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walktalker · 22-07-02, 06:12 PM

Raising the Accessibility Bar
An Italian inventor built the first typewriter to help a blind countess write legibly. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone because his wife and mother were deaf. The remote control was invented for people with limited mobility. Today's office scanners evolved from technologies created to make talking books for the blind. From the typewriter to the remote control, special access tools developed for disabled individuals eventually become conveniences for everyone.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,53930,00.html

MPAA Snooping for Spies
Hoping to end the online trading frenzy that has plagued the music business, the movie industry is hunting down digital film swappers and getting their Internet service cut off. The action is part of intensifying efforts by the entertainment industry to control piracy, efforts that include invasive technical measures. Privately, music industry officials already admit to frustrating file traders by putting up bogus files. Individuals trying to download unauthorized tracks from Eminem's latest CD last month, for example, occasionally got files containing only a single verse repeated continuously, rather than a complete song. Such tactics could, however, be illegal today under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54024,00.html

Liverpool: I Wanna Hold Your Spam
A woman in a major British media company recently contacted the company's entire, 30,000-strong staff with an urgent query: "Has anyone got any blu-tack?" This type of "occupational spam" -- in this case, a plea for the kind of adhesive typically used to stick posters to walls -- has clogged up e-mail servers so much that an English city council has banned the use of internal e-mail one day a week. External and personal mail is unaffected by the ban. The plan has provoked strong comment, ranging from derision to disbelief. "They should go back to using typewriters," said John Strand of media consultancy Strand Consult.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53868,00.html

Brazilians' Spin: Remix Music Biz
the eyes of many musicians and artists in Brazil, popular music as a form of pleasure and art ended in the Western world long ago. The mixing of music with commerce isn't a new concept, but the introduction of file-sharing on the Web has turned attention to the problems generated by this marriage in an unprecedented way. Now, a group of musicians, software engineers, DJs, professors, journalists and computer geeks -- who have named their cause Re:combo -- have decided to "call for noise" against the current rules of copyright established by the music industry.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53701,00.html

Security bill loses ID card, TIPS
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, in his markup of legislation to create a Homeland Security Department, yesterday rejected a national identification card and scrapped a program that would use volunteers in domestic surveillance. Mr. Armey, chairman of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, included language in his markup of the legislation to prohibit the Justice Department from initiating the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, also called Operation TIPS.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020719-90562710.htm

Volunteer snoops coming to an ISP near you?
Congress has been working on legislation to create a militia composed of 'technology experts' who will manage the telecommunications infrastructure in times of national emergency. The Senate bill passed last week emphasizes disaster response, not terror prevention, with such things as patching leaky government servers and databases, setting aside bandwidth and developing interoperable standards for emergency communications, and organizing local teams of geeks ready to lend a hand putting it all back together in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. All that sounds quite reasonable and the initial budget of $35 million refreshingly modest.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26309.html

Royalty fees killing most Internet radio stations
More than 200 Internet-based radio stations have shut down because of a royalty fee that takes effect in September, and more are closing daily.Most of the estimated 10,000 radio Webcasters are expected to follow suit, "with the exception of Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft and other deep-pocketed conglomerates who can afford a loss leader," says Kurt Hanson, editor of the Radio and Internet Newsletter. On June 20, a copyright appeals board set a rate of seven-hundredths of a cent per song, per listener. For many stations, run by music fans for music fans, that works out to thousands of dollars more than they make.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/te...21-radio_x.htm

Dan Gillmor: Hollywood, tech make suspicious pairing
Last week, some of America's most influential technology executives wrote a let's-be-pals letter to the heads of the entertainment industry. Surely, said the CEOs of Microsoft, Intel and other companies, we can find a way to protect copyrighted material from rampant unauthorized copying without stifling innovation and destroying customers' basic rights. The letter and its sentiments reflected an ongoing tension in the tech industry's evolution. It may well want to do the right thing by its customers -- something you should not take for granted -- but it's also enthusiastically building the tools that will help the entertainment cartel grab absolute control over customers' reading, viewing and listening.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...ey/3703600.htm

Green Groups Urge Fire Fuel Reduction, Not Logging
To clarify their positions concerning wildfire management on national forest lands, American conservation groups presented a letter to the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday. The groups say recent media reports and statements by federal and state officials have mistakenly characterized the environmental community as opposing most fire management strategies. In total, 148 conservation groups signed the letter sent to Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth, outlining the conservation community's position on wildfires, home protection and fuel reduction projects. "In recent weeks, some politicians and some U.S. Forest Service officials have repeatedly misrepresented the conservation community's position" on these issues, the conservation groups explain in the letter.
http://ens-news.com/ens/jul2002/2002-07-19-06.asp

Rare space rock 'a gem'
British scientists have confirmed that one of the rarest meteorites ever to fall to Earth is from a time when the Solar System was born. It provides a glimpse of a period, 4.5 billion years ago, when the planets were beginning to form. The chunk of space rock is higher in extra-terrestrial material than any other meteorite and may belong in a class of its own, say researchers at London's Natural History Museum. A team led by Dr Sara Russell is one of a handful around the world that is analysing slivers of the rock.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2144150.stm

22-07-02, 06:12 PM	#3
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Told you ! Raising the Accessibility Bar An Italian inventor built the first typewriter to help a blind countess write legibly. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone because his wife and mother were deaf. The remote control was invented for people with limited mobility. Today's office scanners evolved from technologies created to make talking books for the blind. From the typewriter to the remote control, special access tools developed for disabled individuals eventually become conveniences for everyone. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,53930,00.html MPAA Snooping for Spies Hoping to end the online trading frenzy that has plagued the music business, the movie industry is hunting down digital film swappers and getting their Internet service cut off. The action is part of intensifying efforts by the entertainment industry to control piracy, efforts that include invasive technical measures. Privately, music industry officials already admit to frustrating file traders by putting up bogus files. Individuals trying to download unauthorized tracks from Eminem's latest CD last month, for example, occasionally got files containing only a single verse repeated continuously, rather than a complete song. Such tactics could, however, be illegal today under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54024,00.html Liverpool: I Wanna Hold Your Spam A woman in a major British media company recently contacted the company's entire, 30,000-strong staff with an urgent query: "Has anyone got any blu-tack?" This type of "occupational spam" -- in this case, a plea for the kind of adhesive typically used to stick posters to walls -- has clogged up e-mail servers so much that an English city council has banned the use of internal e-mail one day a week. External and personal mail is unaffected by the ban. The plan has provoked strong comment, ranging from derision to disbelief. "They should go back to using typewriters," said John Strand of media consultancy Strand Consult. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53868,00.html Brazilians' Spin: Remix Music Biz the eyes of many musicians and artists in Brazil, popular music as a form of pleasure and art ended in the Western world long ago. The mixing of music with commerce isn't a new concept, but the introduction of file-sharing on the Web has turned attention to the problems generated by this marriage in an unprecedented way. Now, a group of musicians, software engineers, DJs, professors, journalists and computer geeks -- who have named their cause Re:combo -- have decided to "call for noise" against the current rules of copyright established by the music industry. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53701,00.html Security bill loses ID card, TIPS House Majority Leader Dick Armey, in his markup of legislation to create a Homeland Security Department, yesterday rejected a national identification card and scrapped a program that would use volunteers in domestic surveillance. Mr. Armey, chairman of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, included language in his markup of the legislation to prohibit the Justice Department from initiating the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, also called Operation TIPS. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020719-90562710.htm Volunteer snoops coming to an ISP near you? Congress has been working on legislation to create a militia composed of 'technology experts' who will manage the telecommunications infrastructure in times of national emergency. The Senate bill passed last week emphasizes disaster response, not terror prevention, with such things as patching leaky government servers and databases, setting aside bandwidth and developing interoperable standards for emergency communications, and organizing local teams of geeks ready to lend a hand putting it all back together in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. All that sounds quite reasonable and the initial budget of $35 million refreshingly modest. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26309.html Royalty fees killing most Internet radio stations More than 200 Internet-based radio stations have shut down because of a royalty fee that takes effect in September, and more are closing daily.Most of the estimated 10,000 radio Webcasters are expected to follow suit, "with the exception of Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft and other deep-pocketed conglomerates who can afford a loss leader," says Kurt Hanson, editor of the Radio and Internet Newsletter. On June 20, a copyright appeals board set a rate of seven-hundredths of a cent per song, per listener. For many stations, run by music fans for music fans, that works out to thousands of dollars more than they make. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/te...21-radio_x.htm Dan Gillmor: Hollywood, tech make suspicious pairing Last week, some of America's most influential technology executives wrote a let's-be-pals letter to the heads of the entertainment industry. Surely, said the CEOs of Microsoft, Intel and other companies, we can find a way to protect copyrighted material from rampant unauthorized copying without stifling innovation and destroying customers' basic rights. The letter and its sentiments reflected an ongoing tension in the tech industry's evolution. It may well want to do the right thing by its customers -- something you should not take for granted -- but it's also enthusiastically building the tools that will help the entertainment cartel grab absolute control over customers' reading, viewing and listening. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...ey/3703600.htm Green Groups Urge Fire Fuel Reduction, Not Logging To clarify their positions concerning wildfire management on national forest lands, American conservation groups presented a letter to the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday. The groups say recent media reports and statements by federal and state officials have mistakenly characterized the environmental community as opposing most fire management strategies. In total, 148 conservation groups signed the letter sent to Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth, outlining the conservation community's position on wildfires, home protection and fuel reduction projects. "In recent weeks, some politicians and some U.S. Forest Service officials have repeatedly misrepresented the conservation community's position" on these issues, the conservation groups explain in the letter. http://ens-news.com/ens/jul2002/2002-07-19-06.asp Rare space rock 'a gem' British scientists have confirmed that one of the rarest meteorites ever to fall to Earth is from a time when the Solar System was born. It provides a glimpse of a period, 4.5 billion years ago, when the planets were beginning to form. The chunk of space rock is higher in extra-terrestrial material than any other meteorite and may belong in a class of its own, say researchers at London's Natural History Museum. A team led by Dr Sara Russell is one of a handful around the world that is analysing slivers of the rock. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2144150.stm __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies