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UK GOVERNMENT PLANS CELL PHONE TOWER TRACKING SYSTEM
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uses mobile phone masts to enable security officials to watch vehicles and
people in real time almost anywhere in Britain. The Celldar technology,
which works wherever there is cell phone coverage, "sees" the shapes made
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through walls and look into people's homes. UK Ministry of Defence
officials are hoping to introduce the system as soon as resources allow,
appalling idea. The government is just capitalizing on current public fears
over security to introduce new systems that are neither desirable nor
necessary," says Simon Davies, director of Privacy International.
(The Observer 13 Oct 2002)
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,811027,00.html
GADGET TRANSLATES BABY'S CRIES
Spanish engineer Pedro Monagas has come up with the answer to many new
parents' prayers -- a pocket-sized device that interprets a baby's crying
so that the parent can respond appropriately. The battery-powered "Why Cry"
device contains a microchip that monitors volume, pattern and interval to
determine if the baby is tired, hungry, sleepy, uncomfortable or stressed
out. "My own son Alex was always crying and after night after night of not
very much sleep I decided I had to find a way of finding out what he was
trying to say to me -- if only for my own sanity," says Monagas, who spent
three years visiting nurseries and analyzing the crying patterns of around
100 babies. Some child-rearing experts have expressed doubts about the
machine and one pediatrician notes that "Why Cry" won't do anything that
mother, will tell you they are capable of telling the difference between a
hunger cry, a cry of pain, or an overtired cry with reasonable accuracy.
What can a machine offer that a parent can't?" Monagas says his device
boasts a 98% accuracy rate, and will be available at Spanish pharmacies by
the end of the month, priced at 95 euros. (BBC News 15 Oct 2002)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2329205.stm
FORGETFUL BOOMERS SPAWN MARKET FOR MEMORY AIDS
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that always seem to go missing just when you're in a hurry to leave. The
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DIPO started out as the brainchild of the company's absent-minded CEO,
Bruno Enea, who says, "I kept losing my credit card. I always forgot my
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online, but the government has added new rules after a fire in August
killed 25 in an Internet cafe. Under the new rules, smoking is banned,
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content they access. These rules are added to already strict
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online gambling and pornography.
Associated Press, 11 October 2002 (registration req'd)
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PEER-TO-PEER EFFORTS AIM TO DEFEAT CENSORSHIP
Several peer-to-peer efforts aim to allow users in countries that block
certain Internet content to access that content with the help of users
in uncensored countries. One such effort, called Peekabooty, responds
when a user in a country with censorship tries to access a site that is
blocked. The user sends a request to the Peekabooty community, and a
computer in a country without restrictions will send that content,
encrypted to sidestep filters, to that user. It's just a theory so
far, because the current version lacks the encryption tool and is
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initiative, as well as others working in projects including Hacktivismo
and SafeWeb, argue that breaking down censorship in countries like
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Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v10 [#12][qx10wxxx.xxx]5912
Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v9 [#11][qx09wxxx.xxx]5911
Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v8 [#10][qx08wxxx.xxx]5910
Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v7 [#09][qx07wxxx.xxx]5909
Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v6 [#08][qx06wxxx.xxx]5908
Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v5 [#07][qx05wxxx.xxx]5907
Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v4 [#06][qx04wxxx.xxx]5906
Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v3 [#05][qx03wxxx.xxx]5905
Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v2 [#04][qx02wxxx.xxx]5904
Jun 2004 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Illust. Dore, v1 [#03][qx01wxxx.xxx]5903
[Title: The History of Don Quixote][Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]]
[Translated by John Ormsby][Illustrated by Gustave Dore]
[HTML only in ZIP format, with illustrations][File Size each: 2.3mb]
Jun 2004 Journeys Through Bookland V3, Charles H. Sylvester[blnd3xxx.xxx]5902
Jun 2004 Dyke Darrel, by Frank Pinkerton [Pinkerton#2][dkdrlxxx.xxx]5901
[Full title: Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective]
Jun 2004 Umboo, the Elephant, by Howard R. Garis [Garis#3][umbooxxx.xxx]5900
*Please note the above are from the 5900's and the below are from the 5800's*
Jun 2004 The Physiology of Marriage Part 2, by Balzac [#98][phsm2xxx.xxx]5899
Jun 2004 Jess, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard#43][jesshxxx.xxx]5898
Jun 2004 Castle Richmond, by Anthony Trollope [Trollope#39][cslrcxxx.xxx]5897
Jun 2004 Her Weight in Gold, by George Barr McCutcheon [#5][hwgtgxxx.xxx]5896
Jun 2004 The Honor of the Big Snows, by J. O. Curwood [#10][?hnbsxxx.xxx]5895
Jun 2004 The Extra Day, by Algernon Blackwood [Blackwood#2][xtrdyxxx.xxx]5894
Jun 2004 Two Little Women on a Holiday,by Carolyn Wells[#6][tlwhlxxx.xxx]5893
Jun 2004 Histoires Grises, by E. Edouard Tavernier [8hsgrxxx.xxx]5892
[Also posted HTML 8hsgr10h.htm and .zip]
Jun 2004 Travels in West Africa, by Mary H. Kingsley [trwaxxx.xxx]5891
(Plain text in trwa10.txt/.zip, XHTML in trwa10h.htm/.zip]
Jun 2004 Games for Hallow-e'en, by Mary E. Blain [gmshlxxx.xxx]5890
Jun 2004 The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler, Steven E. Jones [cookrxxx.xxx]5889C
(Note: cookr10.zip also contains 11 images of the Cooker/Cooler)
Jun 2004 Crime and Corruption, Sam Vaknin [#9][cracoxxx.xxx]5888C
(Plain text in craco10.txt/.zip, RTF in craco10r.rtf/.zip)
Jun 2004 The Labour Divide, Sam Vaknin [#8][ldivixxx.xxx]5887C
(Plain text in ldivi10.txt/.zip, RTF in ldivi10r.rtf/.zip)
Jun 2004 String Quartet in F Major, Op. 74 no.2, Haydn [#3][fh011xxx.zip]5886
[Author: Franz Joseph Haydn]
(Finale .MUS format for sheet music and performance in fh01110m.zip)
(MusicXML in fh01110x.zip)
Jun 2004 P&F in E-Flat Major, Op. 99 no.3, Saint-Saens [#1][cs993xxx.xxx]5885
[Full title: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, Op. 99 no.3]
[Author: Camille Saint-Saens]
(Finale .MUS format for sheet music and performance in cs99310m.zip)
(MusicXML in cs99310x.zip, PDF)
Jun 2004 The Flying Saucers are Real (audio), Donald Keyhoe[fsaraxxx.xxx]5884C
(Copyrighted audio performances in fsar1103.mp3, fsar2103.mp3, fsar3103.mp3;
(fsara103.zip contains all 3 parts, plus fsara3-readme.txt with the copyright
(notice.)
Jun 2004 The Flying Saucers are Real, by Donald Keyhoe [tfsarxxx.xxx]5883
(Plain text in tfsar10.txt/.zip, HTML in tfsar10h.htm/.zip)
Jun 2004 A District Messenger Boy and a Necktie Party[JO#2][dmessxxx.xxx]5882
[Author's Full Name: James Otis, a.k.a. James Otis Kaler]
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1909 [#5][?va09xxx.xxx]5881
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1865 [#4][?va65xxx.xxx]5880
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1862 [#3][?va62xxx.xxx]5879
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1858 [#2][?va58xxx.xxx]5878
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1602 [#1][8va02xxx.xxx]5877
[Language: Spanish]
[Series note: These editions of the Spanish Valera Bible differ mainly
[in orthography, and are based on the same source from the year 1602]
(7-bit version with non-accented characters start with '7', if available)
(8-bit version with accented characters start with '8')
Jun 2004 Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century,by J. Joy[tenenxxx.xxx]5876
[Author's Full Name: James Richard Joy]
Jun 2004 The Rover Roys on the Ocean, by A. Winfield [ES#6][rbocexxx.xxx]5875
[Author: Arthur M. Winfield] [Author AKA: Edward Stratemeyer]
Jun 2004 Dawn, by Eleanor H. Porter [Porter#6][dwnprxxx.xxx]5874
Jun 2004 Farewell, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#97][frwllxxx.xxx]5873
(See also:
(Dec 1998 Adieu, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #47][adieuxxx.xxx]1554)
(which is a different translation of the same original.)
Jun 2004 Cashel Byron's Profession, by G. B. Shaw [#36][cshbpxxx.xxx]5872
Jun 2004 Green Fancy, by George Barr McCutcheon [GBM#7][grnfnxxx.xxx]5871
Jun 2004 Hidden Treasures, by John Thomas Simpson [hddntxxx.xxx]5870
Jun 2004 Michael's Crag, by Grant Allen [Allen#7][mchcrxxx.xxx]5869
Jun 2004 Nothing to Eat, by Horatio Alger [supposed] [#20][nthttxxx.xxx]5868
Jun 2004 Son of a Hero, by James Oliver Curwood[Curwood#10][snhroxxx.xxx]5867
Jun 2004 Yollop, by George Barr McCutcheon [McCutcheon#6][yllopxxx.xxx]5866
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v6 [USG#9][mug6wxxh.zip]5865
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v5 [USG#8][mug5wxxh.zip]5864
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v4 [USG#7][mug4wxxh.zip]5863
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v3 [USG#6][mug3wxxh.zip]5862
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v2 [USG#5][mug2wxxh.zip]5861
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v1 [USG#4][mug1wxxh.zip]5860
[Author: Ulysses S. Grant]
(The above six eBooks posted in HTML with images, zipped files only.)
(Note: illustrated HTML files with photographs and maps.)
(See also: #4367.)
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v6 [SHD#9][shd6wxxh.zip]5859
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v5 [SHD#8][shd5wxxh.zip]5858
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v4 [SHD#7][shd4wxxh.zip]5857
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v3 [SHD#6][shd3wxxh.zip]5856
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v2 [SHD#5][shd2wxxh.zip]5855
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v1 [SHD#4][shd1wxxh.zip]5854
[Author: Philip H. Sheridan]
(The above six eBooks posted in HTML with images, zipped files only)
(Note: illustrated HTML files with photographs and maps.)
(See also: #4362)
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sherman, Illust. v4 [SHR#7][shr4wxxh.zip]5853
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sherman, Illust. v3 [SHR#6][shr3wxxh.zip]5852
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sherman, Illust. v2 [SHR#5][shr2wxxh.zip]5851
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sherman, Illust. v1 [SHR#4][shr1wxxh.zip]5850
[Author: William T. Sherman]
(The above four eBooks posted in HTML with images, zipped files only.)
(Note: illustrated html files with photographs and maps.)
(See also: #4361)
Jun 2004 The Philosophy of Style, by Herbert Spencer [?philxxx.xxx]5849
(7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7phil10.txt/.zip)
(8-bit version with accented characters in 8phil10.txt/.zip)
(HTML in phil10h.htm/.zip)
Jun 2004 The Flyers,byGeorge Barr McCutcheon [McCutcheon#5][thflyxxx.xxx]5848
Jun 2004 Contemporary Danish Prose: An Anthology,Various [cntmpxxx.xxx]5847
[Language: English]
Jun 2004 The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack, T. Burgess[#13][tapmqxxx.xxx]5846
[Author's Full Name: Thornton W. Burgess]
Jun 2004 The Story of Calico Clown,byLaura Lee Hope[Hope#8][clownxxx.xxx]5845
Jun 2004 The Adventures of Johnny Chuck, by T. Burgess[#12][tajnnxxx.xxx]5844
[Author's Full Name: Thornton W. Burgess]
Jun 2004 The Young Step-Mother,Charlotte M. Yonge[Yonge#35][thyngxxx.xxx]5843
[Subtitle: Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes]
Jun 2004 Sketches New and Old, by Twain Illust. v7 [MT#87][mt7snxxh.zip]5842
Jun 2004 Sketches New and Old, by Twain Illust. v6 [MT#86][mt6snxxh.zip]5841
Jun 2004 Sketches New and Old, by Twain Illust. v5 [MT#85][mt5snxxh.zip]5840
Jun 2004 Sketches New and Old, by Twain Illust. v4 [MT#84][mt4snxxh.zip]5839
Jun 2004 Sketches New and Old, by Twain Illust. v3 [MT#83][mt3snxxh.zip]5838
Jun 2004 Sketches New and Old, by Twain Illust. v2 [MT#82][mt2snxxh.zip]5837
Jun 2004 Sketches New and Old, by Twain Illust. v1 [MT#81][mt1snxxh.zip]5836
[Author above seven eBooks: Mark Twain]
(Note: above seven eBooks in HTML only, with images, zip format.)
Jun 2004 The Story Hour, by Wiggin/Smith [Kate Wiggin #20][thstrxxx.xxx]5835
[Author's Full Name: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith]
[Subtitle: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten]
Jun 2004 Bimbi, by Louise de la Ramee [Ouida#4][bimbixxx.xxx]5834
[Author AKA: Ouida][Subtitle: Stories for Children]
Jun 2004 Helping Himself, by Horatio Alger [Alger#19][hlpngxxx.xxx]5833
[Subtitle: Or, Grant Thornton's Ambition]
Jun 2004 Recalled to Life, by Grant Allen [Allen#6][rclldxxx.xxx]5832
Jun 2004 The Riches of Bunyan, by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin [thrchxxx.xxx]5831
[Subtitle: Selected from His Works, for the American Tract Society]
Jun 2004 A Garland for Girls,byLouisa May Alcott[Alcott#14][grlndxxx.xxx]5830
Jun 2004 The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair [Sinclair#16][?monyxxx.xxx]5829
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mony10.txt and 7mony10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8mony10.txt and 8mony10.zip]
Jun 2004 In the Pecos Country, Lieutenant R.H. Jayne[ESE#2][pecosxxx.xxx]5828
[Author AKA: Edward Sylvester Ellis]
(Note: pecos10.zip also also contains an image of the author)
Jun 2004 The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell [#4][prphixxx.xxx]5827
Jun 2004 The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 [dimd1xxx.xxx]5826
[Author AKA: Frances Burney]
[Subtitle: With notes by W.C. Ward and Prefaced by Lord Macaulay's Essay]
Jun 2004 The Courage of the Commonplace, by M. Andrews [courcxxx.xxx]5825
[Author's Full Name: Mary Raymond Shipley Andrews]
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v7 [MT#80][mt7gaxxh.xxx]5824
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v6 [MT#79][mt6gaxxh.xxx]5823
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v5 [MT#78][mt5gaxxh.xxx]5822
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v4 [MT#77][mt4gaxxh.xxx]5821
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v3 [MT#76][mt3gaxxh.xxx]5820
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v2 [MT#75][mt2gaxxh.xxx]5819
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v1 [MT#74][mt1gaxxh.xxx]5818
[Author for above seven eBooks: Mark Twain and C.D. Warner]
(The above seven eBooks posted in HTML with images, zipped files only)
Jun 2004 The Clockmaker, by Thomas Chandler Haliburton [clckmxxx.xxx]5817
Jun 2004 Successful Exploration, by William John Wills [sccxpxxx.xxx]5816
[Full title: Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria From the Journals and Letters
of William John Wills. Edited by his Father William Wills.]
Jun 2004 The Great Impersonation, by E. P. Oppenheim [#14][grmprxxx.xxx]5815
[Full author: E. Phillips Oppenheim]
Jun 2004 Following the Equator, by Twain, Illust. v7[MT#73][mt7eqxxx.xxx]5814
Jun 2004 Following the Equator, by Twain, Illust. v6[MT#72][mt6eqxxx.xxx]5813
Jun 2004 Following the Equator, by Twain, Illust. v5[MT#71][mt5eqxxx.xxx]5812
Jun 2004 Following the Equator, by Twain, Illust. v4[MT#70][mt4eqxxx.xxx]5811
Jun 2004 Following the Equator, by Twain, Illust. v3[MT#69][mt3eqxxx.xxx]5810
Jun 2004 Following the Equator, by Twain, Illust. v2[MT#68][mt2eqxxx.xxx]5809
Jun 2004 Following the Equator, by Twain, Illust. v1[MT#67][mt1eqxxx.xxx]5808
[Author: Mark Twain]
(Note: the above seven files are posted in zipped HTML only, with images)
May 2004 The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan, WB Laughead[bunyaxxx.xxx]5800
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Aug 2004 The Trespasser, by G. Parker, Complete [GP#49][gp49wxxx.xxx]6222
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Aug 2004 At Sign Of The Eagle, by G. Parker, [GP#45][gp45wxxx.xxx]6218
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AMAZON CHANGES ITS TUNE ON PRIVACY POLICY
E-commerce giant Amazon has bowed to the wishes of a coalition of state
attorneys general and is changing its privacy policy to make it more
consumer-friendly. The changes mean the online retailer will provide
consumers with information on what specific personal data is being
collected, as well as examples of how it might be used. In addition, Amazon
says it will not sell its customer database to marketers and will close
some loopholes in its policy. Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly,
who spearheaded the group of 16 states and the District of Columbia, said
Internet sellers -- to handle consumer data carefully and confidentially."
However, Junkbusters president Jason Catlett dismissed the changes as
mostly cosmetic and called for an independent audit of Amazon's practices.
Meanwhile, a report by Forrester Research estimates that consumers'
concerns over privacy cost online retailers $15 billion in lost sales in
2001. "It's still right up there on the front of consumers' minds, so
anything Amazon and others can do to soothe those fears is important," says
Forrester analyst Christopher Kelley. (E-Commerce Times 27 Sep 2002)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/19525.html
E-MAIL IT TO THE JUDGE
County officials in Yakima, Washington, are setting up a program that will
enable citizens who've received traffic tickets to e-mail their
explanations and excuses to a judge rather than sit in traffic court for
hours waiting their turn. Judges will then have a choice of e-mailing their
replies or responding via old-fashioned postcard. (AP 29 Sep 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020929/D7MBH7NG0.html
IDC, the technology research firm, is predicting that within just three
years, the number of e-mail messages sent worldwide will increase from the
current level of 31 billion daily to more than 60 billion daily. Most of it
will be spam (unsolicited commercial messages), and if the problem of spam
is not dealt with by more effective message-filtering, the usefulness of
e-mail as an effective business and personal communications tool will be
endangered. IDC executive Mark Levitt says, "Like water flowing out of a
hose, e-mail has the potential to fill our inboxes and workdays,
overwhelming our abilities to navigate through the growing currents of
content." (VNUNet 30 Sep 2002)
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1135485
WIRELESS 'WARDRIVING'
Secret Service agents in Washington are driving the city's streets (in an
effort called "wardriving") to detect security holes in wireless
communications systems. Special Agent Wayne Peterson says, "Everybody wants
wireless, it's real convenient. Security has always been an afterthought."
He regards what he is doing as a normal part of police work, and compares
it to a patrolman driving through a neighborhood to make sure everyone is
safe. When he or his colleagues find a security gap, they report it to the
companies that operate the vulnerable wireless networks, so that the
problem can be fixed. The Secret Service calls security holes in wireless
communications systems one of the most overlooked threats to computer
networks. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 30 Sep 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4181308.htm
CHINA REFUSES TO ACCEPT U.S. ELECTRONIC JUNK
Customs officials in China's Zhejiang province have said they will not
accept receipt of 400 tons of electronic trash -- scrap computer monitors,
keyboards, copiers and color TV sets -- that arrived two weeks ago and has
sat unclaimed. The 22 containers, each 40 feet long, were marked
"electronic products." "As the address and telephone number on the shipping
bills are fake, we believe this is most likely a deliberate move to
transfer electronic garbage," said one official. Such items are banned
under Chinese law from entering the country, and the containers will be
returned to where they came from, said the official. (AP 26 Sep 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020926/D7M9K5BO0.html
CALIFORNIA SUES BULK MAILER
Under a four-year-old anti-spam law that has had little success in
controlling unsolicited bulk commercial mail ("spam") over the Internet,
California's attorney general has filed a $2 million lawsuit against the PW
Marketing Group for sending millions of spam messages, and for failing to
include in their messages a valid return address, as required by the law.
Calls to PW Marketing have not been returned. To explain the failure to
produce more successes over the four years in which the law has been in
effect, a spokesperson for Bill Lockyer, the California attorney general,
says that anti-spam lawsuits are "difficult, complex cases, and
time-consuming." (San Jose Mercury News 26 Sep 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4158970.htm
MUSIC ARTISTS SLAM DOWNLOADING
Record labels are using the talents of dozens of big-name recording stars,
including Madonna, Sting and Britney Spears, in a multi-million-dollar ad
campaign designed to shame people out of illegally swapping their songs.
"Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD?" asks Spears. "It's the same
thing -- people going into the computers and logging on and stealing our
music." The new ad campaign is one facet of a multipronged approach aimed
at quashing illegal file-swapping. The Recording Industry Association of
America has also sued several file-swapping sites, threatened to crack down
on companies and individual file-swappers, and lobbied for legislation that
would mandate anti-copying technology in new products. Meanwhile, a KPMG
study recently released said that instead of fighting Internet piracy, the
recording industry would be better served by devoting more time to
developing new Internet business models. (CNet News.com 25 Sep 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959537.html
ALBUM LAUNCHES IN STORES AND ON THE WEB SIMULTANEOUSLY
Music artist Peter Gabriel is exploring ways to incorporate legitimate
music downloading into the distribution strategy for his latest album,
"Up." On Tuesday, at the same time CDs were arriving at music stores to be
sold, the album was also available online as a hi-fidelity download
embellished with several security features to prevent unauthorized sharing.
The online album is priced at $9.99 while the CD version carries a list
price of $18.98. The downloaded version can be transferred to digital audio
players supporting Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format and can also be
burned up to two times on blank CDs. While some popular singles have been
offered for sale online in the recent past, Gabriel's is the first
full-length release from a major artist. (AP 26 Sep 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020926/D7M9GBP82.html
HACKING BY ANY OTHER NAME
A new debate in Congress over legislation proposed by Howard Berman
(D-Calif.) will have to struggle to find a definition of the word
"hacking." Berman's bill would give the recording industry the right to use
network software to inspect people's personal computer files to make sure
they do not contain copyrighted music. The congressman says there is "no
question" that the "vast majority" of peer-to-peer downloads constitute
copyright infringement, but opponents of the Berman bill say it goes too
far in invading the rights of individuals. Wayne State University professor
and computer security expert Jessica Litman says of the proposed
impair the integrity of files, it gets a complete free pass, and if it does
impair the integrity of files, it gets a qualified cheap pass." Stan
Lebowitz, a management professor at University of Texas-Dallas, comments:
"Spoofing seems like a legitimate technique for them to use. Hacking,
however, seems to go to far" -- and notes that what the bill allows "would
still qualify as hacking, under most laws and in most people's minds." (USA
Today 25 Sep 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-09-25-hack_x.htm
'SHAREWARE' PIONEER DIES
Bob Wallace, who helped pioneer computer "shareware," has died in his home
in San Rafael, California, at age 53, of unknown causes. Shareware (a term
coined by Jay Lucas) is software that is being distributed free or for a
nominal copying charge. In the early 1980s, he copyrighted his PC-Write
word processing program and offered it as shareware, inviting satisfied
customers to then register the program for $75 and obtain a printed copy of
the manual. He said, "If I make enough money to live on, I will continue
the experiment. If not, I will approach software publishers to see if they
are interested in marketing a PC-Write II version of the program for me
commercially." As one of the earliest Microsoft employees, he was
eventually worth as much as $15 million, but he maintained a "flower child"
not a killing." (New York Times 26 Sep 2002)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/26/obituaries/26WALL.html
BILL AIMED TG PROTECT CONSUMERS' DIGITAL MEDIA RIGHTS
New legislation called the "Digital Choice and Freedom Act" is being
introduced in Congress by Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) to ensure that consumers
may legally copy CDs, DVDs, and other digital works for their personal use,
just as they do now with TV shows and audio tapes. Paula Samuelson, a law
professor at University of California-Berkeley's Boalt Hall, says:
"Lofgren's bill aims to restore what Congress thought it was doing [when it
passed the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act] -- preserving fair use
for people who have lawful rights to use stuff. The Lofgren bill offers
meaningful protections for a number of ordinary activities by consumers
that should be lawful under copyright law but about which the law is
presently ambiguous." (San Jose Mercury News 1 Oct 2002)
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SECRET SERVICE EXPOSING UNSECURED WIRELESS NETWORKS
In an effort to inform businesses about lax security on their wireless
networks, agents from the Secret Service are wandering the streets of
Washington, D.C., looking for unprotected wireless networks. Using a
laptop, a wireless card, and one of several antennae--one made from a
Pringles can--agents drive through city streets, checking for access to
networks. Chris McFarland of the Secret Service's Electronic Crimes
Task Force said that "people can wreak havoc with [unprotected
wireless] systems." Special Agent Wayne Peterson said that on a recent
trip down one street, they found more than 20 networks, many without
any security at all. Peterson said he sees the work of securing such
networks as an important step in preventing crime.
Associated Press, 29 September 2002 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/555541p-4378549c.html
BILL INTRODUCED TO LIMIT WEBCASTING FEES
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee, introduced a bill Thursday that would grant a six-month
reprieve to Webcasters from paying royalties for online music. The
royalties, which were established by the Librarian of Congress in June,
have been the topic of heated debate between the recording industry and
Webcasters, with neither side especially happy. The recording industry
argued for higher fees, while many small Webcasters say the royalty
rate established in June will force them out of business. Webcasters
were pleased by Sensenbrenner's bill, which apparently is intended to
allow a legal challenge to the fees to be finalized before they go into
effect on October 20.
IDG, 27 September 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_952753_1794_9-10000.html
UNIVERSITY SAYS STUDENT-GROUP WEB SITE VIOLATES PATRIOT ACT
The University of California at San Diego has sent a letter to a
student group requesting that the group remove a link from its site to
the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), a Columbian
military group. According to the letter, the student group is in
violation of the USA Patriot Act and university policy, which forbid
providing "material support or resources" to a "foreign terrorist
organization." The FARC is one of 34 organizations identified by the
U.S. State Department as terrorist groups. An official from the
university said a private citizen had contacted the school, protesting
the link to the FARC site and pointing out its apparent illegality. The
student group has refused to remove the link, and several civil
liberties groups support them. A representative from the Electronic
Frontier Foundation said the Web link to the FARC probably does not fit
the criteria of the law, which, he said, is designed to prevent
donations of money rather than free speech.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 September 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/09/2002092703t.htm
HOUSE PASSES BILL WITH EXPANSION OF FAIR USE
The House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill that
includes language that would expand the fair use of copyrighted
material in academic settings. The language was originally part of the
Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act, which
passed the Senate last year. Specifically, the bill would allow
online-education instructors to use recordings of dramatic literary and
musical works under fair-use provisions of copyright law. A conference
committee from the House and the Senate will now decide if the
copyright language remains in the appropriations bill, which must have
President Bush's signature before it goes into effect.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 September 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/09/2002092701t.htm
CHINESE GOVERNMENT CRACKS DOWN ON FREE SPEECH
Chinese officials have formally arrested Chen Shaowen, who was first
detained in August, for putting essays on the Internet critical of the
Chinese government. The arrest is the latest in a series of actions by
Communist Party officials trying to restrict what it sees as improper
content available online. In recent weeks the government has blocked
access to Google and AltaVista from inside China and prevented Chinese
Internet users from seeing Web sites run by human rights groups. Chen
has been charged with subversion, a charge that has in the past led to
sentences of up to 13 years for those convicted. A letter from the
Committee to Protect Journalists to Chinese President Jiang Zemin calls
for Chen's release, pointing out that his actions are protected by the
Chinese constitution.
San Jose Mercury News, 25 September 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4149635.htm
NEW TOOL ALLOWS BLIND TO READ MAPS
Students in a software engineering class at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill--with help from the professor--have developed a
tool that blind and visually impaired people can use to read maps. The
Blind Audio Tactile Mapping System (BATS) uses a trackball to move a
cursor around on a map. As the cursor passes over different parts of
the map, the system plays audio information so the user can "read" the
map. For example, names of places on the map are pronounced by a voice
synthesizer. When the cursor goes over water, the user hears the sound
of crashing waves; over land, the user hears horses galloping. The
professor teaching the class in which the tool was developed said it
could become an open-source application, and it can be downloaded now
from the project's site (http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/bats/).
Wired News, 25 September 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54916,00.html
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Billy Tauzin (R-La.) has proposed requiring television broadcasters to
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analog transmissions by the end of that year. Members of the television
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CNET, 18 September 2002
BREAKING THE SPEED OF LIGHT, ON A BUDGET
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by an oscilloscope, moves at 4 billion kilometers per hour. Bill
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[Also posted HTML 8hsgr10h.htm and .zip]
Jun 2004 Travels in West Africa, by Mary H. Kingsley [trwaxxx.xxx]5891
(Plain text in trwa10.txt/.zip, XHTML in trwa10h.htm/.zip]
Jun 2004 Games for Hallow-e'en, by Mary E. Blain [gmshlxxx.xxx]5890
Jun 2004 The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler, Steven E. Jones [cookrxxx.xxx]5889C
Jun 2004 Crime and Corruption, Sam Vaknin [#9][cracoxxx.xxx]5888C
(Plain text in craco10.txt/.zip, RTF in craco10r.rtf/.zip)
Jun 2004 The Labour Divide, Sam Vaknin [#8][ldivixxx.xxx]5887C
(Plain text in ldivi10.txt/.zip, RTF in ldivi10r.rtf/.zip)
Jun 2004 String Quartet in F Major, Op. 74 no.2, Haydn [#3][fh011xxx.zip]5886
[Author: Franz Joseph Haydn]
(Finale .MUS format for sheet music and performance in fh01110m.zip)
(MusicXML in fh01110x.zip)
Jun 2004 P&F in E-Flat Major, Op. 99 no.3, Saint-Saens [#1][cs993xxx.xxx]5885
[Full title: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, Op. 99 no.3]
[Author: Camille Saint-Saens]
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(MusicXML in cs99310x.zip, PDF)
Jun 2004 The Flying Saucers are Real (audio), Donald Keyhoe[fsaraxxx.xxx]5884C
(Copyrighted audio performances in fsar1103.mp3, fsar2103.mp3, fsar3103.mp3;
(fsara103.zip contains all 3 parts, plus fsara3-readme.txt with the copyright
(notice.)
Jun 2004 The Flying Saucers are Real, by Donald Keyhoe [tfsarxxx.xxx]5883
(Plain text in tfsar10.txt/.zip, HTML in tfsar10h.htm/.zip)
Jun 2004 A District Messenger Boy and a Necktie Party[JO#2][dmessxxx.xxx]5882
[Author's Full Name: James Otis, a.k.a. James Otis Kaler]
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1909 [#5][?va09xxx.xxx]5881
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1865 [#4][?va65xxx.xxx]5880
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1862 [#3][?va62xxx.xxx]5879
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1858 [#2][?va58xxx.xxx]5878
Jun 2004 Reina Valera New Testament of the Bible 1602 [#1][8va02xxx.xxx]5877
[Language: Spanish]
[Series note: These editions of the Spanish Valera Bible differ mainly
[in orthography, and are based on the same source from the year 1602]
(7-bit version with non-accented characters start with '7', if available)
(8-bit version with accented characters start with '8')
Jun 2004 The Rover Roys on the Ocean, by A. Winfield [ES#6][rbocexxx.xxx]5875
[Author: Arthur M. Winfield] [Author AKA: Edward Stratemeyer]
Jun 2004 Dawn, by Eleanor H. Porter [Porter#6][dwnprxxx.xxx]5874
Jun 2004 Farewell, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#97][frwllxxx.xxx]5873
(See also:
(Dec 1998 Adieu, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac #47][adieuxxx.xxx]1554)
(which is a different translation of the same original.)
Jun 2004 Cashel Byron's Profession, by G. B. Shaw [#36][cshbpxxx.xxx]5872
Jun 2004 Green Fancy, by George Barr McCutcheon [GBM#7][grnfnxxx.xxx]5871
Jun 2004 Hidden Treasures, by John Thomas Simpson [hddntxxx.xxx]5870
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Jun 2004 Son of a Hero, by James Oliver Curwood[Curwood#10][snhroxxx.xxx]5867
Jun 2004 Yollop, by George Barr McCutcheon [McCutcheon#6][yllopxxx.xxx]5866
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v6 [USG#9][mug6wxxh.zip]5865
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v5 [USG#8][mug5wxxh.zip]5864
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v4 [USG#7][mug4wxxh.zip]5863
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v3 [USG#6][mug3wxxh.zip]5862
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v2 [USG#5][mug2wxxh.zip]5861
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Grant, Illustrated, v1 [USG#4][mug1wxxh.zip]5860
[Author: Ulysses S. Grant]
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Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v4 [SHD#7][shd4wxxh.zip]5857
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v3 [SHD#6][shd3wxxh.zip]5856
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v2 [SHD#5][shd2wxxh.zip]5855
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sheridan, Illust. v1 [SHD#4][shd1wxxh.zip]5854
[Author: Philip H. Sheridan]
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Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sherman, Illust. v2 [SHR#5][shr2wxxh.zip]5851
Jun 2004 Memoirs of General Sherman, Illust. v1 [SHR#4][shr1wxxh.zip]5850
[Author: William T. Sherman]
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Jun 2004 The Philosophy of Style, by Herbert Spencer [?philxxx.xxx]5849
(7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7phil10.txt/.zip)
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[Language: English]
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[Author's Full Name: Thornton W. Burgess]
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[Author above seven eBooks: Mark Twain]
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A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project indicates that
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that students use the Internet for research more often than they used
the library, but they also use it for communication, both with peers
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Jul 2004 Northern Lights, by G. Parker, v3 [GP#16][gp16wxxx.xxx]6188
Jul 2004 Northern Lights, by G. Parker, v2 [GP#15][gp15wxxx.xxx]6187
Jul 2004 Northern Lights, by G. Parker, v1 [GP#14][gp14wxxx.xxx]6186
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Also, the two between the *'s immediately below came in after the deadline,
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[Author's Full Name: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith]
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Jun 2004 Helping Himself, by Horatio Alger [Alger#19][hlpngxxx.xxx]5833
[Subtitle: Or, Grant Thornton's Ambition]
Jun 2004 Recalled to Life, by Grant Allen [Allen#6][rclldxxx.xxx]5832
Jun 2004 The Riches of Bunyan, by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin [thrchxxx.xxx]5831
Jun 2004 A Garland for Girls,byLouisa May Alcott[Alcott#14][grlndxxx.xxx]5830
Jun 2004 The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair [Sinclair#16][?monyxxx.xxx]5829
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mony10.txt and 7mony10.zip]
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Jun 2004 In the Pecos Country, Lieutenant R.H. Jayne[ESE#2][pecosxxx.xxx]5828
[Author AKA: Edward Sylvester Ellis]
Jun 2004 The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell [#4][prphixxx.xxx]5827
Jun 2004 The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 [dimd1xxx.xxx]5826
[Author AKA: Frances Burney]
[Subtitle: With notes by W.C. Ward and Prefaced by Lord Macaulay's Essay]
Jun 2004 The Courage of the Commonplace, by M. Andrews [courcxxx.xxx]5825
[Author's Full Name: Mary Raymond Shipley Andrews]
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v7 [MT#80][mt7gaxxh.xxx]5824
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v6 [MT#79][mt6gaxxh.xxx]5823
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v5 [MT#78][mt5gaxxh.xxx]5822
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v4 [MT#77][mt4gaxxh.xxx]5821
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v3 [MT#76][mt3gaxxh.xxx]5820
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v2 [MT#75][mt2gaxxh.xxx]5819
Jun 2004 The Gilded Age, by Twain/Warner Illust. v1 [MT#74][mt1gaxxh.xxx]5818
[Author for above seven eBooks: Mark Twain and C.D. Warner]
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[Full title: Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria From the Journals and Letters
of William John Wills. Edited by his Father William Wills.]
Jun 2004 The Great Impersonation, by E. P. Oppenheim [#14][grmprxxx.xxx]5815
[Full author: E. Phillips Oppenheim]
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Headlines From Newsscan
[Sorry, this came in just as I was finishing up last week's Newsletter]
As part of a wider clamp-down on the ability of Chinese citizens to use the
Internet to learn about the world beyond the country's "Great Firewall,"
Chinese authorities have blocked access to Google. The Google search engine
is especially popular in China because it can run Chinese-language searches.
(San Jose Mercury News
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3996250.htm
[BTW, I already have received email from China asking for workarounds]
COMPUTER MOUSE FOR THE BLIND
Scientists at Scotland's Glasgow University have developed a mouse that
vibrates when it passes over a line on a graph, giving the user tactile
feedback that can help make sense of data charts. "The technique is a very
good way of presenting information to blind and sighted people," says
researcher Mike Burton. Comparing the vibrating mouse to electronic
Braille, Burton says one of the most daunting tasks facing visually
impaired people is trying to assimilate information displayed as an
overview of data or events. To reinforce the tactile feedback, Glasgow
scientists also developed sound graphs that use the lines on a graph to
represent sequential tones that vary in pitch based on whether the line is
ascending or descending. "You can get across quite complex information just
using sound," says fellow researcher Stephen Brewster. (Reuters 9 Sep 2002)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D24032CB1
BEWARE THE 'PREDATORS OF DIGITAL FREEDOMS'?
Reporters Without Borders, an international media-rights group, has accused
several Western democracies of becoming "predators of digital freedoms" in
their efforts to increase surveillance on the Internet as part of their
fight against terrorism. "A year after the tragic events in New York and
Washington, the Internet can be included on the list of 'collateral
damage,'" said the group in a report. "Cyber-liberty has been undermined
and fundamental digital freedoms have been amputated." The report cites
recent moves to weaken individual privacy laws in the U.S., Britain,
France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Denmark, as well as the European
Parliament, that risk turning ISPs and telecommunications operators in
those countries "into potential branches of the police." The report's
findings mirror those in another report earlier this week issued by the
Electronic Privacy Information Forum and Privacy International, which note
that governments worldwide have made it easier for authorities to eavesdrop
on telephone and online conversations in order to fight terror. (AP 5 Sep 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020905/D7LRJR200.html
[more]
GUILT-BY-ASSOCIATION?
Law enforcement officials in Wilmington, Delaware are being criticized by
privacy advocates for putting digital photos and other information into a
database of associates of suspected drug dealers rounded up in rough
neighborhoods. A Wilmington public defender calls it "guilt by association"
putting into a database photographs of people whose only crime is being in
the wrong place at the wrong time. It^Rs bad law enforcement, and it's bad
come into our city to take in a ballgame or dine at a restaurant or go to a
theater, you likely won't know about these corner patrols. But if you come
to sell drugs or drink alcohol on the corner or just be a general nuisance,
you're going to see us." (USA Today 4 Sep 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002-09-04-wilmington_x.htm
DO ME A FAVOR, OPEN THE DOOR, AND LET 'EM IN, OOH YEAH
So just who is that knocking that door and ringing that bell? In Hamilton
County, Ohio, trouble has flowed from the decision of the clerk of courts
to make all public records freely available on the Web. (They were already
available to anyone who would go to the county courthouse.) The official
is scanned and available. It was very easy to open the door to the public."
And so now anyone can look on the Web to see anyone else^Rs state tax liens,
arrest warrants, bond posting, etc. People are searching the records to
find out the dirt on their neighbors -- or just to get copies of the floor
plans of their houses. Bank executive Jim Moehring says, "You do kind of
feel like Big Brother because you can look right in and get into what
were walking into a hornet^Rs next until after we were under way. "
(New York Times 5 Sep 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/technology/circuits/05CINC.html
[It was obviously OK when only those familiar with the legal system
could do this, but these people want to be the ONLY ones with access.]
SENATOR CRITICIZES COPYRIGHT BILL
Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) is pulling his support for the proposed
Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002 because of last-minute changes made
to the legislation before it came to a committee vote. The bill originally
targeted large-scale operations that counterfeit "physical features" such
fake Windows holograms or the special packaging used to certify software,
CDs or DVDs as authentic. But the revised version covers "any feature" used
to guarantee authenticity, including technology used in digital rights
management. "Opening this legislation to the digital realm has caused the
virtually unanimous industry support behind it to evaporate, and it has
raised a host of troubling liability issues that cause substantial harm to
Internet service providers," says Allen, who chairs the Senate Republican
High Tech Task Force. Companies now opposing the bill include Verizon,
Microsoft, Apple, eBay and Yahoo, all of whom have voiced their concern
over a section that prohibits "trafficking" in or redistributing files that
contain compromised digital watermarks. They fear the new language opens up
ISPs to prosecution if their subscribers send such files. The revised
version has "divided the community, so to speak, the industry, and went far
afield from the original intent of the bill," says an Allen spokesman. The
version has "divided the community, so to speak, the industry, and went far
afield from the original intent of the bill," says an Allen spokesman. The
bill is set for a full Senate vote, which could come at anytime. (CNet
News.com 5 Sep 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-956811.html?tag=fd_top
ATTITUDES ABOUT RESTRICTIONS OF INFORMATION ON THE WEB
An opinion survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project
found that two-thirds of Americans think it's appropriate for government
agencies to exclude some information from their Internet postings, and
about half think it's all right for government to monitor Web and e-mail
activities. David Greene of the First Amendment Project in Oakland,
has always prided itself on open access of information is now so scared of
what open access to information means. People think, 'I'm not going to
poison the water system, so what do I need to know about the water supply
system?' But if all of a sudden they are part of an effort to restrict
development of a watershed and need that data ... all of a sudden it's
important." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 5 Sep 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4010483.htm
INTEL'S 'LEGRANDE' VISION FOR SECURE CHIPS
Intel is planning to build security features into its microprocessors next
year, in a move aimed at thwarting computer viruses and malicious hackers.
The technology, dubbed LeGrande, initially will be included in Prescott,
the code name for a new Pentium chip due out the second half of 2003. The
idea of using secure chips, in addition to software, isn't new, but gained
wider attention this summer when Microsoft announced its Palladium security
initiative, which it hopes to develop in conjunction with Intel and chip
rival Advanced Micro Devices. Unlike Palladium, however, the LeGrande
technology will work with operating systems other than Microsoft Windows.
The technology works by partitioning off areas of the computer's hard drive
into protected areas called "vaults," and protecting the pathways between
the vaults and keyboards, monitors and other peripherals. (Wall Street
Journal 10 Sep 2002)
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VERIZON REFUSES TO DISCLOSE USER'S IDENTITY
Arguing that its customers have a constitutional right to privacy,
Verizon Communications is refusing to reveal the identity of one of its
users to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The RIAA
sent a subpoena to Verizon, saying that it had discovered the Internet
address of a user who was trading in pirated music and wanted Verizon
to reveal that user's identity. The company refused on the grounds
that the request for information was overly broad, based on nothing
more than an allegation of wrongdoing. A spokesperson for Verizon said
the company does not condone piracy, but that as a provider of Internet
connections, Verizon is not responsible for the actions of its users.
The RIAA complains that Verizon refuses to police its users while also
refusing to disclose information that would allow the RIAA or others to do so.
Washington Post, 5 September 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38034-2002Sep4.html
MIGRATING TO A NEW PC SHOULD BE SIMPLE
Ten companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Intel, and Symantec, announced
they have created a new work group focused on reducing the cost and
complexity of migrating to a new PC. Gartner research from 2000
indicated that a streamlined migration plan could save an organization
as much as $124, or 55 percent, per computer. The PC Migration Work
Group will strive to raise awareness of existing products that help
users transfer files and data to new machines, and to develop standards
that will facilitate easier migration. According to the chair of the
work group, migration companies now have a hard time picking apart
applications and data to be transferred. Standards that software
vendors could apply to their code could make the migration process
significantly simpler, with fewer chances for problems.
NewsFactor Network, 5 September 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19320.html
AOL ADDRESSES SECURITY CONCERNS FOR INSTANT MESSENGER
Despite the potential usefulness of AOL Instant Messenger technology,
many organizations refuse to allow it because of concerns over its
security. Officials from AOL hope that the release of a new version of
the application will answer many of those complaints and will persuade
many organizations to adopt the technology. The release, Enterprise
AIM, gives security personnel control over Instant Messenger, including
who can use it and what the messages can be about, and permits
encryption of messages. Some observers noted that even as an insecure
product, Instant Messenger has a strong user base, suggesting that a
large, untapped demand exists for a secure version.
NewsFactor Network, 9 September 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19349.html
NEW ATTRACTIONS TO DRAW STUDENTS INTO COLLEGE LIBRARIES
Many college and university librarians have modified long-standing
policies and upgraded facilities in an attempt to lure students into
libraries, away from Internet-connected dorm rooms. After years of
prohibiting food and drinks, the University of North Texas library now
has a Starbucks in a common area. Food and drinks are now allowed in
almost all of the library. The University of Richmond added more
comfortable chairs and computer workstations to its library and saw an
18 percent increase in the number of students visiting the library.
Samuel Demas of Carleton College in Minnesota said his institution has
implemented art exhibits and literary events to draw students into the
library. He said the events recalled a time when the library was the
academic and social center of the campus.
Associated Press, 9 September 2002 (registration req'd)
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/529233p-4191803c.html
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May 2004 Consid. of a Representative Govt, John S Mill [#2][conrgxxx.xxx]5669
[Considerations of a Representative Government by John Stuart Mill]
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May 2004 Consid. on Representative Govt, John S Mill [#2][conrgxxx.xxx]5669
[Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill]
Feb 2004 String Quarted in C Major, Op. 71 no. 1, Haydn[#2][fh741xxx.xxx]5188
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Feb 2004 String Quartet in C Major, Op. 71 no. 1, Haydn[#2][fh741xxx.xxx]5188
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[Authors: Heyse, Paul; Lindau, Rudolph; Von Sacher-Masoch, Leopold;]
[ Baumbach, Rudolph; Hoffmann, E.T.A.; Zschokke, Heinrich]
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May 2004 Grosse Fuge (for String Quartet), op. 133 [LVB #5][lv133xxx.xxx]5634
May 2004 String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Schubert[1][s1251xxx.xxx]5627
Feb 2004 Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050[2][jbbb5xxx.xxx]5190
Feb 2004 String Quartet C minor, Op. 51 no. 1, J. Brahms[1][jb511xxx.xxx]5189
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Jul 2004 Romany Of The Snows, by Parker, Complete [GP#13][gp13wxxx.xxx]6185
[Full Title: A Romany Of The Snows][Author: Gilbert Parker]
[Subtitle: Being A Continuation Of The Personal Histories Of Pierre And His
People, And The Last Existing Records Of Pretty Pierre]
[Contains: Ebooks #6080-6084 with the Contents Listed Below.]
Jul 2004 Romany Of The Snows, by G. Parker, v5 [GP#12][gp12wxxx.xxx]6184
Contents:
The Cruise Of The "Ninety-nine"
A Romany Of The Snows
The Plunderer
Jul 2004 Romany Of The Snows, by G. Parker, v4 [GP#11][gp11wxxx.xxx]6183
Contents:
Little Babiche
At Point O' Bugles
The Spoil Of The Puma
The Trail Of The Sun Dogs
The Pilot Of Belle Amour
Jul 2004 Romany Of The Snows, by G. Parker, v3 [GP#10][gp10wxxx.xxx]6182
Contents:
The Bridge House
The Epaulettes
The House With The Broken Shutter
The Finding Of Fingall
Three Commandments In The Vulgar Tongue
Jul 2004 Romany Of The Snows, by G. Parker, v2 [GP#09][gp09wxxx.xxx]6181
Contents:
Malachi
The Lake Of The Great Slave
The Red Patrol
The Going Of The White Swan
At Bamber's Boom
Jul 2004 Romany Of The Snows, by G. Parker, v1 [GP#08][gp08wxxx.xxx]6180
Contents:
Across The Jumping Sandhills
A Lovely Bully
The Filibuster
The Gift Of The Simple King
Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by Parker, Complete [GP#07][gp07wxxx.xxx]6179
[Subtitle: Tales Of The Far North][Author: Gilbert Parker]
[Contains: Ebooks #6074-6078 with the Contents Listed Below.]
Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V5 [GP#06][gp06wxxx.xxx]6178
Contents:
Antoine And Angelique
The Cipher
A Tragedy Of Nobodies
A Sanctuary Of The Plains
Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V4 [GP#05][gp05wxxx.xxx]6177
Contents:
The Tall Master
The Crimson Flag
The Flood
In Pipi Valley
Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V3 [GP#04][gp04wxxx.xxx]6176
Contents:
Shon Mcgann's Tobogan Ride
Pere Champagne
The Scarlet Hunter
The Stone
Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V2 [GP#03][gp03wxxx.xxx]6175
Contents:
A Prairie Vagabond
She Of The Triple Chevron
Three Outlaws
Jul 2004 Pierre And His People, by G. Parker, V1 [GP#02][gp02wxxx.xxx]6174
Contents:
The Patrol Of The Cypress Hills
God's Garrison
A Hazard Of The North
Please Note: The Above Are From A New Series From the 6100's to 6300
The Below Are From the 5700's and 5500's [another series,
started a while ago, just now being completed.
Jun 2004 Sylvia's Marriage, by Upton Sinclair [Sinclair#15][sylvmxxx.xxx]5807
Jun 2004 The Pot Boiler, by Upton Sinclair [Sinclair#14][pboilxxx.xxx]5806
Jun 2004 The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, B. Orczy [5][lscapxxx.xxx]5805
[Author's Full Name: Baroness Emmuska Orczy]
Jun 2004 The Story of a Lamb on Wheels, by L. Hope [Hope#7][lambwxxx.xxx]5804
[Author's Full Name: Laura Lee Hope]
Jun 2004 Not that it Matters, by A. A. Milne [Milne#3][notmaxxx.xxx]5803
[Author of Winnie The Pooh, which is still under multiple copyright extension]
Jun 2004 San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856, Webb [sfvigxxx.xxx]5802
[Full Title: A Sketch of the Causes, Operations and Results of the San
Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856]
[Author's Full Name: Stephen Palfrey Webb]
Jun 2004 Huttens Letzte Tage, by C.F. Meyer [CFM#2][?huttxxx.xxx]5801
[Author AKA: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7hutt10.txt and 7hutt10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8hutt10.txt and 8hutt10.zip]
[Yes, we skipped #5800 in case someone has a special item for that number]
May 2004 Thomas Henry Huxley Vol. 3, by Leonard Huxley [#3][llth3xxx.xxx]5799
[Title: The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3]
May 2004 The Beautiful Lady, by Booth Tarkington [BT#13][btfllxxx.xxx]5798
May 2004 Youth Challenges, by Clarence B Kelland [ythchxxx.xxx]5797
May 2004 Journeys Through Bookland V2, Charles H. Sylvester[blnd2xxx.xxx]5796
Contents:
Aesop
The Falcon And The Partridge (From The Arabian Nights)
Minerva And The Owl
The Sparrow And The Eagle (From The Arabian Nights)
The Old Man And Death
Infant Joy, by William Blake
The Baby, by George Macdonald
The Discontented Stonecutter (From The Japanese)
Discreet Hans, by Wilhelm And Jakob Grimm
The Poppyland Express, St. Louis Star Sayings
Bluebeard
Lullaby
Rumpelstiltzkin, by Jakob And Wilhelm Grimm
The Mirror Of Matsuyana (From The Japanese)
A Contrast
The Golden Touch, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Child'S World, by W. B. Rands
The Fir Tree, by Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Picture Books In Winter, by Robert Louis Stevenson
How The Wolf Was Bound, Adapted By Anna Mccaleb
The Death Of Balder, Adapted By Anna Mccaleb
The Punishment Of Loki, Adapted By Anna Mccaleb
Seven Times One, by Jean Ingelow
Shuffle-Shoon And Amber-Locks, by Eugene Field
Afterwhile, by James Whitcomb Riley
Windy Nights, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen
The Chimera, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Visit Fbom St. Nicholas, by Clement C. Moore
The Story Of Phaethon
The English Robin, by Harrison Weir
Tom, The Water Baby, by Charles Kingsley
The Milkmaid, by Jeffreys Taylor
Holger Danske, by Hans Christian Andersen
What The Old Man Does Is Always Right, by Hans Christian Andersen
The Fairies Of Caldon-Low, by Mary Howitt
Who Stole The Bird'S Nest?, by L. Maria Child
The First Snowfall, by James Russell Lowell
The King Of The Golden River, by John Ruskin
The Story Of Esther
The Darling-Needle, by Hans Christian Andersen
The Potato, by Thomas Moore
The Queen Of The Underworld
Origin Of The Opal
In Time's Swing, by Lucy Larcom
Why The Sea Is Salt, by Mary Howitt
May 2004 The Secret Rose, by W. B. Yeats [Yeats#5][scrtrxxx.xxx]5795
May 2004 Rosa Alchemica, by W. B. Yeats [Yeats#4][rslcmxxx.xxx]5794
May 2004 Stories of Red Hanrahan, by W. B. Yeats [Yeats#3][rdhnrxxx.xxx]5793
May 2004 Stories Mother Nature Told, by Jane Andrews [stmtnxxx.xxx]5792
[Full title: The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children]
May 2004 Mrs. Peter Rabbit, by Thornton W. Burgess [TWB#11][mrsprxxx.xxx]5791
May 2004 Aria da Capo, by Edna St. Vincent Millay[Millay#5][rdcapxxx.xxx]5790
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May 2004 Early Melbourne & Victoria, by William Westgarth [rlmbvxxx.xxx]5789
[Full title: Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria]
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May 2004 A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain, Illust. v5 [MT#64][mt5trxxh.zip]5786
May 2004 A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain, Illust. v4 [MT#63][mt4trxxh.zip]5785
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May 2004 Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier [?lgmexxx.xxx]5781
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May 2004 The Rover Boys at School, Arthur M. Winfield[ES#5][rbschxxx.xxx]5780
[Author AKA: Edward Stratemeyer]
May 2004 The Crushed Flower and Other Stories, L. Andreyev [cflowxxx.xxx]5779
[Author's Full Name: Leonid Andreyev]
May 2004 Try and Trust, by Horatio Alger [Alger#18][trtrtxxx.xxx]5778
May 2004 Life's Handicap, by Rudyard Kipling [Kipling#21][lfshcxxx.xxx]5777
May 2004 100%: The Story of a Patriot, Upton Sinclair [#13][strptxxx.xxx]5776
May 2004 Problems of Conduct, by Durant Drake [prbcnxxx.xxx]5775
May 2004 They Call Me Carpenter, by Upton Sinclair [US#12][clmcrxxx.xxx]5774
May 2004 Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, G. MacDonald[#16][nlqnbxxx.xxx]5773
[Full author: George MacDonald]
May 2004 AE in the Irish Theosophist,George William Russell[itheoxxx.xxx]5772
[Author AKA: AE]
May 2004 The Art of the Exposition, by Eugen Neuhaus [EN#2][artexxxx.xxx]5771
May 2004 The Rover Boys in the Jungle, by A. Winfield[ES#4][rbjunxxx.xxx]5770
[Author's Full Name: Arthur M. Winfield]
[Author AKA: Edward Stratemeyer]
May 2004 The Shagganappi, by E. Pauline Johnson [EPJ#3][shaggxxx.xxx]5769
May 2004 Free as in Freedom, Sam Williams [freedxxx.xxx]5768C
[Title: Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software]
May 2004 The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt[3][fdrfcxxx.xxx]5767
May 2004 Praetor's Lunch, by Dom [Dom #4][domprxxx.xxx]5766C
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May 2004 Insectivorous Plants, by Charles Darwin[Darwin#23][insecxxx.xxx]5765
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May 2004 Doctor Therne, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard#42][drthrxxx.xxx]5764
May 2004 Translation of Scientific Secrets, by Daniel Young[dmtssxxx.xxx]5763
[Full title: Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets]
May 2004 The Lau Language, by Walter G. Ivens [laulnxxx.xxx]5762
[Full title: Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language]
May 2004 Two Trips to Gorilla Land 2, Richard F. Burton[20][?gor2xxx.xxx]5761
[Full Title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo,
Volume 2, by Richard F. Burton]
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May 2004 Two Trips to Gorilla Land 1, Richard F. Burton[19][?gor1xxx.xxx]5760
[Full Title: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo,
Volume 1, by Richard F. Burton]
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May 2004 The Day of the Dog, by George Barr McCutcheon [#4][dftdgxxx.xxx]5759
May 2004 Many Cargoes, by W. W. Jacobs [mncrgxxx.xxx]5758
May 2004 The Maid of Maiden Lane, by Amelia E. Barr[Barr#3][mdmdnxxx.xxx]5757
May 2004 The Guest of Quesnay, by Booth Tarkington [BT#12][qsnayxxx.xxx]5756
May 2004 The Fool Errant, by Maurice Hewlett [flrrnxxx.xxx]5755
May 2004 Lysbeth, A Tale Of The Dutch,H. Rider Haggard[#41][lsbthxxx.xxx]5754
May 2004 St. George and St. Michael, by G. MacDonald [#15][ssgmcxxx.xxx]5753
May 2004 St. George and St. Michael V3, G. MacDonald [#14][ssgm3xxx.xxx]5752
May 2004 St. George and St. Michael V2, G. MacDonald [#13][ssgm2xxx.xxx]5751
May 2004 St. George and St. Michael V1, G. MacDonald [#12][ssgm1xxx.xxx]5750
May 2004 Comedies, by Ludvig Holberg [cmdhlxxx.xxx]5749
[Translated by Oscar James Campbell, Jr. and Frederic Schenck]
Contents:
Jeppe Of The Hill or The Transformed Peasant (Jeppe Paa Bierget)
The Political Tinker (Den Politiske Kandestober)
Erasmus Montanus or Rasmus Berg]
May 2004 In Secret, by Robert W. Chambers [Chambers#2][nscrtxxx.xxx]5748
May 2004 Do and Dare, by Horatio Alger, Jr [Alger#17][dnddrxxx.xxx]5747
May 2004 The Ancient Allan, by H. Rider Haggard[Haggard#40][?nctlxxx.xxx]5746
May 2004 She and Allan, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard#39][shllnxxx.xxx]5745
May 2004 The Fat and the Thin, by Emile Zola [Zola#9][ftthnxxx.xxx]5744
May 2004 The Evil Shepherd, by E. Phillips Oppenheim [#13][vlshpxxx.xxx]5743
May 2004 The Bird-Woman, by Katherine Chandler [bwmnlxxx.xxx]5742
[Title: The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition]
May 2004 Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian, by Various [s4fruxxx.xxx]5741
Contents:
Mumu, by Ivan Turgenev, Trans: Constance Garnett
The Shot, by Alexander Poushkin, Trans: T. Keane
St. John's Eve, by Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol, Trans: Isabel F. Hapgood
An Old Acquaintance, by Lyof N. Tolstoi, Trans: N. H. Dole
May 2004 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein[tlophxxx.xxx]5740
May 2004 A Korean--English Dictionary, Leon Kuperman [kedctxxx.xxx]5739C
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May 2004 Cappy Ricks, by Peter B. Kyne [cpyrkxxx.xxx]5738
May 2004 Smoke Bellew, by Jack London [Jack London #50][smkblxxa.xxx]5737
(See also previous version:
(Jan 1999 Smoke Bellew, by Jack London [Jack London #50][smkblxxx.xxx]1596)
May 2004 The Professional Aunt, by Mary C.E. Wemyss [pauntxxx.xxx]5736
May 2004 The Valley of the Giants, by Peter B. Kyne [vlgntxxx.xxx]5735
May 2004 Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal,S. Richardson[lfgnnxxx.xxx]5734
[Author: Sarah J Richardson]
May 2004 Autobiography, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [#36][?tbgtxxx.xxx]5733
[Translated by John Oxenford]
May 2004 Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue, Laura Lee Hope[#6][bnnbrxxx.xxx]5732
May 2004 Patty in Paris, by Carolyn Wells [Wells#5][pttypxxx.xxx]5731
May 2004 Friends and Helpers, by Sarah J. Eddy [frhlpxxx.xxx]5730
May 2004 Navy Girl at Home, by Gabrielle E. Jackson [nvghmxxx.xxx]5729
[Title: Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home]
May 2004 Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian, by Various [s4fitxxx.xxx]5728
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Pereat Rochus, by Antonio Fogazzaro, Trans: A. L. Frothingham, Jr.
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[Author's Full Name: Arthur Scott Bailey]
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[Author: H.E. Marshall]
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May 2004 Press Cuttings, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw#35][prsctxxx.xxx]5723
May 2004 The Shewing-Up Of Blanco Posnet, by Shaw [Gbs#34][shwbpxxx.xxx]5722
May 2004 A House Of Gentlefolk, by Ivan Turgenev [hsgtfxxx.xxx]5721
May 2004 A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman [shrpsxxx.xxx]5720
May 2004 Janice Meredith, by Paul Leicester Ford [jmerexxx.xxx]5719
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[Author's Full Name: J. Alexander Gunn]
May 2004 Memoirs, by Prince De Joinville [joinvxxx.xxx]5716
[Subtitle: Translated from the French by Lady Mary Loyd]
May 2004 The Campaign of Chancellorsville,Theodore A. Dodge[cchanxxx.xxx]5715
Feb 2004 String Quartet in C Major, Op. 71 no. 2, Haydn[#3][fh742xxx.xxx]5714
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May 2004 Stray Pearls, by Charlotte M. Yonge [Yonge#34][stprlxxx.xxx]5708
May 2004 The Boy Scout Aviators, by George Durston [bsvtrxxx.xxx]5707
May 2004 Time and Change, by John Burroughs [Burroughs#4][tmchgxxx.xxx]5706
May 2004 The Queen of Sheba/My Cousin the Colonel[Aldrich9][qsbccxxx.xxx]5705
[Full author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich]
May 2004 The Physiology of Marriage, by Balzac [HdB#96][phsmgxxx.xxx]5704
May 2004 The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life [Flint #3][ldqnlxxx.xxx]5703
[Full author: Homer Eon Flint]
May 2004 Masters of the Guild, by L. Lamprey [msgldxxx.xxx]5702
May 2004 The Tale of Fatty Coon, by Arthur Scott Bailey [fttcnxxx.xxx]5701
[Full title: Sleepy-Time Tales: The Tale of Fatty Coon]
May 2004 Love and Life, by Charlotte M. Yonge [Yonge#33][lvnlfxxx.xxx]5700
May 2004 The Emancipatrix, by Homer Eon Flint [Flint#2][mncpxxxx.xxx]5699
May 2004 Fanny's First Play, by George Bernard Shaw[GBS#33][fnfspxxx.xxx]5698
May 2004 Tales of Chinatown, by Sax Rohmer [Rohmer#7][tlsctxxx.xxx]5697
May 2004 Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter, by Alice Turner Curtis[ykgfsxxx.xxx]5696
May 2004 Jim Cummings, by Frank Pinkerton [jmcmmxxx.xxx]5695
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On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals, William Harvey,
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[Author's Full Name: Stephen Palfrey Webb]
Jun 2004 Huttens Letzte Tage, by C.F. Meyer [CFM#2][?huttxxx.xxx]5801
[Author AKA: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7hutt10.txt and 7hutt10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8hutt10.txt and 8hutt10.zip]
[Language: German]
[Yes, we skipped #5800 in case someone has a special item for that number]
May 2004 Thomas Henry Huxley Vol. 3, by Leonard Huxley [#3][llth3xxx.xxx]5799
[Title: The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3]
May 2004 The Beautiful Lady, by Booth Tarkington [BT#13][btfllxxx.xxx]5798
May 2004 Youth Challenges, by Clarence B Kelland [ythchxxx.xxx]5797
May 2004 Journeys Through Bookland V2, Charles H. Sylvester[blnd2xxx.xxx]5796
May 2004 The Secret Rose, by W. B. Yeats [Yeats#5][scrtrxxx.xxx]5795
May 2004 Rosa Alchemica, by W. B. Yeats [Yeats#4][rslcmxxx.xxx]5794
May 2004 Stories of Red Hanrahan, by W. B. Yeats [Yeats#3][rdhnrxxx.xxx]5793
May 2004 Stories Mother Nature Told, by Jane Andrews [stmtnxxx.xxx]5792
[Full title: The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children]
May 2004 Mrs. Peter Rabbit, by Thornton W. Burgess [TWB#11][mrsprxxx.xxx]5791
May 2004 Aria da Capo, by Edna St. Vincent Millay[Millay#5][rdcapxxx.xxx]5790
[Plain text in rdcap10.txt/.zip, Unicode UTF-8 in rdcap10u.txt/.zip]
May 2004 Early Melbourne & Victoria, by William Westgarth [rlmbvxxx.xxx]5789
[Full title: Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria]
New files posted in html (zip only with images):
May 2004 A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain, Illust. v7 [MT#66][mt7trxxh.zip]5788
May 2004 A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain, Illust. v6 [MT#65][mt6trxxh.zip]5787
May 2004 A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain, Illust. v5 [MT#64][mt5trxxh.zip]5786
May 2004 A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain, Illust. v4 [MT#63][mt4trxxh.zip]5785
May 2004 A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain, Illust. v3 [MT#62][mt3trxxh.zip]5784
May 2004 A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain, Illust. v2 [MT#61][mt2trxxh.zip]5783
May 2004 A Tramp Abroad, by Mark Twain, Illust. v1 [MT#60][mt1trxxh.zip]5782
May 2004 Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier [?lgmexxx.xxx]5781
[Author AKA Henri-Alban Fournier] [Language: French]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7lgme10.txt/ and 7lgme10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8lgme10.txt/.zip]
[HTML in 8lgme10h.htm/.zip]
May 2004 The Rover Boys at School, Arthur M. Winfield[ES#5][rbschxxx.xxx]5780
[Author AKA: Edward Stratemeyer]
May 2004 The Crushed Flower and Other Stories, L. Andreyev [cflowxxx.xxx]5779
[Author's Full Name: Leonid Andreyev]
May 2004 Try and Trust, by Horatio Alger [Alger#18][trtrtxxx.xxx]5778
May 2004 Life's Handicap, by Rudyard Kipling [Kipling#21][lfshcxxx.xxx]5777
May 2004 Problems of Conduct, by Durant Drake [prbcnxxx.xxx]5775
May 2004 They Call Me Carpenter, by Upton Sinclair [US#12][clmcrxxx.xxx]5774
May 2004 Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, G. MacDonald[#16][nlqnbxxx.xxx]5773
[Full author: George MacDonald]
May 2004 AE in the Irish Theosophist,George William Russell[itheoxxx.xxx]5772
[Author AKA: AE]
May 2004 The Art of the Exposition, by Eugen Neuhaus [EN#2][artexxxx.xxx]5771
May 2004 The Rover Boys in the Jungle, by A. Winfield[ES#4][rbjunxxx.xxx]5770
[Author's Full Name: Arthur M. Winfield]
[Author AKA: Edward Stratemeyer]
May 2004 The Shagganappi, by E. Pauline Johnson [EPJ#3][shaggxxx.xxx]5769
May 2004 Free as in Freedom, Sam Williams [freedxxx.xxx]5768C
[Title: Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software]
May 2004 The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt[3][fdrfcxxx.xxx]5767
May 2004 Praetor's Lunch, by Dom [Dom #4][domprxxx.xxx]5766C
(Plain text in dompr10.txt/.zip, RTF in dompr10r.rtf/.zip)
May 2004 Insectivorous Plants, by Charles Darwin[Darwin#23][insecxxx.xxx]5765
May 2004 Doctor Therne, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard#42][drthrxxx.xxx]5764
May 2004 Translation of Scientific Secrets, by Daniel Young[dmtssxxx.xxx]5763
[Full title: Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets]
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DOING LAUNDRY ONLINE
New technology from IBM and USA Technologies will allow college
students to do laundry without hunting for quarters or sitting around
in the laundromat waiting for their clothes to be done. The eSuds
system will connect 9,000 washers and dryers at U.S. colleges and
universities to the Internet. Students can check a Web site for
available machines and add detergent that the machines dispense. When
the laundry is done, the machine sends an e-mail notifying the student.
Swipe cards are used to pay for the laundry instead of cash, and
laundromat owners can use the system to monitor machines and perform
limited maintenance. The system might also cut down on vandalism, since
cash won't be collected by the machines.
Reuters, 29 August 2002
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DOUBLECLICK TO PAY FINE, MODIFY PRIVACY POLICY
Online ad provider DoubleClick Inc. has agreed to modify its privacy
policy and pay a $450,000 fine after a 30-month investigation into the
company's handling of consumer data. DoubleClick's ads use cookies to
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