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At 9806 eBooks in 32 Years and 4.00 Months We Averaged 303 Per Year [We do more per month these days!] 25 Per Month .81 Per Day At 3063 eBooks Done In The 280 Days Of 2003 We Averaged 10.9 Per Day 76.6 Per Week 340.3 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 1st was the first Wednesday of 2003, and thus ended PG's production year of 2002 and began the production year of 2003 at noon. This year there will be 53 Wednesdays, thus one extra week. ***Headline News*** [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] From Newsscan: COLEMAN TO PUSH FOR LOWER COPYRIGHT-INFRINGEMENT FINES Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) said this week he intends to introduce legislation that will lower the fines for those found guilty of sharing copyrighted music files. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), violators face fines of between $750 and $150,000 per song. Coleman, who earlier this week chaired a hearing on the issue of file sharing and recording industry efforts to curb the practice, said the range of fines is unreasonable. Facing the prospect of having to pay $150,000 for each copyrighted song, he said, "forces people to settle when they may want to fight." Coleman also took issue with the DMCA subpoena provision, which allows copyright owners to obtain identities of suspected infringers without approval of a judge. Coleman voiced an opinion shared by many in the P2P community that there should be some level of judicial review for the subpoenas. A spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America, which supports the DMCA as it stands today, said, "Given the scope of today's piracy epidemic, we must not weaken the hand of copyright holders." San Jose Mercury News, 2 October 2003 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6918373.htm MICROSOFT $10.5 MILLION CONSUMER SETTLEMENT Microsoft has agreed to pay $10.5 million to consumers who complained in a class-action lawsuit that they were overcharged when they bought software directly from the company. About 550,000 licenses are represented in the class. Rob Helm, an industry analyst and Microsoft-watcher, says: "It's certainly not going to put a dent in Microsoft's pockets. This is clearly a victory, in the sense that Microsoft wants to settle these cases. From a Microsoft perspective, the bad PR outweighs any benefit it would gain by fighting this to the bitter end." (AP/2 Oct 2003) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6901041.htm VERISIGN AGREES TO SUSPEND SITE FINDER SERVICE VeriSign and ICANN reached a temporary truce Friday, with VeriSign acquiescing to ICANN's demand that it suspend its controversial Site Finder service pending further technical review. ICANN could have fined VeriSign as much as $100,000 or even revoked its contract to manage the master list of .com and .net Internet domain names. Critics have charged VeriSign with undermining the collectivist culture of the Internet with the preemptive launch of its service, which redirects Web users who mistype a URL to the VeriSign Web site. "In the past when you made a dramatic change to the network structure that was the least bit potentially damaging, you went out through the community and you exposed what you were going to do and got reaction," says Carnegie Mellon computer science professor David Farber. VeriSign "just broke the whole process." In its defense, VeriSign executives say they notified ICANN of their plans ahead of time, but admitted that they sidestepped ICANN's lengthy approval process because it's too slow. In response, ICANN says it's "sympathetic to concerns" about its process and has proposed a more streamlined procedure for reviewing new services such as Site Finder. (Wall Street Journal 6 Oct 2003) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB106519977252395300,00.html (sub req'd) TRACKING LIBRARY BOOKS OR TRACKING PEOPLE? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which concerns itself with civil liberties issues in cyberspace, is expressing dismay over a plan by the the San Francisco Public Library use RFID technology to track books. A RFID (radio frequency identification) chip would be inserted into each library book, and would send out electromagnetic waves that would allow tracking of the book's location. San Francisco's city librarian Susan Hildreth says the RFID devices will help streamline inventory and prevent loss, and explains that tracking people is not the goal; "It will not allow us to track people to their home or any location." Hildreth's response has failed to satisfy Electronic Frontier Foundation Lee Tien, who worries: "We're talking about the imbedding of location trafficking devices into the social fabric." (AP/USA Today 3 Oct 2003) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2003-10-03-sf-library-rfid _x.htm MICROSOFT SUED FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY SECURITY FLAWS Film producer Marcy Levitas Hamilton, whose Social Security number was stolen by network vandals, has filed a lawsuit aimed at holding Microsoft responsible for damage stemming from security flaws in its software. The suit is designed to form the basis of a class action, and alleges that the majority of cyberattacks trace back to vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. Internet security and privacy consultant Richard M. Smith sasy: "This is the first time Microsoft has had its feet held to the fire on security issues." Hamilton's lawsuit notes that after the vandals stole her Social Security number, her bank accounts were accessed and frozen, and her attorney says: "They completely cannibalized her life." Microsoft executive Sean Sundwall responds: "This complaint misses the point. The problems caused by viruses and other security attacks are the result of criminal acts." (USA Today 7 Oct 2003) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2003-10-07-msftsuit_x.htm [Grammar Aside: This Means The Do Not Call List WILL Be Implemented] APPEALS COURT STAYS LOWER-COURT RULING BLOCKING DO-NOT-CALL LIST The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed a ruling of U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham which has prevented the Federal Trade Commission from running a national Do-Not-Call registry on the grounds that it unfairly blocks calls from businesses, but not from charities or political organizations. The appeals court said in its ruling: "The Supreme Court has held that there is undoubtedly a substantial governmental interest in the prevention of abusive and coercive sales practices. The prevention of intrusion upon privacy in the home is another paradigmatic substantial governmental interest." The court also noted that Congress had found that some telemarketing calls "have subjected consumers to substantial fraud, deception and abuse." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 8 Oct 2003) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6955894.htm SOUPED UP PCs CAN MIMIC TIVO FUNCTIONALITY SnapStream's Personal Video Station 3 software allows users to record their favorite TV shows to their PCs, as well as perform many of the control functions offered by personal video recorders, such as pause, rewind and fast-forward real-time TV. The $60 software offers a cheaper alternative to PVRs such as TiVo, which costs about $250 for the box plus a monthly subscription fee in the $13 range. But there's a catch -- your PC needs to have plenty of processor speed -- 733 megahertz or faster -- and an $80 tuner card. Similar software is available from InterVideo (WinDVR 3) and Microsoft's latest version of Windows XP works with the company's $1,500 Media Center Edition PC. (CNN.com 8 Oct 2003) http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/tv.recording/index.html GENES ON A CHIP Affymetrix, Agilent, Applied Biosystems, and NimbleGen are some of the companies that have begun selling postage-size gene-chips, or "microarrays," of all known human genes (of which there are about 30,000), thereby lowering the cost and increase the speed of a test that has transformed biomedical research in recent years. The chief executive of Affymetrix boasts: "It's sort of a milestone event, very similar to generating an integrated circuit of the genome." Gene chips detect genes that are actively being used to make a protein, and scientists try to understand the genetic mechanisms of disease by seeing which genes are turned on. Researchers have found that tumors that look the same under the microscope can differ in terms of which genes are active, and that by studying gene patterns it may be possible to discriminate between deadly and harmless tumors -- or to predict the effectiveness of a particular drug on a particular patient. (New York Times 2 Oct 2003) http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/technology/02GENE.html 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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