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Balch 17594 [Subtitle: As Particularly Connected with English Grammar.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/9/17594 ] [Files: 17594.txt; 17594-8.txt; 17594-h.htm] Van Schooljongen tot Koning, by A. Bertrand 17593 [Subtitle: Een verhaal samengesteld uit de aanteekeningen van Robert] [I, koning van Czernovi] [Illustrator: Jan Sluyters] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/9/17593 ] [Files: 17593-8.txt; 17593-h.htm] A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar, by G.B. 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Gould 17575 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/7/17575 ] [Files: 17575.txt; 17575-h.htm; ] My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale, by Thomas Woolner 17574 [Editor: Henry Morley] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/7/17574 ] [Files: 17574.txt; 17574-h.htm] L'amour au pays bleu, by Hector France 17573 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/7/17573 ] [Files: 17573-8.txt; 17573-h.htm] The Last Spike, by Cy Warman 17572 [Subtitle: And Other Railroad Stories] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/7/17572 ] [Files: 17572.txt; 17572-8.txt; 17572-h.htm] Piano Tuning, by J. Cree Fischer 17571 [Subtitle: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/7/17571 ] [Files: 17571.txt; 17571-0.txt; 17571-h.htm] Religious Education in the Family, by Henry F. 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Fiske 17547 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/4/17547 ] [Files: 17547.txt; 17547-8.txt; 17547-h.htm; ] Dagen, by Stijn Streuvels 17539 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/3/17539 ] [Files: 17539.txt; 17539-8.txt; 17539-h.htm] 't Bedrijf van den kwade, by Herman Teirlinck 17537 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/3/17537 ] [Files: 17537.txt; 17537-8.txt; 17537-h.htm] De Zwarte Kost, by Cyriel Buysse 17525 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/2/17525 ] [Files: 17525.txt; 17525-8.txt; 17525-h.htm] Dramatische werken, by Henrik Ibsen 17524 [Subtitle: Steunpilaren der maatschappij--Nora (een poppenhuis)--] [Spoken--Een vijand des volks] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/2/17524 ] [Files: 17524.txt; 17524-8.txt] Een twaalftal samenspraken, by Erasmus 17523 [Subtitle: Tot inleiding: Cd. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

pt1a3.106 Weekly_January_25.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 25, 2006, PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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Including 525 Australian eBooks [+3] and 236 Project Gutenberg Europe [+15] And 1 From The New PrePrint Site [+1] We Are ~92% of the Way to 20,000!!! ***534 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 15,229 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~250 eBooks per Month for ~61 Months We Have Produced 179 eBooks in 2006 1,679 to go to 20,000!!! 28 New eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders 7,950 total from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [Including PG Australia] We Are Averaging ~239 eBooks Per Month This Year [Including PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints] [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] [Now including totals from both Australia and Europe and PrePrints] [Apologies, it will take a while to integrate everything not all statistics may be totally equalized yet] [PGEu Statistics Are Counted Monthly Not Weekly] All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 60 eBooks Per Week In 2006 83 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2003 to 2006 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] LIBRARY OF CONGRESS UNDERTAKES DIGITIZATION PROJECT In February, the Library of Congress will begin transferring large collections of vinyl records and video recordings to a single location where they will be archived and digitized. The library has nearly 4 million separate items, currently stored in several states, that will be moved to a facility in Virginia that had been set up in the 1960s as a headquarters for government officials in the event of a nuclear attack. The library's holdings will be stored on 57 miles of shelves, and starting early next year, the library will begin making digital copies of the collection. Because many are covered by copyright, the digital copies will not be available online. Researchers will be able to request digital copies of specific recordings, however, and library staff will pull the original and make a digital version. Federal Computer Week, 13 January 2006 http://www.fcw.com/article91968-01-13-06-Web GOOGLE PONDERS STARTING AN ONLINE BOOKSTORE At this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), officials from Google said they are considering launching an online bookstore, though they were quick to say such a venture would depend on permission from copyright holders. Google has been embroiled in ongoing legal disputes with publishers and other copyright holders over its effort to scan millions of texts, creating what CEO Eric Schmidt called "the world's largest card catalogue." Despite Google's contention that the scanning project does not violate copyright, many copyright holders disagree and have challenged the project in court. An online bookstore would be a fundamentally different proposition, according to Google officials, and such a plan would only go forward with the express permission of copyright holders. During the CES, Google unveiled an online video store, the company's first offering that allows consumers to pay for premium content. BBC, 10 January 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4598478.stm 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 or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] "EARMARKING" You've probably heard the term, but not the details. Earmarking is a way that elected U.S. legislators can put "pork barrel project" into bills with no relationship to the subject matter of the bills and without anyone getting a chance to read the bills again before voting on them. These usually are attached to bills most likely to be passed, recently even the huge approprations bills. Only 1% of these ever make the news outside the various consituencies receiving the benefits, but once in a while attempts to sneak projects through get national attention, such as recent efforts by Alaska's Senator Stevens to build the famous "Bridge To Nowhere" that not even the people who were to receive the benefits were willing to put up with, or his proposed drilling for oil in ANWR [The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge] that was so controversial in last years appropriations bill that nearly stopped U.S. government funding entirely. [Try searches for ANWR, oil drilling, Ted Stevens, appropriations, etc. for details, and you'll see just how much major media have avoided all this.] Senator Barack Obama [D-IL] has proposed a bill to force all bills to be put online for at least 72 hours before voting so the earmarks have a chance to be detected and then possibly removed. Republicans have charged that Democrats have used earmarking, along with lobbying, in the same manner as have Republicans, but figures show that the number of both earmarks and lobbyists have multiplied tenfold over the last decade since the Democrats were in power. The number of earmarks was ~14,000 in 2005, up from 1,439 in 1995. As for lobbyists, they managed to kill bills that would have required they identify who paid them, how much, who they represent and what issues they have lobbied for or against. Ten years ago only ~100 companies had lobbyists representing them to Congress, today there are 50 lobbyists for every member. Wired Magazine reported that Microsoft alone has raised its number of lobbyists in D.C. over 50 in the last decade. Public Citizen reported the pharmaceutical industry employes as many many lobbyists as their are legislators. Their average salaries: $300,000 to $400,000 per year. Of these, 23 are former Congressmen, and 340, over half, are former government employees. The Wall St. Journal reports the number of lobbyists in D.C. doubled between 2000-2005. ~14,000 lobbyists are registered under a 10 year old law that apparently is not monitored all that well. According to The Washington Post, there might be 14,000 more disclosure documents that were not filed in this period, "including documents that should have come from 49 of the nations' 50 largest lobbying firms." Estimates are that some of these lobbies, such as for the drug companies, may have spent $1 billion over this ten year period. And this is only for national legislators: according to The Center for Public Integrity state legislators are outnumbered by their lobbyists 5 to 1 nationally, and as much as 18 to 1 in New York, 13 to 1 in Florida, 12 to 1 in Illinois, 10 to 1 in Ohio, and 9 to 1 in California and Michigan. Nor is this limited to the U.S., ~15,000 lobbyists are at work in Europe, 40% of whom are registered to the EU Parliament. Source: Time Magazine, Wired, Public Citizen, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall St. Journal, New York Times. * Iraqi General's Death By Sitting On Him After Stuffing Him Headfirst Into A Sleeping Bag Declared Not Murder Chief Warrant Officer Lewis E. Welshofer Jr., was fined $6,000 and reprimanded for killing Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, a loyalist to Saddam Hussein, suspected of abetting the Iraqi insurgency near Syria. The Washington Post revealed General Mowhoush was beaten harshly "by a secret group of Iraqi paramilitaries, code-named `Scorpions,' who worked with the CIA. Welshofer was convicted of negligent dereliction of duty and of negigent homicide rather than murder, meaning he did not intend to kill General Mowhoush, but should have known that tying him into a sleeping back headfirst, and then sitting on his chest while questionning him, could lead to his death. Source: The Washington Post *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Bush versus Google The Bush administration claimed that other unspecified search engine and information providers had acceded to administration demands for access to information, when demanding that Google provide such information. However, when the other information providers answered press queries, it turned out that not all the sources, perhaps not any, had provided complete access. [Exact quotes below] Plenty to read about all this: Los Angeles Times: http://tinyurl.com/a7wtt Baltimore Sun: http://tinyurl.com/aq6fz Lower Hudson Journal News (NY): http://tinyurl.com/b9k3x USA Today: http://tinyurl.com/9lqpq The Columbian (Clark County, WA): http://tinyurl.com/8rf2n Chicago Sun Times: http://tinyurl.com/93bf5 Unofficial Google Weblog: http://tinyurl.com/afuvl "The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. "The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court." * "The government indicated that other, unspecified search engines have agreed to release the information, but not Google." San Jose Mercury News, 01/19/06 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13657386.htm *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Other U.S. auto makers will follow Ford's lead, and even more auto plants will be closed, costing up to 100,000 lost jobs. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK FORD Motor Company Calls Its New CutBACKS of 14 Plants: "THE WAY FORWARD" Source: Detroit News [Since when is cutting BACK a way FORWARD?] [This sounds suspiciously like the terminology used by Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged to describe the plans of an assortment of non-competitive industrialists as desire to slow down so we can catch our stride.] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 2/3 of Americans say prevention of terrorism trumps privacy. 1/2 of Americans say Bush's wiretap policy is wrong. Source: BBC, 01/23/06 * America's #2 Bank Says Bankruptcies Are Causing Decline In Profits Bank Of America reported its first decline in earnings in years as resulting from the increasing number of bankruptcies in America. Profits were listed as $3.77 bn for 2005, $3.85 bn for 2004. This from gross revenues of $14.12 bn for 2005, which leaves the net income as $.27% of the gross. [= 3.77/14.12]. This might be due to new laws making it much more difficult to declare bankruptcy, with much less debt protection, which may have sparked a surge in bankruptcy filings, and the bank says bankruptcies have fallen off since. Source: BBC, 01/23/06 * Steve Jobs bought 50% of Pixar for $10 million, sold it for $3.7 billion. [Some do not report this was only 50%] Source: San Francisco Chronicle * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. 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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
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19 Jan '06

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Cawdor Bell) 17532 [Subtitle: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life] (Author note: this is not John Douglas Southerland Campbell) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/3/17532 ] [Files: 17532.txt; 17532-8.txt; 17532-h.htm; ] The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 2, by William Curtis and John Sims 17531 [Subtitle: Flower-Garden Displayed] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/3/17531 ] [Files: 17531.txt; 17531-8.txt; 17531-h.htm] Maida's Little Shop, by Inez Haynes Irwin 17530 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/3/17530 ] [Files: 17530.txt; 17530-8.txt; 17530-0.txt; 17530-h.htm] Othello, by William Shakespeare 17529 [Translator: Paavo Cajander] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/2/17529 ] [Files: 17529-8.txt] Stanley's tocht ter opsporing van Livingstone, by Henry Stanley 17528 [Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1873] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/2/17528 ] [Files: 17528-8.txt; 17528-h.htm] De Verdelgingsoorlog der Yankees tegen de Apachen-indianen, by Anonymous 17527 [Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, Jaargang 1873] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/2/17527 ] [Files: 17527-8.txt; 17527-h.htm] Sprotje heeft een dienst, by M. Scharten-Antink 17526 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/2/17526 ] [Files: 17526-8.txt] Everychild, by Louis Dodge 17521 [Subtitle: A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old] [Illus.: Blanche Fisher Laite] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/2/17521 ] [Files: 17521.txt; 17521-h.htm; ] Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e, by Montague 17520 [Subtitle: Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe] [Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montague] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/2/17520 ] [Files: 17520.txt; ] Les miserables Tome V: Jean Valjean, by Victor Hugo 17519 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17519 ] [Files: 17519-8.txt; 17519-h.htm] Les miserables Tome IV: L'idylle rue Plumet ... rue Saint-Denis, by Hugo 17518 [Subtitle: L'idylle rue Plumet et l'pope rue Saint-Denis] {Author: Victor Hugo] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17518 ] [Files: 17518-8.txt; 17518-h.htm] L'oeuvre, by Emile Zola 17517 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17517 ] [Files: 17517-8.txt; 17517-h.htm] L'argent, by Emile Zola 17516 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17516 ] [Files: 17516-8.txt; 17516-h.htm] A Reliquia, by Eca de Queiros 17515 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17515 ] [Files: 17515-8.txt] The Garden, You, and I, by Mabel Osgood Wright 17514 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17514 ] [Files: 17514.txt; 17514-8.txt; 17514-h.htm] St. Nicholas Magazine For Girls And Boys, Vol. V, Nov 1877, No. 1 17513 [Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17513 ] [Files: 17513.txt; 17513-8.txt; 17513-h.htm] Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884., by Various 17512 [Subtitle: A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17512 ] [Files: 17512.txt; 17512-8.txt; 17512-h.htm] Foch the Man, by Clara E. Laughlin 17511 [Subtitle: A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17511 ] [Files: 17511.txt; 17511-8.txt; 17511-h.htm; ] When the Yule Log Burns, by Leona Dalrymple 17510 [Subtitle: A Christmas Story] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/1/17510 ] [Files: 17510.txt; 17510-h.htm] Le renard, by Goethe 17509 [Translator: Edouard Grenier] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/0/17509 ] [Files: 17509-8.txt; 17509-0.txt; 17509-h.htm] Certain Personal Matters, by H. G. Wells 17508 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/0/17508 ] [Files: 17508.txt; 17508-8.txt; 17508-h.htm] Everybody's Lonesome, by Clara E. Laughlin 17507 [Subtitle: A True Fairy Story] [Illustrator: A. I. Keller] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/5/0/17507 ] [Files: 17507.txt; 17507-h.htm] A Little Mother to the Others, by L. T. 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pt1a2.106 Weekly_January_18.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 18, 2006, PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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Including 522 Australian eBooks, and 221 Project Gutenberg Europe We Are ~91% of the Way to 20,000!!! ***~529 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 15,176 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~250 eBooks per Month for ~60.5 Months We Have Produced 96 eBooks in 2006 1,762 to go to 20,000!!! 25 New eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders 7,922 total from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [Including PG Australia] We Are Averaging ~194 eBooks Per Month This Year [Including PGAu and PGEu] [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] [Now including totals from both Australia and Europe] [Apologies, it will take a while to integrate Europe, not all statistics may be totally equalized yet] [PGEu Statistics Are Counted Monthly Not Weekly] All Three Sites Combined Are Averaging 48 eBooks Per Week In 2006 54 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2002 to 2005 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] DHS GRANT FUNDS OPEN SOURCE RESEARCH The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a $1.24 million, three-year contract to improve the quality of open source software. Given the growing reliance on open source technologies for infrastructure that underpins national security, DHS expects to see real benefits from the grant. The award will be split among Stanford University, Symantec, and Coverity, a firm that specializes in code analysis. Rob Rachwald, senior director of marketing at Coverity, said, "The DHS in many ways is obviously brokering this and they are the main beneficiary." For the grant, Coverity will identify security flaws and risks; Stanford will offer academic analysis of trends and provide opinions about the relative security of various technologies; and Symantec will provide consulting on how governmental agencies can incorporate open source products in a secure fashion into their own applications. Internet News, 11 January 2006 http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3576886 BRITISH LIBRARY PUTS MOZART ONLINE In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of W. A. Mozart, the British Library has placed pages from the composer's "Catalogue of Aall My Works" online. Mozart compiled the diary of sorts between February 1784 and December 1791, making entries for 145 of his works. For each entry, Mozart wrote the title, date it was composed, and instruments that should perform it. For some works, the composer also identified who commissioned it, where it was composed, and singers who performed it. Mozart then added to the diary the opening bars of each work included. For the project, the British Library commissioned the Royal College of Music to record those opening bars for about half of the works in the diary. Visitors to the Web site can see Mozart's notes and click on a link to hear the recording of the opening. BBC, 12 January 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4602542.stm GOVERNMENT CLOSES WEB SITE DUE TO SECURITY FLAW A government Web site for contractors has been shut down due to a security flaw that allowed users of the site to see and change data submitted by other vendors. The General Services Administration (GSA) closed eOffer after a consultant reported the problem. Three weeks passed, however, between the reporting of the flaw and the shuttering of the site. The Web site was launched in 2004 as a means for vendors to bid electronically on government contracts for IT products and services. The flaw allowed site users to access and change corporate and financial information, potentially compromising the entire bidding process, according to security experts. The problem could also allow corporate espionage. The GSA said there was no evidence that the site had been abused by either authorized or unauthorized users. The agency said the delay in shutting down the site was caused by the time that was required to process the report. New York Times, 13 January 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/technology/13secure.html GUILTY PLEA EXPECTED FROM MICHIGAN MAN FOR SPAMMING A Detroit-area man is expected to plead guilty to violations of the CAN-SPAM Act for his part in a spam racket that prosecutors say sent millions of illegal messages over computer systems belonging to Ford, Unisys, the U.S. Army Information Center, and others. Daniel Lin plead guilty to fraud and other charges in the deal and will face up to two years in prison. Prior to the deal, Lin could have been sentenced to 10 years for his part in the spam scheme. Three other men were also charged in the original complaint in April 2004, which were the first such charges under the federal law to limit spam. The men reportedly earned about $100,000 from their spam-related activities. CNET, 12 January 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-7350_3-6026708.html USPTO TO WORK WITH OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will participate in a series of efforts intended to improve the quality of software patents and reduce the time and money organizations currently spend challenging and defending patents, particularly for open source applications. As open source technologies have flourished, high-profile disputes over the validity of software patents and over so-called prior art have become a common aspect of intellectual property concerns. Many have faulted the USPTO for issuing too many patents, saying that many of them rely on components developed by others. The patent office will work with open source developers and industry to establish more and clearer channels of communication about technologies. Such an open exchange of information, it is hoped, will reduce the number of unwarranted patents issued while minimizing the efforts spent defending legitimate patents. In another initiative, the USPTO will develop a quality index for patents. New York Times, 10 January 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/technology/10blue.html FTC WINS SETTLEMENT FOR BOGUS ANTISPYWARE SCHEME The operators of two supposed antispyware products agreed to pay nearly $2 million to settle complaints by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that the products amounted to nothing more than a scam. Last year, the FTC charged the operators of Spykiller and Spyware Assassin with running similar schemes to defraud consumers. According to the FTC, both companies used pop-up ads and e-mail to draw consumers to the companies' Web sites, where users could supposedly receive free scans of their machines. After the scans reported spyware, which frequently did not exist, users were offered a spyware-removal service for around $30-40. The removal also did not do what was advertised, said the FTC. In addition, many of the e-mail messages violated provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act. The makers of Spyware Assassin agreed to pay $76,000, which represents the amount the FTC spent on its investigation. Makers of Spykiller will pay $1.9 million. Internet News, 5 January 2006 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3575421 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 or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] Powerful Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Ney Resigns as Chairman of the House Administration Committee Bob Ney, "The Mayor Of Capitol Hill," resigned his powerful position after it was revealed that a set of subpoenas had been served by federal procecutors following the conviction of "super-lobbyiest" Jack Abramoff and others in related events. The subject of these subpoenas is Ney's connection to three-time convict Nigel Winfield, who ran the FN Aviation company in Cyprus and took Rep. Ney and a high level aide on a London excursion in 2003. Ney's lawyer denies any knowledge on Ney's part of Winfield's convictions, including one in 1982 for swindling rock and roll star Elvis Presley in the purchase of an airplane and two convictions for tax evasion later in the 1980's. Charges are that Ney lobbied on behalf of Winfield for government permission to sell sanctioned parts to Iran. In addition it would appear Chairman Ney was the recipient of one of Jack Abramoff's famous trips to golf at the legendary St. Andrews, along with various campaign contributions, free travel, meals and entertainments. Source: Newsweek, Washington Post, AP, etc. Chillicothe Gazette, OH - Jan 17, 2006 * Masterpiece Paintings Finally Returned To Family Looted By Nazis After years and years of painful research, legal wranglings by the Austrian state galleries and museums, and the terrors of The Third Reich and their inheritors since the paintings were looted from the family home in 1938, five masterpieces are now legally the property of the four surviving family members. One of the paintings is worth an estimated 100 million dollars. One other Gustav Klimt painting still remains to be decided. The only way this particular case was decided was by arbitration [probably since the Austrian nation was unwilling to go through the publicity of having the whole Nazi-Jewish Holocaust relived in the nations courtrooms]. 250 other paintings, less valuable in toto that the one above, were previous given up by Austrian state art insititions, and several others are still being fought over in Austria or Germany. Some of these institutions are still fighting hard to keep these, or are claiming they don't have the money or resources to refute the claims of ownership by the various Jewish families who owned them prior to the start of World War II. Maria Altman, niece of the famous Klimt painting's last rightful owner, approached the Austrian government 7 years ago, but got a cold shoulder and no official reply at all. "I wanted to solve this peacefully," was her stated intention, but Austria wasn't going to give her the time of day, until the matter was brought forth as a lawsuit. Ms. Altman's Aunt Adele is the subject of the famous painting. Source: The Times [UK], LA Times, Canadian Broadcasting Co. * Bristol? University in England is first to require Chinese *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Bar Association Backs Alito WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2006 "(CBS/AP) Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito received a unanimous `well-qualified' rating from the American Bar Association on Wednesday, giving his nomination momentum as the Senate prepares for confirmation hearings next week." [In looking online, I found the rating as "exceptionally well qualified" as quoted by The Washington Post, but perhaps in relation to a smaller committee within the ABA.] [More from The Washington Post article] "The committee looked at charges that Alito somehow disfavored individuals vis a vis the state in his cases. The readers (law professors, practitioners, etc.) employed by the committee were `inconclusive' on that subject, Tober said." Then I heard on live testimony around 12:45, January 13, from the next to last of the Senate committee panelists, that the United States Bar Association could not recommend him. [However, I did NOT get a single hit for United States Bar Assocation with Alito and recommend. Then I tried American Bar Association with Alito and recommend, no hits there either, so good thing I checked both.] [Later on I heard mention of yet another such bar association, The National Bar Association. . .it makes me wonder. . . .] * [I won't even mention any of the totally contradictory reports about who was or wasn't there in the hellfire missle attack[s] in Afghanistan.] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The process of rebuilding New Orleans from Katrina will end up going into the hands of billionaires-- not the local, state or federal governments. A new generation of carpetbaggers will descend out of the rest of the country, perhaps even the world, if laws aren't passed to keep them out. What will happen if someone such as Donald Trump is going to make a proposal for building New Orleans, much as he has with New York City locations? Perhaps New Orleans will end up with replacements of the lower ninth in terms of wealthy casinos and resort complexes that could also provide a serious levee for protection of the rest of the city. * China will have a huge excess of men in the future, due to their emphasis on having male children, and their new abilities to choose. Sociology would indicate that this will cause wars and internal strife in Chinese society, as well as wars against the outside world. All population booms have increased war tendencies as recently revealed when the booms from the 20's, 40's, 60's and 80's resulted in WWI, WWII, Vietnam and the Gulf Wars. Obviously other factors must also be considered. * Continued from last week: But Judge Alito's listing of his membership in the Princeton CAP organization as one of his three top choices for his resume won't make any difference. [CAP = Concerned Alumni of Princeton, ultra-conservative campus group dedicated to returning Princeton to the days when women and blacks were not allowed into colleges. A critic of CAP was dropped from the Alito witness list on 01/07/06 before any testimony could be given.] At about 5:25PM, January 11, the Republicans refuted a witness to this effect that had never been called, to the point of stating for the record how desperate the Democrats must be to consider such a witness. [I wonder if it is legal in court to refute a witness who has not appeared.] *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK David Brooks, New York Times columnist, on Charlie Rose 01/12/06 "The boomers took drugs so they could think outside the box, now they feed their kids Ritalin so they will think inside the box." [Apologies, I'm not sure I got this quote exactly right, I was writing as fast as I could go, and can't find it online.] He also said that culture, not technology, drives civilization, and that "government should be creating social mobility." [Personally, I think The Gutenberg Press created The Industrial Revolution which created our present civilization, and that the Internet will create The Neo-Industrial Revolutions, which will create the next civilization, and will create social mobility.] "The Catholic Church nurtured one of the most impressive economic takeoffs in human history." "Ideas and culture drive civilizations." December 15, 2005 *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK $96,000 a year families' kids have 50% odds of graduating college. $30,000 a year families' kids have 10% odds of graduating college. 130 women are graduating college for every 100 men in the U.S. 200 black women for every 100 black men are graduating in the U.S. David Brooks, New York Times columnist, on Charlie Rose, 01/12/05 * There are over 200 million cell phones in use in the United States out of a total population of under 300 million people. That's 2/3 of a cell phone per person. * The first half of January is shaping up to make this month in Iraq the most lethal for U.S. soldiers in the entire time. * The list of top intelligence officials who refused to approve Mr. Bush's covert wiretap programs is growing. On 01/17/06 it was announced that the FBI director also refused, in addition to the head and acting head of the CIA. The secret FISA court approved ~19,000 such requests while only denying 5, and "modifying" 181, thus approving well over 99% of them as is. The FBI is reported to be dissatified with the reports gained from these massive wiretaps, stating that they are a dead end, while the CIA and NSA are claiming they provide good leads. [A CNN article I was hoping to cite here has vanished.] [404 Page Not Found] [So I can't be positive here] [I confirmed the FISA numbers through UPI] [Also see other UPI reports and The Post Chronicle, Jan 17, 2006] * CEO Salaries Now 440 Times The Salary Of The Average Worker in 2005 CEO Salaries Were 40 Times The Salary Of The Average Worker in 1985 SEC Approves Rules on Executive-Compensation Disclosure 01/18/06 The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission officially acted today to force major corporations to reveal executive compensation details. Some of these moves look good on paper, such as forcing a reveal of $10,000 benefit packages instead of the old $50,000 limits, but the truth is that given inflation, $50,000 buys the same as $10,000 did when President Reagan was elected. However, the value of various "signing bonuses" or stock options used to hide top salaries will now hopefully be revealed. Interestingly, it would appear there is somewhat of an inflation spiral being fueled by all this largesse in that executives now move from company to company more freely than previously, taking in these large bonuses and retirement plans ["Golden Parachutes"] each time they move, many of which are worth tens of millions. Thus a person might receive a $45 million signing bonus from one company while receiving a $20 million departure bonus the same day. With this kind of incentive to move from company to company, where is the incentive to stay? Some have also proposed that executive compensation should be tied by law to exective and company performance levels, to counteract the process of "looting" failing companies by giving so much money on departure to the executives who caused or oversaw the failures. Source: Houston Chronicle, Forbes, LA Times, Lehrer News Hour High level exectutive compensation yields the least return yield of any investments made by large corporations. Lehrer News Hour, 01/17/06 * A Similar Set Of New Rules For Lobbyists Is In The Works * The Passion Of The Christ grossed over $1 billion. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. 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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #41 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright [Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format] Dec 1992 Anne of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery [GG#2] [avonxxxx.xxx] 47 A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas, by Charles Dickens 46 Nov 1992 Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery [GG#1][annexxxx.xxx] 45 Nov 1992 The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather [Cather #2][songxxxx.xxx] 44 Oct 1992 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde #2 Robert Louis Stevenson [hydeaxxx.xxx] 43 Oct 1992 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde #1 Robert Louis Stevenson [hydexxxx.xxx] 42 Oct 1992 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving [sleepxxx.xxx] 41 Sep 1992 NorthWestNet NUSIRG Internet Guide [nusirgxx.xxx] 40C Sep 1992 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, Ed Krol [hhgixxxx.xxx] 39C Aug 1992 The Hackers' Dictionary of Computer Jargon [jargnxxx.xxx] 38 Aug 1992 The 1990 US Census [2nd], US Census Bureau [uscen903.xxx] 37 The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells 36 The Time Machine, by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells 35 Jun 1992 Zen & the Art of Internet, Brendan P. Kehoe [zenxxxxx.xxx] 34C Jun 1992 The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne [#1] [scrltxxx.xxx] 33 May 1992 Herland [for Mother's Day], Charlotte P. Gilman [hrlndxxx.xxx] 32 May 1992 Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy [Three Greek Plays] [oedipxxx.xxx] 31 Apr 1992 New eBook of Bible [KJV] [From many editions] [biblexxx.xxx] 30 Apr 1992 Data From the 1990 Census, US Census Bureau [uscen90x.xxx] 29 Mar 1992 Aesop's Fables [Advantage] [Our Second Version] [aesopaxx.xxx] 28 Mar 1992 Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy [Hardy1] [crowdxxx.xxx] 27 Feb 1992 Paradise Lost [Raben] [originally in all CAPS] [plrabnxx.xxx] 26 Feb 1992 The 1991 CIA World Factbook, [CIA Factbook #1] [world91x.xxx] 25 Jan 1992 O Pioneers! Willa Cather [Cather #1] [opionxxx.xxx] 24 Jan 1992 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of [duglasxx.xxx] 23 Dec 1991 Roget's Thesaurus [rogetxxa.xxx] 22 Nov 1991 Aesop's Fables [aesopxxx.xxx] 21 Oct 1991 Paradise Lost, John Milton [Milton #1] [plbossxx.xxx] 20 The Song Of Hiawatha, by Henry W. Longfellow 19 Aug 1991 The Federalist Papers [federxxx.xxx] 18 Jul 1991 The Book of Mormon [mormonxx.xxx] 17 (Note: original copyright by Joseph Smith) Jun 1991 Peter Pan, by James M. Barrie (for U.S. only}[peterxxx.xxx] 16C May 1991 Moby Dick [From OBI]*, Herman Melville [mobyxxxx.zip] 15 Apr 1991 The 1990 CIA World Factbook [CIA Factbook #0][worldxxx.xxx] 14 Mar 1991 The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll[Carroll#3][snarkxxx.xxx] 13 Feb 1991 Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll[Carroll2][lglassxx.xxx] 12 Jan 1991 Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll [Carroll #1][alicexxx.xxx] 11 Aug 1989 The Bible, Both Testaments, King James Version [kjvxxxxx.xxx] 10 Dec 1979 Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address [linc1xxx.xxx] 9 Dec 1978 Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address [linc2xxx.xxx] 8 Dec 1977 The Mayflower Compact [mayflxxx.xxx] 7 Dec 1976 Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death, Patrick Henry [liberxxx.xxx] 6 Dec 1975 The United States' Constitution [constxxx.xxx] 5 Nov 1973 Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln [gettyxxx.xxx] 4 Nov 1973 John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address [jfkxxxxx.xxx] 3 Dec 1972 The United States' Bill of Rights [billxxxx.xxx] 2 Dec 1971 Declaration of Independence [whenxxxx.xxx] 1 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,490,765,518 that would be 18,183 x 64,907,655 = ~1.18 Trillion !!! With 18,183 eBooks online as of January 11, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.85 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 64,907,655 x 18,183 x $.85 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.56 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 18,183 eBooks online as of January 11, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.5r from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.67 when we had 15,035 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 18,183 eBooks in 34 Years and 06.25 Months We Averaged ~527 Per Year 43.9 Per Month 1.44 Per Day At 41 eBooks Done In The 007 Days Of 2007 We Averaged 5.9 Per Day 41 Per Week 178 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm 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 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. 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11 Jan '06

pt1a1.106 pt1b1.106 Weekly_January_11.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 11, 2006, PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** Including Project Gutenberg of Europe Statistics For The First Time PT1A Due to our weekly Wednesday to Wednesday schedule, this is our FIRST Weekly PG Newsletter of 2006, and January 04 marked our LAST 2005 Weekly Newsletter I'm thinking of moving everything one week earlier in 2007. Comments??? * *** Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. 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 * WANTED! >>> !!!People who can help with PR for our 35th Anniversary!!! <<< >>> !!!People to help us collect ALL public domain eBooks!!! <<< * Wanted: People who are involved in conversations on Slashdot, Salon, etc. * 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 *Distributed Proofreaders Collection Report *Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Report *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 2 New This Week From PG Australia [Australian, Canadian Copyright Etc.] 9 New This Month From PG Europe [European Copyrights, Life + 50 and 70] 2 New This Week From PGEu [Dividing Month By 4] 37 New This Week To Public Domain eBooks Under US Copyright 41 New This Week [First Week Including PG Europe] [I'm sure there are a few bugs in the new accounting] *Headline News from Edupage, etc. *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists *** *eBook Milestones* We officially start 2006 reporting ~91% of the original goal of 20,000 18,183 eBooks As Of Today!!! [Including 521 Australian eBooks, and 218 Project Gutenberg Europe] [First week PGEu is included] [17,965 eBooks not counting PGEu] [As per the 2005 accounting] We Are ~91% of the Way to 20,000!!! ***527 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 15,121 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~250 eBooks per Month for ~60 Months We Have Produced 41 eBooks in 2006 1,817 to go to 20,000!!! 17 More eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders 7,897 total from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers] 521 from Project Gutenberg of Australia 218 from Project Gutenberg of Europe Averaged 10.33 Per Month For 2005 27.00 Per Month for 2006 [Added 9 In First 1/3 of January] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [Including PG Australia] We Are Averaging ~178 books Per Month This Year [Including PGAu and PGEu] [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] [Now including totals from both Australia and Europe] [Apologies, it will take a while to integrate Europe, not all statistics may be totally equalized yet] [PGEu Statistics Are Counted Monthly Not Weekly] All Three Sites Combined Are Averaging 41 eBooks Per Week In 2006 41 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2002 to 2005 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] LEGAL DOWNLOADS SURGE AFTER CHRISTMAS [Likely a result of the 14 million iPods sold in the last quarter] Sales of music tracks online surged over the holidays, indicating what might be new baseline levels for the market. During the Christmas week, 9.5 million tracks were downloaded from legal online music services, a new record for single-week sales. The following week, that number jumped to nearly 20 million tracks, triple the number sold during the same week a year earlier. Analysts attribute much of the gain to the ballooning number of portable MP3 players in the hands of consumers and to strong sales of gift cards. For the year, legal downloads rose 147 percent to 142.6 million. Although a drop always follows the holiday spike, analysts said the holiday numbers could indicate a market that will grow to perhaps 750 million or 1 billion tracks in 2006. Such numbers still pale compared to downloads on P2P services, which are estimated at 250 million per week, but experts say the upswing in legal downloads signals a changing tide for online music. CNET, 8 January 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6023769.html US-VISIT WANTS ALL 10 FINGERS PRINTED Officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have announced a plan to begin requiring visitors to the United States to have all 10 of their fingers to be printed to be admitted to the country. Currently, the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program requires prints of two fingers; the change to 10 will reportedly increase both security and privacy and will decrease the number of visitors who must undergo a second inspection to enter or leave the country. DHS said biometric technology such as fingerprinting is already reliable, but the agency is working with technology vendors to develop products that are more accurate, faster, and more mobile. Federal Computer Week, 5 January 2006 http://www.fcw.com/article91877-01-05-06-Web GOVERNMENT KEEPING TABS WHEN IT SHOULDN'T Despite a federal directive forbidding the use of Web-tracking technologies for federal agencies, recent reports have shown that the majority of agencies do in fact employ permanent cookies or other tools that track users. The technologies can be used to identify repeat visitors to federal Web sites and sometimes to track users' surfing on nongovernmental sites. Last week, the Associated Press found that the National Security Agency was using permanent cookies (temporary cookies are allowed), a practice it has since discontinued. Separately, reporters at CNET News.com looked at the Web sites of all agencies listed in the U.S. Government Manual and evaluated what tracking tools they were using. Results showed dozens of agencies using tools that appear to contravene the directive, including sites for the military, cabinet departments, and election commissions. When contacted about the tracking tools, officials at many agencies reportedly said they were unaware that their sites used such technologies. Peter Swire, law professor at Ohio State University, who participated in the drafting of an earlier Web-tracking policy for the Clinton administration, said, "It's evidence that privacy is not being taken seriously." "It's evidence that privacy is not being taken seriously." CNET, 5 January 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6018702.html MICROSOFT RELEASES WMF PATCH EARLY Responding to concerns that the recently disclosed Windows Meta File (WMF) vulnerability presented serious risk, Microsoft has released a patch ahead of the company's monthly patch release date. Microsoft said that testing of the patch was completed early and that there was "strong customer sentiment that the release should be made available as soon as possible." Some security experts, warning of the threat posed by the flaw, had even encouraged users to install a third-party patch developed by a European programmer. The patch is for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003; although Microsoft had earlier said the vulnerability also affected Windows 98 and Windows ME, the company now says those operating systems are not affected by the flaw. With the release, Microsoft acknowledged that the risk to unpatched systems is critical, though it said data indicated that the infection rate from attacks that exploit the weakness was low to moderate so far. Some security experts offered a different characterization of the situation, saying they have identified thousands of Web sites that exploit the flaw. ZDNet, 5 January 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6020070.html [as a result of] USERS SWEAT BULLETS WAITING FOR WMF PATCH Security experts are warning about the danger of a currently unpatched vulnerability in all current versions of the Windows operating system, but Microsoft has said the patch won't be released until January 10, its next scheduled patch release date. Sam Curry of Computer Associates International said, "This vulnerability is rising in popularity among hackers, and it is simple to exploit." Others estimate that more than one million computers have already been infected worldwide, noting that attacks have taken the form of malicious Web sites, Trojan horses, and instant messaging worms. The flaw, which affects how Windows handles Windows Meta File (WMF) images, is especially dangerous because users need only view an image designed to take advantage of the vulnerability to have their computers infected. Despite the calls for an immediate patch, Microsoft, which adopted a schedule of monthly patch updates, has said the fix for the current bug will not be released until the next scheduled group of patches. In the meantime, Microsoft is warning users to be careful about what sites they visit. Most Internet users, however, do not have a level of awareness of such security concerns to protect themselves, according to Stacey Quandt, an analyst with the Aberdeen Group. ZDNet, 3 January 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6016747.html EEF SEEKS PROTECTION FOR COMPUTER RESEARCHERS The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called on Sony EMI to pledge not to pursue prosecution of computer researchers who investigate the security of the company's products. Last fall, the company was caught in a public outcry over technology included in music CDs. The technology installed itself on users' computers and scanned them for potentially illegal activities. The company has removed those tools from CDs, but security researchers believe they have reason to reverse engineer copy protections on EMI CDs, a practice which would violate not only the Digital Millennium Copyright Act but also EMI's end user license agreement. Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney with EFF, said, "When it comes to computer security, it pays to have as many independent experts kick the tires as possible, and that can only happen if EMI assures those experts that they won't be sued for their trouble." You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: Internet News, 5 January 2006 If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3575441 send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu SPAMMER HIT WITH $11.2 BILLION FINE A court has slapped a Florida spammer with an $11.2 billion fine, setting a new precedent for fines against spammers, though the ruling is unlikely to have much effect on the volume of spam. Internet service provider CIS Internet Services, which provides Internet service to parts of Iowa and Illinois, had sued James McCalla for sending more than 28 million e-mail solicitations that fraudulently used the CIS domain as the return address. In addition to the fine, McCalla is forbidden from accessing the Internet for three years. Robert Kramer III, owner of CIS, welcomed the ruling, calling it the "economic death penalty," though he acknowledged that he does not expect to receive any of the money awarded. John Mozena, co-founder and vice president of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, said this and other rulings against spammers have not had a significant effect on the total volume of spam, which he estimated continues to be about two-thirds of all e-mail traffic. What is needed, he argued, rather than current laws, which only forbid deceptive or fraudulent spam, is a prohibition against all spam. Wired News, 5 January 2006 MICROSOFT AGREES TO CLOSE CHINESE BLOGGER'S SITE Following a formal request from Chinese officials, Microsoft has shut down the blog of a high-profile Chinese journalist. China is well known for censoring public speech it considers critical of the government, and Microsoft's actions are not the first in which non-Chinese companies have complied with Chinese authorities. Officials from Microsoft noted that if their services are to be available in China, the company must comply with local laws. As Brooke Richardson, a group product manager for MSN said, "We think it's better to be there with our services than not be there." Last year Yahoo was faulted by some for cooperating with Chinese officials, and it too stated then that a requirement of continuing operation in the country is to conform to local laws and regulations. Rebecca MacKinnon, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, expressed concerns on her blog about Microsoft's action. "Can we be sure," she said, "they won't do the same thing in response to potentially illegal demands by an overzealous government agency in our own country?" New York Times, 6 January 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/technology/06blog.html 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 or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell [Maker of voting machines that leave no paper trail for recounts.] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK This is going to be big year for investigations of United States government operations. Tom Delay, now has permanently resigned as the Speaker of the House of Representatives Scooter Libby is under indictment. [Top White House Procurement Officer] Jack Abramoff has pled guilty, gateway to more. Michael Scanlon has pled guilty, gateway to more. [Former Abramoff partner and Delay aide] Russ Tice and James Risen giving information about possible millions of illegal NSA wiretaps, not just the select few admitted to by President Bush. ABC Nightly News, 01/10/06 News out about Project Echelon to listen to ATMs, computers, etc., from half a mile away, and other eavesdropping projects that can record conversations through a foot or two of solid concrete. [DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the same people who brought you the Internet, nee DARPANet] But Judge Alito's listing of his membership in the Princeton CAP organization as one of his three top choices for his resume won't make any difference. [CAP = Concerned Alumni of Princeton, ultra-conservative campus group dedicated to returning Princeton to the days when women and blacks were not allowed into colleges. A critic of CAP was dropped from the Alito witness list on 01/07/06 before any testimony could be given.] * China won't take strong action against Iran nuclear program because China just made a deal to buy lots of Iranian oil [Economic Warfare] *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK Former NSA official Russell Tice wants to testify before Congress, but the White House is blocking his testimony on the grounds that Congress does not have high enough classified clearance. "I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted while I was an intelligence officer with the National Security Agency and with the Defense Intelligence Agency." December 16, 2004 The same day The New York Times broke the story of wiretaps without warrants from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court. [FISA court] Washington Times, New York Times, ABC Nightly News *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 90% of cars do not achieve their sticker ad mileage. ABC Nightly News, 01/10/06 * 14 million iPods were sold in the last quarter of 2005, one of the biggest holiday hits. Compare to 1 1/4 million Apple computers in same period. Apple has now sold 42 million iPods, 1/3 of them in the last quarter. . .Wow! iTunes is coming up on 1 billion total sales. 83% of the total online music figures. Washington post [Now that Apple is switching from Motorola chips to Intel, perhaps they can finally get more than 5% share in computers.] * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. 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