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ICANN Surveys Its Crossroads
The battle for future control of the Internet could shift to Europe in the weeks ahead, as advocates of democratic representation for the Internet's governing body press their case. Meeting last week in Ghana, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers appeared to reject future elections for board members, such as the online voting that culminated in the October 2000 election of five at-large members of the ICANN board.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51109,00.html

Europe Gives Go-Ahead to Galileo
A surprise decision over the weekend by European Union leaders to fund an alternative to the United States Global Positioning System satellite network could shape up as a critical event for Europe's future as a technological power. As recently as January, backers of the $3.2-billion system, called Galileo, counted its chances of moving forward in the face of U.S. opposition at virtually nil. They said a December letter from U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to all 15 EU defense ministers, arguing against Galileo, had effectively stymied the project.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51130,00.html

Fiber Optics, as Never Been Seen
The idea of carrying phone conversations with light may date back to 1880, but its implementation took an entire century. It was only in the 1980s that fiber optic channels were first integrated into commercial phone networks. In the intervening years, much has stayed the same -- scientists and engineers still want to cram more and more zeroes and ones into those familiar hair-thin wires of glass. But major advancements appear to be on the way.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,50779,00.html

Polymers Want a Fabric
Fancy this: clothing that generates solar power, fabrics that beep if you risk athletic injury and bed sheets that monitor your heartbeat and physiological health. Welcome to the world of "intelligent polymers," a chemical research frontier that could revolutionize textiles. At its simplest, intelligent polymers are plastic strands that can carry electricity, altering their conductivity in response to stretching, heating or sunlight. By weaving these into clothing, and measuring changes in the current passing through them, any number of new applications are possible.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,50904,00.html

US Military Scours Windows Systems For Hacker Back Doors
The United States Army and Navy are conducting a high-priority security review of their Microsoft Windows systems for the presence of an unauthorized remote-control program, sources familiar with the investigation have confirmed. An unclassified memo, sent Mar. 6 by the Navy's Computer Incident Response Team (NAVCIRT), warned Navy computer administrators to scan their Windows systems for evidence of a popular commercial software program called RemotelyAnywhere.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175245.html

Gravity-mapping satellite duo activated
Two satellites that promise to deliver the most accurate global map of the Earth's gravitational field have been activated after their launch on Sunday. The duo - nicknamed Tom and Jerry - blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia at 0921 GMT. The first signal from the satellites was received at a ground tracking station in Weilheim, Germany at 1049GMT. Engineers are currently performing the first checks of the satellites' instruments.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992055

BT anti-spam drive backfires on users
Measures to combat spam passing through BT mail servers are also trapping and deleting legitimate emails from BT's ADSL customers. A move by BT to cut out spam passing through its servers has ended up deleting valid emails sent out by some of BT's ADSL customers. BT introduced the measures, which entailed filtering out and deleting emails that looked like spam, on Tuesday. But the company failed to tell its customers about the new policy and as a result some had their outgoing emails filtered and deleted too.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2106727,00.html

Eliminating the Tools of Terror
So far, society prefers to absorb the cost of bank robberies rather than move to a cash-free economy. Yet Sutton’s practical observation offers an important clue to addressing a challenge that our society does judge intolerable: terrorism. The most effective way to address terrorism is neither better offense nor better defense. Rather, it is to take away the ball. Creatively eliminate the tools of terrorism, and you go a long way toward eliminating the terrorist.
http://www.techreview.com/articles/insight0402.asp

Intuitive people worse at detecting lies
People who think of themselves as being intuitive make worse lie detectors than those who do not trust in a "gut instinct", according to new research. "People generally aren't very good at detecting lies - accuracy is between 45 and 65 per cent," says Paul Seager of the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. "So my interest is: are there ways of making people better lie detectors?"
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992054

FBI Charges 89 People In Online Child-Porn Crackdown
The FBI today announced that it had filed charges against 89 people in 20 states in the first phase of a nationwide crackdown on Internet child pornography trafficking. The FBI said that since launching "Operation Candyman," agents had conducted more than 266 searches and arrested 27 suspects involved in producing child pornography. Little league coaches, a school-bus driver, a teachers aide, a guidance counselor and a foster care parent were among those charged in the sweep, the FBI said.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175275.html

CIA Web Site Tracks Visitors With Cookies
A Web site operated by the Central Intelligence Agency is marking visitors with a unique identification tag or "cookie" that violates federal privacy guidelines and the agency's own privacy policy, according to Public Information Research, a non-profit group. The CIA's Electronic Reading Room site, which provides online access to previously released CIA documents, places a "persistent" cookie on visitors' computers when they visit the site. Designed to remain on the visitor's computer until December 2010, the cookie contains the user's Internet protocol address as well as a unique identification number, Newsbytes has confirmed.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175272.html

Court Orders Telemarketers To Pay $39 Mil Judgment
A federal court has ordered a telemarketing group to repay $39 million to customers who were fraudulently billed for magazine subscriptions they never ordered. The $39 million judgment - believed to be the largest ever awarded under current telemarketing sales laws - was entered against a group of Oklahoma City, Okla., telemarketers operating as Diversified Marketing Service Corp., National Marketing Service Inc., NPC Corporation of the Midwest, and Magazine Club Billing Service Inc.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175270.html

Groups Plan Lawsuit Against FCC Cable Modem Ruling
Several consumers groups and Internet service providers might sue to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from instituting a ruling made last week that would exempt cable ISPs from being required to open their networks to competitors. Media Access Project Deputy Director Cheryl Leanza said that it, the Center for Digital Democracy, the Consumer Federation of America and some unidentified ISPs, are considering the lawsuit along with other options to protest the FCC's decision, which they say limits consumer choice.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175267.html

Playerless TV-Style Ads On Web Catching On
Advertisers love television because they understand it. So it is no surprise that more 30-second TV spots are showing up on the Internet. Despite a frosty advertising market, the CEO of Atlanta-based EyeWonder Friday told Newsbytes his company has added 50 new customers since December - thanks to technology that allows playerless video streaming. John Vincent said advertisers want their online advertising strategy to mimic TV, but until a few months ago, it was not possible because of technological limitations.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175255.html

Company Behind Morpheus Plans New Play On Peer-to-Peer
The chief executive of StreamCast Networks admits it may have been a little tardy to unveil only last week the organization chart for a company whose Morpheus software may be second only to Napster's in file-sharing infamy. But Steve Griffin said the new document in the corporate marketing material doesn't mean his Tennessee-based company doesn't have well-laid plans to be a much bigger player in the peer-to-peer arena.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175254.html

Philippines - School Assails Slow Resolution Of Hacking Case
Executives of a prominent business school alleged to be a hacking victim blame the Philippine judicial system for the sluggish progress of the case against several former employees accused of stealing digital copies of the school's programs. The Thames International Business School, which was the first local entity to invoke Republic Act 8792, or the E-commerce Law, last year sued two of its former employees for illegally hacking into the school's computers and retrieving proprietary materials with the intent to profit.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175265.html

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walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	ICANN Surveys Its Crossroads The battle for future control of the Internet could shift to Europe in the weeks ahead, as advocates of democratic representation for the Internet's governing body press their case. Meeting last week in Ghana, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers appeared to reject future elections for board members, such as the online voting that culminated in the October 2000 election of five at-large members of the ICANN board. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51109,00.html Europe Gives Go-Ahead to Galileo A surprise decision over the weekend by European Union leaders to fund an alternative to the United States Global Positioning System satellite network could shape up as a critical event for Europe's future as a technological power. As recently as January, backers of the $3.2-billion system, called Galileo, counted its chances of moving forward in the face of U.S. opposition at virtually nil. They said a December letter from U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to all 15 EU defense ministers, arguing against Galileo, had effectively stymied the project. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51130,00.html Fiber Optics, as Never Been Seen The idea of carrying phone conversations with light may date back to 1880, but its implementation took an entire century. It was only in the 1980s that fiber optic channels were first integrated into commercial phone networks. In the intervening years, much has stayed the same -- scientists and engineers still want to cram more and more zeroes and ones into those familiar hair-thin wires of glass. But major advancements appear to be on the way. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,50779,00.html Polymers Want a Fabric Fancy this: clothing that generates solar power, fabrics that beep if you risk athletic injury and bed sheets that monitor your heartbeat and physiological health. Welcome to the world of "intelligent polymers," a chemical research frontier that could revolutionize textiles. At its simplest, intelligent polymers are plastic strands that can carry electricity, altering their conductivity in response to stretching, heating or sunlight. By weaving these into clothing, and measuring changes in the current passing through them, any number of new applications are possible. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,50904,00.html US Military Scours Windows Systems For Hacker Back Doors The United States Army and Navy are conducting a high-priority security review of their Microsoft Windows systems for the presence of an unauthorized remote-control program, sources familiar with the investigation have confirmed. An unclassified memo, sent Mar. 6 by the Navy's Computer Incident Response Team (NAVCIRT), warned Navy computer administrators to scan their Windows systems for evidence of a popular commercial software program called RemotelyAnywhere. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175245.html Gravity-mapping satellite duo activated Two satellites that promise to deliver the most accurate global map of the Earth's gravitational field have been activated after their launch on Sunday. The duo - nicknamed Tom and Jerry - blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia at 0921 GMT. The first signal from the satellites was received at a ground tracking station in Weilheim, Germany at 1049GMT. Engineers are currently performing the first checks of the satellites' instruments. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992055 BT anti-spam drive backfires on users Measures to combat spam passing through BT mail servers are also trapping and deleting legitimate emails from BT's ADSL customers. A move by BT to cut out spam passing through its servers has ended up deleting valid emails sent out by some of BT's ADSL customers. BT introduced the measures, which entailed filtering out and deleting emails that looked like spam, on Tuesday. But the company failed to tell its customers about the new policy and as a result some had their outgoing emails filtered and deleted too. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2106727,00.html Eliminating the Tools of Terror So far, society prefers to absorb the cost of bank robberies rather than move to a cash-free economy. Yet Sutton’s practical observation offers an important clue to addressing a challenge that our society does judge intolerable: terrorism. The most effective way to address terrorism is neither better offense nor better defense. Rather, it is to take away the ball. Creatively eliminate the tools of terrorism, and you go a long way toward eliminating the terrorist. http://www.techreview.com/articles/insight0402.asp Intuitive people worse at detecting lies People who think of themselves as being intuitive make worse lie detectors than those who do not trust in a "gut instinct", according to new research. "People generally aren't very good at detecting lies - accuracy is between 45 and 65 per cent," says Paul Seager of the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. "So my interest is: are there ways of making people better lie detectors?" http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992054 FBI Charges 89 People In Online Child-Porn Crackdown The FBI today announced that it had filed charges against 89 people in 20 states in the first phase of a nationwide crackdown on Internet child pornography trafficking. The FBI said that since launching "Operation Candyman," agents had conducted more than 266 searches and arrested 27 suspects involved in producing child pornography. Little league coaches, a school-bus driver, a teachers aide, a guidance counselor and a foster care parent were among those charged in the sweep, the FBI said. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175275.html CIA Web Site Tracks Visitors With Cookies A Web site operated by the Central Intelligence Agency is marking visitors with a unique identification tag or "cookie" that violates federal privacy guidelines and the agency's own privacy policy, according to Public Information Research, a non-profit group. The CIA's Electronic Reading Room site, which provides online access to previously released CIA documents, places a "persistent" cookie on visitors' computers when they visit the site. Designed to remain on the visitor's computer until December 2010, the cookie contains the user's Internet protocol address as well as a unique identification number, Newsbytes has confirmed. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175272.html Court Orders Telemarketers To Pay $39 Mil Judgment A federal court has ordered a telemarketing group to repay $39 million to customers who were fraudulently billed for magazine subscriptions they never ordered. The $39 million judgment - believed to be the largest ever awarded under current telemarketing sales laws - was entered against a group of Oklahoma City, Okla., telemarketers operating as Diversified Marketing Service Corp., National Marketing Service Inc., NPC Corporation of the Midwest, and Magazine Club Billing Service Inc. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175270.html Groups Plan Lawsuit Against FCC Cable Modem Ruling Several consumers groups and Internet service providers might sue to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from instituting a ruling made last week that would exempt cable ISPs from being required to open their networks to competitors. Media Access Project Deputy Director Cheryl Leanza said that it, the Center for Digital Democracy, the Consumer Federation of America and some unidentified ISPs, are considering the lawsuit along with other options to protest the FCC's decision, which they say limits consumer choice. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175267.html Playerless TV-Style Ads On Web Catching On Advertisers love television because they understand it. So it is no surprise that more 30-second TV spots are showing up on the Internet. Despite a frosty advertising market, the CEO of Atlanta-based EyeWonder Friday told Newsbytes his company has added 50 new customers since December - thanks to technology that allows playerless video streaming. John Vincent said advertisers want their online advertising strategy to mimic TV, but until a few months ago, it was not possible because of technological limitations. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175255.html Company Behind Morpheus Plans New Play On Peer-to-Peer The chief executive of StreamCast Networks admits it may have been a little tardy to unveil only last week the organization chart for a company whose Morpheus software may be second only to Napster's in file-sharing infamy. But Steve Griffin said the new document in the corporate marketing material doesn't mean his Tennessee-based company doesn't have well-laid plans to be a much bigger player in the peer-to-peer arena. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175254.html Philippines - School Assails Slow Resolution Of Hacking Case Executives of a prominent business school alleged to be a hacking victim blame the Philippine judicial system for the sluggish progress of the case against several former employees accused of stealing digital copies of the school's programs. The Thames International Business School, which was the first local entity to invoke Republic Act 8792, or the E-commerce Law, last year sued two of its former employees for illegally hacking into the school's computers and retrieving proprietary materials with the intent to profit. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175265.html More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies