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<Karen>


1)

Broadband will be free in two years - British Telecom
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/02/26/1407694.htm
(Daily Mail (London) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Feb. 26--BT IS
planning to offer free broadband to all its customers -- currently 20
million -- when the telecoms giant's 10 billion 21st Century Network
project is switched on.
This was originally scheduled for 2009, but will now probably be a
year earlier, according to a senior company source.
"The 21CN system will give customers broadband dialtone -- meaning
broadband will be available just by plugging a computer in as part of
basic line rental," a spokesman said.

BT plays down 'free broadband' report
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/27/bt_free_broadband/
BT has played down reports that it is planning to offer its punters
"free broadband" when its new 21st Century Network (21CN) is rolled
out over the next couple of years.


2)
China to Launch Alternate Country Codes
http://www.eastasiawatch.com/
China and others have had alternate multilingual roots for some time.

3)
Patriot Act E-Mail Searches Apply to Non-Terrorists, Judges Say
http://www.nysun.com/article/28232
Two federal judges in Florida have upheld the authority of individual courts
to use the Patriot Act to order searches anywhere in the country for e-mails
and computer data in all types of criminal investigations, overruling a
magistrate who found that Congress limited such expanded jurisdiction to
cases involving terrorism.

4)
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/23/smbusiness/business2_nextnet_intro/index.htm
"Driven by ubiquitous broadband, cheap hardware, and open-source
software, the Web is mutating into a radically different beast than it
has been. And that is leading to the creation of entirely new kinds of
companies, new business models, and oceans of new opportunity."  The
article focuses on twenty businesses in five categories where the
"Next Net" is moving.


3)
John La Rose (1927-2006)
An obituary for John La Rose can be found at the UK Institute for Race
Relations.
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/march/ha000006.html

4) Digital Rights Management
French Supreme Court bans copying of legally owned DVD
Even as the European DMCA, called EUCD, is not transposed yet in France
(second debate planned in early march, see http://eucd.info/), the
french supreme court ("cour de cassation") just landed a strongly worded
opinion reversing the appeal court decision to make illegal the
prevention by technological measures of private copying of legally owned
digital content.
Judgment in french available here:
http://www.courdecassation.fr/agenda/agenda_new/I-2006-02-28-0515824-0
516002-Decision-civ1.htm
The private copying levy is a few hundred millions euros a year in
France, but it looks like the corresponding right to copy no longer
exists since the EUCD vote according to the court.
And of course, french citizens no longer have the right to watch a
legally owned DVD under Linux. Looks like in a few days, given the
current government & IP lobbies law proposal, french citizen won't even
have the right to talk about software in the area without facing jail...
Laurent GUERBY
Paris, FRANCE
http://guerby.org/blog/

5)
ACM 2005 Turing Award winner announced
The winner of the 2005 Turning award is
Dr Peter Naur: "For fundamental contributions to programming language
design and the definition of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the
art and practice of computer programming."
http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/2_2006/awards05.cfm
Turing http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/pioneersPaul.html


6)
ICANN Board Approves VeriSign Settlement Agreements
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28feb06.htm

According to BulkRegister, VeriSign stands to make over $3 billion dollars
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3588316
by 2012 under the terms of the new deal, if approved. The deal has also
raised concerns in Congress on potential antitrust grounds and one registrar
is encouraging all internet users to write their member of Congress. Against
this backdrop, ICANN is scheduled to meet today in a special board meeting
to discuss the deal.

Domain Names are controlled by ICANN
http://tinyurl.com/btyqd

Fasinating History of how Verisign came to own .com.
http://tinyurl.com/lkgcb

7)
MN GOP CD phones home
http://www.publicradio.org/columns/minnesota/polinaut/
"If you run the CD in your personal computer, by the end of it, the
Minnesota GOP will not only know what you think on particular issues,
but also who you are."
Criminal Negligence - CD sends your personal information over the
Internet into an insecure database giving access all the personal
information stored in the database.

8)
Small time space weapons activist spied upon
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70303-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
"For more than a year, Bruce Gagnon strongly suspected he and his family
were being spied on, but he didn't have any evidence, and he didn't know who
might be behind it. An Air Force veteran, Gagnon is one of the most
prominent activists in the world concerned with space weapons. He directs
the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space from a small
office in Maine. Still, he was caught off guard when the American Civil
Liberties Union called and told him it had uncovered court documents
revealing that NASA and the U.S. Air Force were secretly monitoring him.
'We're a small organization with meager resources,' said Gagnon. 'They feel
threatened by us? That tells us something.'"

7)
FBI to get veto power over PC software?
http://news.com.com/2061-10804_3-5884130.html
The Federal Communications Commission thinks you have the right to
use software on your computer only if the FBI approves.
No, really. In an obscure "policy" document
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-151A1.pdf&si
teId=3&oId=2061-10804_3-5884130&ontId=10784&lop=nl.ex>
released around 9 p.m. ET last Friday, the FCC announced this
remarkable decision.
http://tinyurl.com/beltb
According to the three-page document, to preserve the openness that
characterizes today's Internet, "consumers are entitled to run
applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs
of law enforcement." Read the last seven words again.
excerpt is from a "Policy Statement" of the FCC
(http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-151A1.pdf


8)
Greek Wiretapping of Mobile phones Scandal'
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/more_on_greek_w.html
if you build eavesdropping into phone networks, the
bad guys will figure out how to use it.

9)
"Covenant Curriculums" written by Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.,
standard
<http://www.covenantwithblackamerica.com/PDFs/StandardCovenantCurriculum.doc>
and advanced
<http://www.covenantwithblackamerica.com/PDFs/AdvancedCovenantCurriculum.doc>
(Microsoft Word format). In connection with this, Yale is running The
Jamestown Project, to "operationalize" the curriculum.
The Jamestown Project at Yale announces its plan to operationalize
the Covenant Curriculum: A Study of Black Democratic Action,
produced by Jamestown Project Advisory Board Member, *Dr. Cornel
West* and Jamestown Project Senior Fellow, *Dr. Eddie Glaude*. The
Covenant Curriculum, released on February 25th at the State of the
Black Union <http://www.covenantwithblackamerica.com/> event
sponsored by *Tavis Smiley*, will provide the foundation for the
Jamestown Project 's work.

10)
A very inspirational story!!!!!!!!
Go Greece Athena High School
Jason McElwain Basketball Star & Hoop Hero Video
happens to be Autistic. The autistic manager of his high school
hoops team gets a chance to play ...
and scorches the nets for 20 pts. Transcript and video.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/specialed.html


11)
Google digitizes historic video clips
Web users now have free access to 1940s newsreels and more
http://video.google.com/nara.html

12)
Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium
4:15PM, Wednesday, Mar 08, 2006
HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01
http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]
Topic:   Signaling Vulnerabilities in Law-Enforcement Wiretap Systems
Speaker: Matt Blaze University of Pennsylvania
About the talk:
Telephone wiretap and dialed number recording systems are used by
law enforcement and national security agencies to collect
investigative intelligence and legal evidence. This talk will
show how many of these systems are vulnerable to simple,
unilateral countermeasures that allow wiretap targets to prevent
their call audio from being recorded and/or cause false or
inaccurate dialed digits and call activity to be logged. The
countermeasures exploit the unprotected in-band signals passed
between the telephone network and the collection system and are
effective against many of the wiretapping technologies currently
used by US law enforcement, including at least some ``CALEA''
systems. Possible remedies and workarounds will be proposed, and
the broader implications of the security properties of these
systems will be discussed.

13)
A DARPA proposal for use neural impants....
"Imagine getting inside the mind of a shark: swimming silently through the
ocean, sensing faint electrical fields, homing in on the trace of a scent,
and navigating through the featureless depths for hour after hour. We may
soon be able to do just that via electrical probes in the shark's brain.
Engineers funded by the US military have created a neural implant designed
to enable a shark's brain signals to be manipulated remotely, controlling
the animal's movements, and perhaps even decoding what it is feeling...More
controversially, the Pentagon hopes to exploit sharks'natural ability to
glide quietly through the water."
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18925416.300



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