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1)
Ohio Election Portends Trouble
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71999-0.html
Six years ago the world watched dumbfounded as the Florida 2000 fiasco
exposed the messy underbelly of U.S. election administration. Since then
states have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on new electronic
voting equipment to ensure that the nation would never experience such
mishaps again.
But two recent and lengthy reports examining this year's May primary in
Cuyahoga County, Ohio -- a pivotal state where the electoral votes gave
President Bush his second win in 2004 -- make it clear that Florida-like
fiascos are far from behind us.
The reports, totaling more than 500 pages, paint a disturbing picture of
how million-dollar equipment and security safeguards can quickly be
undone by poor product design, improper election procedures and
inadequate training. From destroyed ballots and vote totals that didn't
add up to lost equipment and breaches in security protocols, Cuyahoga's
primary is a perfect study in how not to run an election.

2)
Hackers break into water system network
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110106-hackers-break-into-water-system.html
An infected laptop gave hackers access to computer systems at a
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, water treatment plant earlier this month.
The plant's systems were accessed in early October after an employee's
laptop computer was compromised via the Internet, and then used as an
entry point to install a computer virus and spyware on the plant's
computer system, according to a report by ABC News.

3)
Digital divide vs. the Linguistic Divide
http://tinyurl.com/wyy68
English is the lingua franca of the world's software developers
and hardware manufacturers. The core code that runs most
of the world's computing devices was written in English,
then translated into the ones and zeroes that machines can understand.
Which means wherever you want to go today using your computer,
you will likely need to be able to speak and understand English.
The U.S. is rapidly dropping over the proverbial Digital Divide in that no one is taking 
serious moves to dissuade the idea that 1.5 Megabits is Broadband
since many countries have gone so far as to provide Gigabit Internet
connections at lesser prices than we're paying for our meager Megabit
capacities here in the U.S.

4)
"Firefox Scholar Released (Now Called Zotero)" manage & cite
http://www.zotero.org/
Zotero has taken a bite out of one of the fouler components of
thesis cranking outtin' - the finding, managing and citing of your
resources (that is, if you have Firefox 2.0):
It's like Google Notebook, but a little robuster for the geekier
researcher crowd. As you search through a library catalog, you can log
those bad boys right into your Zotero library (sometimes as easily as
clicking "Create entry from this page" and it'll pull the relevant
title, author, isbn, etc. in). It even works on Amazon.
When you want a bibliography, right-click on your collection, choose
"Create Bibliography" and... get this... choose your format! It offers
APA, Chicago, and MLA flavors.
The goal is to bring search and
organizational tools to humanities scholars who might not have
the skill or interest to otherwise use them, by embedding them
in the Web-browser software the scholars are already using.
Users can import Web pages, and
citation information from them, into a personal filing system,
the ability to store full reference information in author, title, and publication 
fields and to export that as formatted references-and the best
parts of modern software such as del.icio.us or iTunes, like the
ability to sort, tag, and search in advanced ways.

5)
Cheet Sheets Tool As seen on Digg.com
http://tinyurl.com/y5t7oe
Ajax, CSS, Perl, Ruby, and many others...

6)
French publishers join fight against Google Book Search
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061031-8114.html
Le Syndicat National de l'édition (SNE), a national trade union of French publishers, has signed on to French publisher Le Martinière Groupe's lawsuit against Google's controversial Book Search service. In a statement, SNE said that it was joining Le Martinère Groupe's legal fight to "defend the collective interests of the profession." 

7)
Russian hacking case can be heard in England, says judge
http://www.out-law.com/page-7434
A case claiming that two Russian companies hacked into a London computer system can be heard in English courts, a judge has ruled. The Russian companies involved had argued that English courts had no jurisdiction. 

8)
An experienced veteran in the digital media business
shares His Version of the events that happened at Youtube
makes for a very Interesting Read:
<http://www.blogmaverick.com/2006/10/30/some-intimate-details-on-the-google-youtube-deal/>

9)
Diebold demands that HBO cancel documentary on voting machines
Film saying they can be manipulated 'inaccurate'
and  also see
"How to steal an election by hacking the vote"
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/technology/vote.html

10)
AT&T Nixes Net-Neutrality Proposal
Broadcasting & Cable reports that a senior AT&T executive rejected a
proposal that would require the company to adhere to Internet- nondiscrimination rules in order to gain approval from the Federal 
Communications Commission to merge with BellSouth.
<http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6386263.html?display=Breaking +News>

11)
Mike Radow and Ed Feustel have started a SNOBOL mail list
that will replace the defunct list on mercury.dsu.edu.
It is being hosted by yahoogroups under the name snobol.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/complang.html

12)
Resources for Women Entrepreneurs
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/AboutUs/investors2.html


13)
A database of computer vulnerabilities
http://www.fcw.com/article96645-10-31-06-Web
Created by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has proven extremely
popular, both for reporting new problems and for researching existing
ones. Since its debut one year ago, the National Vulnerability Database
receives hits at the rate of 25 million per year and has grown from
12,000 vulnerabilities to 20,000, with new ones being reported
regularly. According to Peter Mell, senior computer scientist at NIST,
who created the database, "I think 20,000 is just the tip of the
iceberg." The database categorizes vulnerabilities by product and
version number, directing users to resources to fix the problems. The
database uses the Common Vulnerability Scoring System to rate the
severity of each vulnerability recorded. Alan Paller, director of
research at the SANS Institute, noted that a significant portion of the
most recently reported problems affect Web-based applications.



14)
INTERNET BILL OF RIGHTS PROPOSED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6106452.stm
Supporters of an Internet bill of rights made their case for such an
effort at the Internet Governance Forum, a United Nations meeting in
Athens. According to Robin Gross of civil liberties group IP Justice,
such a document is vital to ensuring that the human rights and
liberties "enjoyed in the traditional age must move with us to the
digital age." Because the Internet is a "place of conflict," said
Stefano Rodota, former head of the Council of European Data Protection
Agencies, a bill of Internet rights is necessary to ensure that the
Internet remains a "place to give citizenship and democracy new
opportunities." Specifics of what exactly the bill would include were
not discussed, though proponents agreed that the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights would be a good starting point. Critics of an Internet
bill of rights argued that sufficient structures already exist to
accomplish the stated goals of the bill of rights, and they noted that
such a document would not be legally binding for any country or
corporation.


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