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RAIN 12/03: Weekend Update Part 1



There are 25 stories in this posting

New York Times 11/29/01
A digital spider's Web to help protect high-security areas
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/technology/circuits/29NEXT.html

by Anne Eisenberg
As any spider sitting in the center of its web knows, a tautly spun line is an excellent conductor of vibration.
Now researchers at Penn State have made use of taut lines to create an inexpensive technology that turns a perimeter fence into the digital equivalent of a spider's web. Put a foot on this fence, and the vibrations that result will head straight for a computer equipped to sound the alarm.



Washington Post 11/29/01
A jury of your peers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31506-2001Nov28.html

by Fern Shen
How embarrassing is this:
You finish a pop quiz and your math teacher says, "Time's up! Exchange papers with the person next to you."
The teacher reads out the correct answers, and you and your seatmate grade each other's work. At the end, you might even call out the other kid's grade to the teacher so he can mark it down.



Billings Gazette 11/29/01
Right-to-know case heard
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?section=local&display=content/local/30-buffalo.inc

by Ericka Schenck Smith
HELENA - District Judge Thomas Honzel refused to make any rulings Thursday in a right-to-know suit against the Montana Department of Livestock, because, he said, neither side had provided enough information.



Boston Globe 11/30/01
Judge's ruling frees documents in Geoghan case
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/334/metro/Judge_s_ruling_frees_documents_in_Geoghan_case+.shtml

by Kathleen Burge
Thousands of pages of private documents in the child molestation lawsuits filed against defrocked priest John J. Geoghan and his superiors - which could include pretrial testimony from church leaders - would be made public under a new order from a Suffolk Superior Court judge.



ABC News 11/30/01
Calif. Lawmakers question availability of birth records online
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20011130_29.html

AP
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California birth records available online through genealogy sites could be used to create false identity documents, a state lawmaker warned.



CareerJournal 11/30/01
How far can companies take diversity initiatives?
http://www.careerjournal.com/myc/legal/20011130-shirouzu.html

by Norihiko Shirouzu
Wall Street Journal
DETROIT -- Internal documents disclosed in a white male manager's discrimination case against Ford Motor Co. suggest America's No. 2 auto maker earlier this year explicitly discouraged consideration of white men for promotion to a top echelon of management in favor of women and minority candidates.



New York Times 11/30/01
Customs program drills through data
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Customs.html

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A huge U.S. Customs Service database designed to detect drug-money laundering, contraband smuggling and trade fraud now is being used to track terrorist finances.
Investigators are using the Numerically Integrated Profiling System -- referred to as NIPS, in part for ``nipping away at crime'' -- to examine, commodity by commodity, whether Osama bin Laden and other suspected terrorists are use trade to make or launder money.



Bergen Record 11/30/01
DMV admits it ignored anti-terror rule for years
http://www.northjersey.com/news/lic29200111302.htm

by Wendy Ruderman
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the state DMV adopted rules designed to prevent foreigners from using their New Jersey driver's licenses long after their U.S. visas expire.
But Division of Motor Vehicles officials acknowledged Thursday that the agency never enforced that rule.



Finextra 11/30/01
APL introduces electronic Bills of Lading
http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=3977

30 November 2001 - Ocean carrier APL, working with Califronia-based encryption and printing technologies firm Electronics For Imaging, has developed a system which obviates the need for paper-based Bills of Lading shipping documents.



FinExtra 11/30/01
LWCO chooses SunGard for e-statements
http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=3979

30 November 2001 - Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge Office (LWCO), a Boston-based private trust and investment management firm, is using software from SunGard Asset Management Systems to deliver electronic statements to its clients.



Indianz.com 11/29/01
Trust fund master files records investigation
http://www.indianz.com/SmokeSignals/Headlines/showfull.asp?ID=law01/11292001-1a

The special master in the Cobell v. Norton Individual Indian Money (IIM) lawsuit today filed his first investigative report into the records management policies of the Department of Interior.



New York Times 11/30/01
KaZaA Online ordered to shut down
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Netherlands-Online-Music.html?searchpv=aponline

AP
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- KaZaA, a Dutch Internet file-sharing service modeled on the U.S. song-swapping site Napster, has been ordered to stop providing free music over the Internet or face fines of up to $40,000 a day, according to court documents.



McAlester News-Capital & Democrat11/30/01
AG to present open meeting, records seminar
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2708253&BRD=1126&PAG=461&dept_id=434982&rfi=6

by James Beaty
Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson has invited area law enforcement officials to attend a seminar in McAlester Friday on the requirements of Oklahoma's Open Meetings and Open Records Act.



Columbiana County Morning Journal 11/30/01
Council to decide action in missing money
Wellsville mayor cites poor procedures
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2713368&BRD=2131&PAG=461&dept_id=363764&rfi=6


by Jeff Martin
WELLSVILLE - Mayor Joe LaScola said on Thursday that council will decide whether or not to legally pursue a former Mayor's Court clerk in connection to missing court money.



The Telegraph 11/30/01
Underground war rooms will become a tribute to Churchill
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$PZQ0QAQAAAFVDQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2001/11/30/nchur30.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/30/ixhomef.html

by Thomas Hardy
THE dank and paint-peeled tunnels that provided the nerve centre for the war effort against Nazi Germany are to be renovated and turned into the first museum in Britain dedicated to Sir Winston Churchill.
The tribute comes 60 years after Churchill saw the nation through its "darkest hour" and 36 years after his death.



Washington Post 11/30/01
Records order spurs lawsuit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31064-2001Nov28.html

by Bill Miller
Historians and public interest groups filed a lawsuit yesterday asking a federal judge to strike down an executive order signed by President Bush that restricts access to presidential records, arguing that the action illegally promotes secrecy.



New York Times 11/30/01
San Francisco finds ballots in machines
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/30/national/30FRAN.html

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29 - Two weeks after the last ballot was cast, it appears that the city's election is not over.



Sydney Morning Herald 11/30/01
Official says Petroulias's private files were copied
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/30/text/biztech3.html

by Anne Lampe
Assistant Tax Commissioner Michael O'Neill yesterday told a Downing Centre local court how he dealt with security and conflict of interest concerns that he had in 1997 when his predecessor, Nick Petroulias, was a Tax Office consultant while giving tax advice in a private capacity.



The Advertiser 11/30/01
Tax chief fished in Petroulias files
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3347236%5E462,00.html

by Helen Tobler
THE man who led the investigation into former assistant tax commissioner Nick Petroulias has admitted taking personal documents from his files.



Dallas Morning News 11/24/01
Clark papers a rich resource
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/lloydbockstruck/STORY.ea581c6c8f.b0.af.0.a4.9c7be.html

by Lloyd Bockstruck
One of the most important sources relating to the American Revolution is the collection of papers of George Rogers Clark. A few years ago, the Society of Colonial Wars in Illinois and the Sons of the Revolution in Illinois funded the microfilming of his papers related to the Illinois Regiment of the Virginia State Forces.



Dallas Morning News 11/25/01
Online registration expanding
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/columnists/tonyhartzel/STORY.ea61b69de6.b0.af.0.a4.37eae.html

by Tony Hartzel
Lines at airports. Lines at malls. Not to mention the daily lines in traffic.
For drivers dreading long lines to get a new license or pay vehicle registration fees, be of good cheer.
Relief is a computer mouse-click away.



Dallas Morning News 11/30/01
East Texas fire chief may be forced to release records
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.ea7f60e240.b0.af.0.a4.7aabf.html

AP
TYLER - The state Attorney General's office is considering legal action against an East Texas fire chief for not releasing expense records to a reserve fire marshal who was kicked off the force.



Associated Press 11/30/01
U.S. Customs database used to track terrorist financing
http://www.nando.net/technology/v-text/story/183523p-1775168c.html

by Sharon Theimer
WASHINGTON (November 30, 2001 09:38 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Investigators tracking terrorist finances are making use of a huge U.S. Customs Service database designed to detect drug-money laundering, contraband smuggling and trade fraud.



Wall Street Journal 11/30/01
'Chief of Oral History' records tales of those touched by Sept. 11 attack
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB10070712246080000.htm

by June Kronholz
Not long after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Stephen Lofgren hit the button on his tape recorder, and U.S. Army Col. Marcus Kuiper described how American Airlines Flight 77 flew into the Pentagon and under his third-floor office.



ZDNET Australia 11/30/01
Terrorism dims Australian privacy focue
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20262139,00.htm?chkpt=zdnn_nbs_h

by Rachel Lebihan
Security concerns following the September 11 terrorist attacks have taken the focus away from Australia's new privacy legislation, according to one expert at a privacy debate in Sydney.



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