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INTERNET 'INDISPENSIBLE' TO TODAY'S STUDENTS
Eighty-six percent of today's college students are hooked up to the Web,
and 79% say being online has had a positive influence on their lives
overall, according to the latest survey from the Pew Internet and American
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sites. "Today's 18-year-old college freshmen were born the same year as the
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the report's author, Steve Jones. "To them, the Internet and e-mail are as
commonplace as telephones and television -- and equally as indispensable.
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(CNet News.com 15 Sep 2002)
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LINUX IN THE CORPORATE WORLD
The Linux operating system, which has already found a secure place in
academic and government computing environments, is becoming increasingly
attractive to corporate information technology managers seeking less-costly
alternatives to the offerings of Microsoft and Sun. IBM is now expanding
its foray into the corporate Linux world, by announcing a multi-year
alliance with Red Hat, the largest company in the marketplace that sells
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(without support). Alliances such as these will ease the fears of corporate
IT managers concerned about the compatibility issues of unsupported
software. (New York Times 16 Sep 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/technology/16LINU.html
CHINA ENDS BLOCKING OF GOOGLE
Chinese authorities have ended their policy of preventing citizens in that
country from accessing the Google search engine, which is especially
popular there because of its ability to make it easy to find
Chinese-language material online. In its usual style, the government gave
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matter, why it had imposed them in the first place). But censorship in
China continues, as evidenced by an increase in selective blocking, which
prevents visitors to a Web site from seeing specific items which the
government finds politically incorrect. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 12 Sep 2002)
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INTERNET USE SURPASSES LIBRARY USE ON CAMPUS
A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project indicates that
more U.S. college students use the Internet for academic work than use
the campus library. According to Steve Jones, head of the
Communications Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and
author of the study, students have come to regard high-speed Internet
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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)
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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
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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
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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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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
[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
(Note: the above seven files are posted in zipped HTML only, with images)
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 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
(Plain text in dompr10.txt/.zip, RTF in dompr10r.rtf/.zip)
May 2004 Insectivorous Plants, by Charles Darwin[Darwin#23][insecxxx.xxx]5765
(Plain text in insec10.txt/.zip, RTF in insec10r.rtf/.zip)
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]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gor210.txt and 7gor210.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8gor210.txt and 8gor210.zip]
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]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gor110.txt and 7gor110.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8gor110.txt and 8gor110.zip]
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
(Plain text in kedct10.txt/.zip, HTML in kedct10h.htm/.zip)
(PDF in kedct10p.pdf/.zip, encapsulated PostScript in kedct10ps.eps/.zip)
(TeX in kedct10t.tex/.zip)
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
Contents:
A Great Day, by Edmondo De Amicis, Trans: Edith Wharton
Pereat Rochus, by Antonio Fogazzaro, Trans: A. L. Frothingham, Jr.
San Pantaleone, by Gabriele D'annunzio, Trans: George Mclean Harper
It Snows, by Enrico Castelnuovo, Trans: Edith Wharton
College Friends, by Edmondo De Amicis, Trans: Edith Wharton]
May 2004 The Tale of Freddie Firefly, by Arthur Bailey [#2][tlfflxxx.xxx]5727
[Author's Full Name: Arthur Scott Bailey]
May 2004 The Fairy-Land Of Science, by Arabella B. Buckley [frlscxxx.xxx]5726
May 2004 English Literature For Boys and Girls,[Marshall#2][?ngltxxx.xxx]5725
[Author: H.E. Marshall]
May 2004 A Book Of Operas, by Henry Edward Krehbiel [Hek#3][?opraxxx.xxx]5724
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
[Plain text in jmere10.txt/.zip, HTML in jmere10h.htm/.zip]
May 2004 The Great Salt Trail, by Colonel Henry Inman [?gsltxxx.xxx]5718
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gslt10.txt and 7gslt10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8gslt10.txt and 8gslt10.zip]
May 2004 Bergson and His Philosophy, by J. Gunn [Gunn#2][bergsxxx.xxx]5717
[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
[Finale .MUS format musical scores in fh74210.zip]
May 2004 Tales of War, Lord Dunsany [Dunsany#3][towldxxx.xxx]5713
[Plain text in towld10.txt/.zip; HTML in towld10h.htm/.zip]
May 2004 Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts[#2][sclptxxx.xxx]5712
[Author's Full Name: Juliet James]
May 2004 Germinal, by Emile Zola [Zola#8][?germxxx.xxx]5711
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7germ10.txt and 7germ10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8germ10.txt and 8germ10.zip]
May 2004 A Dissertation on Horses, by William Osmer [dhorsxxx.xxx]5710
[Plain text in dhors10.txt/.zip; HTML in dhors10h.htm/.zip]
May 2004 La Vendee, by Anthony Trollope [Trollope#38][vendexxx.xxx]5709
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
May 2004 The Harvard Classics Volume 38, by Various [hvrclxxx.xxx]5694
Contains:
Journeys In Diverse Places, Ambroise Pare, Translated By Stephen Paget
On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals, William Harvey,
Translated By Robert Willis
The Three Original Publications On Vaccination Against Smallpox,
Edward Jenner
The Contagiousness Of Puerperal Fever, O. W. Holmes
On The Antiseptic Principle Of The Practice Of Surgery, Lord Lister
The Physiological Theory Of Fermentation, Louis Pasteur, Translated By
F. Faulkner And D. C. Robb (Revised)
The Germ Theory And Its Applications To Medicine And Surgery (Revised),
Louis Pasteur, Translated By H. C. Ernst
On The Extension Of The Germ Theory To The Etiology Of Certain Common
Diseases (Revised), Louis Pasteur, Translated By H. C. Ernst
Prejudices Which Have Retarded The Progress Of Geology, Sir Charles
Lyell
Uniformity In The Series Of Past Changes In The Animate And Inanimate
World Sir Charles Lyell
May 2004 Innocents Abroad, by Twain, illust., v6 [MT#67][mt6inxxx.xxx]5693
May 2004 Innocents Abroad, by Twain, illust., v5 [MT#66][mt5inxxx.xxx]5692
May 2004 Innocents Abroad, by Twain, illust., v4 [MT#65][mt4inxxx.xxx]5691
May 2004 Innocents Abroad, by Twain, illust., v3 [MT#64][mt3inxxx.xxx]5690
May 2004 Innocents Abroad, by Twain, illust., v2 [MT#63][mt2inxxx.xxx]5689
May 2004 Innocents Abroad, by Twain, illust., v1 [MT#62][mt1inxxx.xxx]5688
May 2004 The Water of Life and Other Sermons, Kingsley[13] [wtlfxxxx.xxx]5687
[Author's Full Name: Charles Kingsley]
[Plain text version in wtlfxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in wtlfxxh.htm and .zip]
The Section Below Completes This Series Of Georg Ebers #5439-5499 & #5501-5599
May 2004 The Complete PG Edition Of Georg Ebers [GE#161][g161vxxx.xxx]5600
[Contains eBooks #5439-5499 and #5501-5599] [Size: 15mb]
Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Ebers, Complete [GE#160][g160vxxx.xxx]5599
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5593-5598]
Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#159][g159vxxx.xxx]5598
Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#158][g158vxxx.xxx]5597
Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#157][g157vxxx.xxx]5596
Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#156][g156vxxx.xxx]5595
Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#155][g155vxxx.xxx]5594
Apr 2004 The Story Of My Life, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#154][g154vxxx.xxx]5593
Apr 2004 Complete Short Works by Georg Ebers, [Ge#153][g153vxxx.xxx]5592
[Contains Ebooks #5587-5591]
Apr 2004 The Nuts, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#152][g152vxxx.xxx]5591
Apr 2004 The Greylock, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#151][g151vxxx.xxx]5590
Apr 2004 The Elixir, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#150][g150vxxx.xxx]5589
Apr 2004 A Question, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#149][g149vxxx.xxx]5588
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Ebers, Complete [Ge#148][g148vxxx.xxx]5587
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains Ebooks #5584-5586]
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Georg Ebers, V3 [Ge#147][g147vxxx.xxx]5586
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Georg Ebers, V2 [Ge#146][g146vxxx.xxx]5585
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Georg Ebers, V1 [Ge#145][g145vxxx.xxx]5584
Apr 2004 Burgomaster's Wife, by Ebers, Complete [GE#144][g144vxxx.xxx]5583
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5578-5582]
Apr 2004 Burgomaster's Wife, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#143][g143vxxx.xxx]5582
Apr 2004 Burgomaster's Wife, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#142][g142vxxx.xxx]5581
Apr 2004 Burgomaster's Wife, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#141][g141vxxx.xxx]5580
Apr 2004 Burgomaster's Wife, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#140][g140vxxx.xxx]5579
Apr 2004 Burgomaster's Wife, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#139][g139vxxx.xxx]5578
Apr 2004 A Word Only A Word, by Ebers, Complete [GE#138][g138vxxx.xxx]5577
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5572-5576]
Apr 2004 A Word Only A Word, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#137][g137vxxx.xxx]5576
Apr 2004 A Word Only A Word, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#136][g136vxxx.xxx]5575
Apr 2004 A Word Only A Word, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#135][g135vxxx.xxx]5574
Apr 2004 A Word Only A Word, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#134][g134vxxx.xxx]5573
Apr 2004 A Word Only A Word, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#133][g133vxxx.xxx]5572
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Sep 2001 Dubliners, by James Joyce [James Joyce #1] [dblnrxxx.xxx]2814
(HTML in dblnr11h.htm/.zip)
Aug 1999 North America, Vol. 1, by Anthony Trollope [AT #3][1noamxxx.xxx]1865
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(HTML in artow10h.htm/.zip)
Mar 1996 In the South Seas, by Robert Louis Stevenson [#20][sseasxxx.xxx] 464
(HTML in sseas10h.htm/.zip)
Mar 1996 Lavengro, by George Borrow [George Borrow #3] [lvgroxxx.xxx] 452
(HTML in lvgro10h.htm/.zip)
Feb 1996 The Romany Rye, by George Borrow [Borrow #2] [trryexxx.xxx] 422
(HTML in trrye10h.htm/.zip)
Jan 1996 Ballads, by Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson #16][rlsbaxxx.xxx] 413
(HTML in rlsba10h.htm/.zip)
Jan 1996 The Holy War, by John Bunyan [Bunyan #2] [hlywrxxx.xxx] 395
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(HTML in lamor10h.htm/.zip)
Aug 1995 The Ways of Men, by Eliot Gregory [waymnxxx.xxx] 319
(HTML in waymn10h.htm/.zip)
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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 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:
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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 The Tale of Freddie Firefly, by Arthur Bailey [#2][tlfflxxx.xxx]5727
[Author's Full Name: Arthur Scott Bailey]
May 2004 The Fairy-Land Of Science, by Arabella B. Buckley [frlscxxx.xxx]5726
May 2004 English Literature For Boys and Girls,[Marshall#2][?ngltxxx.xxx]5725
[Author: H.E. Marshall]
May 2004 A Book Of Operas, by Henry Edward Krehbiel [Hek#3][?opraxxx.xxx]5724
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
Apr 2004 Complete Short Works by Georg Ebers, [Ge#153][g153vxxx.xxx]5592
[Contains Ebooks #5587-5591]
Apr 2004 The Nuts, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#152][g152vxxx.xxx]5591
Apr 2004 The Greylock, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#151][g151vxxx.xxx]5590
Apr 2004 The Elixir, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#150][g150vxxx.xxx]5589
Apr 2004 A Question, by Georg Ebers, [Ge#149][g149vxxx.xxx]5588
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Ebers, Complete [Ge#148][g148vxxx.xxx]5587
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains Ebooks #5584-5586]
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Georg Ebers, V3 [Ge#147][g147vxxx.xxx]5586
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Georg Ebers, V2 [Ge#146][g146vxxx.xxx]5585
Apr 2004 In The Blue Pike, by Georg Ebers, V1 [Ge#145][g145vxxx.xxx]5584
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for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000
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At 5790 eBooks in 31 Years We Averaged
At 1490 eBooks Done In 2002 We Averaged
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GROUP WARNS OF EU SURVEILLANCE
Statewatch, a U.K. group dedicated to protecting civil liberties on the
Internet, is warning that European governments are planning changes to the
1997 EU Directive on privacy in telecommunications that would require phone
companies, mobile network operators and ISPs to store details of their
customers' Web use, e-mails and phone calls for between one to two years.
Current law states that traffic data may be retained for billing purposes
only and then must be deleted. "EU governments claimed that changes to 1997
EC Directive on privacy in telecommunications to allow for data retention
and access by the law enforcement agencies would not be binding on member
states -- each national parliament would have to decide. Now we know that
all along they were intending to make it binding, compulsory across
Europe," says Tony Bunyan, editor of Statewatch. The changes may include
the provision that police would need a judicial order before accessing
traffic data, but Statewatch warns that such conditions have been
sidestepped before. (CNet News.com 20 Aug 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954487.html
THE EVER-EVOLVING LAPTOP
Laptop computers are making significant inroads in the computer market,
with notebook growth pegged at 6% in the second quarter, despite a decline
in overall sales. And while desktop machines are not likely to change much
in style over the next few years, the laptop of the future will be smaller,
lighter, and may even run on methane. PolyFuel, a spinoff of SRI
International, is developing fuel cells that break down methane molecules
into protons, electrons and carbon dioxide. While the protons pass through
a special membrane, the electrons are maneuvered into a wire that powers
the laptop. The replacement fuel cartridges initially will last two to
three times longer than conventional batteries but eventually will last 10
times longer. Other companies are seeking to expand battery life by
supplementing them with supercapacitators, which store energy at the chip
level. "Supercapacitators hold more electricity than capacitators and
transfer and recharge faster than batteries," says Anthony Kongats, CEO of
supercapacitator startup Cap-XX. Batteries can be completely removed and
the notebook will continue to run for about five minutes.
Supercapacitator-enhanced notebooks could begin hitting the shelves in 2004
and notebooks powered by fuel cells could be available by late 2004 to
2005. Other likely laptop improvements include wireless capability that can
switch effortlessly between WiFi and cellular networks, as well as
low-power screens and new types of heat-dissipation techniques.
(CNet News.com 19 Aug 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-951449.html?tag=fd_lede
A study funded by the Pew Internet and American Life Projects has found
that students are increasingly comfortable with the World Wide Web, and
frustrated that more of their classroom work isn't built around it. The
schools, we're not all that well prepared to use it. The kids really do
know how to use the Internet and they want it to be exploited in the ways
they know it can be exploited. Outside the classroom and outside of any
formal instruction, the Internet is a key part of their educational
instruction." (Washington Post 15 Aug 2002)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19910-2002Aug14.html
THE UNFIXED LIFE
subscribers nationwide at the end of 2001, and industry analyst Keith
Mallinson predicts that number will grow to 200 million by 2006. That's
about 70% of the total U.S. population. Mallinson also expects that the
number of people who rely completely on a wireless phone will rise from the
current 3% of the population to somewhere between 5% and 10% in the next
five years. (San Jose Mercury News 15 Aug 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3867413.htm
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STUDENTS, FACULTY UPSET AT NEW COURSE REQUIREMENT
The Canadian subsidiary of Microsoft this week launched the Microsoft
Canada Academic Innovation Alliance to support technology research at
Canadian universities. Its first grant, however, has some students and
faculty upset about apparent influence from Microsoft. The $2.3 million
grant went to the University of Waterloo, which agreed to institute a
new class on Microsoft's C# programming language and make the course a
requirement for entering students in the electrical and computer
engineering departments. Many at the university, including the
Federation of Students, object to what they perceive as Microsoft's
buying influence. The vice president of education for the Federation of
Students said it "sets a dangerous precedent." One graduate of the
university said it shows that the administration "will do just about
anything for money."
CNET, 15 August 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949945.html
ELECTRONIC GRE DRAWS HEAVY CRITICISM
Despite predictions that migrating from pencil-and-paper testing to
computer-based tests would result in more efficiency and convenience,
evidence of significantly increased cheating has prompted officials to
return to a pencil-and-paper version of the GRE in some countries. An
investigation discovered Web sites in China, Taiwan, and Korea that
posted answers to GRE questions. Officials from the GRE Board and the
Educational Testing Service (ETS) said that for now, the only way to
administer the test in these countries with adequate expectations for
security is with pencil and paper. Critics of computer-based testing
said this is simply the latest in a series of problems that have
plagued the system since computer testing began. Officials from GRE and
ETS remain committed to electronic testing, though, saying that its
promise can be realized when the bugs are worked out.
Wired News, 15 August 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54459,00.html
[What Did I Say About More and More Becoming Pay-Per-View?]
GOVERNMENT WANTS TO SHUT DOWN PUBSCIENCE
The U.S. Department of Energy runs a Web site called PubScience that
allows users to simultaneously search more than 1,000 scientific
journals for abstracts and citations. But the department wants to close
the Web site, saying that two commercial operations, Scirus and
Infotrieve, offer almost the same services. A notice at the PubScience
site (http://pubsci.osti.gov/) says that 90 percent of PubScience's
content is covered by these other sites and that their offerings are
expected to increase. A 30-day public comment period will end on
September 30, after which a final decision will be made on the future
of PubScience. Publishers of some small scientific journals argue that
closing the government-run site would be a bad idea because their
journals are not covered by either Scirus or Infotrieve.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 August 2002
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May 2004 Memoirs, by Prince De Joinville [joinvxxx.xxx]5716
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CONSUMER SUIT SIDETRACKED IN HOLLYWOOD-VS.-REPLAYTV
A federal judge has brushed to the side legal efforts by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation on behalf of five owners of ReplayTV systems who claim
they are threatened by a lawsuit against SonicBlue, the Santa Clara company
that makes that device. The ReplayTV 4000 system is an advanced recording
device that allows watchers to make digital copies of TV shows and to skip
commercials, and SonicBlue is being sued by 28 movie studios and TV
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(San Jose Mercury Times 12 Aug 2002)
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The Federal Communications Commission wants to levy a $5.4 million fine on
Fax.com, a company that uses a fax-number database to distribute faxed ads
for its customers (restaurants, auto repair shops, and so forth). The FCC
said that Fax.com has "engaged in a pattern of deception to conceal its
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the passage of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. Fax.com's
attorney, Mary Ann Wymore, regards the ban as "a clear infringement on
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the U.S. Supreme Court. (Wall Street Journal 8 Aug 2002)
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MCNEALY PREDICTS 30% ANNUAL GROWTH IN LINUX USERS
Addressing participants at the Linux World Conference and Expo, Sun
Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy predicted Tuesday that the number of Linux
users will grow by 30% a year for the next several years, and urged
companies to embrace the open-source software movement. Documenting his own
company's commitment, McNealy noted that Sun has at least 400 full-time
employees dedicated to Linux and pledged to abide by the ethical standards
of the Linux community, which is made up of thousands of grassroots
enthusiasts worldwide who collaborate on software projects. "We're going to
share in the lifestyle and be a capitalist," said McNealy. "We'll share our
thoughts but we don't think it's broken so we're not going to try to fix
it," he said, referring to fears that companies could take the open source
code and factionalize it by creating competing proprietary versions.
(AP 13 Aug 2002)
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BLAME THE ECONOMY, NOT PIRACY, FOR WEAK CD SALES
A Forrester Research report released Tuesday says that the true threat to
record labels' profits is the sagging economy, and that downloadable music
could actually prove to be the industry's salvation rather than its
scourge. According to the report's findings, people who download music from
the Internet more than nine times a month -- a relatively small percentage
of the overall market -- say they'll decrease their album purchases by 2%.
At the same time, 39% of downloading enthusiasts said they bought more CDs,
because they found new music that they wanted to purchase through their
file-swapping activities. Meanwhile, it turns out that consumers who rarely
or never download music account for more than two-thirds of CD sales in the
U.S. With music sales slumping nearly 10% this year so far, report author
Josh Bernoff says the true culprits are limited radio playlists,
high-priced CDs and a general economic recession. The Forrester report
suggests that record labels should offer more flexible pricing and online
access to their entire music back-catalogues in order to make online
music-buying more consumer-friendly. The predicted payoff (which some view
as excessively optimistic) could amount to a boost of $937 million in album
downloads, $805 million in singles downloads and $313 million in
subscription fees by 2007. (Los Angeles Times 14 Aug 2002)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-music14aug14.story?coll=la%2Dheadlin
es%2Dtechnology
MOBILE PHONE REPLACES PHOTO ALBUM FOR PICTURE STORAGE
Proud parents in Japan are just as likely to whip out their mobile phones
to show you pictures of their children as fumble through their wallets for
school photos. The latest generation of cell phones feature tiny cameras
and full-color screens, in addition to digital zoom lenses,
higher-resolution displays and enough memory to store hundreds of photos,
and analysts predict that these new features will prove irresistible to
American and European consumers as the 3G handsets hit the global market.
"It's often said that Japanese love cameras, but Europeans and Americans in
particular see family photos as something special, even putting them up in
their cubicles at work," says Gartner analyst Nahoko Mitsuyama. "Theirs is
a culture that puts a high value on photos, and if that can be tapped into,
I think there'll be demand for these products outside Japan as well."
(Reuters 13 Aug 2002)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=581&ncid=581&e=5&u=/nm/20020813
/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc_1
NEW ELECTRON MICROSOCOPE
IBM and the Nion Corporation have created an electron microscope optics
system that sets the direction for a new generation of microscopes capable
of resolving subatomic images using an electron beam one three-billionth of
an inch in diameter. One likely application of the new microscopes will be
the analysis of advanced semiconductor transistors, in which the tolerances
are so fine that a transistor will fail if a single atom falls out of
place. (New York Times 7 Aug 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/technology/08BLUE.html
When it took over the Internet services of bankrupt Excite@Home, AT&T
didn't raise the fees of Excite customers, it just reduced their download
speeds (by as much as 80%). It told them that their "lightning-fast"
connection to the Internet had been "optimized for all users through a
maximum network setting of 1.5 Mbps downstream." Responding to charges that
his company had essentially played a trick on consumers, AT&T's vice
advertising and other economics that didn't pan out the way people had
hoped." (USA Today 8 Aug 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2002-08-08-att-broadband_x.htm
Various academic institutions now use antiplagiarism software to catch
student cheaters -- but some critics say such software tramples on student
Turnitin.com expands its database by keeping copies of scanned student
papers without getting the permission from the student; the papers can then
be used for comparison with new submissions as they are received in the
future. Is this a permissible practice? Sure, says Turnitin -- this use of
the papers doesn't threaten any potential commercial value of the papers
and is well within "Fair Use" rules. [Antiplagiarism aficionados will enjoy
Bernard Malamud's 1961 novel "A New Life," in which faculty members work
frantically but unsuccessfully to expose a student.] (IEEE Computer Aug 2002)
http://www.computer.org/computer/
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SPAM ON THE RISE
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the increase. According to Brightmail Inc., which monitors junk e-mail,
June of 2001 saw 879,000 spam attacks; June of this year saw 4.8
million. The company also reports that the percentage all e-mail that
is spam has risen from 7 percent a year ago to between 12 and 15
percent today. Some speculate that the weak economy encourages spam as
a marketing vehicle because it is relatively inexpensive. Others cite
the ongoing battle between those who want to get unsolicited e-mails
delivered to users and those who want to filter it out. All acknowledge
that the increase of spam means it is not simply a nuisance but a daily
problem. Much time is wasted dealing with spam, and many legitimate
messages, for example, are deleted when users suspect them of being spam.
NewsFactor Network, 8 August 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18939.html
RIAA TO APPEAL WEB RADIO ROYALTY
The decision by Librarian of Congress James Billington to charge Web
radio stations .07 cents per song/per listener has apparently pleased
no one. Immediately after the ruling, small Webcasters, including many
college-owned radio stations and other nonprofit stations, said the
rate was too high and would put them out of business. Now the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA) has said it will appeal the
rate, saying it is too low and does not adequately compensate artists
or record labels. The RIAA charges that Billington's decision rested
on a misinterpretation of testimony from Yahoo and on ignoring certain
licensing deals. If these factors had been considered appropriately,
said the RIAA, the rate would have been "significantly higher."
Washington Post, 7 August 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56215-2002Aug7.html
[For Those Who Believe The Internet Was Not Founded By The Military,
just look up references to the time when it was called DARPANet.]
GOVERNMENT WANTS TO REINVENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
A new project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) has as its goal the "total reinvention of technologies for
storing and accessing information." The Total Information Awareness
(TIA) system, which will be funded by grants from DARPA, is an attempt
by the federal government to construct a highly data-intensive system
that can spot clues to terrorist plans long before they come to
fruition. Grant applicants are warned that no money will be invested in
"research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to
existing technology"; officials are committed to a fundamental redesign
of technology. TIA plans call for unprecedented amounts of data,
measured in petabytes, to be stored and accessed. Civil liberties
groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation find the prospect
of such a system very worrisome without strict rules to prevent it from
becoming a powerful secret spy machine.
Wired News, 7 August 2002
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***Headline News***
[My Comments In Brackets]
Headlines From Newsscan
DIGITAL ALTERATIONS IN 'SPIDER-MAN' OKAYED AS FREE SPEECH
A federal judge in New York has thrown out a lawsuit filed by billboard and
building owners against Sony and other companies involved in making and
distributing the movie "Spider-Man," saying that digital alterations of the
billboards in Times Square for the movie are protected free speech. "What
exists here is for artistic purposes a mixture of fictionally and actually
depicted Times Square, this has First Amendment protection," ruled Judge
Richard Owen. In the "Spider-Man" movie and trailers, ads for companies
such as Cingular Wireless and USA Today were superimposed over those of
Samsung and NBC. The judge also rejected claims that Sony's use of lasers
bounce off the plaintiff's three buildings day and night in the city that
never sleeps," said Owen. The practice of altering real-life scenes for the
purpose of film artistry or to satisfy marketing deals is becoming more
common as digital technology makes it easy to do so. USA Today said it
didn't pay for the advertising, but Cingular said it has a marketing deal
with Sony tied to the film. (CNet News.com 6 Aug 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-948441.html?tag=fd_top
JAPANESE SAY THEY DON'T WANT TO BECOME NUMBERS
Japan's creation of a new citizen database has caused widespread concern
that there has not been enough attention paid to privacy issues. Every
citizen, starting at birth, will be assigned a unique 11-digit number. At
present it will be used only to retrieve basic information (name, address,
sex, and birth date), but many people think the system will be expanded to
include other personal data. The new system has prompted widespread
disobedience in the country, and half a dozen cities have refused to have
any part of it. Nobuo Hoshino, mayor of Yokubunji, presiding over a
e-mail, fax and various other ways, and almost all of them support us." One
critic says that the project will grow and grow into "a bigger project,
named 'E-Government,' that will have 16,000 administrative uses." (New York
Times 5 Aug 2002)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/international/asia/06JAPA.html
[More On Pay-Per-Everything]
FOUR FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS TO CHARGE FOR WEB ACCESS
Four newspapers in the Florida Panhandle, all four owned by Freedom
Communications, have decided to start charging for access to their Web
and we should get something for the value of the content." The editor of one
deliver information or they deliver pizzas." The newspapers have received a
barrage of complaints from their readers for the move they've taken.
(AP/New York Times 4 Aug 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Online-Newspapers.html
IN CHINA, MAN GETS 11 YEARS FOR USING NET "SUBVERSIVELY"
In Beijing, a man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for posting
"reactionary" material on the Web; he was accused of "subverting the power
of the State." The man was arrested last April and brought to trial the
following month. Human rights groups are supporting the man's appeal to a
higher court, but a court date has not yet been set for that appeal.
(AP/San Jose Mercury News 5 Aug 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3803143.htm
NOTES FROM THE ACCOUNTING WORLD
In an informal survey of its readers, CFO magazine found that 83% of 180
corporate financial officers said that, during the past five years, they
never felt pressure from their company's CEO to misrepresent the
corporation's financial results. Of the remaining number, 11% said they had
felt such pressure more than three times. (CFO Magazine 1 Aug 2002)
http://www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,7502,00.html
LINUX, IN DAVID VS. GOLIATH BATTLES, CONTINUES TO MAKE HEADWAY
Little Linux, the home-grown, fast-growing, open-source operating system
that invites code-enhancements from programmers all over the world,
Hollywood, and government. Industry analyst Bill Claybrook of the Aberdeen
Group says the operating systems wars will come down to two players, with
long-term, is going to be between Linux and Windows." [Yes, we've mixed some
metaphors here. Be quiet.] Microsoft, unsurprisingly, thinks that victory is
theirs, but Linux supporters believe that the bigger they are the harder
they'll fall. Surprisingly, money may be the ultimate deciding factor, and
one information services executive who just opted for Linux in his company
launch. Plus, it was a fraction of the cost of a Microsoft license."
(USA Today 5 Aug 2002)
http:
//www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/software/2002-08-04-linux_x.htm
WALL STREET BANKS DISCARDED E-MAIL MESSAGES PREMATURELY
(Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and U.S. Bancorp
Piper jaffraye) may be fined for as much as $10 million for not keeping
e-mail messages sent both within and outside the companies for three years.
The penalties would come from the SEC, NASD, and the New Stock Exchange.
(New York Times 2 Aug 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/business/02WALL.html
HACKERS ARE GOOD, CRACKERS ARE BAD
Richard Clarke, President Bush's cybersecurity czar, sees a big difference
between online vandals (also called "crackers") who hack into systems for
malicious purposes, and true hackers and security professionals who explore
security holes that weren't found by the software maker. In fact, Clarke
here in this room, have an obligation to find the vulnerabilities." (AP/USA
Today 31 Aug 2002)
http://
www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2002-07-31-security-hacking_x.htm
Privacy advocates have said, and said, and said again, that companies
shouldn't use Social Security numbers as identification numbers or passwords
-- yet colleges and banks and all kinds of other companies have turned a
deaf ear to that plea, because they've been trying to balance security
concerns with customer convenience. But Simson Garfinkel, author of Database
epidemic of identity theft right now. The problem here is that people treat
the Social Security number as if it is a secret, when in fact it is not."
fact that the Social Security number is a universal identifier, and we
should treat it as a public record. Businesses should not use a Social
Security number as a password any more than they should use a name."
(USA Today 31 Jul 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2002-07-31-privacy_x.htm
[I have called the Social Security offices several time to confirm that NO
ONE OTHER THAN THEIR OFFICIALS HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY #]
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Headlines From Edupage:
JAPANESE ID SYSTEM HAS BUMPY LAUNCH
Japanese authorities launched a computer identification system, but
technical problems and protests resulted in a difficult beginning for
it. The former system was criticized for being slow and difficult,
often requiring citizens to visit several agencies to accomplish a task
as simple as changing one's address. The new system assigns ID
numbers, similar to Social Security Numbers, and shares personal
information across branches of government. Many Japanese protested the
system, however, citing privacy concerns. Several municipalities
refused to submit data for their citizens, and the city of Yokohama,
where 3.4 million people live, said it will only submit information for
people who have given their consent. In addition, when the new system
was launched, several municipalities could not access it due to
technical problems.
Associated Press, 5 August 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/489123p-3904411c.html
NEC OFFERS ALL-IN-ONE, ECO-FRIENDLY COMPUTER
Computer maker NEC will produce an all-in-one computer that the company
says is very environmentally friendly. The PowerMate, which is expected
to cost $1,599, employs a 15-inch flat-panel monitor and a Transmeta
processor, with all of the primary components housed behind the
monitor. Because the screen is a flat-panel model, it does not contain
the several pounds of lead that a CRT monitor has. NEC also said the
motherboard is made with lead-free solder and that the plastic case is
completely recyclable. The machine runs on relatively little
electricity, requiring no internal fan, and has an extremely quiet hard
drive. The other selling point of the PowerMate, its all-in-one design,
has a mixed history in the market. Despite Apple Computer's success
with the first-generation iMac, sales of newer iMacs as well as
all-in-one computers from IBM and Gateway have been slow.
CNET, 4 August 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-948287.html
H-P WITHDRAWS WARNING
Hewlett-Packard has backed down after a strong and vocal reaction
against the company's threat to use the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA) against programmers who disclose flaws in H-P's software.
The company had sent a letter to SnoSoft, invoking the copyright
legislation as grounds for potential legal action against the
researchers for disclosing security flaws in its Unix software. Many
took the letter as an attempt to stifle independent research into
system security. According to an official at H-P, the reaction was
"significant." H-P would not comment on whether it would pursue action
against SnoSoft outside the DMCA, but the company said it would not
rely on the DMCA and that researchers who follow "industry standard
security practice" have no reason to fear legal warnings from H-P.
CNET, 1 August 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947745.html
UTAH MAN SUES UNDER STATE'S NEW SPAM LAW
A Utah man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Sprint under the
state's recently enacted legislation concerning unsolicited e-mail.
Utah's law requires that companies sending unsolicited e-mail must
provide their legal name and address, put "ADV:" in the subject, and
allow consumers to opt out of receiving more messages. The law allows
for damages of up to $10 for each unwanted e-mail that is sent, up to
$25,000 per day. Terry Gillman sued Sprint, saying the company did not
abide by the restrictions the new law places on senders of e-mail
solicitations. In an odd twist, Sprint requested that Mr. Gillman turn
over his hard drive so that the company could "better investigate and
prevent such alleged violations." An attorney for Gillman said the
request is an intimidation tactic and that it would be "ridiculous" for
all of the 1.4 million potential plaintiffs to submit hard drives.
Wired News, 1 August 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54250,00.html
CLARKE URGES HACKERS TO FIND AND REPORT BUGS
Richard Clarke, the cybersecurity advisor to President Bush, told
attendees of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that they should
find and report software bugs that compromise computer security. Clarke
said that some of those listening "have an obligation to find the
vulnerabilities." According to Clarke, hackers should be responsible in
their disclosures of bugs, letting the software company know first and
allowing the company time to fix the bug before the weakness is made
public. If someone finds a bug and acts in good faith to see that it is
addressed, that person should not be prosecuted, Clarke said, saying
that legal protections may need to be installed for hackers disclosing
security flaws.
Associated Press, 31 July 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/484376p-3867743c.html
[See related article above]
H-P USES DMCA AGAINST BUG FINDERS
In an apparent first, Hewlett-Packard has invoked the controversial
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to stop researchers from
releasing information about software bugs. Until now, the DMCA has been
used by copyright holders to prevent, for example, release of programs
that allow for the circumvention of copyright protections. But H-P sent
a letter to SnoSoft, a group of researchers, saying that the group
faces fines of $500,000 and jail time for releasing information about a
bug in an H-P Unix application. SnoSoft said that they notified H-P of
the flaw early enough that a patch should have been available before
public disclosure of the bug. An attorney at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation said he expects more companies to try to use the DMCA in
this way because the very broad terms and interpretation of the law
allow for such prosecution. Even in circumstances unrelated to
protecting copyright, he said, such actions "will trigger DMCA penalties."
CNET, 30 July 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947325.html
STIFF SENTENCES FOR ONLINE FRAUD
Two Missouri men convicted of committing online fraud have been given
12-year prison sentences, highlighting a trend toward tougher
prosecution and longer sentences for such crimes. The men were
convicted of offering items for sale on Internet auction sites but not
delivering the goods after they were paid for. An official at the
Federal Trade Commission said he thought that five or six years ago,
prosecutors might not have pursued these cases or argued for such long
sentences. The sweep that caught the two men in Missouri will lead to
at least 19 other prosecutions, according to the FTC. Records show that
online auction fraud is the leading source of Internet complaints to the FTC.
Washington Post, 30 July 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21647-2002Jul30.html
***CORRECTION*** The July 29 issue of Edupage mentioned a Web radio
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[Author: Martinovitsn_ Kutas Ilona]
[Language: 77 languages in bblia10p.zip (PDF)]
[English only in bblia10.txt/.zip]
May 2004 The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox, Morris [pdcoxxxx.xxx]5639
[Author's Full Name: Charles E. Morris]
May 2004 An Adventure With A Genius, by Alleyne Ireland [aawagxxx.xxx]5638
[Subtitle: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer]
May 2004 Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Various [ldnnhxxx.xxx]5637
[Authors: Montaigne, Michel; Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin; Renan,]
Ernest; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim; Von Schiller, J.C.;]
Kant, Immanuel; Mazzini, Giuseppe]
Contents:
That We Should not Judge of our Happiness Until After Our Death
That to Philosophise is to Learne How to Die
Of The Institution of Education of Children
Of Friendship of Books
What is a Classic?
The Poetry of the Celtic Races
The Education of the Human Race
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysics of Morals
Byron and Goethe
May 2004 Winding Paths, by Gertrude Page [windpxxx.xxx]5636
[Plain text version in windp10.txt/.zip, HTML in windp10h.htm/.zip]
May 2004 String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, K. 156 [wm156xxx.xxx]5635
[Musical score. Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, WM#6]
[Zipped file only wm15610.zip]
May 2004 Grosse Fuge (for String Quartet), op. 133 [LVB #5][lv133xxx.xxx]5634
[Musical score. Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven]
[Zipped file only lv13310.zip]
May 2004 The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me,by W. White[tmahmxxx.xxx]5633
[Author's Full Name: William Allen White]
May 2004 Five Little Peppers Midway, by M. Sidney[Sidney#2][flttpxxx.xxx]5632
[Author's Full Name: Margaret Sidney]
May 2004 Patty's Suitors, by Carolyn Wells [C. Wells#4][pttysxxx.xxx]5631
May 2004 The Story of "Mormonism", by James E. Talmage [smormxxx.xxx]5630
[Full title: The Story of "Mormonism" and the Philosophy of "Mormonism"]
May 2004 Dorothy Dale, by Margaret Penrose [Penrose#3][drthyxxx.xxx]5629
[Subtitle: A Girl of To-Day]
May 2004 Preludes 1921-1922, by John Drinkwater [p1921xxx.xxx]5628
May 2004 String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Schubert[1][s1251xxx.xxx]5627
[Opus 125, no. 1 (1817), this is a musical score]
[Author's Full Name: Franz Peter Schubert]
[Zipped file only s125110.zip]
May 2004 The Motormaniacs, by Lloyd Osbourne [Osbourne#5][mtmncxxx.xxx]5626
Contents:
The Motormaniacs
The Great Bubble Syndicate
Coal Oil Johnny
Jones
May 2004 Flint and Feather, by E. Pauline Johnson [EPJ#2][fltfrxxx.xxx]5625
May 2004 The Inhumanity of Socialism, by Edward F. Adams [insocxxx.xxx]5624
[Subtitle: The Case Against Socialism & A Critique of Socialism]
May 2004 The Young Explorer, by Horatio Alger [Alger#13][yexplxxx.xxx]5623
May 2004 At Last, by Marion Harland [alastxxx.xxx]5622
May 2004 Baron d'Holbach, by Max Pearson Cushing [?bdhoxxx.xxx]5621
[Subtitle: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7bdho10.txt and 7bdho10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8bdho10.txt and 8bdho10.zip]
May 2004 Palaces and Courts of the Exposition, Juliet James[palcoxxx.xxx]5620
[Subtitle: A Handbook of the Architecture Sculpture and Mural Paintings with
Special Reference to the Symbolism][About the 1915 San Fransciso Exposition.]
May 2004 Mankind and Political Arithmetic, Sir Wm Petty[#1][mkpaxxxx.xxx]5619
[Author's Full Name: Sir William Petty]
[Plain text version in mkpaxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in mkpaxxh.htm and .zip]
May 2004 Six Plays, by Florence Henrietta Darwin [#1][sxfdxxxx.xxx]5618
Plain text version in sxfdxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in sxfdxxh.htm and .zip]
(For those wishing to know: Florence was the wife of Sir Francis Darwin,
(who was a famous scientist and the son of a certain Charles Darwin, of
(evolution fame. The plays are all in English dialect and the last one,
(The New Year, is by far the best.)
May 2004 Bobbsey Twins in Washington, by L. Hope[BTwins#12][tbtiwxxx.xxx]5617
[Author's Full Name: Laura Lee Hope]
May 2004 The Madman, by Kahlil Gibran [thmdmxxx.xxx]5616
[Subtitle: His Parables and Poems]
[Plain text version in thmdm10.txt/.zip, HTML in thmdm10h.htm/.zip]
[XML version in thmdm10x.txt/.zip]
May 2004 The Pink Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, Ed. [pinkfxxx.xxx]5615
May 2004 Chess Strategy, by Edward Lasker [Lasker#2][chsstxxx.xxx]5614
May 2004 The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 2, Anon. [arne2xxx.xxx]5613*
[Reserved]
May 2004 The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 1, Anon. [arne1xxx.xxx]5612
May 2004 The Satyricon, by Petronius Arbiter [?paswxxx.xxx]5611
[Translated by William Burnaby]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7pasw10a.txt and 7pasw10a.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8pasw10a.txt and 8pasw10a.zip]
[See also eBook #s 5218-5225]
May 2004 The Cardinal's Snuff-Box, by Henry Harland [cdsfxxxx.xxx]5610
May 2004 The Corporation of London, William Ferneley Allen [clrapxxx.xxx]5609
[Full Title: The Corporation of London: Its Rights and Privileges]
May 2004 Trial of Witnessses of the Resurrection of Jesus [trijcxxx.xxx]5608
[Full Title: The Trial of the Witnessses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ]
[Author's Full Name: Thomas Sherlock]
May 2004 Romanzero, by Heinrich Heine [Heine#5][?rmnzxxx.xxx]5607
[AKA: Romancero]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rmnz10.txt and 7rmnz10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8rmnz10.txt and 8rmnz10.zip]
[Language: German]
May 2004 Guns of the Gods, by Talbot Mundy [Mundy#6][gungdxxx.xxx]5606
May 2004 The Power Of Movement In Plants, by C. Darwin[#22][pwmvpxxx.xxx]5605
May 2004 Getting Married, by George Bernard Shaw [Shaw#32][gtgmdxxx.xxx]5604
May 2004 Seven Icelandic Short Stories,Various [svnclxxx.xxx]5603
[This file is in 8-bit format only to suppport Icelandic characters]
[Authors: Anonymous; Kvaran, Einar H.; Fridjonsson, Gudmundur; Trausti,]
[Jon; Gunnarsson, Gunnar; Hagalin, Gudmundur G.; Laxness, Halldor Kiljan]
Contains:
The Story of Audunn and the Bear
A Dry Spell
The Old Hay
When I Was on The Frigate
Father and Son
The Fox Skin
New Iceland
May 2004 The Boy Scouts Patrol, by Ralph Victor [thbysxxx.xxx]5602
May 2004 Jan of the Windmill,Juliana Horatia Ewing[Ewing#1][janwxxxx.xxx]5601
[Plain text version in janw10.txt/.zip, HTML in janw10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Ebers, Complete [GE#132][g132vxxx.xxx]5571
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5561-5570]
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v10[GE#131][g131vxxx.xxx]5570
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v9 [GE#130][g130vxxx.xxx]5569
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#129][g129vxxx.xxx]5568
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#128][g128vxxx.xxx]5567
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#127][g127vxxx.xxx]5566
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#126][g126vxxx.xxx]5565
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#125][g125vxxx.xxx]5564
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#124][g124vxxx.xxx]5563
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#123][g123vxxx.xxx]5562
Apr 2004 Barbara Blomberg, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#122][g122vxxx.xxx]5561
Apr 2004 Margery, by Ebers, Complete [GE#121][g121vxxx.xxx]5560
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Subtitle: Gred] [Contains eBooks #5552-5559]
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#120][g120vxxx.xxx]5559
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#119][g119vxxx.xxx]5558
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#118][g118vxxx.xxx]5557
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#117][g117vxxx.xxx]5556
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#116][g116vxxx.xxx]5555
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#115][g115vxxx.xxx]5554
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#114][g114vxxx.xxx]5553
Apr 2004 Margery, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#113][g113vxxx.xxx]5552
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Ebers, Complete [GE#112][g112vxxx.xxx]5551
[Subtitle: A Romance of Old Nuremberg]
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5543-5550]
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#111][g111vxxx.xxx]5550
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#110][g110vxxx.xxx]5549
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#109][g109vxxx.xxx]5548
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#108][g108vxxx.xxx]5547
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#107][g107vxxx.xxx]5546
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#106][g106vxxx.xxx]5545
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#105][g105vxxx.xxx]5544
Apr 2004 In Fire Of The Forge, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#104][g104vxxx.xxx]5543
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Ebers, Complete [GE#103][g103vxxx.xxx]5542
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5530-5541]
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v12[GE#102][g102vxxx.xxx]5541
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v11[GE#101][g101vxxx.xxx]5540
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v10[GE#100][g100vxxx.xxx]5539
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v9 [GE#99][ge99vxxx.xxx]5538
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#98][ge98vxxx.xxx]5537
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#97][ge97vxxx.xxx]5536
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#96][ge96vxxx.xxx]5535
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#95][ge95vxxx.xxx]5534
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#94][ge94vxxx.xxx]5533
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#93][ge93vxxx.xxx]5532
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#92][ge92vxxx.xxx]5531
Apr 2004 A Thorny Path, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#91][ge91vxxx.xxx]5530
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Ebers, Complete [GE#90][ge90vxxx.xxx]5529
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains #5517-5528]
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v12 [GE#89][ge89vxxx.xxx]5528
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v11 [GE#88][ge88vxxx.xxx]5527
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v10 [GE#87][ge87vxxx.xxx]5526
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v9 [GE#86][ge86vxxx.xxx]5525
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#85][ge85vxxx.xxx]5524
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#84][ge84vxxx.xxx]5523
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#83][ge83vxxx.xxx]5522
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#82][ge82vxxx.xxx]5521
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#81][ge81vxxx.xxx]5520
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#80][ge80vxxx.xxx]5519
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#79][ge79vxxx.xxx]5518
Apr 2004 The Bride Of The Nile, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#78][ge78vxxx.xxx]5517
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Apr 2004 The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon[Bacon#4][adlrxxx.xxx]5500
*
Apr 2004 Glenloch Girls, by Grace M. Remick [glnlcxxx.xxx]5438
Apr 2004 An Original Belle, by E. P. Roe [Roe#7][aobllxxx.xxx]5437
Apr 2004 Hyperion, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[Longfellow#7][?hyprxxx.xxx]5436
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7hypr10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8hypr10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2004 The Stillwater Tragedy, by T. Aldrich [Aldrich#8][?tsllxxx.xxx]5435
[Author's Full Name: Thomas Bailey Aldrich]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tsll10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8tsll10.txt/.zip]
Apr 2004 The Physiology of Taste, by Brillat Savarin [thphyxxx.xxx]5434
[Subtitle: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy]
Apr 2004 Without a Home, by E. P. Roe [Roe#6][wththxxx.xxx]5433
Apr 2004 Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace, Horace [dsndcxxx.xxx]5432
Apr 2004 Stories by Foreign Authors: German, Various [s4fagxxx.xxx]5431
[Authors: Heyse, Paul; Lindau, Rudolph; Von Sacher-Masoch, Leopold;]
[Baumbach, Rudolph; Hoffman, E.T.; Zschokke, Heinrich]
Contains:
The Fury
The Philosopher's Pendulum
The Bookbinder of Hort
The Egyptian Fire-Eater
The Cremona Violin
Adventures of a New-Year's Eve
Apr 2004 Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language[9][penglxxx.xxx]5430
[Author's Full Name: Samuel Johnson]
Apr 2004 Preface to Shakespeare,bySamuel Johnson[Johnson#8][prfctxxx.xxx]5429
Apr 2004 A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays,P. Shelley[8][adpoexxx.xxx]5428
[Author's Full Name: Percy Bysshe Shelley]
Apr 2004 Emile, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau [JJ#14][emilexxx.xxx]5427
Apr 2004 Princess Polly's Playmates, by Amy Brooks[Polly#2][2ppolxxx.xxx]5426
Apr 2004 The Five Books of Youth, by Robert Hillyer [tfbooxxx.xxx]5425
Apr 2004 An Icelandic Primer, by Henry Sweet [clprmxxx.xxx]5424
[Note: This is in Unicode UTF-8 only, since the Icelandic characters that
comprise the core of the book cannot reasonably be expressed in ASCII]
[Files in etext04: clprm10u.txt and .zip; clprm10h.html and .zip]
Apr 2004 L'homme Qui Rit, by Victor Hugo [Hugo#4][?lhmqxxx.xxx]5423
Apr 2004 The Masquerader, by Katherine Cecil Thurston [tmsqdxxx.xxx]5422
Apr 2004 The Metropolis, by Upton Sinclair [Sinclair#10][tmtrpxxx.xxx]5421
Apr 2004 Rab and His Friends, by John Brown, M. D [rbhfrxxx.xxx]5420
Apr 2004 Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry, by Horace [hrcstxxx.xxx]5419
Apr 2004 The Home Acre, by E. P. Roe [Roe#6][thhmcxxx.xxx]5418
Apr 2004 Struggling Upward, by Horatio Alger, Jr.[Alger#13][strgpxxx.xxx]5417
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, All [CG#8][mcg8wxxx.xxx]5416
[Author: Anthony Hamilton (Edited by Sir Walter Scott)]
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v7 [CG#7][mcg7wxxx.xxx]5415
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v6 [CG#6][mcg6wxxx.xxx]5414
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v5 [CG#5][mcg5wxxx.xxx]5413
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v4 [CG#4][mcg4wxxx.xxx]5412
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v3 [CG#3][mcg3wxxx.xxx]5411
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v2 [CG#2][mcg2wxxx.xxx]5410
Apr 2004 Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Hamilton, v1 [CG#1][mcg1wxxx.xxx]5409
Apr 2004 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.,Wallace Irwin[#3][rubwixxx.xxx]5408
[Title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.]
(See also eBook #246, translated by Edward Fitzgerald)
Apr 2004 The Recreations of A Country Parson, A. K. H. Boyd[tracpxxx.xxx]5407
Apr 2004 Afoot in England, by W.H. Hudson [Hudson#3][ftnngxxx.xxx]5406
Apr 2004 The Ne'er-Do-Well, by Rex Beach [Beach#7][nrdwlxxx.xxx]5405
Apr 2004 Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders, J. G. Flower [#2][grhvrxxx.xxx]5404
[Full title: Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert]
[Full author: Jessie Graham Flower]
Apr 2004 Short Stories for English Courses, Rosa Mikels ed.[stngcxxx.xxx]5403
[Edited by Rosa M. R. Mikels]
Contents:
The First Christmas-Tree, by Henry Van Dyke
A French Tar-Baby, by Joel Chandler Harris
Sonny's Christenin', by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Christmas Night With Satan, by John Fox, Jr.
A Nest-Egg, by James Whitcomb Riley
Wee Willie Winkle, by Rudyard Kipling
The Gold Bug, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Ransom Of Red Chief, by O. Henry
The Freshman Full-Back Ralph, by D. Paine
Gallegher, by Richard Harding Davis
The Jumping Frog, by Mark Twain
The Lady Or The Tiger?, by Frank R. Stockton
The Outcasts Of Poker Flat, by Francis Bret Harte
The Revolt Of Mother, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Marse Chan, by Thomas Nelson Page
"Posson Jone'", by George W. Cable
Our Aromatic Uncle, by Henry Cuyler Bunner
Quality, by John Galsworthy
The Triumph Of Night, by Edith Wharton
A Messenger, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Markheim, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Apr 2004 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,by Cpt. Grose[dcvgrxxx.xxx]5402
[Full author: Captain Grose et al.]
Apr 2004 Old Rose and Silver, by Myrtle Reed [Reed#2][ldrssxxx.xxx]5401
Mar 2004 Guy Mannering (Complete), by Sir Walter Scott[#22][gmnngxxx.xxx]5355
Mar 2004 Guy Mannering, Vol. II, by Sir Walter Scott [#21][gmnn2xxx.xxx]5354
Mar 2004 Guy Mannering, Vol. I, by Sir Walter Scott[SWS#20][gmnn1xxx.xxx]5353
Mar 2004 Marjorie's Three Gifts, by Louisa May Alcott [#13][mjrtgxxx.xxx]5352
Mar 2004 If I Were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy [fwrkgxxx.xxx]5351
Mar 2004 Farmers of Forty Centuries, by F. H. King [frftcxxx.xxx]5350
Mar 2004 Castle Craneycrow, by George Barr McCutcheon [#3][cscrwxxx.xxx]5349
Mar 2004 Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger [Alger#12][rgddkxxx.xxx]5348
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YALE ACCUSES PRINCETON OF HACKING INTO ADMISSIONS RECORDS
Princeton University has admitted that its admissions personnel hacked into
rival Yale's computer system to check on the applications status of 11
students who also had applied to Princeton. The university has suspended
with pay its associate dean and director of admissions, and a spokeswoman
expressed deep regret "that information provided by students in good faith
to the university was used inappropriately by at least one official in our
admissions office." The perpetrator(s) apparently were easily able to
access the students' records via the publicly available Yale.edu Web site
because they already had the students' passwords -- the names, Social
Security numbers and dates of birth they had provided on their Princeton
applications. The site had been set up with a feature that enabled students
to check on the status of their applications themselves. The founder of one
electronic-rights group noted that while Princeton's actions clearly were
wrong, it was foolish of Yale to rely on Social Security numbers and birth
dates to secure student data. "It's not enough to have a weak Web site and
depend on the good ethical behavior of others not to penetrate it," he
said. "Similarly, it is not adequate to say that just because you found the
weak Web site you should go ahead and penetrate it."
(Wall Street Journal 26 July 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1027628736531063280.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
WHAT WAS A DOT-COM LAND GRAB, DADDY?
Cybersquatting is virtually (no pun intended) a thing of the past -- and
cyber "real estate" is definitely losing value. The number of dot-com,
dot-net, and dot-org names has declined by more than 11% in the first five
months of this year, and industry analysts are saying that the dot-com land
grab is over. This is quite a change from those heady days, not so long ago,
when desirable dot-com names could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars
from companies eager to project just the right image to customers. Now,
already registered as many domain names to protect our trademarks as we
need. We haven't needed to buy any more this year." So what will
cybersquatters do now? One knowledgeable observer of the scene says,
"Speculation is gone. The days of hunting out a real business opportunity
are here." Maybe the cybersquatters will actually get a real job. That would
be nice. (Los Angeles Times 29 Jul 2002)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-netnames29jul29002049.story?coll=la%
2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
VIRTUAL REAL ESTATE MARKET SLUMP
The number of Internet addresses ending in .com, .net and .org has declined
nearly 11% since its peak of 30.7 million in September 2001. The trend
means that cybersquatters, who once pounced on popular names like
business.com and wine.com, and then resold them for millions, are now
earning a pittance for their efforts. Domain name resellers report names
such as PopeOnline.net and Sex247.net can be had for just a few hundred
dollars. "The dot-com land grab is done," says a senior research analyst at
U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. In addition to a lackluster market, the
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which was signed into law in
1999, provides an additional deterrent by mandating fines of up to $100,000
for people convicted of registering Internet names that infringe either a
registered trademark or a person's name. Meanwhile, the market for
addresses with newly available suffixes, such as .us, .name and .info, is
starting to pick up, and domain name registrars say they are encouraged by
signs that some corporations are beginning to carve out addresses that are
specific to foreign countries. "The market's getting smarter, and this
industry needs to reinvent itself," says a marketing VP for BulkRegister.
"Speculation is gone. The days of hunting out a real business opportunity
are here." (Los Angeles Times 29 Jul 2002)
The research firm In-Stat/MDR predicts is predicting that the number of
broadband subscribers worldwide will increase by 50% this year, reaching
about 46 million). That's quite a change from the period 1999 to 2001, when
the growth rate exceeded 100% annually. The company also says that in the
U.S. there were 7.12 million cable modem subscribers at the beginning of
2002, compared with 4.6 million subscribers for DSL; and it predicts that
DSL will take the lead in the U.S. market by 2004. (New York Times 30 Jul
2002) http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR CAR
Automobile onboard "telematics" (voice recognition and other wireless
communication-based aids for the driver) have been used for some time by
companies such as DaimlerChrysler AG, Ford and General Motors, and now IBM
and Honda are linking up so that Honda's 2003 Accord will have a navigation
system integrated with voice recognition and a small touch screen. The
driver touches a button on the steering wheel, then speaks aloud to IBM's
ViaVoice recognition software, which understands speech accents. IBM
executive Raj Desai says, "It's closer to the natural ability to have a
dialogue, rather than just remembering keywords, which is what the
previous-generation systems had." (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 28 Jul 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3755134.htm
[Did you know that the major manufacturers are withholding the computer
access codes to their cars, so they can only be serviced by their dealers?
Just another way of killing off all the local access to mechanics.]
[As per our local NBC affiliate last night and the night before.]
HOTMAIL CLEAN-UP POLICY ANGERS USERS
Microsoft's Hotmail system has instituted a new storage policy that limits
the time span for saved mail to 30 days. After that, it's automatically
deleted from a user's Sent file -- an action that has left many users
steaming. Desperate users who've pleaded for their mail back have been told
it's irretrievable, and company officials say they warned users in mid-June
of the change in policy. MSN product manager Parul Shah said users could
avoid the problem by creating special folders and moving important messages
out of the Sent file. The company is hoping the change in policy will
prompt people to sign up for a fee-based version of the service that costs
$19.95 a month for an additional 8MB of storage on top of the 2MB they get
for free. Microsoft says it has more than 110 million Hotmail users, but
that so far fewer than 300,000 have signed up for the extra storage
feature. (CNet News.com 25 Jul 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946430.html?tag=fd_top
[We thinks perhaps they mean GB instead of MB]
As AOL Time Warner's stock dove more than 15% yesterday after investors
heard it being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission on
suspicion of having inflated revenues, new AOL head Jimmy de Castro offered
put the sizzle back in the brand. We need to go back to a member focus." De
years, the company has focused on deals. It's been, 'Let's do pop-up
advertising, and I don't care what (members want), I've got to sell you
merchandise.' We've totally changed that process. We're focused on member
satisfaction." (USA Today 25 Jul 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2002-07-25-aol_x.htm
TEXT MESSAGES COULD REVEAL CAREER APTITUDE
A survey conducted on behalf of Woolworths in the UK indicates that the
style people use to type text messages on their mobile phones reveals
categories that relate to specific vocations. Researchers divided the
messaging styles into four groups -- creatives, jugglers, controllers and
facilitators. Creatives (actors, designers, advertising execs and landscape
gardeners) used the latest text abbreviations and slang, mixed upper and
lower case letters, used customized ring tones and screen settings, and
lost their phones frequently. Jugglers (teachers, office workers and
emergency service personnel) used capital and lower case letters and
punctuation correctly, never lost their phones, and tended to nestle them
between their chin and shoulder while talking, leaving their hands free.
Controllers (military, lawyers and sales reps) favored brief, all-cap
messages, never abbreviated, and tended to have loud ring tones and to
speak loudly on public transportation. Facilitators (nurses, nannies,
personal assistants) always used lower case and peppered their messages
with emoticons like smiley faces. They tended to embellish their phones
with colorful cases and were more likely to set their phones to vibrate in
order not to disturb others. Psychologist Sidney Crown notes that messaging
style is as revealing as handwriting, and suggested it could be used to
written word nowadays, there is some validity in looking to other ways of
determining the type of person they are, particularly with regards to what
kind of job they are likely to be best suited to." (Ananova 26 Jul 2002)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_637803.html?menu=news.technology
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BILL COULD ALLOW COPYRIGHT HOLDERS ACCESS TO INDIVIDUAL COMPUTERS
A new bill introduced by California Congressman Howard Berman could
give extensive authority to copyright holders to employ technological
means to protect their intellectual property. Observers worry that the
Peer-to-Peer Piracy Prevention Act would allow media companies to
release viruses and other malicious code, though Berman denied that
such measures would be included. Berman said the bill is narrowly drawn
to allow actions such as flooding networks with bogus files or
overwhelming networks with fake requests for particular files. Security
experts said the language of the bill is vague and would open the door
to media companies hacking into individuals' computers and networks.
Wired News, 27 July 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54153,00.html
HOUSE BILL WOULD SHIELD MANY SMALL WEBCASTERS
A new bill introduced by Representatives Jay Inslee, Rick Boucher, and
George Nethercutt would exempt businesses with annual revenues of less
than $6 million from the recently approved music royalty of $.07 per
song, per listener. Webcasters, including many radio stations
affiliated with colleges and universities, had protested the royalties,
saying they would put the stations out of business. The Internet Radio
Fairness Act would shield most stations without connections to larger
companies from those royalties. Since the royalties were approved, many
small stations have stopped streaming music or have significantly
changed their programming to minimize their liability for the
royalties, which begin in October. Supporters of the royalties said the
bill is unfair to recording companies, which they said should be
compensated by all broadcasters, not just large ones.
CNET, 26 July 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946642.html
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TO CREATE PUBLIC DIGITAL ARCHIVE
The University of Texas at Austin has begun a project to make digital
copies of its resources publicly available on the Internet. The Digital
Knowledge Gateway will include digital images of dinosaur bones, the
university's Gutenberg Bible, and other artifacts. A prototype of the
system is expected next year and will be finalized about a year after
that. The first content to be digitized will be UT's research data,
followed by books, manuscripts, photographs, and other art. The project
will give people easy access to a wide variety of resources, as well as
to items, such as the Gutenberg Bible, that are too valuable to allow
extensive access otherwise.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 July 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002072501t.htm
ACLU FILES SUIT AGAINST DMCA
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit to reverse parts of
the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act as unconstitutional. The suit
asks a federal judge to rule that the DMCA is so sweeping that it
interferes with researchers' ability to evaluate the effectiveness of
Internet filtering software. The ACLU is acting on behalf of Ben
Edelman, a 22-year-old programmer researching Internet filters. Edelman
served as an expert witness in the ACLU filing against library
filtering requirements.
CNET, 25 July 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946266.html
GERMAN COURT DECIDES AGAINST DEEP LINKING
A ruling by Munich's Upper Court determined that using a search engine
to find stories on a newspaper's Web site violates European Union law.
The decision is the latest ruling in a two-year court battle between
German newspaper Mainpost and German search service NewsClub. Mainpost
claims that searching through and linking directly to Mainpost content
flouts the EU "Database Directive," which grants copyright protection
to database creators for selecting and arranging the information in a
database even when they do not hold the copyright on the information.
The law also protects against unfair extraction of items in a database,
specifically downloading or hyperlinking. NewsClub faces more legal
hearings, but without any expectation that the Upper Court decision
will be reversed.
Wired News, 25 July 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54083,00.html
YALE ACCUSES PRINCETON OF HACKING
Yale University told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it found
18 unauthorized log-ins to its prospective-student Web site that were
traced to computers at Princeton, including in the admissions office.
Princeton gained access by looking up students who had applied to both
schools, for whom it had Social Security numbers. Stephen LeMenager,
Princeton's dean of admissions, said that his university was concerned
about the security of online acceptance systems and wanted to check
potential security issues. Yale said Princeton's actions violated
student privacy. The Web site included a notice that only students, not
parents or others, may access the site and warned that Yale would
investigate and act on any unauthorized use.
Associated Press, 25 July 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/478341p-3820436c.html
REGISTRAR'S AUDIT RESULTS IN EXPULSIONS
Florida Memorial College in Miami fired two employees and expelled
three students after a May audit in the registrar's office uncovered
evidence that employees changed students' grades as far back as 1992.
Most changes were made during the spring 2002 semester, however,
according to registrar Lourdes Silva. Initial disciplinary hearings
targeted 12 students who had "major" changes (five or more grades) to
their transcripts. At least 60 others had "minor" changes. College
officials said that they have notified the state attorney's office in
Miami-Dade County and that a criminal investigation is under way.
President Albert E. Smith appointed a committee of seven administrators
to revise security procedures at the registrar's office.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 July 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/07/2002072604n.htm
[Earlier Stories Said AOL Made The Incompatibilies Intentionally]
AOL INSTANT MESSENGER WILL NOT WORK WITH RIVALS
America Online has said that making its popular instant messaging
application compatible with rivals' products is too expensive. The
company will instead focus on establishing contracts with other vendors
allowing AOL to operate instant messaging systems for them. AOL and
other providers of instant messaging, including Microsoft and Yahoo,
have said for several years that they support interoperability, which
would allow their systems to work similar to phone lines, across
various providers. AOL conducted a test of interoperability last
summer. Although the test was successful, AOL said implementing the
system and addressing security would incur significant expense. Some
observers criticized AOL for apparently turning its back on
compatibility, saying AOL is choosing instead to guard its large base
of users.
Associated Press, 24 July 2002
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