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The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks of production, each production-week starting/ending Wednesday noon, starting with the first Wednesday in January. January 2nd was was the first Wednesday of 2002, and thus ended the production With 5,712 eTexts online as of July 31th, 2002 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.75 from each book, for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One Trillion Dollars] in books. 100,000,000 readers is only about 1.6 percent of the world's population! This "cost" is down from $2.73 when we had 3731 Etexts A Year Ago Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing $.98 less a year later??? Or. . .would this say it better? Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing 33% less a year later??? At 5704 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged At 1412 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged ***Headline News*** [My Comments In Brackets] Headlines From Newsscan DIGITAL ALTERATIONS IN 'SPIDER-MAN' OKAYED AS FREE SPEECH A federal judge in New York has thrown out a lawsuit filed by billboard and building owners against Sony and other companies involved in making and distributing the movie "Spider-Man," saying that digital alterations of the billboards in Times Square for the movie are protected free speech. "What exists here is for artistic purposes a mixture of fictionally and actually depicted Times Square, this has First Amendment protection," ruled Judge Richard Owen. In the "Spider-Man" movie and trailers, ads for companies such as Cingular Wireless and USA Today were superimposed over those of Samsung and NBC. The judge also rejected claims that Sony's use of lasers bounce off the plaintiff's three buildings day and night in the city that never sleeps," said Owen. The practice of altering real-life scenes for the purpose of film artistry or to satisfy marketing deals is becoming more common as digital technology makes it easy to do so. USA Today said it didn't pay for the advertising, but Cingular said it has a marketing deal with Sony tied to the film. (CNet News.com 6 Aug 2002) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-948441.html?tag=fd_top JAPANESE SAY THEY DON'T WANT TO BECOME NUMBERS Japan's creation of a new citizen database has caused widespread concern that there has not been enough attention paid to privacy issues. Every citizen, starting at birth, will be assigned a unique 11-digit number. At present it will be used only to retrieve basic information (name, address, sex, and birth date), but many people think the system will be expanded to include other personal data. The new system has prompted widespread disobedience in the country, and half a dozen cities have refused to have any part of it. Nobuo Hoshino, mayor of Yokubunji, presiding over a e-mail, fax and various other ways, and almost all of them support us." One critic says that the project will grow and grow into "a bigger project, named 'E-Government,' that will have 16,000 administrative uses." (New York Times 5 Aug 2002) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/international/asia/06JAPA.html [More On Pay-Per-Everything] FOUR FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS TO CHARGE FOR WEB ACCESS Four newspapers in the Florida Panhandle, all four owned by Freedom Communications, have decided to start charging for access to their Web and we should get something for the value of the content." The editor of one deliver information or they deliver pizzas." The newspapers have received a barrage of complaints from their readers for the move they've taken. (AP/New York Times 4 Aug 2002) http://partners.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Online-Newspapers.html IN CHINA, MAN GETS 11 YEARS FOR USING NET "SUBVERSIVELY" In Beijing, a man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for posting "reactionary" material on the Web; he was accused of "subverting the power of the State." The man was arrested last April and brought to trial the following month. Human rights groups are supporting the man's appeal to a higher court, but a court date has not yet been set for that appeal. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 5 Aug 2002) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3803143.htm NOTES FROM THE ACCOUNTING WORLD In an informal survey of its readers, CFO magazine found that 83% of 180 corporate financial officers said that, during the past five years, they never felt pressure from their company's CEO to misrepresent the corporation's financial results. Of the remaining number, 11% said they had felt such pressure more than three times. (CFO Magazine 1 Aug 2002) http://www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,7502,00.html LINUX, IN DAVID VS. GOLIATH BATTLES, CONTINUES TO MAKE HEADWAY Little Linux, the home-grown, fast-growing, open-source operating system that invites code-enhancements from programmers all over the world, Hollywood, and government. Industry analyst Bill Claybrook of the Aberdeen Group says the operating systems wars will come down to two players, with long-term, is going to be between Linux and Windows." [Yes, we've mixed some metaphors here. Be quiet.] Microsoft, unsurprisingly, thinks that victory is theirs, but Linux supporters believe that the bigger they are the harder they'll fall. Surprisingly, money may be the ultimate deciding factor, and one information services executive who just opted for Linux in his company launch. Plus, it was a fraction of the cost of a Microsoft license." (USA Today 5 Aug 2002) http: //www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/software/2002-08-04-linux_x.htm WALL STREET BANKS DISCARDED E-MAIL MESSAGES PREMATURELY (Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and U.S. Bancorp Piper jaffraye) may be fined for as much as $10 million for not keeping e-mail messages sent both within and outside the companies for three years. The penalties would come from the SEC, NASD, and the New Stock Exchange. (New York Times 2 Aug 2002) http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/business/02WALL.html HACKERS ARE GOOD, CRACKERS ARE BAD Richard Clarke, President Bush's cybersecurity czar, sees a big difference between online vandals (also called "crackers") who hack into systems for malicious purposes, and true hackers and security professionals who explore security holes that weren't found by the software maker. In fact, Clarke here in this room, have an obligation to find the vulnerabilities." (AP/USA Today 31 Aug 2002) http:// www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2002-07-31-security-hacking_x.htm Privacy advocates have said, and said, and said again, that companies shouldn't use Social Security numbers as identification numbers or passwords -- yet colleges and banks and all kinds of other companies have turned a deaf ear to that plea, because they've been trying to balance security concerns with customer convenience. But Simson Garfinkel, author of Database epidemic of identity theft right now. The problem here is that people treat the Social Security number as if it is a secret, when in fact it is not." fact that the Social Security number is a universal identifier, and we should treat it as a public record. Businesses should not use a Social Security number as a password any more than they should use a name." (USA Today 31 Jul 2002) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2002-07-31-privacy_x.htm [I have called the Social Security offices several time to confirm that NO ONE OTHER THAN THEIR OFFICIALS HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY #] *** Headlines From Edupage: JAPANESE ID SYSTEM HAS BUMPY LAUNCH Japanese authorities launched a computer identification system, but technical problems and protests resulted in a difficult beginning for it. The former system was criticized for being slow and difficult, often requiring citizens to visit several agencies to accomplish a task as simple as changing one's address. The new system assigns ID numbers, similar to Social Security Numbers, and shares personal information across branches of government. Many Japanese protested the system, however, citing privacy concerns. Several municipalities refused to submit data for their citizens, and the city of Yokohama, where 3.4 million people live, said it will only submit information for people who have given their consent. In addition, when the new system was launched, several municipalities could not access it due to technical problems. Associated Press, 5 August 2002 http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/489123p-3904411c.html NEC OFFERS ALL-IN-ONE, ECO-FRIENDLY COMPUTER Computer maker NEC will produce an all-in-one computer that the company says is very environmentally friendly. The PowerMate, which is expected to cost $1,599, employs a 15-inch flat-panel monitor and a Transmeta processor, with all of the primary components housed behind the monitor. Because the screen is a flat-panel model, it does not contain the several pounds of lead that a CRT monitor has. NEC also said the motherboard is made with lead-free solder and that the plastic case is completely recyclable. The machine runs on relatively little electricity, requiring no internal fan, and has an extremely quiet hard drive. The other selling point of the PowerMate, its all-in-one design, has a mixed history in the market. Despite Apple Computer's success with the first-generation iMac, sales of newer iMacs as well as all-in-one computers from IBM and Gateway have been slow. CNET, 4 August 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1040-948287.html H-P WITHDRAWS WARNING Hewlett-Packard has backed down after a strong and vocal reaction against the company's threat to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against programmers who disclose flaws in H-P's software. The company had sent a letter to SnoSoft, invoking the copyright legislation as grounds for potential legal action against the researchers for disclosing security flaws in its Unix software. Many took the letter as an attempt to stifle independent research into system security. According to an official at H-P, the reaction was "significant." H-P would not comment on whether it would pursue action against SnoSoft outside the DMCA, but the company said it would not rely on the DMCA and that researchers who follow "industry standard security practice" have no reason to fear legal warnings from H-P. CNET, 1 August 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947745.html UTAH MAN SUES UNDER STATE'S NEW SPAM LAW A Utah man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Sprint under the state's recently enacted legislation concerning unsolicited e-mail. Utah's law requires that companies sending unsolicited e-mail must provide their legal name and address, put "ADV:" in the subject, and allow consumers to opt out of receiving more messages. The law allows for damages of up to $10 for each unwanted e-mail that is sent, up to $25,000 per day. Terry Gillman sued Sprint, saying the company did not abide by the restrictions the new law places on senders of e-mail solicitations. In an odd twist, Sprint requested that Mr. Gillman turn over his hard drive so that the company could "better investigate and prevent such alleged violations." An attorney for Gillman said the request is an intimidation tactic and that it would be "ridiculous" for all of the 1.4 million potential plaintiffs to submit hard drives. Wired News, 1 August 2002 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54250,00.html CLARKE URGES HACKERS TO FIND AND REPORT BUGS Richard Clarke, the cybersecurity advisor to President Bush, told attendees of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that they should find and report software bugs that compromise computer security. Clarke said that some of those listening "have an obligation to find the vulnerabilities." According to Clarke, hackers should be responsible in their disclosures of bugs, letting the software company know first and allowing the company time to fix the bug before the weakness is made public. If someone finds a bug and acts in good faith to see that it is addressed, that person should not be prosecuted, Clarke said, saying that legal protections may need to be installed for hackers disclosing security flaws. Associated Press, 31 July 2002 http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/484376p-3867743c.html [See related article above] H-P USES DMCA AGAINST BUG FINDERS In an apparent first, Hewlett-Packard has invoked the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to stop researchers from releasing information about software bugs. Until now, the DMCA has been used by copyright holders to prevent, for example, release of programs that allow for the circumvention of copyright protections. But H-P sent a letter to SnoSoft, a group of researchers, saying that the group faces fines of $500,000 and jail time for releasing information about a bug in an H-P Unix application. SnoSoft said that they notified H-P of the flaw early enough that a patch should have been available before public disclosure of the bug. An attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation said he expects more companies to try to use the DMCA in this way because the very broad terms and interpretation of the law allow for such prosecution. Even in circumstances unrelated to protecting copyright, he said, such actions "will trigger DMCA penalties." CNET, 30 July 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947325.html STIFF SENTENCES FOR ONLINE FRAUD Two Missouri men convicted of committing online fraud have been given 12-year prison sentences, highlighting a trend toward tougher prosecution and longer sentences for such crimes. The men were convicted of offering items for sale on Internet auction sites but not delivering the goods after they were paid for. 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