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walktalker · 19-07-01, 06:09 PM

Online Sex Offers Escape, Learning
While half of those Web surfers who engage in online sex do so to escape their daily routines, others pursue cybersex to explore fantasies, relieve stress or spice up their offline sex lives, a survey has found. One in 10 respondents said they are addicted to sex and the Internet, according to an online survey of 38,000 Internet users done by MSNBC.com and Dr. Alvin Cooper, director of the San Jose Marital Services and Sexuality Centre in California. Results show that respondents devote three hours each week to online sexual exploits. Twenty-five percent have felt that they lost control of their Internet sexual exploits at least once or that the activity caused problems in their lives.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168150.html

Web Metrics Begs Common Touch
A panel discussion at Internet World 2001 on whether Web advertising analysis is flawed, failed to reach a consensus Wednesday. Brian Milne, managing director of AC Nielsen said: "The downfall of the Internet industry is that it had tried to be too different by using different measurement metrics outside the traditional metrics of business. What is plainly needed is commonality of terms and once this has been reached then there will be room for a number of e-metrics firms to compete." RedSheriff's Shefik Bey begged to differ, saying that flawed Web metrics is way off the mark. Jason Hinkin, vice president of technology for spiderlight.com, threw in his own two cents' worth, suggesting that the best way to measure results has not yet been devised.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168108.html

Unix/Linux Viruses Tackled By New Russian Software
Unix and Linux users now have access to e-mail scanning and filtering technology via one of the first multi-threaded anti-virus packages developed for their operating systems. Russia's Kaspersky Lab has developed a version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) for the OpenBSD (v2.8) and Solaris 8 for Intel environments, as well as the exim e-mail gateway. Denis Zenkin, Kaspersky's head of communications, told Newsbytes that, although most variants of the Unix and Linux operating systems have integral IT security features, most of them are quite basic.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168124.html

Old-Time Radio: From Golden Age To Internet Age
Holed up in a lonely lighthouse, you lie in darkness, waiting for death. Outside you hear them clawing, crawling, thousands of them. Rats. And all that stands between you and them is a wall of glass that, even now, is slowly beginning to crack. This scene from Three Skeleton Key, one of the most famous audio productions in radio history, kept audiences shivering in their living rooms throughout the '40s and '50s. And Glenn Carlson sees no reason why it can't do so again — online. Carlson, 39, is executive director of The One Act Players, a troupe of professional voice actors in San Francisco that re-enacts radio mysteries and dramas of yesteryear for an Internet audience.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168137.html

Java is Essential to the Software Ecosystem
The personal computer is the ubiquitous computing platform. It is the center of the average user's computing experience and increasingly critical as a server, connecting to pagers, personal digital assistants, mobile telephones, set-top boxes, and other devices. Thus, the public has a strong interest in having easy access to new and innovative applications for the PC, particularly network-aware applications that take advantage of the PC's functions as a server as well as a client. Seen in this light, the recent announcement by Microsoft not to include a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with its future operating systems is a terrible blow to the computing ecosystem. This decision threatens to lower the diversity of programs that can easily run on the PC, and it raises unnecessary barriers to interconnecting the world's devices.
http://www.oreilly.com/news/jvm_0701.html

The incredible vanishing book review
The Chronicle's Sunday circulation is a little over half a million, making it the most widely read paper in the Bay Area. And it's not the only metropolitan daily to trim its book coverage this year. The Seattle Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Boston Globe have all put their papers on a diet by cutting back on book reviews. Even the nation's most influential Sunday book supplement, the New York Times Book Review, killed two pages, resulting in the loss of six "In Brief" write-ups and one full-page review.
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2...ews/index.html

What's wrong with the music biz?

With the scourge of Napster -- now in the throes of a mercilessly slow demise -- nearly behind them, you'd think that the nation's music-industry executives would be able to relax. Too bad that their traditional cash cows of CD sales and concert tickets (the businesses most of them grew up on) are both looking a little gaunt. Or, as renegade bluesman R.L. Burnside might put it, "It's bad, you know." Taken together, recent CD-sales and concert-ticket surveys paint a bleak picture of an industry grappling with change, but not the technological kind. "What we're seeing is a downward trend of the business," says one industry veteran from the touring side. "It's continuing to implode. And folks don't really have a clue. The leadership at labels, senior management of the business, doesn't have a clue where the industry is going, tech issues aside."
http://www.salon.com/ent/music/featu...urn/index.html

IT worker sacked for piracy on the job
A County Durham IT employee has lost his job for copying software while at work. The 39-year-old was found to have copied computer software following an investigation by the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA). Counterfeit CDs containing music and PlayStation games software were found in his work area. His employer was allowed to remain anonymous after co-operating with ELSPA. It is believed the man sold the goods to friends and work colleagues on the premises in company time.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/51/20488.html

OK. I'll leave you alone now... Enjoy your reading time

19-07-01, 06:09 PM	#4
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Okay, one last news shot Online Sex Offers Escape, Learning While half of those Web surfers who engage in online sex do so to escape their daily routines, others pursue cybersex to explore fantasies, relieve stress or spice up their offline sex lives, a survey has found. One in 10 respondents said they are addicted to sex and the Internet, according to an online survey of 38,000 Internet users done by MSNBC.com and Dr. Alvin Cooper, director of the San Jose Marital Services and Sexuality Centre in California. Results show that respondents devote three hours each week to online sexual exploits. Twenty-five percent have felt that they lost control of their Internet sexual exploits at least once or that the activity caused problems in their lives. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168150.html Web Metrics Begs Common Touch A panel discussion at Internet World 2001 on whether Web advertising analysis is flawed, failed to reach a consensus Wednesday. Brian Milne, managing director of AC Nielsen said: "The downfall of the Internet industry is that it had tried to be too different by using different measurement metrics outside the traditional metrics of business. What is plainly needed is commonality of terms and once this has been reached then there will be room for a number of e-metrics firms to compete." RedSheriff's Shefik Bey begged to differ, saying that flawed Web metrics is way off the mark. Jason Hinkin, vice president of technology for spiderlight.com, threw in his own two cents' worth, suggesting that the best way to measure results has not yet been devised. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168108.html Unix/Linux Viruses Tackled By New Russian Software Unix and Linux users now have access to e-mail scanning and filtering technology via one of the first multi-threaded anti-virus packages developed for their operating systems. Russia's Kaspersky Lab has developed a version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) for the OpenBSD (v2.8) and Solaris 8 for Intel environments, as well as the exim e-mail gateway. Denis Zenkin, Kaspersky's head of communications, told Newsbytes that, although most variants of the Unix and Linux operating systems have integral IT security features, most of them are quite basic. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168124.html Old-Time Radio: From Golden Age To Internet Age Holed up in a lonely lighthouse, you lie in darkness, waiting for death. Outside you hear them clawing, crawling, thousands of them. Rats. And all that stands between you and them is a wall of glass that, even now, is slowly beginning to crack. This scene from Three Skeleton Key, one of the most famous audio productions in radio history, kept audiences shivering in their living rooms throughout the '40s and '50s. And Glenn Carlson sees no reason why it can't do so again — online. Carlson, 39, is executive director of The One Act Players, a troupe of professional voice actors in San Francisco that re-enacts radio mysteries and dramas of yesteryear for an Internet audience. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168137.html Java is Essential to the Software Ecosystem The personal computer is the ubiquitous computing platform. It is the center of the average user's computing experience and increasingly critical as a server, connecting to pagers, personal digital assistants, mobile telephones, set-top boxes, and other devices. Thus, the public has a strong interest in having easy access to new and innovative applications for the PC, particularly network-aware applications that take advantage of the PC's functions as a server as well as a client. Seen in this light, the recent announcement by Microsoft not to include a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with its future operating systems is a terrible blow to the computing ecosystem. This decision threatens to lower the diversity of programs that can easily run on the PC, and it raises unnecessary barriers to interconnecting the world's devices. http://www.oreilly.com/news/jvm_0701.html The incredible vanishing book review The Chronicle's Sunday circulation is a little over half a million, making it the most widely read paper in the Bay Area. And it's not the only metropolitan daily to trim its book coverage this year. The Seattle Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Boston Globe have all put their papers on a diet by cutting back on book reviews. Even the nation's most influential Sunday book supplement, the New York Times Book Review, killed two pages, resulting in the loss of six "In Brief" write-ups and one full-page review. http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2...ews/index.html What's wrong with the music biz? With the scourge of Napster -- now in the throes of a mercilessly slow demise -- nearly behind them, you'd think that the nation's music-industry executives would be able to relax. Too bad that their traditional cash cows of CD sales and concert tickets (the businesses most of them grew up on) are both looking a little gaunt. Or, as renegade bluesman R.L. Burnside might put it, "It's bad, you know." Taken together, recent CD-sales and concert-ticket surveys paint a bleak picture of an industry grappling with change, but not the technological kind. "What we're seeing is a downward trend of the business," says one industry veteran from the touring side. "It's continuing to implode. And folks don't really have a clue. The leadership at labels, senior management of the business, doesn't have a clue where the industry is going, tech issues aside." http://www.salon.com/ent/music/featu...urn/index.html IT worker sacked for piracy on the job A County Durham IT employee has lost his job for copying software while at work. The 39-year-old was found to have copied computer software following an investigation by the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA). Counterfeit CDs containing music and PlayStation games software were found in his work area. His employer was allowed to remain anonymous after co-operating with ELSPA. It is believed the man sold the goods to friends and work colleagues on the premises in company time. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/51/20488.html OK. I'll leave you alone now... Enjoy your reading time __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies