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TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, DECEMBER 01, 2003
  Defense Department Chooses Blackboard
  DVD Jon Hits iTunes
  Colleges Adapt to Student Power Consumption


DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CHOOSES BLACKBOARD
The U.S. Department of Defense has signed a three-year contract with
Blackboard to provide e-learning technology to the Department of
Defense Educational Activity (DODEA). Technology from Blackboard
already underpins eArmyU, the online learning program of the U.S. 
Army.
DODEA, which operates 22 K-12 schools for military personnel, will
eventually provide the Blackboard tools to 75,000 students worldwide,
though initially it will only be available to 500. Using the 
e-learning
platform is expected to allow dependents of military personnel to
continue their studies in a consistent manner, even if parents are
transferred to other locations.
Federal Computer Week, 26 November 2003
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/1124/web-black-11-26-03.asp

DVD JON HITS ITUNES
Jon Lech Johansen, known as "DVD Jon" for the application he wrote to
decrypt DVDs, has found a way to break the encryption of Apple
Computer's iTunes and has posted the program online. Johansen faced a
lawsuit from the movie industry over the DeCSS program he wrote at age
15 to play DVDs on a Linux-based computer. Johansen, of Norway, was
acquitted in January of charges that by posting DeCSS online, he
violated Norwegian copy-protection laws, though prosecutors have
appealed that verdict. The new program, called QTFairUse, recently
showed up on a Web site operated by Johansen accompanied by the 
message
"So sue me." The program, which is available as an open-source
application, defeats Apple's copy protection by opening a file
legitimately but then creating a parallel, unprotected file. The 
result
appears to be a perfect copy of a music file without any restrictions
on trading or playing, though the files that are created cannot be
played without additional software.
CNN, 27 November 2003
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/11/27/itunes.code.ap/index.html

COLLEGES ADAPT TO STUDENT POWER CONSUMPTION
As students show up at colleges and universities with larger and 
larger
numbers of electrical appliances, many institutions are having to make
substantial and sometimes expensive changes to accommodate the growing
demand for power. Penn State University, for example, has seen its
electricity usage rise from 27 million kilowatt hours in October 1996
to 33 million in October this year; the university spends about $1
million a month on electricity. Many institutions are upgrading
dormitories with more outlets, new electrical panels, and rewired fuse
boxes. Wright State University spent $500,000 to upgrade electrical
services at one of its dorms to cope with students bringing computers,
printers, scanners, stereos, TVs, and other appliances to campus. Some
argue that rising demand for electricity results more from campus
facilities, such as larger and more numerous computer labs, than from
student usage. Andrew Matthews of the Association of College and
University Housing Officers-International noted that many existing
dorms were built in the 50s and 60s and were not constructed to meet
current electrical demands.
MSNBC, 26 November 2003
http://www.msnbc.com/news/995816.asp

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