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walktalker · 15-04-02, 08:54 PM

MS Trial: A Call for a New Office
An economist testifying against Microsoft on Monday supported a proposal to create a version of Microsoft Office that runs on alternative operating systems such as Linux. University of California at Berkeley professor Carl Shapiro told a judge that he favored a provision to auction licenses to create versions of Microsoft Office for operating systems other than Windows and the Mac OS.
http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/...,51841,00.html

Genome Group Rips Human Cloning
Scientists at the Human Genome Organization have condemned plans for human cloning, saying it raises deep concerns over moral issues and arguing that the technology was far from mature and its side effects were unknown. Human embryo cloning as proposed by Britain's Roslin Institute, the creators of Dolly the cloned sheep, is a dangerous step leading to reproductive cloning which should be banned, scientists said Monday.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51808,00.html

A New Plan To Provide Broadband
When Pete Aquino and Peter Stevenson returned to Northern Virginia after running a telecom company in Venezuela for five years, they expected access to all the luxuries that modern technology can offer. They were disappointed with what they found. "We couldn't get DSL; our cable service was terrible. It was all very frustrating," Aquino said. "So we started investigating why broadband hadn't developed in the U.S."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Apr14.html

Step-by-step bomb guide 'made public'
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) says it is "checking" claims that one of its documents - detailing a step-by-step guide on how to build an atomic bomb - has been put in a public office for all to see. The file is said to be in the archives at the Public Record Office, which can be accessed by anyone, including terrorists, and gives measurements, diagrams and precise details on bomb-building, the Daily Telegraph reported.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/...00/1931103.stm

Identity Theft Insurance Going Mainstream
Consumer concern over online fraud is helping a Fairfax, Va., company turn its identity-theft protection service into a product that's catching the attention of mainstream insurance companies. One such company, Farmers Home Group of Minneapolis, Minn., announced today that it would resell the Identity Theft Protection Plan launched more than a year ago by privately held PromiseMark Inc.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175890.html

Google Provides Scientology Warnings To Free Speech Site
Less than a month after de-listing an anti-Scientology Web site from its search engine on copyright infringement grounds, Google has begun providing copies of the infringement notices that it receives to a recently formed free-speech advocacy site, a Google spokesman confirmed today. Earlier this week, Google sent a copy of an infringement warning it received from the Church of Scientology to the operators of Chillingeffects.org, a site that aims to educate Internet posters about their First Amendment rights in the face of legal warnings.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175863.html

Ashcroft Calls For Web-Based Terrorist Data System
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday called on various law enforcement agencies within the Justice Department to construct a Web-based system for sharing terrorist data with state officials. Ashcroft directed the deputy attorney general to coordinate the building of a secure but unclassified Web-based system that would enable local, state and federal users to post, retrieve and read documents and photos, as well as send and receive secure e-mail.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175861.html

Royalty, Auditing Plans Could Crush Campus Webcasters
Cash-strapped college radio stations could be among the biggest losers if Webcasters must pay proposed music royalties and maintain complex, expensive playlist audits, according to public comments filed with the U.S. Copyright Office. "If the Copyright Office codifies these reporting requirements without reconciling the effects on these stations and their audiences, it will have a chilling effect on creativity, learning, education, research and society," wrote Cary S. Tepper, lawyer for Collegiate Broadcasters Inc., in a letter filed with the Copyright Office on April 4.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175860.html

ReplayTV 4000: A TV Recorder That Relays
Ever wanted to send a TV show or movie to a friend the way you might e-mail a digital photo? SonicBlue thinks you might, and has launched an ambitious line of personal video recorders (PVRs) that do that -- more or less. Its ReplayTV 4000-series unit, which digitally stores TV programs on an internal hard drive, can send a crisp, clear copy of a show to another ReplayTV box.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175881.html

DataPlay Discs Put A New Spin On Digital Music
Compact discs are small, durable, digital and, with the right hardware, even recordable. So why wouldn't an even smaller digital music disc be a better idea? A Boulder, Colo., company called DataPlay Inc. has been working since 1998 to find an answer to that question. Its technology might make some record labels happy when it ships this summer. But consumers may not be so thrilled. But while DataPlay's developers say they have their eye on the data-storage market, they're focusing on the music business first. Songs on these discs will be encoded in a proprietary format and guarded by software limiting how many copies you can make of each song.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175880.html

Controversial copyright clause abandoned
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which publishes 30 per cent of all computer science journals worldwide, is to stop requiring authors to comply with a controversial US digital copyright law. The IEEE produced a new set of conditions for publication at the beginning of 2002. These required that authors' work must not contravene the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Many academics believe the DMCA discourages scientists from publishing valuable research through fear of legal action. The DMCA prohibits "any technology, product, service, device, component or part" that circumvents digital copy protection systems.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992169

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15-04-02, 08:54 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Toréador, un oeil noir te regaaarde.... lol MS Trial: A Call for a New Office An economist testifying against Microsoft on Monday supported a proposal to create a version of Microsoft Office that runs on alternative operating systems such as Linux. University of California at Berkeley professor Carl Shapiro told a judge that he favored a provision to auction licenses to create versions of Microsoft Office for operating systems other than Windows and the Mac OS. http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/...,51841,00.html Genome Group Rips Human Cloning Scientists at the Human Genome Organization have condemned plans for human cloning, saying it raises deep concerns over moral issues and arguing that the technology was far from mature and its side effects were unknown. Human embryo cloning as proposed by Britain's Roslin Institute, the creators of Dolly the cloned sheep, is a dangerous step leading to reproductive cloning which should be banned, scientists said Monday. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51808,00.html A New Plan To Provide Broadband When Pete Aquino and Peter Stevenson returned to Northern Virginia after running a telecom company in Venezuela for five years, they expected access to all the luxuries that modern technology can offer. They were disappointed with what they found. "We couldn't get DSL; our cable service was terrible. It was all very frustrating," Aquino said. "So we started investigating why broadband hadn't developed in the U.S." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Apr14.html Step-by-step bomb guide 'made public' The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) says it is "checking" claims that one of its documents - detailing a step-by-step guide on how to build an atomic bomb - has been put in a public office for all to see. The file is said to be in the archives at the Public Record Office, which can be accessed by anyone, including terrorists, and gives measurements, diagrams and precise details on bomb-building, the Daily Telegraph reported. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/...00/1931103.stm Identity Theft Insurance Going Mainstream Consumer concern over online fraud is helping a Fairfax, Va., company turn its identity-theft protection service into a product that's catching the attention of mainstream insurance companies. One such company, Farmers Home Group of Minneapolis, Minn., announced today that it would resell the Identity Theft Protection Plan launched more than a year ago by privately held PromiseMark Inc. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175890.html Google Provides Scientology Warnings To Free Speech Site Less than a month after de-listing an anti-Scientology Web site from its search engine on copyright infringement grounds, Google has begun providing copies of the infringement notices that it receives to a recently formed free-speech advocacy site, a Google spokesman confirmed today. Earlier this week, Google sent a copy of an infringement warning it received from the Church of Scientology to the operators of Chillingeffects.org, a site that aims to educate Internet posters about their First Amendment rights in the face of legal warnings. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175863.html Ashcroft Calls For Web-Based Terrorist Data System U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday called on various law enforcement agencies within the Justice Department to construct a Web-based system for sharing terrorist data with state officials. Ashcroft directed the deputy attorney general to coordinate the building of a secure but unclassified Web-based system that would enable local, state and federal users to post, retrieve and read documents and photos, as well as send and receive secure e-mail. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175861.html Royalty, Auditing Plans Could Crush Campus Webcasters Cash-strapped college radio stations could be among the biggest losers if Webcasters must pay proposed music royalties and maintain complex, expensive playlist audits, according to public comments filed with the U.S. Copyright Office. "If the Copyright Office codifies these reporting requirements without reconciling the effects on these stations and their audiences, it will have a chilling effect on creativity, learning, education, research and society," wrote Cary S. Tepper, lawyer for Collegiate Broadcasters Inc., in a letter filed with the Copyright Office on April 4. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175860.html ReplayTV 4000: A TV Recorder That Relays Ever wanted to send a TV show or movie to a friend the way you might e-mail a digital photo? SonicBlue thinks you might, and has launched an ambitious line of personal video recorders (PVRs) that do that -- more or less. Its ReplayTV 4000-series unit, which digitally stores TV programs on an internal hard drive, can send a crisp, clear copy of a show to another ReplayTV box. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175881.html DataPlay Discs Put A New Spin On Digital Music Compact discs are small, durable, digital and, with the right hardware, even recordable. So why wouldn't an even smaller digital music disc be a better idea? A Boulder, Colo., company called DataPlay Inc. has been working since 1998 to find an answer to that question. Its technology might make some record labels happy when it ships this summer. But consumers may not be so thrilled. But while DataPlay's developers say they have their eye on the data-storage market, they're focusing on the music business first. Songs on these discs will be encoded in a proprietary format and guarded by software limiting how many copies you can make of each song. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175880.html Controversial copyright clause abandoned The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which publishes 30 per cent of all computer science journals worldwide, is to stop requiring authors to comply with a controversial US digital copyright law. The IEEE produced a new set of conditions for publication at the beginning of 2002. These required that authors' work must not contravene the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Many academics believe the DMCA discourages scientists from publishing valuable research through fear of legal action. The DMCA prohibits "any technology, product, service, device, component or part" that circumvents digital copy protection systems. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992169 More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies