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RAIN 8/12: Weekend Update Part 2



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Newsday 8/9/01
Experts to tackle erasures in Nixon tape
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-usnixo092291843aug09.story?coll=ny

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Associated Press
Washington - The government is giving audio experts a chance to solve an old
mystery of Watergate: What was in that 18 1/2-minute gap on a Nixon tape
recorded three days after the break-in?



New York Times 8/9/01
A site whose riches bob on the surface
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/technology/circuits/09SMIT.html

by Matthew Mirapaul
The white patchwork that greets visitors to "HistoryWired," a new museum
exhibition on the Web, might be likened to an aerial view of cornfields after
a winter snow. But this is not Kansas. Instead, each of the grid's blank
rectangles provides access to one of the 450 items in the virtual exhibition,
including the scarecrow's costume from "The Wizard of Oz."



New York Times 8/9/01
Napster blasts court's technical meddling
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1005-200-6820135.html?searchpv=cnet

by John Borland
CNET News.com
New legal documents filed by song-swapping company Napster provide an
uncharacteristic glimpse behind closed court doors, showing the company's
bitterness at being forced to deliver its new product under such tight
supervision.
The company is appealing an injunction that would require it to block 100
percent of works identified by recording companies as copyrighted. That
ruling has been temporarily put on hold by the appeals court.



New York Times 8/9/01
Online Diary
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/technology/circuits/09DIAR.html?searchpv=nyt

Today

by Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell
Mining Ellis Island
If you think you've dug out every scrap of data on your immigrant ancestors
from the Ellis Island Web site - as I did after spending several hours on it
last spring - you may want to check again. Two genealogy buffs have come up
with tools that they say can help find information buried deep within the
database.



New York Times 8/9/01
Report points out waste in Health Dept.'s system
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/nyregion/09DEAT.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Katherine E. Finkelstein
Alleging mismanagement and violations of the city's purchasing rules, the
city comptroller said yesterday that the Health Department had wasted as much
as $10.3 million to design an electronic registry for death certificates.
The city's attempt to devise a system to create and store death certificates
has taken more than six years, and Health Department officials may have
altered documents to disguise the bureaucratic morass, Comptroller Alan G.
Hevesi said at a news conference.



Philadelphia Inquirer 8/9/01
Retiring preservationist out to stay rooted
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/08/09/chester_brandywine/EQA09.htm

by Ericka Bennett
YELLOW SPRINGS - Some might say she's stuck in the past. Sandy Momyer says
she just loves history.
And so, even as she retires as executive director of Historic Yellow Springs
Inc., a nonprofit agency working to preserve the land - and the lore - around
the village of Yellow Springs, don't expect her to make a clean break.



Reuters 8/8/01
Security firms call for video-surveillance law
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010808/tc/tech_privacy_surveillance_dc_1.htm
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by Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing a growing public backlash, the security
industry called on Congress Wednesday to regulate the use of surveillance
systems that match faces of people on the street with a database of known
criminals.



St. Petersburg Times 8/9/01
Opinion: the imaginary firewall
http://www.sptimes.com/News/080901/Opinion/The_imaginary_firewal.shtml

Some of the information being extracted from the computers in the Florida
secretary of state's office is merely embarrassing. For example, it's a good
bet that no Tallahassee official ever spent more time "wardrobing" and
rehearsing for press conferences than Katherine Harris. However, everybody in
the Capitol already knew that Harris cared much more about the ceremonial
aspects of her job -- such as the overseas trips that have cost Florida
taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars -- than the crucial duties for
which she is responsible as the state's top elections official.



St. Petersburg Times 8/8/01
Harris computers show Bush support
http://www.sptimes.com/News/080801/State/Harris_computers_show.shtml

by Thomas C. Tobin, Alisa Ulferts and Alicia Caldwell
TALLAHASSEE -- Nine months before she refereed Florida's disputed election
recount, Secretary of State Katherine Harris used her office computers to
prepare political speeches about the man she fondly referred to as "W."
"I'm a bit biased," say the remarks drafted for Harris' delivery at the GOP's
winter meeting on Jan. 29, 2000, in Orlando.



St. Petersburg Times 8/9/01
Democrats say Harris should resign
http://www.sptimes.com/News/080901/State/Democrats_say_Harris_.shtml

by Alisa Ulferts
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Democrats urged Secretary of State Katherine Harris to
resign Wednesday, the day after media groups found Republican political
documents on her office computers.
Democrats are especially puzzled about a query someone in Harris' office ran
on Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente a week after the election. The
record came off the Secretary of State Web site and notes Pariente's campaign
qualifications and treasurer.



Star-Tribune 8/8/01
Florida computer files on absentee ballots are examined
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84685918

from news services
An independent examination of four computers used by Katherine Harris, the
Florida secretary of state, and her aides during last fall's presidential
recount has found evidence that the machines were used more extensively than
either Harris or her spokesman had acknowledged.



The Union Leader 8/9/01
Londonderry building firm guilty of fraud
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=4478

LONDONDERRY - A building company has been convicted of fraud for altering
laboratory reports to get occupancy permits from the town, concealing the
fact that the property owner's well water contained bacteria.
After a joint investigation with the Londonderry Police, the Attorney
General's Office and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Attorney
General Philip McLaughlin charged Carousel Homes of Londonderry with two
counts of falsifying laboratory documents of water analyses and two counts
relating to the company's deceptive use of the false reports to obtain
occupancy permits from the town.



UPI 8/9/01
Documents show FBI blacklisted Gore's father
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=210345

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Former Vice President Al Gore Jr.'s father
offended the FBI by calling it the "snooping police" and was blacklisted by
the bureau for 17 years, according to FBI documents obtained by an
investigative Web site.


Wired 8/9/01
Plagiarist booted; others wait
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45802,00.html

by Katie Dean
One student has been expelled, and more than 100 cases of plagiarism remain
to be resolved at the University of Virginia after a physics professor used a
computer program to catch students who turned in duplicate papers, or
portions of papers that appeared to have been copied.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com

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