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RAIN 11/27: Rescuing History, Cookie Crumbles, Donor Privacy



There are 22 stories in this posting.

Amarillo Globe-News 11/25/01
Even the dust is old at Sour Lake service station
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/112501/tex_eventhedust.shtml

by Shane Graber
The Beaumont Enterprise
BEAUMONT - Like most dear things in rural Texas towns, little has changed at the full-service Texaco station in Sour Lake.
Its name is different today, having been changed from Copeland's Texaco to M&D Texaco.



AsiaBizTech 11/16/01
Adobe, Mitsubishi, others to ally in electronic-signature business
http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/cover/155167

November 16, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Adobe Systems Inc., Shachihata Inc., VeriSign Japan KK, and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. announced on Nov. 15 that they would collaborate in the electronic signature business. The four companies are planning to develop and distribute products and services for an electronic-application system in government organizations, electronic payment systems in B2B e-commerce, and other areas. Those services and products will incorporate Adobe's PDF documents and the electronic-signature technology of each company.


Business Week 11/26/01
Native Americans stake a high-tech claim
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2001/nf20011126_0470.htm

by Olga Kharif
Some Western tribes are building info-tech outsourcing businesses as ways to create good jobs and relieve crushing poverty
In the 16th century, members of the Northern Ute tribe were the first Native Americans to acquire horses from Spaniards. Their embrace of what at the time was advanced technology in the New World changed their lives, making Northern Utes mobile and far more prosperous.


CNET 11/26/01
Google, others dig deep - maybe too deep
http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-7946411-0.html?tag=ats

by Paul Festa
News.com
Search-engine spiders crawling the Web are increasingly stumbling upon passwords, credit card numbers, classified documents and even computer vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers.



Denton Record Chronicle 11/25/01
Soviet Union's past comes to Internet
http://www.dentonrc.com/news/504085_DRC_Soviet_Union.html

by Angela K. Brown
AP
Fort Worth - Cameras were rolling and clicking when the world's first space traveler returned home, when Soviet leaders discussed anti-capitalism propaganda campaigns and when Russian troops invaded Afghanistan.
But the 38,000 films and more than 1 million pictures chronicling significant events of the former Soviet Union have been guarded in vaults, accessible only by government-approved documentary filmmakers and few others.



Concord Monitor 11/26/01
Editorial: We need to know
http://www.concordmonitor.com/stories/front1101/edit112601_2001.shtml

Access to presidential papers is vital to the pursuit of truth.
Historian Michael Beschloss's second installment of the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential tapes leaves readers who remember the Johnson era with new facts to ponder.



Hki-Mail 11/26/01
Editorial: Swimming in dodgy data
http://hk-imail.singtao.com/inews/public/article_v.cfm?articleid=30471&intcatid=5

IN mainland China, almost anything can be forged. Fake university degree certificates, public security documents and financial reports are rife. Fake brand name products are widespread. It is even possible to buy a false State Council seal.



HR Daily News 11/26/01
OSHA settles over recordkeeping rule
http://www.hrnext.com/news/view.cfm?news_id=1718

The new recordkeeping rule of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will take effect as scheduled on January 1, but in settling a lawsuit last week, the agency agreed to focus initially on compliance assistance, rather than enforcement.


Internet Magazine 11/21/01
Boots forces Boots to hang up boots.com
http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/view.asp?id=2038

Business ISP Boots Systems and Boots Company, parent of the nation-wide chemist chain Boots, are in a tug-of-war battle for the lucrative boots.com domain, meaning tens of thousands of Boots Systems subscribers using boots.com email addresses are at risk of losing them.



Lincoln Journal Star 11/26/01
Lincoln native rescues history
http://www.journalstar.com/local?story_id=5231&past=

by Martha Stoddard
Dirk Obbink can decipher the easiest manuscript scraps within a couple weeks.
The tough ones require months of painstaking work.
He and his colleagues match fiber to fragile fiber, calculate column and page sizes, tease text from burned and weather-beaten backgrounds, and study the hand-written scribbles that emerge. They translate, interpret, infer and guess.



Associated Press 11/26/01
Lady Bird Johnson's words on tape
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011126/pl/lady_bird_s_tapes_1.html

by Lawrence L. Knutson
WASHINGTON (AP) - ``I can't get out,'' the president told his wife. ``And I can't finish it with what I have got. And I don't know what the hell to do.''
It was the late winter of 1965. Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson had celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary the previous November. Now it was March. And the unrelenting agony of war in Vietnam was threatening to destroy much of what they had achieved together.



The Guardian 11/26/01
Crumbling cookies could cook the net
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,605831,00.html

by Danny Meadows-Klue
European Parliament members have a reputation for well-meaning but at times questionable decisions and its 57-year-old Dutch MP, Wim Van Welzen, is no exception. When the parliament voted to adopt his amendment to the draft directive on electronic data collection and privacy this month few people in Europe's internet industry understood the consequences. Today they are united in disbelief, frustration and extreme concern.


The Guardian 11/26/01
The silence of the tabs
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,605830,00.html

by Matt Wells
When the government put the Human Rights Act on the statute book, it did so with a nod to judges that they would be expected to develop a set of common law precedents on privacy. It probably did not expect, however, that there would be such consternation about the first few rulings.



New York Times 11/26/01
Firms consider pact to track terror money - WSJ
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-financial-terror-wsj.html

Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The leading U.S. financial firms and law-enforcement agencies are considering an agreement that would give authorities sweeping power to trace terrorists using the financial system, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.



Foster's Sunday Citizen 11/25/01
Pierce artifacts up for sale
http://www.fosters.com/news2001e/november/25/su1125i.htm

AP
ANTRIM (AP) - College doodles, campaign posters and presidential letters belonging to Franklin Pierce, the only U.S. president born in New Hampshire, are going up for sale.


Atlanta Business Chronicle 11/23/01
Senator: State secrecy violates law
http://atlanta.bcentral.com/atlanta/stories/2001/11/26/story4.html

by Meredith Jordan
A powerful state senator is demanding state officials provide him with details of a program that has given five companies $98 million in secret tax breaks since 1998.


Naples Daily News 11/26/01
State still struggling to computerize foster children system
http://www.naplesnews.com/01/11/florida/d662207a.htm

AP
TALLAHASSEE - More than a decade after state lawmakers told the agency in charge of protecting abused children to computerize its foster care records, work on the project continues.
The completion date, originally 1998, was pushed back to 2003, and is now 2005. Estimated costs for the project have increased by $197 million since 1990.


Info World 11/21/01
Survey finds corporate IT still vulnerable to computer attack
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/21/011121hncsc.xml?1126mnam

by Brian Fonseca
CORPORATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS remain porous against cyberattacks, and many IS managers do not consider security practices and policies to be a top priority in their organization, according to a survey by Computer Sciences (CSC) this week.


The Age 11/26/01
Respect urged on sperm-donor laws
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/11/26/FFXXUR0PFUC.html

by Penny Fannin
Retrospectively changing the laws governing children conceived through donor insemination so that they could learn about their genetic origins was wrong and would set a terrible legal precedent, an international fertility congress will hear today.



The Daily Inter Lake 11/25/01
Flathead holds out on issue of punch cards
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/NewsEngine/SelectStory.tpl?command=search&db=news.db&eqskudata=85-813781-98

by Skip Dusseau
Flathead County is one of only two counties in Montana still hoping to keep its punch-card balloting system.
Six Montana counties use punch cards, but only Flathead and Fergus counties want to keep them, according to Flathead County Clerk and Recorder Sue Haverfield.



The Monett Times 11/19/01
Time capsule opens window on farm home, immigrant family that built it
http://www.monett-times.com/NF/omf/monett/news_story.html?[rkey=0009538+[cr=gdn

by Kristin Nama
When Paul and Janet Wimsatt decided to build a new house on their property on W Highway in Verona, they never expected to find a piece of local history. Tucked away in the base of one of the porch pillars of the old house still standing on the site, was a glass quart Mason jar with two German-language newspapers, and a handwritten letter inside from the man who owned the property many years ago.



InfoWorld 11/21/01
XML dominates database file formats
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/26/011126hnyukon.xml?1126mnam

by Tom Sullivan and Ed Scannell
WITH ORACLE'S annual OpenWorld conference on the horizon, database vendors are preparing for battle once again. This time around, the big three -- IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft -- are brandishing XML as the not-so secret weapon for making their databases faster and using it to anchor Web services.


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