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Tech Execs Should Speak Out for Science
by Dan Gillmor on Wed, 10/19/2005 - 10:06pm.
(This is my column in today's Financial Times.)
http://tinyurl.com/c68u9
American technology executives often complain about the inadequacies of public education, and rightly.
They worry especially loudly about the lack of higher standards and attainment in the all-critical areas of maths and science.
There is self-interest involved, of course. If any industry needs a qualified workforce in an increasingly knowledge-based economy, it is theirs.
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Find out about how the Internet works.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/Home_Internet.html
Includes what any normal human being needs to know.

Including all about domain names
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/Domain_Name.html

and how ICANN controls them.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/icann.html

Now you'll understand why
Lawmakers urge U.S. to keep control of Web
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/10/20/congress.internet.reut/index.html


Why they're talking about Internet governance
Andy Oram
Oct. 20, 2005
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8147
It's an unlikely matter for the United States and other nations to lock horns over: the administration of names and numbers used to reach Internet sites. But this seemingly trivial function is occupying a lot of time among government representatives traveling from continent to continent. A United Nations body wants to wrest power over these things from their current master, the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The United States says that with ICANN in charge, things are running just fine (which they aren't). Many people condemn one side or the other for trying to carry out a power grab, or call the engagement a lot of hot air.
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Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers' Activities
By WALTER S. MOSSBERG
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20051020.html
They stand for Digital Rights Management, a set of technologies for
limiting how people can use the music and video files they've
purchased from legal downloading services.  DRM is even being used to
limit what you can do with the music you buy on physical CDs, or the
TV shows you record with a TiVo or other digital video recorder.

Once mainly known inside the media industries and among activists who
follow copyright issues, DRM is gradually becoming familiar to
average consumers, who are increasingly bumping up against its
limitations.

...Using a DRM system it invented called FairPlay, Apple has rigged
its songs, at the insistence of the record companies, so that they
can be played only on a maximum of five computers, and so that you
can burn only seven CDs containing the same playlist of purchased
tracks.

...Some CD buyers are discovering to their dismay that new releases
from certain record companies contain DRM code that makes it
difficult to copy the songs to their computers, where millions prefer
to keep their music.
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Cyber crime comes of age as foreign plugs sell secrets
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=6411
Neha Dara
October 19, 2005
NEW DELHI: Cases of data loss from ITES companies may no longer be new
but the arrest of two employees, from an Indian BPO in Gurgaon has a
twist in the tale. The two arrests were made on Tuesday and Wednesday.
British national Harish Parmar and Sarita Rawat, both employees of
Cybersys Infotech Limited, were arrested by the Gurgaon police for
stealing confidential data and selling it to different competitors,
special superintendent of police Hanif Qureshi said in a press
conference in Gurgaon on Wednesday.
However, this is no ordinary case of data loss. Cybersys Infotech Ltd
had entered into an exclusive contract with the British company City
Credit Management. As a condition of this exclusive contract, Harish
Parmar was made City Credit's representative on the board of Cybersys.



Cyber Law
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/19/schneier_talks_law/
By John Oates in Vienna
19th October 2005
RSA Europe 2005 ISPs must be made liable for viruses and other bad
network traffic, Bruce Schneier, security guru and founder and CTO of
Counterpane Internet Security, told The Register yesterday.
He said: "It's about externalities - like a chemical company polluting
a river - they don't live downstream and they don't care what happens.
You need regulation to make it bad business for them not to care. You
need to raise the cost of doing it wrong." Schneier said there was a
parallel with the success of the environmental movement - protests and
court cases made it too expensive to keep polluting and made it better
business to be greener.
Schneier said ISPs should offer consumers "clean pipe" services:
"Corporate ISPs do it, why don't they offer it to my Mum? We'd all be
safer and it's in our interests to pay.





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