * At least one of these stations aired Dan Rather's apology three times, in just over one hour, before, during, and again after the program, once even before it even aired directly on the CBS Evening News to their viewers. * Further research on the reported scheduling of the Billy Graham movie reveled that schedules provided to the local media television listings indicated that 60 Minutes was scheduled to air at its normal time, even though a station spokesperson indicated the Billy Graham movie had been on the schedule for several weeks. It would appear there is still more to this story than is apparent, but it seems unlikely that we will ever find out the ultimate source[s] of the information presented by 60 Minutes, and there have been rumors that Dan Rather may end up stepping down as a result. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 90 Million More Africans In Poverty Now Than In 1950 A highly placed African source has reported that Africa is worse off now than it was in the last colonial days, citing that the colonial powers at least invested in an assortment of fundamental African projects, whereas the current rulers have taken all the capital OUT of Africa and invested it with the major world banks or companies and thus destroyed the African economy by displacing it from the Third World to the First World. Additional sources also cite the clear-cutting of their traditional rain-forest sources of water as causing the permanent drought in Ethiopia and other countries. * Antarctic Glaciers Now Moving To The Sea 8 Times Faster World scientists studying satellite photographs of very new data from areas surrounding the South Pole reported that the Antarctic ice pack is falling into the ocean a record 8 times faster than it was just two years ago in response to the destruction of major ice shelves due to global warming. The effects are not only a massive proliferation of the navigational difficulties due to 8 times as many of the traditional icebergs, but as far away as Hawaii reports indicate their world-class beaches are shrinking due to increased sea-levels and related beach degradation. [See: ICE COLLAPSE SPEEDS UP GLACIERS] from BBC News Online, http://snipurl.com/992f * Zhores Alferov, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000 for his work on fast transistors, laser LEDs, and integrated circuits, was supposed to be addressing a major symposium in Berkeley today, but is stuck in Russia, after a U.S. consular official could not get a grasp on Prof. Alferov's work when he asked, and the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Science apparently gave an answer that was beyond the comprehension of the average junior diplomat level, and couldn't come up with a simple enough description to get his visa stamped to get on the plane to the United States. http://snipurl.com/990c *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK Chicago Mayor Daley said, "We're not inside your home or your business. The city owns the sidewalks. We own the streets and we own the alleys." [Referring to citywide surveillance project. 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Marion Crawford 13340 Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville, Vol. 2, by Alexis de Tocqueville 13333 [Title: Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2] [Edited by M.C.M. Simpson] Selected Poems, by William Francis Barnard 13322 [Subtitle: The Tongues of Toil And Other Poems] Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius 13316 [Author: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius] Contains: The Theological Tractates with an English Translation, by H.F. Stewart E.K. Rand The Consolation Of Philosophy With The English Translation Of "I.T.", Revised by H.F. Stewart [Language: English and Latin] Barford Abbey, by Susannah Minific Gunning 13314 [Title: Barford Abbey, A Novel: In A Series Of Letters. In Two Volumes] Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune, by A. D. Crake 13305 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Days of Edmund Ironside] The Curly-Haired Hen, by Auguste Vimar 13302 [Translated by Nora K. 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Holdsworth] Oeuvres de Napoleon Bonaparte, Tome II, by Napoleon Bonaparte 12782 [Editor: C. L. F. Panckoucke] [Language: French] Aug 2001 Jewel, by Clara Louise Burnham [jewelxxx.xxx] 2778 [Subtitle: A Chapter In Her Life] Aug 2001 The Lady From The Sea, by Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen #7] [ldysexxx.xxx] 2765 [Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling] .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: The following is being re-indexed to clarify the title and the contents, also authorship: Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes, by Parloa, and Home Made Candy, by Hill 13177 [Title: Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes, by Miss Parloa, and Home Made Candy Recipes, by Mrs. Janet McKenzie Hill] [Author: Maria Parloa] The following is being re-indexed to correct the title (Burgundy, not Burgandy): Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy, by Charles Major 12057 The following is being re-indexed to correct the issue number (32, not 22): Dec 2005 Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, by Various [#22][?05a6xxx.xxx] 9486 [Title: Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860] The following are being re-indexed to standardize the listings for uniformity with current and future postings, and add supplemental information: Society for Pure English, Tract 11, E.B., H.W. 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The decision is a major victory of Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, whose decision to challenge the Justice Department in court was seen by many analysts as an exercise in futility. (Washington Post 9 Sep 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9718-2004Sep9.html> IBM GIVES SPEECH RECOGNITION CODE TO OPEN SOURCE GROUPS In a shrewd move intended to outmaneuver rivals, IBM is contributing some of its proprietary speech-recognition software to two open source groups. One application that handles basic words for dates, time and locations will go to the Apache Software Foundation, and another that targets speech-editing will be donated to the Eclipse Foundation. "We're trying to spur the industry around open standards to get more and more speech application development," says IBM senior VP Steven Mills. "Our code contribution is about getting that ecosystem going." The move reflects IBM's strategy to broaden its software business opportunities by giving away various pieces of code to open source software developers. IBM has been an avid support of open-source projects like the Apache Web server and the Linux operating system and last month it contributed Cloudscape, a database written in Java, to the Apache Foundation. "This whole speech world is going in the same direction as the rest of the information technology industry, and that would drastically reduce the cost of building speech applications," says one market research analyst. (New York Times 13 Sep 2004) <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/technology/13speech.html> PRIVACY COMPLAINT AGAINST AIRLINE DISMISSED Dismissing a complaint filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Minnesota ACLU, the Department of Transportation has ruled that Northwest Airlines did not violate its own privacy policy when it shared passenger records with the government as part of a secret airline security project after the terrorist attacks in September 2001. EPIC and the ACLU had argued that Northwest committed unfair and deceptive trade practices when it shared the information with the NASA without informing its customers, but the Transportation Department ruled that the language of the policy says only that the airline won't sell the information and it did not address sharing information within the government. (Washington Post 15 Sep 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21559-2004Sep14.html> SPYCAM MAY BE WATCHING YOU WORK If you have a webcam and a microphone on your computer and a broadband connection to the Internet, a hacker could be watching you from that PC in your bedroom. Computer security experts are warning that a series of Windows viruses released to the Internet are capable of taking control of the audio and video accessories to spy directly on people at home or work. The worm, dubbed W32/Rbot-GR, is "the equivalent to a Peeping Tom ... peering through your curtains" says Graham Cluley of Sophos, the British-based anti-virus company. Worms such as Rbot-GR can be neutralized by any of the several anti-virus software packages available but these must be regularly updated. Cluley warns: "If you are not using your webcam, unplug it." (The Age 14 Sep 2004) Rec'd from J. Lamp <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/13/1094927508372.html QUANTUM ENCRYPTION Researchers at Harvard, Boston University, and BBN Technologies are developing a quantum encryption system that uses light particles called photons to lock and unlock information. Project scientist John M. Myers from Harvard says, "It is really a futuristic technology. Its applications are going to be a lot like the laser and the transistor, in that early people could not think of all the possible applications and uses of it." Quantum cryptography is based on the discovery that photons will be changed simply by observing them; as a result, eavesdropping on the photons (e.g., by setting up a photo detector to read the code) disrupts them, making the codes unusable and alerting the network to the snooper. BBN chief scientist Chip Elliott quips: "This is what every teenager wants: Instant messaging protected by quantum cryptography. Don't tell my daughter." (AP/USA Today 15 Sep 2004) www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-09-15-quantum-crypto_x.htm You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage IBM TO GO OPEN SOURCE WITH SPEECH RECOGNITION In an effort to encourage growth in speech-recognition technologies and to outpace competitor Microsoft for such tools, IBM will contribute speech-recognition software to two open-source groups, the Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation. IBM said the software cost about $10 million to develop and that the move is designed "to spur the industry around open standards to get more and more speech application development." The announcement is the latest in a series of decisions by IBM to support open-source groups with donations of technologies it has developed, including the Cloudscape database. For its part, Microsoft has developed free tools for building speech-recognition applications using the company's .Net architecture, and more than 100,000 developers have reportedly downloaded those tools. New York Times, 13 September 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/technology/13speech.html CALIFORNIA JOINS SUIT AGAINST DIEBOLD The state of California, as well as the state's Alameda County, this week joined a lawsuit filed by a computer programmer and voting rights advocate against Diebold Inc. for selling faulty hardware and software for electronic voting. The original plaintiffs, Jim March and Bev Harris, are asking the courts to force Diebold to refund all of the money paid to it for the state's electronic voting machines. Problems with Diebold's products caused more than half of the polling places in San Diego County to open late for the state's March primary, and at least 6,000 voters in Alameda county had to use paper ballots instead of Diebold's electronic voting machines. Lowell Finley, attorney for the original plaintiffs in the case, said the decision to join shows that the "state clearly believes there's merit to the case." Meanwhile, the state decided not to file criminal charges against Diebold, a move state voting officials considered after California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley decertified one Diebold system for being unreliable and jeopardizing the state's elections. San Jose Mercury News, 8 September 2004 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9608838.htm WI-FI POLICY SPARKS CONTROVERSY AT UT DALLAS A new policy covering Wi-Fi access points at the University of Texas at Dallas has led to a standoff between university administrators and students claiming the right to have their own wireless access points. The policy forbids students from operating their own access points on campus because of interference with the university's wireless network, which is slower than what the students have set up, and because of security concerns over the unregulated "hot spots." Students argue that the airwaves for wireless Internet access are available to anyone who wants to use them. Bill Hargrove, executive director of information resources at the university, compared the situation to that of a student who brings a stereo system to campus. The stereo is fine, he said, "until the point where you turn it up and it bothers your neighbors." Administrators and students are at an impasse now, with neither side ready to concede. CNET, 9 September 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-5360510.html ORACLE WINS ANTITRUST CASE A federal judge has ruled against the Department of Justice in its attempt to block Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft. In his decision, Judge Vaughn Walker said that the government failed to prove that the merger would lead to less competition and higher prices in the business software market. Walker said the small and midsize companies that play a part in the business software market represent a valid alternative to the big three--Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. Walker stayed his decision for 10 days to give the Department of Justice an opportunity to file an appeal if they so choose. The PeopleSoft board has consistently rejected Oracle's takeover offer, arguing in part that the merger violated antitrust laws. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, said the court's "decision puts the onus squarely on the board of PeopleSoft to meet with us." The takeover is still subject to approval by European regulators. Wall Street Journal, 10 September 2004 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109476549979113989,00.html MICROSOFT DOUBLES GRACE PERIOD FOR SP2 UPDATES Microsoft this week agreed to extend the term during which customers of its Automatic Update or Windows Update services can block the automatic installation of Service Pack 2 (SP2). The company released SP2 in August to address many security issues with its Windows XP operating system, but the update may not work properly with certain applications. Some corporate customers had asked for time to test SP2 and resolve any conflicts, and Microsoft initially agreed to allow users to block SP2 from their automatic updates for 120 days, after which the service pack would be installed through the update services. That period has now been extended to 240 days, starting August 16. At that point, in mid-April, Microsoft's update services will ignore any users' instructions not to install the service pack. CNET, 8 September 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5355050.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** More Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media POLICE PROTECT THE BURGLARS BUT NOT THE BURLARIZED A man was reported to have called his local police when he spotted burglars removing property out his garage doors. The police responded that they were not going to be able to respond very soon, as they didn't have any units in the area. The man called back a short time later and told an official representative that there was no longer a need for a swift response, since he had shot those who were burglarizing his garage. A few minutes later a half-dozen police cars and a helicopter were on the scene and easily rounded up the alleged burglars who were apparently unharmed. The police commander is reported to have said: "I thought you said you had shot them?" The man is reported to have replied: "I thought YOU said there were no officers available." Apparently the police had many more officers there on call to defend burglars from being shot than to protect the man who was being burglarized. LEADING ISP AGREES TO END SERVICE TO SPAMMERS Under pressure from antispam organization Spamhaus, Savvis, one of the world's largest ISPs, will stop serving nearly 150 known spammers. Though not a commonly known name, U.S.-based Savvis serves such high-profile customers as the New York Stock Exchange and 75 of the world's largest 100 banks. In January, Savvis bought C&W U.S., which had 95 spammers among its 3,000 customers. That number grew to 148, and revenue from those customers rose to $2 million a month, according to Alif Terranson, a former employee of Savvis. Terranson contacted Spamhaus after reportedly being told by executives of Savvis that the company would take no action against those customers found to be sending spam. Spamhaus, which provides antispam protection by publishing a list of sites that send spam, persuaded Savvis to end service of its spamming customers after threatening to block all e-mail from Savvis. Rob McCormick, the CEO of Savvis, rejected Terranson's revenue estimate from the spammers and said his company is committed to working against spam. Steve Linford, operator of Spamhaus, commended Savvis for its quick decision to cut service to the spammers. BBC, 8 September 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3634572.stm RACIAL PROFILING MOVIE CENSORED BY CITIES WHERE FILMED An independent documentary movie detailing incidents of racial profiling by local police is under attack by both city and police officials saying that the police who appear on film were not given the proper "advise and consent" procedures before being recorded on film. At present this film is not being allowed on the local public access channels, and the police appear to be suing the filmmaker[s] for filming without permission, when heavy police presence was recorded at establishments frequented by black members of the community, but recordings at similar establishments white people gathered at failed to show any police presence. Additional research yesterday indicated that that the official charges might be made under an "eavesdropping" law that the police want to say makes it illegal to record any conversations without permission, even in a public place by a public official in a public capacity. The example I was given was that it would thus be illegal to even tape your kids playing baseball with other kids without permission, which also included possible taping of comments by fans, bystanders, etc. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK In an Echo Poll in Moscow 93% of Russians said they did not believe President Vladimir Putin could stop terrorism after he declared that Russia will strike terrorists wherever they are in the world. * New cellphones are equipped with one inch 1.5G hard drives, MP3 players, cameras, and 2.2" displays. *ODD QUOTATION OF THE WEEK It seemed quite more than strange when some quotes from the Russian child who escaped the school that had been taken over took so long to appear. 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Macilwaine 12926 Title correction: The Laird's Luck and Other Stories, by Arthur Quiller-Couch 12923 correct author name (last = mead): The following is being re-indexed to correct the author's name (the last name is Mead): Simon Magus, by George Robert Stow Mead 12892 The following is being re-indexed to include reference to additional material: Laugh and Live, by Douglas Fairbanks 12887 [Includes: A "Close-Up" of Douglas Fairbanks, by George Creel] The following is being re-indexed to correct errors in authors' names: Philippine Folk-Tales, by Bayliss et al. 11028 [Full author: Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. 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Chesterton 13468 [AKA: Gilbert Keith Chesterton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/6/13468 ] [Files: 13468.txt; ] Study of Child Life, by Marion Foster Washburne 13467 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/6/13467 ] [Files: 13467.txt; 13467-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 101, August 1, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13466 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/6/13466 ] [Files: 13466.txt; 13466-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 101, July 25, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13465 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/6/13465 ] [Files: 13465.txt; 13465-h.htm] Essays on Taste, by John Gilbert Cooper 13464 [Authors: John Gilbert Cooper, John Armstrong, Ralph Cohen] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/6/13464 ] [Files: 13464.txt] Notes and Queries, Number 48, Saturday, September 28, 1850, by Various 13463 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/6/13463 ] [Files: 13463.txt; 13463-8.txt; 13463-h.htm] Notes and Queries, Number 46, Saturday, September 14, 1850, by Various 13462 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/6/13462 ] [Files: 13462.txt; 13462-8.txt; 13462-h.htm] Mistress and Maid, by Dinah Craik [AKA Miss Mulock] 13461 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/6/13461 ] [Files: 13461.txt] How to Become Like Christ, by Marcus Dods 13460 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/6/13460 ] [Files: 13460.txt] The Waters of Edera, by Louise de la Ramee [AKA Ouida] 13459 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/5/13459 ] [Files: 13459.txt; 13459-h.htm] Derroteros y Viages a la Ciudad Encantada, Ed. by Pedro de Angelis 13458 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/5/13458 ] [Files: 13458-8.txt] The Bed-Book of Happiness, by Harold Begbie 13457 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/5/13457 ] [Files: 13457.txt; 13457-8.txt] Les deux nigauds, by Comtesse de Segur 13456 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/5/13456 ] [Files: 13456-8.txt] The Rover Boys In The Mountains, by Arthur M. Winfield 13455 [Subtitle: A Hunt for Fun and Fortune] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/5/13455 ] [Files: 13455.txt; 13455-h.htm; ] Aylwin, by Theodore Watts-Dunton 13454 [Includes Two Appendices: One Containing a Note on the Character of D'arcy; the Other a Key to the Story, Reprinted from Notes and Queries] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/5/13454 ] [Files: 13454.txt; 13454-8.txt; ] The Testing of Diana Mallory, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 13453 [Author AKA: Mary Augusta Arnold Ward] [Illustrated by: W. Hatherell] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/5/13453 ] [Files: 13453.txt; 13453-8.txt; 13453-h.htm; ] Kontrovers-Predigt ueber H. Clauren Und Den Mann Im Mond, by W. Hauff 13452 [Title: Kontrovers-Predigt ueber H. Clauren und den Mann im Mond gehalten vor dem deutschen Publikum in der Herbstmesse 1827] [Author: Wilhelm Hauff] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/5/13452 ] [Files: 13452.txt; 13452-8.txt; ] Der Mann im Mond, by Wilhelm Hauff 13451 [Subtitle: oder der Zug des Herzens ist des Schicksals Stimme, nebst der Kontrovers-Predigt ueber H. Clauren und den Mann im Mond] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/5/13451 ] [Files: 13451.txt; 13451-8.txt; ] The Pleasures of Ignorance, by Robert Lynd 13448 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/4/13448 ] [Files: 13448.txt] Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, by Mary Everest Boole 13447 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/4/13447 ] [Files: 13447-t.tex; 13447-pdf.pdf] Punch, Vol. 101, July 18, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13446 [Editor: Francis Burnand] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/4/13446 ] [Files: 13446.txt; 13446-8.txt; 13446-h.htm] Suomalaisia kirjailijoita, by Eino Leino 13445 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/4/13445 ] [Files: 13445-8.txt] Searchlights on Health, by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols 13444 [Subtitle: The Science of Eugenics] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/4/13444 ] [Files: 13444.txt; 13444-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891, by Various 13443 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/4/13443 ] [Files: 13443.txt; 13443-8.txt; 13443-h.htm] Henry Hudson, by Thomas A. Janvier 13442 [Subtitle: A Brief Statement Of His Aims And His Achievements] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/4/13442 ] [Files: 13442.txt; 13442-8.txt; 13442-h.htm] The Sunny Side, by A. A. Milne 13441 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/4/13441 ] [Files: 13441.txt; 13441-8.txt] Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XV., No. 85., by Various 13440 [Full title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/4/13440 ] [Files: 13440.txt; 13440-8.txt; 13440-h.htm] Divine Songs, by Isaac Watts 13439 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13439 ] [Files: 13439.txt] A King's Comrade, by Charles Whistler 13438 [Subtitle: A Story of Old Hereford] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13438 ] [Files: 13438.txt; 13438-h.htm] Best Russian Short Stories, by Various 13437 [Compiled and Edited by Thomas Seltzer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13437 ] [Files: 13437.txt; 13437-8.txt] Authorised Guide to the Tower of London, by W. J. Loftie 13436 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13436 ] [Files: 13436.txt; 13436-8.txt; 13436-h.htm] On the Choice of Books, by Thomas Carlyle 13435 [Biographical Introduction by Richard Herne Shepherd] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13435 ] [Files: 13435.txt; 13435-8.txt] Regeneration, by H. Rider Haggard 13434 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13434 ] [Files: 13434.txt; 13434-8.txt] A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays, by Walter R. Cassels 13433 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13433 ] [Files: 13433.txt; 13433-8.txt] Miss Bretherton, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 13432 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13432 ] [Files: 13432.txt; 13432-8.txt] Andre, by George Sand 13431 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13431 ] [Files: 13431.txt; 13431-8.txt; 13431-h.htm] A Librarian's Open Shelf, by Arthur E. Bostwick 13430 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/3/13430 ] [Files: 13430.txt; 13430-8.txt; 13430-h.htm] Nimettomia lauluja, by Aaro Hellaakoski 13429 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13429 ] [Files: 13429.txt; 13429-8.txt; 13429-h.htm] Valitut teokset 1910-1922, by Eino Kaila 13428 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13428 ] [Files: 13428-8.txt] Notes & Queries, No. 45, Saturday, September 7, 1850, by Various 13427 [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13427 ] [Files: 13427.txt; 13427-8.txt; 13427-h.htm] Notes & Queries, No. 44, Saturday, August 31, 1850, by Various 13426 [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13426 ] [Files: 13426.txt; 13426-8.txt; 13426-h.htm] Wit Without Money, by Francis Beaumont 13425 [From: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13425 ] [Files: 13425.txt; 13425-h.htm] Honoring Parents, by Anonymous 13424 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13424 ] [Files: 13424.txt; 13424-h.htm] Zarlah the Martian, by R. Norman Grisewood 13423 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13423 ] [Files: 13423.txt; 13423-8.txt; 13423-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 100, June 20, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13422 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13422 ] [Files: 13422.txt; 13422-8.txt; 13422-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 100, June 27, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13421 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13421 ] [Files: 13421.txt; 13421-8.txt; 13421-h.htm] Across China on Foot, by Edwin Dingle 13420 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/2/13420 ] [Files: 13420.txt; 13420-8.txt; 13420-h.htm] The Bishop and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 13419 [Translated by Constance Garnett] [Contents: The Bishop The Letter Easter Eve A Nightmare The Murder Uprooted The Steppe] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/1/13419 ] [Files: 13419.txt; 13419-8.txt] The Chorus Girl and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 13418 [Translated by Constance Garnett] [Contents: The Chorus Girl Verotchka My Life At A Country House A Father On The Road Rothschild's Fiddle Ivan Matveyitch Zinotchka Bad Weather A Gentleman Friend A Trivial Incident] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/1/13418 ] [Files: 13418.txt; 13418-8.txt] The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 13417 [Translated by Constance Garnett] [Contents: The Cook's Wedding Sleepy Children The Runaway Grisha Oysters Home A Classical Student Vanka An Incident A Day In The Country Boys Shrove Tuesday The Old House In Passion Week Whitebrow Kashtanka A Chameleon The Dependents Who Was To Blame? The Bird Market An Adventure The Fish Art The Swedish Match] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/1/13417 ] [Files: 13417.txt; 13417-8.txt] The Darling and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 13416 [Translated by Constance Garnett] [Contents: The Darling Ariadne Polinka Anyuta The Two Volodyas The Trousseau The Helpmate Talent An Artist's Story Three Years] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/1/13416 ] [Files: 13416.txt; 13416-8.txt] The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 13415 [Translated by Constance Garnett] [Contents: The Lady With The Dog A Doctor's Visit An Upheaval Ionitch The Head Of The Family The Black Monk Volodya An Anonymous Story The Husband [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/1/13415 ] [Files: 13415.txt; 13415-8.txt] Love, and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 13414 [Translated by Constance Garnett] [Contents Love Lights A Story Without An End Mari D'elle A Living Chattel The Doctor Too Early! The Cossack Aborigines An Inquiry Martyrs The Lion And The Sun A Daughter Of Albion Choristers Nerves A Work Of Art A Joke A Country Cottage A Blunder Fat And Thin The Death Of A Government Clerk A Pink Stocking At A Summer Villa] [Files: 13414.txt; 13414-8.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/1/13414 ] The Party, and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov 13413 [Translated by Constance Garnett] [Contents: The Party Terror A Woman's Kingdom A Problem The Kiss 'Anna On The Neck' The Teacher Of Literature Not Wanted Typhus A Misfortune A Trifle From Life ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/4/1/13413 ] [Files: 13413.txt; 13413-8.txt] The Schoolmaster and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov 13412 [Translated by Constance Garnett] [Contents: The Schoolmaster Enemies The Examining Magistrate Betrothed From The Diary Of A Violent-Tempered Man In The Dark A Play A Mystery Strong Impressions Drunk The Marshal's Widow A Bad Business In The Court Boots Joy Ladies A Peculiar Man At The Barber's An Inadvertence The Album Oh! The Public A Tripping Tongue Overdoing It The Orator Malingerers In The Graveyard Hush! 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At 13,731 eBooks in 33 Years and 02.00 Months We Averaged 414 Per Year [We do nearly that much a month these days!] 34.5 Per Month 1.13 Per Day At 2824 eBooks Done In The 251 Days Of 2004 We Averaged 11.2 Per Day 80.6 Per Week 353.0 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 7th was the first Wednesday of 2004, and thus ended PG's production year of 2003 and began the production year of 2004 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *Flashback!!! 2820 New eBooks So Far in 2004 It took us ~30 years for the first 2824!!! That's the 8.00 months of 2004 as Compared to ~30 years!!! Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #2824 Oct 2001 Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle [A. C. 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Eva Pascoe's cybercafe drew raves immediately, along with investments from the likes of rock star Mick Jagger. From the branch on Wiltshire Road, in London's bustling Tottenham Court Road area, it spawned outlets across Britain and abroad, showing up even inside Paris' Pompidou Center, the contemporary art museum in the heart of the French capital. (The Age 3 Sep 2004) Rec'd from J. Lamp <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/02/1093939058886.html> MALAYSIA SEEKS TO BECOME TOP OUTSOURCING CENTER Malaysia prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says that outsourcing operations have emerged as one of the largest sectors in Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, spawning investment of more than one billion ringgit by 49 companies and some 8,000 new jobs in the special zone south of Kuala Lumpur. The sector would play a key role in the zone's second phase of development from 2004 to 2010, creating at least 100,000 new jobs by the end of the period. (The Age 2 Sep 2004) Rec'd from J. Lamp <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/02/1093939032933.html> "INDIAN" OUTSOURCERS COULD BE ANYWHERE India's back-office service providers have been establishing operations in other parts of the world: an Infosys subsidiary has opened offices in the Czech republic and MphasiS BFL's arm MSourcE has created a processing center in Mexico. Raju Bhatnagar, president of ICICI OneSource, explains: "It is more from a customer perspective. If the vendor, however reliable, has a single delivery center, it forces the customer to look for a second vendor outside India, rather than put all his eggs in one basket. If I can bridge that gap, I can keep business from going to another vendor." (Reuters/USA Today 3 Sep 2004) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/industry/2004-09-03-further-outsou rcing_x.htm [Speaking of outsourcing, I heard that "call centers" are now going up in Eastern Europe as various countries join NATO and start using Euros] LABOR SECRETARY DEFENDS OUTSOURCING In defense of outsourcing, which has been under much attack in this political year, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao says that companies have created millions of jobs in the United States, far outpacing the amount of work that American businesses have shifted abroad. "People talk about it a lot, but the anxiety belies the numbers." Noting that we live and work in a worldwide economy, Chao warns: "If we isolate ourselves from this worldwide economy, we will put in jeopardy the 9 million jobs that Americans currently hold" in foreign-owned companies. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 2 Sep 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9556426.htm> [Notice she doesn't say "foreign-located companies, or sweatshops.] SPY VERSUS SPY: UNBLOCK THAT CALL-BLOCK A new computerized service from a company called Star38 will allow callers to create false outbound phone numbers and thereby fool call block software. Customers of the new service will be able to go to the company's Web site to enter the number they want to call and the number they want to appear on the caller ID screen of the recipient's phone. Some privacy-rights advocates are concerned that angry former spouses, stalkers or fraud artists could use the service for mischief, but Robert Atkinson of the Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University, comments: "Some people see caller ID as an invasion of their privacy, while others see it as a protection of their privacy. It's spy versus spy." (New York Times 2 Sep 2004) <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/02/technology/02caller.html> FRANCE TELECOM EMPLOYEES PROTEST PRIVATIZATION PLANS France Telecom employees have protested government plans to privatize the group, with management characterizing the mobilization as modest and unions describing it as robust resistance. Company officials say 18.3% of the workforce heeded a union call for a 24-hour strike, while the SUD-PTT union claims the figure was 25% and characterizes the response as "significant." Another union, the CGT, says 30-70% of the workforce went out on strike, with turnout varying among branches. The strike call followed an announcement by the government that it will reduce its stake in France Telecom to below 50%. (The Age 8 Sep 2004) Rec'd from J. Lamp <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/08/1094530645952.html> E-VOTING IN NEVADA Nevada voters have become the first in the nation to cast ballots in a statewide election using computers that produced printed paper records of electronic ballots. "Knock on wood, so far things have been working flawlessly," said Secretary of State Dean Heller. Nevada's $9.3 million voting system includes more than 2,600 computers and printers deployed in every county. The system, developed by California-based Sequoia Voting Systems, aims to address concerns that paperless touchscreen votes cannot be properly audited or recounted. "From what I've seen, voters seem to enjoy the experience," says DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. "There hasn't been frustration or confusion."(AP/USA Today 8 Sep 2004) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2004-09-08-nv-evote-sy stem_x.htm and in a related story: MARYLAND JUDGE OKAYS TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING [Yes, but it's the UNREASONABLE ones who stuff the ballot boxes.] Rejecting a challenge to the state's touch-screen voting machines, a Circuit Court judge in Maryland suggests that the machines are more accurate than the paper ballots the plaintiffs are seeking to make optional for the November elections, and notes that election officials have "taken all reasonable steps to protect the integrity of the voting process." The lead plaintiff's response is: "I am very disappointed that Maryland voters will be forced to vote on machines that we believe are illegal under Maryland law and that are clearly very insecure." In his ruling the judge wrote: "No system is infallible. No machine is infallible. All experts agree systems such as these are much more secure and less vulnerable than the paper ballot" -- or the optical scan machines used in most Maryland jurisdictions in the last presidential election. (Washington Post 1 Sep 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54409-2004Sep1.html> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE DRAFTS NEW VERSION OF INDUCE ACT [Right, Fortune 500 companies such as Sony and Apple can do it, but the little guys face total destruction.] Responding to strong criticism of the recently introduced Induce Act, the U.S. Copyright Office has written a revised version of the legislation. The "discussion draft" offered by the Copyright Office attempts to shield devices such as Apple's iPod from prosecution for inducing consumers to commit copyright violations while outlawing networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus for doing just that. The draft limits liability to those who "intentionally induce" piracy--a more stringent definition of wrongdoing than in the original bill. The Copyright Office's draft has sparked new criticism, however, based on requirements that ISPs and technology companies must take all "reasonably available corrective measures" and cannot "actively interfere" with efforts to locate copyright violators. Sarah Deutsch, vice president and associate general counsel of Verizon Communications, noted that the language in the draft is vague and could make an ISP liable, for example, if it refused to provide copyright holders with a list of the company's subscribers. CNET, 2 September 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5345528.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** More Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media HALLIBURTON OUT OF IRAQ? Various reports are surfacing from both government and private sources that Halliburton, Vice-President Cheney's previous employer, will not renew its Iraq contracts. Multiple sources indicate that the US Army will terminate Halliburton's no-bid 9-figure contract, of which some $1.2 billion seems to be unaccounted for, and will finally put these services up for competitive bidding. Halliburton is reportedly not even going to prepare a bid, as the new contracts won't be nearly as profitable, since they now require the usual bidding system. Researchers on this story say that even if the bidding is about the same as what the previous contractors received, it will still save significant amounts of tax revenues, since Halliburton doesn't really do the work, but rather takes a few percent off the top and then sub-contracts the work to others. ILLINOIS GOVERNOR LOSES TO BUSH ON CANADIAN PHARMACIES Interestingly enough, I never heard a word about this in the Illinois media, though I am sure something has appeared about this. Illinois governor Rod Blagoijovich's program to allow citizens to legally fill prescriptions from Canadian pharmacies was apparently defeated last week. 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SIMPLE SOLUTION OF THE WEEK It would appear that the officials at the Republican National Convention finally figured out how to keep demonstrators from sneaking into the convention with unapproved signs or comments: Across the street they have created a Checkpoint Charlie system, in which delegates, press, etc., are screened, and then wrapped in orange plastic fencing before being ushered across the street into Madison Square Garden inside the orange packaging material. 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~ The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 08 Sep 2004 ~ eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 of the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: - Obtaining Project Gutenberg eBooks - Updates/corrections to previously posted eBooks - 52 New U.S. eBooks this week - 2 New eBooks at PG Australia - Last, but not least: insights and other fine stuff - Mailing list information - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .:: HOW TO GET EBOOKS FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG ::. The easiest way to obtain our eBooks is at our search page at http://gutenberg.net/find.shtml which allows searching by title, author or eBook number; there is also an Advanced Search page which allows for additional search criteria (note that our newer postings may not yet be indexed for all additional criteria). And please note: you can now obtain a listing by language at the above link. 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Part III. Book II. [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/8/13381 ] [Files: 13381.txt; 13381-8.txt] Gabriel, by George Sand 13380 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/8/13380 ] [Files: 13380.txt; 13380-8.txt; 13380-h.htm] The Two Elsies, by Martha Finley 13379 [Subtitle: A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket, Book 10] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/7/13379 ] [Files: 13379.txt; 13379-8.txt] De baanwachter, by Hendrik Conscience 13378 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/7/13378 ] [Files: 13378.txt; 13378-8.txt; 13378-h.htm] A Tour, by Richard Boyle Bernard 13377 [Title: A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/7/13377 ] [Files: 13377.txt; 13377-8.txt; 13377-h.htm] Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed., by S. A. Reilly 13376C (See also: #6603C and 1694C) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/7/13376 ] [Files: 13376.txt; 13376-h.htm] The Rival Heirs, by A. D. 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Dumas, Pere #29[dcrimxxx.xxx] 2760 Aug 2001 The Man in the Iron Mask[The Novel]Dumas, Pere #28[ironmxxx.xxx] 2759 (See also: #2751, which is the essay; #2759 is the Novel) (Note: [Please see the introduction which describes the various books of this title, and how the various editions were published, and how they have been named, and in what order to read them.) *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] >From NewsScan: CUSTOM DESIGN ONLINE eMachineShop.com is giving tinkerers a new tool for designing and making their own creations -- its free design software not only tells customers whether a design can be made, but also provides a cost estimate. If the customer decides he or she wants to go ahead with the project, the design goes to a real-world machine shop for manufacturing. eMachineShop is the brainchild of Jim Lewis, a programmer and self-professed "tinkerer." (One claim to fame -- "the world's hardest sliding block puzzle.") Do-it-yourself types have used the eMachineShop process to manufacture more than 1,000 orders for things like door signs, motorcycle seats, robot frames, car engine covers, guitar plates and camera parts. "Being able to sit at your home computer, draw up some parts, submit them and 30 days later they are on your doorstep, all without human contact, is mind-blowing," says hobbyist Dennis Vegh. Lewis's next project? An application called Pad2Pad that focuses on electronics components. Lewis plans to take the design process beyond machine parts to the custom manufacture of printed circuit boards, including components like resistors, capacitors and chips. "My dream is essentially to become the Amazon in the manufacturing segment," says Lewis. (AP/CNN.com 26 Aug 2004) www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/08/26/online.manufacturing.ap/index.html MICROSOFT ORDERED TO YANK LINUX COMPARISON AD Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has ordered Microsoft to pull a print ad that includes a comparison of the total cost of Linux and Windows. In the ad, Microsoft claims Linux is 10 times more expensive than Windows Server 2003, but ASA has questioned Microsoft's math, noting that the tests on which it was based involved running the two operating systems on different hardware. While Microsoft ran Linux on an IBM z900 mainframe (which is more expensive and underperforms the rest of its line), it ran its own software on cheaper, faster 900MHz Xeon machines. The ASA concluded that the ad was misleading because it implied that the comparison was between the two operating systems only. (InternetNews.com 26 Aug 2004) <http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3400131> DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING TARGETS DRUG DESIGN A global network of more than 150,000 home PCs called Folding@Home is helping Stanford University professor Vijay Pande identify potential drug compounds. The computers donate their spare computing power to run Pande's algorithms, which are designed to accurately predict how well molecules will bind to a given protein. "For almost 20 years, people have been talking about doing drug design computationally, but the real challenge has been getting sufficient accuracy. Our main goal was to come up with methods to really push that accuracy to the point at which our methods are pharmaceutically useful." Pande predicts his methodology may be used to design new classes of antibiotics or speed up treatments for Alzheimer's disease. "One way to think of Folding@Home is as a time machine where we can do the sort of computational work now that would be very easy for any researcher to do in perhaps 10 years. And we can develop these methods and test them now," says Pande. (Science News Daily 26 Aug 2004) <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/040826090745.htm> FIRM TARGETS TEEN PC MARKET Digital Lifestyles Group is marketing a teen-friendly PC called the hip-e aimed at cornering the infamously fickle teenage technology market. The idea for hip-e grew out of Digital Lifestyle CEO Kent Savage's conversations with his 16-year-old son and his friends. After a series of informal focus groups, the boys were asked to draw up their designs for the ideal PC. Digital Lifestyles came back with 20 product concepts, which eventually were winnowed down to one. The hip-e is designed to serve as the hub for all of a teenager's digital interactions, and comes with a 120-gigabyte hard drive, plus Wi-Fi accessibility, a TV tuner and connections for videogame consoles. Speakers attached to the bottom of the PC's stand are removable and can be turned into a portable "beatbox." For $200 extra, the hip-e comes with an MP3 player/keychain data storage drive and/or a cell phone that can be synched with data on the computer. The interface is simplified -- users click on "paper" to launch Microsoft Word and "burn CD" to open a CD-copying program -- and the 17-inch desktop display features a "hangout tuner" that enables users to jump around between applications categories, such as music, movies, games, photos, communications, shopping, etc. Savage says teenagers generally don't like performing separate searches for various programs, so "it made sense to organize it for them and serve it up to them. I think what Apple did with iTunes and the iPod is great. But that's just one application. We are doing that -- on steroids. It's all of these applications, all on one platform." (AP/CNN.com 24 Aug 2004) <http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/08/24/business.of.life.ap/index.html> U.S. LARGEST EXPORTER OF SPAM The United States is the largest global source of spam, producing more than two of every five messages, a report by security firm Sophos shows. Sophos found about 43% of all spam originated in the United States. The next largest source was South Korea, with 15%, and China and Hong Kong, accounting for a combined 12% per cent. The report suggests that a U.S. law known as CAN-SPAM that took effect in January has done little to curb the flood on unwanted messages that some see as a threat to the Internet. Chris Kraft, senior security analyst at Sophos, says the results indicate little overall change from a similar survey in February for the United States. (The Australian 25 Aug 2004) rec'd from John Lamp, Deakin U. australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10561978%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html XP SERVICE PACK: MIXED REACTION FROM TECH PROS Fourteen percent of tech pros who installed Windows XP service pack 2 have had major problems thereafter, a poll at the SANS Institute website says. Half of this number had no option but to reinstall the system in its entirety. (The Age 20 Aug 2004) rec'd from John Lamp, Deakin U. <http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/20/1092889334896.html> IMAC REDUX Apple has used the 2004 Expo in Paris to introduce its new iMac, featuring the faster G5 processors currently used in Apple's top-end Power Macs. The new iMac is packaged in an all-in-one unit that resembles a flat-panel monitor but which has a processor and other components hidden behind the screen. The side of the panel has slots for CDs or DVDs to be loaded vertically. Apple executive Phil Schiller says, "A lot of people are going to be asking where did the computer go? It's around here somewhere and I just can't find it." The new iMac will be priced at $1,299 in the United States. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 31 Aug 2004 <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9544082.htm> PRIVACY CONCERN OVER AUSTRALIAN E-MAIL LAW Civil libertarians say that a proposed Australian law could allow authorities easy access to private, stored e-mails without a warrant, giving many new government bodies to access private e-mails, voicemail messages and SMS messages. Under current laws, unopened e-mails can only be accessed if they involve serious crime and only with a telecommunications intercept warrant. If the bill is passed authorities would need only a search warrant, or in some cases no warrant at all, according to online civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA). (The Australian 30 Aug 2004) Rec'd from J. Lamp australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10613440%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html ACLU DENIES MISCHIEF IN POSTING OF DELEGATE DATA The Secret Service is investigating the posting on a Web site operated by an organization called the Independent Media Center of the personal information of delegates to the Republication National Convention in New York. The Center describes its activities as "passionate tellings of the truth." The Secret Service, however, is concerned that posting of the delegate data could subject the delegates to harassment, acts of violence or identity theft. The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the Independent Media Center, and the ACLU's Ann Beeson says: "This type of investigation is really a form of intimidation and a message to activists that they will pay a price for speaking out. The posting of publicly available information about people who are in the news should not trigger an investigation." (AP/USA Today 31 Aug 2004) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2004-08-31-indymedia-post s-addys_x.htm> LINUX MAKING MAJOR INROADS IN BUSINESS A new Yankee Group survey shows that 36% of businesses plan to have at least a few Linux PCs within the next two years and 5% expect to switch over completely. Twenty-one percent propose adding Linux servers to their predominantly Windows environment and 11% plan to move to a Linux-only server setup. "All of the firms would like to reduce the amount of upfront capital expenditure dollars they spend on expensive Windows and Unix software licenses," according to the report. "However, they also recognize that in certain instances, a wholesale or significant switch to Linux might reduce upfront costs but result in higher overall costs." One potential deterrent is the scarcity of Linux personnel, says the report: "The establishments that have or are seriously considering Linux bemoaned the present dearth and high cost of skilled Linux administrators, even as they praised the open-source operating system's ease of use." (San Francisco Chronicle 31 Aug 2004) <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/3 1/BUGL88H0161.DTL&type=tech> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage BROWSING THE WEB AS A LIBRARY Marti Hearst, a professor at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a prototype search program designed to turn Web searches into something that approximates browsing the stacks of a library. The Flamenco search tool uses descriptions of archived items--in Hearst's tests, 35,000 images from an art collection--to display items grouped by criteria such as artist, period, medium, and subject. Users searching for representations of flowers in the 18th century, for example, could see results grouped by decade or by variety of flower. Flamenco can show groups of results that include paintings and sculptures of irises, or paintings of irises and roses. Hearst said the tool allows users to "compare and contrast, discovering new categories and relationships." Bruce Horn of Ingenuity Software is working on a tool that would allow a similar type of browsing on a computer, helping users find relevant resources that might be distributed in many places around a hard drive. New York Times, 19 August 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/technology/circuits/19next.html REALNETWORKS WAGES PRICE WAR, TARGETS APPLE Making reference to the old joke about "losing money on each sale and making it up on volume," RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser said his company will offer songs from its RealPlayer Music Store for a limited time at half price, including songs that play on Apple Computer's iPod portable music player. The drop in price will reportedly widen the company's loss for the current quarter. RealNetworks recently unveiled a new version of its music software that allows users to play songs on the iPod despite objections from Apple, which is considering legal action against RealNetworks and said it will likely revise the iPod to prevent playing songs from RealNetworks. Glaser has long argued against "closed" formats for music and believes that, despite the short-term cost to his company, the half-price promotion will ultimately benefit the market for digital music. New York Times, 17 August 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/business/17real.html UNIVERSITIES TO DEVELOP OPEN SOURCE FINANCIAL SOFTWARE Indiana University (IU) and the University of Hawaii have begun work on a project called Kuali to build open-source financial-system software for colleges and universities. Organizers of the project said that steep prices for commercial systems--as well as ongoing concern over potential consolidation of the market, which could lead to even higher prices for systems not specifically tailored for the higher education market--are the major factors driving the project. Kuali will be an expansion of a homegrown financial system developed by IU and currently in use at its eight campuses. The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) will provide support and advice, though no funding, for the project. In a NACUBO survey last fall, nearly half of the respondents said open source was a viable option for financial systems. Also partnering on the project will be a company called RSmart Group. Although the software will be free to install, as with any open-source project, RSmart hopes to sell support services to colleges and universities that opt for Kuali. Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 August 2004 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/free/2004/08/2004083002n.htm DNA ANALYSIS USED TO FIGHT SPAM Researchers at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center have modified an algorithm--originally created to discern patterns in protein sequencing--to serve as a spam filter. The algorithm, named Chung-Kwei after a Feng Shui character, analyzes e-mail, looking for patterns of letters that exist in spam but not in legitimate messages. Because of the amount of spam in circulation today, the researchers have an abundance of spam e-mail to feed to the algorithm to train it to identify those strings of characters that indicate a message is spam. Chung-Kwei is able to process 88,000 messages in about 15 minutes, said the researchers, and will continue to "learn" as more e-mail arrives. The tool is able, for example, to identify e-mails that have "S" replaced with "$" as spam. Researchers said Chung-Kwei is able to successfully detect nearly 97 percent of spam. BBC, 25 August 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3584534.stm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName *** More Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media [Yet More oddness from the International Olympic Committee] IOC NIXES BLOGGING BY ATHLETES The International Olympic Committee has barred competitors, coaches, and support personnel at the Olympic games from writing firsthand accounts for news and other Web sites. Its position is that athletes and their coaches should not serve as journalists and that the interests of accredited media come first. The editor of Duke University's alumni publication says: "This is unfathomable to me. I don't understand what the International Olympic Committee might be concerned about. It's a way to engage a wide audience with reporting from the field and therefore generate excitement and interest in the games. This is a means to personalize the Olympics, to excite a constituency with the thrill that comes with the knowledge that a couple of their own are participants in the competition." The IOC isn't buying it. (San Jose Mercury News 19 Aug 2004) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9445119.htm> A little about the medal count: 75 of the 202 competing nations won medals, 12 of them won a single medal, with Israel winning its first and Iraq coming oh so close. Total Country Medals Gold US 103 35 China 63 32 Russia 92 27 Prediction, next time China will do even better. On a per captita basis, this would be the ranking: 1. Bahamas 2. Australia 3. New Zealand 4. Greece ... 35. US *** *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK US MEDIAN NATIONAL INCOME CONTINUES TO FALL THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR The US Census Bureau announced this week the median household income fell again between 2002 and 2003 as they continue to digest more data coming in on this subject. More below. POVERTY UP AND HEALTH CARE DOWN IN THE UNITED STATES Poverty in the US increased last year to 36 million people, providing about 7 people above the poverty line for each one living in poverty, as the poverty rate reached 12.5% of the households in the United States with incomes below $18,850, which is less than half the median national income of $43,318 for households [2003]. Today's figure "represents a relatively large jump, for a number that doesnt move that much" in most circumstances, according to Heather Boushey, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. These household incomes are really less than than it appears, as government assistance checks are usually counted as income. 12.9 million of those living in poverty in the US are children, according to these reports. THE RICH GET RICHER WHILE THE POOR GET POORER The numbers also showed that that the opposite end of the spectrum continued to see esclating earnings: "We see that the top has been pulling away," Ms. Boushey added. Women continued to make about 75% as much as men. HEALTH CARE ALSO IN DECLINE Meanwhile, the number of people without health care also increased dramatically over the same period, to 45 million, meaning that for every 5 US people with health care, there is one person without. 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Winfield] [Author AKA: Edward Stratemeyer] We have posted an improved edition 11 of: Jun 1996 Mr. Standfast, by John Buchan [John Buchan #3][mstnfxxx.xxx] 560 -=-=-=-=[ 65 NEW U.S. POSTS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II, by Annie Besant 13349 [Subtitle: Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13349 ] [Files: 13349.txt; 13349-8.txt; 13349-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 100, May 16, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13348 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13348 ] [Files: 13348.txt; 13348-8.txt; 13348-h.htm] Wildflowers of the Farm, by Arthur Owens Cooke 13347 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13347 ] [Files: 13347.txt; 13347-h.htm] Reis naar Yucatan, by Desire Charnay 13346 [Subtitle: "De Aarde en haar Volken," jaargang 1886] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13346 ] [Files: 13346.txt; 13346-8.txt; 13346-h.htm] Vanguards of the Plains, by Margaret McCarter 13345 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13345 ] [Files: 13345.txt; 13345-8.txt; 13345-h.htm] The Moral Picture Book, by Anonymous 13344 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13344 ] [Files: 13344.txt; 13344-h.htm] The Rim of the Desert, by Ada Woodruff Anderson 13343 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13343 ] [Files: 13343.txt; 13343-8.txt] Robert Browning, by G. K. Chesterton 13342 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13342 ] [Files: 13342.txt; 13342-8.txt; 13342-h.htm] Hymns and Spiritual Songs, by Isaac Watts 13341 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13341 ] [Files: 13341.txt] Mr. Isaacs, by F. Marion Crawford 13340 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/4/13340 ] [Files: 13340.txt; 13340-8.txt; 13340-h.htm] Les Pardaillan 02, L'epopee d'amour, by Michel Zevaco 13339 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13339 ] [Files: 13339.txt; 13339-8.txt; 13339-h.htm] Lapsia, by Teuvo Pakkala 13338 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13338 ] [Files: 13338-8.txt] Milly and Olly, by Mrs. Humphry Ward 13337 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13337 ] [Files: 13337.txt; 13337-8.txt; 13337-h.htm] Clotilde Martory, by Hector Malot 13336 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13336 ] [Files: 13336.txt; 13336-8.txt; 13336-h.htm] The Jesus of History, by T. R. Glover 13335 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13335 ] [Files: 13335.txt; 13335-8.txt] The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II, by Ambrose Bierce 13334 [Full title: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13334 ] [Files: 13334.txt; 13334-8.txt; 13334-h.htm] Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville, Vol. 2, by Alexis de Tocqueville 13333 [Title: Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13333 ] [Files: 13333.txt; 13333-8.txt] Fifteen Years in Hell, by Luther Benson 13332 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13332 ] [Files: 13332.txt; 13332-h.htm] Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901), by Hubert C. Corlette 13331 [Subtitle: A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13331 ] [Files: 13331.txt; 13331-8.txt; 13331-h.htm] The Last Reformation, by F. G. [Frederick George] Smith 13330 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/3/13330 ] [Files: 13330.txt; 13330-8.txt; 13330-h.htm] Pelleas and Melisande, by Maurice Maeterlinck 13329 [Translated by Richard Hovey] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13329 ] [Files: 13329.txt; 13329-8.txt] Torquato Tasso, by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe 13328 [Translated by J. Siljo] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13328 ] [Files: 13328-8.txt] Punch, Volume 101, Jubilee Issue, July 18, 1891, Ed. by Francis Burnand 13327 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13327 ] [Files: 13327.txt; 13327-8.txt; 13327-h.htm] Van vijf moderne dichters, by P.C. Boutens et al. 13326 [Authors: P.C. Boutens, Wies Moens, Willem Kloos, Margot Vos, Carel Scharten] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13326 ] [Files: 13326.txt; 13326-8.txt; 13326-h.htm] Sketches of Natural History of Ceylon, by J. Emerson Tennent 13325 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13325 ] [Files: 13325.txt; 13325-8.txt; 13325-h.htm] Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir, by Mary Catherine Crowley 13324 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13324 ] [Files: 13324.txt] Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 18, 1891, by Various 13323 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13323 ] [Files: 13323.txt; 13323-8.txt; 13323-h.htm] Selected Poems, by William Francis Barnard 13322 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13322 ] [Files: 13322.txt; 13322-h.htm] In the Footprints of the Padres, by Charles Warren Stoddard 13321 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13321 ] [Files: 13321.txt; 13321-8.txt; 13321-h.htm] Juan Masili o Ang pinuno ng tulisan, by Patricio Mariano 13320 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/2/13320 ] [Files: 13320.txt; 13320-8.txt; 13320-h.htm] The Return of Peter Grimm, by Montrose J. Moses 13319 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/1/13319 ] [Files: 13319.txt; 13319-8.txt] Runoelmia, by Paavo Cajander 13318 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/1/13318 ] [Files: 13318-8.txt] Door Holland met pen en camera, by Lud. Georges Hamon 13317 [Taken from the magazine "De Aarde en haar volken, Jaargang 1906"] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/1/13317 ] [Files: 13317.txt; 13317-8.txt; 13317-h.htm] Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius 13316 [Full author: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/1/13316 ] [Files: 13316.txt; 13316-8.txt] A Prince of Cornwall, by Charles W. 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Boyden 13309 (Note: available in Tex and PDF formats only) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/0/13309 ] [Files: 13309-t.tex; 13309-pdf.pdf] Tukkijoella, by Teuvo Pakkala 13308 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/0/13308 ] [Files: 13308-8.txt] Scattergood Baines, by Clarence Budington Kelland 13307 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/0/13307 ] [Files: 13307.txt; 13307-h.htm] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 339, Jan. 1844. Vol. 55, by Various 13306 [Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. Jan. 1844. Vol. LV.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/0/13306 ] [Files: 13306.txt; 13306-8.txt; 13306-h.htm] Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune, by A. D. Crake 13305 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/0/13305 ] [Files: 13305.txt; 13305-h.htm] McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896, by Various 13304 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/0/13304 ] [Files: 13304.txt; 13304-8.txt; 13304-h.htm] Kourroglou, by George Sand 13303 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/0/13303 ] [Files: 13303.txt; 13303-8.txt; 13303-h.htm] The Curly-Haired Hen, by Auguste Vimar 13302 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/0/13302 ] [Files: 13302.txt; 13302-8.txt; 13302-h.htm] The New Ideal In Education, by Nicholai Velimirovic 13301 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/3/0/13301 ] [Files: 13301.txt; 13301-8.txt; 13301-h.htm] The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga, by A. P. 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(See: #13225) The Story of Crisco, by Marion Harris Neil 13286 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/8/13286 ] [Files: 13286.txt; 13286-8.txt; 13286-h.htm] A Vertuous or Cristian life, by Lady Damaris Masham 13285 [Title: Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Cristian life] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/8/13285 ] [Files: 13285.txt] =-=-=-=[ 1 NEW EBOOKS FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Aug 2004 London in my Time, by Thomas Burke [040065xx.xxx] 0373A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400651.txt or .zip ] [and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400651h.html ] eBooks are posted in uncompressed and/or compressed formats. 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