03 December 2002

Spam Will Get Worse Spam will get worse. By 2007, the average American will receive over 600 pieces of spam each year. It get that amount every two weeks. [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Recording Industry Continues Wasting Money CHRONICLE -- An e-mail sent from Cary Sherman, general counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America to Graham B. Spanier, the president of Pennsylvania State University, says the recording industry will send more infringement notices to colleges. Until now the RIAA has been "somewhat circumspect" in notices sent relative to observed copyright violations. The RIAA thinks file sharing on campuses is the leading cause in the decline of CD sales. [EDUCAUSE]   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Opening Pearl Harbor's Logs POLITECHBOT -- I watched Pearl Harbor on TV last week, recalling how my earlier understnading of that day of infamy came on the back of reading Lladislas Farago's code-breaking book. There's a companion book, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert B. Stinnett that deserves equal time. What makes Stinnett's work more interesting is that immediately after his book appeared in bookstores in 1999, the NSA began withdrawing pre-Pearl Harbor documents from the Crane Files housed in Archives. As of January 2002, over two dozen NSA withdrawal notices have triggered the removal of Pearl Harbor documents from public inspection. [Articles by Stinnett: "The Pearl Harbor Deception," 2 Dec 02 and "December 7, 1941: A Setup from the Beginning," in Honolulu Advertiser, 7 Dec 00 and "Pentagon Still Scapegoats Pearl Harbor Fall Guys," in Providence Journal, 7 Dec 01]   [Comment on Shoptalk]

Tim Woolford -- Great report on commerical hot spots in London. [80211b News and technoculture]   [Comment on Shoptalk]

37m Americans Banking Online INFOWORLD -- Study shows 37m Americans now bank online. Rate has increased 164 percent since 2000. [InfoWorld: Top News]   [Comment on Shoptalk]