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RAIN 11/12: Weekend Update Part 2



There are 15 stories in this posting.


Government Technology 10/2001
Salt Lake County Recorder's office goes electronic
http://www.govtech.net/news/features/news_feature.phtml?docid=3030000000003164

by Tod Newcombe
SALT LAKE CITY -- The document is called a lien release, and it's used when a home mortgage is paid off. Unless you work for a title company, a lawyer or a county recorder's office, you've probably never heard of it. But it's one of the most commonly recorded documents in the United States.


The Independent 11/09/01
MPs revolt over delays to Information Act
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=104002

by Marie Woolf
Chief Political Correspondent
The Government is facing a revolt over its failure to implement a powerful anti-secrecy law which passed through Parliament a year ago.



UPI 11/07/01
The slave uprising that wasn't
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/11070000aaa06ec2.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=OPINIONS&Type=News&Filter=Opinions

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- It's generally accepted that Denmark Vesey, a 19th-century free black carpenter of Charleston, S.C., masterminded what would have been the largest slave rebellion in American history -- an uprising that was foiled at the last minute when an informer revealed the plan.
The alleged conspiracy called on the slaves and free blacks of Charleston and environs to seize local munitions stores and slaughter the white population before leaving on ships bound for Haiti.



Wired 11/09/01
Irish know where you've been
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,48251,00.html

by Karlin Lillington
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Privacy advocates say most of the Irish population is effectively carrying a potential "tagging device" because of the way in which two Irish mobile telecommunications companies say they are managing customer call records.
Irish operators Eircell and Digifone said they were holding customer "locator records" -- which can pinpoint a phone user's location to within a few dozen feet in urban areas -- for more than six years because they believed they were required to do so to comply with the Irish statute of limitations.



Siliconvalley.internet.com 11/09/01
PostX receives patent for secure message delivery
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article/0,2198,3531_920881,00.html

by Michael Singer
PostX, which combines postal mail with the advantages of the Internet and e-mail, Friday is celebrating the copyright of one of its core technologies.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week granted U.S. Patent No. 6,304,897 to the Cupertino, Calif.-based company for its invention, "Method of processing an e-mail message that includes a representation of an envelope."



Associated Press 11/09/01
Searchers find ship logs in raised wreckage of Kursk
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.kursk09nov09.story?coll=bal%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines

MOSCOW - Investigators searching through the wreckage of the Kursk submarine found its ship logs yesterday but said it was too soon to tell whether the documents would help establish why the vessel sank last year during naval exercises.



The Advertiser 11/09/01
Bins laden: Where the tax files went astray
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3213574%5E462,00.html

by Penny Brown
RICHARD Morgan, the former business partner of an assistant tax commissioner charged with fraud, destroyed documents after learning he was under investigation.
Mr Morgan told a committal hearing in Sydney that he had thrown out documents relating to Productivity Incentive Corporation, a company in which he and former ATO high-flyer Nick Petroulias earned money from the sale of employee benefit tax schemes.
"I didn't shred the documents, I just put them in the bin," Mr Morgan said under cross examination by Neil Clelland, counsel for Mr Petroulias.



Dallas Morning News 11/08/01
New machines slow vote count
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.e9c5edfb18.93.88.fa.80.4745852d.html

Associated Press
HOUSTON -- Merging Harris County's new $25 million electronic voting system with its 19-year-old punch card system proved more difficult than anticipated this week, officials said.
Harris County released final unofficial tallies from its 935 precincts at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday after technicians figured out how to integrate the electronic system with the punch-card system to count ballots.



The Jerusalem Post 11/09/01
Dormant Holocaust-era assets valued at NIS 25b.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/11/09/News/News.37835.html

by Etgar Lefkovits
JERUSALEM (November 9) - Unclaimed Holocaust-era assets held by banks, the state, and various public institutions in Israel are worth as much as NIS 25 billion, MK Colette Avital (Labor) said yesterday.
Avital, who chairs the Knesset's commission of inquiry into dormant Holocaust assets in Israel that was set up in February 2000, told The Jerusalem Post that the previously accepted figure of NIS 700 million in unclaimed assets here was an estimate that was made in 1968 and has recently been reassessed.



Nando Times 11/08/01
Opinion: Retroactive secrecy
http://www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/166620p-1595939c.html

by Dale McFeatters
Scripps Howard News Service
(November 8, 2001 3:47 p.m. EST) - To its credit, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has called on President Bush to rescind an executive order that will greatly restrict access to documents housed in presidential libraries.
Under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, which applies to all presidential libraries from Reagan on, the documents in those libraries, with some exceptions, become public after 12 years have passed. The Reagan library was prepared to release 68,000 pages of records earlier this year, but the Bush White House three times temporarily blocked the planned disclosure and now, with this order, perhaps permanently.



Salt Lake Tribune 11/09/01
Humor: Ags demand 'Ransom' for documents
http://www.sltrib.com/11092001/utah/147232.htm

by Paul Rolly and JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells
As lawyers for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah State University battle over ownership of Mormon documents donated to USU by former church historian Leonard Arrington, Aggie fans have come up with conditions that must be met before the school will consider the transfer of any portion of the collection.


Taipei Times 11/09/01
Taiwan needs a presidential papers act
http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2001/11/09/story/0000110795

by Hsueh Li-Kuei
In President Chen Shui-bian's (³¯¤ô«ó) new book, The Premier Voyage of the Century (¥@ö­º¯è), he pointed out that the National Security Council failed to hand over its confidential documents when the transition of political power took place. Why has such a problem occurred?



New York Times 11/09/01
The Troops at the front as poets for future readers
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/arts/television/09TVWK.html

by Julie Salamon
Not long ago my stockbroker, whom I've never met face to face, called me on business but instead kept me riveted with his first-person account of the Sept. 11 attack. He told me of his escape from the Merrill Lynch offices in the World Financial Center, across the street from the twin towers, and of his single-minded desire to speak to his wife. He couldn't get through. As the towers crumbled and the sky turned black, he crouched by the Hudson River embankment, certain he was going to die without reaching her.



New York Times 11/01/01
Web addresses sprout new suffixes, needed or not
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/technology/circuits/01BASI.html

by Susan Stellin
DURING the height of the Internet gold rush, the virtual equivalent of a miner's plot of land was a snappy Web address ending in .com.
At the peak of the frenzy, cybersquatters bought hundreds, even thousands, of prime addresses, hoping to sell them at a profit to latecomers willing to pay exorbitant prices for simple, easy-to-remember names.



ZDNET Australia 11/07/01
Countdown to online privacy
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20261720,00.htm

by James Pearce
In July this year, less than 20 percent of businesses were aware of new privacy legislation coming into force on December 21. This prompted the Australian Privacy Commission to undertake an intensive awareness campaign, which has been "amazingly successful", according to Malcolm Crompton, the Federal Privacy Commissioner.





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