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walktalker · 02-04-02, 06:35 PM

The Law Is Going After Spam
Spam and Internet fraud -- the twin plagues of the information age -- are getting stepped-up attention from federal and state agencies that say more joint effort from law enforcement groups is needed to curb the scourge that is online swindling. On Tuesday, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it has joined forces with eight state law enforcement agencies and four Canadian consumer protection groups to crack down on cyber scam artists ranging from purveyors of phony cancer treatments to senders of chain e-mail solicitations.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51486,00.html

Yahoo's 'Opt-Out' Angers Users
Internet portal Yahoo may want to think about changing its advertising slogan from "Do You Yahoo?" to "You DO Yahoo." In e-mail messages that began going out last week, Yahoo advised its users that their account preferences had been changed, by Yahoo, to indicate that they wanted to receive advertising solicitations through spam, snail mail and telephone.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,51461,00.html

Microsoft Rolls the Dice
Microsoft is using a risky strategy to avoid tough antitrust penalties, legal experts say. The company is portraying states that want the penalties as tools of its competitors. San Francisco antitrust lawyer Dana Hayter said Microsoft has to prove more than a close relationship exists between the states and the technology companies that compete with Microsoft. The company also has to show that the penalties the states are seeking won't benefit consumers.
http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/...,51474,00.html

Linux App Writer Wows Skeptics
Anyone who can put up a simple website can now also code complex Linux applications. On Tuesday, IBM released the source code for SashXB, a scripting language that allows people with basic programming skills to create Linux applications by working with simple website-style code such as HTML and JavaScript. But SashXB is more than just a way to simplify Linux development. Programmers of all skill levels can use SashXB to create "weblications," Linux applications that "live" on the desktop just like a traditional application, but can be updated as easily as a Web page.
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,51476,00.html

A Collection of Discards.com
It was one thing to have your embarrassing love letter read aloud to the class in elementary school. It's a far different situation when it's published on the Internet without your knowledge or consent. Yet that is the premise of a growing number of online "found object" websites, whose amateur curators are mining the world's gutters for intriguing scraps of paper and strange discarded photographs. Their discoveries are posted online, sometimes with commentary; other times, simply bagged like evidence and labeled "artifact."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51307,00.html

Tides Key to Europa's Secrets?
When it comes to exploration of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, NASA might want to heed William Shakespeare's advice: "There comes a tide in the affairs of man which when taken at the flood leads to fortune." Take that literally, for it seems a probe could be dropped into the giant ocean of that water world by simply waiting for a swelling tide to crack open Europa's ice-bound surface, eliminating the need for drilling or melting down through kilometers of ice.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,51405,00.html

The Kazaa Ruling: What It Means
Kazaa BV, a Dutch company that licenses the Kazaa file-trading software, was exonerated last week when an appellate court ruled file-trading developers weren't liable for copyright infringement that occurs by people using their applications. The ruling set off a wave of excitement among American technology companies that saw this as a validation of their long-held argument that distributing software doesn't violate copyright law.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51457,00.html

A Truly Unfortunate Development
Some might call it Japan's biggest victory against noise pollution since pop duo Pink Lady split up two decades ago. Karaoke sound systems provider Taito Corp said on Tuesday it had teamed up with a U.S. professor and chipmaker Analog Devices on technology that could give even the most tone-deaf crooner perfect pitch.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,51472,00.html

Sex loses net appeal
Sex is finally losing its appeal on the net according to researchers in America. Interest in sex and entertainment had been replaced by more serious surfing, a study of 200,000 users conducted by Penn State University's School of Information Technology has found. The research, conducted over five years, found that in 1997 approximately one in six web queries to search engine Excite was about sex.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1906817.stm

Privacy Concerns Raised Over Digital Music Proposal
Proposed federal regulations that would standardize the way in which Internet broadcasters pay royalties for the songs they play could jeopardize the anonymity of online music listeners, according to some privacy advocates. The U.S. Copyright Office in February proposed regulations that would establish a per-song royalty rate that Webcasters would have to pay for the tunes that they stream to their online listeners.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175611.html

Microsoft Asks Judge To Rethink Windows Trademark Ruling
Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] has asked a federal judge hearing its trademark-infringement case against Lindows.com to reconsider his ruling that questioned the validity of the software giant's "Windows" marks. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on March 15 rejected Microsoft's request for a pre-trial injunction shutting down the Lindows.com Web site and halting distribution of LindowsOS software for running Windows programs on Linux.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175604.html

Distributed program to translate many languages
A US software designer plans to harness the brains of the world's computer users to build a multilingual translation database. Brian McConnell believes it could provide a free way to translate the many languages not included in existing online translators. McConnell is releasing a new distributed computer program, which works like programs such as SETI@home. However, while most distributed computer projects make use of spare computer power to perform complex computational tasks, in this case people will be asked to provide short translations themselves.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992115

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02-04-02, 06:35 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	The Law Is Going After Spam Spam and Internet fraud -- the twin plagues of the information age -- are getting stepped-up attention from federal and state agencies that say more joint effort from law enforcement groups is needed to curb the scourge that is online swindling. On Tuesday, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it has joined forces with eight state law enforcement agencies and four Canadian consumer protection groups to crack down on cyber scam artists ranging from purveyors of phony cancer treatments to senders of chain e-mail solicitations. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51486,00.html Yahoo's 'Opt-Out' Angers Users Internet portal Yahoo may want to think about changing its advertising slogan from "Do You Yahoo?" to "You DO Yahoo." In e-mail messages that began going out last week, Yahoo advised its users that their account preferences had been changed, by Yahoo, to indicate that they wanted to receive advertising solicitations through spam, snail mail and telephone. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,51461,00.html Microsoft Rolls the Dice Microsoft is using a risky strategy to avoid tough antitrust penalties, legal experts say. The company is portraying states that want the penalties as tools of its competitors. San Francisco antitrust lawyer Dana Hayter said Microsoft has to prove more than a close relationship exists between the states and the technology companies that compete with Microsoft. The company also has to show that the penalties the states are seeking won't benefit consumers. http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/...,51474,00.html Linux App Writer Wows Skeptics Anyone who can put up a simple website can now also code complex Linux applications. On Tuesday, IBM released the source code for SashXB, a scripting language that allows people with basic programming skills to create Linux applications by working with simple website-style code such as HTML and JavaScript. But SashXB is more than just a way to simplify Linux development. Programmers of all skill levels can use SashXB to create "weblications," Linux applications that "live" on the desktop just like a traditional application, but can be updated as easily as a Web page. http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,51476,00.html A Collection of Discards.com It was one thing to have your embarrassing love letter read aloud to the class in elementary school. It's a far different situation when it's published on the Internet without your knowledge or consent. Yet that is the premise of a growing number of online "found object" websites, whose amateur curators are mining the world's gutters for intriguing scraps of paper and strange discarded photographs. Their discoveries are posted online, sometimes with commentary; other times, simply bagged like evidence and labeled "artifact." http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51307,00.html Tides Key to Europa's Secrets? When it comes to exploration of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, NASA might want to heed William Shakespeare's advice: "There comes a tide in the affairs of man which when taken at the flood leads to fortune." Take that literally, for it seems a probe could be dropped into the giant ocean of that water world by simply waiting for a swelling tide to crack open Europa's ice-bound surface, eliminating the need for drilling or melting down through kilometers of ice. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,51405,00.html The Kazaa Ruling: What It Means Kazaa BV, a Dutch company that licenses the Kazaa file-trading software, was exonerated last week when an appellate court ruled file-trading developers weren't liable for copyright infringement that occurs by people using their applications. The ruling set off a wave of excitement among American technology companies that saw this as a validation of their long-held argument that distributing software doesn't violate copyright law. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51457,00.html A Truly Unfortunate Development Some might call it Japan's biggest victory against noise pollution since pop duo Pink Lady split up two decades ago. Karaoke sound systems provider Taito Corp said on Tuesday it had teamed up with a U.S. professor and chipmaker Analog Devices on technology that could give even the most tone-deaf crooner perfect pitch. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,51472,00.html Sex loses net appeal Sex is finally losing its appeal on the net according to researchers in America. Interest in sex and entertainment had been replaced by more serious surfing, a study of 200,000 users conducted by Penn State University's School of Information Technology has found. The research, conducted over five years, found that in 1997 approximately one in six web queries to search engine Excite was about sex. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1906817.stm Privacy Concerns Raised Over Digital Music Proposal Proposed federal regulations that would standardize the way in which Internet broadcasters pay royalties for the songs they play could jeopardize the anonymity of online music listeners, according to some privacy advocates. The U.S. Copyright Office in February proposed regulations that would establish a per-song royalty rate that Webcasters would have to pay for the tunes that they stream to their online listeners. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175611.html Microsoft Asks Judge To Rethink Windows Trademark Ruling Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] has asked a federal judge hearing its trademark-infringement case against Lindows.com to reconsider his ruling that questioned the validity of the software giant's "Windows" marks. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on March 15 rejected Microsoft's request for a pre-trial injunction shutting down the Lindows.com Web site and halting distribution of LindowsOS software for running Windows programs on Linux. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175604.html Distributed program to translate many languages A US software designer plans to harness the brains of the world's computer users to build a multilingual translation database. Brian McConnell believes it could provide a free way to translate the many languages not included in existing online translators. McConnell is releasing a new distributed computer program, which works like programs such as SETI@home. However, while most distributed computer projects make use of spare computer power to perform complex computational tasks, in this case people will be asked to provide short translations themselves. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992115 More news... maybe later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies