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Jul 1995 HomeBrew HomePages Put YOU On The World Wide Web [homebxxx.zip] 303C
Jul 1995 The Fibonacci Number Series [math0] [fibnsxxx.xxx] 302
Jul 1995 Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #2] [rgaolxxx.xxx] 301
Jul 1995 United States Declaration of Independence in HTML [1whenxxa.zip] 300C
Jul 1995 Tales From Two Hemispheres, Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen [twohexxx.xxx] 299
Jul 1995 The Market-Place by Harold Frederic [Frederic #2] [marktxxx.xxx] 298
Jul 1995 The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington [Tarkington #1] [flirtxxx.xxx] 297
Jul 1995 The Cash Boy, by Horatio Alger, Jr. [Alger #2] [cashbxxx.xxx] 296
Jul 1995 The Early Short Fiction, Edith Wharton #5 Part One[whrt1xxx.xxx] 295
Jul 1995 The Captain of the Polestar, by A. Conan Doyle #5 [polstxxx.xxx] 294
Jul 1995 Paul Prescott's Charge by Horatio Alger Jr[Alger1][prescxxx.xxx] 293
Jul 1995 Beauty and The Beast, Etc., by Bayard Taylor [bbetcxxx.xxx] 292
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Jul 1995 The Stark Munro Letters, by Arthur Conan Doyle #4 [strkmxxx.xxx] 290
Jul 1995 The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame [#2] [wwillxxx.xxx] 289
Jul 1995 The Certain Hour, by James Branch Cabell [chourxxx.xxx] 288
Jun 1995 Remember the Alamo, by Amelia E. Barr [alamoxxx.xxx] 287
Jun 1995 Laddie, by Gene Stratton Porter [Porter #3] [laddixxx.xxx] 286
Jun 1995 The Lost Continent by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne [lostcxxx.xxx] 285
Jun 1995 House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton [Wharton #4] [hmirtxxx.xxx] 284
Jun 1995 The Reef, by Edith Wharton [Wharton #3] [treefxxx.xxx] 283
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Jun 1995 Trinity Atomic Bomb Test Site Photographs [3trntxxx.zip] 279
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Jun 1995 Trinity Atomic Bomb by the National Atomic Museum [1trntxxx.xxx] 277
Jun 1995 Franz Haydn's 104th Symphony [1794-5] [MIDI #2] [fh104sxx.xxx] 276C
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Jun 1995 Martin Luther's 95 Theses, In English and Latin[1][the95xxx.xxx] 274
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Nov 2004 Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873, J.T. Headley[grtrtxxx.xxx]6856
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Nov 2004 Betty Gordon in Washington,by Alice B. Emerson[#3][bgwshxxx.xxx]6853
Nov 2004 Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch [vnsfrxxx.xxx]6852
Nov 2004 Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, by Alice Emerson [#2][rfscpxxx.xxx]6851
Nov 2004 Esther, by Rosa Nouchette Carey [#2][sthrgxxx.xxx]6850
Nov 2004 The Prince of India, by Lew. Wallace, Vol. 2 [tpin2xxx.xxx]6849
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NEW $2.1B DEBT MAY LOWER AOL TIME WARNER'S CREDIT RATING
Standard & Poor analyst Heather M. Goodchild says that AOL Time Warner's
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cable operations may result in a lower credit rating for the company:
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AOL TIME WARNER: "CAN ANYONE HERE RUN THIS COMPANY?
With AOL Time Warner humiliated by two years of failure (declining
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/business/yourmoney/02AOLL.html
CHESS MOVES: HAVE COMPUTERS DUMBED-DOWN THE ANCIENT GAME?
The current closely-contested match between world chess champion Garry
Kasparov and a computer has been the occasion for some chess fans to
complain that computers are ruining the game. Chess master Evgeni Bareev
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we follow the latest games and find small improvements. We have lost
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York, and Hans Berliner, a former world correspondence chess champion.
Ashley: "People don't experiment as much anymore. That's a loss." Berliner:
"What's happening with chess is it's gradually losing its place as the par
excellence intellectual activity. Chess is winding down." But Frederic
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disagrees, and says that chess-play is now better than ever: "The
combination of man and computer is much more powerful than either on its
own." Freidel has been promoting "advance chess," in which human players
openly use computer software as they compete against each other in games.
(International Herald-Tribune 1 Feb 2003)
http://www.iht.com/articles/85343.html
AO-HELL
Will the bad news from AOL Time Warner ever stop? Hard on the heels of huge
new losses ($98.2 billion) and continuing high-level executive defections
(Ted Turner being the latest), the company now has the embarrassment of
revealing that in the last three months of 2002 the number of subscribers
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AOL's subscription numbers have ever fallen, and the fall has come despite
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renewed fears over AOL's long-term viability." But it concluded its
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the AOL business is fixable and that the core Time Warner businesses remain
valuable." (Washington Post 31 Jan 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3669-2003Jan30.html
VERIZON GOES TO COURT TO DEFEND CUSTOMER PRIVACY
Verizon Communications is asking a federal appeals court to declare
unconstitutional a lower-court decision that ordered it to reveal the
identity of a customer suspected of downloading copyrighted music files
over the Internet. Verizon deputy general counsel John Thorne says, "I see
a great jeopardy of privacy for people who are not doing anything wrong,"
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stalkers, telemarketers, pollsters, creditor and anybody else" to obtain
the identity of almost any Internet user. "No matter where you go, your
identity can be compelled to be revealed under this process." (Reuters/USA
Today 30 Jan 2003)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-01-30-verizon-appeal_x.htm
WHAT'S GOING ON? AOL TIME WARNER LOSES $98.7B & ANOTHER BIG-WIG
Ever since the much-ballyhooed merger two years ago of "new media" America
Online with "old media" publishing, music, and movie empire Time Warner,
there's been nothing but corporate recriminations, infighting, and anguish
there. The two men who created the merger, Gerald Levin and Steve Case,
have already departed, as has Bob Pittman. And now vice-chairman Ted Turner
has resigned, following announcement that the company's taking a $98.7
billion loss for 2002, the worst annual loss ever. Turner says he will
devote more time to personal interests and to several "socially responsible
business efforts." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 30 Jan 2003)
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From Edupage
MICROSOFT AGREES TO CHANGE PASSPORT FOR EU
Responding to concerns from the European Union (EU) over its .NET
Passport authentication system, Microsoft this week agreed to various
changes including "a radical change of the information flow." EU
members had expressed concern that Microsoft's system, which is
designed to share authentication information with affiliated sites so
users are not required to re-enter names and passwords, did not
adequately protect personal information, such as addresses, ages, phone
numbers, and credit card numbers. The changes agreed to will allow
users to see information that would be shared among systems and to
decide which of those pieces of personal data they will allow to be
shared. A spokesman for Microsoft said the company welcomes the changes
and that the process of deciding on the changes was an example of
"necessary collaboration between government and industry in order to
achieve a common goal."
New York Times, 30 January 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/business/worldbusiness/30CND-SOFT.html
[What Was That We Were Saying About Everything Becoming Pay-Per-Whatever?]
PAYING FOR RADIO?
Two start-up companies, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio
Holdings, are heavily promoting radio-for-pay in private homes and
cars. XM Satellite launched a $100-million national campaign in August
of 2001 to sell the service to the public. Its partners, General
Motors, which offers cars with satellite receivers, and Delphi
Corporation, which sells a $200 portable car boombox, have also
promoted the service. Sirius lags far behind its rival in spending and
subscribers. With 30,000 members compared to XM Satellite's 360,000,
Sirius has hired a prestigious Miami-based advertising firm to launch a
late-night talk show TV campaign to build its customer base. In
addition to more than 100 music channels, Sirius offers news, sports,
religious, and comedy channels for $12.95 a month. Capitalizing on the
notion of music as "social currency," the ads promote Sirius as
anti-establishment by offering subscribers commercial-free, alternative
music. Still far from the two million subscribers needed to break even,
XM Satellite hopes the Sirius campaign will boost its membership as
well by raising consumer awareness.
New York Times, 3 February 2003 (registration req'd)
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