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walktalker · 29-11-01, 08:50 PM

Abortion Clinics on New Net Alert
An anti-abortion extremist who is also one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted has allegedly threatened to kill 42 abortion clinic workers unless they notify him through the Internet that they have quit their jobs. Clayton Waagner, 45, escaped from an Illinois jail in February while waiting to be sentenced for possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a stolen vehicle, according the U.S. Marshal Service.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48692,00.html

Apple's OS X Upgrade Fiasco
'Tis the season for big price breaks, but Apple Computers didn't intend to offer its users a $100 discount on the newest Macintosh operating system. But staffers at tech site Macfixit, in search of a simple workaround, were surprised to discover that they could easily convert OS X 10.1.1 upgrade CDs into fully functioning, complete copies of the OS X operating system. OS X 10.1.1 is intended only to upgrade certain features of the OS X operating system. OS X 10.1.1 is priced at $19.95. Apple sells the complete version of OS X for $129.00.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48742,00.html

Ban on Net Gambling Sought
Critics of Internet gambling are hoping that a new bill will succeed where past efforts to ban the activity have failed. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia) on Thursday told the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime that his revised bill resolves disputes that tripped up previous legislation aimed at slowing the growth of online casinos.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48741,00.html

The Many Faces of Online Girls
Call it virtual schizophrenia.

Teenage girls are more likely to maintain multiple online personas than other groups, according to an unexpected finding from an academic survey of how Americans use the Internet. It was released Wednesday. "We're not sure why female teenagers are more likely to reveal personal details about themselves," said Jeff Cole, director of the Center for Communication Policy at UCLA, which produced the second annual report.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48716,00.html

High Court Focus on Kids, Web
The Supreme Court wondered on Wednesday whether a federal law designed to shield children from sexually explicit websites would imperil legitimate online publishers. The justices focused on an extraordinarily narrow point: How the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which restricts erotic material that offends "contemporary community standards," would apply to the virtual communities of the Internet.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48699,00.html

DOJ's Already Monitoring Modems
The Department of Justice already is using its new anti-terrorism powers to monitor cable modem users without obtaining a judge's permission first. A top Bush administration official lauded the controversial USA Patriot Act at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying that the new abilities have let police obtain information in investigations that was previously unavailable.
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,48711,00.html

China Eyes Man on the Moon
The Chinese National Space Administration has announced a plan that will put an astronaut into orbit before 2005 and eventually land a man on the moon, according to a report in China Daily, the government's official English-language newspaper. If successful, this would make China only the third nation to develop its own manned space capability, after Russia and the United States.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48684,00.html

Robot Sub to Hunt for Earhart
A pair of retired media bigwigs are launching a new search for Amelia Earhart's airplane, using a sophisticated robot submarine. But an old partner from a previous search thinks the newfangled technology won't do them any good; they're looking in the wrong place. Jeff Leach, former publisher of Dinosaur Magazine and Archeology Today, and his partner, Mike Kammerer, plan to search for Earhart's plane in deep water off Howland Island in the Mid-Pacific.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48630,00.html

Holdout States Likely to Seek Stiffer Microsoft Sanctions
State prosecutors who declined to join an antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department are likely to press for tougher penalties against the company in court hearings in March rather than challenge the deal directly, according to lawyers familiar with the case. Although no final decision has been made, this strategy would avoid an awkward confrontation between 10 jurisdictions -- nine states and the District of Columbia -- that are still pursuing the case and nine other states that had been their partners before agreeing to the settlement early this month.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2001Nov28.html

Authorities will use robot to open letter sent to Sen. Leahy
Desperate to preserve evidence that might identify the source of lethal anthrax attacks, government scientists will use a small robot to open a suspicious letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a senior law enforcement official said Wednesday. The testing could begin as early as today. The Leahy letter, discovered 2 weeks ago in a search of mail quarantined from Capitol Hill, is believed to contain billions of potentially deadly anthrax spores. Authorities think the heavily taped envelope may hold their last, best hope for an investigative breakthrough in the bioterrorism case.
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/2...9/3660073s.htm

Human-Cloning Firm Received Federal Aid
The Massachusetts company condemned by the Bush administration for its efforts to clone a human embryo received a federal grant last month to conduct biotechnology research. Advanced Cell Technology's human cloning experiments set off a national controversy this week that is renewing demands that Congress ban all cloning of human cells.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la...s%2Dtechnology

Europe rejects human cloning ban
The European parliament has rejected a move to ban human cloning in the European Union. The 316-37 vote will be a relief for scientists pursuing research into therapeutic cloning, but a disappointment for those who completely oppose work on human embryos. The move comes on the same day as Germany's national ethics committee decided to recommend allowing the import of human stem cells from abroad under clear supervision.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1682591.stm

State sells birth data to Web site, raising ID theft fears
The birth records of more than 24 million Californians have been sold by the state and posted on the Internet, offering easy access to critical information needed to create fake identities. By logging onto a genealogy Web site, people can gain access to such personal data as someone's place of birth and mother's maiden name, which can then potentially be used to access bank records and other sensitive material. While the sale of the database was legal, a leading state senator and expert on privacy said Wednesday that she was "appalled'' by the news and wanted to find ways to restrict access to such information.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/ne...ont/037140.htm

Nanotubes hint at room temperature superconductivity

Tiny tubes of carbon may conduct electricity without any resistance, at temperatures stretching up past the boiling point of water. The tubes would be the first superconductors to work at room temperature. Guo-meng Zhao and Yong Sheng Wang of the University of Houston in Texas found subtle signs of superconductivity. It wasn't zero resistance, but it's the closest anyone's got so far. "I think all the experimental results are consistent with superconductivity," Zhao says. "But I cannot rule out other explanations."
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991618

Drilling the Red Planet
Within the next two years, robotic moles will begin drilling into the red terrain of Mars, searching for geological clues into the planet's history. And two new devices that researchers hope will yield a wealth of information in the Mars Express project (run by a consortium consisting of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency) are intertwined with advances in medical technology.
http://www.techreview.com/web/ohanlon/ohanlon112901.asp

California Firm Prepares To Test Voting Via Digital TV
A California company today said it is planning to test a digital TV system that would allow Americans to casts election ballots using their TV sets, set-top boxes and remote controls. Wink Communications is demonstrating the technology at the California Telecommunications Association convention, which ends Friday. The company said in a press release today that it has the support of cable giant Charter Communications in its efforts to bring voting to the couch potato set.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172559.html

FTC Commissioner Urges Heightened Privacy Focus
As federal law enforcers make use of a seeping new anti-terrorism law to obtain suspects' phone, business and Internet records, online companies must take special steps to ensure that they are abiding by their own self-imposed privacy guidelines, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Orson Swindle said today. "The true intent of this law is very narrowly tailored. This is not carte blanche to start giving away (confidential) information," Swindle told Newsbytes in an interview.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172558.html

Fluffi Bunni Places Ads At Security Site
Banner ads promoting a notorious group of computer attackers known as Fluffi Bunni today appeared at SecurityFocus.com, after the hackers compromised a server operated by the leading security firm's advertising partner. The ad banner depicted the hacking group's mascot, a pink stuffed toy rabbit, and the words "You think you know? You have no idea," and was signed "Security Fluffi."
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172554.html

Civil Libertarians Slam Dismissal Of Felten Case
A federal judge's decision Wednesday to toss out a lawsuit filed by a civil liberties group against the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) could further darken a cloud of apprehension hanging over the heads of America's technologists and scientific researchers, a civil liberties advocate said today. In the lawsuit, attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) had asked a New Jersey federal court to rule that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - which establishes civil and criminal penalties for people charged with violating copyrights online - cannot be invoked by corporate groups to chill the release of scientific research.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172552.html

AT&T Accused Of Sexual Harassment, Discrimination
Telecommunications giant AT&T sexually harassed and discriminated against more than 150 employees, one an Arab-American, who claimed a co-worker shoved her into a locker and told her the veil she wore was ugly, lawyers said today. The current and former employees are filing complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), according to Leeds, Morelli & Brown PC, the law firm representing the complainants.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172550.html

Spanish E.U. Presidency To Push 'Definitive' Internet Laws
"Definitive" E.U. laws governing the Internet will be on the agenda when the E.U. presidency passes to Spain next month. Issues to be resolved include "unbundling," or the fair division of services between providers, access, or fair pricing, and privacy issues, including banning of the use of "cookies" by e-commerce operators. According to the agenda for that presidency, which Newsbytes has obtained, four of the five directives making up the electronic telecommunications package are to be finished. These are the so-called "framework" directive, and those on universal service, access and interconnection, and authorization.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172548.html

Man Indicted For Auctioning Pirated Software On Ebay
A Los Angeles man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly using Ebay to auction pirated copies of several different Adobe Systems software programs. A federal grand jury indicted Eric Niemi, 35, for allegedly selling copies of Adobe Photoshop 5.0, Adobe Pagemaker 6.5, and Adobe Premiere 5.1 to Ebay users under a number of online aliases. According to the indictment, the software packages Niemi offered were in fact unauthorized reproductions of the popular authoring programs the defendant had copied using a CD burner.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172544.html

More news later on

29-11-01, 08:50 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Abortion Clinics on New Net Alert An anti-abortion extremist who is also one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted has allegedly threatened to kill 42 abortion clinic workers unless they notify him through the Internet that they have quit their jobs. Clayton Waagner, 45, escaped from an Illinois jail in February while waiting to be sentenced for possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a stolen vehicle, according the U.S. Marshal Service. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48692,00.html Apple's OS X Upgrade Fiasco 'Tis the season for big price breaks, but Apple Computers didn't intend to offer its users a $100 discount on the newest Macintosh operating system. But staffers at tech site Macfixit, in search of a simple workaround, were surprised to discover that they could easily convert OS X 10.1.1 upgrade CDs into fully functioning, complete copies of the OS X operating system. OS X 10.1.1 is intended only to upgrade certain features of the OS X operating system. OS X 10.1.1 is priced at $19.95. Apple sells the complete version of OS X for $129.00. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48742,00.html Ban on Net Gambling Sought Critics of Internet gambling are hoping that a new bill will succeed where past efforts to ban the activity have failed. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia) on Thursday told the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime that his revised bill resolves disputes that tripped up previous legislation aimed at slowing the growth of online casinos. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48741,00.html The Many Faces of Online Girls Call it virtual schizophrenia. Teenage girls are more likely to maintain multiple online personas than other groups, according to an unexpected finding from an academic survey of how Americans use the Internet. It was released Wednesday. "We're not sure why female teenagers are more likely to reveal personal details about themselves," said Jeff Cole, director of the Center for Communication Policy at UCLA, which produced the second annual report. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48716,00.html High Court Focus on Kids, Web The Supreme Court wondered on Wednesday whether a federal law designed to shield children from sexually explicit websites would imperil legitimate online publishers. The justices focused on an extraordinarily narrow point: How the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which restricts erotic material that offends "contemporary community standards," would apply to the virtual communities of the Internet. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48699,00.html DOJ's Already Monitoring Modems The Department of Justice already is using its new anti-terrorism powers to monitor cable modem users without obtaining a judge's permission first. A top Bush administration official lauded the controversial USA Patriot Act at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying that the new abilities have let police obtain information in investigations that was previously unavailable. http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,48711,00.html China Eyes Man on the Moon The Chinese National Space Administration has announced a plan that will put an astronaut into orbit before 2005 and eventually land a man on the moon, according to a report in China Daily, the government's official English-language newspaper. If successful, this would make China only the third nation to develop its own manned space capability, after Russia and the United States. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48684,00.html Robot Sub to Hunt for Earhart A pair of retired media bigwigs are launching a new search for Amelia Earhart's airplane, using a sophisticated robot submarine. But an old partner from a previous search thinks the newfangled technology won't do them any good; they're looking in the wrong place. Jeff Leach, former publisher of Dinosaur Magazine and Archeology Today, and his partner, Mike Kammerer, plan to search for Earhart's plane in deep water off Howland Island in the Mid-Pacific. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,48630,00.html Holdout States Likely to Seek Stiffer Microsoft Sanctions State prosecutors who declined to join an antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department are likely to press for tougher penalties against the company in court hearings in March rather than challenge the deal directly, according to lawyers familiar with the case. Although no final decision has been made, this strategy would avoid an awkward confrontation between 10 jurisdictions -- nine states and the District of Columbia -- that are still pursuing the case and nine other states that had been their partners before agreeing to the settlement early this month. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2001Nov28.html Authorities will use robot to open letter sent to Sen. Leahy Desperate to preserve evidence that might identify the source of lethal anthrax attacks, government scientists will use a small robot to open a suspicious letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a senior law enforcement official said Wednesday. The testing could begin as early as today. The Leahy letter, discovered 2 weeks ago in a search of mail quarantined from Capitol Hill, is believed to contain billions of potentially deadly anthrax spores. Authorities think the heavily taped envelope may hold their last, best hope for an investigative breakthrough in the bioterrorism case. http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/2...9/3660073s.htm Human-Cloning Firm Received Federal Aid The Massachusetts company condemned by the Bush administration for its efforts to clone a human embryo received a federal grant last month to conduct biotechnology research. Advanced Cell Technology's human cloning experiments set off a national controversy this week that is renewing demands that Congress ban all cloning of human cells. http://www.latimes.com/technology/la...s%2Dtechnology Europe rejects human cloning ban The European parliament has rejected a move to ban human cloning in the European Union. The 316-37 vote will be a relief for scientists pursuing research into therapeutic cloning, but a disappointment for those who completely oppose work on human embryos. The move comes on the same day as Germany's national ethics committee decided to recommend allowing the import of human stem cells from abroad under clear supervision. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1682591.stm State sells birth data to Web site, raising ID theft fears The birth records of more than 24 million Californians have been sold by the state and posted on the Internet, offering easy access to critical information needed to create fake identities. By logging onto a genealogy Web site, people can gain access to such personal data as someone's place of birth and mother's maiden name, which can then potentially be used to access bank records and other sensitive material. While the sale of the database was legal, a leading state senator and expert on privacy said Wednesday that she was "appalled'' by the news and wanted to find ways to restrict access to such information. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/ne...ont/037140.htm Nanotubes hint at room temperature superconductivity Tiny tubes of carbon may conduct electricity without any resistance, at temperatures stretching up past the boiling point of water. The tubes would be the first superconductors to work at room temperature. Guo-meng Zhao and Yong Sheng Wang of the University of Houston in Texas found subtle signs of superconductivity. It wasn't zero resistance, but it's the closest anyone's got so far. "I think all the experimental results are consistent with superconductivity," Zhao says. "But I cannot rule out other explanations." http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991618 Drilling the Red Planet Within the next two years, robotic moles will begin drilling into the red terrain of Mars, searching for geological clues into the planet's history. And two new devices that researchers hope will yield a wealth of information in the Mars Express project (run by a consortium consisting of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency) are intertwined with advances in medical technology. http://www.techreview.com/web/ohanlon/ohanlon112901.asp California Firm Prepares To Test Voting Via Digital TV A California company today said it is planning to test a digital TV system that would allow Americans to casts election ballots using their TV sets, set-top boxes and remote controls. Wink Communications is demonstrating the technology at the California Telecommunications Association convention, which ends Friday. The company said in a press release today that it has the support of cable giant Charter Communications in its efforts to bring voting to the couch potato set. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172559.html FTC Commissioner Urges Heightened Privacy Focus As federal law enforcers make use of a seeping new anti-terrorism law to obtain suspects' phone, business and Internet records, online companies must take special steps to ensure that they are abiding by their own self-imposed privacy guidelines, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Orson Swindle said today. "The true intent of this law is very narrowly tailored. This is not carte blanche to start giving away (confidential) information," Swindle told Newsbytes in an interview. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172558.html Fluffi Bunni Places Ads At Security Site Banner ads promoting a notorious group of computer attackers known as Fluffi Bunni today appeared at SecurityFocus.com, after the hackers compromised a server operated by the leading security firm's advertising partner. The ad banner depicted the hacking group's mascot, a pink stuffed toy rabbit, and the words "You think you know? You have no idea," and was signed "Security Fluffi." http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172554.html Civil Libertarians Slam Dismissal Of Felten Case A federal judge's decision Wednesday to toss out a lawsuit filed by a civil liberties group against the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) could further darken a cloud of apprehension hanging over the heads of America's technologists and scientific researchers, a civil liberties advocate said today. In the lawsuit, attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) had asked a New Jersey federal court to rule that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - which establishes civil and criminal penalties for people charged with violating copyrights online - cannot be invoked by corporate groups to chill the release of scientific research. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172552.html AT&T Accused Of Sexual Harassment, Discrimination Telecommunications giant AT&T sexually harassed and discriminated against more than 150 employees, one an Arab-American, who claimed a co-worker shoved her into a locker and told her the veil she wore was ugly, lawyers said today. The current and former employees are filing complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), according to Leeds, Morelli & Brown PC, the law firm representing the complainants. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172550.html Spanish E.U. Presidency To Push 'Definitive' Internet Laws "Definitive" E.U. laws governing the Internet will be on the agenda when the E.U. presidency passes to Spain next month. Issues to be resolved include "unbundling," or the fair division of services between providers, access, or fair pricing, and privacy issues, including banning of the use of "cookies" by e-commerce operators. According to the agenda for that presidency, which Newsbytes has obtained, four of the five directives making up the electronic telecommunications package are to be finished. These are the so-called "framework" directive, and those on universal service, access and interconnection, and authorization. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172548.html Man Indicted For Auctioning Pirated Software On Ebay A Los Angeles man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly using Ebay to auction pirated copies of several different Adobe Systems software programs. A federal grand jury indicted Eric Niemi, 35, for allegedly selling copies of Adobe Photoshop 5.0, Adobe Pagemaker 6.5, and Adobe Premiere 5.1 to Ebay users under a number of online aliases. According to the indictment, the software packages Niemi offered were in fact unauthorized reproductions of the popular authoring programs the defendant had copied using a CD burner. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172544.html More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies