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walktalker · 09-01-02, 11:03 PM

Online CD Sales May Suffer Static
James Hannon walked away from the record store with nine CDs, including the newest album from Groove Armada. He rushed home and loaded the CD into his Pioneer Pro DJ CD player, a high-end mixing board and sound system. Strange static came out of his system where he thought music would be. Turned out copy protection wasn't the culprit. He'd probably just gotten hold of a bad CD, perhaps caused by defective packaging. But the fact that Hannon was even thinking about copy protection illustrates a problem the record companies will probably have to deal with.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,49539,00.html

Feds Accelerate Fuel-Cell Cars
After nearly $1.5 billion in subsidies, the Bush administration is ending an eight-year program to help automakers develop high-mileage, family-size cars. Instead, it wants to spur the growth of hydrogen fuel cells to power the next generation of motor vehicles. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, addressing an auto show in Detroit, planned Wednesday to tout hydrogen fuel-cell development as part of a broader strategy to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil and help the environment by reducing carbon dioxide emissions and other tailpipe pollution.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49589,00.html

Lot to Learn About School Laptops
While Maine educators look forward to the day when students and teachers will integrate one-to-one computing into their courses, they are realistic about the patience, time and training that this ambitious project will take. No one knows that better than technology coordinator Crystal Priest. All eighth graders in her district have been working with laptops for over a year.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,49576,00.html

ImClone Problems Multiply
The J.P. Morgan H&Q Healthcare conference was buzzing Wednesday, but instead of new treatments, attendees were chatting about the clinical trials and tribulations of pharmaceutical company ImClone Systems. The company has been causing a hubbub since the start of the conference on Monday, when a story published in The Cancer Letter sent a ripple of surprise through the 5,000 attendees. The newsletter reported that the company's cancer drug was facing worse obstacles from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration than previously believed.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,49609,00.html

3-D Models Give Proteins Shape
Researchers trying to discover drugs have more data than they can sift through, so many are using computer modeling to deal with the data. But not everyone trusts computer models enough to bet their businesses on them. Since the human genome was decoded, the amount of gene and protein information has skyrocketed. Whenever researchers are confronted with loads of data, computing power is an obvious solution. But most believe that although computers can speed research, they can't take the place of the laboratory bench.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,49555,00.html

Hepatitis C Research Gets a Boost
When researchers at Vertex Pharmaceuticals chose hepatitis C as the disease they hoped to treat, they didn't realize the uphill battle they faced. But thanks to new drug discovery technologies, they've come up with a drug that, if successful, will work much like many of the drugs effective against HIV. Drug discovery is not easy. It often takes about 10 years and $5 million to $10 million to bring a drug to market. But there are some things that can make it harder than normal, such as a disease molecule that just doesn't want to stick to a drug.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,49584,00.html

Quantum Leap: Seize the Light
These days, quantum computers are scrawny little gadgets whose greatest accomplishment so far is factoring the number 15. However, their power grows exponentially with size, so whenever quantum computers grow a little bigger, researchers get more than a little excited. Two papers this month, in fact, present new frameworks for quantum information storage and large-scale quantum computation -- involving hundreds of thousands of potential quantum bits (qubits). Both tasks are essential to making a quantum computer, and both entail challenges for the engineer as well as the theorist.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,49448,00.html

Hint of Earliest Stars: Greatest Fireworks Ever Still Beyond View
The grandest fireworks display in the history of the universe played out in reverse is how researchers are describing data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows that most stars were formed in a brief period early in the Universe's history that was followed by a relative drought of activity that continues today. Using images of the deep and distant universe provided by the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers found that a "torrential firestorm" of star birth "abruptly lit up the pitch-dark heavens just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang," researchers said today at a press conference at NASA headquarters.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...hs_020108.html

Earth granted reprieve
The Earth has been granted a reprieve. Astronomers believe the planet may now escape being swallowed up when the Sun dies in about 7.5 billion years' time. The new calculations actually extend the length of time the Earth will be habitable by 200 million years. But, in the end, the surface of the planet will simply become too hot for life to survive. Earth-dwellers will have to find alternative homes in space, say astrophysicists in the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1749389.stm

Data "swarms" could rescue overloaded web sites
Web sites overwhelmed by sudden popularity could soon rescue themselves by creating a "swarm" of data to be shared between users trying to download the desired files. Newly launched sites have frequently underestimated the number of users they will attract, with the most recent example being the UK government's 1901 Census web site. Over 20 million surfers began searching for their roots on the first day and brought the site to a standstill. It has now been partly closed down to protect other sites hosted at the same location.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991761

Kodak Creates New Wireless Technology Company
The Eastman Kodak Co. today said it will "spin out" technology from its research labs and create a new company dedicated to developing the wireless transmission of high quality video, still images and data. Kodak said the new company, named Appairent Technologies, is part of its strategy of "commercializing its technology to expand the infoimaging category."
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173528.html

Drug Company Settles Two Chat Room Speech Cases
A drug research firm on Tuesday paid $107,887 in attorneys' fees and agreed to dismiss two cases against two stockholders who posted negative comments about the company in an Internet chat room. Robert O'Brien, an attorney for San Diego, Calif.-based Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, told Newsbytes the company settled with Gregory Alcus and a second defendant, identified by the screen name "Dickie13_62301," because the company wanted to focus its energy on other defendants whose suits are still pending.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173527.html

Gun Safety Group Asks FTC To Probe Firearm Web Sites
A new gun safety organization today asked the Federal Trade Commission to expand its probe of post-Sept. 11 false and misleading Web advertising claims to include firearms Web sites. A project under the Alliance for Justice, Gun Industry Watch said in its letter that gun makers should be held to the same standards as Web sites that claim to offer protection from biological and nuclear agents.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173525.html

Michigan Creates Online ‘Cybercourt
Michigan Gov. John Engler, R, today signed into law a bill that creates an online state court. Engler on Tuesday also said that 25 corporations and state groups have joined in an effort to bring broadband Internet access to the entire state. The Cybercourt bill, H.B. 4140, would have jurisdiction over business and commercial complaints in which the dispute is more than $25,000, and is expected to go live in October.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173524.html

More Libraries Filtered In 2001
A reported spike in the number of U.S. libraries using filtering software has rekindled concerns among some civil liberties advocates that library administrators may be bowing under federal pressure to limit access to adult materials on their computers. In a survey published by Library Journal, 43 percent of libraries polled said that they electronically filtered Internet access in 2001, up from 31 percent the previous year.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173523.html

Tech News Site E-Mails Virus To Readers
Officials at SiliconValley.com confirmed that the technology and business news site inadvertently sent a dangerous virus Monday morning to readers of one of its e-mail newsletters. According to Cynthia Funnell, director of corporate communications for Knight Ridder Digital, which operates the site, a message containing an attachment infected with a variant of the data-destroying Magistr e-mail worm was sent to subscribers to "Good Morning Silicon Valley," an e-mail version of a popular daily news roundup section at the site.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173521.html

Hacker Pleads Guilty to Damaging Energy Lab's System
A 22-year-old Minnesota man pleaded guilty Monday to hacking into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's computer network in 1999, according to a Justice Department statement. Benjamin Troy Breuninger, also known as Kon or Konceptor, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 plus reimbursement for the damage he caused to the Energy Department network.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173519.html

Gov. Davis Seeks More Surveillance, Greater Privacy
California Gov. Gray Davis said Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would give investigators expanded powers to eavesdrop on the state citizens. With nearly the same breath, Davis also pledged to support a measure granting California consumers new privacy rights. In his “State of the State” address Tuesday evening, Davis said he would propose legislation to create “roving” wiretaps, or single court orders authorizing law enforcement to monitor the cell phone, e-mail or any other electronic communications of suspected criminals.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173516.html

Audiogalaxy Installer May Have Harbored Nimda Virus
Thousands of fans of Audiogalaxy Satellite, a popular alternative to the Napster file-sharing application, may have been infected with the Nimda virus, according to users who recently downloaded the program. The software's installer file, AGSetup0608.exe, triggered the anti-virus software of some music fans who downloaded the program Tuesday from a link at CNET's Download.com site. The link re-directs users to a download server operated by Audiogalaxy.com.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173512.html

More news later on

09-01-02, 11:03 PM	#3
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Online CD Sales May Suffer Static James Hannon walked away from the record store with nine CDs, including the newest album from Groove Armada. He rushed home and loaded the CD into his Pioneer Pro DJ CD player, a high-end mixing board and sound system. Strange static came out of his system where he thought music would be. Turned out copy protection wasn't the culprit. He'd probably just gotten hold of a bad CD, perhaps caused by defective packaging. But the fact that Hannon was even thinking about copy protection illustrates a problem the record companies will probably have to deal with. http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,49539,00.html Feds Accelerate Fuel-Cell Cars After nearly $1.5 billion in subsidies, the Bush administration is ending an eight-year program to help automakers develop high-mileage, family-size cars. Instead, it wants to spur the growth of hydrogen fuel cells to power the next generation of motor vehicles. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, addressing an auto show in Detroit, planned Wednesday to tout hydrogen fuel-cell development as part of a broader strategy to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil and help the environment by reducing carbon dioxide emissions and other tailpipe pollution. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49589,00.html Lot to Learn About School Laptops While Maine educators look forward to the day when students and teachers will integrate one-to-one computing into their courses, they are realistic about the patience, time and training that this ambitious project will take. No one knows that better than technology coordinator Crystal Priest. All eighth graders in her district have been working with laptops for over a year. http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,49576,00.html ImClone Problems Multiply The J.P. Morgan H&Q Healthcare conference was buzzing Wednesday, but instead of new treatments, attendees were chatting about the clinical trials and tribulations of pharmaceutical company ImClone Systems. The company has been causing a hubbub since the start of the conference on Monday, when a story published in The Cancer Letter sent a ripple of surprise through the 5,000 attendees. The newsletter reported that the company's cancer drug was facing worse obstacles from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration than previously believed. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,49609,00.html 3-D Models Give Proteins Shape Researchers trying to discover drugs have more data than they can sift through, so many are using computer modeling to deal with the data. But not everyone trusts computer models enough to bet their businesses on them. Since the human genome was decoded, the amount of gene and protein information has skyrocketed. Whenever researchers are confronted with loads of data, computing power is an obvious solution. But most believe that although computers can speed research, they can't take the place of the laboratory bench. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,49555,00.html Hepatitis C Research Gets a Boost When researchers at Vertex Pharmaceuticals chose hepatitis C as the disease they hoped to treat, they didn't realize the uphill battle they faced. But thanks to new drug discovery technologies, they've come up with a drug that, if successful, will work much like many of the drugs effective against HIV. Drug discovery is not easy. It often takes about 10 years and $5 million to $10 million to bring a drug to market. But there are some things that can make it harder than normal, such as a disease molecule that just doesn't want to stick to a drug. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,49584,00.html Quantum Leap: Seize the Light These days, quantum computers are scrawny little gadgets whose greatest accomplishment so far is factoring the number 15. However, their power grows exponentially with size, so whenever quantum computers grow a little bigger, researchers get more than a little excited. Two papers this month, in fact, present new frameworks for quantum information storage and large-scale quantum computation -- involving hundreds of thousands of potential quantum bits (qubits). Both tasks are essential to making a quantum computer, and both entail challenges for the engineer as well as the theorist. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,49448,00.html Hint of Earliest Stars: Greatest Fireworks Ever Still Beyond View The grandest fireworks display in the history of the universe played out in reverse is how researchers are describing data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows that most stars were formed in a brief period early in the Universe's history that was followed by a relative drought of activity that continues today. Using images of the deep and distant universe provided by the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers found that a "torrential firestorm" of star birth "abruptly lit up the pitch-dark heavens just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang," researchers said today at a press conference at NASA headquarters. http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...hs_020108.html Earth granted reprieve The Earth has been granted a reprieve. Astronomers believe the planet may now escape being swallowed up when the Sun dies in about 7.5 billion years' time. The new calculations actually extend the length of time the Earth will be habitable by 200 million years. But, in the end, the surface of the planet will simply become too hot for life to survive. Earth-dwellers will have to find alternative homes in space, say astrophysicists in the UK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1749389.stm Data "swarms" could rescue overloaded web sites Web sites overwhelmed by sudden popularity could soon rescue themselves by creating a "swarm" of data to be shared between users trying to download the desired files. Newly launched sites have frequently underestimated the number of users they will attract, with the most recent example being the UK government's 1901 Census web site. Over 20 million surfers began searching for their roots on the first day and brought the site to a standstill. It has now been partly closed down to protect other sites hosted at the same location. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991761 Kodak Creates New Wireless Technology Company The Eastman Kodak Co. today said it will "spin out" technology from its research labs and create a new company dedicated to developing the wireless transmission of high quality video, still images and data. Kodak said the new company, named Appairent Technologies, is part of its strategy of "commercializing its technology to expand the infoimaging category." http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173528.html Drug Company Settles Two Chat Room Speech Cases A drug research firm on Tuesday paid $107,887 in attorneys' fees and agreed to dismiss two cases against two stockholders who posted negative comments about the company in an Internet chat room. Robert O'Brien, an attorney for San Diego, Calif.-based Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, told Newsbytes the company settled with Gregory Alcus and a second defendant, identified by the screen name "Dickie13_62301," because the company wanted to focus its energy on other defendants whose suits are still pending. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173527.html Gun Safety Group Asks FTC To Probe Firearm Web Sites A new gun safety organization today asked the Federal Trade Commission to expand its probe of post-Sept. 11 false and misleading Web advertising claims to include firearms Web sites. A project under the Alliance for Justice, Gun Industry Watch said in its letter that gun makers should be held to the same standards as Web sites that claim to offer protection from biological and nuclear agents. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173525.html Michigan Creates Online ‘Cybercourt Michigan Gov. John Engler, R, today signed into law a bill that creates an online state court. Engler on Tuesday also said that 25 corporations and state groups have joined in an effort to bring broadband Internet access to the entire state. The Cybercourt bill, H.B. 4140, would have jurisdiction over business and commercial complaints in which the dispute is more than $25,000, and is expected to go live in October. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173524.html More Libraries Filtered In 2001 A reported spike in the number of U.S. libraries using filtering software has rekindled concerns among some civil liberties advocates that library administrators may be bowing under federal pressure to limit access to adult materials on their computers. In a survey published by Library Journal, 43 percent of libraries polled said that they electronically filtered Internet access in 2001, up from 31 percent the previous year. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173523.html Tech News Site E-Mails Virus To Readers Officials at SiliconValley.com confirmed that the technology and business news site inadvertently sent a dangerous virus Monday morning to readers of one of its e-mail newsletters. According to Cynthia Funnell, director of corporate communications for Knight Ridder Digital, which operates the site, a message containing an attachment infected with a variant of the data-destroying Magistr e-mail worm was sent to subscribers to "Good Morning Silicon Valley," an e-mail version of a popular daily news roundup section at the site. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173521.html Hacker Pleads Guilty to Damaging Energy Lab's System A 22-year-old Minnesota man pleaded guilty Monday to hacking into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's computer network in 1999, according to a Justice Department statement. Benjamin Troy Breuninger, also known as Kon or Konceptor, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 plus reimbursement for the damage he caused to the Energy Department network. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173519.html Gov. Davis Seeks More Surveillance, Greater Privacy California Gov. Gray Davis said Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would give investigators expanded powers to eavesdrop on the state citizens. With nearly the same breath, Davis also pledged to support a measure granting California consumers new privacy rights. In his “State of the State” address Tuesday evening, Davis said he would propose legislation to create “roving” wiretaps, or single court orders authorizing law enforcement to monitor the cell phone, e-mail or any other electronic communications of suspected criminals. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173516.html Audiogalaxy Installer May Have Harbored Nimda Virus Thousands of fans of Audiogalaxy Satellite, a popular alternative to the Napster file-sharing application, may have been infected with the Nimda virus, according to users who recently downloaded the program. The software's installer file, AGSetup0608.exe, triggered the anti-virus software of some music fans who downloaded the program Tuesday from a link at CNET's Download.com site. The link re-directs users to a download server operated by Audiogalaxy.com. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173512.html More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies