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Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V1 [WC#51][wc51wxxx.xxx]5388
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by W. Churchill, Complete [WC#50][wc50wxxx.xxx]5387
[Author's full name: Winston Churchill]
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Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill, V4 [WC#49][wc49wxxx.xxx]5386
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Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill, V1 [WC#46][wc46wxxx.xxx]5383
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by Churchill, Complete [WC#45][wc45wxxx.xxx]5382
[Contains: eBooks #5374 to 5381]
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V8 [WC#44][wc44wxxx.xxx]5381
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Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V6 [WC#42][wc42wxxx.xxx]5379
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V5 [WC#41][wc41wxxx.xxx]5378
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V4 [WC#40][wc40wxxx.xxx]5377
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V3 [WC#39][wc39wxxx.xxx]5376
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V2 [WC#38][wc38wxxx.xxx]5375
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V1 [WC#37][wc37wxxx.xxx]5374
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield [ndrbtxxx.xxx]5347
Mar 2004 Expeditions into Central Australia, by E. J. Eyre [xpcscxxx.xxx]5346
Mar 2004 Expeditions into Central Australia V2, by E.J.Eyre[xpcscxxx.xxx]5345
Mar 2004 Expeditions into Central Australia V1, by E.J.Eyre[xpcscxxx.xxx]5344
[Full title: Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia]
[And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound In The Years 1840-1]
[Full author: Edward John Eyre]
Mar 2004 Rainbow Valley, by Lucy Maud Montgomery [LMM#11][rnbvlxxx.xxx]5343
Mar 2004 The Story Girl, by Lucy Maud Montgomery [LMM#10][strglxxx.xxx]5342
Mar 2004 Kilmeny of the Orchard,by Lucy Maud Montgomery[#9][klmnrxxx.xxx]5341
Mar 2004 Further Chronicles of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery[#8][fcrvnxxx.xxx]5340
Mar 2004 Peter Schlemihl etc.,Chamisso et. al. [ptscxxx.xxx]5339
[Plain text version in ptscxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in ptscxxh.htm/.zip]
Contains:
Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert Chamisso
The Story Without An End by Carode translated by Sarah Austin
Hymns To Night by Novalis translated by Henry Morley
Mar 2004 Mark Rutherford's Deliverance,by M. Rutherford [#2][mkrdxxx.xxx]5338
[Real name: White, William Hayle]
[Plain text version in mkrdxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in mkrdxxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2004 31 Yrs on the Plains and In the Mountains, Drannan[toypixxx.xxx]5337
[Full Title: Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains]
[Author's Full Name: William F. Drannan]
[Subtitle: Or, the Last Voice From the Plains. An Authentic Record of]
[a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the]
[Far West.]
Mar 2004 Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian,Various [strsbxxx.xxx]5336
[Authors: Bjornson, Bjornstjerne; Aho, Juhani; Goldschmidt, M; Kielland,]
[Alexander; Bremer, Fredrika]
Contains:
The Father
When Father Brought Home the Lamp
The Flying Mail
The Railroad and the Churchyard
Two Friends
Hopes
Mar 2004 Raspberry Jam, by Carolyn Wells [C. Wells#3][rspbjxxx.xxx]5335
Mar 2004 Expeditions into New South Wales, by John Oxley [xpnswxxx.xxx]5334
[Full title: Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales]
Mar 2004 Every Man In His Humor, by Ben Jonson [Jonson#10][emihhxxa.xxx]5333
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Mar 2004 The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor, W. Irwin [#2][tlsccxxx.xxx]5332
[Author's Full Name: Wallace Irwin]
Mar 2004 NATURAE, by Dom [Dom #3][domnaxxx.xxx]5331C
[Plain text in domna10.txt/.zip, RTF in domna10r.rtf/.zip]
Mar 2004 Rhyme and Reason, by Dom [Dom #2][domrhxxx.xxx]5330C
[Full title: Rhyme And Reason - A Compilation Of Verses, Rhymes And Senses]
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Mar 2004 PoPHILO, by Dom [Dom #1][dompoxxx.xxx]5329C
[Plain text in dompo10.txt/.zip, RTF in dompo10r.rtf/.zip]
[Note: Dom is a pen name for L.M. Wong]
Mar 2004 Writing for Vaudeville, by Brett Page [vaudexxx.xxx]5328
Mar 2004 Pinocchio in Africa, Cherubini [pnocaxxx.xxx]5327
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[Author's Full Name: Johann Wolfgang Goethe]
[Subtitle: Venetian Epigrams] [Language: German]
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Mar 2004 Roemische Elegien, by J. Goethe [Goethe#33][?rmelxxx.xxx]5325
[Author's Full Name: Johann Wolfgang Goethe]
[English title: Roman Elegies] [Language: German]
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Mar 2004 The Book of Were-Wolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould [bofwwxxx.xxx]5324
[Plain text in bofww10.txt/.zip, HTML in bofww10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Effi Briest, by Theodor Fontane [?effixxx.xxx]5323
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Mar 2004 Woyzeck, by Georg B|chner (Buchner) [Buchner#2][?woyzxxx.xxx]5322
[Language: German]
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Mar 2004 Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky[cnsprxxx.xxx]5321
Mar 2004 Taken Alive, by E. P. Roe [Roe#5][tknlvxxx.xxx]5320
Mar 2004 Pagan Papers, by Kenneth Grahame [paganxxx.xxx]5319
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Mar 2004 Les Precieuses Ridicules, by Moliere [Moliere #7][?precxxx.xxx]5318
[Author AKA Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] [Language: French]
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Mar 2004 Through the Magic Door, by Arthur Conan Doyle[#32][ttmgdxxx.xxx]5317
Mar 2004 Krasavitse, Kotoraya Niuhala Tabak, A. Pushkin[#3][kkntaxxx.xxx]5316
[Author's Full Name: Alexander Pushkin]
[Language: Russian]
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[HTML in kknta10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Told in the East, by Talbot Mundy [Mundy#5][tintexxx.xxx]5315
Mar 2004 Household Tales by Brothers Grimm, Grimm Brothers [grimmxxa.xxx]5314
[Subtitle: Also known as Grimm's Fairy Tales. 200 tales and 10 legends]
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[Both plain-text and HTML files posted.]
Mar 2004 Mother Goose in Prose, by L. Frank Baum [Baum#21][mtgspxxx.xxx]5312
Mar 2004 Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley [CM#4][prnswxxx.xxx]5311
Mar 2004 The Point of View, by Elinor Glyn [tpntvxxx.xxx]5310
Mar 2004 Miss Lou, by E. P. Roe [Roe#4][mssluxxx.xxx]5309
Mar 2004 The Paradise Mystery, by J. S. Fletcher [tprdmxxx.xxx]5308
Mar 2004 The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, V.1. [#4][lwam1xxx.xxx]5307
[Translated by Lady Wallace]
May 2002 Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes [lvthnxxx.xxx]3207
[Subtitle: Or, the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Eclesiastical]
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SPINTRONICS SHRINKS DATA STORAGE TO NANOSCALE
Researchers at the University at Buffalo in New York have developed a
nickel-based, magnetic sensor, measuring only a few atoms in diameter, that
could increase data storage capacity 1,000 times through the use of
spintronics -- a field that takes advantage of electron spin as well as
charge. Current technology used in data-reading sensors is based on giant
magnetoresistance (GMR), where sensor resistance changes in a magnetic
field. The new sensor developed at UB creates an effect called ballistic
magnetoresistance (BMR), which uses an electrical conductor only a few
atoms in size. Researchers say the technology could ultimately make it
possible to store 50 or more DVDs on a hard drive the size of a credit
card, or enable military personnel to carry supercomputers the size of a
wristwatch into the field. (NewsFactor 1 Jul 2002)
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18446.html
[The Return Of "Time Share" Computing???]
IBM PUTS A METER ON SOFTWARE USE
IBM is introducing a new service called Linux Virtual Services that enables
customers to run a wide variety of software applications on IBM mainframes
located in company data centers, and pay rates based largely on the amount
of computing power they use. This metered payment system marks a major
shift from the more conventional outsourcing and Web hosting arrangements
typical today. IBM executive James Corgel touted the new service, saying
"we see a huge opportunity going forward. Our best estimate is that in five
years, 10% to 15% of the $1 trillion IT market will be in the form of
on-demand computing," with utility computing a significant part. Industry
analysts remain a little more cautious about the prospects for metered
computing. "We know customers are interested in doing this, but we don't
know how many will," says one market researcher. Another added that "the
pricing is still very complicated. It's not like electricity or even phone
service." (Wall Street Journal 1 Jul 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025472035492706880.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
MUSIC INDUSTRY WAGES GUERRILLA WARFARE AGAINST P2P SERVICES
In a practice called "spoofing," the music industry has been swamping
online music-swapping services like Morpheus, Kazaa, and Grokster with
thousands of phony or mangled music files rather than the sought-after
songs. One music executive, speaking anonymously, says: "We're not using
any of this with any kind of promotion or marketing in mind. We're doing
this simply because we believe people are stealing our stuff and we want to
stymie the stealing." And Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry
Association of America, says: " From the outset, it's been very clear that
one of the only ways -- as a practical matter -- to deal with the
peer-to-peer problem is by means of technological measures. There are
certainly mechanisms that are available -- that are completely lawful, such
as spoofing.'' (San Jose Mercury-News 27 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm
ERGONOMICS FOR THE VERY YOUNG
An elementary school in Washington state is one of the few to offer an
ergonomics program for children that teaches them how to avoid repetitive
stress injuries while working on the computer. The "Get TechFit!" program
touts the benefits of taking frequent breaks, using correct posture, and
exercising fatigued muscles. Ergonomics experts say that just as women are
injured in the workplace more often than men because they must extend their
wrists and arms unnaturally to type and use the mouse, children are also
undersized for most workstation setups. "If you're a small-wristed child,
you will be in greater extension," says Peter Johnson, a professor at the
University of Washington who's studied workplace injury. Johnson says
computers generally are better designed for men, who have broader shoulders
and thicker wrists. (AP 28 Jun 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020628/D7KE5T280.html
ICANN PROPOSES RULES TO FIGHT CYBERSQUATTING
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says it's
close to adopting new procedures that would make it easier for individuals
and businesses to avoid extortion by cybersquatters, and would establish a
waiting list for coveted domains that become newly available to the public.
The first measure would establish a 30-day grace period for domain name
owners to renew their contracts -- a move intended to prevent speculators
from swooping in and registering an expiring domain name before the owner
has time to renew. "ICANN receives a large number of complaints for
inadvertently deleted domains. It affects churches, schools, businesses,"
says an ICANN spokesman. "We get a lot of complaints from people who wake
up to find their domain has expired and now has porn on it, or it's linked
to a casino site. Then, they'll ask for a ransom to get it back." The
waiting-list proposal would allow a bidder to pay a fee to get first dibs
on any newly available domain names. That proposal has run into opposition
from registrars who say the $28 that VeriSign has proposed charging them
for the service is too high. (Reuters/Wired 27 Jun 2002)
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53518,00.html
LEGISLATION WOULD SANCTION STUDIO HACK ATTACKS
Proposed legislation crafted by California congressman Howard Berman, whose
district includes Hollywood, would provide a shield against legal liability
for copyright owners, such as record labels and movie studios, that used
high-tech attacks against peer-to-peer Web sites to stop them from enabling
illegal file-sharing. "While P2P technology is free to innovate new and
more efficient methods of distribution that further exacerbate the piracy
problem, copyright owners are not equally free to craft technological
responses," says Berman. "This is not fair." Included in the actions a
copyright holder would be allowed to take are: interdiction, in which the
copyright holder swamps a P2P file server with false requests so that
downloads can't get through; redirection, in which would-be file swappers
are pointed to a site that doesn't contain the files they're seeking; and
spoofing, in which a corrupt or otherwise undesirable file masquerades as
the song or movie file being sought by a file swapper. File-swapping
companies criticized the bill, saying it opens the door for copyright
holders to conduct "cyber warfare" against consumers.
(CNet News.com 25 Jun 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939333.html?tag=fd_top
HOME WIRELESS NETWORKS GO MAINSTREAM
The price of wireless networks has dropped so dramatically -- they're now
in the $200 range -- that homeowners are snapping them up as a less messy
alternative to traditional wiring. The number of home network devices
shipped is expected to nearly double this year, as wireless gear based on
newer, faster technologies such as the AirPlus products introduced earlier
this month by D-Link, hit the market. Although some consumers report
hassles in installing the networks, the technology is well suited to the
networking needs of the increasing number of broadband-equipped households
with multiple computers. (Wall Street Journal 26 Jun 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025039743158381200.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
WEB SITES USED BY AMERICANS TO GET CHEAPER DRUGS FROM CANADA
A number of Web sites (including canadianmedsusa.com, canadadrugs.com,
canadameds.com, and pharmacy-online.ca) are now offering a way for U.S.
citizens to buy prescription drugs more cheaply through Canadian sources.
U.S. law actually prohibits the practice, but the Federal Drug
Administration has, for reasons of compassion, refrained from actively
enforcing the law. To order from Canada, customers must have a prescription
signed by an American physician, submit a detailed medical questionnaire,
and have undergone a physical exam within the past year. However, the
Canadian Medical Association is questioning the ethics of Canadian doctors
writing Canadian prescriptions based solely on a written questionnaire and
a U.S. prescription: "Our code of ethics says if you're going to prescribe
medications, you have a professional responsibility to do a history, a
physical and then discuss with the patient the risks and benefits of the
medication. This is something Canadian physicians should not be doing."
(AP/San Jose Mercury-News 26 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3546354.htm
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NEW TOOLS CAN BUILD A COMPREHENSIVE ARCHIVE
Some institutions, including MIT, are developing tools for professors
and other researchers to add resources including data sets, notes,
research reports, and otherwise unpublished papers to large,
searchable, digital archives. Testing of DSpace, MIT's archive
project, will begin this summer, and officials at the school hope that
eventually nearly every professor will contribute to the body of work.
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make the system as simple as possible. Metadata will be included to aid
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will not be actively filtered or moderated. Other archives have been
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repositories will fail because effective dissemination depends on the
publishing process and editorial filtering that journals provide.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 July 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm
MICROSOFT TO INVEST IN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IN CHINA
On Thursday, at the end of a two-day visit to China, Microsoft chief
executive Steve Ballmer announced that his company would invest roughly
$750 million over the next three years in the Chinese software
industry. The money will support education, manufacturing, and a number
of local Chinese software companies. The move is seen as partly a
response to widespread software piracy in China. According to that
argument, if there is a strong Chinese software industry that has a
stake in protecting its intellectual property, the incidence of
software piracy will significantly diminish. Ballmer's announcement
also included plans to establish a software college in Shanghai.
Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025200584265700160,00.html
WEB PUBLISHERS SUE OVER POP-UP ADS
Operators of several Web sites, including Washington Post Company, Dow
Jones & Company, and The New York Times Company, have sued Gator, a
company that makes software that helps users enter passwords and other
information online. The password software, however, includes features
that deliver pop-up advertisements. Those ads, according to the group
of publishers, violate trademark because there is an implication that
the operator of the Web site being viewed has authorized the ad that
pops up. Officials at Gator have called the suit ridiculous, saying
that many other applications that display information in separate
windows, such as instant messaging programs, would have to be
considered illegal if the publishers' argument is valid. A survey of
users conducted by the plaintiffs showed that 16 percent of people who
use Gator's password software do not know that it puts pop-up ads on
their computers.
New York Times, 28 June 2002 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/business/28GATO.html
ICANN VOTES TO LIMIT BOARD MEMBERSHIP
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted
on Friday at its meeting in Romania not to allow its Board of Directors
to include members elected from the pool of Internet users at large.
Instead, Board membership will be limited to representatives of
technical, business, government, and nonprofit organizations, according
to the unanimous vote. Critics said the move amounts to a lack of
representation for many of the 425 million global Internet users. ICANN
chief executive Stuart Lynn said the new system will still allow users
to be represented by various constituencies on the Board, including
government and other groups. ICANN has also been criticized for having
a U.S. bias, and Friday's vote did little to mollify those complaints.
CNET, 28 June 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-940291.html
NEW CHIP-MAKING PROCESS MAY OUTPACE MOORE'S LAW
Stephen Chou, a researcher at Princeton University, said he has
developed a procedure for making computer chips that could increase
their capacity 100-fold. The process, called laser assisted direct
input (LADI), involves pressing a quartz mold onto a piece of silicon
and shooting it with a laser for a very short time. The silicon melts
and quickly rehardens into the new shape. The result is imprinting
silicon with features as small as 10 nanometers, significantly smaller
than current methods allow. The process is also claimed to produce
chips much more cheaply, more quickly, and without the environmentally
unfriendly chemicals required of traditional chip-making methods. Some
observers noted that the process is in the very early stages of
development and is probably not "inherently useful in the near term."
NewsFactor Network, 28 June 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18432.html
MUSIC INDUSTRY TRIES SPOOFING FILE SWAPPERS
In the latest effort to try to discourage the illegal trading of files,
some in the music industry have begun a campaign of "spoofing," or
sending decoy files to file-swapping networks. The decoys seem to be
legitimate songs, for example, but might only be a small portion that
loops or may have long stretches of silence. Industry officials hope
that by making it more difficult to find and trade functional copies of
their copyrighted material, some users will be persuaded to buy the CD
they want. Industry experts pointed out that seasoned file traders and
those with higher levels of technical expertise are not likely to be
fooled by the spoofs, but many more novice users potentially will be.
The practice of spoofing is not illegal, but some say it will do little
to stem the tide of piracy.
San Jose Mercury News, 27 June 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm
STUDY PUTS A NUMBER TO LOSSES FROM BUGGY SOFTWARE
A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) says that the U.S. economy loses almost $60 billion annually as
a result of buggy software. According to the study, better testing
could eliminate about one third of that loss, but much of the rest will
remain. The study addressed the problem as it affects three major
industries, automotive, aerospace, and financial services, and
extrapolated those results to the nation as a whole. Authors of the
study did not present specific actions to resolve the problem, but they
did suggest that current methods for testing software are "fairly
primitive" and that significant improvements could be made in that area.
ComputerWorld, 25 June 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_878966_1794_9-10000.html
LINDOWS CLAIMS LOW-COST ALTERNATIVE TO WINDOWS
Lindows, maker of a Linux-based operating system that is claimed to
allow users to run Windows applications, has announced a new program
that could potentially save significant amounts of money for software
on new computer systems. The program offers computer makers a
subscription service, including technical support, testing tools,
certification eligibility, and a software library, that allows them to
install the operating system on an unlimited number of machines for the
same monthly fee. The program is targeted at computer makers who sell
unbranded PCs and lower-end systems such as those available from
Wal-Mart. Critics noted that the Lindows operating system does not run
many Windows programs and that the way the system works opens users up
to potentially serious security risks.
CNET, 25 June 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-939149.html
[As if Windows doesn't have those same problems. . . .]
AUSTRALIA LEGALIZES MUSIC PIRACY
The Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) has agreed
to allow CD-copying kiosks in exchange for a royalty payment. The deal,
the first of its kind, will allow consumers to go to one of the kiosks,
to be located in stores or in public places, and pay $5 each to copy a
music CD. AMCOS, which represents songwriters and music publishers,
agreed to the deal with Little Ripper, a CD-copying company, reportedly
for a flat royalty of about six percent. Observers said that this deal,
which seems to indicate acceptance among copyright owners that piracy
is here to stay, will force the Australian Record Industry Association
(ARIA) into a similar arrangement. Officially ARIA still says that the
kiosks are illegal.
News Interactive, 24 June 2002
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4567037%255E421,00.html
RUSSIA TO SET LIMITS ON WEB
In a vote last week, the Russian Duma supported new restrictions on
anti-government and extremist uses of the Internet. The measure still
needs final approval, which could come this week. The terms of the
legislation forbid using computer networks for "extremism" and allow
the government to shut down without a court order any organization it
deems "extremist." Civil liberties groups in Russia complained that the
law would restrict rights of citizens and would threaten the
"constitutional order in Russia." Victor Naumov, a lecturer at St.
Petersburg State University's law school, said the language of the
measure is vague in many places, leaving some questions about how
exactly it could be applied.
CNET, 24 June 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-938810.html
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BUY.COM PROMISES LOWER PRICES THAN AMAZON
Buy.com, which already prices many of its books below those sold by Amazon,
says it will now guarantee all books will be marked 10% below the same
merchandise sold on the Amazon site. The challenge comes just a week after
Buy.com announced it was offering free shipping on most items in its store,
with no minimum purchase required. The move was aimed directly at
undercutting Amazon's policy of offering free shipping on orders totaling
at least $49. "Amazon has 25 million customers, we have 5 million," says
Buy.com president Robert Price. "We want to go after a place where we know
the customers are at." Buy.com COO Brent Rusick says his company is able to
offer lower prices because it doesn't hold any inventory and doesn't have
to maintain warehouses. Instead, all of Buy.com's books are drop-shipped
from distributors such as Ingram Books. "We feel we have fundamentally a
better cost structure than they do," says Rusick. (CNet News.com 24 Jun 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-938981.html?tag=fd_top
FBI HAS BEEN VISITING LIBRARIES
The FBI has been visiting libraries nationwide to check the reading records
of persons suspected of plotting against the U.S. The visits are conducted
under the auspices of the Patriot Act, which Congress passed last fall
after the September 11 attacks, and which requires that the FBI first
obtain a court-ordered search warrant. Judith Krug of the American Library
because these records and this information can be had with so little reason
or explanation. It's super secret and anyone who wants to talk about what
the FBI did at their library faces prosecution. That has nothing to do with
patriotism." She advises librarians to keep only the records they need and
to discard records that show which patron checked out a book and for how
long. (AP/Washington Post 24 Jun 2002)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37774-2002Jun24.html
SHOW-DOWN IN BUCHAREST
At its annual meeting in Bucharest this week the nonprofit organization
ICANN, which stands for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers, will be facing its fiercest critics and defending its recent
proposal to limit ICANN board membership to representatives of business and
government. Long-time ICANN critic and University of Miami law professor
time are they organized in a manner that would make their representation
easy. The officials who turn up to ICANN meetings are the ones who heard
about the Internet first, not necessarily the people who make, or should
make, Internet policy.'' (Reuters/San Jose Mercury-News 25 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3540508.htm
BROADBAND DEMAND BUILDING
Americans are jumping on the broadband wagon, with one in five of all Web
users now using a high-speed connection at home -- quadruple the number of
broadband users just two years ago, according to a recent survey by the Pew
Internet and American Life Project. "This places broadband adoption rates
on par with the adoption of other popular technologies, such as the
personal computer and the compact disc player, and faster than color TV and
the VCR," says the report. Pew found that the average broadband user does
seven online tasks or activities per day, compared with about three among
dialup access users. All that extra time comes at the expense of other
they were shopping less, and 18% said they'd cut down on their newspaper
reading time. Most of the respondents -- 71% -- accessed their broadband
service via cable TV modem. Twenty-seven percent used DSL service and 2%
used satellite or wireless broadband services. (AP 24 Jun 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020624/D7KB9J3G3.html
THE FUTURE OF TRANSLATION?
Some researchers are predicting that the breadth of content on the Web will
provide the basis for new translation services. Eduard Hovy of the
University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute
and probably already translated on the Web." If that's true, the
translation problem is largely reduced to finding and identifying examples,
so that the main rules are not syntactical ones but semantic ones (of the
sort in which the computer can make context-sensitive deductions -- such as
deciding that when the word "bank" is close to the word "account" it refers
to a financial institution rather than to the bank of a river). However,
Hovy and his group have apparently concluded that the mining of the Web is
best-suited not for developing translations directly but rather for
deciding between alternative translations offered by more traditional
rule-based translation software. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 23 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3531020.htm
WEB RADIO ROYALTY RATE CUT IN HALF
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has reduced the proposed royalty
rate to be paid by Internet-only radio stations to 0.07 cents per song per
listener -- half of the rate proposed by arbitrators last February. The
rate now matches that proposed for traditional radio stations that also put
their broadcasts on the Web. It will remain in effect only until the end of
this year, when a new, as-yet-undetermined rate is supposed to take effect.
The new, reduced rate came under fire from both sides, with Webcasters
complaining it was still too high, and the Recording Industry Association
of America arguing that it meant that "artists and record labels will
subsidize the Webcasting businesses" of big Internet and radio companies,
and that the fee "simply does not reflect the fair market value of the
music as promised by the law." On the other side of the issue, the National
Association of Broadcasters said the rate "places a prohibitive financial
burden on radio-station streaming and will likely result in the termination
of this fledgling service to listeners." (Wall Street Journal 21 Jun 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1024608353756633200.djm,00.html
CELL PHONES OUTNUMBER PEOPLE IN TAIWAN
The rate of mobile phone ownership in Taiwan is 100.7%, says a new
government report, which noted that the number of cell phone users in that
country has jumped from 2 million to 22.6 million in just four years. In
many Taiwanese households, families have two or three cell phones, and some
people carry separate handsets for business communications and for keeping
in touch with friends and family. (Ananova 20 Jun 2002)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_612080.html?menu=news.technology
STATES SAY 'SHOW US THE CODE!'
Steven Kuney, the lead attorney for the nine states still in litigation
against Microsoft, said yesterday in closing arguments that requiring
Microsoft to disclose software interfaces -- which would allow competitors
to write programs that interoperate smoothly with Windows -- is the No. 1
remedy desired by the states. The statement followed an unusual pre-hearing
order by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly asking both sides to list the
penalties they deemed most important -- or most odious. Surprisingly, the
disclosure of code was ranked more important to the states than some of the
more controversial parts of their proposed penalties, including forcing
Microsoft to license a stripped-down version of Windows to competitors. The
judge's order came as a first sign that she may be seeking a compromise of
penalties that accommodates some of the demands set out by the states in
addition to the more lenient remedies included in Microsoft's settlement
with the Justice Department. Resolving the two lawsuits with one set of
penalties would take Kollar-Kotelly into uncharted legal territory, and is
opposed by the Justice Department, which has argued that as the prosecutor
of nationwide antitrust laws, its authority should be given deference.
(Financial Times 19 Jun 2002)
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=
StoryFT&cid=1024484355955&p=1012571727242
FEDS LAUNCH INVESTIGATION OF DRAM CHIPMAKERS
The U.S. Justice Department is looking into allegations of price collusion
among makers of DRAM memory chips, and has issued subpoenas to Micron
Technology, Samsung Electronics, Hynix Semiconductor and Infineon
Technologies, among others. Following industry consolidation in the past
couple of years, when a number of U.S. and Japanese chipmakers dropped out
of the market due to stiff competition and low profit margins, prices shot
up from an average of $1.97 in the fourth quarter of 2001 to $4.50 in the
first quarter of this year -- a price spike that quickly alarmed computer
makers. Dell Computer founder Michael Dell alleged at an investor
conference in April that the price increases resulted from "cartel-like
behavior by a couple DRAM suppliers." Memory-chip executives and many
analysts have disputed that interpretation, noting that the DRAM business
is "highly competitive and subject to extreme volatility." Meanwhile, the
Federal Trade Commission has filed a civil complaint against Rambus,
accusing it of coercing other chipmakers into adopting technical standards
for which it already held or was seeking patents. The government says
Rambus's efforts to charge royalties have raised prices for the memory chip
industry and shaken their faith in standards-setting bodies.
(Wall Street Journal 20 Jun 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1024476899580423080.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
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UNIVERSITIES LOSE MONEY TO STUDENT CELL PHONES
In the days of wired phone systems, many universities set up their own
telephone switchboards, acting as wholesalers for the student phone
market. Universities could run their own phone systems, charging
slightly more than they pay but less than local phone companies for
landline service to students. With more and more students choosing cell
phones over wired services, some universities are losing large amounts
of money. In the last two years, for example, the University of
California, Santa Barbara, has lost $500,000. Chico State's loss for
last year was $400,000. Some predict higher tuition rates to cover the
losses. Campuses including American University in Washington, D.C., and
the University of Southern Mississippi have opted to eliminate wired
phone service and instead equip all students with cell phones and
handheld computers. Associated Press, 24 June 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/444632p-3559225c.html
SOFTWARE SEARCHES FOR ILLEGAL MOVIES
A software program called Ranger searches Web sites, chat rooms,
newsgroups, and peer-to-peer file-sharing sites for illegal movies on
behalf of film studios represented by the Motion Picture Association of
America. Ranger covers 60 countries, searching in English, Chinese, and
Korean for pirate movie sites. Some of its targets object to the
software's findings, however. Internetmovies.com has filed suit
against the MPAA because Ranger identified its Web site as a movie
pirate in 2001, prompting the company's Internet service provider to
stop access. Washington Post, 18 June 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5144-2002Jun18.html
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MICROSOFT TAKES 1 JAVASTEP FORWARD, 1 JAVASTEP BACK
The latest step in Microsoft's long-standing race with Sun Microsystem's is
Microsoft's decision to include in the newest version of Windows XP a
version of Sun's Java software. The hitch is that Microsoft has chosen for
this purpose a version of Java that is five years old, and says it will
remove Java completely when its licensing agreement with Sun expires at the
beginning of 2003. Java allows a programmer to write a single program able
to run on different operating systems. (San Jose Mercury-News 18 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3497105.htm
'TOOTH PHONE'
Engineers in the UK say they've developed a tooth implant that incorporates
a tiny vibrator and a radio wave receiver, and is capable of functioning
like a tooth-based cell phone. The implant does not yet have its own
microchip installed, but inventors James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau say the
technology has been tested, and that a fully functional phone is feasible.
Sound, received as a digital radio signal, would be transferred to the
inner ear by bone resonance, enabling information to be received anywhere
and at any time, with no one else the wiser. The invention raises the
possibility of financial traders receiving the latest stock market updates
while taking in a movie, or politicians receiving a secret briefing on the
issues while being quizzed by reporters. (Reuters 18 Jun 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-937253.html
BRITISH "BIG BROTHER" DEBATE
Following fierce objections by civil libertarians and Conservative Party
politicians, the British government has shelved a plan to extend to local
governments the reach of a two-year old law allowing monitoring by police,
tax authorities and security services for reasons of national security or
serious crime prevention. Lord Strathclyde, Conservative leader in the House
of Lords, said: "We support the war on terrorism [but] we oppose district
councils being given power to survey private communications. Surely this
distressingly authoritarian government can see the difference."
(Reuters/San Jose Mercury-News 18 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3493594.htm
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The viability of Internet radio will be in danger if the Library of
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royalties too steep. Royalty rates and detailed reporting requirements
proposed earlier this year by a panel of arbitrators (and rejected without
comment last month by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington) would have
bankrupted many Webcasters. A new decision is expected this week. Broadcast
radio stations in the United States pay about 3 percent of their revenue as
royalties to music publishers, but are not required to pay performers; in
contrast, Webcasters have to pay additional royalty to performers under
terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
(Philadelphia Inquirer/SJMN 16 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3484256.htm
TELECOMMUTING STILL GAINING IN POPULARITY
The number of U.S. workers toiling at home three or more days a week rose
nearly 23%, from 3.4 million in 1990 to 4.2 million in 2000, according to
U.S. Census figures. Meanwhile, the estimated number of workers who
telecommute at least some portion of the week jumped more than 42% in two
years, from 19.6 million in 1999 to 28 million in 2001, according to the
International Telework Association and Council (ITAC). Most telecommuters
live in New England and on the East and West coasts in areas with dense
population and notorious traffic congestion, and more than two-thirds of
telecommuters polled for an ITAC survey expressed satisfaction over their
at-home worker status. "They're saying, 'This is three hours I don't need
to be in the car, and I could be with my kids, pick (up) the dry cleaning,
or whatever,'" says ITAC president Tim Kane. A formal E-Worker program
instituted two years ago at Cigna Corp. has seen productivity increases of
up to 15% among teleworkers while job turnover rates in some divisions of
the company were cut in half. (AP 16 Jun 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020616/D7K6EEM00.html
MUSIC DOWNLOADERS MAY BE RECORD LABELS' BEST CUSTOMERS
Four out of five people who download music from the Internet report that
their CD purchasing frequency either remained the same or increased,
according to a new study by Ipsos Reid that concludes downloading music and
burning CDs may actually stimulate legitimate sales. The research backs up
an earlier study by Jupiter Media Metrix that concluded people using
file-sharing networks were more likely to spend money on music. "While the
goal of this " was not to draw a link between file sharing, CD burners and
the slump in music sales, we can see that American music enthusiasts are
becoming increasingly acquainted with the flexibility that digital music
allows," says a senior research manager at Ipsos Reid. "As a result,
(American consumers) may be more apt to venture beyond the traditional
channels of music distribution as part of their audio behaviors."
(Wired.com 14 Jun 2002)
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,53157,00.html
RESEARCH FIRM SAYS PC SALES ON THE UPSWING
The technology research firm IDC is predicting that worldwide PC sales will
rise by 3-4.7% in 2002 and 11% in 2003. By contrast, in 2001 worldwide PC
shipments dropped 4% to 134 million units. IDC expects that the recent
merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq will put the new HP in the top
position for number of PCs sold in 2002. (AP/USA Today 13 Jun 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/invest/2002/06/13/pc-sales.htm
[For those of you who hate the way statistics are presented, this would
likely mean that about 1.5 billion PC's would be sold in this decade.
This is about one per family for the entire world, but obviously there
will still be a Digital Divide as some countries move past 50% of their
families having a PC, as the US already did, and others barely get started.]
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UK WEB SITE GUIDES LEGAL SNOOPERS
The British government has set up a Web site to advise qualified UK
government departments and organizations how to stay within legal
bounds in carrying out covert surveillance of British citizens' use of
their telephones, fax machines, Web browsers, and e-mail accounts.
Passage of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act in 2000 made it
easier for customs, tax, police, and intelligence services to get
permission to spy on criminals and citizens. The RIP Act removed the
requirement to obtain permission for surveillance from a judge and put
approval and oversight into the hands of the Office of Surveillance
Commissioners. BBC, 17 June 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2049000/2049593.stm
CAMPUS E-MAIL EXPOSED TO PUBLIC SCRUTINY
Many states identify administrators and professors at public colleges
as state employees, potentially exposing their letters, documents, and
e-mail to public scrutiny under freedom-of-information laws. Some
institutions have begun to update policies to safeguard personal e-mail
or warn professors to be careful what they write. Open-records laws
don't specify clearly whether professors' research notes, lecture
notes, or regular mail would qualify as public records, but most states
assume that state employees' e-mail messages are public records, even
when the law is ambiguous. Employees at private colleges can be exposed
as well, although not through open-records laws; a person would need to
obtain a court order or a subpoena, requiring involvement in litigation
against the college./Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 June 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i41/41a03101.htm
MICROSOFT MODIFIES CAMPUS LICENSING
In response to criticism from college administrators, Microsoft plans
to offer alternatives to three features of its Campus Agreement
licensing program. The new options will take effect July 1. The changes
reportedly permit more accurate financial forecasting through a
three-year lease, include server as well as desktop licenses, add
work-at-home licenses for most desktop software, and provide more
options for purchasing software licenses for students.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 June 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/06/2002061702t.htm
BEIJING CYBER CAFES CLOSED
Mayor Liu Qi has ordered the closure of all Beijing cyber cafes after a
fire killed at least 24 people and injured 13 others at the Lanjisu
Cyber Cafe. The mayor also suspended new licences for cyber cafes
awaiting safety inspections. Most of the victims of the fire were
students, taking advantage of the cyber cafe's inexpensive late-night
Internet rates.
BBC, 16 June 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_2048000/2048467
stm
CONGRESS SCRUTINIZES ICANN
Members of Congress on Wednesday said they would increase oversight of
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), though
there are no plans to take control of the organization. Since it was
awarded control of most of the domain-name system in 1998, ICANN has
been the subject of ongoing controversy, and many government officials
agree that ICANN needs to revise many of its policies and procedures.
ICANN's current contract expires in September, and some have hinted
that if acceptable reforms are not put in place, the contract may not
be renewed. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Nancy Victory defended some
of ICANN's contentious actions and said that even if another group
were running the domain-name system, the same problems would have to be
dealt with. New York Times, 12 June 2002 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-icann.html
UK WORRIES OVER PERSONAL PRIVACY
Privacy advocates in the United Kingdom reacted harshly this week to
the government's announcement that the list of organizations allowed
to obtain records of users' personal information would be
significantly expanded. Under the former terms of the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act, only law enforcement officials could legally
access such information as Web usage and records of e-mail or telephone
communications. The new rules allow 24 more organizations access to
this data. Privacy groups worry that many of the non-law enforcement
agencies are not prepared to handle private information securely and
that there will be new and widespread opprtunity for abuse. Concerns
were also raised over new provisions that allow access to personal
information without consent from a judge. Now, such access can be
granted by an agency's senior managers. BBC, 11 June 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2038000/2038036.stm
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CALCULATORS vs. HANDHELD COMPUTERS
As handheld computers become increasingly competitive with Texas Instrument
(TI) calculators for mathematical graphing, TI has been busy adding features
such as address books, organizers, and a large variety of spreadsheet
programs. The main advantage of handhelds, of course, is that they are
general-purpose devices. Nelson Heller, who publishes the Heller Report
newsletter on education technology, says that both calculators and handheld
computers are getting better but adds: "The question I see is whether a
specialized appliance like the graphing calculator will in the long run lose
out to a more generalized appliance like a PDA." Calculators, however, still
have two advantages: lower cost (about half of a PDA's cost) and
acceptability in testing situations, in that students are permitted to use
calculators but not handheld computers when taking the Scholastic Aptitude
Test. The reason? Fear that some students might use the infrared messaging
capability of handhelds to cheat on the test.
(AP/San Jose Mercury-News 12 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3453135.htm
[Of course, this doesn't mean PDA's aren't "better" than calcuators,
it just means that THEY have outlawed them for certain applications.]
IBM BREAKTHROUGH DOUBLES DATA STORAGE
IBM researchers have developed a way to double the amount of data it can
store per square inch, using what essentially are microscopic punch cards.
The new nanotechnology storage system, code-named Millipede, could be
capable of storing 25 million printed textbook pages on a surface the size
of a postage stamp -- about 20 times what is possible with techniques used
in today's hard drives. Millipede uses thousands of nanometer-scale tips to
punch indentations into a thin plastic film, in a technique reminiscent of
the punch cards used decades ago. Unlike the punch cards, however, the
plastic film can be erased and written over through techniques that
transform the heated film back into its original shape. IBM says the new
probe-storage technology could be used to boost the capacity of cell
phones, digital cameras and handheld computers in a few years. (Wall Street
Journal 11 Jun 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1023769076577387160.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
DETECTING CELL PHONES USED AS BUGGING DEVICES
An Israeli company has developed a device that can detect when a room is
being bugged by a modified cell phone, which an intruder could call from
anywhere in the world without it emitting a ringing tone. The phone's
screen remains blank and it appears to be turned off. A co-designer of the
device says, "The beauty of the cell phone as a bug is that it's an
innocent looking and ubiquitous object. People trust cell phones, but
modified and left in idle mode the cell phone can be used as a transmitter
for up to a week. If it's connected to a power supply it can provide
endless intelligence. Professional bugsweepers will ignore the cell phone
frequency since the phones are so common and not suspicious."
(Reuters 11 Jun 2002)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20020611/
tc_nm/tech_israel_netline_dc_1
ONLINE AUCTIONS THE NEWEST WAY TO FENCE STOLEN GOODS
Online auctions such as eBay are the newest way to fence stolen property,
because they're so anonymous and so simple. A Santa Clara prosecutor says:
"There's no need for the pawnbroker. Internet auctions have suddenly become
a really easy way to fence stuff." But law enforcement officials agree that
eBay is extremely diligent in helping authorities track down criminals, by
running sophisticated anti-fraud operations and by helping prosecutors
build legal cases. An executive of the National Consumer League reminds us:
"As we always say, if the deal is too good to be true, it usually isn't."
(San Jose Mercury-News 10 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3443962.htm
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DYSON SAY ICANN HAS BECOME 'A REAL CESSPOOL'
Esther Dyson, tech celeb and former chair of ICANN (the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), told an audience at the
Wharton business school that "ICANN has become a real cesspool," because
of its tangled disputes about authority, accountability, and openness.
The independent agency is in charge of managing policy for the Internet's
name and address systems. "When I was a young student, I thought grown-ups
would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids
with wrinkles. I only see juvenile behavior at ICANN."
(Public Policy & Management Emory, Jun 2002)
http://knowledge.emory.edu/articles.cfm?catid=9&articleid=517&homepage=yes
DANISH PUBLISHERS PROTEST DEEP LINKING
The Danish Newspaper Publishers' Association is suing a news Web site that
provides links directly to news stories, without going through the site's
home page. Newsbooster editor-in-chief Nicolai Lassen says linking directly
to the story saves the reader time: "From the home page down to the actual
story you want to read can be a very, very long way. By using a technology
such as Newsbooster, you save a lot of time." Newsbooster charges users a
subscription fee to send links to news items containing user-designated
keywords, and the Danish Newspaper Publishers' Association believes that it
should either shut down or negotiate to share those fees. "We consider it
unfair to base your business upon the works of others," says the group's
managing director. But to Internet purists, the whole point of Web is to
create linkages between relevant pages. If the Web's creators hadn't wanted
linking, "they would have called it the World Wide Straight Line," says one
Web site operator. In the U.S., early court decisions have sided with
deep-linking, except in cases of framing, where a site tries to make
information created by other sites appear to be its own. "It was one of
those issues that people thought was more or less settled. For whatever
reason, these last couple of months, a spate of new disputes have come up,"
says an Internet legal expert. (AP 10 Jun 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020610/D7K28Q3G0.html
[You May Have Noticed That Many Places, Even Such "User Friendly" Places
Such As pbs.org, Try Their Hardest To Make You Wade Through Levels of Ads]
APPLE NIBBLES AT WINDOWS MARKET
Apple Computer is thinking "different" about how to lure new customers, and
is launching an advertising campaign aimed at potential "switchers" --
computer users who might be coaxed into dropping Windows PCs for Apple
Macintoshes. The new, multimillion-dollar campaign, dubbed "Real People,"
features testimony from individuals, some of them celebrities, talking
about why they recently converted from PCs to Macs. In one spot, a man
describes the Window desktop as "the blue screen of death," and in another,
a man says using Windows was like "being stuck in a bad relationship."
Apple CEO Steve Jobs says the Windows market is an obvious place to start
recruiting new Mac users: "There are a lot more people out there that use
Windows computers than no computers, so that's a very rich target for us.
For those thinking of switching to the Mac, we'd like to help that process
along." Nevertheless, Jobs downplays any hint of discord between the two
companies: "We have a really good relationship with Microsoft right now.
The way I look at it is, what's a few points of market share between
friends?" (Wall Street Journal 10 Jun 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1023657621925178880.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
IS THERE A LAW THAT SAYS YOU HAVE TO WATCH COMMERCIALS?
Surely there isn't -- says Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) in his support for a
consumer lawsuit seeking to confirm that users of Sonicblue's ReplayTV
system have the lawful right to skip commercials when they record TV
programs for later viewing. The suit has been filed in the same federal
court in Los Angeles that is hearing a complaint from movie and television
studios that ReplayTV allows customers to violate their copyrights, arguing
that skipping commercials amounts to stealing. Sonicblue's position is:
"Basically we believe that consumers have 'fair-use' rights, and everything
consumers do with a ReplayTV is covered with 'fair use'."
(Reuters/USA Today 6 Jun 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/06/06/replaytv-sue.htm
STUDENTS PROVIDE BULK OF TECH SUPPORT IN SCHOOLS
Fifty-four percent of U.S. schools rely on students to provide technical
support for their computer systems, according to a report titled "Are We
There Yet?" (http://www.nsbf.org/thereyet/index.htm), released yesterday by
the National School Boards Foundation. In 43% of the 811 districts
surveyed, students troubleshoot for hardware, software and other problems,
and 39% of the districts, students are tasked with setting up equipment and
wiring. Nearly as many districts also report that students perform
technical maintenance. The fact that students are providing so much
hands-on assistance is viewed as a "win-win" situation by John Bailey,
director of education technology for the Department of Education. Their
tech savvy helps compensate for a dearth of tech support funding in school
budgets and teachers who are "unevenly prepared for using technology as a
tool for teaching and learning," according to the NSBF, which reports that
69% of the survey respondents rated new teachers as average or novices in
computer skills. The role reversal signals a shift in the relationship
between teachers and students as online lessons become integrated into the
school curriculum, says Anne Bryant, executive director of the National
School Boards Association: "Teachers become the guide on the side, instead
of the sage on the stage." (AP 5 Jun 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020605/D7JV8EP00.html
PC GLUT PROMPTS PRICE CUTS
PC makers are engaging in an unusually aggressive round of price cuts in
response to the industry's recent dismal sales results. April sales were
off 22.5%, compared with a year earlier, according to NPDTechworld, as the
industry badly misjudged consumer demand for higher-powered machines. As a
result, the number of unsold PCs is reaching unprecedented levels, with
some companies reporting up to nine weeks' worth of inventory stashed in
retailers' warehouses. The pressure to reduce inventory is exacerbated
further by the coming release of highly integrated chips and newer
software. For computer buyers, this confluence of unfortunate events all
adds up to an unusually good buying opportunity. "This is a really, really
unique time in retail," says an analyst at market watcher ARS. "Intel is in
the position of announcing new chips and manufacturers have this inventory
problem." (Wall Street Journal 6 Jun 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1023308096752298720.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
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NEW SERVICE BROADENS ONLINE LIBRARY RESOURCES
QuestionPoint, a project of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
and the Library of Congress, is a new service that will provide library
patrons with access to reference librarians worldwide. The service
refers questions submitted through a library Web site to librarians who
can offer help. Libraries that subscribe to QuestionPoint can choose
either or both of two levels of service. The first works with a
library's own staff or that of regional consortia to route questions.
The other level of service sends questions through the Global Reference
Network, an international group of libraries.
Information Today, 10 June 2002
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020610-1.htm
CONSUMERS GROUP SUES OVER TV RIGHTS
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit in federal court
to try to establish the legality of devices that let consumers watch
television programming without commercials and send copies of programs
over the Internet. The suit names as defendants many of the media
companies that recently sued SonicBlue, the maker of one such device.
Media companies, which are concerned about their revenue from
advertising, argue that watching programs without commercials is
tantamount to theft and that transmitting an entire program over the
Internet, as happens now with music files, is a violation of
intellectual property rights. An attorney with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation said there's a difference between being in a movie theater
and in one's living room, and that the entertainment industry is
trying to control consumers' personal habits.
Wall Street Journal, 6 June 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1023398010499260640,00.html
UK NEGOTIATES SOFTWARE COSTS, CONSIDERS OPEN SOURCE
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), an agency of the U.K.
Treasury, in March signed a contract with Microsoft that will
reportedly save taxpayers $147 million on software over the next three
years. The move came after the agency realized that separate
departments had formerly negotiated Microsoft contracts with large
differences in cost. The united front for negotiations not only will
save money but also opened the door for discussions about products from
other vendors, including open-source software products. A spokesman
from the OGC said he expects something concrete to emerge soon from the
discussions about open source. Critics said the government is merely
talking about changes and should do more to promote platforms such as
Linux. The government's focus, they say, is money rather than security.
InfoWorld, 5 June 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_873584_1794_9-10000.html
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(Note: This is the brother to Anthony Trollope, who authored 34 books
in the PG collection.)
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Total PG ebooks available online **AS OF 06/05/02**: 5,309
(This number includes the 71 etexts posted at the PG Australia web site)
In the first 22 weeks of the new year, we have produced 1,000 new eBooks.
Note: it took us from 1971 to 1997 to produce our *FIRST* 1,000 eBooks!!!
That's 22 WEEKS as Compared to 26 YEARS!!!
Aug 1997 La Divina Commedia di Dante in Italian, 7-bit text[0ddcdxxx.xxx]1000
My count is using "With 4,335 eTexts online as of January 9" from our first
Newsletter of this production year, and subtracting that from the 5309 we
have as our total now. . .I'm guessing the others might also be counting
the 33 eBooks listed in the January 2 Newsletter, about the difference.
5310-4335 = 975 My count
975 + 33 = 1008
1005 + 10 = 1015 George's Count
1018 Brett's Program
The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks of
production, each production-week starting/ending Wednesday noon,
starting with the first Wednesday in January. January 2nd was
was the first Wednesday of 2002, and thus ended the production
With 5,309 eTexts online as of June 5, 2002 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.88 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000
[One Trillion Dollars] in books.
100,000,000 readers is only about 1.6 percent of the world's population!
This "cost" is down from $2.83 when we had 3531 Etexts A Year Ago
Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing $.95 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing 33% less a year later???
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ENTERTAINMENT, TECH GROUPS TEAM ON PROTECTION STRATEGY
A group of entertainment, technology and consumer electronics companies has
proposed a new set of guidelines designed to allow consumers to copy
digital programming, but would block them from passing those copies on via
the Internet. The Broadcast Protection Discussion Group includes such
companies as Intel, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America and the major
movie studios. The report didn't recommend a set of technical standards,
nor did it include any legislative or regulatory recommendations about how
solutions should be implemented. A separate group of companies is expected
to deal with those issues. (Wall Street Journal 5 Jun 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1023248936950557600.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
[Soap Opera's for Computers?]
DUAL MARKETING STRATEGY FOR HP, COMPAQ PCs
Hewlett-Packard is looking to Procter & Gamble for inspiration on how to
capitalize on its HP and Compaq brands. Like P&G, which sells different
brands of soap and detergent side-by-side on grocery store shelves, HP has
decided to continue selling both HP and Compaq computers in retail stores
such as Circuit City and Best Buy. Analysts say the key to success will lie
in HP's ability to differentiate the brands, and HP executives say they'll
begin to do just that in the new product lineups slated for rollout over
the next few months. For instance, one brand could be "fun" and the other
"understated," says an IDC analyst. The fun brand would have more colorful
and interesting designs and come with multimedia software, whereas the
other brand would be "all business" and would feature productivity
software. HP's dual-brand approach is a smart move, says Mohan Sawhney, a
professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. "The
reach of two brands is greater. And competition between the two brands is
healthy, despite the cannibalization of sales."
(Investor's Business Daily 5 Jun 2002)
http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech.asp?v=6/5
COURT TO SONY: "WALKMAN" IS JUST ANOTHER WORD
Austria's supreme court has ruled against Sony in a trademark case in which
the Japanese electronics company challenged a wholesaler from treating
"Walkman" as a generic name for portable music players. The wholesaler had
used "Walkman" to refer to products not made by Sony. The judges based
their decision partly on the fact that that they'd found a German
dictionary definition of "Walkman" that did not mention Sony; they took
this to mean that the word is now a common noun. Sony says it will use
other legal means to pursue its trademark rights.
(Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 5 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3404471.htm
LIBERTY ALLIANCE SEEKS LIBERTY FROM WHOM?
The 43-member Liberty Alliance -- whose membership includes American
Express, AOL Time Warner, General Motors, Nokia, Sony, and United Airlines
-- is sometimes suspected of being simply an anti-Microsoft coalition,
because it seemed to be formed as a way of resisting Microsoft's plans to
use its ".Net Passport" technology to get a lock on Internet commerce. But
the Alliance denies that motivation, and has clarified its objectives. The
Liberty Alliance says its main goal is to develop open technical standards
to allow Web sites and companies to share data when they have customer
permission to do so. Different sets of credentials will be used for
different purposes (the way, by analogy, an individual's wallet might
contain a driver's license, credit cards, library cards, etc.).
(New York Times 3 Jun 2002)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/technology/03SOFT.html
COURT OVERTURNS LAW REQUIRING SOFTWARE FILTERS
A three-judge federal panel in Philadelphia struck down a provision of the
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requiring public libraries to
install software on library terminals to filter out pornographic material.
The law applied to libraries that received federal technology funding, and
supporters of the law had maintained that Congress has the right to decide
what it does or doesn't want to fund. But the Court ruled that the
legislation was fatally flawed because there currently exists no software
that can with complete precision filter only the targeted material -- and
nothing else by accident. The case is likely to be appealed to the U.S.
Supreme court. (San Jose Mercury-News 1 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3379690.htm
BODY ARMOR PROTECTS BITS UNDER FIRE
Xybernaut, a specialist in "wearable" PCs, is teaming up with Second Chance
Body Armor, the leading U.S. manufacturer of protective body gear, to create
high-tech body armor that incorporates computing capability. "They've
created a version of their body armor that is not only protecting the
individual but includes support and protection for the computing device,"
says a Xybernaut spokesman. "It can stop a .44 Magnum round or a 9mm
full-metal jacket, which covers a good portion of what you might face if
you're a soldier or a police officer on patrol. For somebody in a tactical
role, having a full PC equivalent that's body worn and gives you a number of
options for accessing the data can be a huge advantage." The body suit
originally was commissioned by the U.S. Army, which uses it for field repair
technicians and other noncombat positions, but military and police officials
have indicated interest in using the systems to feed intelligence and other
data to personnel in combat or patrol situations.
(CNet News.com 30 May 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-929031.html?tag=fd_top
FOUR LINUX VENDORS (BUT NOT RED HAT) FORM ALLIANCE
Linux software vendors Caldera, Turbolinx, SuSE and Conective -- but not
Linux industry leader Red Hat -- have formed an alliance called UnitedLinux
for joint distribution and R&D, and will sell jointly developed products
under their own names. Although Linux is given out free as part of the "open
source" programming movement, individual companies charge for technical
support and other services. Why wasn't Red Hat included in the alliance? It
was invited to join, but a Red Hat executive said: "We are not sure what to
make of it, because they called us yesterday and have been working on it for
months. We cannot join anything we don't understand."
(AP/San Jose Mercury-News 30 May 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3368020.htm
ACLU BLASTS USE OF FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a stinging criticism of
the use of computer-based face recognition systems to aid in the war against
terrorism. ACLU official Barry Steindardt says: "To have such a system in
place near the Statue of Liberty -- our nation9s beacon of liberty -- is
both ironic and disheartening. It may be a good sales stunt for the
manufacturer, but it is an insult to the American people and to those in law
enforcement who truly know how to keep us safe." The ACLU's position is that
the system has a high rate of "false positives" that wrongly match people
with photos of others, thereby subjecting people to "being pulled aside for
intrusive searches and security checks." (ACLU 24 May 2002)
http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n052402a.html
CELL PHONES AS TEENAGE FASHION STATEMENTS
One Seattle teenager apparently sums up the spirit of a whole generation:
"Individuality is really important with phones. I don't want the same phone
as everyone else." Trying to rise to that challenge, manufacturers are now
producing cell phones designed specifically for the teenage market.
Wildseed, a small cell phone company in Washington, says the key to that
market is not smaller, lighter, sleeker phones, but pizzazz, because the
things teenagers want from their cell phones are music, messaging, games,
personality, and individuality. The company is customizing its new products
around fashion themes and giving them "smart skins" that will allow
teenagers to change a phone's functions as well as its appearance.
So the question of the day isn't
Where do you want to go?
But who do you want to be?
(New York Times 30 May 2002)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/30/technology/circuits/30TEEN.html
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CLOSE TO SPAM BAN
A bill that would outlaw unsolicited commercial e-mail and prohibit the
unauthorized placement of files (such as cookies) on people's computers is
close to passage in the European Parliament. In a nod to heightened
concerns over cybercrime and terrorist activities, the bill would also give
European law enforcement officials greater access to electronic records of
people's phone calls and Web visits by allowing the retention of such
records "for a limited period" to safeguard national security and aid the
"prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal
offenses." The proposed legislation is the result of two years of intense
lobbying by consumer groups, e-commerce firms, law-enforcement officials
and privacy advocates. "We'll get a good and delicate balance between the
needs of law-enforcement agencies and the respect of human rights," says a
spokesman for the European Commission. (Wall Street Journal 29 May 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1022615363371120040.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
XBOX 'MOD' CHIPS HIT THE MARKET
The first Xbox "mod chips" are now available, raising the possibility that
some Xbox owners could use the copy-protection disabling features to play
copy-protected CDs and DVDs. Buyers of the Xtender, the Enigma and the
Messiah mod chips are promised the ability to play games copied on
recordable CD and DVD discs, play otherwise inaccessible foreign titles,
and copy DVD movie discs otherwise protected by software from Macrovision.
Analysts say the new chips are unlikely to inspire a wave of Napster-like
file-swapping, however, mostly because installing the chips requires
disassembling the Xbox case and affixing the chip to the circuit board, a
task that could require more than 20 soldering connections. "I don't see
(illegal file-swapping) as a huge concern moving forward," says P.J.
McNealy, a Gartner research director. "This is pretty sophisticated stuff,
something the average consumer can't handle." (CNet News.com 28 May 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-924666.html
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REPORT SAYS DIGITAL DIVIDE STILL EXISTS
A new report from the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, the
Consumer Federation of America, and the Consumers Union argues that the
Bush administration has ended its efforts to address the digital divide
before the gap is nearly closed. The report says that low-income groups
continue to lag significantly behind higher income people in terms of
Internet access and access to broadband services. According to the
report, U.S. households with annual incomes of $50,000 or more are
three times as likely to have Internet access as households with
incomes of less than $25,000. The groups that authored the report also
criticized the administration for eliminating the Technology
Opportunities Program and the Community Technology Centers program,
both of which have lost their funding in the 2003 budget.
Washington Post, 30 May 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35195-2002May30.html
COURT THROWS OUT CIPA
A U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania found the Children's Internet
Protection Act (CIPA) to be unconstitutional, violating the First
Amendment. The law would have required libraries to install Internet
filters to block pornographic or other age-sensitive content. Those
that did not install filters risked losing federal funding. But the
court declared that filters block some content that is not
objectionable and is protected speech. The judges also noted that
filters cannot likely block all material that they try to restrict. The
ruling was supported by the American Civil Liberties Union and the
American Library Association, both of which have fought the law since
it was passed in 2000. A spokesman from N2H2, a maker of software
filters, said he thought the court would issue a more moderate ruling.
"[I]t seems like the court expects us to be 100 percent," he said.
CNET, 31 May 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-929577.html
ELECTRONIC TRANSCRIPTS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
A new service in British Columbia allows electronic transfer of student
transcripts. An arrangement in the province allows students to take
courses at different institutions. Because of that, the 27
postsecondary institutions in the province process approximately
250,000 transcript requests per year. The new system, which cost only
about $91,000 to develop, will pay for itself in postage alone. The
service also will speed up the processing of applications to higher
education programs in British Columbia. Initially, seven instititions
will participate, with most of the rest expected to join later this year.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 May 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002053001t.htm
LIBERTY ALLIANCE ADDS MEMBERS
The Liberty Alliance, which was created to compete directly with
Microsoft's Passport program, has added five new members: Cingular
Wireless, i2 Technologies, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, SAP, and
Wave Systems. The Alliance contends that Passport presents a danger
to individuals' privacy because it aims to collect users' personal
information and store it in a single location. One goal of the Alliance
is to create standards for an open, authentication-sharing model,
which will allow applications from different vendors to interoperate.
The Alliance is attempting to garner support from private industry,
government, and nonprofit organizations. Its first specification is
due to be released this summer.
InfoWorld, 30 May 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_868825_1794_9-10000.html
PASSPORT COMES UNDER SCRUTINY BY EU
The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU),
is investigating whether Microsoft's .NET system violates European
privacy regulations. EU rules allow companies to collect personal
information on customers only when those customers are notified and
when the company can demonstrate a legitimate purpose. Part of
Microsoft's .NET initiative is Passport, which collects and stores
personal data for users so that they only have to enter that
information one time. When a user visits a Web site that is part of the
Passport program, Microsoft releases the user's profile to the site's
owner. A spokesman from Microsoft said the company is aware of the
investigation but not of any specific concerns. He said Passport
complies with a "safe harbor" agreement, which guarantees adequate
protection of personal information, that Microsoft signed last year.
New York Times, 28 May 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/28/technology/28SOFT.html
MONSTERHUT SUED FOR SPAMMING
The state of New York has filed a lawsuit against MonsterHut Inc.,
charging that the organization falsely represented its e-mail
advertising program as "opt-in" and sent more than 500 million
unsolicited spam e-mails. MonsterHut, whose messages promoted
businesses including Overstock.com and ProFlowers.com, came under
pressure recently from its ISP, PaeTec Communications, which tried to
discontinue service to MonsterHut in response to complaints PaeTec had
received. A court found that PaeTec's contract with MonsterHut did not
allow them to discontinue service. Now the state lawsuit aims to force
MonsterHut to end its unsolicited e-mails and to disclose the source of
e-mail addresses.
Newsbytes, 28 May 2002
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176784.html
LIBRARY DEAL PUTS NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES ONLINE
An arrangement between the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC)
and Olive Software will digitize libraries' archives of newspaper
content and put that content online. Libraries can use Olive Software
to build an electronic archive, including index, of newspaper content.
Under the new program, OCLC will be the sole distributor of the
software to the library market. The first stages of the project will
focus primarily on older newspapers, from the 18th and 19th centuries,
that are in the public domain. After collections have been digitized,
libraries can host them on their own servers or on OCLC's server.
Libraries maintain control of the content and its distribution,
and OCLC will offer a premium service where users can pay for
access to the full text of some content.
Information Today, 28 May 2002
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020528-1.htm
HEAD OF ICANN TO STEP DOWN
Stuart Lynn, the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN), has announced that he will leave the
organization next March, at the end of his first two-year term. Lynn
cited the stress and "7-by-24" nature of the job as his reason for
leaving. He said he hopes to finalize a controversial reform of the
organization before his term expires. At issue is the method for
electing members of the ICANN board. Critics of ICANN have said that
the board must include some members who are chosen through public
elections. Lynn has opposed this process, saying that a more
appropriate mechanism is to have members elected by world governments.
Washington Post, 28 May 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22416-2002May28.html
LINUX VENDORS TO TAKE ON RED HAT
A group of Linux vendors, representing different geographical markets,
is expected Thursday to announce a standardized Linux distribution, in
an attempt to take some of the market from Red Hat. Analysts said the
companies involved, Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, and Turbolinux, will
likely establish a single distribution that contains the best that each
has to offer. Red Hat is the leading distributor in the Linux market,
and some anaylsts questioned whether the smaller vendors are offering
"too little, too late." Complicating matters is a new Linux
distribution from Sun Microsystems, expected later this year.
eWeek, 28 May 2002
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=1884&a=27405,00.asp
NEW TOOL AIMS TO SKIRT ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
In response to a new law in the UK giving law enforcement officials the
right to snoop into electronic communications, a group of computer
activists is developing a system called M-o-o-t, which keeps data out
of the hands of law enforcement. The new law, the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), allows government to demand the
encryption keys to decode electronic communications. M-o-o-t
circumvents that by storing data, as well as encryption keys, on
overseas servers, outside the jurisdiction of the UK. Critics said
M-o-o-t is unnecessary and potentially a dangerous tool for criminals.
Makers of M-o-o-t said the benefits of keeping the government out of
private data are far greater than the risks the tool creates.
New Scientist, 28 May 2002
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992335
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Feb 1997 Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift [Swift #2] [gltrvxxx.xxx] 829
[HTML gltrv10h..htm/.zip]
(Also: minor update to text, no change to edition number.)
Oct 2003 Cinq Semaines En Ballon, By Jules Verne[Verne #20][?cinqxxx.xxx]4548
[HTML in 8cinq10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2003 The Student's Elements of Geology, Charles Lyell [geogyxxx.xxx]3772
[HTML in geogy10h.htm/.zip]
(Note: the HTML edition is in .zip format only, includes many image
(files; this is an 8.6MB download.)
We have posted an improved 11th edition of the following, also
posted in HTML format:
Jun 1993 Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau[thoreau#1][civilxxx.xxx] 71
[Full title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience]
Jul 1996 Catriona (Kidnapped2) by Robt L. Stevenson[RLS#25][ctrnaxxx.xxx] 589
[Plain text version in ctrna11.txt/.zip, HTML in ctrna11h.htm/.zip]
We have posted the following etext in LaTeX format:
Apr 2001 Grimms' Fairy Tales, by the Grimm Brothers [grimmxxx.xxx]2591
[LaTeX version in grimm10t.tex/.zip]
We have posted the following etext in MP3 audio format (voice
readings); and we have also posted an improved 11th edition,
as indicated:
Jul 1992 The Time Machine, H.G. Wells [Herbert George #1][timemxxx.xxx] 35
[timem11s.zip is the text divided into sub-parts]
[MP3 audio format available in timem?3.mp3 where ? is a-m; all 13
[parts are in timemam3.zip]
We have posted an improved 11th edition of the following:
Sep 2001 Eben Holden, by Irving Bacheller [bnhldxxx.xxx]2799
Feb 2000 The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[#7][blthdxxx.xxx]2081
May 1998 The Virginian, Horseman Of The Plains, Owen Wister[vrgnnxxx.xxx]1298
Jan 1996 The Crossing by Winston Churchill[US Churchill #1][tcrosxxx.xxx] 388
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Recently, a major cleanup and reconciliation of the etext directories has
resulted in several Shakespeare etexts being "found", which had previously
been listed as "Reserved", and not counted in the overall etext total.
Here is the list of those seven Shakespeare etexts:
Jun 1999 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [1ws3411x.xxx]1795
Jun 1999 Othello, by William Shakespeare [1ws3211x.xxx]1793
Jun 1999 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [1ws3111x.xxx]1792
Jun 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Shakespeare [1ws1711x.xxx]1778
Jun 1999 Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare [1ws1611x.xxx]1777
Jun 1999 Sir John Oldcastle, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws0911x.xxx]1771
Jun 1999 Henry the Sixth, Part One, Shakespeare [1ws0111x.xxx]1765
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Apr 2004 Cleopatra, by Ebers, Complete [GE#44][ge44vxxx.xxx]5482
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5473-5481]
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Apr 2004 Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#38][ge38vxxx.xxx]5476
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Apr 2004 Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#36][ge36vxxx.xxx]5474
Apr 2004 Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#35][ge35vxxx.xxx]5473
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Ebers, Complete [GE#34][ge34vxxx.xxx]5472
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5467-5471]
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#33][ge33vxxx.xxx]5471
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#32][ge32vxxx.xxx]5470
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#31][ge31vxxx.xxx]5469
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#30][ge30vxxx.xxx]5468
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#29][ge29vxxx.xxx]5467
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Ebers, Complete [GE#28][ge28vxxx.xxx]5466
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5461-5465]
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#27][ge27vxxx.xxx]5465
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#26][ge26vxxx.xxx]5464
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#25][ge25vxxx.xxx]5463
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#24][ge24vxxx.xxx]5462
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#23][ge23vxxx.xxx]5461
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Ebers, Complete [GE#22][ge22vxxx.xxx]5460
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5450-5459]
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v10 [GE#21][ge21vxxx.xxx]5459
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v9 [GE#20][ge20vxxx.xxx]5458
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v8 [GE#19][ge19vxxx.xxx]5457
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v7 [GE#18][ge18vxxx.xxx]5456
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v6 [GE#17][ge17vxxx.xxx]5455
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#16][ge16vxxx.xxx]5454
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#15][ge15vxxx.xxx]5453
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#14][ge14vxxx.xxx]5452
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#13][ge13vxxx.xxx]5451
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#12][ge12vxxx.xxx]5450
Mar 2004 The Parish Register, by George Crabbe [Crabbe#4][gcrdxxx.xxx]5208
Mar 2004 The Guns of Shiloh, by Joseph A. Altsheler [JAA#4][tgnshxxx.xxx]5207
Mar 2004 Fires and Firemen, Anon. [EM#1][firemxxx.xxx]5206
[Subtitle: From the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art
Vol XXXV No. 1, May 1855]
Mar 2004 Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis, 1858 [sphjdxxx.xxx]5205
[Full title: Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi,
Delivered During the Summer of 1858]
[Plain text version in sphjd10.txt/.zip, HTML in sphjd10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick", by B.W. Matz [nspwkxxx.xxx]5204
Mar 2004 The Village and The Newspaper, by George Crabbe[#3][gcrcxxx.xxx]5203
Mar 2004 The Golden Lion of Granpere, by Trollope [#35][gldlxxx.xxx]5202
[Plain text version in gldlxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in gldlxxhx.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Don Juan Tenorio, by Jose Zorrilla [8djtnxxx.xxx]5201C
[Translated by N. K. Mayberry & A. S. Kline]
Feb 2004 Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, trans. by David Wyllie[metamxxx.xxx]5200C
[Plain text version in metam10.txt/.zip, RTF in metam10r.rtf/.zip]
[HTML in metam10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 South, by Sir Ernest Shackleton [southxxx.xxx]5199
[Subtitle: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917]
Feb 2004 The Library, George Crabbe [#2][gcrbxxx.xxx]5198
[Plain text version in gcrbxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in gcrbxxhx.htm/.zip]
Feb 004 My Life, Volume I, by Richard Wagner [wglf1xxx.xxx]5197
Feb 2004 Their Mariposa Legend, by Charlotte Herr [maripxxx.xxx]5196
[Subtitle: A Romance of Santa Catalina]
Feb 2004 Cape Cod Stories, by Joseph C. Lincoln[Lincoln#11][cacodxxx.xxx]5195
[Note: Also published under the title "The Old Home House"]
Feb 2004 The Ivory Trail, by Talbot Mundy [Mundy#3][ivtraxxx.xxx]5194
Feb 2004 The Double Widowing, R. Dufresny, Morlock tr. [#3][douwixxx.xxx]5193C
[Author's full name: Riviere Dufresny, translated by Frank Morlock]
20
Feb 2004 On a Dynamical Top, by James Clerk Maxwell [JCM#2][dytopxxx.xxx]5192
[Full title: On a Dynamical Top, for exhibiting the phenomena of the
motion of a system of invariable form about a fixed point, with some
suggestions as to the Earth's motion]
(Note: There is no plain text, due to the large number of equations
that do not display correctly in plain text. Files are in PDF,
TeX and HTML; they're all zipped, because each includes multiple
files:)
[PDF in dytop10p.zip; TeX in dytop10t.zip; HTML in dytop10h.zip]
Feb 2004 The Case of Summerfield, by William Henry Rhodes [casumxxx.xxx]5191
(Also note: We are working to make more eBooks with mathematics and
special symbols available, and appreciate any feedback you might have.)
Feb 2004 Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050[2][jbbb5xxx.xxx]5190
[Author's Full Name: Johann Sebastian Bach]
[Musical score in Finale MUS format, zip file only in jbbb510.zip]
Feb 2004 String Quartet C minor, Op. 51 no. 1, J. Brahms[1][jb511xxx.xxx]5189
[Author's Full Name: Johannes Brahms]
[Musical score in Finale MUS format, zip file only in jb51110.zip]
Feb 2004 String Quarted in C Major, Op. 71 no. 1, Haydn[#2][fh741xxx.xxx]5188
[Author's Full Name: Franz Josef Haydn]
[Musical score in Finale MUS format, see README.TXT for instructions;]
[Zip file only in fh74110.zip]
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Feb 2004 Miss Minerva and William Green Hill,by F.B.Calhoun[mmwghxxx.xxx]5187
[Full author: Frances Boyd Calhoun]
Feb 2004 The Kalevala (complete), John Crawford, trans. [kalecxxx.xxx]5186
Feb 2004 The Kalevala book 2, John Martin Crawford, trans. [kale2xxx.xxx]5185
Feb 2004 The Kalevala book 1, John Martin Crawford, trans. [kale1xxx.xxx]5184
[Subtitle: The Epic Poem of Finland]
Feb 2004 Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage, Wright [wsuffxxx.xxx]5183
[Full title: The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage]
[Author's Full Name: Almroth E. Wright]
Feb 2004 The Old English Baron, by Clara Reeve [oebarxxx.xxx]5182
Feb 2004 Inebriety and the Candidate, George Crabbe [#1][gcraxxx.xxx]5181
[Plain text version in gcraxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in gcraxxhx.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling [ciparxxx.xxx]5180
[Author: United States District Court for the Eastern District
[of Pennsylvania]
[Authors AKA: Judges Becker, Fullam and Bartle]
[Subtitle: Dated May 31, 2002]
[Plain text in cipar10.txt/.zip, RTF in cipar10r.rtf/.zip]
(Note: This is an important ruling for Project Gutenberg, in that is
removes the necessity for US libraries to run filtering software
as had been ordered by the CIPA legislation. PG doesn't usually
distribute legislation and rulings, but in this case it seemed
worthwhile. At 195 pages, the ruling is an extensive and informed
look at Internet use and censorship.)
Feb 2004 A Siren, by Thomas Adolphus Trollope [sirenxxx.xxx]5179
(Note: This is the brother to Anthony Trollope, who authored 34 books
in the PG collection.)
Feb 2004 Le Mariage Force, by Moliere [Moliere #6][?marfxxx.xxx]5178
[Author AKA Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] [Language: French]
[7-bit plain text in 7marf10.txt/.zip, 8-bit accented in 8marf10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2004 Birds and Poets, by John Burroughs [Burroughs#3][?bpoexxx.xxx]5177
[Subtitle: With Other Papers]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7bpoe10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8bpoe10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2004 Corpus of a Siam Mosquito, Steven Sills [siammxxx.xxx]5176C
[Plain text version in siamm10.txt/.zip, HTML in siamm10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 Pearl-Maiden, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard#37][prlmaxxx.xxx]5175
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem]
Feb 2004 Allan and the Holy Flower, H. Rider Haggard [#36][allhfxxx.xxx]5174
Feb 2004 The Religion of the Samurai, by Kaiten Nukariya [samurxxx.xxx]5173
[Subtitle: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan]
Feb 2004 Aladdin O'Brien, by Gouverneur Morris [lddnbxxx.xxx]5172
Feb 2004 Thomas Hariot, by Henry Stevens [tharixxx.xxx]5171
[Subtitle: The Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar]
Feb 2004 Poems of Experience, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox [#7][pexpxxxx.xxx]5170
[Plain text version in pexpxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in pexpxxh.htm and .zip]
Feb 2004 Hardscrabble, by John Richardson [Richardson#8][hrdscxxx.xxx]5169
Feb 2004 The Land Of Heart's Desire, by W. B. Yeats [#2][lnhtdxxx.xxx]5168
Feb 2004 The Countess Cathleen, by William Butler Yeats[#1][cntscxxx.xxx]5167
Feb 2004 The Poetaster, by Ben Jonson [Jonson#8][ptstrxxx.xxx]5166
Feb 2004 Innocent, by Marie Corelli [Corelli#10][nncntxxx.xxx]5165
Feb 2004 The Beetle, by Richard Marsh [thbtlxxx.xxx]5164
Feb 2004 Guy Garrick, by Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve#10][gygrrxxx.xxx]5163
Feb 2004 Agatha Webb, by Anna Katherine Green [Green#9][gthwbxxx.xxx]5162
[Author AKA: Mrs. Charles Rohlfs]
Feb 2004 The Treasure, by Selma Lagerlof [thtrsxxx.xxx]5161
Feb 2004 The Mabinogion (trans. Lady Charlotte Guest) [mbngxxxx.xxx]5160
[Plain text version in mbngxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in mbngxxh.htm and .zip]
Feb 2004 Celtic Literature, by Matthew Arnold [Arnold#2][celtxxxx.xxx]5159
[Plain text version in celtxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in celtxxhx.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 Le Lutrin, by Boileau [?lutrxx.xxx]5158
[Author AKA: Nicolas Boileau-Despr_aux]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7lutr10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8lutr10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2004 How I Found Livingstone, by Sir Henry M. Stanley [hiflixxx.xxx]5157
[Subtitle: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa including
[four months residence with Dr. Livingstone. Abridged.]
Feb 2004 Beechcroft at Rockstone, by C. Yonge [Yonge#29][brockxxx.xxx]5156
[Author's Full Name: Charlotte M. Yonge]
[Plain text version in brock10.txt/.zip, HTML in brock10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 Caesar's Column, by Ignatius Donnelly [Donnelly#2][?ccolxxx.xxx]5155
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7ccol10.txt and 7ccol10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8ccol10.txt and 8ccol10.zip]
[HTML in 8ccol10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 La b_te humaine, by Emile Zola [Zola#6][?bhumxxx.xxx]5154
[Language: French][#17 in the "Les Rougon-Macquart" series]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7bhum10.txt/.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8bhum10.txt/.zip]
Feb 2004 Rung Ho!, by Talbot Mundy [Mundy#2][runghxxx.xxx]5153
Feb 2004 One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture [calagxxx.xxx]5152
[Full Title: One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered]
[Author: E.J. Wickson]
Feb 2004 The Exploits of Elaine, Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve#9][eelaixxx.xxx]5151
Feb 2004 The Ear in the Wall, by Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve#8][earwaxxx.xxx]5150
Feb 2004 The Gold of the Gods, by Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve#7][goldgxxx.xxx]5149
Feb 2004 Rodney Stone, by Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle#31][rdstxxxx.xxx]5148
[Plain text version in rdst10.txt/.zip, HTML in rdst10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 Le Jardin d'Epicure, by Anatole France [France#8][?jrdcxxx.xxx]5147
Feb 2004 The Fighting Governor, by Charles W. Colby [Ca#7][cca07xxx.xxx]5146
[This is #7 in our series Chronicles of Canada, edited by George M. Wrong
[and H. H. Langton, #2 by Charles W. Colby]
[Subtitle: A Chronicle of Frontenac]
Feb 2004 The Heart Of The Hills, by John Fox, Jr [JFJ#8][hrthlxxx.xxx]5145
Feb 2004 My Life, Volume II, by Richard Wagner [Wagner#2][wglf2xxx.xxx]5144
Feb 2004 The Auction Block, by Rex Beach [Beach#5][ctnbkxxx.xxx]5143
Feb 2004 Graustark, by George Barr McCutcheon[McCutcheon#2][grstkxxx.xxx]5142
Feb 2004 What Katy Did At School, by Susan Coolidge [SC#2][ktyscxxx.xxx]5141
Feb 2004 He Knew He Was Right, by Anthony Trollope [AT#34][hknrtxxx.xxx]5140
Feb 2004 Tales by Carl Ewald, Translated by Dawid Wiskott [8cewaxxx.xxx]5139C
[In Hebrew. In Unicode as 8cewa10.txt/zip and RTF at 8cewa10r.rtf/zip]
Feb 2004 Le Monde comme il va, vision de Babouc,Voltaire 12[?baboxxx.xxx]5138
[Author AKA: Jean-Marie Arouet] [Language: French]
Feb 2004 Fair Em, Shakespeare Apocrypha [ws#54][fairmxxx.xxx]5137
Feb 2004 Around the World on a Bicycle V1,Thomas Stevens[1][awbv1xxx.xxx]5136
[Subtitle: From San Francisco to Teheran]
Feb 2004 The Fortune of the Rougons, by Emile Zola [Zola#5][frougxxx.xxx]5135
Feb 2004 Discoveries and Some Poems, by Ben Jonson[Jonson#7][dscvxxx.xxx]5134
[Plain text version in dscv10.txt/.zip, HTML in dscv10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 Quotations From John L. Motley, by D. Widger [#19][dwqjmxxx.xxx]5133
[Quotations from the PG History of the Netherlands of John Lotrop Motley]
Feb 2004 Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope [#1][ltwwxxx.xxx]5132
[Author's Full Name: Lord Bolingbroke]
Feb 2004 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron [Byron#1][chplxxx.xxx]5131
Feb 2004 Don Juan, ou le Festin de pierre, by Moliere [#5][?djuaxxx.xxx]5130
[Author AKA Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7djuaxxx.txt and .zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8djuaxxx.txt and .zip]
Feb 2004 The Prodigal Judge, by Vaughan Kester [projuxxx.xxx]5129
Feb 2004 The Young Carthaginian, by G.A. Henty [Henty#9][yocarxxx.xxx]5128
[Subtitle: A Story of the Times of Hannibal]
Feb 2004 Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown,Lang [#36][sbunxxx.xxx]5127
[Author's Full Name: Andrew Lang]
[Plain text version in sbunxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in sbunxxh.htm and .zip]
Feb 2004 Robur-le-Conquerant, Jules Verne [Verne #27][?robuxxx.xxx]5126
[Language: French]
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[8-bit version with accented characters in 8xxxxxxx.txt and .zip]
[HTML version in xxxxxxh.htm and .zip]
Feb 2004 Last Poems, by Laurence Hope [lpoemxxx.xxx]5125
[Author AKA: Adela Florence Cory "Violet" Nicolson]
[Subtitle: Translations from the Book of Indian Love]
Feb 2004 Henrietta's Wish, by Charlotte M. Yonge [Yonge#28][hwishxxx.xxx]5124
Feb 2004 The Context in America, John Stuart Mill [conamxxx.xxx]5123
[Plain text version in conamxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in conamxxh.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, by John Fox,Jr[#7][lnspnxxx.xxx]5122
Feb 2004 Dark Hollow, by Anna Katherine Green [Green#8][drkhlxxx.xxx]5121
Feb 2004 Vandrad the Viking, by J. Storer Clouston [vndrdxxx.xxx]5120
Feb 2004 The Lion and the Mouse, by Charles Klein [lnmsexxx.xxx]5119
Feb 2004 The American Senator, by Anthony Trollope [AT#33][mrcsnxxx.xxx]5118
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CHANGES TO XP ALLOW USERS TO ADD NON-MICROSOFT APPLICATIONS
As part of its proposed settlement last year with nine states and the
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Wall Street Journal, 24 May 2002
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programs for purchasing software and replace them with a subscription
model has upset many and spawned debates about the direction of the
software industry. Many customers have shied away from the subscription
agreements, saying they will cost more and won't provide the level of
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InfoWorld, 21 May 2002 http://www.idg.net/ic_864909_1794_9-10000.html
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said, "The ill will generated with the customer is going to take a long
time to dissipate." Giga cited a report that indicates one-third of
current Microsoft customers are undecided, while another third have a
wait-and-see attitude. Gira conceded that the current licensing program
for software does need to be overhauled, but said the way Microsoft has
handled the change will likely alienate many customers. Her comments
did echo those of Gartner when she said that those who wait may pay
much more later, and that current customers should make a decision
soon, before the deadline arrives.
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Apr 2004 Cleopatra, by Ebers, Complete [GE#44][ge44vxxx.xxx]5482
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Apr 2004 Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers, v9 [GE#43][ge43vxxx.xxx]5481
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Apr 2004 Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#37][ge37vxxx.xxx]5475
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Apr 2004 Cleopatra, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#35][ge35vxxx.xxx]5473
Feb 2004 Celtic Literature, by Matthew Arnold [Arnold#2][celtxxxx.xxx]5159
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Feb 2004 Le Lutrin, by Boileau [?lutrxx.xxx]5158
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Feb 2004 How I Found Livingstone, by Sir Henry M. Stanley [hiflixxx.xxx]5157
[Subtitle: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa including
[four months residence with Dr. Livingstone. Abridged.]
Feb 2004 Beechcroft at Rockstone, by C. Yonge [Yonge#29][brockxxx.xxx]5156
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Feb 2004 Caesar's Column, by Ignatius Donnelly [Donnelly#2][?ccolxxx.xxx]5155
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Jun 1997 The Cook's Decameron, by Mrs. W. G. Water [ckdecxxx.xxx] 930
Jun 1997 The Cyberpunk Fakebook, by St. Jude & R.U. Sirius [fakebxxx.xxx] 929C
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WEB ROYALTY RATES REJECTED
Librarian of Congress James Billington has rejected the royalty rates
proposed for online radio, which had been strongly criticized by
webcasters. The suggested rates would have required Web-only radio stations
to pay 0.14 cent per song per listener, an amount that many webcasters said
would drive them out of business. Billington gave no explanation for his
decision, other than he was acting at the recommendation of Marybeth
Peters, the registrar of copyrights. The Recording Industry Association of
America, which had supported the rates, said that Billington's decision
doesn't imply anything about the final outcome of the debate over rates.
(Wall Street Journal 22 May 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1021996506906717920.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
[More Lo-Tek Responses To Hi-Tech DRM]
HI-TECH CDs YIELD TO LOW-TECH FELT-TIP MARKER TRICK
Sony's elaborate "Key2Audio" CD copy-protection technology has succumbed to
a decidedly low-tech felt-tip marker used to scribble around the rim of a
disc. Internet postings say that tape or even a sticky note can be used to
cover the security track, typically located on the disc's outer edge. The
technology prevents users from playing the CDs on a computer by adding a
track that contains bogus data. Because computer drives are programmed to
read data files first, the PC tries to play the bogus data file over and
over again and never gets to the music files elsewhere on the disc. The
result is a CD that will play on standard CD players, but not on CD-ROM
drives, some portable devices and even some car stereo systems. Sony has
shipped more than 11 million copy-protected CDs in Europe, with the largest
number going to Germany -- a market executives say is a hotbed of illegal
CD-burning. (Reuters 20 May 2002)
http://www1.excite.com/home/technology/tech_article/0,2109,237089|technology
|05-20-2002::13:19|reuters,00.html
MICROSOFT MAKES IT EASIER TO SWITCH FROM AOL
Microsoft is launching a $10-million ad campaign to promote its new
"switching" service that takes the pain out of changing e-mail accounts for
former AOL users. In addition, Microsoft is offering a $50 rebate to
customers who sign up for MSN under the new plan and pay for the service
for at least three months. The new switch service helps AOL subscribers
automatically move their information to MSN, including address books and
online calendar data, as well as e-mail. The service then takes care of
canceling all AOL accounts and can send a message to everyone in the user's
address book to alert them to the change in e-mail addresses. The service
works only with former AOL customers and not with data stored with other
ISPs, such as EarthLink. (Wall Street Journal 20 May 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1021935823888818840.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
SUMERIAN DICTIONARY PROJECT
The five-thousand-year-old cuneiform writing system used starting around
3200 B.C. by Babylon, Chaldea, and other civilizations of Mesopotamia, is
going online in dictionary, photographic and 3D forms, and a team led by
Sumerian-language expert Steve Tinney of the University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is translating cuneiform into
English online (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~melindag/psdmain.html). The work
is being partly supported by grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities. (USA Today 21 May 2002)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/2002/05/21/cuneiform.htm
ONLINE PRIVACY BILL DELAYED
Parliamentary maneuvering has delayed consideration of a Senate bill that
would protect individual privacy on the Internet and regulate how
businesses may use customer e-mail addresses and other personal data. The
proposed legislation would also limit how businesses may use phone numbers,
purchase records, and other data collected through their Web sites, and
would require online businesses to get customer permission before
collecting or sharing sensitive personal information. "What we are
proposing simply codifies businesses' best practices on the Internet,"
Hollings says Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC), who sponsored the bill.
(Reuters/USA Today 16 May 2002)
HP FACES ANTITRUST SCRUTINY BY EU REGULATORS
Hewlett-Packard, newly emerged from its bruising battle over its
acquisition of Compaq Computer, was dealt another blow yesterday when
European Commission authorities indicated they were launching an
investigation into possible anticompetitive behavior in the European ink
cartridge market. Other cartridge makers likely to undergo scrutiny are
Lexmark of the U.S. and Canon and Epson of Japan. The EC said its action
was taken in response to a growing number of complaints from consumers over
the high price of ink cartridges At issue is whether manufacturers use
illegal tactics to force consumers to buy own-brand cartridges instead of
cheaper versions made by rivals. Mario Monti, European competition
commissioner, said on Wednesday: "This is probably a case here for us ...
We intend to examine this in detail." HP strongly denied the allegations:
"HP does not prevent customers from using cartridges from other suppliers,"
it said. (Financial Times 17 May 2002)
http://news.ft.com/news/industries/infotechnology
CREDIT REPORTS STOLEN FROM EXPERIAN DATABASE
Network vandals have stolen 13,000 credit reports in recent months from
Experian, a national reporting agency. An Experian executive said, "I've
never seen anything of this size. Privacy is the hallmark of our business.
We're extraordinarily concerned about the privacy issue here, and the trust
factor." The intruders used an authorization code from Ford Credit to
obtain the reports, which gave the intruders access to each victim's
personal and financial information, including address, Social Security
number, bank and credit card accounts and ratings of creditworthiness. Ford
has sent letters via certified mail to all 13,000 people, urging them to
contact Experian and the two other major credit reporting companies,
Equifax and TransUnion, and to report any evidence of abuse to the FBI.
(New York Times 17 May 2002)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/17/technology/17IDEN.html
MICROSOFT ADMITS AND FIXES DEFECTS IN INTERNET EXPLORER
Microsoft is warning that its Internet Explorer software contains defects
that could give network intruders access to personal information about
computer users. Users of Explorer versions 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 may download a
patch for the software from the Microsoft site at
www.microsoft.com/security. The flaws could allow vandals to view files on
a user's computer hard drive, permit access by a rogue site, or allow
intruders to change a user's information. But those invasions could occur
only if the hackers knew such specific and detailed information as the
names and locations of the user's files. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 16 May 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3279241.htm
'GUMMY' FINGERS FOOL FINGERPRINT SECURITY SYSTEMS
A Japanese engineering professor has managed to trick biometric security
systems using artificial fingers made with gelatin. In addition to creating
a fingerprint by pushing a finger into a malleable plastic mixed with
gelatin, the researchers were able to create credible fingers using
fingerprints lifted from a glass. First, the latent print was hardened,
using glue that sticks to the ridges of the fingerprint. The hardened print
was then photographed, using a digital camera, and enhanced using Adobe
Photoshop software to create heightened contrast between the ridges and
gaps. The image was then transferred to a photosensitive sheet, etched into
copper and used to create another mold. Both methods resulted in a fake
finger that was able to fool a variety of biometric readers 80% of the
time. Security experts say the experiments cast serious doubt on any claims
that this type of biometric system can be made fully secure. (BBC News 17
May 2002)http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1991000/1991517.stm
CHINA SUSPENDS CENSORSHIP OF WESTERN NEWS SITES
Without explanation, the Chinese government has removed blocks on the
normally censored foreign Web sites, including those of such news
organizations as Reuters, CNN and the Washington Post. It is not known
whether the decision would stay in force, and officials at the
International Press Centre and the Ministry of State Security provided no
information about the new development. The Web sites of the Los Angeles
Times, National Public Radio, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston
Globe, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution can also now be accessed,
whereas the Time magazine, Voice of America, and BBC News sites still
appear to be blocked. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 15 May 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3273080.htm
SONICBLUE WINS TEMPORARY REPRIEVE ON TV TRACKING ORDER
SONICblue, maker of the ReplayTV digital video recorder, has won a stay of
a court order that would have forced it to track the television viewing
habits of its customers. Movie studios, including Paramount and Walt
Disney, have sued the company, saying that the recording features included
in the ReplayTV devices, including the ability to skip commercials and
exchange recorded programs with other users, enable users to violate
studios' copyrights. Consumer advocates have objected to the court order,
calling it an invasion of privacy. (Reuters 15 May 2002)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20020515/
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PRIVACY BILL CLEARS COMMITTEE
Despite strong opposition from Senate Republicans and many U.S.
corporations, the Senate Commerce Committee approved an online privacy
bill presented by Sen. Fritz Hollings (D.-S.C.). The bill would require
online companies to obtain specific permission to release consumers'
personal information such as medical records or financial data.
Companies in violation of the law would face fines and the possiblity
of lawsuits from consumers whose information was improperly released.
Republicans in the Senate have hinted that it will be difficult to get
the bill to the Senate floor. Senate Democrats said U.S. companies
should offer American citizens the same privacy protections they offer
the European Union (EU), which has arranged a Safe Harbor agreement
with 180 U.S. companies to protect the privacy of EU citizens.
Washington Post, 16 May 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28221-2002May16.html
CONGRESSMAN HOPES TO RECLAIM FAIR USE
Rick Boucher (D.-Va.) plans to introduce legislation that would
override the section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
that makes it a crime to circumvent any anti-copying technology.
Critics of the DMCA have complained since it was passed in 1998 that
the law goes too far in restricting users' rights to content they
legally own, giving that control to copyright owners. Under the current
law, if someone defeated copy protections to make an otherwise legal
copy of a CD for his own use, the act of circumventing the protection
mechanism is a crime. Under Boucher's proposal, defeating copyright
protections would only be a crime if it was done with the intent to
make illegal copies of the content or otherwise infringe on the
copyright. IDG, 17 May 2002 http://www.idg.net/ic_863105_1794_9-10000.html
ACLU SAYS FACIAL RECOGNITION IS UNRELIABLE
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which opposes the use of
facial-recognition technology for security purposes, said this week
that tests at Palm Beach International Airport show the tools to be
unreliable. The ACLU said early reports indicate an effectiveness of
about 47 percent in identifying volunteer subjects, and this number
goes lower when people wear glasses or turn their heads away from
cameras. The system tested is from Visionics Corp. In another test of
facial-recognition technology at Boston's Logan Airport, officials
from Visionics and Viisage Technology said their systems were effective
more than 90 percent of the time, as reported by CNET
(http://news.com.com/2100-1017-915832.html). An official from Visionics
said a test at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport showed success rates of
between 85 and 93 percent. Newsbytes, 16 May 2002
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176621.html
FINGERPRINT READERS EASILY FOOLED
In a study presented this week at a conference in Korea, researchers
showed that fake fingers made of gelatin can deceive fingerprint
readers most of the time. Two methods were demonstrated. In the first
method, an artificial fingerprint was made with the consent of the
subject. For the second method, a latent fingerprint, one left on a
glass, for example, can be used to create a gelatin finger that is
often mistaken by readers for an actual finger. Both methods
successfully bypassed fingerprint security devices about 80 percent of
the time. An official from Digital Persona, maker of
fingerprint-recognition technology, said the results are not indicative
of how effective fingerprint readers can be in security screenings.
Other factors, he said, can be used in conjunction with the print
itself to increase accuracy, including body heat and pulse.
CNET, 16 May 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-915580.html
COPY PROTECTION CAUSES PROBLEMS FOR MACS
New copy protections included in some audio CDs are causing problems
for Mac users. Some copy-protected CDs, especially those from Sony,
cause Macintosh computers to freeze and not to eject the CD. Although
some CDs have warnings indicating the disc won't play on a PC or Mac,
many do not, and Apple's exclusion of problems caused by these CDs
from its warranty coverage has upset many users. Julian Midgley of the
Campaign for Digital Rights (CDR), however, defended Apple, as did Ted
Landau, operator of the Web site MacFixIt. Both blamed the recording
industry of making products that are not always clearly labeled, saying
that Apple should not be responsible for the difficulties that result.
Wired News, 14 May 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,52513,00.html
NEW HOTMAIL ACCOUNT INFORMATION CAUSES CONFUSION AND CONCERN
A new feature of the Hotmail e-mail program allows users to see all of
their options for sharing of personal data. The feature was added,
according to Microsoft representatives, to give users full access to
their account settings. However, many Hotmail users have been surprised
to learn that their accounts were set to opt them in to certain kinds
of promotions and data sharing. Although Microsoft asserts that it has
not changed anyone's settings and has not modified its privacy policy,
some users insist otherwise. Analyst David Ferris said users whose
options were set to share data had probably agreed to that and were
confused by the terms of agreement for their accounts. He applauded
Microsoft for giving users access to the information and the option to
change it. PCWorld, 17 May 2002 http://www.idg.net/ic_863486_1794_9-10000.html
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Feb 2000 The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne[#7][blthdxxx.xxx]2081
We have posted the following etext in MP3 audio format (voice readings);
and we have also posted an improved 11th edition, as indicated:
Jul 1992 The Time Machine, H.G. Wells [Herbert George #1][timemxxx.xxx] 35
[timem11s.zip is the text divided into sub-parts]
[MP3 audio format available in timem?3.mp3 where "?" is a-m; all 13
[parts are in timemam3.zip]
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Here is the list of those eight Shakespeare etexts:
Jun 1999 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [1ws3411x.xxx]1795
Jun 1999 Othello, by William Shakespeare [1ws3211x.xxx]1793
Jun 1999 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [1ws3111x.xxx]1792
Jul 1999 Sir John Oldcastle, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws2711x.xxx]1788
Jun 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Shakespeare [1ws1711x.xxx]1778
Jun 1999 Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare [1ws1611x.xxx]1777
Jun 1999 Sir John Oldcastle, Shakespeare Apocrypha [1ws0911x.xxx]1771
Jun 1999 Henry the Sixth, Part One, Shakespeare [1ws0111x.xxx]1765
As the process continues, we will announce additional changes or corrections.
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Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, Complete [GE#34][ge34vxxx.xxx]5472
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5467-5471]
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#33][ge33vxxx.xxx]5471
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#32][ge32vxxx.xxx]5470
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#31][ge31vxxx.xxx]5469
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#30][ge30vxxx.xxx]5468
Apr 2004 Joshua, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#29][ge29vxxx.xxx]5467
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Ebers, Complete [GE#28][ge28vxxx.xxx]5466
[Author: Georg Ebers] [Contains eBooks #5461-5465]
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#27][ge27vxxx.xxx]5465
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#26][ge26vxxx.xxx]5464
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#25][ge25vxxx.xxx]5463
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#24][ge24vxxx.xxx]5462
Apr 2004 The Sisters, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#23][ge23vxxx.xxx]5461
*Please note the above are 5400's, the below are 5200 and 5100's*
Feb 2004 Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, trans. by David Wyllie[metamxxx.xxx]5200C
[Plain text version in metam10.txt/.zip, RTF in metam10r.rtf/.zip]
[HTML in metam10h.htm/.zip]
*
Feb 2004 South, by Sir Ernest Shackleton [southxxx.xxx]5199
[Subtitle: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917]
Feb 2004 One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture [calagxxx.xxx]5152
[Full Title: One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered]
[Author: E.J. Wickson]
Feb 2004 The Exploits of Elaine, Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve#9][eelaixxx.xxx]5151
Feb 2004 The Ear in the Wall, by Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve#8][earwaxxx.xxx]5150
Feb 2004 The Gold of the Gods, by Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve#7][goldgxxx.xxx]5149
*
Feb 2004 Rodney Stone, by Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle#31][rdstxxxx.xxx]5148
[Plain text version in rdst10.txt/.zip, HTML in rdst10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 Le Jardin d'Epicure, by Anatole France [France#8][?jrdcxxx.xxx]5147
Feb 2004 The Fighting Governor, by Charles W. Colby [Ca#7][cca07xxx.xxx]5146
[This is #7 in our series Chronicles of Canada, edited by George M. Wrong
[and H. H. Langton, #2 by Charles W. Colby]
[Subtitle: A Chronicle of Frontenac]
Feb 2004 The Heart Of The Hills, by John Fox, Jr [JFJ#8][hrthlxxx.xxx]5145
Feb 2004 My Life, Volume II, by Richard Wagner [Wagner#2][wglf2xxx.xxx]5144
Feb 2004 The Auction Block, by Rex Beach [Beach#5][ctnbkxxx.xxx]5143
Feb 2004 Graustark, by George Barr McCutcheon[McCutcheon#2][grstkxxx.xxx]5142
Feb 2004 What Katy Did At School, by Susan Coolidge [SC#2][ktyscxxx.xxx]5141
Feb 2004 He Knew He Was Right, by Anthony Trollope [AT#34][hknrtxxx.xxx]5140
Feb 2004 Tales by Carl Ewald, Translated by Dawid Wiskott [8cewaxxx.xxx]5139C
[In Hebrew. In Unicode as 8cewa10.txt/zip and RTF at 8cewa10r.rtf/zip]
Feb 2004 Le Monde comme il va, vision de Babouc,Voltaire 12[?baboxxx.xxx]5138
[Author AKA: Jean-Marie Arouet] [Language: French]
Feb 2004 Fair Em, Shakespeare Apocrypha [ws#54][fairmxxx.xxx]5137
Feb 2004 Around the World on a Bicycle V1,Thomas Stevens[1][awbv1xxx.xxx]5136
[Subtitle: From San Francisco to Teheran]
Feb 2004 The Fortune of the Rougons, by Emile Zola [Zola#5][frougxxx.xxx]5135
Feb 2004 Discoveries and Some Poems, by Ben Jonson[Jonson#7][dscvxxx.xxx]5134
[Plain text version in dscv10.txt/.zip, HTML in dscv10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 Quotations From John L. Motley, by D. Widger [#19][dwqjmxxx.xxx]5133
[Quotations from the PG History of the Netherlands of John Lotrop Motley]
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VIDEOGAME CONSOLE MAKERS GIRD FOR PRICE WAR
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are entering a new phase of the videogame
console wars, following Sony's announcement yesterday that it is cutting
the price of its PlayStation2 machine from $299 to $199, to match the price
of Nintendo's Gamecube. Expectations are high that Microsoft will do the
same for its Xbox next week. In addition to the price cuts, the three
companies are vying for consumers through competing plans to put the
consoles online. Microsoft is taking the biggest gamble, with a
subscription-only broadband network that will allow Xbox owners to play
against one another online using the Xbox's Ethernet adapter. Meanwhile,
Sony and Nintendo are taking a more cautious approach, with plans focusing
on selling online accessories for their consoles and encouraging game
makers to add online features to their titles. "I think people are going to
experiment a lot with the business model and the technology model until we
figure out what works for us and what works for the customer," says Brian
Farrell, CEO of game publisher THQ. "Universally, it's been fairly hard for
businesses to charge consumers for stuff online." (CNet News.com 14 May 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-912702.html?tag=fd_lede
[Cell Phone and Smart Cards Reveal Major Insecurities]
ATTACK OF THE PHONE CLONERS
A team of engineers from IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
have found a way to capture the data necessary to "clone" a cell phone in
60 seconds. Previous methods used to copy the identifying data that enables
calls to be charged to another person's phone took about eight hours. The
researchers found that they could gain valuable information about the
numerical "key" a phone uses to uniquely identify its owner by timing how
long the phone's chip took to complete certain tasks and by measuring
changing current flows across the chip. Taken together, the information
revealed what was being done to the numerical key. The researchers say that
chips can be protected against this type of espionage by making sure all
computational tasks take the same amount of time, or by changing the way a
chip carries out certain computations. (BBC News 14 May 2002)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1984000/1984887.stm
SMART CARDS REVEAL ALL DURING CAMERA FLASH
A flash of light can cause sensitive information stored on a smart card
microprocessor to be revealed, say UK researchers at Cambridge University,
who've found that firing light from an ordinary camera flash at parts of a
smart card chip can assist a thief in determining the sensitive information
stored on the card, including the cryptographic key used to secure
financial transactions. The attack is described as "semi-invasive," as only
part of a chip's protective covering must be removed in order to "flash"
it. Meanwhile, another group at Cambridge has developed a microchip design
that would resist this technique, using a more complex "asynchronous"
microprocessor that would not respond in the same way to light
interference. (New Scientist 13 May 2002)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992273
[Deep Linking Takes Yet Another Hit]
REALNAMES GOES BELLY UP, BLAMES MICROSOFT
RealNames, the developer of a keyword navigation system that enables users
to enter a single word into Microsoft's Internet Explorer address line and
be transported to a related Web site, is shutting down. The company blames
its failure on Microsoft's decision not to renew a two-year-old contract
that expires June 30. Microsoft said they had been put off by complaints
that arose when RealNames allowed people acquired rights to words or
phrases that they shouldn't have, and used them to direct unsuspecting Web
surfers to their sites. RealNames founder and CEO Keith Teare said those
problems had been minimized, and contends that Microsoft's decision was
really motivated by a belief that it could better control and generate
revenue from conventional search techniques, or new navigation services
that Microsoft plans to develop. "Because of the widespread availability of
their browser, they are the referee for innovation," says Teare. "If they
say no, the innovation doesn't happen. If they say yes, it does." (Wall
Street Journal 13 May 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1021149950171289800.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
MICROSOFT FACES TOUGHER SCRUTINY BY EU
Microsoft may have to make even more radical changes in its software
business to please European regulators than what is being demanded in the
U.S. Following a three-year investigation, European Commission antitrust
officials are considering measures that would force Microsoft to change the
way it produces and sells its Windows operating system and Media Player
software, and to share a significant amount of technical information with
rivals. People familiar with the situation say any decision on possible
fines, which could total up to 10% of Microsoft's turnover, was months
away, but that authorities are also considering asking Microsoft to
separate its Media Player software from its Windows operating system. One
solution being studied by the Commission would be to allow computer
manufacturers to choose between a Windows that included Media Player and
one without it. (Financial Times 10 May 2002)
http://news.ft.com/news/industries/infotechnology
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'
Governor Gray Davis of California has decided to return a $25,000 donation
from Oracle given at the same time the state had awarded the company a
lucrative contract. The arrangement recently received considerable
notoriety in the press, and the governor said his decision to return the
money was based on "recent developments." Two weeks ago Davis returned
$10,000 to a California strip club owner after the Los Angeles Times
questioned the donation. (San Jose Mercury News 9 May 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3234029.htm
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[Note: I have become aware that even "non-profit public service"
organizations have taken to the commercial practice of forcing a
Web surfer to their home page rather than providing such correct
URLs that would take them directly or indirectly to sites. In a
story this morning on NPR [National Public Radio], that included
a reference to a particular Web site, instead of giving that URL
NPR gave their own "npr.org" URL. . .a home page which is not an
easy place to find a particular other URL from. . .just so NPR's
hit counter can claim all those extra hits you have to give them
to get to the URL they wouldn't give out directly. I abhor this
kind of "counterfeit hit scheme" employed by so many, but it may
be even worse to find this sort of thing on NPR and PBS. mh ]
[For years I have stated publicly that sites go out of their way
to force you to their home page, rather than to let you go where
you want to go on their sites, just to get the extra advertizing
and other exposure, and to count more hits, which they translate
into "the currency of the Web". . .here's some more about this.]
DEEP-LINKING DISPUTES RESURFACE
Two years ago U.S. District Judge Harry Hupp declared that deep
linking, the practice of hyperlinking to a specific page within a Web
site rather than the site's home page, was not a violation of
copyright law. The dispute has come up again, however, in several
recent complaints by site operators. The Danish Newspaper Publishers'
Association has asked that the practice be disallowed, and Belo, the
owner of "The Dallas Morning News," this week sent a stern letter to
BarkingDogs.org demanding the end of deep links to the newspaper's Web
site. If deep links were ultimately declared illegal, this would have
significant implications for many sites, including search engines,
which consistently bypass home pages. A spokesman for Belo said they
feel they should have some control over the use of their content and
that deep links undermine the advertising model for Web sites.
Wired News, 1 May 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52213,00.html
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One of the most popular anti-plagiarism Web sites, Turnitin.com, has
come under scrutiny because of its practice of adding students' works
to its database, sometimes without the students' knowledge. Unlike
other plagiarism-detection Web sites that compare submitted works only
to material on the Internet or to other papers in the class, Turnitin
also adds submitted papers to its database, thereby expanding the reach
of its detection program. However, many students are not told that
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This has some worried that students' copyright is being violated and
has led the University of California at Berkeley to decide not to use
Turnitin. Others have opted to use Turnitin but only after informing
students, giving them the option not to have their work sent to Turnitin.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 May 2002
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Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Ebers, Complete [GE#22][ge22vxxx.xxx]5460
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Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v10 [GE#21][ge21vxxx.xxx]5459
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Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v5 [GE#16][ge16vxxx.xxx]5454
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v4 [GE#15][ge15vxxx.xxx]5453
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v3 [GE#14][ge14vxxx.xxx]5452
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v2 [GE#13][ge13vxxx.xxx]5451
Apr 2004 An Egyptian Princess, by Georg Ebers, v1 [GE#12][ge12vxxx.xxx]5450
Feb 2004 Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope [#1][ltwwxxx.xxx]5132
[Author's Full Name: Lord Bolingbroke]
Feb 2004 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron [Byron#1][chplxxx.xxx]5131
Feb 2004 Don Juan, ou le Festin de pierre, by Moliere [#5][?djuaxxx.xxx]5130
[Author AKA Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
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Feb 2004 The Prodigal Judge, by Vaughan Kester [projuxxx.xxx]5129
Feb 2004 The Young Carthaginian, by G.A. Henty [Henty#9][yocarxxx.xxx]5128
[Subtitle: A Story of the Times of Hannibal]
Feb 2004 Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown,Lang [#36][sbunxxx.xxx]5127
[Author's Full Name: Andrew Lang]
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Feb 2004 Robur-le-Conquerant, Jules Verne [Verne #27][?robuxxx.xxx]5126
[Language: French]
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Feb 2004 Last Poems, by Laurence Hope [lpoemxxx.xxx]5125
[Author AKA: Adela Florence Cory "Violet" Nicolson]
[Subtitle: Translations from the Book of Indian Love]
Feb 2004 Henrietta's Wish, by Charlotte M. Yonge [Yonge#28][hwishxxx.xxx]5124
Feb 2004 The Context in America, John Stuart Mill [conamxxx.xxx]5123
[Plain text version in conamxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in conamxxh.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, by John Fox,Jr[#7][lnspnxxx.xxx]5122
Feb 2004 Dark Hollow, by Anna Katherine Green [Green#8][drkhlxxx.xxx]5121
Feb 2004 Vandrad the Viking, by J. Storer Clouston [vndrdxxx.xxx]5120
Feb 2004 The Lion and the Mouse, by Charles Klein [lnmsexxx.xxx]5119
Feb 2004 The American Senator, by Anthony Trollope [AT#33][mrcsnxxx.xxx]5118
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Total PG ebooks available online **AS OF 05/08/02**: 5,152
(This number includes the 71 etexts posted at the PG Australia web site)
In the first 17 weeks of the new year, we have produced 851 new eBooks.
Note: it took us from 1971 to 1997 to produce our *FIRST* 851 eBooks!!!
Mar 1997 Democracy and Education, by John Dewey [JDewey #1][dmeduxxx.xxx] 852
Mar 1997 Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson [crmmrxxx.xxx] 851
The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks of
production, each production-week starting/ending Wednesday noon,
starting with the first Wednesday in January. January 2nd was
was the first Wednesday of 2002, and thus ended the production
year for 2001, so the 9th was the end of the first production week.
With 5,179 eTexts online as of May 8, it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.93 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000
[One Trillion Dollars] in books.
100,000,000 readers is only about 1.6 percent of the world's population!
This "cost" is down from $2.89 when we had 3441 Etexts A Year Ago
Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing $.96 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine 5,000 books each costing 33% less a year later???
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Headlines From Newsscan
AOL TIME WARNER: TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS NOT THE QUESTION
With AOL's performance dragging on the company formed by the merger
of "new media" company AOL and "old media" company Time Warner, some
business strategists are suggesting that the two parts of the company
should split up again, but incoming chief executive Richard D. Parsons has
a poor opinion of that suggestion, and says: "We're the No. 1 movie
company, the No. 1 online company, the No. 1 premium cable network company,
the No. 1 cable network company, No. 2 cable company, No. 2 music company.
What am I missing? All of these businesses are roaring, with one exception
[AOL], no question. What we've got to do is answer some serious questions
around AOL. What is the future of narrowband? Is this a medium that has a
long-term advertising future and if so, at what rate can we expect growth
and how will it migrate to broadband? Those are legitimate questions which
we're focusing on now in the company. There was, is and will be an
execution issue that we have to deal with. The execution issue that remains
is: 'How do you get the parts to work in such a way that the whole is
greater than the sum of the parts?'" (New York Times 6 May 2002)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/technology/07AOL.html
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, BUT TEACH HIM HOW TO SURF
A National Research Council study called "Youth, Pornography and the
Internet" rejects the idea that new laws or new technology will provide any
real answer to the problem of protecting children from being exposed to
pornography on the Internet. The answer, it suggests, is to teach children
to become mature, and protect themselves. "Swimming pools can be dangerous
for children. To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences and
deploy alarms. All of these measures are helpful, but by far the most
important thing that one can do for one's children is to teach them how to
swim." (New York Times 3 May 2002)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/03/technology/03PORN.html
NOTEBOOKS ON THE RISE AS PERCENTAGE OF OVERALL PC SALES
The percentage of notebook computers versus desktop PCs shipped worldwide
climbed from 21.8% in 4Q 2001 to 23.8% in the first quarter of 2002,
according to IDC, which predicts notebook sales will break the 25% barrier
in 2005, rising to as much as 30% in 2006. Those numbers reflect an
increase in the mobility among computer users, as well as the return of
more corporate buyers to the market. Computer makers that sell both laptops
and desktop machines typically reap higher profits on each notebook because
they can charge a premium for the lightweight, mobile machines. At the same
time, prices on notebooks have been dropping, with some available for
prices as low as $999. Looking forward, IDC predicts that sales of
notebooks will surge when corporations begin upgrading their computers next
year, with many choosing mid-range notebooks this time around instead of
desktop PCs. (CNet News.com 3 May 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-898370.html
SWEDISH CELL PHONE USERS CAN PINPOINT FRIENDS' LOCATIONS
Customers of Sweden's Telia Mobile have a new way to find out where their
friends are -- by using their cell phone. The service, called
friendPosition, uses graphic and text messages to reveal the locations of
other users. Both people -- the seeker and the sought -- must be using
specially enabled cell phones equipped with wireless location services. The
friendPosition service could prove a boon to Telia, which, like other
wireless carriers, is looking for ways to boost average revenues per user.
The $2 a month charge may not seem like much, but could be critical in an
industry with very slim profit margins. Meanwhile, similar services could
be heading this way, says one analyst: "Commercial location services will
be available here by the end of the year," predicts Al Fross, a principal
at Pelorus Group. He estimates that global revenue from wireless location
services could reach $3.2 billion by 2006. (Investor's Business Daily 2 May
2002) [Of course, we have to wonder who else knows where you are. . . .]
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Headlines From Edupage
COURT SAYS ISP CAN DROP SPAMMERS
A New York State appeals court has ruled that PaeTec Communications is
allowed to disconnect MonsterHut from its service. MonsterHut is a bulk
e-mailer and, according to PaeTec, an egregious spammer. After PaeTec
notified MonsterHut that their service with the ISP would be
discontinued for violations of PaeTec's policies, MonsterHut filed a
lawsuit to stay in operation. Despite an earlier injunction from a
state supreme court judge preventing the ending of service, the appeals
court on Friday upheld PaeTec's complaint. The brief ruling agreed
that MonsterHut had violated their agreement with PaeTec, saying that
PaeTec did not need to prove that two percent of all recipients of
MonsterHut's e-mail had complained. Newsbytes, 6 May 2002
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176381.html
GRADUATE STUDENT RAISES IRE OF FONT COMPANIES
A graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University has been receiving
complaints from several font-creating companies, who argue that an
application he wrote violates the DMCA. The student, Tom Murphy, wrote
the application, called Embed, so that fonts he created could be used
by anyone, whenever they wanted. Embed modifies "a few ones and zeroes"
in the font file, allowing the font to be used without restrictions.
Applying Embed to a copyrighted font, however, may be illegal because
it would circumvent the copyright protections included in fonts. Murphy
said he did not create the program to use copyrighted fonts illegally
and has refused to stop posting Embed on his Web site.
CNET, 3 May 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-898777.html
CONGRESSMEN INTRODUCE BILL REQUIRING BIOMETRIC MARKERS
Congressmen Jim Moran (D-Va.) and Tom Davis (R-Va.) have proposed a
$315 million program mandating biometric markers on all driver's
licenses within five years. The representatives want licenses to carry
the driver's retinal scan, fingerprint, or some other kind of
biometric marker in an encrypted chip. The legislation would also
require states to use tougher criteria in verifying identity when
people apply for a driver's license, as well as strengthen federal
identity theft laws by making it a federal crime to alter a license.
Moran spokesman Dan Drummond said the card would help protect privacy
by reducing the use of Social Security numbers for identification. The
card would not be linked to a federal database, said Drummond, although
the states would share data under the proposal. ComputerWorld, 2 May 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_855521_1794_9-10000.html
NOTEBOOK SALES CONTINUE TO GROW
Market research from IDC indicates that, for the third year running,
notebook PCs increased their share of the PC market compared to desktop
systems. In the first quarter of 2002 notebooks were 23.8 percent of
worldwide PC shipments, up from 21.8 percent in the fourth quarter of
2001 and 22.3 percent in the first quarter of 2001. Companies that sell
both notebooks and desktops typically profit more from notebooks
because they can charge a premium for portability, according to IDC.
Still, it will take time for notebooks to reach 50 percent of all PC
shipments. IDC predicts that, with the return of corporate buyers to
the market, the percentage of notebooks sold will rise to about 25
percent by 2005 and as much as 30 percent by 2006.
CNET, 3 May 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1040-898370.html
[For years I have stated publicly that sites go out of their way
to force you to their home page, rather than to let you go where
you want to go on their sites, just to get the extra advertizing
and other exposure, and to count more hits, which they translate
into "the currency of the Web". . .here's some more about this.]
DEEP-LINKING DISPUTES RESURFACE
Two years ago U.S. District Judge Harry Hupp declared that deep
linking, the practice of hyperlinking to a specific page within a Web
site rather than the site's home page, was not a violation of
copyright law. The dispute has come up again, however, in several
recent complaints by site operators. The Danish Newspaper Publishers'
Association has asked that the practice be disallowed, and Belo, the
owner of "The Dallas Morning News," this week sent a stern letter to
BarkingDogs.org demanding the end of deep links to the newspaper's Web
site. If deep links were ultimately declared illegal, this would have
significant implications for many sites, including search engines,
which consistently bypass home pages. A spokesman for Belo said they
feel they should have some control over the use of their content and
that deep links undermine the advertising model for Web sites.
Wired News, 1 May 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52213,00.html
SECURITY FIRM UPSET AT LACK OF RESPONSE FROM NETSCAPE
AOL Time Warner's Netscape offers a $1,000 reward for discovering
serious security flaws in its Web browser. But a group of Israeli
security experts at GreyMagic Secuirty said they don't expect to
receive the reward because Netscape had not responded to their report
of a security hole almost a week after they notified the company. The
bug, according to GreyMagic, is similar to one in Internet Explorer and
can be used to access files on victims' computers without their
permission or knowledge. After receiving no response from Netscape, the
company released information about the bug and said in the future they
will publicly announce security holes without notifying Netscape.
Newsbytes, 1 May 2002 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176261.html
PROPOSED RULE COULD PREVENT COLLEGES FROM CALLING ALUMNI
In January the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed establishing a
national do-not-call list that would be off-limits for telemarketers.
Those guilty of calling someone on the list could be fined up to
$11,000 per call. Although colleges and universities that manage their
own phone drives are not affected by the rule, many institutions,
particularly smaller ones, rely on for-profit telemarketing firms for
such fund-raising efforts. In those cases, marketers would not be
allowed to call school alumni on the do-not-call list. Several
associations representing higher education have sent letters to the FTC
requesting an exception for cases like these. A letter from the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education said applying the rule to
outside vendors working for a college or university would be
"inconsitent and unnecessary." Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 May 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002050101t.htm
HEMINGWAY GOES ONLINE
Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, announced that it would
release 23 of Ernest Hemmingway's works as electronic books. Books to
be released include "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Death in the
Afternoon," "A Farewell to Arms," and "The Old Man and the Sea." Each
title will cost $9.99 to download. Susan Moldow, executive vice
president at Scribner, said her company is pleased to offer these works
in "publishing's first truly global format." Industry analysts are
skeptical about whether the move will boost the market for electronic
books, which have yet to realize early predictions for replacing paper books.
CNET, 30 April 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-895205.html
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