Hacker
group: The future of war is information -
"In a sign of how wars will be fought in the
future, this year's conflict in Serbia relied on using
technology to a new extent. In addition to being fought
with weapons, it was fought with information. In the future, it will be this type of
"information warfare" that will make it
difficult to figure out if countries are even at war
with each other, according to Frank Rieger, who follows
the topic for hacker group Chaos Computer Club..."
'The Internet
on Wheels' - Ford Motor is adding voice-activated
systems to some 2,001 new Lincoln automobiles, allowing
drivers to get stock quotes and weather reports through
the Internet and summon help on the highway. Ford, the world's No. 2 automaker,
will expand its Internet, communication and information
services package -- which it calls "telematics"
-- to most of its vehicles worldwide over the next two
to three years at no extra cost...
The latest
option for sending cash: e-mail - Now you can send birthday
cash, spending money for your college student or repay
your friends - all via e-mail. Bank
One, the fourth-largest U.S. bank holding company with
assets of $256 billion, is becoming the latest and
biggest company to allow people to send money via
electronic mail...
States to
Consider Flurry of Internet Bills - Attorneys General Examine Their Role
in Internet Regulation - As state legislators
return to work in the coming weeks, many of the Internet
policy debates that have been playing out in Congress
will begin echoing in the halls of capitols across the
country. By the middle of January, 36 state legislatures
will have begun their regular legislative sessions. A
total of 44 states are scheduled to convene during 2000,
according to the National Conference of
State Legislatures. During those sessions, the Internet
Alliance predicts that there will be more than 2,000
Internet-related bills that will result in a flurry of
policy making at the state level. "This will be the big story of
the Year 2000," said Jeff Richards, executive
director of the Internet Alliance, a trade association
based in Washington...
Tokyo Joe
Collared for Fraud - The Securities and Exchange Commission
filed fraud charges Wednesday against the brains behind
the Tokyo Joe investment advice Web site for allegedly
recommending stocks he was selling, and not revealing
that he received stock in exchange for touting a
company...
Bradley
to drop out, endorse Gore - Bill Bradley
intends to bow out of the presidential race Thursday
and endorse Vice President Al Gore who vanquished
him in 16 Super Tuesday contests from coast to
coast, The Associated Press learned Wednesday.
Bradley's decision marks the end of a candidacy that
soared briefly but floundered when the first votes
were cast in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire
primary. It also eliminates the last shred of doubt
that Gore will be the Democratic presidential
nominee, and allows him to turn his attention to
November with a party united behind his candidacy.
Both men praised one another in public comments
Tuesday night after Gore's victories sealed
Bradley's fate. Two senior Bradley adviser, speaking
on condition of anonymity, said the former senator
would leave the race Thursday and endorse Gore at a
news conference near his New Jersey headquarters...
Governors
look to tap technology - The nation's governors are
investing billions of dollars in technology this year - from
registering cars online to providing seed money for Internet
startups - in a concerted and sometimes frantic effort to
tap into the new economy. What works and what doesn't
remains a puzzle. Coming together for a weekend devoted to
the challenges of the digital age, the governors rushed to
follow the private sector. ''Government is always the last
to catch up,'' said Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who wants to
spend $1.9 billion on technology in his state over the next
five years. ''If we don't invest now, we're going to be
behind...''
Texas
Drifter Said Linked to at Least Nine Murders -
A drifter now jailed in Del Rio, Texas, has confessed
to being a serial killer responsible for at least nine
murders in five states, Texas authorities said Friday.
Tommy Lynn Sells, 35, has been charged in two of the
deaths, including the murder of a girl whose throat
was slashed in Del Rio on New Year's Eve, and likely
faces more indictments, said Texas Department of
Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange...
Congress
looks at Internet and disabilities act - The
Internet's constantly evolving technology makes it difficult
to develop regulations to apply the Americans with
Disabilities Act to the World Wide Web, a top Internet
industry official told Congress on Wednesday. But advocates
for the disabled argued they were being denied access to the
"window to the world." "The Internet is not
just a window on the world. More and more the Internet is
the world," Gary Wunder, a University of Missouri
programming analyst who is blind, told the House Judiciary
subcommittee. "It is where we shop and it is where we
make our living..."
COINTELPRO
- A History to Learn From - Predictably, the most
serious of the FBI's disruption programs [between 1956 and
1971] were those directed at "Black Nationalists."
These programs ... initiated under liberal Democratic
administrations, had as their purpose "to expose,
disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the
activities of black nationalist, hate-type organizations and
groupings, their leadership, spokesmen, membership, and
supporters"...Agents were instructed to "inspire
action in instances where circumstances warrant."
Specifically, they were to undertake actions to discredit
these groups both within the "responsible Negro
community" and to "Negro radicals," and also
"to the white community, both the responsible community
and liberals' who have vestiges of sympathy for militant
black nationalists..." - Noam Chomsky
Vietnam
criticizes McCain for torture allegations - "Vietnam
has criticized Republican presidential candidate John McCain
for claiming he was tortured during 5 1/2 years as a
prisoner of war in the infamous ``Hanoi Hilton'' and using
derogatory terminology for Vietnamese..."
O.J.'s
New Defense - For nearly a decade, the Los Angeles
Police Department has been repeatedly shaken by
scandal and charges of police corruption. Today, as
the LAPD faces new allegations of widespread police
misconduct-more than 70 officers are reportedly
under investigation and at least twenty have already
been suspended, relieved of duty or fired—the man
whose trial intensified public scrutiny of the
department says he has been proven right. "I
feel vindicated," O.J. Simpson told Newsweek in
an exclusive interview on Monday night. "It is
now loud and clear that these guys are capable of
planting evidence and framing people. This is not
something new. It's been going on for a long time.
If a cop hadn't gotten his hand caught in the cookie
jar, they'd still be doing it..."
Two Controversial Cases in New Haven
History: The Amistad Affair (1839) and The Black Panther
Trials (1970) - The purpose of this study is to make
a descriptive comparison of two dramatic revolts for
freedom in New Haven. The earlier of these is the
so-called Amistad Affair of 1839, which occurred
when the Abolitionist movement was in high gear. The
other one, the Black Panther trials of 1970,
coincided with the high tide of the Civil Rights
movement. Each of these events seems to have
resulted from a heightened awareness of injustice in
America. This essay will look at the justification
for both revolts and the American society’s
reactions to them...
