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RAIN 6/29: Reimagining the desktop computer, Tom Dooley, Google



There are 23 stories in this posting.

Federal Computer Week 6/25/01
Council: Accessibility a civil right
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0625/news-508bx1-06-25-01.asp

by William Matthews
Access to information and information technology has become so important it
should be considered a civil right, but for many Americans - especially
those with disabilities - access remains a right denied, a council advising
President Bush said last week.
In a report to the president June 21, the National Council on Disability
urged Bush to direct federal agencies to improve access to information and
technology in government and the private sector.



San Jose Mercury News 6/28/01
Firms face contempt ruling for withholding documents
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/contempt28.htm

by Dion Nissenbaum
SACRAMENTO -- A special legislative committee looking into alleged
electricity price gouging is poised to take the almost unprecedented step of
declaring power companies in contempt for failing to turn over thousands of
pages of documents.
State Sen. Joe Dunn is expected to grill the major power companies at a
hearing today for refusing to turn over records the Garden Grove Democrat
and his committee want to examine.



Houston Press 6/28/01
The Basement Tapes
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-06-28/insider.html

by Tim Fleck
Some things are just common sense for those of us who've spent a lifetime on
this spongy coastal plain overlaid with spiderwebs of concrete and steel,
and prone to periodic drenching.
We don't have subways like East Coast cities, and most homes here don't have
basements. The few who do have rooms below ground level mostly use them for
recreation or guest space with expendable furnishings. The reason: H2O has a
mind of its own.


Internet News 6/28/01
Computer Scientist: Current Info Management is Obsolete
http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,,10_793601,00.html

by Clint Boulton
NEW YORK -- Software and the modern desktop are dead. Even the newest, most
cutting-edge products are pointless. That is the message that Yale
University professor, computer scientist and author David Gelernter had for
a modest audience as Thursday's keynote speaker at TECHXNY.



Las Vegas Review-Journal 6/28/01
Classified Documents: Nine more arrested in FBI probe
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Jun-28-Thu-2001/news/16423953.html

by Ryan Oliver and J.M. Kalil
A state attorney general's office investigator and a Las Vegas court
employee were among nine more people charged Wednesday in connection with
the sale of classified FBI documents to the mafia.


New York Times 6/28/01
A Nod to the limits of Spelling checkers
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/technology/28ENCA.html

by Lisa Guernsey
Through its popular word- processing programs, Microsoft has probably done
more than any other company or institution to foster dependence on spelling
checkers. So it comes as something of a surprise that the new Microsoft
Encarta College Dictionary - a 1,678-page hardcover edition goes on sale in
July - is sprinkled with 400 warnings about the limitations of spelling
checker programs.



New York Times 6/27/01
Bulletin Board: Collecting Beam Memorabilia
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/27/nyregion/27BULL.html?searchpv=nytToday

As prospective buyers traipsed through the late Mayor Abraham D. Beame's
apartment on East 79th Street yesterday, archivists from the La Guardia and
Wagner Archives were boxing up photos, correspondence, engraved silver
platters and other memorabilia.


New York Times 6/27/01
Gun check records spark concern
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Gun-Control.html?searchpv=aponli
ne

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A gun control group says the Bush administration is
considering shortening the time that records are preserved from instant
background checks on gun purchases.
``Cutting the time will drive a stake into the heart'' of the Brady gun
control law, said Mathew Nosanchuk, litigation director at the Violence
Policy Center.



New York Times 6/28/01
High stakes in the race to invent a bettor-blocker
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/technology/28GAMB.html

by Matt Richtel
Visions of an Internet gold rush can still be a great motivator for
technology developers, but the latest prospectors are not in Silicon Valley.
They are in Sin City.
Their efforts gained momentum this month with a move by the Nevada
legislature to permit the state's biggest casinos to offer Internet gambling
- with some major conditions. To get a license, a casino must first prove it
can detect whether bettors are of gambling age and are playing where online
gambling is legal.



New York Times 6/28/01
Lessons in Internet plagiarism
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/technology/28CHEA.html

by Katie Hafner
To a student at Spring Lake Park High School outside Minneapolis, it seemed
like a formatting problem: the margins on the research paper he was trying
to print out for an English class this spring were not aligning correctly.
But when he complained to Jane Prestebak, a librarian whose duties include
running the school's computer labs, she immediately suspected the actual
cause.



New York Times 6/27/01
Nuns inheritance a mystery in Cuba
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Cuba-The-Inheritance.html?searchpv=
aponline

AP
REMEDIOS, Cuba (AP) -- It's a tale of corsairs and nuns, saints and
conquistadors, of centuries of mystery about a fortune in gold or jewels.
``That money exists and we are the heirs,'' says Julia Humbelina Perez with
certainty.



New York Times 6/28/01
Scraping the sky, and even breaking through
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/technology/28GFLO.html

by Shelly Freierman
How far is up? The Skyscraper Museum offers some answers at its Web site
(www.skyscraper.org).


New York Times 6/28/01
The Car snitched. He sued.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/technology/28SPEE.html

by Catherine Greenman
James TURNER learned an expensive lesson in the perils of speeding last
fall, but not from the highway patrol. Instead, Acme Rent-a-Car in New Haven
charged Mr. Turner a total of $450 for speeding during a business trip.


New York Times 6/28/01
Your e-mail is private, but your phone calls?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/technology/28GEE1.html

by J.D. Biersdorfer
Encryption isn't just for e-mail and online credit-card purchases anymore.
Simple communications like phone calls and fax transmissions over public
telephone networks are subject to interception and eavesdropping by
outsiders, too. So CityCom Telecommunications is distributing a product to
help shield calls. The company's GoPrivate encryption device for telephones
and fax machines converts an analog voice or fax call into a scrambled
digital signal that stymies eavesdroppers.



Sacramento Bee 6/28/01
Boy finds confidential records in school trash; mom seething
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local05_20010628.html

by Erika Chavez
Children finding confidential school records in a playground trash bin have
triggered an investigation into how the documents ended up being thrown out,
violating a state law requiring the records be destroyed.
Deborah Chase of Fair Oaks recovered dozens of files from a trash bin at
Northridge Elementary School and is up in arms that her child was one of
many whose privacy was violated.


Salon.com 6/21/01
Google a go-go
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/21/google_henziger/index.html

by Katharine Mieszkowski
Visiting Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters is like taking a time
machine to happier, fatter times. Think Silicon Valley in 1999, at the
height of the dot-com boom.
The time warp starts before you enter the building. Part of the office's
parking lot is cordoned off for twice-weekly rollerblade hockey games,
complete with Google-supplied team jerseys. The lobby is decorated with a
merry array of lava lamps and a piano at which stressed-out coders can knock
off a few bars to decompress. At the company "cafe" -- never called a
cafeteria -- employees eat free gourmet lunches styled by the Grateful
Dead's former chef. And let's not forget the on-site masseuses.


Dallas Morning News 6/28/01
Rivas' attorneys seek copy of juror database
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/403997_jury_27met.ART.html

by Holly Becka
Attorneys for prison escapee George Rivas filed a motion Tuesday seeking a
copy of a database in which they say Dallas County prosecutors have ranked
residents who have served on criminal juries.
Mr. Rivas, charged with capital murder and facing the death penalty, is
accused of killing Irving police Officer Aubrey Hawkins during a Christmas
Eve robbery.


Nando Times 6/28/01
Pardon sought for man who inspired 'Tom Dooley' ballas
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/34265p-569351c.html

by Irwin Speizer
Raleigh News & Observer
NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (June 28, 2001 1:35 p.m. EDT) - For more than a
century, residents of these rugged hills have debated the fate of local
legend Tom Dula, the charismatic ladies' man hanged for murdering his
pregnant girlfriend and immortalized in the ballad "Tom Dooley."


KMWorld 6/27/01
Ford changes tired messaging practices
http://www.kmworld.com/resources/featurearticles/index.cfm?action=readfeatur
e&Feature_ID=246

Ford Motor Company has been in the news a lot lately, primarily regarding
its replacement of the Firestone tires that came as original equipment on
some Ford Explorers. Left out of the news, though, is information about the
behind-the-scenes business process that Ford uses to communicate with its
dealers about warranty issues, technical bulletins and recall notices.


The Telegram 6/28/01
Church cornerstone yields its secrets
http://www.thetelegram.com/topstories/news/story.asp?id=46029&ln=ln

by Moira Baird
It wasn't buried treasure - but the 1920 cornerstone of the old St. Lawrence
Anglican Church in Portugal Cove gave up its secrets Wednesday afternoon.
Rumoured to contain currency, the 81-year-old time capsule was pried open to
the delight of townspeople whose fathers had helped build the wooden church
when money was tight.
Inside were six Newfoundland coins totalling $1.26; two one-cent daily
newspapers; a church magazine; a "form of service" pamphlet; and a single
sheet of writing paper bearing the names of the 26 members of the church
building committee.


Portland Press-Herald 6/28/01
A revolutionary rarity returns to Maine
http://www.portland.com/news/state/010628declaration.shtml

by David Sharp
Associated Press
A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence that became the subject of
dispute after being sold at auction in Maine was returned to the hands of
state and municipal officials on Wednesday.
State Archivist James Henderson was joined by Secretary of State Dan
Gwadosky at the Lewiston offices of a law firm that represented a Pittsburgh
businessman and a New York manuscript dealer who bid $99,000 for the
document.


IDG net 6/28/01
Gelernter: The desktop needs to be reimagined
http://idg.net/ic_638500_1793_1-3921.html

by Stacy Cowley
"The file system is dead," declared keynote speaker David Gelernter on
Thursday at PC Expo (part of TechXNY) in New York. "The desktop is dead,
too."
Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University and chief
scientist of software developer Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc. Mirror
Worlds is the creator of Scopeware, an information management system
intended as an alternative to traditional, hierarchical computer filing
systems.
In his address, Gelernter blasted directory-driven computer file systems as
antiquated tools badly in need of redesigning.


Sacramento Bee 6/27/01
Los Angeles district attorney agrees to preserve felony and misdemeanor case
files
http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/calrep_story.cgi?story=N2001-06-27-2200
-0.html

AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The District Attorney's office has agreed to preserve
indefinitely all felony records involving life sentences or death, ending a
legal battle that grew out of a late-'80s jailhouse informant scandal.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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