From patrick@quad.net.au Tue Jan 1 06:07:13 2002 From: patrick@quad.net.au (Patrick Corliss) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 16:07:13 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Applesoft Tutorial & Computer Science Text Books References: <20011228152706.A84198@localhost><20011228072641.A81059@localhost> <5.1.0.14.0.20011231182135.042389b0@pop> Message-ID: <01e801c19282$3385e020$b33efea9@hamza> On Monday, December 31, 2001 6:24 PM, Adam Todd wrote: Subject: Re: [LINK] SMH: Worms in Oz in 2001 > In 1984 I was programming Apple II's :) Hi Adam Well !! I'm amazed that you didn't have an Apple 1. As it happens, I had an Apple ][ Plus and later, when I had a hardware problem, I gave it away to a fellow UTS computing science student. (I enrolled in that course in 1980.) However, I still have three or four wire bound original manuals (including the Applesoft Tutorial) if any wants them. I also have heaps of computer science texts that I'd like to go to a good home. Any one interested, please email me privately. You will need to pick them up. Bring a spacious car if you want the text books. Some of them are truly excellent. I live in Lakemba, NSW. I am not interested in money (much) but a contribution to my meagre lifestyle would be appreciated. Best regards Patrick Corliss From jwhit@PrimeNet.Com Tue Jan 1 22:31:50 2002 From: jwhit@PrimeNet.Com (Jan Whitaker) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 08:31:50 +1100 Subject: [LINK] A Harvard Happy New Year! Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20020102082910.020130c0@pop.primenet.com> Hi, Linkers. Life goes on in the technology world. Just caught this story on CNN and thought it may be of interest to those who may be considering using email as a Uni entrance alert option: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/01/01/harvard.spam.ap/index.html AOL glitch blocks Harvard admissions e-mails BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Dozens of e-mail messages telling Harvard University applicants whether they had been admitted never arrived last month after America Online interpreted the messages as junk e-mail. "This wasn't exactly the instant response we intended," William Fitzsimmons, Harvard's dean of admissions and financial aid, told The Boston Globe. After anthrax spores were mailed through the U.S. postal system, Harvard began using e-mail to inform applicants quickly of whether they had been rejected or accepted. E-mail was used to notify almost all of the 6,000 students who applied in the school's early admission process. But for reasons that even AOL could not explain, the service blocked between 75 and 100 of the e-mails in December because the servers flagged the messages as "spam," the unwanted e-mails that clog users' mailboxes. The messages were bounced back to the university. (AOL Time Warner is the parent company of CNN.com.) "Spam is our number one problem. But it's hard to say what would have caused the system to filter e-mail from Harvard," AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said. [snip] Happy 2002! Jan JLWhitaker Associates Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jwhit@primenet.com -- http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm From jwhit@PrimeNet.Com Tue Jan 1 22:43:15 2002 From: jwhit@PrimeNet.Com (Jan Whitaker) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 08:43:15 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Hot Techs for 2002 Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20020102083842.02010200@pop.primenet.com> And this on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/31/hot.tech.2002.idg/index.html Hot technologies for 2002 Security anything Electronic collaboration - low cost video conferencing and online collaboration Peer-to-peer [a al Napster, but for business apps] Storage - off site? high speed access to? IP storage - pooled Voice over IP Speech recog [but that's a Gartner prediction, so who knows?] Wireless LANs - for non-mission-critical/confidential stuff XML - applications rather than specs Jan JLWhitaker Associates Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jwhit@primenet.com -- http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm From adam@todd.inoz.com Tue Jan 1 23:47:44 2002 From: adam@todd.inoz.com (Adam Todd) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 09:47:44 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Canberra Plans to Censor the Internet Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020102094717.01a64220@pop> Read this one form the web site, I've got a local copy in case it vanishes under censorship rules. It's VERY hard hitting at the end of the article. http://www.smh.com.au/news/0201/02/opinion/opinion2.html The letter that dare not speak its name Canberra's plans to censor the Internet are hitting snags as net users fight back across Australia, writes David Marr. Right on the lip of the cliff, the Carr Government is hesitating to join the Australian crusade to make the Internet suitable for children. Though it would take miracles rather than laws to achieve this purpose, the Howard Government passed legislation which the states are expected to reinforce by punishing anyone who puts anything on the Net that is "unsuitable for minors". Before Christmas, the Classification (Publications, Films And Computer Games) Enforcement Amendment Bill passed all stages of the NSW Parliament. The Opposition supported it enthusiastically. In the confusion of the end-of-year legislative rush, no-one voted or even spoke against the bill. It could be taken down the road to Government House tomorrow and signed into law. Turning Tragedy into Triumph - Feature Film "Caught in the Net" http://iconoclast.inoz.com/tjps/ <---- it's about AJ! PROUD FATHER of #2 BJ Todd born 9:33 AM 5 Mar 2000! 8lb 12 oz!!!! AJ #1 Kidnapped by NSW Government - See http://docs.ajtodd.com It just doesn't stop! 2001 - http://anti.integral.inoz.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adam Todd Senior (Father to AJ 4/98 and Brook 3/00) Phone (intl) +61 2 8825 6102 (Australia) 02 8825 6102 Fax (intl) +61 2 8825 6199 (Australia) 02 8825 6199 From billd@lisp.com.au Wed Jan 2 01:25:11 2002 From: billd@lisp.com.au (Bill D'Arcy) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:25:11 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Net censorship Message-ID: Approved klutz Linkers The letter that dare not speak its name http://www.smh.com.au/news/0201/02/opinion/opinion2.html Canberra's plans to censor the Internet are hitting snags as net users fight back across Australia, writes David Marr. If the NSW regime of Internet censorship comes into force, the Herald will not be able to republish online any material from the newspaper which it guesses the OFLC might classify as unsuitable for people under 18. That would mean, for instance, that Monday's story republished from The New York Times about the erotic frescoes of Pompeii could not safely be placed on the Internet. And even if this censorship regime were introduced and enforced, it would not make a wit's difference to what kids can read and see on the Internet. While the restrictions promise to make fools of us as a smart, contemporary society they won't help protect real children from the real nasties of the Net. For that they will need what they have always needed here: good sense, good teachers and good parents. Bill D'Arcy From glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au Wed Jan 2 05:10:05 2002 From: glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au (Glen Turner) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 14:40:05 +1030 Subject: FW: [LINK] auDA to auction rare domain names References: Message-ID: <3C32881D.5D966A45@aarnet.edu.au> Ian Johnston wrote: > > Hopefully, the users of these Closed 2LDs will also meet a fair share of the > cost of running auDA (NB: a possibly public policy issue). Under the > current auDA regulatory regime, the cost appears to have been met mainly by > com.au licence holders. As it should be. The regulation necessary for .edu.au has been done in the past through existing education sector policy mechanisms at a very low marginal cost. If commercial entities require a heavier weight policy and regulatory mechanism then they should carry the additional costs of that mechanism. Regards, Glen -- Glen Turner Network Engineer (08) 8303 3936 Australian Academic and Research Network glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au http://www.aarnet.edu.au/ -- The revolution will not be televised, it will be digitised From stephen@melbpc.org.au Wed Jan 2 08:05:01 2002 From: stephen@melbpc.org.au (Stephen Loosley) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:05:01 +1100 Subject: [LINK] The NSW bush fires Message-ID: <200201020705.SAA26643@newemu.melbpc.org.au> Hello there .. Would like to express sincere best wishes to any subscriber of this list whose home or business etc is under threat from the current NSW fires. Hopefully the fires will soon be under control .. and all will be well again. With sympathy, Stephen Loosley mail@stephen.hm From lannet@lannet.com.au Wed Jan 2 09:13:38 2002 From: lannet@lannet.com.au (Howard Lowndes) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:13:38 +1100 (EST) Subject: [LINK] Hot Techs for 2002 In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20020102083842.02010200@pop.primenet.com> Message-ID: Jan, you missed "Pigs with Wings" On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Jan Whitaker wrote: > And this on CNN: > > http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/31/hot.tech.2002.idg/index.html > > Hot technologies for 2002 > > Security anything > Electronic collaboration - low cost video conferencing and online collaboration > Peer-to-peer [a al Napster, but for business apps] > Storage - off site? high speed access to? IP storage - pooled > Voice over IP > Speech recog [but that's a Gartner prediction, so who knows?] > Wireless LANs - for non-mission-critical/confidential stuff > XML - applications rather than specs > > Jan > > JLWhitaker Associates > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia > jwhit@primenet.com -- http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm > > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." From lannet@lannet.com.au Wed Jan 2 09:27:22 2002 From: lannet@lannet.com.au (Howard Lowndes) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:27:22 +1100 (EST) Subject: [LINK] The NSW bush fires In-Reply-To: <200201020705.SAA26643@newemu.melbpc.org.au> Message-ID: Stephen, I agree. And I would like to add that I consider arson to be akin to terrorism. The problem is that much arson is committed by juveniles. Well, I'm sorry, but these juveniles deserve to be locked up ALONG WITH their parent (one at least), guardian, or DFACS case manager (do I hear AJ cheering in the background), as their supervisor. Yes I do mean that the supervisory person gets a custodial sentence as well, even the DFACS case manager. On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Stephen Loosley wrote: > Hello there .. > > Would like to express sincere best wishes to any subscriber of this list > whose home or business etc is under threat from the current NSW fires. > Hopefully the fires will soon be under control .. and all will be well again. > > With sympathy, > Stephen Loosley > mail@stephen.hm > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." From jmorris@intercode.com.au Wed Jan 2 12:46:30 2002 From: jmorris@intercode.com.au (James Morris) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 22:46:30 +1100 (EST) Subject: [LINK] MS struggles to discredit Linux Message-ID: Another apparent Microsoft leak: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23518.html - James -- James Morris From goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au Wed Jan 2 15:10:15 2002 From: goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au (=?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?=) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 01:10:15 +1100 (EST) Subject: [LINK] pornography & violence, the Net & games, a study & a report Message-ID: <20020102141015.54997.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com> Protecting Children from Internet Pornography (ZENIT - The World Seen >From Rome) In an Ongoing Web War, Free Speech Rights Push the Limits "Freedom of expression needs to be restricted." This isn´t the latest declaration of an authoritarian government, but an appeal made by the head of the United Nations Children´s Fund, Carol Bellamy. A few days ago marked the 10th anniversary of the first Web page. The explosion of data available through the Internet has had many positive effects, but also makes life a lot easier for pornographers. The Guardian newspaper of London reported Dec. 19 that the head of UNICEF called for greater censorship of the Internet to combat the flood of child pornography sites on the World Wide Web. http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=14495 Fair Play? Violence, Gender and Race in Video Games. Most of the top-selling video games offer very little racial and gender diversity, according to a comprehensive study conducted by Children Now, a child research and action organization. White characters were the only human characters found in young children's games. Nearly all of the heroes were white and female characters were severely under-represented in video games, accounting for only 16 percent of human characters. INTRODUCTION There are probably few adults these days who don't remember the excitement of playing early video games such as Pac Man, Space Invaders and Frogger. The ability to interact with a machine in a game situation was thrilling-and still is. Today, the little yellow dot-eater and the highly pixilated spaceships have evolved into seamlessly animated characters, graphic images of demons, and lifelike humans complete with lifelike weapons and lifelike blood. Video games were a $6 billion industry in 2000 and sales are projected to reach as high as $8 billion in 2001. Over 280 million units were sold in 2000 alone, and it is estimated that 60% of all Americans, or about 145 million people, play video games on a regular basis. This level of market penetration, combined with the high levels of realism makes it important to investigate the messages video games send children. There are some benefits to video games. Studies have found that playing video games can improve children's visual attention skills, their spatial skills, their iconic skills and their computer literacy skills. In addition, the use of educational games, which are almost exclusively sold for the PC, have been shown to help improve academic performance. However, many more studies have shown relationships between playing video games and unhealthy outcomes, such as isolation and loneliness, obesity, belief in gender stereotypes and increased aggressive behavior. In fact, video games' unique interactive capabilities may make them even more likely to influence children's attitudes, beliefs and behaviors than more traditional forms of media. Fair Play? Violence, Gender and Race in Video Games examines the top-selling video games for each of the seven different game systems. Fair Play? identifies some of the unhealthy social messages that video games may be sending to young players about violence, gender and race and contains ideas for improving games for children. Note: In this report the term "video game" refers to both games played on a personal computer and games played on a console system. "Computer and video games bring us into imaginary worlds and allow us to define who we are, how we behave, and how we relate to others in the game; they challenge us intellectually; they excite us; they educate and empower us." - Douglas Lowenstein, President, Interactive Digital Software Association. http://www.childrennow.org/media/video-games/2001/ http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! From jeff.evans@dsd.vic.gov.au Thu Jan 3 01:38:40 2002 From: jeff.evans@dsd.vic.gov.au (jeff.evans@dsd.vic.gov.au) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:38:40 +1000 Subject: [LINK] FWD: Free Pint Index Message-ID: Happy new year to all Here's an index to articles from the extremely useful Free Pint website & newsletter. It's also online at http://www.freepint.com/issues/01indexb.htm Regards Jeff Evans Online Services Manager, Small Business Online Department of State & Regional Development, Victoria, Australia -- Free Pint "Helping 44,000 people use the Web for their work" http://www.freepint.com/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Here is the complete index to all articles and book reviews which have appeared in the Free Pint Newsletter since the first edition in 1997. We hope you find it useful. Please keep it for future reference and redistribute/copy/print all or any part of this index as you wish. 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If you have received this message in error please notify us by return e-mail. _____________________________________________________________ From karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au Thu Jan 3 01:37:09 2002 From: karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au (Karin Geiselhart) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:37:09 +1100 Subject: [LINK] rural Australia digital publishing projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.1.20020103112458.00ac37c0@ems.rmit.edu.au> Does anyone know of any rural/regional e-book/digital book publishing or related projects? I am looking for business examples, case studies, etc. as part of the Creator to Consumer http://www.c-2-csystem.com digital publishing project. thanks and best of the new year to all Linkers, Karin Dr. Karin Geiselhart School of Business Information Technology RMIT University Melbourne ph 03 9925 1352 fax 03 9925 5482 http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/kgeiselhart From karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au Thu Jan 3 03:22:35 2002 From: karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au (Karin Geiselhart) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:22:35 +1100 Subject: Fwd: [LINK]: Insider trading reports going online (Ontario Securities Commission) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.1.20020103132044.00b2cd80@ems.rmit.edu.au> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment a nice example of electronic accountability, don't know how insider trading is reported here: forwarded from a Canadian list: >CBC News Online - Ottawa News Digest 02/01/02 >Web Posted | Jan 2 2002 09:52 AM CST > >Ottawa - Insider trading reports will soon be filed electronically over a >new, secure, Internet-based trading system. >The Ontario Securities Commission is launching the online system later >this month. > >Insiders such as the presidents and CEOs of publicly traded companies have >to file reports when they buy or sell company stock. Until now, that's >always been done with paper files. > >The new Internet-based program will make insider reports available to >anyone, 24 hours a day, seven days a week at no charge. It will also allow >reports to be filed immediately. > >"The world is moving more and more to Web-based systems," says Eva Vranic, >the manager of corporate finance at the Ontario Securities Corporation. >"We think it makes sense to allow insiders to both file and have access to >their information using a Web-based system." > >Mark Burton, a lawyer and partner at Stikeman Elliott, says it's a great >step forward. > >"Somebody who has an interest in a public stock may wish to go to the >insider reports and find out if there is a pattern of trading by insiders >of the company," says Burton. > >"Perhaps they've been accumulating stock over the last six months or 12 >months and that's a good signal that insiders have confidence in the stock >and that it may suggest the stock is a good buy." > >But it works the other way too. Trading by insiders can also signal that a >company is in trouble. > >This new system moves Canada ahead of the U.S., where insider reports are >still filed on paper. Dr. Karin Geiselhart School of Business Information Technology RMIT University Melbourne ph 03 9925 1352 fax 03 9925 5482 http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/kgeiselhart ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 174 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/attachments/6fe74c55/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/signed attachment-- From psg@hushmag.tv Wed Jan 2 23:56:51 2002 From: psg@hushmag.tv (paul) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 22:56:51 Subject: [LINK] Message-ID: <200201030456.g034uo715371@web.anu.edu.au> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/attachments/035e254a/attachment.htm From ndiokhobass@yahoo.com Thu Jan 3 07:28:12 2002 From: ndiokhobass@yahoo.com (BASSEY NDIOKHO (Mr.)) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 07:28:12 +0100 Subject: [LINK] ASSISTANCE Message-ID: <200201030628.g036S7723920@web.anu.edu.au> MR. BASSEY NDIOKHO. Tel# 234 -1-775-6370 Fax# 234 -1-759-3655 ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO. Sir, REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL. I am Mr. Bassey Ndiokho, an Executive Director (Banking and Treasury Operations) with the UNION BANK OF NIGEIRA PLC, (UBN) Lagos, Nigeria. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign Bank Account requiring maximum confidence. THE PROPOSAL A foreigner, late Engr. Johnson Creek, an Oil Merchant/Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death five years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC, Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$26.5M (TWENTY SIX MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) which the bank now expects to be claimed by Creek's next-of-kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited Trust Fund for arms and ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria. Fervent valuable efforts have been made by the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, to get in touch with any of Johnson Creek's family but have proved abortive till date. It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate late Engr. Johnson Creek's next-of-kin (he died in the crash with his wife and two children) that the management under the influence of our Chairman, Elder Kalu Uke Kalu and some members of the board of Directors, that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared "UNCLAIMED" and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general. In order to avert this negative development, some of my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission to have you stand as next-of-kin to late Engr. Johnson Creek so that the funds, USD$26.5M would be released and paid into your bank account as next-of-kin. All documents and proofs to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out and as such, we are assuring you of a 100% risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for investment purposes in your Country. We have agreed that the funds will be shared thus: - 1. 25% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the funds 2. 10% will be set aside, for any incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction. 3. 65% shall be for my partners and I as the originators of this transaction. If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue advantage of the trust bestowed on you and your Company, then kindly get to me immediately via Tel# 234 - 1 - 775-6370 and Fax# 234 - 1 - 759-3655, furnishing me with your confidential telephone, fax numbers and bank particulars so that I can use these information to apply for the release and subsequent transfer of the funds in your favour. If you have a contrary opinion to our proposal, please keep it highly confidential. Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation. Yours faithfully, BASSEY NDIOKHO (Mr.) From lannet@lannet.com.au Thu Jan 3 16:54:21 2002 From: lannet@lannet.com.au (Howard Lowndes) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 02:54:21 +1100 (EST) Subject: [LINK] ASSISTANCE In-Reply-To: <200201030628.g036S7723920@web.anu.edu.au> Message-ID: You have to hand it to the Nigerian scammer; there stories are always different, the method of the victims demise is always varied, and they never give up trying. On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, BASSEY NDIOKHO (Mr.) wrote: > > MR. BASSEY NDIOKHO. > > > Tel# 234 -1-775-6370 > Fax# 234 -1-759-3655 > > ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO. > > Sir, > REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." From me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au Thu Jan 3 22:01:35 2002 From: me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au (Tony Barry) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 08:01:35 +1100 Subject: [LINK] The web runs on love, not greed Message-ID: Extracted item provided for information. Source:NewsScan Daily, 3 January 2002 ("Above The Fold") - - - - - THE WEB RUNS ON LOVE, NOT GREED Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly says that rather than moping over last year's dot-com debacle, we should rejoice over what we have -- a Web that features more than three billion public Web pages chock full of content, which is freely offered as a gift to the world. "As the Internet continues to expand in volume and diversity, only a relatively small percent of its total mass will be money-making. The rest will be created and maintained out of passion, enthusiasm, a sense of civic obligation, or simply on the faith that it may later provide some economic use. High-profile portal sites like Yahoo and AOL will continue to consolidate and demand our attention (and maybe make some money), while millions of smaller sites and hundreds of millions of users do the heavy work of creating content that is used and linked. These will be given away as gifts to the world." (Wall Street Journal 3 Jan 2002) http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1010022759592449440.htm (sub req'd) -- phone +61 2 6241 7659 mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au http://tony-barry.emu.id.au/people/tony/index.html From Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au Thu Jan 3 23:17:32 2002 From: Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au (Roger Clarke) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:17:32 +1100 Subject: [LINK] The web runs on love, not greed In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: >- - - - - >THE WEB RUNS ON LOVE, NOT GREED >Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly says that rather than moping over >last year's dot-com debacle, we should rejoice over what we have -- a Web >that features more than three billion public Web pages chock full of >content, which is freely offered as a gift to the world. ... >(Wall Street Journal 3 Jan 2002) Kelly believes in the dictum 'If you write enough, some of it *must* be true'. Contrast the homilies above with his cock-eyed article from March 1997: Kiss your browser goodbye: The radical future of media beyond the Web http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/ff_push_pr.html ... Sure, we'll always have Web pages. We still have postcards and telegrams, don't we? But the center of interactive media - increasingly, the center of gravity of all media - is moving to a post-HTML environment, a world way past a Web dominated by the page, beyond streamed audio and video, and fast into a land of push-pull, active objects, virtual space, and ambient broadcasting. You might not want to believe us, but a place where you can kiss your Web browser goodbye. No, the 150 million Web pages now in existence won't disappear. They'll only proliferate, and at an increasing rate worldwide. We can expect a billion Web pages by 2000. Some of them will even be worth reading. But superseding those billion pages will be a zillion nonpage items of information and entertainment. Think video. Think text flickering over your walls. Think games at work. Think anything where a staid, link-based browser is useless. ... -- Roger Clarke http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 1472, and 6288 6916 mailto:Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Fellow Department of Computer Science The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA Information Sciences Building Room 211 Tel: +61 2 6125 3666 From rick@praxis.com.au Fri Jan 4 00:41:27 2002 From: rick@praxis.com.au (Rick Welykochy) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:41:27 +1100 Subject: [LINK] The web runs on love, not greed References: Message-ID: <3C34EC27.126B5D5A@praxis.com.au> Roger Clarke wrote: > Contrast the homilies above with his cock-eyed article from March 1997: .... > Think video. Think text flickering > over your walls. Think games at work. Think anything where a staid, > link-based browser is useless. Think I'm going to be ill. (This person wrote for Ab Fab, right?) Top of the New Year to all you linkoids. -rick -- _____________________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday. From karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au Fri Jan 4 01:19:53 2002 From: karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au (Karin Geiselhart) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:19:53 +1100 Subject: [LINK] The web runs on love, not greed In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.1.20020104103054.00b30830@ems.rmit.edu.au> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment another aspect: from: Communications-related Headlines for 1/3/02 -------------------------------------------------------------- COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for January 3, 2002 INTERNET Total Number Of Internet Addresses Shrinks - Study (WP) BROADCASTING EchoStar Says it Won't Pay 'Hush Money' to Win Disney Support for Merger (WP) New XM Satellite Service Offers More Radio Channels for Drivers (WSJ) WIRELESS FCC Set to Expand Wireless Frontier (USA) INTERNET TOTAL NUMBER OF INTERNET ADDRESSES SHRINKS - STUDY Issue: Internet The total number of Internet addresses worldwide fell in December for only the second time in nearly six years, according to a survey by Netcraft. The fall has been put down to a drop in the practice of domain name speculation. Netcraft also predicted that the drop off in domain-name speculation would boost the percentage of Internet addresses that are "active" at any given time on the Web. Former ICANN President Mike Roberts said that during his tenure with the organization that manages the Internet's addressing system, no more than two-thirds of all registered domain names were being actively used at any time. [SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: David McGuire (Newsbytes.com)] (http://www.washtech.com/news/netarch/14421-1.html) Dr. Karin Geiselhart School of Business Information Technology RMIT University Melbourne ph 03 9925 1352 fax 03 9925 5482 http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/kgeiselhart ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/attachments/88e77f06/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment-- From jmorris@intercode.com.au Fri Jan 4 02:25:59 2002 From: jmorris@intercode.com.au (James Morris) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:25:59 +1100 (EST) Subject: [LINK] The web runs on love, not greed In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.1.20020104103054.00b30830@ems.rmit.edu.au> Message-ID: On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Karin Geiselhart wrote: > another aspect: > > from: Communications-related Headlines for 1/3/02 > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for January 3, 2002 > INTERNET > Total Number Of Internet Addresses Shrinks - Study (WP) > And another: There's an article from The Age which reports that Internet use (in Australia) is still rising: http://www.it.mycareer.com.au/breaking/2002/01/04/FFXS8OLU0WC.html The total number of ISPs fell by 16% over the year to September 30 2001, while the total number of "users" increased by 11%. - James -- James Morris From geert@desk.nl Fri Jan 4 03:45:44 2002 From: geert@desk.nl (geert lovink) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:45:44 +1100 Subject: [LINK] The web runs on love, not greed References: Message-ID: <013801c194c9$ed18fe20$b1de3dca@geert> > THE WEB RUNS ON LOVE, NOT GREED > Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly says that rather than moping over > last year's dot-com debacle, we should rejoice over what we have -- a Web > that features more than three billion public Web pages chock full of > content, which is freely offered as a gift to the world. Sure, Kevin Kelly and others who drove the dotcoms into desastrous bankrupcies would very much like us to forget their personal role (or should I say responsability) into the New Economy craze and the following 'carnage' of tech stocks. Kelly was one of the main promoters of the 'get greedy, get their first' mentality and has been trying to deny this role for a while now. But someone talked up the stocks, that didn't happen all by itself. Journalists were one of 'guilty' parties, so were numerous consultants who all profitted from the bubble. As did Kelly. Why is there such a reluctance to reconstruct what happened in the 1994-2000 period amongst these Internet gurus? Like they always have, they wanna rush into yet another future. This time it's based on 'love'. Remember Kelly is born again Christian... Wanna save your soul? Geert From p.hughes@latrobe.edu.au Fri Jan 4 03:50:40 2002 From: p.hughes@latrobe.edu.au (Peter Hughes) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:50:40 +1100 Subject: [LINK] ASSISTANCE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Howard, What I really love tho' is the request for absolute confidentiality in a message spammed to an audience of unknown, but obviously large dimensions! All the best for a happy and peaceful New Year, P. -------------------------------------------- (Dr) Peter Hughes Screening the past. An international, refereed electronic journal of visual media and history: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast From bobb@alt.net Fri Jan 4 13:40:45 2002 From: bobb@alt.net (Bob Bain) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 22:40:45 +1000 Subject: [LINK] Handling pop-ups In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:40:17 +1100, Tony Healy wrote: >> .. produces a seemingly endless stream of pop up's > >Pop-ups and many other cute tricks can be eliminated by turning off >javascript or, in Internet Explorer, active scripting. >It's possible to do this without hampering banking and other nominated >sites, in IE at least. This is done by putting those sites in IE's Trusted >group. Opera 6 has a simple selection in it's preferences. "Disallow pop-ups". This simple selection was enough to encourage me to pay $15 for an upgrade from Version 5.11. Thanks to others as well.... -------- Bob Bain Sydney Australia bobb@alt.net From rw@firstpr.com.au Fri Jan 4 13:25:45 2002 From: rw@firstpr.com.au (Robin Whittle) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 23:25:45 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Handling pop-ups - Mozilla 0.9.7 References: Message-ID: <3C359F48.7269DB32@firstpr.com.au> Bob Bain wrote: > Opera 6 has a simple selection in it's preferences. "Disallow > pop-ups". This simple selection was enough to encourage me to pay > $15 for an upgrade from Version 5.11. Mozilla 0.9.7 apparently has the ability to disable popups without disabling the rest of Javascript: http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.7/ Mozilla has a new advanced preference panel for fine-grained JavaScript control. For instance, you can disallow pop up and pop-under windows without turning off JavaScript altogether. While I use Mozilla Composer for HTML editing, it has many maddening bugs, but I find it worth it. Unfortunately it does not have a spell checker either. I would use it as a web browser, but I prefer to use Netscape 4.77 because I find its Messenger email system works fine. Mozilla's Messenger is relatively complete (except for having no spellchecker), but a long-standing bug (April 2000) with double-clicking a folder makes me not want to use it. This action opens the folder in a new window OK, but the current window switches to the folder too - that would drive me bonkers. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35389 - Robin From stephen@melbpc.org.au Fri Jan 4 17:10:47 2002 From: stephen@melbpc.org.au (Stephen Loosley) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 03:10:47 +1100 Subject: [LINK] IT: Top Pillar of China's Economy Message-ID: <200201041611.DAA03662@newemu.melbpc.org.au> Hi all .. Here's interesting statistics on China's rapidly growing 'information industry' .. -- IT: Top Pillar of China's Economy Author: JIANG CHEN China's information industry showed rapid growth last year. By the end of November, the number of telephone users in the country reached 317 million ... Information products such as [telephone] handsets and computers have become "hot" items. The information industry has become the top contributor to the national economy. And the industry boom is expected to continue, fueled by the strong demand for information-related products. According to statistics from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), fixed asset investment in the country's telecoms industry reached 197.9 billion yuan (US$23 billion) between January and November last year, up 54 per cent over the same period in 2000 ... (Estimated population of China 1,281,166,744 ) -- Cheers all .. Stephen Loosley email@stephen.ws From jwhit@PrimeNet.Com Fri Jan 4 23:19:45 2002 From: jwhit@PrimeNet.Com (Jan Whitaker) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 09:19:45 +1100 Subject: [LINK] ZDNet article on better spam legislation Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20020105091735.0206a760@pop.primenet.com> Linkers, If anyone is hopeful that we may get spam control laws at some point, the article by David Berlind at ZDNET includes some good specifics and improvements over the non-passed US legislation at: http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2834534,00.html Un-spam: The greatest gift of all He points out why current opt out doesn't work and how specifics in a law might address the shortcomings. Jan JLWhitaker Associates Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jwhit@primenet.com -- http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm From observatory-is@unesco.org Sat Jan 5 00:50:47 2002 From: observatory-is@unesco.org (by way of Tony Barry) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:50:47 +1100 Subject: [LINK] UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society Newsletter - No 117 - January 04, 2002 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------- UNESCO OBSERVATORY ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY http://www.unesco.org/webworld/observatory -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter - No 117 - January 04, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Briefs selection (below), is ordered into the major themes of the Observatory: - Action Plans and Policies - Privacy and Confidentiallity - Content Regulation - Access to Public Domain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Action Plans, Policies: international, regional and national levels [APA, EGO - 04.01.2002] India To Give Serious Look At e-Governance (Asia.internet) The Planning Commission of India has said that if the whole country is to benefit with a reasonably uniform pace of growth, and to establish a Government-to-citizen interface, a more detailed look has to be given to the whole concept of e-governance. The working group on convergence and e-governance of the Planning Commission has also recommended... http://asia.internet.com/asia-news/article/0,3916,161_947701,00.html [APA, INF - 04.01.2002] Railways Ministry to complete fibre optic backbone in 2002 (Europemedia.net) Russia's First Deputy Railways Minister, Alexander Misharin, has said that a further Rbl6bn ($196.9m) will be invested this year to complete the Railways Ministry's fibre optic backbone. According to Misharin, the ministry has already laid 43,000km of fibre, which will increase to 48,000km by the end of the year. http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=7503 [APA, ACC - 03.01.2002] Hong Kong Govt Readies More Free Internet Centers (Newsbytes) The Hong Kong SAR government has promised to open more cyber centers offering free Internet access to the general public. Hong Kong's Home Affairs Department (HAD) envisages at least one "cyber center" in each of Hong Kong's 18 districts, providing nationwide coverage. The centers aim to provide the community, especially the elderly, women and new arrivals, with access to IT and Internet training and facilities. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173313.html [EUR, ECO - 02.01.2002] Liikanen calls for ICT boost for SMEs (Europemedia.net) Further investment in information and communication technologies (ICT) and innovation is the needed to boost the fortunes of SMEs, according to Enterprise and Information society Commissioner, Erkki Liikanen. In a speech to the European Parliament's SME Intergroup on the 'State of play of enterprise policy issues' on 18 December, Commissioner Liikanen said that SMEs... http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=7466 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Privacy & Confidentiality: transborder privacy, global e-commerce, cryptography [CRY - 04.01.2002] AIM hole could let worms wriggle in (Asia.cnet) AOL Time Warner on Wednesday pledged to close a security hole in its instant messenger application that experts say could provide wiggle room for a widespread and destructive worm. AOL Time Warner said it would implement a server-side fix--meaning people will not have to download the patch--by week's end. http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/security/0,39001150,39008737,00.htm [ECO, PRI - 04.01.2002] Popular file-swap programs had Trojan horse (IDG.net) Three popular file-swap programs for some time came with third-party "spyware" software that was installed even if the user opted not to, the software makers admitted this week. KaZaA, Grokster and LimeWire, free peer-to-peer (P-to-P) applications used by millions for exchanging files on the Internet, at one point came with a program called ClickTillUWin, a client for an online lottery. This client software contains a Trojan horse program that sends information to its maker, several vendors of antivirus software have warned. http://www.idg.net/ic_784921_1794_9-10000.html [CRY, CRM - 03.01.2002] Writing a Security Wish List (IDG.net) Whereas 2001 be remembered as a year marked by an exhausting string of virus attacks and cyberterrorism fears sparked by the events of September 11, security experts predict that computer security in 2002 will shift away from perimeter defenses in favor of internal access control and authentication management. "Physical access, who you are, and [whether or not] you are allowed... http://www.idg.net/ic_784617_1794_9-10000.html [ECO - 03.01.2002] India becoming world's back office (Asia.cnet) The chattering young adults, many dressed in Western-style casual clothes, exit a train station in a northern Bombay suburb and look like they should be heading for a college campus. But it is late at night, and they are making their way to a plush office complex nearby. http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/industry/0,39001143,39008473,00.htm [ECO - 03.01.2002] Attacks Spark Interest In Telecommuting (Newsbytes) Unexpected crises such as those that occurred Sept. 11 have given yet another impetus to advocates of telecommuting. The practice of working from home while being wired into the office has long been a favorite among many workers and groups seeking to cut down on such transportation problems as traffic congestion. Most managers, however, remain wary of the idea. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/173290.html [CRY, CRM - 02.01.2002] Hacker boys from Brazil (BBCnews) Brazil boasts some of the most active hackers in the world. An army of schoolchildren is flexing its information technology muscles, bringing company sites to their knees. Brazil's sites are some of the most hacked in the world. Last year, the number of hacked sites increased 10 times. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1723000/1723356.stm [ECO - 02.01.2002] Flocking to the Web for last-minute gifts (Cnet) Holiday shoppers are clicking for last-minute gifts and bargains in record numbers this year, and online merchants are pulling out all the stops to keep orders coming until the 11th hour. Popular online merchants such as Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, eBay and Walmart.com say traffic on their sites has been much higher this year in the last two weeks of the season... http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-8254546.html?tag=cd_mh [PRI - 02.01.2002] Privacy special report: All eyes on you (ZDnet) One of the most contentious and debated topics of the information age has been that of privacy. While the thought of an all-seeing, all-knowing Big Brother has had computer users shaking in their boots for many years, major technology developments in the past twelve months have brought the issue to a head. http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20262484,00.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Content Regulation: intellectual property rights, copyright, freedom of expression [CON, ECO - 04.01.2002] FTC Puts Halt To Site's Cancer-Cure Claims (Newsbytes) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered a Web site that specializes in selling herbal and non-traditional remedies to stop touting one of its products as a cure for cancer. Western Herb and Dietary Products agreed to stop posting online claims that a product called the "Zapper" could be used to cure cancer, AIDS, diabetes and a host of other diseases. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173327.html [CRM, CRY - 04.01.2002] Latest Hacker Target: Routers (NYahoo) Bored with initiating traffic-flooding attacks that take down Web servers, hackers are focusing on router vulnerabilities that could let them divert large amounts of traffic to Internet wastelands, security experts warn. The vulnerability lies in the Border Gateway Protocol, which translates routing tables from different vendors' equipment. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cmp/20011217/tc/inw20011217s0004_1.html [CRM, FRE, IPR - 03.01.2002] Freed Russian Software Programmer Returns Home (Yahoo) A Russian software programmer, freed in November after escaping prosecution under controversial U.S. copyright laws, returned home on Monday and praised the support he received from campaigners while in detention. Dmitry Sklyarov, 27, told NTV television after arriving at a Moscow airport... http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011231/tc/russia_usa_sklyarov_dc_1.html [CRM - 02.01.2002] The Worst Internet Hoaxes (IDG.net) Communicating by e-mail seems safe and clean compared to the real world--no bad breath, no cauliflower ear, and no anthrax. But e-mail doesn't escape the clutches of con artists. Just because an e-mail message looks legitimate and plays upon our deeply felt hopes and fears doesn't mean it's true. http://www.idg.net/ic_780719_1794_9-10000.html [CRM, IPR - 02.01.2002] The Battle Against Software Piracy Rages On (AllAfrica.com) In today's digital economy, software is indispensable to every business, large and small and as result, the Business Software Alliance, BSA, and the World Intellectual Property Organisation, WIPO, at as recent Rabat, Morocco meeting vow to fight on to protect the rights of software developers Early this year, the International Planning and Reasearch Corporation, IPR, announced the completion of another year of analysis in an ongoing study... http://allafrica.com/stories/200112200085.html [IPR - 02.01.2002] Canada Readies Domain Dispute Procedures (Newsbytes) The organization responsible for Canada's ".ca" Internet address space is preparing for a 2002 launch of its process for sorting out disputes between trademark owners and domain-name holders they accuse of being cybersquatters. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) recently unveiled... http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/173207.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Universal Access - Public Domain: access for all, on-line governance, virtual libraries, multilingualism [ACC, IPR - 04.01.2002] Total Number Of Internet Addresses Shrinks - Study (Newsbytes) The total number of Internet addresses worldwide fell in December for only the second time in nearly six years, according to a survey by Netcraft. Netcraft, which has tracked Internet registrations and Web site activity since 1995, cited a fall-off in domain name speculation as the primary factor driving the decrease. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173336.html [EGO - 04.01.2002] Online tour for potential jurors (The Guardian) Jurors-to-be who feel daunted by the prospect of an impending court appearance can now quell their fears with a pre-trial visit via the internet. Those keen to prepare for their stint in the jury box can get a realistic idea of what to expect during their time in court by logging on to a website that guides them through the unfamiliar surroundings using pictures, sound and text. http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,627026,00.html [VIR - 04.01.2002] Distributing the Search for Cures (Wirednews) The latest in distributed computing projects is either very timely or very opportunistic, depending on your perspective. Sengent, a Boca Raton, Florida-based company, has launched its Drug Design and Optimization Lab (D2OL) client, and its first disease targets are anthrax and smallpox. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49334,00.html [EGO - 03.01.2002] 1901 census goes online (The Guardian) The public record (PRO) office today published an online version of the 1901 census, opening up records of 32.5m residents of Edwardian Britain, although thoroughly modern server problems blocked access to the material. The 1901 census lists the names, ages, addresses and mental health of British residents,... http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,626730,00.html [INF - 03.01.2002] Peer to peer: As the revolution recedes (Yahoo) Like the Internet itself, peer to peer is settling into a second, more prosaic stage following the bubble of excitement that seemed to stand the world on its head--if only for a moment. Peer-to-peer networks, in essence, provide a way to link PCs together without the need for powerful central server computers. When Napster, the best known peer-to-peer player, surged in popularity... http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20020102/tc/peer_to_peer_as_the_revolution_recedes_1.html [INF - 03.01.2002] Sonera starts 2002 by opening 3G network (Europemedia.net) The beginning of 2002 saw the opening of Sonera's 3G network, in line with its licencing agreements. The test network covers four Finnish cities and is to be available for commercial use once UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems) handsets are available to consumers. The opening of Finland's 3G network, along with those of Norway and Sweden, puts the Scandinavian countries at the forefront of European 3G roll-out. http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=7490 [ACC - 02.01.2002] Internet to help homeless renew contact (BBCnews) A new initiative is being launched to give homeless people the chance to renew contact with friends and relatives this Christmas. The charity Crisis is operating an internet cafe with computers experts, who once slept rough themselves, on hand to advise on how to send an email to long-lost loved ones. The initiative goes online at an east London shelter on Sunday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1725000/1725793.stm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society mirrors: Japan (by the United Nations University): http://mirror-japan.unesco.org/webworld/observatory/index.html United States (by the University of Nebraska): http://mirror-us.unesco.org/webworld/observatory/index.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, just visit: http://www.unesco.org/cgi-bin/webworld/portal_observatory/subscribe.cgi?action=unsubscribe&email=me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au From karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au Sat Jan 5 01:30:27 2002 From: karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au (Karin Geiselhart) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 11:30:27 +1100 Subject: [LINK] the closing of the online commons? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.1.20020105112810.00b26100@ems.rmit.edu.au> Please let me know if these forwards from Benton are redundant or a nuisance: >RISE OF INTERNET 'BORDERS' PROMPTS FEARS FOR WEB'S FUTURE >Issue: Internet >Governments and private businesses are increasingly try to draw boundaries >around what used to be a borderless Internet to deal with legal, commercial >and terrorism concerns. "It used to be that a person sitting in one place >could get or send information anywhere in the world," said Jack Goldsmith, a >professor of international law at the University of Chicago. "But now the >Internet is starting to act more like real space with all its limitations." >While new borders provide solutions to the vexing problem of how to resolve >the often-conflicting policies of the roughly 200 independent states of the >world on matters such as gambling, commerce, copyright and speech, critics >fear that the barriers will create an Internet that's balkanized. And civil >rights groups warn that freedom of speech will suffer, that the technology >will make it easier for oppressive governments to stifle nonconformist >viewpoints, and that people's privacy will be eroded, especially because >some technologies can pinpoint one's location. >[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Ariana Eunjung Cha] >(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59227-2002Jan3.html) > >... >TROLLING THE WEB FOR AFGHAN DEAD >Issue: Internet >Frustrated by the dearth of reports in the American media after the air >strikes began on Oct. 7, an American economics professor turned to the >Internet to read accounts from the front lines published in the foreign >press. Marc Herold, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, has been >searching the Internet for the last three month to compile figures on >civilian casualties in Afghanistan, using sources as disparate as the >radical Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan and the BBC. >Herold's analysis, published on the independent news site cursor.org charges >that the U.S. military has killed more than 4,000 civilians in Afghanistan. >[SOURCE: Wired, AUTHOR: Julia Scheeres] >(http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,49475,00.html) Dr. Karin Geiselhart School of Business Information Technology RMIT University Melbourne ph 03 9925 1352 fax 03 9925 5482 http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/kgeiselhart From me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au Sat Jan 5 02:09:33 2002 From: me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au (Tony Barry) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:09:33 +1100 Subject: [LINK] http://www.onlinepolicy.org/ Message-ID: Linkers This site, http://www.onlinepolicy.org/ which deals with filtereing may have been mentioned before but it was new to me. Tony -- phone +61 2 6241 7659 mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au http://tony-barry.emu.id.au/people/tony/index.html From me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au Sat Jan 5 03:40:49 2002 From: me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au (Tony Barry) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:40:49 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Hackers discover hole in AOL's instant messenger Message-ID: Extracted item provided for information. Source:Edupage, January 4, 2002 - - - - - HACKERS DISCOVER HOLE IN AOL'S INSTANT MESSENGER America Online has verified that an international group of hackers has exploited a buffer-overflow security flaw in its Instant Messenger program that enables them to commandeer computers. Only users of the Windows version are threatened, but there are more than 100 million users of that version. AOL's Andrew Weinstein said that the company has already developed a remedy that will be implemented within the next few days. Utah college student and hacker group founder Matt Conover advised Instant Messenger users only to accept messages from those on their "Buddy Lists." (Wall Street Journal, 3 January 2002) -- phone +61 2 6241 7659 mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au http://tony-barry.emu.id.au/people/tony/index.html From art8246@korea.com Sat Jan 5 05:32:07 2002 From: art8246@korea.com (ÀÌÇü¹Î) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:32:07 +0900 Subject: [LINK] ¼±¹è´Ô Á¦°¡ °¡ÀÔÇØ ÀÖ´Â Áõ±Ç»çÀÌÆ®ÀÔ´Ï´Ù. Message-ID: <200201050431.g054Vi712012@web.anu.edu.au> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/attachments/08ade6a5/attachment.htm From bobb@alt.net Sat Jan 5 07:45:58 2002 From: bobb@alt.net (Bob Bain) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:45:58 +1000 Subject: [LINK] Handling pop-ups - Mozilla 0.9.7 In-Reply-To: <3C359F48.7269DB32@firstpr.com.au> References: <3C359F48.7269DB32@firstpr.com.au> Message-ID: <008d3ugg8ppalih126u63c4bkd9cl3o5nq@4ax.com> On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 23:25:45 +1100, Robin Whittle wrote: >Bob Bain wrote: > >> Opera 6 has a simple selection in it's preferences. "Disallow >> pop-ups". This simple selection was enough to encourage me to pay >> $15 for an upgrade from Version 5.11. > >Mozilla 0.9.7 apparently has the ability to disable popups without >disabling the rest of Javascript: Yes. From what I can see this is exactly what Opera 6.0 does. Hit F12 for a simple menu of selections and select "Refuse Pop-up Windows". This doesn't disable Javascript as far as I know. BTW: I noticed an "interesting" book in Dymocks yesterday entitled "How to create really annoying Web Pages" (or similar). This explains how to really frustrate a user with a whole variety of techniques. Unfortunately it was $55 (beyond my budget). -------- Bob Bain Sydney Australia bobb@alt.net From Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au Sat Jan 5 06:54:34 2002 From: Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au (Roger Clarke) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:54:34 +1100 Subject: [LINK] the closing of the online commons? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.1.20020105112810.00b26100@ems.rmit.edu.au> References: <4.3.2.7.1.20020105112810.00b26100@ems.rmit.edu.au> Message-ID: Karin Geiselhart : >Please let me know if these forwards from Benton are redundant or a nuisance: > >>RISE OF INTERNET 'BORDERS' PROMPTS FEARS FOR WEB'S FUTURE >>[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Ariana Eunjung Cha] >>(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59227-2002Jan3.html) ... Strewth, they're catching up with me. I only published that in mid-99: http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/DarkAges.html and re-furbished and extended it in mid-01: http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/PGPR01.html Seriously though: - not a great deal like the above has appeared on link; and - there's been nothing at all on the theme of 'Afghans don't even qualify as collateral damage, as US media adopt frantically bellicose approach and totally overlook civilian casualties'. And I for one have no idea who Benton is (and your post didn't tell us). Happy New Year! ... Roger -- Roger Clarke http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 1472, and 6288 6916 mailto:Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Fellow Department of Computer Science The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA Information Sciences Building Room 211 Tel: +61 2 6125 3666 From OrderMusic@eudoramail.com Sat Jan 5 21:38:58 2002 From: OrderMusic@eudoramail.com (OrderMusic@eudoramail.com) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 02:38:58 -1800 Subject: [LINK] $10 off CD's , DVD's HIG Message-ID: <000059fa7557$00001680$00000795@mx1.eudoramail.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/attachments/ecaf8e65/attachment.htm From jwhit@PrimeNet.Com Sat Jan 5 23:37:59 2002 From: jwhit@PrimeNet.Com (Jan Whitaker) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 09:37:59 +1100 Subject: [LINK] http://www.onlinepolicy.org/ In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20020106092753.02077340@pop.primenet.com> At 12:09 PM 5/01/02 +1100, Tony Barry wrote: >This site, http://www.onlinepolicy.org/ which deals with filtereing may >have been mentioned before but it was new to me. Thanks for posting that site, Tony. They also have sub-sections on specific issues. Online Privacy, http://www.onlinepolicy.org/privacy.htm , lists media stories and other web sources. Other issues are online access, digital defamation, digital divide, online community, diversity of content [interesting concept! unfortunately there isn't anything in it], online commercialism, and electronic electorate. Several concepts there remind me of Linker interests. They also provide: Email List Hosting, Website Hosting, and Domain Registration Request Form Please use this form to request free email list hosting, website hosting, and domain registration for any individual or group underrepresented, underserved, or facing unfair bias, discrimination, or defamation online. Walking the talk! Jan JLWhitaker Associates Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jwhit@primenet.com -- http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm From Richard.Chirgwin@informa.com.au Sun Jan 6 08:33:38 2002 From: Richard.Chirgwin@informa.com.au (Chirgwin, Richard) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:33:38 +1000 Subject: [LINK] The web runs on love, not greed Message-ID: <9BD4AE8C2EB1D311982700508BA2498901C68452@EXCHANGE_AU> Geert, >But someone talked up the stocks, that didn't happen all by itself. >Journalists were one of 'guilty' parties, so were numerous consultants who >all profitted from the bubble. As did Kelly. The reason that Kelly is able to get away with reconstructing the past is that many journalists want to forget their own roles in promoting fraudulent investments. Should anybody ask someone like Kelly hard questions, he can probably look them in the eye and say "yeah, but you didn't complain about the IPOs when they were on the way up and you were on the share register, did you?" Richard -----Original Message----- From: geert lovink To: link Sent: 1/4/02 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [LINK] The web runs on love, not greed > THE WEB RUNS ON LOVE, NOT GREED > Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly says that rather than moping over > last year's dot-com debacle, we should rejoice over what we have -- a Web > that features more than three billion public Web pages chock full of > content, which is freely offered as a gift to the world. Sure, Kevin Kelly and others who drove the dotcoms into desastrous bankrupcies would very much like us to forget their personal role (or should I say responsability) into the New Economy craze and the following 'carnage' of tech stocks. Kelly was one of the main promoters of the 'get greedy, get their first' mentality and has been trying to deny this role for a while now. But someone talked up the stocks, that didn't happen all by itself. Journalists were one of 'guilty' parties, so were numerous consultants who all profitted from the bubble. As did Kelly. Why is there such a reluctance to reconstruct what happened in the 1994-2000 period amongst these Internet gurus? Like they always have, they wanna rush into yet another future. This time it's based on 'love'. Remember Kelly is born again Christian... Wanna save your soul? Geert From Liddy.Nevile@motile.net Sun Jan 6 14:13:45 2002 From: Liddy.Nevile@motile.net (Liddy Nevile) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 00:13:45 +1100 Subject: [LINK] WWW2002 Registration Now Available! Message-ID: Forwarded message. To: WWW2002-ANNOUNCE mailing list Aloha, and best wishes for the new year from the WWW2002 organizers at the University of Hawaii, Pacific Telecommunications Council and IW3C2 along with our conference partners, the W3C, IFIP and WOW! WWW2002 is fast approaching and we trust that you have already reserved 7-11 May to join us in Hawaii for 5 days filled with ideas, information, networking and fun. The New Year is a great time to check out the new additions to our website at: http://www2002.org * Tutorial and Workshop details are now online * Conference registration is now open * Hotel reservations are now available The WWW2002 Program Committee has announced a record number of paper submittals this year, so you can be sure the technical content of the world's premiere web conference will be better than ever. And while the refereed paper and some alternate track submittals are now closed, there are still opportunities to participate actively in WWW2002. Poster submissions are invited until 15 January at: http://www2002.org/cfp-posters.html You can propose sessions for the Vendors Track until March at: http://www2002.org/cfp-vendor.html The Practice and Experience track is open until February at: http://www2002.org/cfp-practice.html The Telehealth Track is open until 31 January at: http://www2002.org/cfp-telehealth.html And ideas for Developers Day sessions can still be sent to: devday@www2002.org We look forward to seeing you here in Hawaii! The WWW2002 Ohana (family) ************************************************************************** From geert@desk.nl Sun Jan 6 22:37:59 2002 From: geert@desk.nl (geert lovink) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:37:59 +1100 Subject: [LINK] The web runs on love, not greed References: <9BD4AE8C2EB1D311982700508BA2498901C68452@EXCHANGE_AU> Message-ID: <022e01c196fa$6cfc9ed0$97de3dca@geert> From: "Chirgwin, Richard" > The reason that Kelly is able to get away with reconstructing the past is > that many journalists want to forget their own roles in promoting fraudulent > investments. Should anybody ask someone like Kelly hard questions, he can > probably look them in the eye and say "yeah, but you didn't complain about > the IPOs when they were on the way up and you were on the share register, > did you?" Perhaps. But he could never have said that to me because he knows I was not in that business. I don't think it is an issue of complaining--back then or right now. We talking here about economic models for the Net. It's time to analyse the dotcom model, not to personalize it. The VC driven startup-IPO-sellout model is a very specific one. It is one in which financers are driving the entreprise, not the entrepreneurs and employees. It has short term thinking, is not interested in research or even profit. The fraudulent part is not a symptom or a few exceptions but goes to the heart of the whole scheme. I would love to see a general investigation into the accountancy and consultancy firms which would go beyond the individual case of HiH and One.Tel. it could look into the role of PwC, accenture and others into the dotcom schemes. With the banks and some ad agencies they have been the big profit takers of dotcom.mania, fully aware that their risk was minimal or none. They took their exuberant consultancy rates and ran. Same with banks who earned a fortunes from all these IPOs. If there is going to be a sustainable Internet economy we have to deal with the dotcom past. I am not interested to punish those who participated in the maffia practices (changing figures, not giving acurate information to the press and shareholders etc. etc.). I am more interested in the future. For instance how business could relate to the digital commons in a better way as it has done so far. Geert From brd@austarmetro.com.au Mon Jan 7 04:12:02 2002 From: brd@austarmetro.com.au (Bernard Robertson-Dunn) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:12:02 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Public money, private code Message-ID: <3C391202.D20AAD3B@austarmetro.com.au> Public money, private code The drive to license academic research for profit is stifling the spread of software that could be of universal benefit. Salon.com By Jeffrey Benner Jan. 4, 2002 http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/04/university_open_source/index.html Would the creation of the Internet be allowed to happen today? The networked society we live in is in large part a gift from the University of California to the world. In the 1980s, computer scientists at Berkeley working under contract for the Defense Department created an improved version of the Unix operating system, complete with a networking protocol called the TCP/IP stack. Available for a nominal fee, the operating system and network protocol grew popular with universities and became the standard for the military's Arpanet computer network. In 1992, Berkeley released its version of Unix and TCP/IP to the public as open-source code, and the combination quickly became the backbone of a network so vast that people started to call it, simply, "the Internet." Many would regard giving the Internet to the world as a benevolent act fitting for one of the world's great public universities. But Bill Hoskins, who is currently in charge of protecting the intellectual property produced at U.C. Berkeley, thinks it must have been a mistake. "Whoever released the code for the Internet probably didn't understand what they were doing," he says. Had his predecessors understood how huge the Internet would turn out to be, Hoskins figures, they would surely have licensed the protocols, sold the rights to a corporation and collected a royalty for the U.C. Regents on Internet usage years into the future. It is the kind of deal his department, the Office of Technology Licensing, cuts all the time. Hoskins' "privatize it" attitude has become the norm among administrators at many universities and federal labs across the country. As a result, computer-science professors and researchers who want to release their work to the public as open-source software often face an uphill battle. Some familiar with the situation say the problem is that universities and federal research labs have become more interested in making money than serving the public interest. Larry Smarr, a professor of computer science at U.C. San Diego and one of the country's top experts on supercomputing, is one of them. As former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where the original Mosaic Web browser was created, he's quite familiar with both sides of the debate. "Some universities are dead set against giving [software code] away," says Smarr. "But I don't think universities should be in the moneymaking business. They ought to be in the changing-the-world business, and open source is a great vehicle for changing the world." page 2 http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/04/university_open_source/index1.html page 3 http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/04/university_open_source/index2.html -- Aye, ’tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. -- William Congreve, Love for Love (1695) Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia brd@austarmetro.com.au From at@ah.net Mon Jan 7 04:30:20 2002 From: at@ah.net (Adam Todd) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:30:20 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Fare well all. The lights are going out. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020107142520.02fa2980@pop> I'd just like to say farewell to everyone. It's been a long hard ten years fighting with anything from Telstra, to the Government and Integral and the Ombudsman, but as of tomorrow, due to Integrals negligence in February last year and their inability to resolve the compensation claim, I won't have any electricity for my wife and our two kids (1 and 3.) They are disconnecting us for not paying the difference between the similar usage last year and what is now a two to three times higher bill this year, caused by the damage Integral did last year. You won't be able to read the web site after tomorrow, it's on my power here, but you can catch up quickly at http://anti.integral.inoz.com/ It seems finally someone has beat me. I can't back down, I have no funds to back down with, even if I wanted to pay the $600, due to the endless damaged equipment we've lost a lot of clients. So ce-la-vi as they say. Goliath has finally stomped on this little David and I have to admit, I'm not too unhappy about it. There are people a lot worse off in the world, we'll just have to learn how to live without power! Good luck to everyone stuck in the dredge of the evil Internet, good luck with the new censorships legislation, it's going to get worse yet, but I won't be around to badger politicians and others to try and force the level down a bit. It's been a fun part of my life, but that's all coming to an end. Is there where I sign it "David, not fast enough with the slingshot or the stone?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |E=MC2 (Integral Energy = Mad Consumers Squared) Been burnt by your Electricity provider? Check out Anti Integral http://anti.integral.inoz.com/ Lodge an online complaint today! http://integral.sux.com/ Phone (02) 8825 6119 From rick@praxis.com.au Mon Jan 7 05:27:20 2002 From: rick@praxis.com.au (Rick Welykochy) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:27:20 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Fare well all. The lights are going out. References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020107142520.02fa2980@pop> Message-ID: <3C3923A8.41B8D0ED@praxis.com.au> Adam Todd wrote: > I'd just like to say farewell to everyone. Sounds like a repeat of an email from Mr Todd oh, about a year ago now. > It's been a fun part of my life, but that's all coming to an end. > Is there where I sign it "David, not fast enough with the slingshot or the > stone?" And this is relevant to Link because ... ? -- _____________________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. -- Richard Dawkins From Evan.ARTHUR@dest.gov.au Mon Jan 7 06:14:56 2002 From: Evan.ARTHUR@dest.gov.au (ARTHUR,Evan) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:14:56 +1100 (EST) Subject: [LINK] auDA to auction rare domain names Message-ID: <200201070514.g075Euo08582@name-ext.deetya.gov.au> Ian Johnston wrote: Hopefully, the users of these Closed 2LDs will also meet a fair share of the cost of running auDA (NB: a possibly public policy issue). Under the current auDA regulatory regime, the cost appears to have been met mainly by com.au licence holders. Discussions are currently occurring between auDA and representatives of the education and training sector on the issue of the sector's contribution to the costs of operating .au. Proposals for contributing to these costs and how to fund any such contribution will be considered via the consultation processes outlined at http://www.aictec.edu.au/priorities/domain.htm#wg On the issue of who has met costs to date, Ian would be aware that costs have been met by a wide range of players, including some key players in the education and training sector. It would be an invidious task to determine who has been subsidising whom. Evan Arthur Assistant Secretary Innovation and Quality Group Higher Education Division Department of Education, Science and Training Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and any attached files may be confidential information, and may also be the subject of legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure or copying of this e-mail is unauthorised. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this transmission together with any attachments. From me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au Mon Jan 7 06:45:30 2002 From: me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au (Tony Barry) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:45:30 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Fare well all. The lights are going out. In-Reply-To: <3C3923A8.41B8D0ED@praxis.com.au> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020107142520.02fa2980@pop> <3C3923A8.41B8D0ED@praxis.com.au> Message-ID: Linkers Many of us think of link as a community. In relation to Adam Todd At 3:27 PM +1100 7/1/02, Rick Welykochy wrote: >And this is relevant to Link because ... ? Because, despite the irritation he caused some (if not many! :), Adam is/was part of our community, and because of that I wish him good luck and a new year which gets better than its start. We talk of networked communities but we must remember that for communities to be enriched and grow they are founded, not in uniformity, but diversity. Within physical communities, repression and restraint are available, if not always used, to ensure that the views of the elite, or even the majority prevails. Tolerance and reason are often preached but they are lost in the wind of opinion. But in a successful online community, I think that it is tolerance and reason that are the things that make the community succeed. IMHO Tony -- phone +61 2 6241 7659 mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au http://tony-barry.emu.id.au/people/tony/index.html From me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au Mon Jan 7 08:17:06 2002 From: me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au (Tony Barry) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:17:06 +1100 Subject: [LINK] IT in Australia: =?iso-8859-1?Q?What=EDs?= in store in 2002? Message-ID: Extracted item provided for information. Source:ZDNet Australia Daily Update -- Monday, January 7, 2002. - - - - - - IT in Australia: Whatís in store in 2002? As the year is waking up from its NYE celebrations, rubbing its eyes and reaching for the Berocca, the moment has come to return to that fine tradition of predicting what the next 12 months hold in store. http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?167123 -- phone +61 2 6241 7659 mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au http://tony-barry.emu.id.au/people/tony/index.html From adam@todd.inoz.com Mon Jan 7 10:29:23 2002 From: adam@todd.inoz.com (Adam Todd) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 20:29:23 +1100 Subject: [LINK] NSW Parliament Web Site - gone ... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020107202858.01a6a020@pop> Why doesn't this surprise me? While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/ The following error was encountered: · ERROR 312 -- Cannot connect to the server ** Remember: Email is for Email, FTP is for transfer of files. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam Todd http://adamtodd.ah.net Business Development, Technology, Domain Registration and Network Advisory Phone +61 2 8825 6122 - Todd Corporation http://www.todd.inoz.com Fax +61 2 8825 6199 - AHNET http://www.ah.net - AURSC http://www.aursc.ah.net Chair IRSC (http://www.irsc.ah.net) Worlds 2nd Largest Root Server Network! Baby AJ Kidnapped by NSW Government Sept 98 - See http://docs.ajtodd.com PROUD FATHER of #2 son BJ Todd born 9:33 AM 5 Mar 2000! 8lb 12 oz!!!! Feature Film producer/director http://iconoclast.inoz.com/tjps/ Telstra Reseller and Telstra Convey Member (Not an Employee of Telstra) Get the DOMAIN NAME HANDBOOK NOW http://www.domainhandbook.com From patrick@quad.net.au Mon Jan 7 21:14:45 2002 From: patrick@quad.net.au (Patrick Corliss) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 07:14:45 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Fare well all. The lights are going out. References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020107142520.02fa2980@pop><3C3923A8.41B8D0ED@praxis.com.au> Message-ID: <01a801c197b7$f3e401a0$b33efea9@hamza> Hi Tony > Within physical communities, repression and restraint are available, > if not always used, to ensure that the views of the elite, or even > the majority prevails. Tolerance and reason are often preached but > they are lost in the wind of opinion. But in a successful online > community, I think that it is tolerance and reason that are the > things that make the community succeed. When I read your post, I immediately agreed with your sentiments. In fact, my own personality oozes tolerance and compassion. I also have a love of, and respect for, diversity. However, having had my own experiences with Adam Todd's brand of zany idiocy, I sometimes think that poitical correctness needs to be balanced with a touch of practical reality. So I also welcome those who do not accept self-serving statements unquestioningly. Sorry if that sounds insensitive :-) Best regards Patrick Corliss From jwhit@PrimeNet.Com Mon Jan 7 23:08:26 2002 From: jwhit@PrimeNet.Com (Jan Whitaker) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:08:26 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Public money, private code In-Reply-To: <3C391202.D20AAD3B@austarmetro.com.au> Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20020108085023.020b0ec0@pop.primenet.com> At 02:12 PM 7/01/02 +1100, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >Hoskins' "privatize it" attitude has become the norm among administrators >at many universities and federal labs across the country. As a result, >computer-science professors and researchers who want to release their work >to the public as open-source software often face an uphill battle. This is something that has been a worry for awhile and a difference I think I've observed in Australia from the old US approach. If I recall correctly, in the 'old' days, the US government funded lots of research grants and contracts, companies, too [grants being more to support researcher or developer initiated projects, hence capitalising on the creativity of the individual/team; contracts being specified by the funding agency itself to meet a specific need identified by the funder]. The ownership of the outcome was generally held to be public property as it was funded by public money. Public money, i.e. tax dollars, entitled the public to access the outcome for further use without much more than the additional cost of access, e.g. photocopying, printing, etc. Therefore, when we developed something funded in our institution, either by external federal money or internal budget funds, most of that was open for free distribution, particularly within our state. We had a very generous, sharing position, rather than a revenue raising position, with maybe marginal development cost recovery. In the late 1980s/90s, when the wall came down, the Eastern Block became less of a threat, and George Bush the First coined the phrase 'new world order', even the US Defence Department was encouraged to shift military technology developments into the general community through the Office of Technology Transfer. I remember sitting in a briefing where the DoD/OTT reps came and told us that we should get involved in this, that there were many new tools being released that may be of use to education, particularly in communications, some of their training stuff, etc. They were tasked to transfer to 'peaceful' applications what had been developed for military application. Not sure where that stands now. This shift to commercially funded research where the funding agency is NOT public, ie. government, has seemed to spill over into ALL non-internal budget activity with a view to ownership rather than scholarship, commercialisation over education and public good. And the situations where there is a mix of funding from both commercial and public sources makes it even more difficult to sort out - what is the public part of the exercise? If there are funds generated, should a share go back to public projects, not necessarily within the same developing organisation, e.g. into general funds for roads, health, education, etc? Lots more questions. I think the public, ie. taxpayer, has been dudded by a corporate welfare policy in many conservative governments where the creative groups, e.g. uni research programs, have been held to ransom to get any funding for their work. And as the article points out, what would have happened with the Internet if this current policy had been in place? Bill Gates would be much richer? There would be many more Bill Gates' subsidised by the public coffers? How do we influence a change back to commonwealth in this country - the Deakin view in a modern age? Jan JLWhitaker Associates Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jwhit@primenet.com -- http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm From jwhit@PrimeNet.Com Tue Jan 8 00:11:28 2002 From: jwhit@PrimeNet.Com (Jan Whitaker) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:11:28 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Britain's Internet election Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20020108101104.020a4da0@pop.primenet.com> Britain gears up for Internet elections Britain will be the world's first country to use the Internet for voting as part of radical changes to the political system, according to Robin Cook, the leader of the Commons. FULL REPORT http://theage.com.au/news/world/2002/01/08/FFXF39X45WC.html JLWhitaker Associates Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jwhit@primenet.com -- http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm From brd@austarmetro.com.au Tue Jan 8 00:05:43 2002 From: brd@austarmetro.com.au (Bernard Robertson-Dunn) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:05:43 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Public money, private code References: <5.0.2.1.0.20020108085023.020b0ec0@pop.primenet.com> Message-ID: <3C3A29C7.38DF0783@austarmetro.com.au> There is an irony here in that one of the major issues that led to the American colonies deciding that they wanted to be independent of Britain was the introdution of the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act of January 1765 was a tax imposed on all kinds of paper in use, like various kinds of official documents used in court, harbors, land transactions, et cetera. The Act prescribed these documents had to be printed on paper carrying an official stamp [1]. This was seen as a tax on knowledge and information [2]. It's a pity that Americans don't seem to appreciate irony. [1] http://www.stjohnsprep.org/htdocs/sjp_tec/projects/internet/sact.htm [2] http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/talkingtotheworld.htm -- England and America are two countries divided by a common language -- George Bernard Shaw (supposedly) Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia brd@austarmetro.com.au From karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au Tue Jan 8 00:23:22 2002 From: karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au (Karin Geiselhart) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:23:22 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Fwd: Communications-related Headlines for 1/7/02 Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.1.20020108102204.00b27c60@ems.rmit.edu.au> this time I've kept the info about Benton: >Communications-related Headlines is a free daily online news service >provided by the Benton Foundation. It will keep you up to date on >important industry developments, policy issues, and other pertinent >communications-related news events. This service is available online >at (www.benton.org/News/). >-------------------------------------------------------------- > >COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for January 7, 2002 > >INDUSTRY > The Battle of the Boxes: PC vs. TV (NYT) > No Dot-Com IPOs Last Year - Report (Washtech) > >DIGITAL DIVIDE > Computers for the People in Brazil (NYT) > > >INDUSTRY > >THE BATTLE OF THE BOXES: PC VS. TV >Issue: Technology, Consumer Electronics >This week marks the opening of two of the most anticipated technology >expositions: the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and the Macworld >exhibition in San Francisco. The two events, in many ways, each highlight >contrasting visions of the future of consumer media. At the CES expo in Las >Vegas, WebTV co-founder Steve Perlman will debut his latest venture, the >Moxi Digital set-top box. This device is designed to be a comprehensive >wireless media server for the home that will offer high-speed Internet >access and play MP3 files, DVDs and CDs. In contrast, Macworld will serve as >the high-tech pulpit for Steve Jobs, Apple's founder and recently returned >CEO. Jobs sees consumer home entertainment devices converging around Apple's >Macintosh computers. Both Perlman and Jobs will be speaking before their >respective exhibitions later today, with Jobs expected to make a major >announcement regarding Apple's product line. Speculation about the new >product has run wild as of late, with guesses ranging from flat-panel iMac >computers to a so-called iWalk handheld computer. >[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: John Markoff] >(http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/07/technology/ebusiness/07GADG.html) >(Requires Registration) >-------------------------------------------------------------- >(c)Benton Foundation 2002. 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Headlines are compiled by Rachel Anderson (rachel@benton.org) >and Andy Carvin (andy@benton.org) -- we welcome your comments. > >The Benton Foundation works to realize the social benefits made >possible by the public interest use of communications. Bridging the worlds >of philanthropy, public policy, and community action, Benton seeks to shape >the emerging communications environment and to demonstrate the value of >communications for solving social problems. > >Other projects at Benton include: >Connect for Kids (www.connectforkids.org) >Digital Divide Network (www.digitaldividenetwork.org) >Oneworld US (www.oneworld.net/us) >Open Studio: The Arts Online (www.openstudio.org) >Sound Partners for Community Health (www.soundpartners.org) >To subscribe to other free Benton Foundation newsletters, visit: >(http://www.benton.org/Resources) Dr. Karin Geiselhart School of Business Information Technology RMIT University Melbourne ph 03 9925 1352 fax 03 9925 5482 http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/kgeiselhart From bpa@iss.net.au Tue Jan 8 00:53:25 2002 From: bpa@iss.net.au (Brenda Aynsley) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:23:25 +1030 Subject: [LINK] Britain's Internet election References: <5.0.2.1.0.20020108101104.020a4da0@pop.primenet.com> Message-ID: <3C3A34F5.46DFF8D7@iss.net.au> Jan Whitaker wrote: > Britain gears up for Internet elections > Britain will be the world's first country to use the Internet for voting as am I just a complete cynic but my total reaction to this is "Harrumph we'll see - hype! hype! hype!" I'm starting to feel more and more like scrooge at christmas when asked to consider the uses of the Internet. cheers brenda -- ozbusinesspartners : helping you do better business -- Multimedia Production : Web Design and Implementation Training Development and Delivery : Technical Writing Project Management : Business Development Business Analysis : Business Communication via the 'Net -- Brenda Aynsley || http://www.ozbusinesspartners.com/ BA, DipSocSci(sociology), DipAppSci(computing), MACS, PCP Mobile:+61 (0) 412 662 988 From dlochrin@dot.net.au Tue Jan 8 00:51:59 2002 From: dlochrin@dot.net.au (David Lochrin) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:51:59 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Fare well all. The lights are going out. In-Reply-To: References: <3C3923A8.41B8D0ED@praxis.com.au> <5.1.0.14.0.20020107142520.02fa2980@pop> <3C3923A8.41B8D0ED@praxis.com.au> Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020108105159.007a4100@mail.dot.net.au> Hear, Hear!! David At 04:45 PM 07-01-2002 +1100, Tony Barry wrote: >Linkers > >Many of us think of link as a community. > >In relation to Adam Todd At 3:27 PM +1100 7/1/02, Rick Welykochy wrote: >>And this is relevant to Link because ... ? > >Because, despite the irritation he caused some (if not many! :), Adam >is/was part of our community, and because of that I wish him good >luck and a new year which gets better than its start. > >We talk of networked communities but we must remember that for >communities to be enriched and grow they are founded, not in >uniformity, but diversity. > >Within physical communities, repression and restraint are available, >if not always used, to ensure that the views of the elite, or even >the majority prevails. Tolerance and reason are often preached but >they are lost in the wind of opinion. But in a successful online >community, I think that it is tolerance and reason that are the >things that make the community succeed. > >IMHO > >Tony >-- >phone +61 2 6241 7659 >mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au >http://tony-barry.emu.id.au/people/tony/index.html > ================================================= David Lochrin Networked Systems Consultancy Pty. Limited ABN 20 074 899 853 +61 2 9363 1094 (telephone) 9363 9622 (FAX) http://www.dot.net.au/~dlochrin PGP public key available by mail to: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net subject: GET David Lochrin ================================================= From mischief@optushome.com.au Tue Jan 8 00:05:45 2002 From: mischief@optushome.com.au (Ralph Wallis) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:05:45 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Fare well all. The lights are going out. In-Reply-To: ; from me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:45:30PM +1100 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020107142520.02fa2980@pop> <3C3923A8.41B8D0ED@praxis.com.au> Message-ID: <20020108100545.A8027@localhost> On Monday, 07 Jan 2002 at 16:45, Tony Barry wrote: > In relation to Adam Todd At 3:27 PM +1100 7/1/02, Rick Welykochy wrote: > >And this is relevant to Link because ... ? > > Because, despite the irritation he caused some (if not many! :), Adam > is/was part of our community, and because of that I wish him good > luck and a new year which gets better than its start. Adam attracts a lot of cynicism. He is a character. He is melodramatic. Between bushfires and wind damage, I have had 3 power outages of a day each in the last month. I didn't present them as grist for the link, and there was no discussion of whether I was missed, reviled, or ignored. Obviously, I made it back. and so will Adam. When he does, he will be greeted by some, teased by others, and ignored by a few. But he will be welcome. (Even Rick's comment quoted above invites continued discussion by Adam.) From karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au Tue Jan 8 01:23:42 2002 From: karin.geiselhart@rmit.edu.au (Karin Geiselhart) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 11:23:42 +1100 Subject: Fwd: [LINK] UK Leader of Commons Robin Cook on E-Democracy/Online Voting Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.1.20020108112036.00b39ae0@ems.rmit.edu.au> I hesitated to forward this, but since it's 'on topic', here's more on the UK online voting, from Steven Clift's democracy list: By the way, Steve travels the world looking at email lists and e-democracy initiatives, and he said that LINK is the best mailing list he knows about internet and related issues. >Subject: [DW] UK Leader of Commons Robin Cook on E-Democracy/Online Voting >To: do-wire@tc.umn.edu > >*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** > >Big interview in the Guardian today: >http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,628776,00.html > >Cook plans to make UK first to vote on internet > >Jackie Ashley >Monday January 7, 2002 >The Guardian > >Britain will become the first country in the world to use the >internet for voting, as part of radical changes to the political >system, Robin Cook, the leader of the Commons, has told the Guardian. > >In an interview, Mr Cook is scathing about the culture of parliament, >describing its procedures as antique, ludicrous, Dickensian and as >ritualised as 18th-century duelling. > >Mr Cook intends to "enfranchise" those who want to vote online as a >way of drawing back under-40s to the democratic process. Pilot >schemes for local elections begin in the spring, with a chance that >voting by internet could be in place for the next general election, >though Mr Cook admits that that is a "tough call". > >Among his other plans is the use of the web for daily feedback to >parliament on policy choices before MPs. He also confirms his >determination to press ahead with increased powers and greater >independence for select committees, despite the worries of Whitehall >officials, the Speaker, Michael Martin, and some fellow cabinet >ministers. > >- end clip - > > >Follow-up: >http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/story/0,9061,629072,00.html > >3pm update >Reformers sceptical of online voting > >Matthew Tempest, political correspondent >Monday January 7, 2002 > >Immediate concern was cast today over plans by the leader of the >Commons, Robin Cook, to bring in voting on the internet in time for >the next election. >... > >BBC coverage: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/ >newsid_1746000/1746902.stm (paste on one line) > >E-voting: A load of old ballots? > >The UK should be the first country to hold its general elections >online, says Robin Cook, leader of the Commons. But BBC News Online's >technology correspondent Mark Ward says it is not going to be easy. >... >^ ^ ^ ^ >Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net >Minneapolis - - - E: clift@publicus.net >Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 >USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 > > >*** Please send submissions to: DO-WIRE@TC.UMN.EDU *** >*** To subscribe, e-mail: listserv@tc.umn.edu *** >*** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** >*** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** > >*** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** >*** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. *** Dr. Karin Geiselhart School of Business Information Technology RMIT University Melbourne ph 03 9925 1352 fax 03 9925 5482 http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/kgeiselhart From Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au Tue Jan 8 01:24:44 2002 From: Roger.Clarke@xamax.com.au (Roger Clarke) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:24:44 +1100 Subject: [LINK] Public money, private code In-Reply-To: <3C3A29C7.38DF0783@austarmetro.com.au> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20020108085023.020b0ec0@pop.primenet.com> <3C3A29C7.38DF0783@austarmetro.com.au> Message-ID: >England and America are two countries divided by a common language >-- George Bernard Shaw (supposedly) I haven't found anywhere that's been game to suggest where and when he said it; although I've found a couple that assert that it is *not* in his published writings. And at: http://ww