PG Weekly Newsletter (2002-12-18)

by Michael Cook on December 18, 2002
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Sep 2004 The Iron Woman, by Margaret Deland      [Deland#4][rnwmnxxx.xxx]6474
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Sep 2004 On the Pampas, by G. A. Henty           [Henty#10][ntpmpxxx.xxx]6472
Sep 2004 Children of the New Forest, by Capt. Marryat[CM#2][chnfsxxx.xxx]6471

Sep 2004 Le Ventre de Paris, by Emile Zola                 [?vntrxxx.xxx]6470
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Sep 2004 Letters to His Children, by Theodore Roosevelt[#4][ltchlxxx.xxx]6467
Sep 2004 Intellectual Development/Canadian People, Bourinot[tlctdxxx.xxx]6466
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Sep 2004 Short Cruises, by W.W. Jacobs           [Jacobs#2][shrcsxxx.xxx]6465
Sep 2004 Shop Management, by Frederick Winslow Taylor  [#2][shpmgxxx.xxx]6464
Sep 2004 Handbook of Ethical Theory,George Stuart Fullerton[hbthtxxx.xxx]6463
Sep 2004 Mortuary Customs of N.American Indians,C.H. Yarrow[mtrcsxxx.xxx]6462
[Full title: An introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American
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Sep 2004 Facing the World, by Horatio Alger      [Alger#24][fctwnxxx.xxx]6461

Sep 2004 Problems in American Democracy, by T. Williamson  [prblmxxx.xxx]6460
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Sep 2004 The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings,Margaret Burnham[gaogwxxx.xxx]6459
Sep 2004 Air Service Boys in the Big Battle, by C. Beach   [asbbbxxx.xxx]6458
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[Subtitle: Or, Silencing the Big Guns]
Jul 2004 The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 3  [dimd3xxx.xxx]6457
Sep 2004 Public Opinion, by Walter Lippmann                [pbpnnxxx.xxx]6456

Sep 2004 Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London [#51][ltlbhxxx.xxx]6455
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Sep 2004 George Leatrim, by Susanna Moodie       [Moodie#2][grltmxxx.xxx]6454
Sep 2004 The Potiphar Papers, by George William Curtis     [?ptphxxx.xxx]6453
Sep 2004 Right Royal, by John Masefield       [Masefield#2][rgrylxxx.xxx]6452
Sep 2004 Rover Boys on the Great Lakes,by A.M. Winfield[#7][rbgrlxxx.xxx]6451
[Full author: Arthur M. Winfield, pen-name of Edward Stratemeyer]

Sep 2004 The Prairie, by J Fenimore Cooper      [Cooper#10][thprrxxx.xxx]6450
Sep 2004 Homes of Great Reformers, by Elbert Hubbard [EH#3][hmgrfxxx.xxx]6449
[Full title: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers]
Sep 2004 Mysteries of Paris, V3, by Eugene Sue     [Sue#13][?mpr3xxx.xxx]6448
Sep 2004 Proserpine and Midas, by Mary Shelley         [#3][prsmdxxx.xxx]6447
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Sep 2004 Letters from America, by Rupert Brooke  [Brooke#2][ltfmrxxx.xxx]6445
Sep 2004 The Boys of Bellwood School, by Frank Webster [#3][blwdsxxx.xxx]6444
Sep 2004 The Wagner Story Book, by Henry Frost             [wgstbxxx.xxx]6443
Sep 2004 Bitter-Sweet, by J. G. Holland                    [btrswxxx.xxx]6442
Sep 2004 Uncle Robert's Geography, by Parker & Helm        [ncrggxxx.xxx]6441
[Full title: Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3)]
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Sep 2004 Elsie Dinsmore, by Martha Finley                  [lsdnsxxx.xxx]6440
Sep 2004 Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch, by Annie Roe Carr [#2][nsrsrxxx.xxx]6439
Sep 2004 Fables for the Frivolous, by Guy Whitmore Carryl  [fbfrvxxx.xxx]6438
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Sep 2004 Castle Nowhere, by Constance Fenimore Woolson     [csnwhxxx.xxx]6436

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Sep 2004 Brief History of the United States, by Barnes & Co[bhstrxxx.xxx]6434
Sep 2004 On the Trail of Pontiac, by Edward Stratemeyer[#8][ntrptxxx.xxx]6433
Sep 2004 Betty Wales, Sophomore, by Margaret Warde         [btwspxxx.xxx]6432
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Sep 2004 The Evolution of Man, V.1., by Ernst Haeckel      [vlmn1xxx.xxx]6430
Sep 2004 Many Ways for Cooking Eggs, by Mrs. S.T. Rorer    [ckggsxxx.xxx]6429
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At 6583 eBooks in 31 1/2 Years We Averaged

At 2283 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged


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Headlines From Newsscan

E-GOV ADVANCES
President Bush has signed into law the E-Government Act of 2002, a law
intended to offer more government information and services over the
Internet while honoring the privacy of citizens through standards and
oversight protections. The law requires that each federal court establish a
Web site where its decisions and other actions are publicly accessible, and
directs federal regulatory agencies to publish on the Web everything they
publish in the Federal Register. (PC World 17 Dec 2002)
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108058,00.asp

RUSSIAN FIRM CLEARED IN U.S. COPYRIGHT CASE
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., based in Moscow, has been found not guilty of criminal
charges that it violated the 1998 U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act by
selling a software program designed to circumvent the digital locks used to
enforce copyright protections on Adobe Systems e-book software. The
two-week trial was the first criminal prosecution under the controversial
DCMA, which prohibits the sale of technology that can be used to break the
code that "locks" digitally formatted movies, music and other software. The
case hinged on whether ElcomSoft had "willfully" violated U.S. law, an
intent the defendants denied. "They never intended to violate the law,"
said defense attorney Joseph Burton. ElcomSoft president Alexander Katalov
pointed out that the program was legal in Russia and was not meant to be
used for electronic books that had not been legally purchased. He said he
didn't know that the software was illegal under U.S. law.(Reuters 17 Dec 2002)
http://shorl.com/degreryliprujy

WHOSE PRODUCTIVITY IS IT, ANYWAY?
It's dinner time, but put that fork down and go answer the phone and listen
to ... 15 seconds of silence, followed by a sales pitch. What you're being
treated to is a lesson in productivity. The telemarketing firm that's
calling you has used a "predictive dialer" to rapidly dial a number of
lines at one time, monitored by computer software that predicts when
they've got a live one on the line (the live one would be you). Okay, hang
up the phone and pick up your fork again, happy to have done your part for
greater efficiency. Jerry Cerasale of the Direct Marketing Association says
nationwide do-not-call list. Maybe that will help.(New York Times 18 Dec 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/12/18/technology/18TELE.html

WEB ACTIVISTS GO AFTER RALSKY AND POINDEXTER
Web activists have uncovered the home address and phone numbers for
government surveillance head John Poindexter and bulk spammer Alan Ralsky,
and have posted the information on more than 100 Web sites. The action has
led to Ralsky being deluged with junk mail and Poindexter undergoing the
scrutiny that every American soon will experience. An article in the
Detroit Free Press quoted Ralsky as complaining, "They're harassing me,"
after anti-spammers signed him up with as many direct mail agencies as
possible. In Poindexter's case, his home address, complete with satellite
photos, has been published online as well as his phone number and those of
his neighbors. That's actually just a small portion of the personal
information the U.S. government plans to collect under Poindexter's Total
Information Awareness program, which will compile credit card, medical,
travel, school and other records in an effort to spot terrorists.
(BBC News 16 Dec 2002)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2580089.stm

MICROSOFT WARNS OF 'CRITICAL' SECURITY FLAWS IN WINDOWS
Microsoft revealed "critical" flaws in its Windows operating system that
conceivably could allow hackers to alter data stored in computers, load and
run malicious programs, or reformat hard drives. Microsoft is urging
Windows users to download a new version of Microsoft Virtual Machine, which
is the part of Windows that runs Java applications. "An attacker could, in
the most serious of these vulnerabilities, gain complete control of a
user's system and take any action" he or she chooses, said John Montgomery,
head of Microsoft's developer platform and evangelism group. Security
features in Outlook Express 6 and Outlook 2002 are safe from the
HTML-mail-based attacks by default and Outlook 98 and 2000 users are also
protected if users have installed the Microsoft security updates for them.
The good news is, a hacker would have to be quite sophisticated to carry
out an attack of the kind described, says Gary Bahadur, CIO at Foundstone.
"This is not an easy attack at all. You've got to be pretty slick, pretty
creative." (Wall Street Journal 13 Dec 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1039726985823015473,00.html (sub req'd)


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GROUP OFFERS COPYRIGHT LICENSES FOR ACCEPTABLE USES
The Creative Commons is a group set up last year to increase the amount
of intellectual property that is available for public use and to make
uses of such property easy and inexpensive. To that end, the group this
week will release its first set of copyright licenses that copyright
owners can use to specify how and when their content may be used. The
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predefined copyright tools, they can craft their own acceptable uses
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with no restrictions.
Wired News, 16 December 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56704,00.html

CALIFORNIA LAWS REQUIRE DISCLOSURE OF SECURITY LAPSES
A new law in California will require companies to notify customers if a
lapse in computer security has allowed unauthorized access of the
users' identities and personal information. In all, the California
legislature approved more than a dozen measures this session dealing
with identity theft. A draft is being circulated of another bill,
written by California Senator Diane Feinstein, that would require
businesses to disclose information about all lapses in security to
police. Many security experts say that early detection and notification
are vital in dealing with identity theft, giving consumers ample time
to address the problem if they know their personal information has been
exposed. California has taken a very proactive stance on disclosure of
security breaches, even when companies are unsure if personal
information was obtained. Some argue that the laws go too far. Mark
Rasch, former head of the Computer Crime Unit at the U.S. Department of
Justice, said the laws are onerous and "a potential public relations
nightmare" for companies that are forced to reveal security lapses.
ComputerWorld, 13 December 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_989654_1794_9-10000.html

STANFORD TO MOVE AHEAD WITH STEM CELL RESEARCH
Stanford University medical professor Irving Weissman said that the
school intends to experiment with cell nuclear transfer technology.
Weissman said that the goal is to advance science and denied that the
project involves cloning embryos. The researchers plan to take DNA from
diseased adult human cells, transfer the DNA into eggs, then grow the
eggs for a few days to produce stem cells. Other researchers dismiss
this distinction, claiming that this type of nuclear transfer creates
an exact genetic replica of the adult cell donor. The stem cell work
will take place under the auspices of the new Institute for Cancer/Stem
Cell Biology and Medicine, of which Weissman is the director. The
university has said it plans to share resulting stem cell lines with
other researchers.
Wired News, 10 December 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,56802,00.html
[Bush tried to stop them by not allowing and federal funding,
so they are doing it all via private funding]

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