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by Michael Hart 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

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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. 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Cary] 8798 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, And Paradise] [Updated edition of: etext05/dpar310h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/9/8798 ] [Files: 8798.txt; 8798-h.htm] The Vision of Paradise, Part 2, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H. F. Cary] 8797 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, And Paradise] [Updated edition of: etext05/dpar210h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/9/8797 ] [Files: 8797.txt; 8797-h.htm] The Vision of Paradise, Part 1, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H. F. Cary] 8796 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, And Paradise] [Updated edition of: etext05/dpar110h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/9/8796 ] [Files: 8796.txt; 8796-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Complete, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8778 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 1-34] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel1110h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8789 ] [Files: 8789.txt; 8789-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 10, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8788 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 32-34] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel1010h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8788 ] [Files: 8788.txt; 8788-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 9, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8787 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 29-31] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel0910h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8787 ] [Files: 8787.txt; 8787-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 8, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8786 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 23-28] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel0810h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8786 ] [Files: 8786.txt; 8786-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 7, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8785 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 18-22] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel0710h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8785 ] [Files: 8785.txt; 8785-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 6, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8784 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 13-17] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel0610h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8784 ] [Files: 8784.txt; 8784-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 5, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8783 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 9-12] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel0510h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8783 ] [Files: 8783.txt; 8783-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 4, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8782 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 7-8] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel0410h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8782 ] [Files: 8782.txt; 8782-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 3, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8781 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 5-6] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel0310h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8781 ] [Files: 8781.txt; 8781-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 2, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8780 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 3-4] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel0210h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/8/8780 ] [Files: 8780.txt; 8780-h.htm] The Vision of Hell, Part 1, by Dante Alighieri [Tr.: H.F. Cary] 8779 [Subtitle: The Inferno] [Cantos: 1-2] [Illus: Gustave Dore] [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; or The Divine Comedy] [Updated edition of: etext05/hel0110h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/7/8779 ] [Files: 8779.txt; 8779-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete, by Gustave Dore 8710 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor1010h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/1/8710 ] [Files: 8710.txt; 8710-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 9, by Gustave Dore 8709 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor0910h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/0/8709 ] [Files: 8709.txt; 8709-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 8, by Gustave Dore 8708 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor0810h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/0/8708 ] [Files: 8708.txt; 8708-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 7, by Gustave Dore 8707 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor0710h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/0/8707 ] [Files: 8707.txt; 8707-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 6, by Gustave Dore 8706 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor0610h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/0/8706 ] [Files: 8706.txt; 8706-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 5, by Gustave Dore 8705 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor0510h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/0/8705 ] [Files: 8705.txt; 8705-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 4, by Gustave Dore 8704 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor0410h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/0/8704 ] [Files: 8704.txt; 8704-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 3, by Gustave Dore 8703 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor0310h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/0/8703 ] [Files: 8703.txt; 8703-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 2, by Gustave Dore 8702 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor0210h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/0/8702 ] [Files: 8702.txt; 8702-h.htm] The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 1, by Gustave Dore 8701 [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Updated edition of: etext05/dor0110h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/7/0/8701 ] [Files: 8701.txt; 8701-h.htm] Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book V, by Francois Rabelais 8170 [Subtitle: Five Books Of The Lives, Heroic Deeds And Sayings Of Gargantua And His Son Pantagruel] [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux] [Updated edition of: etext03/rab0510h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/1/7/8170 ] [Files: 8170.txt; 8170-h.htm] Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV, by Francois Rabelais 8169 [Subtitle: Five Books Of The Lives, Heroic Deeds And Sayings Of Gargantua And His Son Pantagruel] [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux] [Updated edition of: etext03/rab0410h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/1/6/8169 ] [Files: 8169.txt; 8169-h.htm] Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III, by Francois Rabelais 8168 [Subtitle: Five Books Of The Lives, Heroic Deeds And Sayings Of Gargantua And His Son Pantagruel] [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux] [Updated edition of: etext03/rab0310h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/1/6/8168 ] [Files: 8168.txt; 8168-h.htm] Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II, by Francois Rabelais 8167 [Subtitle: Five Books Of The Lives, Heroic Deeds And Sayings Of Gargantua And His Son Pantagruel] [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux] [Updated edition of: etext03/rab0210h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/1/6/8167 ] [Files: 8167.txt; 8167-h.htm] Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I, by Francois Rabelais 8166 [Subtitle: Five Books Of The Lives, Heroic Deeds And Sayings Of Gargantua And His Son Pantagruel] [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux] [Updated edition of: etext03/rab0110h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/1/6/8166 ] [Files: 8166.txt; 8166-h.htm] Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, by Cook 8106 [Author: James Cook] [Updated edition of: etext05/cfvrw10.txt or cfvrw10h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/8/1/0/8106 ] [Files: 8106.txt; 8106-h.htm] Droll Stories, Volume 3, by Honore de Balzac 2551 [Updated edition of: etext01/3drll10.txt or 3drll10h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/5/5/2551 ] [Files: 2551.txt] Droll Stories, Volume 2, by Honore de Balzac 2318 [Updated edition of: etext00/2drll10.txt or 2drll10h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/3/1/2318 ] [Files: 2318.txt] Droll Stories, Volume 1, by Honore de Balzac 1925 [Updated edition of: etext99/1drll10.txt or 1drll10h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/9/2/1925 ] [Files: 1925.txt; 1925-h.htm] Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete, by Francois Rabelais 1200 [Subtitle: Five Books Of The Lives, Heroic Deeds And Sayings Of Gargantua And His Son Pantagruel] [Illustrated by Gustave Dore] [Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux] [Updated edition of: etext98/ggpnt11.txt and ggpnt11h.htm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/0/1200 ] [Files: 1200.txt; 1200-h.htm] The Divine Comedy of Dante: Paradise, by Dante Alighieri 1007 [From The Vision Of Hell, Purgatory, And Paradise] [Translated By The Rev. 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Here Is A Sample Of What Books Were Being Done Around #2602 *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] >From NewsScan: HACKER WANTS TO MAKE iTUNES EVERYBODY'S TUNES [More below in Edupage section] Jon Lech Johansen, the Norwegian hacker who gained notoriety for developing DVD encryption-cracking software, has created a software key that unlocks the encryption Apple uses for its AirPort Express -- which lets users broadcast digital music from Apple's online iTunes Music Store on a stereo not plugged into a computer. Johansen, who posted the key on his Web site (mockingly named "So Sue Me"), is an open source advocate critical of Apple for using a proprietary system to ensure that its products work only with each other. Apple has not yet reacted to this new intrusion. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 12 Aug 2004) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9385704.htm and in a related story THE NEW MEANING OF OWNERSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE When you buy a CD from a store, you "own" that music, and as long as you don't bootleg it or charge lots of people money to listen to it, it's yours. But if you purchase that same playlist online, in most cases you're purchasing the "rights" to the content which is "locked" by some type of digital rights management software. Not only that, but those rights may change over time, dictated by the whims of the music company you get them from. For instance, Apple Computer recently upped the number of computers on which its iTunes music files can be concurrently installed from three to five, but there's nothing stopping it from making its DRM more restrictive in the future -- although the company says that's unlikely. 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The discount will prove a losing proposition for RealNetworks in the short term, because it will be charging less than it pays music companies in royalties, but RealNetworks hopes its radical move will help to unseat Apple, which by some estimates commands a 70% share of the music-download market. RealNetworks also seeks to draw attention to its Harmony technology, which enables users to listen to songs purchased from RealPlayer on Apple iPod music players. Up until now, iPods have played only music purchased at iTunes. (Wall Street Journal 17 Aug 2004) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109269116575992799,00.html (sub req'd) 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. 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Noting that emergency services increasingly depend on wireless communication, and that disclosure of outages promotes a more stable wireless network, the FCC will again require the reports from wireless carriers. The Department of Homeland Security and wireless telecoms argued that the reports pose a security risk and that a voluntary reporting system would be preferable. In a concession, the FCC agreed that the reports will be confidential and will not be subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Wired News, 11 August 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,64528,00.html and in a related story FCC EXEMPTS HIGHER ED FROM CALEA The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a preliminary ruling that exempts colleges and universities from costly projects to reengineer computer networks to comply with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). CALEA requires telecom companies to build their networks in such a way that federal officials can eavesdrop on phone conversations and e-mail exchanges with proper authority, and some have called for the FCC to rule that CALEA should also cover computer networks that carry Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone service. The FCC will not make a final decision on CALEA until late this fall, but in the meantime it has issued a ruling that identifies certain entities that would be exempt from CALEA for the purposes of VoIP phone service. Aside from higher education, exempted entities include libraries, hotels, and coffee shops. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 August 2004 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/08/2004081301n.htm DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO COPYRIGHT EDUCATION Citing what it calls one-sided information about copyright presented by groups including the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to school students, the American Library Association (ALA) will release its own educational materials to schools. ALA officials said that copyright information given to schools from industry groups neglects to address such issues as fair use and that the bias of industry groups doesn't serve the best interests of school kids. A representative of the BSA said his group's materials are not biased and that they focus simply on right versus wrong rather than on covering the range of relevant issues. Darrell Luzzo, vice president of education for Junior Achievement Worldwide, which last year cosponsored a program with the MPAA on copyright education, said that if his organization were going to repeat the project, it "would want to talk more about fair use." Discussions with educators later convinced Luzzo that the program should have been more broadly based rather than focusing on just one side of the issue. Wired News, 13 August 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64543,00.html [iTunes Restrictions Continue To Fall] DVD JON GOES AFTER AIRPORT EXPRESS The Norwegian hacker known as DVD Jon has published a software key for Apple Computer's AirPort Express, a wireless device that allows users to transmit songs from iTunes on a computer to a stereo. Jon Johansen, now 20, found himself the subject of criminal prosecution as a 15-year-old when he published a key to the encryption for DVDs, allowing users to make copies--legitimate or otherwise--of encrypted DVDs. Ultimately, Johansen was acquitted of those charges. Johansen has been an outspoken critic of proprietary software and voiced his support on his Web site for a recent announcement from RealNetworks that they had developed an application to allow their content to be played on Apple's iPod music player. The software key that Johansen published this week for the AirPort Express is the third time this year he has defeated Apple's copy protections for music files. The new key, according to some experts, could allow development of a range of products from companies other than Apple that will work with the AirPort Express device. San Jose Mercury News, 12 August 2004 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9385704.htm MICROSOFT TO OFFER BASIC WINDOWS XP IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES [Linux Forces MicroSoft Prices Downward In Competition] Microsoft will distribute a slimmed-down version of Windows XP in five developing nations beginning this fall as part of the company's ongoing efforts to facilitate computer use and literacy. Consumers in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia will see the so-called Windows XP Starter Edition on PCs starting in October; the other two countries in the program were not named. The Starter Edition of the operating system has fewer features than the standard package, and versions are customized for each country, including appropriate languages and items such as screen saver photos that reflect the local landscape. Also part of Microsoft's initiative is a program that offers free operating systems and inexpensive Office software packages to certain schools in 67 developing countries. Prices for the Starter Edition were not announced, though some reports indicated it might be about $36. According to a spokesperson from Microsoft, the low price allows the company to compete with Linux and may also discourage piracy, since buyers of inexpensive, legitimate copies of the software are eligible for patches and updates. CNET, 11 August 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5304023.html UNLISTED PHONE NUMBERS PUBLISHED [Ooops!] Officials at Verizon Communications said this week that due to a computer problem, phone numbers of as many as 12,000 Verizon customers who asked that their phone numbers be unlisted may end up published in phone directories. Verizon published at least 9,000 of the numbers in its own directory that includes Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, but the company, which is required to disclose its customers' numbers to competing directory services, inadvertently released as many as 12,000 unlisted numbers to other directories. 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Johansen, who posted the key on his Web site (mockingly named "So Sue Me"), is an open source advocate critical of Apple for using a proprietary system to ensure that its products work only with each other. Apple has not yet reacted to this new intrusion. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 12 Aug 2004) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9385704.htm and in a related story THE NEW MEANING OF OWNERSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE When you buy a CD from a store, you "own" that music, and as long as you don't bootleg it or charge lots of people money to listen to it, it's yours. But if you purchase that same playlist online, in most cases you're purchasing the "rights" to the content which is "locked" by some type of digital rights management software. Not only that, but those rights may change over time, dictated by the whims of the music company you get them from. For instance, Apple Computer recently upped the number of computers on which its iTunes music files can be concurrently installed from three to five, but there's nothing stopping it from making its DRM more restrictive in the future -- although the company says that's unlikely. Meanwhile, customers of RealNetwork's Rhapsody music service "rent" their songs for a monthly fee but can play them only on their PCs, not their MP3 players. All these variables mean that consumers will need to be better informed in the future about what it is they're actually getting for their money, says Alan Davidson, associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology: "DRM underscores the point that consumers are going to have to become a lot more sophisticated about what they're buying." (Wall Street Journal 16 Aug 2004) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109260940215891895,00.html and in yet perhaps an even bigger related story REALNETWORKS UPS THE ANTE, SLASHES PRICES In a strategy to undermine Apple Computer's dominance in the online music market, RealNetworks is cutting its prices at the RealPlayer Music Store to 49 cents per song and $4.99 per album. Apple's iTunes Music Store sells songs for 99 cents apiece and albums for $9.99. The discount will prove a losing proposition for RealNetworks in the short term, because it will be charging less than it pays music companies in royalties, but RealNetworks hopes its radical move will help to unseat Apple, which by some estimates commands a 70% share of the music-download market. RealNetworks also seeks to draw attention to its Harmony technology, which enables users to listen to songs purchased from RealPlayer on Apple iPod music players. Up until now, iPods have played only music purchased at iTunes. (Wall Street Journal 17 Aug 2004) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109269116575992799,00.html (sub req'd) GOOGLE SLASHES SHARE PRICE [This is a very conservative report compared to the others I've heard] Google has cut the expected share price for its initial public stock offering by almost a third, an indication that demand from investors is considerably less than was expected. The Internet search firm now says its expected price range will be between $85 and $95 per share -- whereas its original projected price range was between $108 to $135 per share. Google also announced that the number of shares ultimately available to the public will be reduced from about 25 million to 19.6 million. (Washington Post 18 Aug 2004) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10478-2004Aug18.html [More on the RFID front. . .telling ADS to go to YOUR house, and telling ADVERTIZERS if their product is in your pantry!] THEY'RE INTO YOUR TELLY, NEXT THEY'LL BE INTO YOUR PANTRY The top four U.S. broadcast networks -- CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox -- have signed on to comply with a new 12-character code system called Ad-ID, to be used for tracking all advertising. The system is being compared in importance to the introduction three decades ago of the universal product code (UPC) bar codes for tracking retail sales and inventory. Marketing professor Peter Sealey at the University of California at Berkeley explains: "It's going to allow advertisers for the first time to precisely target individuals for whom the message has relevance. This way we can create on the fly a different ad for a different household." Example: a diaper manufacturer could select households with babies while a dental adhesive maker would pinpoint their denture-wearing neighbors, based on information that consumers provided. Sealy says that five years or so from now Ad-ID and RFID systems will be used together: "Then we could measure whether we delivered the commercial to you, and, as I am monitoring your pantry, whether you bought the product, too." (Reuters/USA Today 18 Aug 2004) //www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-08-18-rfid-plus-ads_xhtm 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 FCC TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE OF WIRELESS OUTAGES The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ruled that wireless carriers must submit reports to government officials concerning significant outages in service, though those reports will be kept from public view. Disclosure of outages had been in place for wireless carriers since 1991. After September 11, 2001, however, the information in the reports was deemed potentially useful to would-be terrorists, and the reports ended. Noting that emergency services increasingly depend on wireless communication, and that disclosure of outages promotes a more stable wireless network, the FCC will again require the reports from wireless carriers. The Department of Homeland Security and wireless telecoms argued that the reports pose a security risk and that a voluntary reporting system would be preferable. In a concession, the FCC agreed that the reports will be confidential and will not be subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Wired News, 11 August 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,64528,00.html and in a related story FCC EXEMPTS HIGHER ED FROM CALEA The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a preliminary ruling that exempts colleges and universities from costly projects to reengineer computer networks to comply with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). CALEA requires telecom companies to build their networks in such a way that federal officials can eavesdrop on phone conversations and e-mail exchanges with proper authority, and some have called for the FCC to rule that CALEA should also cover computer networks that carry Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone service. The FCC will not make a final decision on CALEA until late this fall, but in the meantime it has issued a ruling that identifies certain entities that would be exempt from CALEA for the purposes of VoIP phone service. Aside from higher education, exempted entities include libraries, hotels, and coffee shops. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 August 2004 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/08/2004081301n.htm DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO COPYRIGHT EDUCATION Citing what it calls one-sided information about copyright presented by groups including the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to school students, the American Library Association (ALA) will release its own educational materials to schools. ALA officials said that copyright information given to schools from industry groups neglects to address such issues as fair use and that the bias of industry groups doesn't serve the best interests of school kids. A representative of the BSA said his group's materials are not biased and that they focus simply on right versus wrong rather than on covering the range of relevant issues. Darrell Luzzo, vice president of education for Junior Achievement Worldwide, which last year cosponsored a program with the MPAA on copyright education, said that if his organization were going to repeat the project, it "would want to talk more about fair use." Discussions with educators later convinced Luzzo that the program should have been more broadly based rather than focusing on just one side of the issue. Wired News, 13 August 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64543,00.html [iTunes Restrictions Continue To Fall] DVD JON GOES AFTER AIRPORT EXPRESS The Norwegian hacker known as DVD Jon has published a software key for Apple Computer's AirPort Express, a wireless device that allows users to transmit songs from iTunes on a computer to a stereo. Jon Johansen, now 20, found himself the subject of criminal prosecution as a 15-year-old when he published a key to the encryption for DVDs, allowing users to make copies--legitimate or otherwise--of encrypted DVDs. Ultimately, Johansen was acquitted of those charges. Johansen has been an outspoken critic of proprietary software and voiced his support on his Web site for a recent announcement from RealNetworks that they had developed an application to allow their content to be played on Apple's iPod music player. The software key that Johansen published this week for the AirPort Express is the third time this year he has defeated Apple's copy protections for music files. The new key, according to some experts, could allow development of a range of products from companies other than Apple that will work with the AirPort Express device. San Jose Mercury News, 12 August 2004 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9385704.htm MICROSOFT TO OFFER BASIC WINDOWS XP IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES [Linux Forces Microsoft Prices Downward In Competition] Microsoft will distribute a slimmed-down version of Windows XP in five developing nations beginning this fall as part of the company's ongoing efforts to facilitate computer use and literacy. Consumers in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia will see the so-called Windows XP Starter Edition on PCs starting in October; the other two countries in the program were not named. The Starter Edition of the operating system has fewer features than the standard package, and versions are customized for each country, including appropriate languages and items such as screen saver photos that reflect the local landscape. Also part of Microsoft's initiative is a program that offers free operating systems and inexpensive Office software packages to certain schools in 67 developing countries. Prices for the Starter Edition were not announced, though some reports indicated it might be about $36. According to a spokesperson from Microsoft, the low price allows the company to compete with Linux and may also discourage piracy, since buyers of inexpensive, legitimate copies of the software are eligible for patches and updates. CNET, 11 August 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5304023.html UNLISTED PHONE NUMBERS PUBLISHED [Ooops!] Officials at Verizon Communications said this week that due to a computer problem, phone numbers of as many as 12,000 Verizon customers who asked that their phone numbers be unlisted may end up published in phone directories. Verizon published at least 9,000 of the numbers in its own directory that includes Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, but the company, which is required to disclose its customers' numbers to competing directory services, inadvertently released as many as 12,000 unlisted numbers to other directories. Verizon has offered to refund the fees that consumers pay to have their numbers unlisted or to change customers' phone numbers free of charge if they so choose. Officials from Verizon said the problem resulted from a conversion to a new computer system. Washington Post, 11 August 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55022-2004Aug10.html [More Oopses!] MICROSOFT IDENTIFIES PROBLEMS WITH SP2 Microsoft has released a list of about 50 applications, including some of its own, that the company said will have problems working properly with the long-awaited Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP. The service pack include a number of important security upgrades that consumers have been calling for, and SP2 was released to manufacturers earlier this month. One of the changes, however, is that SP2 activates the Windows firewall by default, and this firewall causes problems with a number of applications because it affects their ability to receive data over the Internet. The list of affected applications includes products from Symantec, Computer Associates, and Macromedia, as well as several products from Microsoft, including Visual Studio .Net, Operations Manager, and SQL Server. Some companies have issued advisories to employees not to install SP2 until all potential problems have been identified, though others insist that the security benefits from the service pack are more important than possible conflicts. CNET, 16 August 2004 http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5311280.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 SEVERAL STRANGE POLITICAL DEALS STRUCK IN THESE OLYMPICS OUSTED GREEK OLYMPIC LEADER OUTSTED/REINSTATED, LIKE APPLE'S STEVE JOBS Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was ousted and later reinstated as head of Greek Olympic Committee. In 1994, she was named Vice - Chair of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1996, she was appointed President of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games' Bid Committee. In 1998, she was appointed Greek Ambassador at Large. As of May 2000, she was President of the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. She was the first woman in history to be president of a successful Olympic bid committee, yet was forced out of her position as CEO due to political infighting. However, those who forced her out never got the ball rolling and the games' preparations fell very much behind until she was returned to her post as CEO after three years of what can only be referred to as extreme political silliness that was almost suicidal. Rumors were already rampant that the Olympics would be removed from Greece and awarded to one of the other bidding countries before those who ousted her from the CEO position after she won the bid finally realized there was actual work to be done and reinstated her. It is not only amazing that this sort of thing happens on a regular basis, but that the news media regularly covers it up, especially when the victim is a woman. [It was nearly impossible to find even one article on this.] and Olympic Regulations Changed At the Last Minute There have been any number of rule changes made for this Olympics, many of them under public suspicion of being politically oriented, or occidented, as the case may be, especially in the table tennis, or ping-pong, world events. Not only have nearly half the points, from 21 to 11, been cut out, but the ball has been made larger. A greater concern on the geopolitical spectrum has been to to eschew the possibility of an all Chinese final match, as has happened for both the men's and women's doubles teams in half of the events for the history of table tennis as an Olympic event. This year all of a country's teams must play in the same "draw," which now provides for a 0% chance that two teams from the same country can make this year's championship match, even if those two teams are the best. Many other events have had their rules changed, some at such times as only a few days before the events, thus requiring Olympians for various events to make last minute alterations in strategies which have been in preparation for four years. Some of these changes in their programs have been fatal to their chances to medal and maybe even more possibly fatal to their health than we would like. This safety item, much less the these political ramifications, had been swept under the carpet by the major news coverage. They say the safety and integrity of the competitors is a primary, if not THE primary concern, but such rule changes make you wonder, especially when such changes are constantly being made, even right up to the very last days. Perhaps the rules for each Olympics can be announced when the site is picked, or at the latest by the time the previous Olympics closing ceremonies take place, thus giving a more level playing field for preparations, and for contesting rule changes well beforehand. Many of these changes have been made in the high visibility sports such as gymnastics, table tennis and volleyball, and have changed a lot of the endurance factors to non-endurance factors making teams and individuals have to concentrate more on tactics than strategy, but making for a more televisual event to sell on the open market. In some cases this is like asking a Marathon runner to think along the lines of a sprinter just for increased entertainment value. In addition, those who watch those extemely high-visibility events such as gymnastics have probably noticed the lack of the extensive use of "release moves" from the high bar for men or in uneven bars for women. These release moves have been the most exciting and/or the highest point value elements in previous Olympics, but so far, they they have severely reduced in the planned routines. This was due to severe rule changes that disallowed the traditional dropped scores of the worst performance in each event, thus encouraging an extraordinary effort in the team competitions, but you might be in for a disappointment this year if you expect performances similar, or exceeding those of previous Olympics. Last night's women's team finals turned out to be a nearly perfect example of this, as the Romanian team won with a most conservative set of routines, but performed without major mishaps. The Chinese had much more spectacular routines, which might have won under the old scoring system, but a spectacular fall removed all hopes to do well enough for any medal at all. *** In addition, there have been announcements that Greece's premiere athlete[s] will be arrested and taken to court for not showing up for manadatory drug tests. It seems a little strange for private organizations such as Olympic Committees to be able to enforce an entirely internal regulation as if it were a state criminal act. [The previous was composed before the events] Announcements by the IOC [International Olympic Committee] today, in various venues, say the IOC is no longer pursuing the two they have been after since the Olympics opened, finally admitting that they have no authority over the two since withdrawing officially, but offical state's attorneys of Greece are not giving up, and at the moment are reported to have opened yet another investigation. Thus is appears that the Greek Olympic Committee still has a long arm that reaches beyond its own official jurisdiction. SIMPLE SOLUTION OF THE WEEK "Only wimps use backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on FTP, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds *** ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Tobacco, one of the legally accepted "drugs of our civilization," yields 20 times the profit per acre of raising the usually grains and other similar crops. . .in case you were wondering just where all those billions of dollars came from for the tobacco companies to do all that lobbying, advertizing, and to hire scientists, who either proclaimed that tobacco was neither addictive nor harmful, or who hid the evidence that it was addictive and harmful. * ONE IN FIVE ENGINEERS LACKS 4-YEAR DEGREE [From Newsscan, as above] It turns out that more than 20% of U.S. science and engineering workers do not have a four-year bachelor's degree, according to a new report issued by the National Science Foundation. Five percent hold high school diplomas and 17% have two-year associate's degrees. The study indicates that in the in the computer and math science fields, the percentage of those without four-year degrees is about 40%.The news highlights a growing crisis in the U.S., as the number of science and engineering doctorate degrees granted continues to fall and the number of educational visas issued to foreign candidates also shrinks. Despite these dismal figures, NSF data indicates that graduate enrollment in science and engineering programs reached a record of nearly 455,000 students in fall 2002. (CNet News.com 16 Aug 2004) http://news.com.com/2100-1022-5312309.html A note on statistics in general: I have noticed, even in years without major elections, that a huge amount of the "information" we received from Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw is a direct quotation from press releases, much of which are provided by politicians to support their own positions. Speaking of Rather, Brokaw and Jennings, not to mention Lehrer on PBS, their average age is well over twice the median age in the United States, and three times the world at large. *** ODD QUOTATION OF THE WEEK "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." Alfred Korzybski, founder of Semantics [along with S. I. Hawyakawa] * FREE TRADE FINALLY REACHES THE CITIZEN LEVEL Illinois has legislation to allow its citizens to buy drugs from Canada and other countries. 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Baring-Gould [#2][?trlnxxx.xxx] 8819 -=-=-=-=[ 53 NEW U.S. POSTS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories For Children, Various 13213 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/1/13213 ] [Files: 13213.txt; 13213-h.htm] The Wild Olive, by Basil King 13212 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/1/13212 ] [Files: 13212.txt; 13212-8.txt; 13212-0.txt; 13212-h.htm] The Pearl, by Sophie Jewett 13211 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/1/13211 ] [Files: 13211.txt; 13211-8.txt] El Comendador Mendoza, by Juan Valera 13210 [Subtitle: Obras Completas Tomo VII] [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/1/13210 ] [Files: 13210.txt; 13210-8.txt] The Second Violin, by Grace S. Richmond 13209 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/0/13209 ] [Files: 13209.txt; 13209-8.txt; 13209-h.htm] Characters and events of Roman History, by Guglielmo Ferrero 13208 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/0/13208 ] [Files: 13208.txt; 13208-8.txt] Les Pardaillan - 01, by Michel Zevaco 13207 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/0/13207 ] [Files: 13207-8.txt; 13207-h.htm] A Short History of Monks and Monasteries, by Alfred Wesley Wishart 13206 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/0/13206 ] [Files: 13206.txt; 13206-8.txt; 13206-h.htm] Civics: as Applied Sociology, by Patrick Geddes 13205 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/0/13205 ] [Files: 13205.txt; 13205-8.txt; 13205-h.htm] Sermons to the Natural Man, by William G.T. Shedd 13204 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/0/13204 ] [Files: 13204.txt; 13204-8.txt] Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes, by J. Atwood.Slater 13203 [Author AKA: James Atwood Slater (without the period)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/0/13203 ] [Files: 13203.txt; 13203-8.txt] Evelyn Innes, by George Moore 13201 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/0/13201 ] [Files: 13201.txt; 13201-8.txt; 13201-h.htm] Act, Declaration, & Testimony, by The Reformed Presbytery 13200 [Title: Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/2/0/13200 ] [Files: 13200.txt; 13200-8.txt] The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction, Vol. 17, No. 469 13199 [January 1, 1831] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13199 ] [Files: 13199.txt; 13199-8.txt; 13199-h.htm] Nouvelles lettres d'un voyageur, by George Sand 13198 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13198 ] [Files: 13198-8.txt; 13198-h.htm] Wear and Tear, by Silas Weir Mitchell 13197 [Subtitle: or, Hints for the Overworked] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13197 ] [Files: 13197.txt; 13197-8.txt; 13197-h.htm] Quiet Talks on Prayer, by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon 13196 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13196 ] [Files: 13196.txt; 13196-8.txt; 13196-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, by Various 13195 [Subtitle: Vol. XI, No. 27, June, 1873] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13195 ] [Files: 13195.txt; 13195-8.txt; 13195-h.htm] The Rules of the Game, by Stewart Edward White 13194 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13194 ] [Files: 13194.txt; 13194-8.txt; 13194-h.htm] Supreme Personality, by Delmer Eugene Croft 13193 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13193 ] [Files: 13193.txt; 13193-h.htm] Oeuvres de Napoleon Bonaparte, Tome IV, by Napoleon Bonaparte 13192 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13192 ] [Files: 13192.txt; 13192-8.txt; 13192-h.htm] The Cross of Berny, by Emile de Girardin 13191 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13191 ] [Files: 13191.txt; 13191-8.txt; 13191-h.htm] De l'importance des livres de raison, by Louis Guibert 13190 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/9/13190 ] [Files: 13190-8.txt; 13190-0.txt] Le gorille, by Oscar Metenier 13189 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13189 ] [Files: 13189-8.txt; 13189-0.txt] Putnam's Word Book, by Louis A. Fleming 13188 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13188 ] [Files: 13188.txt; 13188-8.txt; 13188-0.txt; 13188-h.htm] Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, by Maurice Joly 13187 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13187 ] [Files: 13187-8.txt; 13187-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 100, March 14, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13186 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13186 ] [Files: 13186.txt; 13186-8.txt; 13186-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 100, March 7, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13185 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13185 ] [Files: 13185.txt; 13185-8.txt; 13185-h.htm] Narrative and Lyric Poems, by O. J. Stevenson 13184 [Title: Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] [Contents: The Meeting of the Water, by Moore Jock o' Hazeldean, by Scott Horatius, by Macaulay Alice Brand , by Scott The Solitary Reaper, by Wordsworth The Island of the Scots, by Aytoun Dickens in Camp, by Harte A Musical Instrument, by Mrs. Browning Gradatim, by Holland The Battle of the Lake Regillus , by Macaulay The Vision of Sir Launfal, by Lowell The Builders, by Longfellow British Freedom, by Wordsworth The Courtship of Miles Standish, by Longfellow Sohrab and Rustum, by Arnold] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13184 ] [Files: 13184.txt] In the Days of Chivalry, by Evelyn Everett-Green 13183 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13183 ] [Files: 13183.txt; 13183-h.htm] Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books, by Charles W. Eliot 13182 [Title: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13182 ] [Files: 13182.txt; 13182-8.txt] The Boy With the U.S. Census, by Francis Rolt-Wheeler 13181 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13181 ] [Files: 13181.txt; 13181-8.txt; 13181-h.htm] The Tracer of Lost Persons, by Robert W. Chambers 13180 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/8/13180 ] [Files: 13180.txt; 13180-8.txt; 13180-0.txt; 13180-h.htm] The Poems of William Watson, by William Watson 13179 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13179 ] [Files: 13179.txt; 13179-8.txt] Broken to the Plow, by Charles Caldwell Dobie 13178 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13178 ] [Files: 13178.txt; 13178-8.txt] Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Hand Made Candy Recipes, by Miss Parloa 13177 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13177 ] [Files: 13177.txt; 13177-8.txt; 13177-h.htm] The Abolitionists, by John F. Hume 13176 [Subtitle: Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13176 ] [Files: 13176.txt; 13176-8.txt; 13176-h.htm] Ved vejen, by Herman Bang 13175 [Language: Danish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13175 ] [Files: 13175.txt; 13175-8.txt] Sylvi; Kovan onnen lapsia, by Minna Canth 13174 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13174 ] [Files: 13174.txt; 13174-8.txt] Anna Liisa; Kotoa pois, by Minna Canth 13173 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13173 ] [Files: 13173.txt; 13173-8.txt] True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office, Arthur Train 13172 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13172 ] [Files: 13172.txt; 13172-8.txt; 13172-h.htm] Tapani Lofvingin seikkailut, by Kyosti Wilkuna 13171 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13171 ] [Files: 13171-8.txt] The Lake of the Sky, by George Wharton James 13170 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/7/13170 ] [Files: 13170.txt; 13170-8.txt; 13170-h.htm] The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX, by Jonathan Swift 13169 [Title: The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/6/13169 ] [Files: 13169.txt; 13169-8.txt] Dick in the Everglades, by A. W. Dimock 13168 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/6/13168 ] [Files: 13168.txt; 13168-h.htm] More Cricket Songs, by Norman Gale 13167 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/6/13167 ] [Files: 13167.txt; 13167-8.txt; 13167-h.htm] The Psalms of David, by Isaac Watts 13166 [Subtitle: Imitated in the Language of The New Testament And Applied to The Christian State and Worship] [Includes The Life of Isaac Watts, D.D. by Dr. Johnson. From his lives of the most eminent English Poets.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/6/13166 ] [Files: 13166.txt] Papin perhe; Han on Sysmasta; Spiritistinen istunto, by Minna Canth 13165 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/6/13165 ] [Files: 13165.txt; 13165-8.txt] Murtovarkaus; Roinilan talossa, by Minna Canth 13164 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/6/13164 ] [Files: 13164-8.txt] The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, by Raphael Semmes 13163 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/6/13163 ] [Files: 13163.txt; 13163-8.txt] Coralie, by Charlotte M. Braeme 13162 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/6/13162 ] [Files: 13162.txt; 13162-h.htm] Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living, by H.W. 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11 Aug '04

The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 11 Aug 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 - 46 New U.S. eBooks this week - No 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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Sevilla 13156 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/5/13156 ] [Files: 13156.txt; 13156-8.txt; 13156-h.htm] [This will be PG's first ebook in Tagalog] James Fenimore Cooper, by Mary E. Phillips 13155 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/5/13155 ] [Files: 13155.txt; 13155-8.txt; 13155-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, by Various 13154 [Subtitle: February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/5/13154 ] [Files: 13154.txt; 13154-8.txt; 13154-h.htm] The Firm of Girdlestone, by Arthur Conan Doyle 13152 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/5/13152 ] [Files: 13152.txt] The Christian Life, by Thomas Arnold 13151 [Subtitle: Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/5/13151 ] [Files: 13151.txt; 13151-8.txt; 13151-h.htm] Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, by E. L. Kolb 13150 [With a Foreword by Owen Wister] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/5/13150 ] [Files: 13150.txt; 13150-8.txt] Helika, by Charles DeGuise 13149 [Memoire D'un Vieux Maitre D'ecole] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13149 ] [Files: 13149.txt; 13149-8.txt; 13149-h.htm] Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1, by Captain Frederick Marryat 13148 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13148 ] [Files: 13148.txt; 13148-8.txt] Savva and The Life of Man, by Leonid Andreyev 13147 [Edited By Edwin Bjorkman] [Translated From The Russian With An Introduction By Thomas Seltzer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13147 ] [Files: 13147.txt; 13147-8.txt] The Beauty and the Bolshevist, by Alice Duer Miller 13146 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13146 ] [Files: 13146.txt; 13146-8.txt; 13146-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, by Various 13145 [Subtitle: April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13145 ] [Files: 13145.txt; 13145-8.txt; 13145-h.htm] Medieval People, by Eileen Edna Power 13144 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13144 ] [Files: 13144.txt; 13144-8.txt; 13144-h.htm] Mystic Christianity, by Yogi Ramacharaka 13143 [Subtitle: The Inner Teachings of the Master] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13143 ] [Files: 13143.txt; 13143-8.txt; ] Self-Development and the Way to Power, by L. W. Rogers 13142 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13142 ] [Files: 13142.txt; ] The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight, by Elizabeth von Arnim 13141 [Author AKA: The Author of "Elizabeth and Her German Garden"] [Author AKA: Mary Annette Beauchamp] [Author AKA: Countess Elizabeth von Arnim-Schlagenthin] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13141 ] [Files: 13141.txt; 13141-8.txt; 13141-h.htm; ] Hanna, by Minna Canth 13140 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/4/13140 ] [Files: 13140-8.txt] The Lives of John Donne, &C, Vol. II, by Izaak Walton 13139 [Title: The Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume Two] Contents: The Life of Mr. Richard Hooker The Life of Mr. George Herbert, Prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral The Life of Dr. Robert Sanderson, Late Lord Bishop of Lincoln [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/3/13139 ] [Files: 13139.txt; 13139-8.txt; ] The Forgotten Threshold, by Arthur Middleton 13138 [Subtitle: A Journal of Arthur Middleton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/3/13138 ] [Files: 13138.txt; ] The Secret of Dreams, by Yacki Raizizun 13137 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/1/3/13137 ] [Files: 13137.txt; ] The Silence, by David V. 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Industry executives who have supported law-enforcement efforts nonetheless fear the new rules could be too expensive and too difficult to apply to Internet phone services without impeding technological progress. New York Times, 5 August 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/technology/05phone.html and FCC MOVES TO PROTECT WIRELESS DEVICES FROM SPAM [So Why Can't They Do This For The Internet???] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is issuing new rules prohibiting marketers from sending commercial electronic messages to wireless technology users who haven't given them explicit permission to do so. The agency is also urging the industry to develop technologies to prevent spam from overwhelming wireless devices the way it now bedevils the Internet. FCC chairman Michael K. Powell says, "By prohibiting all commercial messages to wireless phones and PDAs absent affirmative consent from the consumer, Americans can now use their wireless devices freely, without being bothered by unwanted and annoying messages." (Washington Post 4 Aug 2004) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41009-2004Aug4.html more FCC RULES TO STOP SPAM ON CELL PHONES, PDAS The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued rules requiring marketers to obtain explicit permission from wireless-device users before sending commercial e-mail. The rule is an attempt to prevent cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) from becoming subject to massive e-mail spam. The FCC also urged the industry to develop technologies to prevent spam. The rule does not apply to services that forward existing computer e-mail messages to wireless devices or permit the devices to connect to a computer-based mail account. Washington Post, 5 August 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41009-2004Aug4.html [More on the RFID et al front] U.S. TO IMPLANT ID TAGS IN PASSPORTS The U.S. State Department plans to implant electronic ID chips in U.S. passports to allow computer face-recognition systems to match facial characteristics of the digital passport photo on the chip against a photo taken at the passport control station and against photos on government watch lists. The change is planned despite warnings that face-recognition technology has a high error rate. Critics suggest using fingerprint identification instead, as a more reliable technology. The new passports are scheduled to enter use in 2005. Washington Post, 6 August 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43944-2004Aug5.html [and yet more on this stuff] U.K. PROHIBITS SMILING FACES ON PASSPORTS The U.K. Home Office ruled that all new passport photos must show an unsmiling face with closed mouth because open mouths can confuse facial recognition systems. The new guidelines require good contrast between the face and background; the full face looking straight at the camera; no shadows; and a neutral facial expression. The rules will apply immediately to new and replacement passports. The Register, 6 August 2004 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/06/passport_scanners/ DECLINING NUMBERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJORS The Computing Research Association says that the number of newly declared computer science and computer engineering majors in the U.S. and Canada fell last year 23% from the year before. The explanation is fairly straight- forward: since the dot-com bust a computer science degree no longer seems the key to instant riches. But Peter Lee, an associate dean of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, is unworried by the falloff in applications: he thinks today's students are often of higher quality, because they're motivated not by money but by love of technology. (USA Today 8 Aug 2004) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-08-08-computer-science_x.htm [More details in Edupage report below] THE UTILITY OF HIGH-SPEED ACCESS In some U.S. public housing developments residents can tap into shared broadband networks for less than $15 a month -- much less than the cost of individual high-speed accounts. According to Rey Ramsey, CEO of the nonprofit One Economy Corp. in Philadelphia, "the real issue was trying to get access in the home where it's convenient. If the library or learning center closes at 6 and you don't get off work until 8, that's not real access." Robert Wendel, a former Cisco engineer working to provide access to housing complexes, points out: "In the early days, a lot of low-income housing didn't have washer-dryer hookups, either"; he predicts: "Eventually, all new houses will be wired this way." (Washington Post 8 Aug 2004) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50706-2004Aug8.html APPLE ACCUSED IN FRANCE OF UNFAIR PLAY Online music retailer Virgin Mega has lodged a complaint with the French Competition Council charging that Apple Computer has "wrongfully refused" to license its Fairplay copy-protection technology and open up the iPod portable music player to rivals. Apple uses to the Fairplay technology to prevent unlimited copying of songs and to restrict other online music providers from making their secure song files transferrable to the iPod. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 6 Aug 2004) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9339367.htm and in a related story SONY VS. APPLE, TRA-LA, TRA-LA Sony, the electronics giant that developed the legendary Walkman personal stereo, is launching a new version meant to capture the Apple's iPod's current position as today's leading digital music player. Called the Network Walkman NW-HD1, the device uses a proprietary file format, works only on a Windows PC, and will cost $100 more than an iPod when it's released later this month. Technology analyst Matthew Fordahl of the Associated Press says the Sony's software doesn't rise to the level of the hardware and adds, "Sony's format does produce good sound quality while taking up less space, but users aren't given a choice. What happens if the unique ATRAC format is abandoned? Just ask anyone who bought a technically superior Betamax VCR instead of a VHS model." (AP/USA Today 5 Aug 2004) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/2004-08-05-sony-walkthing_ x.htm [And will Sony's gizmo support eBooks???] WINDOWS ON A BUDGET [The quote at the bottom of this one is a riot!] Microsoft has created less-expensive versions of its Windows XP operating system to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and is developing similar programs in two other countries. The widespread interest in the Linux operating system has helped focus Microsoft's attention on the need for seriously competitive pricing strategies throughout the world. Deepak Phatak, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, says that India is exploring programs to distribute low-cost PCs using Linux but that it could be tempted by lower new prices from Microsoft: "People in the government will never play a technology-favorites game. They want to see value for money." (Wall Street Journal 11 Aug 2004) http://www.wsj.com (sub. req'd) 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 DONATES SOFTWARE TO OPEN-SOURCE GROUP IBM will provide more than half a million lines of its software code for the Cloudscape database to open-source software group the Apache Software Foundation. The company's goal reportedly is to make it easier for software developers to write applications in the Java programming language. IBM is a leading supporter of Java, originally developed by Sun Microsystems. The IBM software platform WebSphere runs and manages such Java-based applications, competing with Microsoft's Net platform, written in C++. New York Times, 3 August 2004 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/technology/03java.html NUMBER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJORS FALLS Despite the improving outlook for the high-tech sector of the economy, enrollment in most computer science programs at U.S. institutions continues to decline, causing some to worry about the possibility of a high-tech workforce shortage in coming years. Schools such as San Jose State University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Ohio State University have seen lower computer science enrollments, and according to the Computing Research Association, enrollment is down by 23 percent in the United States and Canada. Peter Lee of Carnegie Mellon pointed out, however, that far fewer applications were received this year versus last for his institution's computer science program but that they were generally from more qualified applicants. No longer are students applying, said Lee, because they are simply lured by the prospect of high-paying jobs and stock options. Others noted that enrollments in graduate computer science programs, which remain strong, may soon begin to suffer due to increased restrictions on foreign students, who represent 43 percent of students in graduate computer science programs in the United States and Canada. USA Today, 8 August 2004 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-08-08-computer-science_x.htm STEALTH WALLPAPER PROTECTS WI-FI NETWORKS British firm BAE Systems has developed a type of wallpaper that prevents stealth users from connecting to a company's unprotected Wi-Fi network while still allowing cell phones and other desirable signals to pass through. Wi-Fi networks are a boon to companies that want to set up inexpensive wireless access within their buildings, but many such networks are installed without adequate security to prevent roaming hackers from easily connecting to networks and gaining access behind a company's firewall. BAE's wallpaper is made from a sheet of kapton plastic with copper on both sides in patterns of crosses. The particular placement of the copper crosses determines which frequencies are able to pass through and which are blocked. The company is working on a transparent version of the technology to be used on windows. New Scientist, 8 August 2004 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996240 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 ODD GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS OF THE WEEK ALA WELCOMES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DECISION TO RESCIND DESTRUCTION REQUEST WASHINGTON, DC - The American Library Association (ALA) today welcomed the Department of Justice's decision to rescind its request that the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents instruct depository libraries to destroy all copies of five Department of Justice publications addressing forfeiture. The Justice Department claimed that the documents are "training materials and other materials that the Department of Justice staff did not feel were appropriate for external use." ALA disagreed with this categorization of the public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, and with the instruction to destroy them. ALA trusts that there will be no repetition of such unjustified instructions to destroy government information...as below: "The office's one-paragraph directive listed the five pamphlets, with titles such as "Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure" and "Select Federal Assets Forfeiture Statutes," and instructed librarians to "withdraw these materials immediately and destroy all copies by any means to prevent disclosure of their content," according to a copy of the e-mail sent to the Boston Public Library and all other depository libraries. [Which would have limited access to this information to lawyers. Apparently they didn't want the public to know just what rights did and did not exist during federal forfeiture cases.] "Calls to the Government Printing Office seeking comment were not returned." http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/07/24/libraries_ordered_to_d estroy_us_pamphlets/ * On a more local note, our county just instituted a tax on cats, which requires registration, shots, etc., and limits household animals to three [some of this is word of mouth, and I'm not sure if it counts animals that live in cages, such as birds, gerbils, hamsters, etc.] * And with national ramifications: "The Republicans will have to go to a federal judge and get a declaratory judgment to get Bush on the ballot," said Kris Kray, the official legislative liaison for the Illinois election board, answering questions about the Republican policy of having their convention unusually late to allow for more fundraising time. When the Democrats announced they were also considering having their convention late the Republicans complained furiously, stating it was simply for political fundraising purposes. There were similar problems in several states. * Not quite on the level of odd govermental regulations, but the Washington Press Corps, in a city that is has twice as many blacks as whites, is perhaps the most segregated major institution in the country. Hardly any black or Latino reporters get to interview candidates. District of Columbia statistics: Black: 343,312 (60.0%) White: 176,101 (30.8%) 2000 Census population: 572,059 [Prompted by several mentions of this outside our major media covering the U.S. national political conventions.] SIMPLE SOLUTION OF THE WEEK Convicted criminals must repay for the their own crimes, along with those of all the unconvicted criminals, thus making the convicted pay for the unconvicted and saving all government judicial expense, since they have to pay for court costs, as well. Perhaps even make them pay for the salaries of the police. Thus crime will become a "zero sum game" for the criminals, as well as for everyone else. *** ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The current head of OPEC [the Organization of Petroleum EXPORTing Countries] is Indonesia, which is a net oil IMPORTing country now. * It costs $67 per day to keep a person in jail. The U.S. has the highest percentage of it's population in jail, or on parole or probation. The U.S. and nearly every one of the individual states, spend more money on prisons than on education, and the prison budget continues to increase while educations budgets fall behind. It costs only about 10% as much to keep them on an "RFID" leash working from a GPS that keeps track of where they are and warns if they enter "forbidden zones." * According to 60 Minutes, 80% of all counterfeit products are made in China, where perhap 15-20% of brand name products are knockoffs. [When I lived near China, you couldn't buy ANY products I know of that were not copies, and there was no effort to disguise copying. This also happens in other Third World countries, but not to the same extent, or so rapidly. Around the Pacific Rim products are usually available as counterfeits within a week of release. The prices are usually $1 for music [price hasn't changed in decades, it's just a nominal price] and sometimes under 10% of the face value of the real products.] * Another note on China: Local residents say that when everyone was poor, nearly everyone was honest, but the addition of money has created an ethical situation of "Man eat man." [Warning: After keeping notes on China's industrial revolution for quite some time, I found it odd to find several reports of this sort of negativity release at the same time.] * A note on statistics in general: I have noticed, even in years without major elections, that a huge amount of the "information" we received from Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw is a direct quotation from press releases, much of which are provided by politicians to support their own positions. * One more note, I have spent a great deal of time studying how to see through this kind of statistical manipulation. *** ODD QUOTATION OF THE WEEK Hummer vs. Hybrid debate [Relayed from the BBC] "The government credits you up to $100,000 in taxes for vehicles weighing over 6000 lbs? Versus $1,500 for hybrids?" 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