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From: "J. Machado" <jmachado@omni.voicenet.com>
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To: "Bits N Bytes Distribution List" <bits-n-bytes@acad1.dana.edu>
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Subject: Bits and Bytes Online Edition v3 #2
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 23:28:59 +0000
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-------------- Enclosure number 1 ----------------
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"Remember: There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace." - Dave Barry
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BBB III TTT SSS BBB Y Y TTT EEE SSS ONLINE EDITION:
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B B I T S B B Y Y T E S =THE ELECTRONIC
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BBB I T SSS AND BBB YYY T EEE SSS =NEWSLETTER FOR
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B B I T S B B Y T E S =INFORMATION
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BBB III T SSS BBB Y T EEE SSS =HUNTER-GATHERERS
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Volume 3, Number 2 (January 26, 1995)
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PARITY BITS : =
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================: Boom Times in Cyberspace; =
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: The Truth About Version Numbers; =
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: Ten Ways to Rule the World Through Cyberspace; =
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: Stepping Back From Divisiveness; =
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: Empire of the Useless II =
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ACCESS : =
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================: Access to Acronyms; The Internet by Email; =
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: Internet Lecture Series at the Smithsonian =
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: =
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KULTCHER KORNER : =
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================: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees =
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: =
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B&B BOOKSHELF : =
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================: Computer-Related Risks; =
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: Digital Woes: Why We Should Not Depend on Software =
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"Due to the austere level of funding, the light at the end of the
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tunnel will be extinguished until further notice."
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Unattributed, from the QUOTATIONS Listserver
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BOOM TIMES IN CYBERSPACE (Jay Machado)
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We open this edition of Bits and Bytes with some excerpts from Win
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Treese's Internet Index #5. Inspired by "Harper's Index"*, the
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statistics show that in 1994 the net continued its' amazing growth,
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albeit at a slightly slower pace than in 1993. Gopher traffic, for
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instance, merely quadrupled in 1994. An abundance of interesting
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sociological phenomena will no doubt occur as a 25-year old Internet
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struggles to integrate the latest wave of immigrants to cyberspace,
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most of whom are blissfully unaware of the net's longstanding
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traditions and social mores. These culture clashes already show signs
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of intensifying as the virtual battle lines are drawn between a
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longstanding net culture based on the free flow of information and
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the growing hordes of net entrepreneurs, who are working on various
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methods of extracting a profit out of the information $uperhighway.
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Other clashes will occur as the freewheeling, decentralized tendencies
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of the net meet Mr. and Mrs. America, who'd like to keep things clean
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and wholesome for the kiddies. Already one company is offering net
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feeds with all the nasty parts excised. I was bitten when I posted the
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Microsoft/Catholic church PARODY at work and raised the ire of a few
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rabid Catholics. It didn't even occur to me that it would offend, as
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used as I am to seeing far worse in my wanderings through the net.
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These are exactly the kind of issues B&B is interested in exploring in
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future editions, located as they are at the intersection of technology
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and culture.
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Growth of Gopher traffic in 1993: 1076%
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Growth of Gopher traffic in 1994: 197%
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Growth of WWW traffic in 1993: 443,931%
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Growth of WWW traffic in 1994: 1,713%
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Number of countries on the Internet in 1993: 60
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Number of countries on the Internet in 1994: 81
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Number of attendees at Internet World, January, 1992: 272
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Number of attendees at Internet World, December, 1994: 10,000 +
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Percentage increase in weight of the 2nd edition
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of the Canadian Internet Handbook: 280
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Number of Internet messages causing Microsoft to issue a
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press release denying them: 1
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*"Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of Harper's Magazine
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Foundation. The Internet Index is Copyright 1994 by Win Treese. Send
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updates or interesting statistics to treese@OpenMarket.com. A copy of
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the Index annotated with sources can be found at:
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http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html
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To subscribe to future issues of the Internet Index, send a message
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saying "subscribe internet-index" in the body to
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internet-index-request@OpenMarket.com.
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"Maybe you should telephone the Internet and talk to their tech
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support people."
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(Reply from an AOL tech-support rep speaking to a customer complaining
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about e-mail that failed to go through.) Good dig! Good service too.
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(SOURCE: Internet World, February 1995, p. 18)
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TEN WAYS TO RULE THE WORLD THROUGH CYBERSPACE (Keith Bostic)
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1. Killer Client
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Create an amazing monolithic web client. Get everyone hooked
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and then augment the standard until you've locked out your
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competition.
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2. Killer Standards
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The HTTP standards are way too simple now! Any creative little
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company can get in on the action. Start making those standards
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FANTASTICALLY complex so just a few big companies can play. An
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MIT consortium could accomplish this without even meaning to.
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3. Killer Fonts
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Start a trendy magazine with hard-to-read fonts. Take smart drugs.
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Plan an on-line service of your own while labeling all potential
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competitors "obsolete" or "tired".
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4. Killer Shopping Mall
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Start an on-line service for people to buy things. Keep an eye on
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people's email to make sure everyone is shopping and NOT
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complaining to each other about crummy products.
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5. Killer Content
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If you happen to own the rights to serious amounts of popular Mass
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Culture (violent action movies, cute cartoon icons, etc), try to
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leverage that into deals with technology companies.
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6. Killer Set-Top Box
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If you happen to own a telephone or TV cable company, just design
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a set-top box so you can pump mindless drivel into people's homes.
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Home Shopping and Top-10 Movies On Demand would make you LOTS of
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money. Give the consumer enough upstream bandwidth so they can
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press the "buy" button on their remote, but not enough to actually
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get on-line and (god forbid!) communicate with each other.
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7. Killer Language
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Invent a little language and call it a "scripting" language or a
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"mark-up" language, so people will overlook the fact that its'
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syntax sucks or it has dynamic scoping. Try to insinuate it into
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the HTTP or MIME standards.
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8. Killer Buzzword
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Pick some industrial graphics standard and rename it as something
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sexy like "Cyber Space Modeling Language". Hope no one notices
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that CAD graphics modeling languages have little or nothing to do
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with interactive presence.
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9. Killer Magna Carta
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If you happen to be a collection of powerful communications
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corporations who are afraid the national net will be opened up as
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a common carrier, issue a manifesto in Wired Magazine ranting
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about how the government should stay out of Cyberspace. Talk about
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freedom and progress and hope no one notices that you just want to
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pump Home Shopping and Video Games into the home.
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10. Killer Government
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If you happen to be the US government, then you ALREADY rule the
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world! Just make sure you can eavesdrop on cyberspace and crush
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anything that looks like it's getting too big.
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(SOURCE: Dan Wallach forwarded it to Phil Agre, who sent it to me as
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part of his admirable Red Rock Eater News Service, of which more
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later. I'm sending it to you! Who're you going to send it to?)
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ATA (ACCESS TO ACRONYMS)
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The latest revision of BABEL: A GLOSSARY OF COMPUTER ORIENTED
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ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS, dated January 1995, is now available for
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your technical edification. Babel is an alphabetical listing of about
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3000 terms like ATDT, CASE, SPARC, NNTP, and WYSIWYG (Attention Dial
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Tone, Computer Aided Software Engineering, Scalable Processor
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Architecture, Network News Transfer Protocol, and What You See Is What
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You Get, respectively). Babel is updated regularly, and is quite
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useful to have on your hard drive. Here's how to get a copy:
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FTP: ftp.temple.edu
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At Login : anonymous
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At Password: your email address
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cd /pub/info/help-net
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get babel95a.txt
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(then remember to quit)
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GOPHER: gopher.temple.edu
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From Main Menu select:
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Computer Resources and Information
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Internet & Bitnet Information (Help-Net)
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Glossary of......(BABEL95A.TXT)
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LISTSERV: Send e-mail to:
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listserv@vm.temple.edu (for Internet users)
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listserv@templevm (for Bitnet users)
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Subject line should be left blank.
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In body of message put this command:
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GET BABEL95A TXT HELP-NET
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Also try looking for it on your local BBS, where it can often be
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found as BABEL95A.ZIP. Soon you too will be spouting off that
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high-tech mumbo-jumbo with the best of them.
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(NOT SO) STUPID EMAIL TRICKS: ACCESSING THE INTERNET BY EMAIL
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Let kindly Doctor Bob be your guide to accessing the wonders of the
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Internet via email. Bits and Bytes just recently came across the latest
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edition of this wonderful FREE guide. We'll let Dr. Bob himself take
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it from here:
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"If your only access to the Internet is via e-mail, you don't have to
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miss out on all the fun! Maybe you've heard of FTP, Gopher, Archie,
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Veronica, Finger, Whois, WAIS, World-Wide Web, and Usenet but thought
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they were out of your reach because your online service does not
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provide those tools. Not so! And even if you do have full Internet
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access, using e-mail servers can save you time and money."
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"This special report will show you how to retrieve files from FTP
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sites, explore the Internet via Gopher, search for information with
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Archie, Veronica, or WAIS, tap into the World-Wide Web, and even
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access Usenet newsgroups using E-MAIL AS YOUR ONLY TOOL."
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"If you can send a note to an Internet address, you're in the game!
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This is great news for users of online services where there is partial
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or no direct Internet access."
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Yes, Indeed. The guide contains detailed instructions for performing
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these amazing feats. So if you are currently limited to email-only
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access to the net, I would urge you to do two things: 1) Pick up
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Doctor Bob's Guide to Accessing The Internet By E-Mail. Instructions
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for getting it are listed below. You will be amazed at just how much
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you can do. 2) Think about upgrading your service. SLIP/PPP hookups,
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which give you access to the full range of Internet services like FTP
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and World Wide Web can often be had for $20-30 bucks a month. Look
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beyond AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve/Delphi/Genie and patronize a local
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access provider. The net is rapidly becoming commercialized -- Master-
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Card International and Netscape Communications have just announced
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that they are developing a secure interface for on-line transactions
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on the net. Let's not let things get too centralized too fast.
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Remember how it was when there was only one phone company? The net's
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great strength is in the diversity of people and resources on it. It's
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not as difficult to navigate as you might suppose, and besides,
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finding your way around can be part of the adventure.
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But I digress... here's how to get the latest version of the guide:
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This document is now available from several automated mail servers.
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To get the latest edition, send e-mail to one of the addresses below.
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To: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (for US/Canada/etc.)
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Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
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GET INTERNET BY-EMAIL NETTRAIN F=MAIL
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To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu (for Eastern US)
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Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
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send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
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To: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk (for UK/Europe/etc.)
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Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note:
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send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt
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You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites:
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Site: ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
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get NETTRAIN/INTERNET.BY-EMAIL
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Site: rtfm.mit.edu
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get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
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Site: mailbase.ac.uk
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get pub/lists/lis-iis/files/e-access-inet.txt
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THE TRUTH ABOUT VERSION NUMBERS (Mark Thorson)
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How should a revision level be interpreted? Here's a quick guide for
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anyone short of a clue:
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0.1 WE GOT A REALLY GREAT NEW WAY TO DO THINGS !!!
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<0.9 Not ready for prime time.
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0.9 We think it works, but we won't bet our lives on it.
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1.0 Management is on our case; seems like a low risk.
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1.01 Okay, we knew about that. All known bugs are fixed.
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1.02 Fixes bugs you won't see in 27,000 years, i.e. more
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than three times the age of the universe.
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1.03 Fixes bugs in the bug fixes.
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1.04 All right, this REALLY fixes all known bugs.
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1.05 Fixes bugs introduced in rev 1.04.
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1.1 A new crew hired to write documentation.
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1.11 From now on, no comma after "i.e." or "e.g.".
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1.2 Somebody actually changed a functional feature.
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2.0 New crew hired to write software. Old crew blamed for bugs.
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2.01 New crew sending out resumes to placement agencies.
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3.0 Re-write the software in another language, go back ten squares.
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... return to line 0.1
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Mark Thorson (eee@netcom.com)
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STEPPING BACK FROM DIVISIVENESS (Teresa Heinz)
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Today, we seem to dread politics as a ghoulish thing. We have come to
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envision Washington as a cave of horrors where zombie-like politicians,
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mummified by the insular Washington air and chained to demonic special
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interests, clank their insidious way down Pennsylvania Avenue,
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perpetually sinking their teeth into our wallets and draining from our
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veins the lifeblood of democracy.
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Even politicians and would-be politicians describe each other as
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nothing short of a monstrous criminal class.
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Little wonder that fewer than a third of the American people trust
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government to do what's right even a majority of the time. ...
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But we must call on our politicians, on our leaders of all kinds,
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to step back from the divisiveness, to forgo the opportunism, to stop
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trying to profit from our anxiety and our differences.
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As a country, we must focus anew on our similarities, on the shared
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hopes and dreams that made us what we are.
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The road back to hope, to a new sense of place is not through the
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hateful swamp where the ideologues dwell; it is through the common
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spaces of our dreams.
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(SOURCE: Teresa Heinz, Oct. 27 1994 speech, reprinted in the
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Philadelphia Inquirer)
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ON THE OTHER HAND...
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THE EMPIRE OF THE USELESS II (Critical Art Ensemble)
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"Progress in the 20th century has primarily consisted of bourgeois
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culture looking for a new master. In the time of bourgeois revolution,
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the aristocracy was destroyed, as was the church with its spiritual
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hierarchies, but the primordial desire to serve the useless has never
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been affected. The 'primitive' ritual of offering goods to an angry
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or potentially angry God in order to appease it into a state of
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neutrality continues to replay itself in complex capitalist economy.
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All things must be subordinated to neutrality - to uselessness. One
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major difference between the age of the virtual and more primitive
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times is that the contemporary idols have no metaphysical referent.
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The ones that have been constructed are not the mediating points
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between person and spirit, or life and afterlife; rather, they are
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end-points, empty signs. To this paper master, sacrifice has no
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limit. The stairs of the temple flow with blood every day. How
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fitting for progress to come to this end in the empire of the
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useless."
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[The Critical Art Ensemble(CAE) is a collective of six artists of
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different specializations committed to the production of a new genre
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art that explores the intersections among critical theory, art, and
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technology.]
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KULTCHER KORNER
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==> ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. Congratulations to this year's
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inductees: the Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, Janis Joplin, Led
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Zeppelin, Martha and the Vandellas, Neil Young, Frank Zappa,
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Billboard publisher Paul Ackerman, and the Orioles.
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"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
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human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
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-- Mitch Ratliffe
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Bits and Bytes Bookshelf
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Computer Related Risks - by Peter G. Neumann [ACM Press/Addison-Wesley
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1995. ISBN 0-201-55805-X. 368 pp. $24.50]
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Digital Woes (Why We Should Not Depend on Software) - by Lauren Ruth
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Weiner [Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-40796-5. 252 pp. $14]
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Every day, modern society becomes more and more dependant on computers
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to get us through our day. There are tiny microprocessors embedded in
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our toasters and microwave ovens, and the jets flying overhead are
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dependant on computer guidance to arrive safely at their destinations.
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Many of us eschew traditional forms of currency for the ease of use
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and accountability of digital cash in the form of credit/debit bank
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cards and other electronic payment schemes. Indeed, it would be hard
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for anyone to get through a day without some form of interaction with
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digital technology. Most of us don't give this fact a second thought;
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we don't stop and think about what would happen if there was a
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breakdown in the system.
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Peter G. Neumann is the moderator of one of the most fascinating (and
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popular) online newsgroups, the Forum on Risks to the Public in the
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Use of Computers and Related Systems, commonly referred to as the
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RISKS Forum (see the ACCESS section). The various ongoing threads in
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the RISKS forum have been skilfully classified and clarified in the
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book _Computer Related Risks_. This is one heckuva book. I couldn't
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put it down. I'm here to tell you, Stephen King's got nothing on this
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book in terms of sheer terror! I was wide-eyed with disbelief when I
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learned that during one 2-month period (April-May) in 1986 (the same
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year of the Challenger disaster), NASA lost not one, not two, but
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THREE separate satellites! All of them were destroyed in mid-air after
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they were launched. NASA's problems are well-documented elsewhere, and
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fortunately there was no loss of life in any of these incidents, but
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we're not always going to be so lucky.
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Neumann places problems into several major categories: reliability and
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safety problems, security vulnerabilities, security and integrity
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problems, and threats to privacy and well-being. Not all problems
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discussed are life-threatening, some are merely annoying, like if
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you've ever been refused service or had to do the bureaucratic
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shuffle because "that's not what the computer says". Other topics
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covered include financial fraud by computer, annoyances in life,
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death and taxes, hackers and crackers, and a great chapter on spoofs
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and pranks.
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More importantly, the book analyzes the underlying causes of
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breakdowns in the system and offers various frameworks for analyzing
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such problems and minimizing the chances of their occurring again.
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Note that I said minimize, not eliminate the risk. As the book makes
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clear, computer systems, however well designed, operate in the
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physical world, and a variety of mishaps can befall them. Assuming the
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system is well-designed (not always a safe assumption), any number of
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things can go wrong, from human error, mechanical failure, and natural
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catastrophe to such imponderables as the dreaded NASDAQ squirrel, who
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chewed through some wires and brought the stock market to its' knees.
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That we do relatively little thinking about such matters says much
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about humanity, about our technological myopia, and about our
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continuing inability to look down the road at the consequences of our
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actions. That's how we get nuclear power plants built near earthquake
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fault lines and other blatantly boneheaded "solutions" to the problems
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of modern life. _Computer Related Risks_ is written to be accessible
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by a wide range of people, and should be read by sytems designers,
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software engineers, savvy managerial types, and interested laymen who
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would like to make informed decisions about the technologies they
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choose to employ in their lives.
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---
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In a similar vein, Lauren Ruth Weiner's _Digital Woes_ focuses on the
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software component of the technological equation. It's no surprise to
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those of us who write programs for a living that software is
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inherently unreliable, written, designed and maintained as it is by
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human beings. The Pentium error making headlines nowadays is a case
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in point: it was a result of simple human error -- in this case a few
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transposed numbers incorrectly entered into a hardcoded table on the chip.
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Computer code is tricky stuff -- something as small as a misplaced
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period can change the flow of your program and lead to unforeseen
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results. Writing code is still more of an art than a science. Although
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progress in this area is being made, and general principles of good
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coding practice have been identified, these principles are not always
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followed to the letter. Coding "on the fly", in response to day to day
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processing requirements, with no regard for future maintainability or
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overall program design, is not all that unusual in many IS shops.
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In the shop where I work, the design process involves countless
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meetings, committees and cross-functional working groups working in
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politically-charged environments, often at cross purposes with common
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sense, to produce preliminary designs that are in any case not always
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followed as rigorously as they could be. (Hi, guys!) Even when the
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design is good, subtle assumptions in the resulting software can
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become errors years down the road, when technologies change, as they
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are wont to do, or processing requirements change. This can bring out
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undiscovered bugs (sometimes called undocumented features) in a
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program. Stuff happens.
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Ms. Weiner's book is a higly readable introduction to the problems,
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both technological and sociological, inherent in software design. It
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contains lots of anecdotes that will enlighten even as they bring a
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chuckle of recognition to many a programmer or project manager. When
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you finish reading Digital Woes, you'll have a greater appreciation
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for the amount of effort that's involved in designing and constructing
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good software. Given how much can go wrong, you will marvel at how
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much good software there is to be had out there. Interested laymen
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will find the book an entertaining overview, and those wishing to
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delve deeper will discover a wealth of resources in the book's
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extensive footnotes and bibliography.
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ACCESS: THE RISKS FORUM
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The RISKS forum is available in a variety of forms on the net. On
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Usenet, look for the comp.risks newsgroup. To receive the digest form
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via email, send a help message to: risks-request@csl.sri.com.
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An anonymous FTP archive of back issues of the digest can be found at:
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crvax.sri.com in the /risks subdirectory. In print, highlights from
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the RISKS forum appear in quarterly issues of the ACM SIGSOFT
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publication _Software Engineering Notes, available from the
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Association for Computing Machinery, 1515 Broadway, NYC, NY 10036. A
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monthly version, _Inside Risks_, can be found in _Communications of
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the ACM_.
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INTERNET LECTURES AT THE SMITHSONIAN (Press Release)
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The Smithsonian is proud to present "Interacting with the Internet:
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Its Impact on Society", an eight part lecture series as part of its
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1995 Winter/Spring "Campus on the Mall" program. Please excuse me if
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you've seen this elsewhere, but the lineup for these lectures is
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quite impressive.
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The explosive growth of the Internet and much more yet-to-be-
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realized potential raise important questions for which there are no
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easy answers. In this extraordinary lecture series, for both
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potential and actual users, leading experts on the forefront of
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cyberspace address the most timely and important issues facing the
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Internet today.
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Jan 24 - The State of The Internet
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Exactly what is the Internet and why was it create? How is it enabling
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30 million people to communicate literally around the globe? What is
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the Internet's future? Vint Cerf, President, The Internet Society and
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Senior Vice President, MCI, Reston, VA
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Jan 31 - Daily Life on the Internet
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Discover the how's and what's of the rules, language, and protocols
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(called "netiquette") used by the thousands who have created "virtual"
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neighborhoods where people work and sometime play. Ester Dyson,
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Editor, Release 1.0, New York, NY.
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Feb 7 - The Internet as a Freedom Forum
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The Internet has become a critical tool in connecting countries all
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over the world. At times it is some countries' only link to the
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outside world. Ferooq Hussain, principal investigator, National
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Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Jack Hidary, director,
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EarthWeb Ltd., Rockville, MD.
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Feb 14 - Inter-Relating on the Internet
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How do men and women differ in their approach to using computers
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and the Internet? Vic Sussman and Amy Bernstein, reporters, US
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World and News Report.
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Feb 21 - The Marketplace in Cyberspace
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Most cybernauts agree that the next major area of significant growth
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will be buying and selling products on the Internet. Mary Cronin,
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Author of Doing Business on the Internet and university librarian,
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Boston College, MA
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Feb 28 - The Great Human Potential in Cyberspace
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The Net has opened new opportunities in human communication never
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before seen or known. Tremendous potential exists for the Internet
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to be a unifying force in every part of the globe. Jean Houston,
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director, Foundation for Mind Research, Pomona, NY.
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Mar 7 The Role of the Government in the Internet
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What role, if any, should government play in the everyday life of
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the Internet? Thomas Kalil, advisor to Vice President Gore,
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National Economic Advisory Council, Washington; Jerry Berman,
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executive director; Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington.
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Mar 14 Translating the Real World to Cyberspace
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Are E-mail contracts legally binding? Is a computer generated
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signature authentic? Sticky legal issues Internet users wouldn't
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be aware of. Brook Meeks, reporter, Interactive Week, Washington.
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Shari Steele, cyber-attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation,
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Washington.
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This eight part series will be presented every Tues Evening at 6:00
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pm. Each session will last approximately 90 minutes. The price
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for the full series is $100 for Smithsonian members and $140 for
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non-members.
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For tickets and location information call 202-357-3030.
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Tell the operator that you're interested in Series Code 330-702.
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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to
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have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no
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human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." Carl Sagan
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