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ACM TechNews
Volume 2, Number 108
Date: September 20, 2000
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Top Stories for Wednesday, September 20, 2000:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Senate Clears Historic Bill on China Trade"
"Massive Denial-of-Service Attack Looming--CERT Report"
"Microsoft Suit Mediator Rues State Antitrust Role"
"Industry Seeks More Visas for High-Tech Workers"
"Clinton Predicts More High-Tech Visas"
"Multilingual Europe Has Latent Edge on U.S."
"Advocates Decry Business Opposition to Privacy Bill"
"Mastering the Robot"
"One World, One Internet?"
"Internet Land Rush at TM Office"
"Technology Boom Too Tempting for Many Government Scientists"
"Software Can Make E-Mail Disappear Without a Trace"
"Germany Quashes Net Tax Plan"
"E-Biz Jobs Made Healthier"
"CIOs Set Goals for Tech-Savvy Government"
"World Leaders: IT Can Ease Globalization Woes"
"Web Hosting Heats Up"
"The Wiring of Main Street"
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"Senate Clears Historic Bill on China Trade"
Silicon Valley applauded yesterday's overwhelming vote in the
U.S. Senate that approved normal trade relations with China. The
83-15 vote, together with the House's approval vote and President
Clinton's stated intention to sign the legislation, guarantees . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item1
"Massive Denial-of-Service Attack Looming--CERT Report"
An alert issued by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Coordination Center states that hundreds of computer systems have
been compromised by hackers who could carry out distributed
denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks similar to those that locked up . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item2
"Microsoft Suit Mediator Rues State Antitrust Role"
U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner, who is mediating the
government's antitrust case against Microsoft, recently said
states should not be able to file antitrust lawsuits as they have
done in the Microsoft case. In a paper given before a legal . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item3
"Industry Seeks More Visas for High-Tech Workers"
Lobbyists for the tech industry doubt Congress will act on any of
the pending bills concerning H-1B visas, which allow foreign tech
workers to live in the United States for no longer than six
years, before the legislators recess next month. The industry . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item4
"Clinton Predicts More High-Tech Visas"
President Clinton on Saturday told a group of reporters from
India that he expects Congress to approve legislation increasing
the number of foreign high-tech workers admitted into the United
States on H-1B visas. Legislation pending before the Senate . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item5
"Multilingual Europe Has Latent Edge on U.S."
European companies are better equipped than the United States to
operate within a multicultural, multilingual business
environment, according to a new study by Andersen Consulting.
Americans are usually ignorant of cultural differences, while "in . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item6
"Advocates Decry Business Opposition to Privacy Bill"
Business interests conspired to stall a workplace privacy bill in
the House Judiciary Committee's Constitution Subcommittee late
last week, a move decried as short-sighted by Ari Schwartz of the
Center for Democracy and Technology. The Notice of Electronic . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item7
"Mastering the Robot"
The development of a new paradigm to design quasi-autonomous
objects solved many problems that had stifled progress in robot
research for decades. In the mid-1980s scientists adopted
systems that could make their own decisions and deal with unknown . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item8
"One World, One Internet?"
The laws of individual countries should be applied to the
regulation of Internet transactions and other multinational
activities around the world, otherwise the right of individuals
and localities to govern themselves would be violated, writes . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item9
"Internet Land Rush at TM Office"
Domain name speculators have been registering trademarks based on
yet-to-be approved top level domains in an effort to ensure
possession of the domain names once ICANN decides what new top
level domains will be created. The speculators register . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item10
"Technology Boom Too Tempting for Many Government Scientists"
Government research laboratories are struggling to retain the
nation's top scientists as high-tech companies lure workers away
with the promise of huge salaries and stock options. Government
labs, which have contributed major advances in areas such as . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item11
"Software Can Make E-Mail Disappear Without a Trace"
Email users will soon be able to erase the messages they send
from the recipient's hard drive using software called SafeMessage
that a company called AbsoluteFuture is releasing today.
SafeMessage destroys messages within a certain amount of time . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item12
"Germany Quashes Net Tax Plan"
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has defeated a Finance
Ministry proposal that would have levied a tax on businesses
every time an employee made use of the Internet for personal
reasons in the workplace. "Private use of the Internet in the . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item13
"E-Biz Jobs Made Healthier"
Employees who spend long hours using computers are at risk of
developing a range of physical problems such as carpal tunnel
syndrome, eyestrain, and sore backs. Many high-tech workers type
and use computer mice all day while sitting in awkward positions, . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item14
"CIOs Set Goals for Tech-Savvy Government"
The Chief Information Officers Council, which represents the 28
largest federal agencies, issued a draft plan outlining
technology-related goals the next administration should achieve.
Citing computer security as a top priority, the draft plan . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item15
"World Leaders: IT Can Ease Globalization Woes"
Information technology could help protect developing nations from
the potential damage that globalization could bring, said world
leaders at two recent forums in New York. IT could also help
Third World countries to bypass some of the slow development . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item16
"Web Hosting Heats Up"
Although the Web hosting market is not new, it is now exploding
because of the e-commerce boom. Web site management services are
in high demand as companies seek a solution to preserve resources
and staff while building and maintaining infrastructure. Hosting . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item17
"The Wiring of Main Street"
In 1994, the town of Buffalo Grove, Ill., a suburb of Chicago
with an affluent, mobile population of 43,000, made a $750,000
investment in information technology infrastructure. That
investment continues to pay off today as Buffalo Grove's Board of . . .
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/0920w.html#item18
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