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walktalker · 14-11-01, 09:54 PM

Argentina Peeks Into E-Mail Laws
If you illegally read someone else's e-mail in Argentina, you might end up spending from 15 days to six months in jail. And sending spam without identifying it as such, and including your real name, could saddle you with a fine of more than $25,000. That's what may be in store for Argentines if two bills presented by the Secretaría de Comunicaciones (the local FCC) to the Congress earlier this month are approved.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48291,00.html

Aimster the Latest to Chime In
The company that released the Aimster file-trading software unveiled a monthly subscription plan, promising users quicker connection and download times for those who pay for the premium service. AbovePeer, based in Troy, New York, quietly released Club Aimster, a subscription service that allows users to create their own homepages and bypass traffic congestion for $4.95 per month, according to company spokesman Johnny Deep.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,48255,00.html

Liquid Audio Faces Bitter Music
If he had his way, Mitaronda says he'd shut down the company. Then he'd take its remaining cash and distribute it to shareholders, reasoning that "there comes a point in time when it is no longer practical to continue in the business for which the company raised money." Trouble is, Liquid Audio has no intention of letting Mitaronda get his way. The Silicon Valley company -- which reported a smaller-than-expected loss of $6.1 million for its latest quarter on Tuesday -- has consistently rejected offers by Mitaronda's BCG Investors to buy out the firm.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48370,00.html

Server Farm: Your Place or Mine?
In an era of growing insecurity, having your computer equipment tucked into a hole 85 feet underground has a certain appeal. That's the selling point of Underground Secure Data Center Operations (USDCO), a server farm located in an abandoned gypsum mine near Grand Rapids, Michigan. USDCO execs are stressing the bunker-like qualities of their 750,000-square-foot mine in the wake of the terrorist attacks and subsequent data and equipment destruction.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48104,00.html

ICANN Warned on Web Vulnerability
It would not take much for a malicious hacker to shut down the Internet, researchers at a meeting of the body that oversees Web address allocation warned on Tuesday. An attack designed to flood the Web's master directory servers with traffic "is capable of bringing down the Internet," said Paul Vixie, a speaker at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers annual meeting.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48384,00.html

Courts to hear rash of cell phone suits
A lawsuit is due to be filed in America on Wednesday alleging that a 34-year old man's brain cancer was caused by mobile phone use. The case is likely to be followed by dozens more in coming weeks. Lawyers acting on behalf of Michael Murray, a former Motorola worker, are seeking both compensation and punitive damages. The personal injury case will be heard at the District of Columbia Superior Court, and will seek to prove that mobile phones cause brain tumors -- a claim consistently denied by the mobile industry.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Rocket plane closes in on private space travel
A fledgling aerospace company took another step toward making private space flights Monday as it sent a rocket-powered plane soaring 9,000 feet above the desert. Xcor Aerospace's EZ-Rocket, outfitted with twin, 400-pound-thrust rocket engines, streaked off a windy Mojave Airport runway and into a cloudy sky. Shimmering hot exhaust trailed during the demonstration flight for about 100 spectators.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...cket-plane.htm

French bureaucracy takes online leap
France is about to launch an electronic government initiative that will give every citizen a personal internet portal allowing them to pay taxes online, register a child for a state school, or be reminded that their regulatory car inspection is due in a month's time. The move aims to streamline the country's notoriously bureaucratic civil service. The new system, titled mon.service-public.fr, is due to be launched on Thursday, but the French will have to wait until 2005 for it to be completed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1655820.stm

The Fourth Annual Inertia Awards
Yes, it's the Fourth International Inertia Awards competition. The Inertia Awards honor companies and individuals who are dragging the feet of the worldwide Internet Economy with product delays, professional incompetence, been-there-done-that technology, monopolistic practices, and/or other dilatory acts or omissions. The Inertia Awards are not connected in any nonsatiric way with the Momentum Awards, nor for that matter are they related in any nonobvious way to the Sluggishness Awards, the Stagnation Awards, the Listlessness Awards, or the Unemployment Prize. The names of the winners are known only to the judges, who have been sealed in envelopes and kept in a locked vault at Price Waterhouse, then irradiated before being opened by the Swaine's World mailroom SWAT team.
http://webreview.com/swaine/2001/11_12_01.shtml

Here Comes the Sun
You might be worried about blizzards this winter, but what about coronal mass ejections? These giant blasts of electrified particles from the sun, along with solar winds and other space weather, frequently cause disturbances on earth, disrupting radio communications and inducing surges in power lines. But space weather forecasters could soon predict such events with better precision, thanks to a new imaging tool in use by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/d...nnovation4.asp

House OKs Bill With Cyber-Security Funding
Brian Krebs and Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes. The House of Representatives today passed a spending bill that contains funding for a raft of cyber-security and online crime-fighting initiatives. The House voted 411-15 to approve the Commerce-Justice-State (CJS) appropriations bill, a 2002 spending package that includes funding for programs to fight cyber-crime, child pornography, and intellectual property theft. The package also includes money for technology research programs.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172166.html

Digital Music Players To Blast Off By '2005
Digital music players have gained a solid foothold in the marketplace and promise to become much more popular in the coming years, according to a new Cahners In-Stat report. The research firm is projecting shipments of 9 million of the units by 2005, up from 2.4 million last year and the more than 3 million projected to be sold this year, according to the report. The popularity of digital music devices created by companies like Sonicblue, Creative Labs and D-Link is connected directly to the popularity of online music distribution, according to Cahners In-Stat senior multimedia analyst Mike Paxton.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172165.html

Feds Praise Law Enforcement Value Of Biometrics
A pair of federal officials on Tuesday told a congressional panel that technology capable of identifying people by their unique physical characteristics - fingerprints, retinal patterns, facial contours, etc. - could play a vital role in combating terrorism. FBI Criminal Justice Information Systems Division (CJIS) Assistant Director Michael Kirkpatrick and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Deputy Director Monte Belger both said that physical recognition or "biometric" technologies would help them perform their respective duties in helping safeguard the nation from further terrorist attacks.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172164.html

Lawmakers To Question Industry Leaders On Cybersecurity
A congressional panel has called a clutch of high-tech industry leaders to testify this week about the precautions the private sector is taking to secure their software and networks. The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee will hear from security officials at Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., EDS and a handful of other major industry players when it convenes a hearing on cybersecurity Thursday.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172160.html

Microsoft - Only XP Administrators Can Play Some Games
Families and others who upgrade to the Windows XP operating system may find their favorite PC games no longer function properly, according to Microsoft. Some fans of computer games, including Microsoft's Age of Empires II, are discovering that Windows XP may not allow them to run the software unless they have special "computer administrator" privileges. Internet newsgroups for discussing XP support issues contained several messages from users who have encountered the problem, which stems from a security feature in XP known as "User Accounts." Microsoft officials were not immediately available for comment.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172154.html

Bush Signs Funding Bills With Technology Provisions
President Bush Tuesday signed several government funding bills into law, including the Treasury appropriations bill that contains restrictions on how much Internet user information federal government agencies can collect. Bush also signed the Energy and Water appropriations bill into law, a $24.6 billion bill that contains about $14.9 million for security initiatives at the Energy Department's Office of Independent Oversight and Performance Assurance. That funding in part would increase cyber-security at Energy Department facilities.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172152.html

Thai Electricity Generator Turns On To Open Source
The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) is the latest local organization to adopt open source technology with a recently implemented Internet mail system for 12,500 users nationwide. EGAT Research and Development Office assistant director Chana Sobharaksha told Database that the agency had a limited budget and so had explored alternatives using free software. EGAT had already implemented a Linux system in 1995 for Internet access but only had a few users who could use the system.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172129.html

More news later on

14-11-01, 09:54 PM	#3
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Argentina Peeks Into E-Mail Laws If you illegally read someone else's e-mail in Argentina, you might end up spending from 15 days to six months in jail. And sending spam without identifying it as such, and including your real name, could saddle you with a fine of more than $25,000. That's what may be in store for Argentines if two bills presented by the Secretaría de Comunicaciones (the local FCC) to the Congress earlier this month are approved. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48291,00.html Aimster the Latest to Chime In The company that released the Aimster file-trading software unveiled a monthly subscription plan, promising users quicker connection and download times for those who pay for the premium service. AbovePeer, based in Troy, New York, quietly released Club Aimster, a subscription service that allows users to create their own homepages and bypass traffic congestion for $4.95 per month, according to company spokesman Johnny Deep. http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,48255,00.html Liquid Audio Faces Bitter Music If he had his way, Mitaronda says he'd shut down the company. Then he'd take its remaining cash and distribute it to shareholders, reasoning that "there comes a point in time when it is no longer practical to continue in the business for which the company raised money." Trouble is, Liquid Audio has no intention of letting Mitaronda get his way. The Silicon Valley company -- which reported a smaller-than-expected loss of $6.1 million for its latest quarter on Tuesday -- has consistently rejected offers by Mitaronda's BCG Investors to buy out the firm. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48370,00.html Server Farm: Your Place or Mine? In an era of growing insecurity, having your computer equipment tucked into a hole 85 feet underground has a certain appeal. That's the selling point of Underground Secure Data Center Operations (USDCO), a server farm located in an abandoned gypsum mine near Grand Rapids, Michigan. USDCO execs are stressing the bunker-like qualities of their 750,000-square-foot mine in the wake of the terrorist attacks and subsequent data and equipment destruction. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48104,00.html ICANN Warned on Web Vulnerability It would not take much for a malicious hacker to shut down the Internet, researchers at a meeting of the body that oversees Web address allocation warned on Tuesday. An attack designed to flood the Web's master directory servers with traffic "is capable of bringing down the Internet," said Paul Vixie, a speaker at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers annual meeting. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48384,00.html Courts to hear rash of cell phone suits A lawsuit is due to be filed in America on Wednesday alleging that a 34-year old man's brain cancer was caused by mobile phone use. The case is likely to be followed by dozens more in coming weeks. Lawyers acting on behalf of Michael Murray, a former Motorola worker, are seeking both compensation and punitive damages. The personal injury case will be heard at the District of Columbia Superior Court, and will seek to prove that mobile phones cause brain tumors -- a claim consistently denied by the mobile industry. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Rocket plane closes in on private space travel A fledgling aerospace company took another step toward making private space flights Monday as it sent a rocket-powered plane soaring 9,000 feet above the desert. Xcor Aerospace's EZ-Rocket, outfitted with twin, 400-pound-thrust rocket engines, streaked off a windy Mojave Airport runway and into a cloudy sky. Shimmering hot exhaust trailed during the demonstration flight for about 100 spectators. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...cket-plane.htm French bureaucracy takes online leap France is about to launch an electronic government initiative that will give every citizen a personal internet portal allowing them to pay taxes online, register a child for a state school, or be reminded that their regulatory car inspection is due in a month's time. The move aims to streamline the country's notoriously bureaucratic civil service. The new system, titled mon.service-public.fr, is due to be launched on Thursday, but the French will have to wait until 2005 for it to be completed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1655820.stm The Fourth Annual Inertia Awards Yes, it's the Fourth International Inertia Awards competition. The Inertia Awards honor companies and individuals who are dragging the feet of the worldwide Internet Economy with product delays, professional incompetence, been-there-done-that technology, monopolistic practices, and/or other dilatory acts or omissions. The Inertia Awards are not connected in any nonsatiric way with the Momentum Awards, nor for that matter are they related in any nonobvious way to the Sluggishness Awards, the Stagnation Awards, the Listlessness Awards, or the Unemployment Prize. The names of the winners are known only to the judges, who have been sealed in envelopes and kept in a locked vault at Price Waterhouse, then irradiated before being opened by the Swaine's World mailroom SWAT team. http://webreview.com/swaine/2001/11_12_01.shtml Here Comes the Sun You might be worried about blizzards this winter, but what about coronal mass ejections? These giant blasts of electrified particles from the sun, along with solar winds and other space weather, frequently cause disturbances on earth, disrupting radio communications and inducing surges in power lines. But space weather forecasters could soon predict such events with better precision, thanks to a new imaging tool in use by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://www.techreview.com/magazine/d...nnovation4.asp House OKs Bill With Cyber-Security Funding Brian Krebs and Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes. The House of Representatives today passed a spending bill that contains funding for a raft of cyber-security and online crime-fighting initiatives. The House voted 411-15 to approve the Commerce-Justice-State (CJS) appropriations bill, a 2002 spending package that includes funding for programs to fight cyber-crime, child pornography, and intellectual property theft. The package also includes money for technology research programs. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172166.html Digital Music Players To Blast Off By '2005 Digital music players have gained a solid foothold in the marketplace and promise to become much more popular in the coming years, according to a new Cahners In-Stat report. The research firm is projecting shipments of 9 million of the units by 2005, up from 2.4 million last year and the more than 3 million projected to be sold this year, according to the report. The popularity of digital music devices created by companies like Sonicblue, Creative Labs and D-Link is connected directly to the popularity of online music distribution, according to Cahners In-Stat senior multimedia analyst Mike Paxton. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172165.html Feds Praise Law Enforcement Value Of Biometrics A pair of federal officials on Tuesday told a congressional panel that technology capable of identifying people by their unique physical characteristics - fingerprints, retinal patterns, facial contours, etc. - could play a vital role in combating terrorism. FBI Criminal Justice Information Systems Division (CJIS) Assistant Director Michael Kirkpatrick and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Deputy Director Monte Belger both said that physical recognition or "biometric" technologies would help them perform their respective duties in helping safeguard the nation from further terrorist attacks. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172164.html Lawmakers To Question Industry Leaders On Cybersecurity A congressional panel has called a clutch of high-tech industry leaders to testify this week about the precautions the private sector is taking to secure their software and networks. The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee will hear from security officials at Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., EDS and a handful of other major industry players when it convenes a hearing on cybersecurity Thursday. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172160.html Microsoft - Only XP Administrators Can Play Some Games Families and others who upgrade to the Windows XP operating system may find their favorite PC games no longer function properly, according to Microsoft. Some fans of computer games, including Microsoft's Age of Empires II, are discovering that Windows XP may not allow them to run the software unless they have special "computer administrator" privileges. Internet newsgroups for discussing XP support issues contained several messages from users who have encountered the problem, which stems from a security feature in XP known as "User Accounts." Microsoft officials were not immediately available for comment. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172154.html Bush Signs Funding Bills With Technology Provisions President Bush Tuesday signed several government funding bills into law, including the Treasury appropriations bill that contains restrictions on how much Internet user information federal government agencies can collect. Bush also signed the Energy and Water appropriations bill into law, a $24.6 billion bill that contains about $14.9 million for security initiatives at the Energy Department's Office of Independent Oversight and Performance Assurance. That funding in part would increase cyber-security at Energy Department facilities. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172152.html Thai Electricity Generator Turns On To Open Source The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) is the latest local organization to adopt open source technology with a recently implemented Internet mail system for 12,500 users nationwide. EGAT Research and Development Office assistant director Chana Sobharaksha told Database that the agency had a limited budget and so had explored alternatives using free software. EGAT had already implemented a Linux system in 1995 for Internet access but only had a few users who could use the system. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172129.html More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies