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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
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Now in its 7th year of operation. http://www.livinginternet.com/ TEXT TO SPEECH Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin's EaseReader software player - which is included in Dolphin Producer. The DTB can also be played back on any other DAISY DTB software or hardware player, as well as any MP3 player - The choice is yours. http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] SUFFOLK CONSIDERS COUNTY-WIDE WI-FI Suffolk County, in New York, is considering installing a free wireless network that would fully cover the county's 900 square miles, offering Internet access to 1.5 million residents. If built, the network would be one of the largest in the nation, though officials in Chicago are considering an even larger network, 940 square miles, that would cover 5 million people. Suffolk County includes considerable waterfront, and county officials are considering having the network extend over the water as well. Steve Levy, Suffolk County Executive, proposed the idea, saying that a private firm would be contracted to develop and maintain the network. Funding would come from advertising or from fees charged for higher connection speeds. Because the project would be sponsored by the county government, the proposed network has further fueled the debate over whether governments should be involved in such projects at all or if they should be taken up by commercial vendors. New York Times, 28 April 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/nyregion/28suffolk.html COMMITTEE KILLS NET NEUTRALITY BILL The House Energy and Commerce Committee has killed an amendment designed to guarantee net neutrality. The amendment would have prevented Internet service providers from delivering different content at different speeds based on content providers' having paid extra fees. Supporters of the amendment, including Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, argued that the Internet was built on ideas antithetical to the notion of paying fees to have content available to consumers. They called on Congress not to drop the issue but to "enact legislation preventing discrimination" against certain content providers. Opponents of the amendment, including cable and phone companies, suggested that the landscape of online content, including such material as movie-quality video, could be available to consumers if content providers paid a surcharge for it. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), chairman of the committee, commented that net neutrality is "still not clearly defined" and that he doubts the dire predictions of the amendment's supporters. ZDNet, 26 April 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6065465.html DIGITAL DIVIDE SHRINKING According to a study conducted by IBM and "The Economist" magazine, although the digital divide remains considerable for some countries, the gaps are shrinking. The study assessed both availability and use of technology in 68 countries and assigned each an "e-readiness" score on a scale of 1 to 10. The gap from the top of the list (Denmark, 9.00) to the bottom (Azerbaijan, 2.92) is indeed significant, but in certain regions of China and India, connectivity rivals that of developed nations, according to Peter Korsten, European director at IBM's Institute for Business Value. The study noted that nearly every country's score improved from last year but that countries nearer the bottom of the list saw greater gains than those in the upper tiers, indicating a shrinking digital divide overall. Beyond the issue of connectivity lies the question of what efforts each country makes to use technology. As Korsten said, "It's up to governments to take advantage with education and other initiatives." CNET, 26 April 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-6065240.html [I hunted up and saved the entire list in an easy to read format, and will send it to you on request.] 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.] EXXON Is Buying Up Their Own Stock With Huge Profits 15% of profits to shareholders Under 15% spent on search and research on new oil 40% of profits spents on buying back their own stock ABC, NBC April 27, 2006 * Hendrick Hertzberg reported the "South Americanization" program that somehow slipped by the US Supreme Court, but I couldn't find and details on the PBS story, sorry, not one hit. * RFID Tags Being Considered For Human Beings You've all heard of the RFID [Radio Frequency ID] tags used to track all sorts of wild animals, but now these are being used more and more in urban environments and are even now being advertized on commercial media from the point of view of the pet owner who wants to find a missing pet. No mention is made of the high prices to get your pet back when the pound or Humane Society has them in their possession. However, the REAL NEWS that no one is talking about is that these RFID tags are being considered as mandatory for people. Obviously this is starting of low key, in other countries, where societal pressures are greater, but the truth is that these RFID tags, along with GPS, Global Positioning Satellite gear in cell phones, were being discussed by Western governments as well. Expect a school near you to start requiring children's parents to make sure they have a working RFID tag, and that they will be sent back home if without one. This will start out with wrist bands that can be taken off, then to something that can't be taken off, and finally we will be treated like pets, and the RFID tags are to be inserted under the skin, eventually at birth. Big Brother will know where you are all the time. You won't be able to turn the lights off in your cars, but Big Brother won't have wear RFIDs and THEY will be able to turn THEIR car lights off. *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Oil reserves are at an 8 year high, but the oil companies are telling us that the prices are being driven up by low supply. Source: The News Hour, April 27, 2006 * It would appear that Sony BMG is telling their iTunes patrons that they have a "license" for their music, which would allow for about $.30 of the $.99 paid to go to the artists, but the artists are being told it is a "sale" which gives them $.045. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060428/ap_en_mu/music_downloads_royalties; _ylt=AowpM.my63biaeu.FU8A_rRxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA-- http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/28/sony_screwing_artist.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060428/ap_en_mu/music_downloads_royalties; _ylt=A$ * In case you have heard of Gerrymandering, but don't know what it is, the latest round of Gerrymandering is reported to have been to put a majority of 80/20 in Democrat's districts and 60/40 for Republicans. The result is that with the same number of votes, more Republicans-- but these reports should include that the Democrats have tried to do the same thing at times, just weren't as good at it. Source: PBS, Around April 30-May 1, 2006. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "Disgruntled" seems to be the quote of the week about the CIA leaks, not to mention "retirement," forced or unforced. Too many sources to name, just Google "disgruntled" *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK There will be 1/2 million free eBooks on the Internet, July 4, 2006 *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 1/4 to 1/3 of major city shooting cases involved witness intimidation. CBS News "Conspiracy of Silence" April 27, 2006 * All sorts of reports are coming out that say unemployment is down, but none that tell how many jobs from above the old median incomes have been replaces by jobs where your primary function is to say: "Would You Like Fries With That?" Real wages are still falling, even with two jobs in replacement. One reference made to this was that the $400 million severance pay to Exxon's CEO Raymond cost every one of the US driving households $400 extra dollars at the gas pump. They say that CEO compensation is over 400 times the average wage, but in this case, that would mean the average severance pay was an estimated million dollars for Exxon workers. Obviously Exxon does not fall any where near the averages. Source: CBS News [BTW, Bob Scheiffer viewers up 700,000 over Dan] [Cronkite says he would have replaced Rather long ago, that Rather was playing the part of newsman, while Brokaw and Jennings WERE.] Sources: Wolf Blitzer, CNN, and The New Yorker magazine * 133,000 U.S. women graduate from college for every 100,000 men. * Only 7% of U.S. prison inmates are women. * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers now being mentioned so much in the news. Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. [This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.] "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. 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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

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Now in its 7th year of operation. http://www.livinginternet.com/ TEXT TO SPEECH Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin's EaseReader software player - which is included in Dolphin Producer. The DTB can also be played back on any other DAISY DTB software or hardware player, as well as any MP3 player - The choice is yours. http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] COPYRIGHT LAW UPDATE FAVORS COPYRIGHT HOLDERS Despite pressure from a number of quarters to introduce restrictions on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Congress appears to be headed the other direction. Drafts of the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006 are circulating among lawmakers, and a spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee said the bill will likely be introduced soon. The bill adds a number of new layers to copyright law, including increasing fines for certain copyright crimes; criminalizing attempted copyright violations, even if they fail; and allowing copyright owners to impound "records documenting the manufacture, sale, or receipt of items involved in" violations. Jason Schultz, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said of this last provision that the recording industry has long wanted the ability to obtain server logs that would indicate "every single person who's ever downloaded" certain files. Keith Kupferschmid, vice president for intellectual property and enforcement at the Software and Information Industry Association, welcomed the bill, saying that it gives government officials needed authority to prosecute intellectual property criminals. CNET, 23 April 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6064016.html COMPANY TO PAY $4.5 MILLION IN E-RATE FRAUD CASE Houston-based NextiraOne has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle charges that it defrauded the government and the Oglala Nation Educational Coalition through the federal E-rate program. The work for which NextiraOne was under investigation took place at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. According to a complaint by the Department of Justice, NextiraOne billed the government for products and services it did not deliver; submitted fraudulent invoices; and charged inflated prices for other products. The E-rate program, designed to extend Internet access to schools and libraries that could not otherwise afford it, has come under fire for what some have described as rampant fraud. Under the settlement, NextiraOne will pay a criminal fine of $1.9 million and will return $2.6 million to the government. ITWorld, 21 April 2006 http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/060421erate/ TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR CHARGED WITH E-RATE FRAUD Federal charges have been brought against a technology director in South Carolina for defrauding the E-rate program, a federal program to fund technology improvements in disadvantaged schools. Cynthia K. Ayer was indicted on 12 counts of mail and wire fraud for funneling contracts worth $3.5 million to her company, Go Between Communications. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Ayer's actions netted her more than $450,000 of E-rate funds. Ayer faces fines of $250,000 and a lengthy prison term if convicted. The E-rate program has been riddled with accounts of fraud and abuse, and Ayer's case is just the latest in a string of prosecutions against 11 individuals and 10 companies. Thus far, settlements with some defendants have totaled $40 million in fines and restitution, and two individuals have been sentenced to prison terms. Internet News, 20 April 2006 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3600671 NATIONAL ARCHIVES GOES TRANSPARENT The National Archives and Records Administration has made public the details of a secret agreement made in 2001 with the CIA and said it will adjust its procedures to function in a much more transparent manner. The secret deal gave the CIA the authority to insist that certain materials in the archives be removed, with no record of the documents' having been in the archives or why they were removed. Allen Weinstein, who currently heads the archives but did not when the deal was made, said he just learned of it and has acted quickly to invalidate it. "Classified agreements are the antithesis of our reason for being," he said. A spokesperson from the archives noted that it routinely archives classified materials and keeps them secret. Adding another layer of secrecy is unnecessary and inappropriate, she said. Steven Aftergood, director of a project at the Federation of American Scientists that tracks government secrecy, applauded the announcement, particularly Weinstein's role in it. "He did not attempt to deny the existence of the problem," said Aftergood, "and he did not attempt to evade responsibility for it." Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 April 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/04/2006041901t.htm SETTLEMENT REACHED IN ANTISPYWARE CASE In a settlement announced by prosecutors in Washington State, Zhijian Chen of Oregon will pay about $84,000 in fines, restitution, and attorneys' fees following a scheme in which Chen sold consumers fraudulent antispyware services. Chen was charged with sending e-mail that led recipients to believe their computers were infected with spyware and that a product called Spyware Cleaner, made by Secure Computer, could clean their machines. Chen then collected a commission when users bought the product. State Attorney General Rob McKenna said, "We will not tolerate those who try to profit by preying on consumers' fears of spyware and other malware." New York-based Secure Computer as well as a number of officials from the company are also named in the lawsuit against Chen. Associated Press, 19 April 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060419/ap_on_hi_te/spam_lawsuit 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 Senate Inquiry: New Hampshire "Denial of Service" Attack on Democrats' Phones This past week saw some interesting revelations in the case of similar "political dirty tricks" in recent elections as were mentioned in the famous "All the Presidents Men" stories by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post that brought down President Nixon. Revealed were dozens of phone calls to The White House on the day before the mid-term 2002 elections, by the man who was convicted, and the fact that National Republican Party funds were used to pay over $2.5 million in legal bills, and perhaps even super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff was involved. James Tobin, head of the New England branch of the Republican National Committee, later a director of President Bush's second presidential campaign, was convicted re: jamming the phones of of five locations of various Democratic efforts to get voters out on election day. In addition, was a similar attack on a local firefighter's effort to give transportation to polls. www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=138550 * Follow Up On "General's Revolt" Apparently the Generals lined up by the the administrtion to counter the "Revolt of the Generals" have been given a list of talking points or script suggestions for their appearances in the media. Why it is OK for the generals to support one side of the issue but not the other seems to be the elephant in the middle of the room being ignored. * The War of Classified Materials, April 25, 2006 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is being quoted as saying, "When everything is classified, nothing is classified," in a recent flap over the various levels of secrecy and governmenk leaks. In a rather stunning double whammy from opposite directions, recent coverage by Dana Priest, National Security Correspondent writing for The Washington Post, won a Pulitzer Prize for her columns revealing the wide ranging government wiretaps without court approval, while her alleged source, Mary McCarthy, was being fired from the CIA. Sources from the Post, including McCarthy, have said that McCarthy didn't even have access to the information she allegedly leaked. Apparently the Bush administration has tightened up the classified information business to the point where less and less information is unclassified, thus relying more and more on leaks, unscheduled on-the-spot declassification, etc., to provide information to the public and the mass media. As a result of this tightening of the informational purse strings, more and more Washington sources are simply saying, "I can't talk to you any more," and the reporters are learning not to keep notes via any of the standard means that can be found to uncover sources. Thus computers are OUT these days as a tool for working on articles since the government routinely siezes all computers and files in an ongoing investigation of these matters. Apparently the number of classified documents doubled during Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 and has continued to rise, according to Lucy Dalglish, speaking on The News Hour. * Recently Revealed: Was Chicago Bulls Player Fired and Blacklisted for Giving President Bush a Letter Concerning Iraq During a White House Visit by the Team After Their First Repeat as NBA Champions? Craig Hodges, a member of the first two Chicago Bulls Championship NBA basketball teams, claims he was not only fired by the Bulls for speaking out on political issues as an African-American, but also blacklisted by the entire NBA as a result when he could not even get a tryout with any one of the NBA franshices afterwards. The court case Craig Hodges vs. the National Basketball Association alleges "the owners and operators of the 29 NBA member franchises have participated as co-conspirators" in "blackballing" him from the entire National Basketball Association "because of his outspoken political nature as an African-American man." Hodges was a 10 year NBA veteran, the last four years with the Bulls, and he played in the majority of the Bulls' games during their second consecutive NBA Championship. classdat.appstate.edu/AAS/Soc/rosenberge/MyFiles/NYTIMES/NYTSPRTB.IZ * Trying to look up "American Dreamz" ? only local media found: The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA Free preview planned of `American Dreamz' The American dream is alive and well. What could be more free than a free movie? The University of Oregon Cultural Forum and the Bijou Art Cinemas, 492 E. 13th Ave., will present a free showing of the Paul Weitz film "American Dreamz" Tuesday at 8 p.m. Vouchers are available at the Cultural Forum office in the Erb Memorial Union, 1222 E. 13th Ave. If any are unclaimed, they will be available at the door. Weitz ("In Good Company," "About a Boy") wrote and directed the film for Universal Studios. It will open nationally on April 21. advertisement The movie stars Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore, Marcia Gay Harden, Chris Klein, Jennifer Coolidge and Willem Dafoe. In the film, "American Dreamz" is a popular singing competition. "Imagine a country where the president never reads the newspaper, where the government goes to war for all the wrong reasons and where more people vote for a pop idol than their next president." *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Around 6AM Sunday morning two widely separated estimates for the cost of health care per person in the US on the radio. NPR said $800 per month, $9,600 per year. WILL-AM 94.5 said $11 per month or $132 per year. WLRW-FM *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK Congressman Chistopher Smith, R-New Jersey, re: Google.cn: "China's search engine, is guaranteed to take you to the virtual land of deceit, disinformation and the big lie." *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Replicators that can build copies of themselves will appear this year! *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK In 1960 people in the U.S. spent about 5% of their money on health care. In 2005 people in the U.S. spent about 16% of their money on health care. In the same period that health spending tripled per person, spending on education failed to even double. The U.S. has a universal education plan, but not universal health care, so why is spending on universal education lagging behind? The U.S. is regularly outclassed by one or two dozen other countries in standardized educational testing. The Common Sense Budget Act of 2006 cites the following: (E) research conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics shows that middle school students in the United States rank 18th in science test scores and 19th in math test scores internationally, behind students in such countries as the Republic of Korea, the Slovak Republic, Singapore, the Russian Federation, and Malaysia. . . . [Longer lists available on request] Medical: The U.S. spends about $1.8 Trillion per year. Schools: The U.S. spends about $0.5 Trillion per year. Sources: The weekend news programs on NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC. BTW, if the $1.8 Trillion medical figure is accurate, along with the $9 Trillion GDP, then medical is 20%, not the 16% cited. 3.6% on Education. On the international math tests the U.S. ranked 24th and 28th for recent tests among middle schools, 12th for grade schools. In science the U.S. was 17th. Down from 3rd for 4th graders. [More data available on request] * Oldest Ice Core Dated At 1 Million Years, As of April 18, 2006 Japanese scientists are examining a 1 million year old chunk of ice removed from a spot 3 kilometers under the Antarctic ice cap surface. The previously oldest ice cores from about 650,000 years ago revealed that we now have much higher levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere than any time previously measured in this manner. www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/18/old.ice.reut/index.html * Exxon's CEO Lee Raymond Receives $1 Billion In Total Compensation After a little over a decade at the wheel of the largest oil company, it appears that Lee Raymond's total compensation for that period will be approximately one billion dollars, with hearly half of that coming in various forms of separation pay and bonuses. In papers filed with with the Securities and Exchange Commission this past month, it was revealed that Mr. Raymond will receive nearly $.5 billion in total retirement compensations along with his previous pay bonuses over the years, this in addition to his yearly salaries from the last 12 years or so. Nearly $.4 billion of this was revealed in the recently filed SEC documents. Raymond's final annual paycheck totaled over $50 million, or $140,000 per day, or nearly $6,000 per hour, waking or sleeping. . .four times the pay of Chevron's CEO, Exxon's nearest competitor. During Raymond's reign, Exxon stoct is reported to have gone up 500%, but don't forget that most people forget that to go up 100% doubles, so they usually miss by 100% in such reports. There is a shareholder revolt of sorts going on to pass resolutions condemning such exorbitant pay practices, which Exxon encourages the shareholdes to vote against. abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989 * Kate Moss returned to her career as a supermodel this week with a reported $2.5 million shoot for Nikon. * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers now being mentioned so much in the news. Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. [This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.] "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. 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19 Apr '06

pt1a2.406 Weekly_April_19.txt **The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, April 19, 2006 PT1** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** Please note some previous miscounts still not corrected, but the grand totals should be fairly accurate, just have to go back and fix the interim counts. * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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Ryan was about the 66th person indicted from the various investigations of these matters, the vast majority of them, including his campaign committee were convicted long ago. "The charged conduct by former Gov. Ryan reflects a disturbing violation of trust," said U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald public statement upon the indictments. "Ryan is charged with betraying the citizens of Illinois for over a decade on state business, both large and small." * We won't even go into the non-reporting of VP Cheney's reception when he threw out the first pitch at the opening the baseball season. *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Revolt of the Generals How Many Stars, How Many Generals? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended himself this week against a group of command generals by saying that these are only half a dozen of thousands and thousands of generals. The truth is that there are NOT thousands of such generals-- command generals in charge of major operations in Iraq. There have only been a dozen such generals in the three years of the Irag War, and over half of them are on this list. Even counting all generals in command of 1,000 troops or more all over this world, there is only room for barely 1,000 such generals in a miltary with 1,000,000 combat troops. These are what are known as "command officers," and not those who "fly a desk." In addition, all of these generals have in excess of one star, namely two, three, or four stars, if your count includes the Congressional testimony of Gen. Shinseki-- the first of the generals to speak out in a public forum that the Iraq War was undermanned and underplanned and the highest ranking officer in the entire United States Army. These are command generals, all with more than one star, more experience, more stars than the average general out there. The rest are all desk officers, without the experience to see what is really happening at the troop level, consequently the actions and reactions you see here between real commanders on the battlefield and those who only know how to fly a desk. 1 Star = Brigadier General Zero on this list, common in the military 2 Stars = Major General Three on this list, not nearly as common 3 Stars = Lieutenant General Two on this list, not very common at all 4 Stars = General Two on this list, the least common of all Here is the list, by rank: Gen. Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, Army, highest possible rank. Gen. Anthony Zinni, also diplomatic corps "roving ambassador" Marines Central Command Chief of Staff, Middle East, "Winning the Peace" author. The top general in charge of the Iraq War. Lt. Gen. John Riggs, Distinguished Flying Cross, Viet Nam, Military Assistant to Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Commanding General, 7th Infantry Division, most recently Commanding General of the First U.S. Army, lost a star when he retired in protest, reasons not on record, made through questionable charges AFTER he criticized the war. Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, Director for Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff "The consequence of the military's quiescence was that a fundamentally flawed plan was executed for an invented war." Maj. Gen. John Batiste, Commander, 1st Infantry Division ["Big Red 1"] Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, "Father of the Iraqi Army" Commanding General, Office of Security Transition, West Point graduate Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack, Commander, 82nd Airborne Division There are NOT thousands of generals with multiple stars and field command experience at such high levels in the entire US Army, much less directly in command of Iraq, perhaps a dozen, at the most. "On June 22, 1999, Four Star General Eric Shinseki was appointed by President Clinton To be the 34th Chief of Staff, United States Army." He was the one who first told Congress of the mismanagement, and he was forced to resign by Rumsfeld, who did not attend the retirement, not that there was much of a retirement to attend. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population. Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. [This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.] "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. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. To subscribe to any (or to unsubscribe or adjust your subscription preferences), visit the Project Gutenberg mailing list server: http://lists.pglaf.org If you are having trouble with your subscription, please email the list's human administrators at: help(a)pglaf.org Strange News in Globalization http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/11fast.html?hp&ex=1144814400&en =ad12af5ee011af1e&ei=5094&partner=homepage The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order By MATT RICHTEL SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Like many American teenagers, Julissa Vargas, 17, has a minimum-wage job in the fast-food industry - but hers has an unusual geographic reach. ... What made the $12.08 transaction remarkable was that the customer was not just outside Ms. Vargas's workplace here on California's central coast. She was at a McDonald's in Honolulu. And within a two-minute span Ms. Vargas had also taken orders from drive-through windows in Gulfport, Miss., and Gillette, Wyo. A man who wants a Big N' Tasty in Wyoming and a woman who wants an Egg McMuffin in Honolulu may be placing their orders with the same teenager in California. Several customers, told of the fact, seemed taken aback. And yet where is the surprise? There you sit, perhaps miles from home, idling in a car that was manufactured almost anywhere, burning gasoline refined from a substance pumped out of the ground who knows where and shipped, in all likelihood, across the ocean to be trucked to the station where you last filled up. Meanwhile you're talking to your best friend on your cellphone - and who knows how that works or where those signals go? - or listening to satellite radio beamed down from space. Yet what's really on your mind is the food they're getting together for you inside that McDonald's, made from cattle that once lived anywhere and potatoes that grew someplace else, all of it relayed from some way station in the McDonald's supply chain. Yes, a long-distance call center for a drive-through window is something to marvel at. The real wonder is that the call center isn't in Bangalore. The Magazine Reader Wild Generalization X In Details, a Hilarious Screed on Turning 40 and Not Loving It By Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 11, 2006; Page C02 The folks known as Generation X are on the verge of turning 40, and apparently they're getting cranky about it. The thirty-something generation is irked, irritated and downright peeved, writes Gen Xer Jeff Gordinier in "Has Generation X Already Peaked?," a bitterly hilarious screed in the April issue of Details, a magazine for young men. They're irked at their elders, the obnoxiously self-mythologizing Baby Boomers. They're irritated at the younger generation whom they consider airheads -- Generation Y or the "millennials," who came of age around 2000. And they're peeved that the media have failed to get sufficiently excited that Generation X is turning 40. "While the boomers and the millennials have been out gulping up all of that mass-media oxygen, somebody seems to have forgotten to put together the Newsweek cover story about Generation X on the brink of turning 40," Gordinier grumbles. "Could it be that the age group that popularized the phrase jumped the shark has done just that? . . . Is Generation X already obsolete?" Gordinier doesn't actually answer those questions, which are absurd and unanswerable anyway, but he does have a good time ranting and venting in delightfully comic fashion. Here's what he says about the recent glut of media hype about Baby Boomers turning 60: "You see this stuff everywhere, and you just know what's coming. David Crosby's face transplant. The James Taylor-Carly Simon remake of On Golden Pond . Woodstock IV: Return to the Garden, cosponsored by Nike, Botox and Ben & Jerry's. The Brown Acid line of tie-dyed Depends. It's only a matter of time. Those insufferable boomers are tucking into another gluttonous, cheek-smeared smorgasbord of self-importance. Don't even try to escape." And here's what he says about the twenty-somethings of Gen Y: "The boomers bred and their solipsistic progeny have arrived . . . They just love stuff. They love celebrities. They love technology. They love brand names. . . . They're happy to do whatever advertising tells them to do. So what if they can't manage to read anything longer than an instant message?" Gordinier tries to defend Gen X, but without much enthusiasm. "Generation X is still defined more by lasts than firsts. We're the last generation to produce and hold on to albums on vinyl, the last generation to read newspapers . . . the last generation to express any sort of resistance to corporate servitude, the last generation to produce old-fashioned movie stars (Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt) as opposed to manufactured aristocretins and reality-TV clowns." Aristocretins! I love that. Finally, the perfect word for Paris Hilton. Like all good rants, this one builds up a nice head of steam. It's big fun. But of course it's all baloney. The media's insatiable need to pigeonhole disparate humans into a "generation" with a single unifying personality is almost as idiotic as stereotyping people by the hue of their epidermis. I refuse to get involved in this silliness. I'm a Baby Boomer but I love my little brothers and sisters of Gen X and Gen Y. And in the spirit of that love, I offer this sage advice to my young friends: Work hard, kids. My generation has run up a huge deficit and you guys are gonna have to pay it off. And remember to pay your Social Security taxes. I'm looking forward to a long, happy retirement, and I'll need plenty of Brown Acid Depends. *** Cargo, Unloaded _________________________________________________________________ For a week, people have been dropping by the palatial offices of The Magazine Reader to congratulate us for killing Cargo magazine. We'd love to take credit, but the death of Cargo is really a triumph for all the men of America -- except for the 373,727 wimps and weenies who actually subscribed to Cargo. For those of you blissfully unaware of Cargo, it was a shopping magazine for men, a mag filled with caption-sized "articles" about stuff you can buy -- stuff ranging from shoes to cars to men's makeup and, believe it or not, men's bikini waxes. Cargo was created in March 2004 by the Conde Nast magazine empire and was killed a couple of weeks ago, put out of its misery like a lame horse. Last week, the New York Times interviewed Ariel Foxman, Cargo's erstwhile editor, who whined that the media had said nasty things about his magazine. One of those nasty things -- "the most hurtful," the Times reported -- was printed in The Magazine Reader when Cargo debuted. Hurtful? What, pray tell, could he be talking about? Maybe it was our observation that Cargo "might be the worst idea for a magazine in human history." Or maybe it was our call for men to boycott Cargo in order to "strike a blow against foppery, frippery, metrosexuality, the commercialization of everything and the wimpification of America." Gee, we didn't want to hurt the feelings of Cargo editors, who are obviously very sensitive souls. But we're thrilled that American men showed their innate good sense by avoiding Cargo. Frankly, we're amazed that the magazine managed to find 373,727 guys dunderheaded enough to subscribe. Heeding our own call to boycott Cargo, we hadn't seen an issue since that wretched debut. But when we heard about the magazine's death, we bought the May issue, just to see if it was still pathetic. It was. It contains a tiny story about various kinds of goop you can rub on your skin so you'll look tan. And a piece touting a men's fragrance that's designed to smell like marijuana and "male sweat." And a blurb about chairs that look like they're held together with duct tape, except that the duct tape is really leather and the chairs, which cost $4,800 each, are part of a designer furniture line called "Ersatz Heirlooms." Come on, guys. If you want to look tan, go outside and lie in the sun. And if you want to sit on duct-taped chairs, smelling like weed and sweat, do you really need a men's shopping mag? Goodbye, Cargo. We can't say we'll miss you, but we'll remember you fondly next time we're duct-taping the furniture. ** Subject: FOR IP: Oklahoma bill to open your computer to companies... (Note - this is an Oklahoma House bill, not a US Congress. Doesn't make it any more right...) http://www.okgazette.com/news/templates/cover.asp?articleid=423&zoneid=7 Get ready for Microsoft, cable and phone companies, and quite a few other people to know a lot more about what you do on your computer, thanks to House Bill 2083. Wednesday, April 05, 2006 Ben Fenwick It's supposed to protect you from predators spying on your computer habits, but a bill Microsoft Corp. helped write for Oklahoma will open your personal information to warrantless searches, according to a computer privacy expert and a state representative. Called the "Computer Spyware Protection Act", House Bill 2083 would create fines of up to a million dollars for anyone using viruses or surreptitious computer techniques to break on to someone's computer without that person's knowledge and acceptance, according to the bill's state Senate author, Clark Jolley. "The bill has a clear prohibition on anything going in without your permission. You have to grant permission", said Jolley, R-Edmond. "You can look at your license agreement. It will say whether they have the ability to take that information or not". But therein lies the catch. If you click that "accept" button on the routine user's agreement, the proposed law would allow any company from whom you bought upgradable software the freedom to come onto your computer for "detection or prevention of the unauthorized use of or fraudulent or other illegal activities in connection with a network, service, or computer software, including scanning for and removing computer software prescribed under this act". That means that Microsoft (or another company with such software) can erase spyware or viruses. But if you have, say, a pirated copy of Excel - Microsoft (or companies with similar software) can erase it, or anything else they want to erase, and not be held liable for it. Additionally, that phrase "fraudulent or other illegal activities" means they can: - Let the local district attorney know that you wrote a hot check last month. - Let the attorney general know that you play online poker. - Let the tax commission know you bought cartons of cigarettes and didn't pay the state tax on them. - Read anything on your hard drive, such as your name, home address, personal identification code, passwords, Social Security number ... etc., etc., etc. "I think in broad terms that is still a form of spying", said Marc Rotenberg, attorney and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. "Some people say, 'Well, it's justified'. I'm not so clear that should be the case. Particularly if the reason you are passing legislation is to cover that activity". The bill is scheduled to go back before the House."

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