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Hi there,

Here are some of the NetHappening Headlines and Resources
collected over the past few days.

San Franciso Earthquake was 100 Years Ago Today
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish3.html
and they say another IS coming so you better get prepared
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/disaster.html


enjoy,

<Karen>



1)
Net clocks suffering data deluge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/4906138.stm
Home network hardware supplier D-Link has been accused of harming the
net's ability to tell the time accurately.
Detective work has found that many D-Link routers, switches and
wireless access points are bombarding some net time servers with
huge amounts of data. It could be millions of D-Link devices.
D-Link hardware is also causing problems for 50 other net
time servers. The list includes some run by the US military, Nasa, US
research organisations and government groups around the world.

2)
Get ready for Microsoft, cable and phone companies, and quite a few
other people to know a lot more about what you do on your computer, thanks
to House Bill 2083.
http://www.okgazette.com/news/templates/cover.asp?articleid=423&zoneid=7
It's supposed to protect you from predators spying on your computer
habits, but a bill Microsoft Corp. helped write for Oklahoma will open your personal
information to warrantless searches, according to a computer privacy
expert and a state representative.

3)
N.Y. regulators approve telephone rate increase
<http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060412/BUSINESS/604120325/1002>
"The commissioners and PSC staff members said the companies need the
'flexibility' to raise rates because they're losing customers rapidly
to wireless phones, cable companies and other competitors. Verizon
has lost 3 million customers in the past five years and Frontier has
lost 18 percent of its customers in the last three years, according
to the commission."
This is a regulated utility, which by statute is allowed to recover its costs
plus a "reasonable" profit from the ratepayers. Fewer ratepayers, with
the same fixed costs, means each ratepayer pays more.
To use VoIP you have to buy a broadband Internet connection from the phone company,
who are therefore making money.

4)
AOL Censors Email Tax Opponents
I sent my message from my multi-decade eaddr, at the ["world famous"]
WELL -- Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link.
The next day, some hours AFTER I had received his response -- i.e.,
he had obviously received my message -- I received a very apologetic
message from the WELL's Helpdesk, saying that AOL had notified them
that Bob had identified me as a spammer and that AOL was therefore
blocking ALL email from the WELL (that had existed long before AOL
was even a daydream in some hustler's mind) ... and requesting that I
not send anything else to Bob at that address.
I relayed a query to Bob about this, through a mutual friend (Dennis
Allison), who used a different AOL addr for Bob.  Bob quickly
responded to both of us, saying that he was happy to hear from me and
did NOT report me to AOL as a spammer.
However, I had ALSO sent email to another old friend whom I hadn't
seen in years -- another AOL victim -- in which I casually (and, I
thought, privately) commented:
"Hope this get to you; I'm not-at-all sure about the eaddr --
'specially given that it's with AOfuL <grin>."
Seems like my label was more on-point than even I had dreamed.
Isn't it about time that we had common-carrier status for email -- as
HAS been the mandate for the telephone cartel?  (Otherwise -- like
AOL -- it could block all phone calls that it could identify as being
critical of it.)
~ Jim Warren; public-policy advocate & technology writer
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/jimwarren.html

5)
Internet, Media Outfits Could Bid For Spectrum
<http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&artnum=1&issue=20060410>
Analysts are speculating that Internet and media companies
could team up to bid for radio spectrum in order to launch wireless
broadband services, as a way around the phone companies.
Rumors that nontelecom companies could bid for wireless
spectrum have floated around for a few years. The new speculation
focuses on large Internet content firms such as Google, Amazon.com, and eBay.
Fueling the talk is a regulatory battle ­ the network neutrality issue ­
pitting Internet firms against phone companies AT&T, Verizon Communications, and BellSouth.
Phone companies want to charge Internet firms for moving movies, video games,
music and other bandwidth-hungry content over their networks. This is aside
from the subscription fees they charge broadband subscribers.


6)
Plagiarism and Cheating - How they do it and how to stop it.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/plagiarism.html
Cell phones send text messages and photos of exams to other students.
iPods loaded with study guides and dictionaries are smuggled into classrooms.
Learn and be able to teach CITATION RULES - Electronic Sources for the APA MLA Styles
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/APAcopyrightelectronic.html


7)
Ear Health - Protect Children from technology and hearing loss
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/
ASHA
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the professional
organization to which our school speech and hearing pathologists belong
tested the technology: see their recommendations and find out how
parents can set up and control the gizmo's.

8)
FOLKTALES and STORY TELLING
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Folktales.html
A Brother Anansi and Brother Tecoma Stories spoken
in Standard English and Negerhollands English.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/bhm/tekomastory.html
Stories of the people, often passed from elders to the next generation.
Help your students learn through the oral tradition. The Virgin Islands
Dutch Creole folktale was collected by a Dutch anthropologist,
J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong, who visited the Virgin Islands in 1923.
Download, read, and hear each story narrated in both American Virgin Island
Creole and Standard English, plus find out how these stories survived
in tact from the original storyteller.


9)
The latest edition of the newsletter for the Folklore and
Education Section of AFS is up and on-line.
http://www.afsnet.org/sections/education/Spring2006/

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10)
Microsoft's new search tool for locating online academic
articles will compete with Google's Google Scholar
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/04/tktk_microsoft.html
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search2.html

11)
Red Hackers Alliance' seen behind attacks on U.S. sites
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/06/front2453839.0770833334.html
China's information warfare expertise comes in part from a group
called the "Red Hackers Alliance," U.S. officials said.
Chinese-origin hackers are responsible for tens of thousands of
computer attacks on U.S. government networks, the officials said.

12)
Data Leaks Persist From Afghan Base
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-disks13apr13,0,1166178.story?coll=la-home-headlines>
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - A computer drive sold openly Wednesday at a
bazaar outside the U.S. air base here holds what appears to be a trove
of potentially sensitive American intelligence data, including the
names, photographs and telephone numbers of Afghan spies informing on
the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

At Afghan Bazaar, Military Offers Dollars for Stolen Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/world/asia/15afghanistan.html
BAGRAM, Afghanistan, April 14 - An American military officer, flanked
by six powerfully built bodyguards, stood in the muddy streets of the
bazaar here on Friday buying up all the computer flash drives he could
find, handing out cash for the finger-thin components that have been
disappearing by the score - some of them with copies of secret
military files - from the air base nearby.

13)
Microsoft's Security Disclosures Come Under Fire
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1949279,00.asp
Is Microsoft silently fixing security vulnerabilities and deliberately
obfuscating details about patches in its monthly security bulletins?

IE patch breaks Siebel client
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/041406-ie-patch-breaks-siebel.html
Significant changes made in a security patch from Microsoft to the way
Internet Explorer processes ActiveX can cause Siebel 7 client software
to lock up and become unusable.

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14)
Nigeria: Fight Against Cybercrime, Legislation As Rescue
http://allafrica.com/stories/200604140071.html
A computer crime as well as cyber survey conducted recently indicated
that Nigeria is the most internet fraudulent country in Africa.

Internet Use In Zimbabwe Limited
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=192201
Experts say the tough regulatory
environment in Zimbabwe has stifled the use of Internet, which is the
fastest and most preferred mode of communication.
Africaonline, one of Africa's biggest Internet service providers, said
that there were many reasons for this.
"Internet development in Zimbabwe has been bad because of low pricing,
poor infrastructure, low computer penetration and low interest of its
appreciation," said the provider.
It said this trend was common across the content, except South Africa
and Egypt.
Africaonline said players should pool resources to get cheaper ways of
providing Internet services in Africa.

15)
What's the next security threat?
http://news.com.com/Whats+the+next+security+threat/2100-7349_3-6061341.html
The spyware or Trojan horses they plant on unsuspecting users' machines do not draw
attention to themselves, but once installed, they work as slaves to
their remote masters. Bot networks, which are armies of these hijacked computers, have
become the predominant feature of the Internet threat landscape.
According to security company CipherTrust, more than 180,000 PCs are
turned into zombies every day, and that figure is continually rising.

16)
"Eradication is extremely difficult to do in 100% of the cases, while
restoring a system and keeping it stable," Butler says. Some rootkits
that can get into the [basic input/output system] might make it
advisable "to throw the computer away" if you want to be sure you got
rid of the rootkit, he says.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/drm.html

17)
"Arts Exchanges on International Issues Program" grant competition.
The grant program makes awards to "implement programs that utilize
the arts to engage underserved youth in selected countries abroad,
and foster linkages and build partnerships between U.S. and overseas
non-profit arts and cultural organizations. These international arts
exchange projects will encourage democracy building by demonstrating
the opportunities for freedom of thought and expression and underscoring
the importance of empowerment in an open society."
The deadline for applications is May 11, 2006
and the grants are typically around $100,000 apiece.
<http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/maio11rfgp.htm>

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