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- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:42:59 -0400
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Hi,
Some interesting items.
<Karen>
1) Girl said she was attacked -- school told dad not to call 911
April 17, 2005 BY NICK JULIANO
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The girl was led by the arm behind a stage curtain in the
auditorium. There, witnesses said, her lip was bloodied and she was
sexually assaulted by a group of boys, an attack videotaped by one student
and watched by more than a dozen others who came running as word spread.
Within minutes, the developmentally disabled girl reported the alleged
assault to a special education teacher, who said the girl ''looked dazed
and confused and was crying.''
Administrators could be charged
But -- in violation of state law -- principals didn't immediately notify
police for fear of media attention. When the girl's father arrived, he was
asked not to call 911. He ignored the request and called police.
Now administrators at Mifflin High School face the possibility of being
charged along with students in the alleged March 9 assault at the school,
which has a history of violence.
http://tinyurl.com/e4ntq
2) ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA
Combined Company to Deliver Industry-Defining Technology Platform for
Rich,Interactive Content
...snip...
significantly greater opportunity to grow into new markets, particularly in
the mobile and enterprise segments.
Read the rest: http://tinyurl.com/dsd82 and http://tinyurl.com/87qym
here's a list of apps Adobe killed or "discontinued" over the years...
Some of them are the results of buyouts and some are the result of better
apps replacing weaker ones.
http://tinyurl.com/byv3z and pagemaker - http://tinyurl.com/929ko
3) Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Of the twenty-seven companies in "Computer Hardware & Software"
reporting in the first quarter of 2005, four failed SOX 404 compliance.
Compliance Week - more than 7% of public companies in the Russell
3000 have failed to be certified under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002 since February.http://www.complianceweek.com
Robert Raisch, ceo www.raischfinancial.com
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) was enacted in the wake of such spectacular
financial failures like Enron and Worldcom, to give investors timely
information regarding anything which might adversely affect their
investment. Section 404 requires public companies to have their
auditors certify that the company's internal controls over financial
reporting meet minimum requirements established by the Securities &
Exchange Commission and general accounting standards and practices.
Such controls can be as simple as requiring any corporate check to be
signed by two authorized employees or as complicated as minutely
tracking all income and expenditures throughout the organization.
4) The U.S. military
has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret,
multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be
ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks -- from electric
grids to telephone nets.
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67223,00.html
5) Verizon Offering 'Naked' DSL in Northeast
Verizon Communications said Monday that some customers who already
subscribe to its phone and high-speed Internet service can drop their local
calling plans but still keep their speedy Web connection.
The ability to subscribe solely to Verizon's DSL, or high-speed Internet
service, could be attractive to young customers who rely primarily on their
wireless plan for phone calls. It could also appeal to customers who want
to try out new Internet-calling technology.
Initially, the availability of "naked DSL" will be limited to customers in
the New York company's old Northeastern territory once served by Nynex or
Bell Atlantic, the predecessor companies of Verizon. And only customers who
already receive phone and high-speed Internet access from Verizon would be
eligible.
http://tinyurl.com/7w92e
6) China, Russia, U.S. Jointly Build, Manage Fiber-optic Network
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67223,00.html
7) Anyone can make and release a movie.
"Star Wars Revelations" is due to be released Monday over the Internet
by Panic Struck Productions, at <http://www.panicstruckpro.com>
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