The Rise of
Telecities
Europe Blames Weaker U.S.
Law for Spam Surge
Brightmail estimates that more than half of all email in
the European Union is spam, and Europeans claim U.S. anti-spam
laws, which are far more lax than European regulations, are
chiefly to blame. Eighty percent of EU spam is written in
English, and that same percentage apparently originates from
...
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Rock the
Vote
Four computer experts recommended that the Defense
Department halt its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting
Experiment (SERVE) on the grounds that the system is
susceptible to hacking and errors. But though they were
invited by the Pentagon to appraise the SERVE system, Defense
officials and ...
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PC Makers Set to Face Costs
of Recycling
Computer manufacturers are bracing for two major directives
on the disposal of personal computers by the European Union
that will have a significant impact on the cost of doing
business. "It's the sheer cost that will be most damaging to
our members," explains Dudley Ollis, program manager for ...
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High-Speed Internet's
Hurdles Still Considerable
University students and researchers at 205 U.S.
universities enjoy a next-generation Internet experience using
the Internet2 network. Students consume as much bandwidth as
is allowed them and will take their need for Internet speed
into the working world, says Georgia Institute of Technology
...
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Q&A: Open-Source Guru
Eric Raymond
Open Source Initiative President Eric Raymond, author of
"The New Hacker's Dictionary" and the more recent "The Art of
Unix Programming," notes that programmers in school are now
being trained on both Windows and Linux. He adds that "it's
all PCs today," meaning that the next crop of programmers ...
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Firms Develop
Gesture-Operable Digital Home Electronic
Devices
Development of gesture-operable input devices for home
electronics is accelerating in a variety of industries,
including gaming and automotive. The Remote Controller for
Wearable Home Electronics Appliance developed by Toshiba's
Human Centric Laboratory allows users to activate and
deactivate ...
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Matrix Plan Fuels Privacy
Fears
The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange
(Matrix), a quick-access information repository that
integrates state-based data with privately held data, is
currently in use by six states and being considered for use in
several others despite privacy worries and concerns that the
system is too ...
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Unpopular Argument: Sending
Tech Jobs Abroad Is Good
Many U.S. technology executives believe the offshore
outsourcing of programming and other IT jobs will bolster the
economy and raise Americans' security and standard of living.
Subscribers to this belief follow the theory of comparative
advantage, which posits that countries that ...
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Pentagon Kills LifeLog
Project
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA)
LifeLog project, an initiative to chronicle every aspect of a
person's life in a single database, was quietly disbanded in
January by the decree of the Pentagon, much to the relief of
civil libertarians who argued it could be used as an ...
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Why This One Is
Scarier
The Mydoom computer worm's success in shutting down the SCO
Group's Web site through a denial-of-service attack waged by
25,000 to 50,000 infected zombie" computers raises the bar for
malware in terms of damage and sophistication, but some
security experts believe Mydoom was created as a ...
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Neural-Chaos Team Boosts
Security
Researchers at Israel's Bar-Ilan University have integrated
a neural network encryption scheme with chaotic signal
synchronization to generate code that is very difficult to
crack. The scheme involves two identical synchronized
systems--one at the sender's location and one at the ...
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DARPA-Funded Linux
Security Hub Withers
The Sardonix project, a two-year-old Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-backed research project
designed to track Linux code for security audits, has been
largely abandoned, says Sardonix founder and computer
scientist Crispin Cowan, chief research scientist at WireX ...
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The Internet2 Commons:
Supporting Distributed Engineering
Collaboration
The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering
Simulation (NEES) project started by the National Science
Foundation three years ago is an initiative to leverage the
national cyber infrastructure to conduct research aimed at
making built environments more resistant to earthquakes. ...
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Twentysomething
IT jobs in the federal government are proving very
attractive to younger-generation information professionals,
particularly those facing unemployment or underemployment in
the private sector because of the economy. Such interest is
vital when measured against the imminent ...
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Dual Curses: Viruses and
Spam
A Web-based survey of senior executives conducted by
Computerworld and Ferris Research finds that viruses and spam
are the biggest email-related headaches. IT managers are
fearful of zero-day attacks because virus authors are
exploiting software vulnerabilities faster. Meanwhile, spam is
...
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Computer Makers Tackle
E-Waste
The mounting problems of electronic waste and the
introduction of e-waste legislation in more than 50 percent of
U.S. states over the last 12 months is spurring IBM, Gateway,
and other computer manufacturers to ramp up their recycling
initiatives. International Data estimates that typical PCs
last ...
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Where Have All the
Programming Jobs Gone?
IEEE-USA contends that the trend to offshore engineering is
partly responsible for the job losses programmers and other IT
professionals have sustained in recent years. Ron Hira, who
chairs IEEE-USA's R&D Policy Committee, reported that
American IT workers are suffering from ...
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The Rise of
Telecities
Arthur C. Clarke Institute executive director Joseph N.
Pelton argues that the trend toward megacities characterized
by faster transportation systems, centralized infrastructure,
and increased urbanization is wrong-headed and will only
increase populations' vulnerability to terrorist attacks,
natural ...
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