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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 380
Date: July 31, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, July 31, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"FCC Chief Cites Internet Weak Spot"
"States Spar Over Stalled Software Act"
"Ailing Valley Searches Its Soul"
"White House Sounds Call for New Internet Standards"
"IT Professionals Feel the Pressure"
"Virtual Real Estate Is a Buyer's Market"
"ACLU Pushes for Open Access"
"Humpty Dumpty Restored: When Disorder Lurches Into Order"
"Tiny Device Traps Electrons for Quantum Computing"
"Quantum Net for Atom Angling"
"Wi-Fi Honeypots a New Hacker Trap"
"Bill Would Allow 'Ethical' Hacking to Track Copyright Theft"
"Tabletop System Generates Extreme-UV Laser Light"
"Anemone of the Smart People"
"Dot-Org Decision Looms Large for Noncommercial Speakers"
"IT Pros May Face Background Checks"
"Building America's Anti-Terror Machine"
"Small Wonders"
"Breaking the Mold"
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"FCC Chief Cites Internet Weak Spot"
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell
told the Senate Commerce Committee yesterday that he might not be
able to stop WorldCom from shutting down its Internet backbone
service, UUNet. Although Powell was confident of his ability to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item1
"States Spar Over Stalled Software Act"
At this week's annual meeting of the National Conference of
Commissioners of Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), representatives
plan to address several amendments to the controversial Uniform
Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). The amendments ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item2
"Ailing Valley Searches Its Soul"
Residents of Silicon Valley are questioning what role their
culture played in the current economic crash and the euphoria
that led up to it. Whereas foreign countries previously sent
delegations to come study Silicon Valley, much of the country now ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item3
"White House Sounds Call for New Internet Standards"
White House chief cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke said on
Tuesday that the 20-year-old protocols supporting the Internet
may need to be upgraded in order to address the potential
security vulnerabilities of increasing numbers of wireless ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item4
"IT Professionals Feel the Pressure"
IT professionals are as vulnerable to the mental pressures of
work-related stress as any other worker, and a survey of 5,174 IT
employees in InformationWeek's 2002 National IT Salary Survey
finds that more than 50 percent note an escalation of stress in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item5
"Virtual Real Estate Is a Buyer's Market"
In the past, cybersquatters made millions from domains like
business.com, wine.com, and WallStreet.com, but today both
sex247.net and PopeOnline.net are being hawked on
GreatDomains.com for just a few hundred dollars. Companies have ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item6
"ACLU Pushes for Open Access"
Open access between rival cable companies' broadband networks is
essential if people are to enjoy wide availability of online
content, according to consumer advocacy organizations who
conferred at a town hall meeting on Monday. "Without open ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item7
"Humpty Dumpty Restored: When Disorder Lurches Into Order"
An experiment that Australian researchers reported in the current
issue of Physical Review Letters apparently violates the second
law of thermodynamics, demonstrating that molecule-scale machines
may run backward. Scientists at Australian National University ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item8
"Tiny Device Traps Electrons for Quantum Computing"
A single electron transistor devised by University of Wisconsin
scientists snares individual electrons for quantum dot
semiconductors, a breakthrough that could be a significant step
toward quantum computing. The quantum dots are composed of one ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item9
"Quantum Net for Atom Angling"
Roberto Diener and fellow researchers at the University of Texas
at Austin report that physicists should be able to trap exact
numbers of atoms from Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) using a
device called a quantum dot. Up to now, they have used scanning ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item10
"Wi-Fi Honeypots a New Hacker Trap"
A new defense against Wi-Fi hackers, a wireless honeypot, was
launched on June 15 by Science Applications International (SAIC)
under the aegis of the Wireless Information Security Experiment
(WISE). WISE head Rob Lee says the purpose of the initiative is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item11
"Bill Would Allow 'Ethical' Hacking to Track Copyright Theft"
Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) seeks to outlaw peer-to-peer (P2P)
file swapping of copyrighted materials by introducing a bill that
would grant copyright holders the right to legally hack into P2P
networks, a proposal that has sparked protest among digital ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item12
"Tabletop System Generates Extreme-UV Laser Light"
Researchers at the University of Colorado have reengineered a
$100,000 commercial laser into a device that upconverts visible
laser light into the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) spectrum and could
be used to directly image nanostructures. "What this technology ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item13
"Anemone of the Smart People"
Robots, sensory enhancement, and augmented reality illustrated
the theme of human-machine interaction at the Emerging
Technologies Exhibition--a featured highlight of the 2002 ACM
SIGGRAPH conference in San Antonio last week. MIT Media ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item14
"Dot-Org Decision Looms Large for Noncommercial Speakers"
Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty
Program, says the .org domain is one of the few spaces online
devoted to non-commercial speech, which makes the selection of
the next .org operator extremely important. "If [.org] were to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item15
"IT Pros May Face Background Checks"
Corporate IT and other employees in critical industries could be
subject to background checks, if a panel convened by the Bush
administration has its way. The panel will be set up to
establish guidelines for "necessary background checks for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item16
"Building America's Anti-Terror Machine"
Information technology can be a critical component of homeland
security, but furnishing a decentralized electronic network that
can function as a nationwide central nervous system for emergency
response efforts will involve an unprecedented, collaborative ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item17
"Small Wonders"
Nanotechnology advocates have championed nanotechnology as the
building-block for the next-great everything, and even if this
expectation does not materialize fully, the government-backed
National Nanotechnology Initiative still expects that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item18
"Breaking the Mold"
Researchers such as C. Grant Willson of the University of Texas
are investigating the commercial potential for nanofabrication
techniques. Taking a cue from previous research on how the
flawed nickel mold for a CD-ROM consistently produced the exact ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0731w.html#item19
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