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RAIN 11/09: Death Data, Fishing Trip, 565K



There are 22 stories in this posting.


New York Times 11/08/01
A paternity dispute divides net pioneers
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/technology/08NETT.html

by Katie Hafner
FEW inventions are immune from claims and counterclaims of precedence. Thomas Edison was embroiled in a number of patent disputes. It took years for the Wright brothers to secure their rightful claim to aircraft-powered flight.



New York Times 11/08/01
As debate on privacy heats up sales don't
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/technology/ebusiness/05SCHW.html

by John Schwartz
Software that helps Internet users protect their privacy has received a great deal of attention since Sept. 11. Some say the government's new powers to snoop on the Web could lead to a boom for such services. Others say regulators will crack down on these tools, which can help terrorists hide.



Arizona Republic 11/08/01
Glendale won't reveal financial data on arena
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/breaking/1108Arena08.html

by Marty Sauerzopf
Glendale officials are refusing to make public the financial information about a planned Phoenix Coyotes hockey arena and retail plaza.
The city wants to keep key financial documents, including revenue projections, secret because they say it could hurt developer Steve Ellman's ability to attract tenants.



CNET News.com 11/08/01
Bush Adviser: Terror a real threat to tech
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7816442.html?tag=lh

by Robert Lemos
PALO ALTO, Calif.--The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 may not have touched the Internet, but the incidents have put the high-tech industry on notice, President Bush's special adviser on cyberspace security said.
In his first speech since Sept. 11, Richard Clarke stressed Wednesday that the nuisance of online vandals and the occasional hacker should not be used as a yardstick to measure the threat of terrorism to cyberspace.



Associated Press 11/08/01
Congress probes death data privacy
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011108/pl/selling_dead_numbers_5.html

by Leigh Strope
WASHINGTON (AP) - Faster release of government records listing dead people, including their Social Security numbers, would help fight identity fraud, Congress was told Thursday.
But there were concerns about privacy, too.
Information about dead people is available now from the federal government at a subscription price ranging from nearly $3,000 to $13,000.


Associated Press 11/07/01
Request to make Social Security files more easily available stirs debate over privacy
http://www.nando.com/nation/story/166126p-1588467c.html

by Larry Margasak
WASHINGTON (November 7, 2001 8:27 p.m. EST) - A request to make highly personal Social Security files more easily available to law enforcement is testing how much privacy may be sacrificed in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.



Associated Press 11/07/01
Congress takes closer look at government's practice of selling information about dead people
http://www.nando.com/politics/story/166243p-1589235c.html

by Leigh Strope
WASHINGTON (November 7, 2001 11:43 p.m. EST) - The federal government's practice of selling personal information about dead people - including their Social Security numbers - to anyone is getting a closer look after investigators determined that all 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks had obtained numbers.


CRMDaily.com 11/08/01
University error exposes kids' psychological info online
http://www.crmdaily.com/perl/story/14657.html

by Jay Lyman
www.NewsFactor.com
The University of Montana Web site put psychological and other personal information of some 60 children and teenagers online last week when the sensitive data was inadvertently loaded onto a Web server.
The university's psychology department mistakenly uploaded 126 files -- containing patients' names, ages, addresses, visit descriptions and diagnoses -- to the UM Web server instead of to a specialized server that faculty uses to share research, according to Ray Ford, University of Montana chief information officer.



Des Moines Register 11/08/01
Drug-case names remain secret
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/16419040.html

by Lee Rood
The U.S. attorney's office in Des Moines has declined to release a list of people previously charged with federal drug crimes in Iowa, even though many already have been prosecuted in open courtrooms.
The Des Moines Register requested the information in 1999 under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act in an attempt to track the fate of hundreds of people charged with federal drug crimes in Iowa's southern district.



Washington Post 11/08/01
Duplicate license plates uncovered
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59723-2001Nov8.html

by Carol D. Leonnig
About 176 District motorists are driving around with the same license plate number as someone else because of a computer glitch that was caught this week when car owners got tickets for running red lights in vehicles that were not theirs.


The Tennessean 11/08/01
Exploits of 'Fishing Party' preserved in 'down-home history' given to state
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/11/10365855.shtml?Element_ID=10365855

by Sue McClure
COLUMBIA, Tenn. - At the same time Mark Twain was conjuring up adventures for the likes of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, a group of prominent Nashvillians was embarking on a rollicking, water-inspired expedition of its own.


Georgetown Times 11/06/01
Diocese seeks new ruling on All Saints
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2603509&BRD=2081&PAG=461&dept_id=385210&rfi=6

by Dave Munday
The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina has asked a judge to reconsider his ruling that backs a church looking for an escape clause from the denomination's property laws.


CIO 11/01/01
How NASDAQ bounced back
http://www.cio.com/archive/110101/bounced.html

Where were you on Tuesday morning, Sept. 11?
Bailar I was in Greenwich Village [about 10 blocks above the World Trade Center] heading north in a hired car. We didn't hear the crash, but we stopped, turned and saw the smoke. It wasn't clear what was going on. One Liberty Plaza, which is across the street from the World Trade Center, is Nasdaq's headquarters, with mostly executive staff and sales staff, not operational staff. Our offices are on the 49th and 50th floors of that building; they saw the first plane hit. I immediately called headquarters, and they said, "Everything seems OK." Next I tried to call my wife. I had trouble but eventually got a message through. Then I called Connecticut, where our primary data center is. It appeared that we didn't have any issues.
Then the second plane hit. I thought: two planes, direct center of two different towers. Time to batten down.



Lincoln Journal-Star 11/08/01
Open for Business: Customers, employees come first
http://www.journalstar.com/business?story_id=1234&past=

by Rodd Cayton
Digitech Systems will never be a large firm, Chief Executive Officer HK Bain says.
"We'll be a large revenue company," he explained, adding that he doesn't expect Digitech to expand much beyond 100 employees from its current 65 or so.
The Lincoln maker of scanning and document retrieval software offers businesses a secure and simple way of setting up a near paperless office.



Flint Journal 11/08/01
Montrose funds held because of paperwork problems
http://fl.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20011107f7a3montrosefinanceproblems.frm

by Judy Seifert
Montrose - The state and county are withholding more than $200,000 from the city because of improper financial accounting, creating what City Manager Kathy Parsons called a nightmare.
Parsons said she and the city staff have been working around the clock for three weeks to provide the state Treasury Department and the Genesee County treasurer's office with delinquent forms, property tax lists and a current audit.


New York Times 11/08/01
Palmtop makers take aim at the military market
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/technology/circuits/08MILI.html

by Nancy Beth Jackson
IMAGINE this: Lieutenant Smith, a United States Army platoon leader at a base camp in Uzbekistan, is preparing for a three-day mission in Afghanistan. For four hours, he and his fellow officers have been going over maps and hundreds of details that must be nailed down. They retrieve the information they need from a new addition to their battle packs: hand-held computers.



CIO 11/01/01
See you in court
http://www.cio.com/archive/110101/court.html

by Sarah D. Scalet
JUST BEFORE 8 A.M. ON FEB. 1, 2001, C.I. Host, a Web-hosting company with 90,000 customers, was hit with a crippling denial-of-service attack. By the end of the day, after outage complaints from what CEO Christopher Faulkner described as "countless" customers, the Fort Worth, Texas-based company got its lawyers involved.


New York Times 11/08/01
Seeking ancient life? Ask the robot where to trowel
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/technology/circuits/08NEXT.html

by Anne Eisenberg
THE ancient settlement of Amheida lies deep beneath windblown layers of sand in the Western Desert of Egypt. Dr. Lynn Meskell, an archaeologist at Columbia University, is keenly interested in the buried remains, but she doesn't plan on relying solely on trowels to reveal them.


Sun-Sentinel 11/08/01
Bad bookkeeping costs Palm Beach schools $565,000
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-paudit08nov08.story?coll=sfla%2Dnews%2Dpalm

by Kellie Patrick
Poor record-keeping cost the Palm Beach County School District up to $565,000 in one year, auditors say, and while the shoddy books will make it virtually impossible to recoup that amount, some officials want to try.


Dallas Morning News 11/08/01
A ray of hope for woman's legacy
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/garland/news/STORY.ea0917cf99.b0.af.0.a4.1a8dd.html

by Richard Abshire
When Jeanine Martinez died on Oct. 30, she left a dual legacy.
To family and friends she left memories of love and a brave struggle.
To others, she left a reason to hope.
The theft of her voice in the last month of her life has brought an outpouring of support. And a portion of her legacy that was believed lost may have been saved.


New York Times 11/05/01
The elusive search for efficiency
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/technology/ebusiness/05HANS.html

by Saul Hansell
It wasn't so long ago when Delta Air Lines was abuzz with dozens of projects to take advantage of the Internet revolution. It was in a consortium of airlines building an online exchange to buy aircraft parts. It was building a Web site that would allow frequent fliers to book their reward flights and was creating a system to beam flight schedules to Internet-ready cellphones.


Star-Tribune 11/08/01
University of Minnesota goes into damage control after computer mistake
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=85282704

AP
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- University of Minnesota psychologists started calling 20 sets of parents Wednesday after a computer mistake placed children' s names and psychological evaluations on the Internet.
The records were posted on the University of Montana' s Web site in late October by a newly-trained psychologist. She thought she was sending personal files to a secure computer at her Montana graduate school.




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