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walktalker · 11-07-01, 10:07 AM

Mulling Reins on Net Campaigns
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on a campaign finance bill that would, for the first time, regulate Internet advertisements and e-mails targeted at voters. The new rules aimed at online political activity are part of a Republican effort to overhaul U.S. election law that has received little scrutiny -- which, if enacted, would roil the fast-growing online campaign industry and impose obstacles on candidates' use of the Internet. Jonah Seiger, co-founder of Mindshare, a 16-person Internet consulting firm in Washington, said he understands why the legislation was written to cover "any communications" directed at voters, and not just traditional methods.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45138,00.html

Americans Say Yes to Net Taxes
Give people the option of buying something and not paying taxes on it, and you'd think they'd go for it. But interestingly, that wasn't the finding in a recent study by the Markle Foundation, a media research group that surveyed U.S. residents on whether they believe online commerce should be exempt from taxation. The survey found that 60 percent of the American public do not believe that Web purchases should be free of taxation. Only 34 percent of those surveyed think online buying should be tax-exempt.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45144,00.html

Scientists Make Embryos for Cells
Scientists here have become the first researchers to create human embryos in the lab for the sole purpose of harvesting their stem cells. Until now, scientists had derived stem cells only from excess embryos donated from infertility treatments. In this case, the scientists approached donors and informed them that their eggs and sperm would be used to develop embryos for stem-cell research. The work, conducted by researchers at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, drew criticism from religious conservatives opposed to embryo research.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,45152,00.html

Mother Jones Goes to Prison
The online counterpart to Mother Jones magazine published a special feature on Wednesday that showcases how the Web can turn a vast and potentially tedious assortment of statistics about a forgotten story into a powerful piece of advocacy journalism. Called "Debt to Society," the Motherjones.com project uses interactive maps and graphs to assess what the United States' obsession with locking people up has cost each state since 1980. The project pays particular attention to the rising percentage of prisoners who are drug offenders.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45141,00.html

Online Crime a Tough Collar
Few state and local police departments are prepared to handle the onslaught of electronic crimes because of a lack of resources and training, according to a nationwide survey of law enforcement agencies. "These are very complicated cases to prosecute. We're not talking about street crimes," said Ronda Ellcessor, the spokeswoman for the National Cybercrime Training Partnership, a joint effort between the Justice Department and the National White Collar Crime Center. The NCTP arrived at its conclusions after organizing a series of focus groups with state and local authorities and interviewing top-level law enforcement agents across the country.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,45129,00.html

A Band in the Hand
A Spanish band and an American singer are embarking on the world's first real-time, wireless rock tour, and began transmitting tunes and tales of the road over the Internet on Monday. Elliott Murphy, an American singer and songwriter, and the Stormy Mondays, a Spanish roots band, will use a Handspring PDA equipped with cell phone and digital camera attachments to upload photos, concert reports, songs and road stories to the band's website during its two-week tour of Italy.
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,45068,00.html

U.S. Loves, Fears Net
Americans generally have an overwhelmingly favorable view of the Internet as a source of information. However, most Net users are still skeptical about the truthfulness of what they read online and are worried about the threats the medium poses to personal privacy. Those were some of the conclusions reached in the one of the most expansive surveys ever of the U.S. population's views on how the Internet should be governed. The survey, released Tuesday by the non-profit research group Markle Foundation, combined online and telephone polling with focus groups of the general public and Net experts to gauge the public's views on many Internet-related issues.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45132,00.html

UN Reeling From Nastygrams
Americans concerned that the United Nations is conspiring to deprive them of their constitutional right to pack heat are firing hundreds of heated e-mails at a UN conference on small arms trafficking. Officials at the conference, which hopes to create an international system for tracking small arms sales, are so unnerved by the hundreds of angry e-mails that they are forwarding some of the nastygrams to the UN internal security department for "risk assessment." They did not know exactly how many of the roughly 400 messages received had been sent to security, but one official said "a lot" had been passed on.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45134,00.html

Norge: Where Technology Rules
Norway is the best place in the world for geeks to live, according to The Human Development Report 2001, commissioned by the United Nations Development Program. The 264-page report released Tuesday ranks countries according to how they are currently using technology to improve the quality of life. The report insists that technology is the key for countries seeking to make their citizens' lives better.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostruct...,45130,00.html

Gnucleus = The New Napster: The Record Industry Has Met its Match
If the recording industry thought Napster was a headache, it's going to get a genuine migraine from the latest version of Gnucleus, a free Windows-based open source software program released last month for the Gnutella file-sharing network. The recently improved Gnucleus software is one of several clients such as LimeWire and BearShare that run on the Internet's self-organizing Gnutella network. The software programs combine the shared contents of constantly shifting clusters of about 10,000 or so linked personal computers into searchable interactive archives.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...0/gnucleus.DTL

ISP wins Bulger injunction challenge
Internet service provider Demon Internet today won a legal challenge to the injunction that prohibits UK media from publishing information about the new identities or location of James Bulger's killers. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, the president of the family division at the high court, agreed that the injunction was "inappropriate" as it currently read when applied to ISPs. She approved changes to the injunction that will let ISPs escape prosecution if they unwittingly allow information about the whereabouts of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables to be posted somewhere on their service.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/i...519548,00.html

Europe holds key vote on spam tomorrow
The future of unsolicited commercial email in Europe could be decided in Brussels tomorrow as a key committee sits down to debate the issue. Under existing European law the treatment of junk email - or spam - depends on the position already adopted by individual countries. Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Italy have all signed up to an "opt-in" approach to spam, which should ensure that people only receive junk email if they request it first. The other ten member states - including France and the UK - believe spam is a legitimate business activity. Their only concession is that users should be able to "opt-out" if they do not want to receive junk email.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/20290.html

Testing the trains of the future
Virgin is heralding the return of the tilting high-speed train two decades after Britain abandoned the technology. The company began tests on Friday on its new trains, which tilt left or right on bends to enable them to go faster without making passengers uncomfortable. Virgin's Pendallino takes its name from the pendulum - it swings in and out of bends, smoothing the journey for passengers at high speeds. The Pendallinos will be able to travel at up to 140 miles an hour, compared with current speeds of around 110mph.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/...00/1428902.stm

Moan, moan, moan: how to complain online
IF YOU were among the 610m passengers who travelled by air in the United States last year, you probably have something to complain about. Record numbers of flights were delayed, cancelled or oversold. Needless to say, nothing has changed. But now you can grumble publicly. Complaining online is particularly popular. “The airlines have spawned an industry,” says Joe Brancatelli of BizTravel.com. There is now ample opportunity for disgruntled passengers to, as he says, “be your own Don Quixote”. PassengerRights.com and AirTravelComplaints.com are devoted to griping about airlines. Planetfeedback.com, BitchAboutIt.com and ScrewedCentral.com also feature air travel prominently.
http://www.economist.com/business/di...tory_ID=687686

Nope, not all yet

11-07-01, 10:07 AM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Mulling Reins on Net Campaigns The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on a campaign finance bill that would, for the first time, regulate Internet advertisements and e-mails targeted at voters. The new rules aimed at online political activity are part of a Republican effort to overhaul U.S. election law that has received little scrutiny -- which, if enacted, would roil the fast-growing online campaign industry and impose obstacles on candidates' use of the Internet. Jonah Seiger, co-founder of Mindshare, a 16-person Internet consulting firm in Washington, said he understands why the legislation was written to cover "any communications" directed at voters, and not just traditional methods. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45138,00.html Americans Say Yes to Net Taxes Give people the option of buying something and not paying taxes on it, and you'd think they'd go for it. But interestingly, that wasn't the finding in a recent study by the Markle Foundation, a media research group that surveyed U.S. residents on whether they believe online commerce should be exempt from taxation. The survey found that 60 percent of the American public do not believe that Web purchases should be free of taxation. Only 34 percent of those surveyed think online buying should be tax-exempt. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45144,00.html Scientists Make Embryos for Cells Scientists here have become the first researchers to create human embryos in the lab for the sole purpose of harvesting their stem cells. Until now, scientists had derived stem cells only from excess embryos donated from infertility treatments. In this case, the scientists approached donors and informed them that their eggs and sperm would be used to develop embryos for stem-cell research. The work, conducted by researchers at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, drew criticism from religious conservatives opposed to embryo research. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,45152,00.html Mother Jones Goes to Prison The online counterpart to Mother Jones magazine published a special feature on Wednesday that showcases how the Web can turn a vast and potentially tedious assortment of statistics about a forgotten story into a powerful piece of advocacy journalism. Called "Debt to Society," the Motherjones.com project uses interactive maps and graphs to assess what the United States' obsession with locking people up has cost each state since 1980. The project pays particular attention to the rising percentage of prisoners who are drug offenders. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45141,00.html Online Crime a Tough Collar Few state and local police departments are prepared to handle the onslaught of electronic crimes because of a lack of resources and training, according to a nationwide survey of law enforcement agencies. "These are very complicated cases to prosecute. We're not talking about street crimes," said Ronda Ellcessor, the spokeswoman for the National Cybercrime Training Partnership, a joint effort between the Justice Department and the National White Collar Crime Center. The NCTP arrived at its conclusions after organizing a series of focus groups with state and local authorities and interviewing top-level law enforcement agents across the country. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,45129,00.html A Band in the Hand A Spanish band and an American singer are embarking on the world's first real-time, wireless rock tour, and began transmitting tunes and tales of the road over the Internet on Monday. Elliott Murphy, an American singer and songwriter, and the Stormy Mondays, a Spanish roots band, will use a Handspring PDA equipped with cell phone and digital camera attachments to upload photos, concert reports, songs and road stories to the band's website during its two-week tour of Italy. http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,45068,00.html U.S. Loves, Fears Net Americans generally have an overwhelmingly favorable view of the Internet as a source of information. However, most Net users are still skeptical about the truthfulness of what they read online and are worried about the threats the medium poses to personal privacy. Those were some of the conclusions reached in the one of the most expansive surveys ever of the U.S. population's views on how the Internet should be governed. The survey, released Tuesday by the non-profit research group Markle Foundation, combined online and telephone polling with focus groups of the general public and Net experts to gauge the public's views on many Internet-related issues. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45132,00.html UN Reeling From Nastygrams Americans concerned that the United Nations is conspiring to deprive them of their constitutional right to pack heat are firing hundreds of heated e-mails at a UN conference on small arms trafficking. Officials at the conference, which hopes to create an international system for tracking small arms sales, are so unnerved by the hundreds of angry e-mails that they are forwarding some of the nastygrams to the UN internal security department for "risk assessment." They did not know exactly how many of the roughly 400 messages received had been sent to security, but one official said "a lot" had been passed on. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45134,00.html Norge: Where Technology Rules Norway is the best place in the world for geeks to live, according to The Human Development Report 2001, commissioned by the United Nations Development Program. The 264-page report released Tuesday ranks countries according to how they are currently using technology to improve the quality of life. The report insists that technology is the key for countries seeking to make their citizens' lives better. http://www.wired.com/news/infostruct...,45130,00.html Gnucleus = The New Napster: The Record Industry Has Met its Match If the recording industry thought Napster was a headache, it's going to get a genuine migraine from the latest version of Gnucleus, a free Windows-based open source software program released last month for the Gnutella file-sharing network. The recently improved Gnucleus software is one of several clients such as LimeWire and BearShare that run on the Internet's self-organizing Gnutella network. The software programs combine the shared contents of constantly shifting clusters of about 10,000 or so linked personal computers into searchable interactive archives. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...0/gnucleus.DTL ISP wins Bulger injunction challenge Internet service provider Demon Internet today won a legal challenge to the injunction that prohibits UK media from publishing information about the new identities or location of James Bulger's killers. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, the president of the family division at the high court, agreed that the injunction was "inappropriate" as it currently read when applied to ISPs. She approved changes to the injunction that will let ISPs escape prosecution if they unwittingly allow information about the whereabouts of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables to be posted somewhere on their service. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/i...519548,00.html Europe holds key vote on spam tomorrow The future of unsolicited commercial email in Europe could be decided in Brussels tomorrow as a key committee sits down to debate the issue. Under existing European law the treatment of junk email - or spam - depends on the position already adopted by individual countries. Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Italy have all signed up to an "opt-in" approach to spam, which should ensure that people only receive junk email if they request it first. The other ten member states - including France and the UK - believe spam is a legitimate business activity. Their only concession is that users should be able to "opt-out" if they do not want to receive junk email. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/20290.html Testing the trains of the future Virgin is heralding the return of the tilting high-speed train two decades after Britain abandoned the technology. The company began tests on Friday on its new trains, which tilt left or right on bends to enable them to go faster without making passengers uncomfortable. Virgin's Pendallino takes its name from the pendulum - it swings in and out of bends, smoothing the journey for passengers at high speeds. The Pendallinos will be able to travel at up to 140 miles an hour, compared with current speeds of around 110mph. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/...00/1428902.stm Moan, moan, moan: how to complain online IF YOU were among the 610m passengers who travelled by air in the United States last year, you probably have something to complain about. Record numbers of flights were delayed, cancelled or oversold. Needless to say, nothing has changed. But now you can grumble publicly. Complaining online is particularly popular. “The airlines have spawned an industry,” says Joe Brancatelli of BizTravel.com. There is now ample opportunity for disgruntled passengers to, as he says, “be your own Don Quixote”. PassengerRights.com and AirTravelComplaints.com are devoted to griping about airlines. Planetfeedback.com, BitchAboutIt.com and ScrewedCentral.com also feature air travel prominently. http://www.economist.com/business/di...tory_ID=687686 Nope, not all yet __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies