NODE 44ec6eecFw: 1998-10-01 VP Announces New Efforts to Crack Down on Software Piracy
"kryz" <chrisharwig@hetnet.nl>Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:12:13 +0800
To whom it may concern:
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| Date: donderdag 1 oktober 1998 20:20:00
| From: The White House
| To: Public-Distribution@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov
| Subject: 1998-10-01 VP Announces New Efforts to Crack Down on Software Piracy
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|
| THE WHITE HOUSE
|
| Office of the Vice President
| ________________________________________________________________________
| For Immediate Release October 1, 1998
|
|
| VICE PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES
| NEW EFFORTS TO CRACK DOWN ON SOFTWARE PIRACY WORLD-WIDE
|
|
| Washington, DC --Vice President Gore announced today that a new
| Executive Order (EO) will direct federal departments and agencies to
| prevent and combat computer software piracy, and the President also will
| direct the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to press foreign
| governments to enact similar protections.
|
| "Today, we are declaring war on software piracy," Vice President
| Gore said. "The message is clear: don't copy that floppy. At home or
| abroad,intellectual property must be protected."
|
| The federal government is the world's largest buyer of
| computer-related services and equipment, at over $20 billion a year.
| An estimated $11 billion was lost world-wide to software piracy in 1997,
| translating into as many as 130,000 lost jobs in the United States.
|
| President Clinton's Executive Order directs agencies to:
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| Ensure that only authorized computer software is acquired for,
| and used on, agency computers.
|
| Ensure that agency policies and practices related to copyrights
| on computer software are adequate.
|
| Prepare an inventory of the software on their computers.
|
| Develop and maintain adequate record-keeping systems for their
| computer software.
|
| Vice President Gore said the President is directing USTR Charlene
| Barshefsky to press other governments over the next year to announce
| programs ensuring that their departments and ministries use only
| legitimate software in an authorized manner. Working closely with
| software companies, USTR will seek to persuade other governments to
| modernize their software management systems, to assess software use
| through comprehensive audits, and to ensure that procurement practices
| call for, and budgets provide for, acquisition and use of "legal
| software."
|
| Finally, the Vice President announced that the Commerce Department
| will award 79 new Advanced Technology Program (ATP) grants, worth $82
| million, to keep America at the cutting-edge of technology and
| innovation. ATP helps fund higher-risk, higher-payoff investments that
| can yield enormous economic benefits. By requiring cost-sharing from
| industry, the ATP leverages federal research dollars and encourages
| companies to invest in long-term technological breakthroughs.
|
| This year's grants will go for, among other things:
|
| Technology to restore nerve functions to treat victims of
| spinal cord injuries.
|
| Life-saving DNA diagnostics at 1/100th of the current cost.
|
| Digital video technologies that will allow businesses to do
| video-conferencing over ordinary phone lines.
|
| Software technologies that will dramatically cut the cost
| of updating the skills of workers using computer-based
| training.
|
| ###
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NODE ef9d1282Fw: 1998-11-10 VP Unveils a Vietnam Veterans Virtual Wall on the Internet
"kryz" <chrisharwig@hetnet.nl>Fri, 20 Nov 1998 08:23:00 +0800
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| Date: dinsdag 17 november 1998 16:12:00
| From: The White House
| To: Public-Distribution@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov
| Subject: 1998-11-10 VP Unveils a Vietnam Veterans Virtual Wall on the Internet
|
|
| THE WHITE HOUSE
|
| Office of the Vice President
| ________________________________________________________________________
| For Immediate Release November 10, 1998
|
|
|
| VICE PRESIDENT GORE UNVEILS A VIETNAM VETERANS
| "VIRTUAL WALL" ON THE INTERNET AS PART
| OF A NEW VETERAN'S EDUCATION INITIATIVE
|
| Also, Highlights New World War II Veterans Stamps
|
|
| Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore announced today the creation
| of a Vietnam veterans "virtual wall" as part of a new web site to enable
| users to search for names and hear personal remembrances of Vietnam
| veterans.
|
| "For 15 years, people have come to the Vietnam Wall to run their
| hands across the names and remember those who never came home," Vice
| President Gore said. "Now, anybody who can run their hands across a
| computer keyboard will be able to make contact with those names and
| learn even more -- that these names belong to people who were brothers
| and sons, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters and that their
| courage helped make our freedom possible."
|
| The web site -- a joint project of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
| Fund and Winstar Communications, Inc. -- will become available in two
| stages:
|
| Starting Veterans' Day, users will be able to tap into a new
| web site on which they can click onto a deceased veteran's name
| and hear audio remembrances from family members or friends.
|
| Starting January 1999, users will be able to walk up to an
| on-line virtual wall that recreates the look and feel of the
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, run their hands over a
| veteran's name as it appears on the actual memorial, and hear
| audio remembrances from family members or friends.
|
| The virtual wall is part of a nationwide program, The Young
| Americans Vietnam War Era Studies Project, to help educate students at
| over 17,000 American public and private high schools about the Vietnam
| War.
|
| The project will include Vietnam-era high school curriculum guides
| that, among other things, will include an introduction to the Vietnam
| War; a look at the politics of the war; and information about those who
| served. An Internet Education Center will focus on the historical,
| social, and political aspects of the war.
|
| The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund also created a traveling replica
| of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which is currently located in New
| York, to allow grieving survivors and families to view the memorial in
| their own communities. On Veterans Day, the traveling exhibit will
| include kiosks to enable Americans to record their remembrances of the
| war for posting on the virtual wall.
|
| Earlier today, the Vice President unveiled the U.S. Postal
| Services' Celebrate the Century stamp series that includes three new
| World War II-related stamps:
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| the "World War II" stamp that pays tribute to the 16 million
| men and women who served and sacrificed in uniform during that
| war;
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| the "Women Support War Effort" stamp that honors the
| contributions of home front war workers, without whom
| soldiers, sailors, pilots, and marines could not have achieved
| victory; and
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| the "GI Bill 1994" stamp that salutes the legislation that
| provided benefits for veterans.
|
| The Vice President praised the American Battle Monuments Commission
| and the U.S. Postal Service for coming together to make these
| commemorative stamps available to the American public.
|
| ###
|
NODE 3b46dff4Re: Fw: my thoughts for this list
mgraffam@mhv.netMon, 27 Jul 1998 09:29:27 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, kryz wrote:
> I guess you mean PGP?
> Just have patience... maybe a little prayer will help.
And the other guy said ..
> > I have been getting this list for a few days. I subscribed to this list in
> > the hopes I could learn something about crypto, in particular the GPG
> > project.
GPG = GNU Privacy Guard.
GPG is a PGP work-a-like .. doesn't support RSA (yet) due to the patents,
but once they run out, GPG will use it. I think it uses Blowfish (and
CAST?) for the symmetric algorithms, and probably 3DES too. I dunno
about IDEA .. I have my doubts due to the patents.
Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net)
http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc
"..the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and
hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine
ears, and sometimes voices.." Caliban, Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
NODE 5f45908aRe: Larry King
Dutra de Lacerda <dulac@ip.pt>Sat, 25 Jul 1998 11:53:23 -0700 (PDT)
At Saturday, you wrote:
>Some whisper that Larry King is the incarnation of the frog, mentioned in
>the book Some Like It Green, written by William Chutov.
>Can this be true? I have bad dreams about it.
>Please, help me out!
Wrong assumption.
Frogs are no aliens.
Ergo IT (Larry) is no frog.
Dulac.
- - -
Antonio Manuel Melo de Carvalho Dutra de Lacerda
Morada : Rua Rodrigues Cabrilho, 5 - 5 Esq.
1400 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Telefone : +351-(1)-3013579
FAX & BBS : +351-(1)-3021098
NODE ad2bfdb2Re: Fw: my thoughts for this list
Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>Tue, 28 Jul 1998 00:05:04 -0700 (PDT)
At 12:19 PM 7/27/98 -0400, mgraffam@mhv.net wrote:
>GPG = GNU Privacy Guard.
>
>GPG is a PGP work-a-like .. doesn't support RSA (yet) due to the patents,
>but once they run out, GPG will use it. I think it uses Blowfish (and
>CAST?) for the symmetric algorithms, and probably 3DES too. I dunno
>about IDEA .. I have my doubts due to the patents.
Actually, GPG has been a PGP-look-similar-but-not-interoperate-like
rather tha a workalike. Unless GPG has been updated lately,
GPG keys tend to do Very Crashy Things to my PGP 5.5.x
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
NODE 564cb50fRe: Rinda Leed
"Bernardo B. Terrado" <bbt@mudspring.uplb.edu.ph>Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:20:10 -0700 (PDT)
What the?!?!
I'm amazed, this site is not only about "encrypt...." but for the creep
also!?
===============================================================================
You give the words you have spoken,
it is not lended and are not taken back.
It is like what The Corrs sung "...your forgiven not forgotten...."
bbt@mudspring.uplb.edu.ph
bbt@peak-two.uplb.edu.ph
metaphone@altavista.net
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, kryz wrote:
> Guys (and Girls),
> Not looking OverShoulder but BetweenLegs (both "TM") I found out (through
> European North-Sea Channel) that Rinda Leed aka Linda Reed is suffering a
> severe form of Post-Menstruation-Disorder.
> Also her Labia Majora are inflamed and bleedy so she can't sit on her
> keyboard without clottering it while typing.
> FDR... Fucking De Republic?
> Let's pray for Hur.
>
>
> Chris Harwig
> Nieuwegein, United Netherlands
> <chrisharwig@hetnet.nl>
>
>
NODE 3bb270e8Re: FM radio hiss etc.
Travis Savo <admin@max-web.com>Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:17:33 -0700 (PDT)
At 02:56 AM 8/3/98 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Dumb as I am, I have a question about retrieving random stuff out off radio
>hiss:
>
>If it is/could be possible with FM hiss, is it possible too with a
>recording of, for example, a leeking faucet, tree-hiss forced by the wind,
>a sack of beads falling to te ground, even the sound of a shower, etc.? And
I don't see why not. If you got a high enough sampling rate (44khz should
do nicely), and set a peek threshold so anything under a certian volume was
a 0 and every peek over was a 1 I could think of a BUNCH of samples that
with a little playing with the threshold could produce some pretty random
resluts. Furthermore, by adjusting the threshhold you would get a toatly
different number. Using a random sampling with a random threshhold would
bring you closer to a truely random number. Of corse it's still not
possible to get a truely random number because you gotta get the threshold
value somehow... see below for why...
>what is, by the way, TRULY randomness - could that ever be reached? I have
>a bold assumption: it never can be.
That was my understanding, but I'm no expert on the subject.
>Housenumbers aren't good for that - that *I* know.
Absolutely, because the seed is not truely random. For instance, most
random number generators use the current time from the internal clock to
generate a random number. However if you were to do the exact same thing at
the exact same time (down to the millisecond) it would reproduce the same
number.
If you try this let me know what you find!
>Chris Harwig
>Nieuwegein, The United Netherlands
><chrisharwig@hetnet.nl> (no acces to the Internet; due to lack of money...)
>
>(I am not a native English speaker - as you probably see.)
>
>P.S. I can't help it: I miss Linda Reed fka Linda Reed...
>
NODE 935c2b23"In dreams begin responsibility" - W.B. Yeats
"kryz" <chrisharwig@hetnet.nl>Sun, 6 Sep 1998 05:10:26 -0700 (PDT)
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| Date: vrijdag 4 september 1998 22:44:00
| From: The White House
| To: Public-Distribution@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov
| Subject: 1998-09-04 Remarks by President to Officials of Gateway Computers
|
|
| THE WHITE HOUSE
|
| Office of the Press Secretary
| (Dublin, Ireland)
| ________________________________________________________________________
| For Immediate Release September 4, 1998
|
|
|
| REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
| TO BUSINESS LEADERS,
| AND OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF GATEWAY COMPUTERS
|
|
| Gateway Computers European Facility
| Santry, County Dublin, Ireland
|
|
| 4:12 P.M. EDT
|
|
| THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for the wonderful welcome, the waving flag
| -- (applause) -- the terrific shirts -- I want one of those shirts
| before I leave -- (applause) -- at least shirts have not become virtual,
| you can actually have one of them. (Laughter.)
|
| I want to say to the Taoiseach how very grateful I am for his
| leadership and friendship. But I must say that I was somewhat
| ambivalent when we were up here giving our virtual signatures. Do you
| have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm
| going to feel utterly useless if I can't do that anymore. (Laughter.)
| By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all
| the decisions -- you just sign your name. (Laughter.) You may find you
| can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual
| everything. Just stick a little card in and get the predicable
| response.
|
| I want to congratulate Baltimore Technologies on making this possible
| as well. And Ted Waitt, let me thank you for the tour of this wonderful
| facility. As an American I have to do one little chauvinist thing. I
| asked Ted -- I saw the Gateway -- do you see the Gateway boxes over
| there and the then the Gateway logo and I got a Gateway golf bag before
| I came in and it was black and white like this. (Applause.) So I said,
| where did this logo come from? And he said, "It's spots on a cow." He
| said, we started in South Dakota and Iowa and people said how can there
| be a computer company in the farmland of America? And now there is one
| in the farmland of America that happens to be in Ireland.
|
| But it's a wonderful story that shows the point I want to make later,
| which is that there is no monopoly on brain power anywhere. There have
| always been intelligent people everywhere, in the most underinvested and
| poorest parts of the world. Today on the streets of the poorest
| neighborhoods in the most crowded country in the world -- which is
| probably India, in the cities -- there are brilliant people who need a
| chance.
|
| And technology, if we handle it right, will be one of the great
| liberating and equalizing forces in all of human history, because it
| proves that unlike previous economic waves you could be on a small farm
| in Iowa or South Dakota or you could be in a country like Ireland, long
| under-invested in by outsiders, and all of a sudden open the whole world
| up. And you can prove that people you can find on any street corner can
| master the skills of tomorrow. So this is a very happy day.
|
| I want to thank the other officials from the Irish government,
| Minister Harney and Minister O'Rourke and others. I thank my great
| Commerce Secretary, Bill Daley, for being here, and Jim Lyons, who heads
| my economic initiatives for Ireland, and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith,
| who has done a magnificent job for us and will soon be going home after
| having played a major role in getting the peace process started, and we
| thank her.
|
| I thank you all personally for the warm reception you gave George
| Mitchell, because you have no idea how much grief he gave me for giving
| him this job. (Laughter and applause.) You all voted for the agreement
| now, and everything is basically going in the right direction, but it
| was like pulling fingernails for three years -- everybody arguing over
| every word, every phrase, every semicolon, you know? In the middle of
| that, George Mitchell was not all that happy that I had asked him to
| undertake this duty.
|
| But when you stood up and you clapped for him today, for the first
| time since I named him, he looked at me and said thank you. So thank
| you again, you made my day. (Applause.) Thank you.
|
| I'd also like to thank your former Prime Minister and Taoiseach,
| John Bruton, who's here and who also worked with us on the peace
| process. Thank you, John, for coming, it's delightful to see you.
| (Applause.) And I would like you to know that there are a dozen members
| of the United States Congress here, from both parties -- showing that we
| have reached across our own divide to support peace and prosperity in
| Ireland. And I thank all the members of Congress and I'd like to ask
| them to stand up, just so you'll see how many there are here. Thank you
| very much. (Applause.)
|
| I know that none of the Irish here will be surprised when I tell
| you that a recent poll of American intellectuals decided that the best
| English language novel of the 20th century was a book set in Dublin,
| written by an Irishman, in Trieste and Zurich, and first published in
| New York and Paris -- a metaphor of the world in which we now live.
| James Joyce's "Ulysses" was the product of many cultures, but it remains
| a deeply Irish work.
|
| Some of you will remember that near the beginning of the book,
| Joyce wrote, "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
| Much of Irish history, of course, is rich and warm and wonderful, but we
| all know it has its nightmarish aspects. They are the ones from which
| Ireland is now awakening, thanks to those who work for peace and thanks
| to those who bring prosperity.
|
| Much of Ireland's new history, of course, will be shaped by the
| Good Friday Peace Agreement. You all, from your response to Senator
| Mitchell, are knowledgeable of it and proud of it, and I thank you for
| voting for it in such overwhelming numbers in the Republic.
|
| I think it's important that you know it's a step forward not only
| for Irish people but for all people divided everywhere who are seeking
| new ways to think about old problems, who want to believe that they
| don't forever have to be at the throats of those with whom they share a
| certain land, just because they are of a different faith or race or
| ethnic group or tribe. The leaders and the people of Ireland and
| Northern Ireland, therefore, are helping the world to awaken from
| history's nightmares.
|
| Today Ireland is quite an expansive place, with a positive outlook
| on the world. The 1990s have changed this country in profound and
| positive ways. Not too long ago, Ireland was a poor country by European
| standards, inward-looking, sometimes insular.
|
| Today, as much as any country in Europe, Ireland is connected in
| countless ways to the rest of the world, as Ted showed me when we moved
| from desk to desk to desk downstairs with the people who were talking to
| France and the people who were talking to Germany and the people who
| were talking to Scandinavia, and on and on and on.
|
| This country has strong trade relations with Britain and the
| United States, with countries of the European Union and beyond. And
| Ireland, as we see here at this place, is fast becoming a technological
| capital of Europe. Innovative information companies are literally
| transforming the way the Irish interact and communicate with other
| countries. That is clear here -- perhaps clearer here than anywhere
| else -- at Gateway, a company speaking many languages and most of all
| the language of the future. Gateway and other companies like Intel and
| Dell and Digital are strengthening Ireland's historic links to the
| United States and reaching out beyond.
|
| I think it is very interesting, and I was not aware of this before
| I prepared for this trip, that Dublin is literally becoming a major
| telecommunications center for all of Europe. More and more Europeans do
| business on more and more telephones, and more and more of their calls
| are routed through here. You connect people and businesses in very
| combination: a German housewife, a French computer company, a Czech
| businessman, a Swedish investor -- people all around Europe learning to
| do business on the Internet.
|
| At the hub of this virtual commerce is Ireland, a natural gateway
| for the future also of such commerce between Europe and the United
| States. In the 21st century, after years and years and years of being
| disadvantaged because of what was most important to the production of
| wealth, Ireland will have its day in the sun because the most important
| thing in the 21st century is the capacity of people to imagine, to
| innovate, to create, to exchange ideas and information. By those
| standards, this is a very wealthy nation indeed.
|
| Your growth has been phenomenal: last year, 7.7 percent; prices
| rising at only 1.5 percent; unemployment at a 20-year low. Ireland is
| second only to the United States in exporting software. This year the
| Irish government may post a surplus of $1.7 billion. The Celtic tiger
| is roaring and you should be very proud of it. (Applause.)
|
| It has been speculated, half seriously, that there are more
| foreigners here than at any time since the Vikings pillaged Ireland in
| the 9th century. (Laughter.) I guess I ought to warn you -- you know,
| whenever a delegation of Congressmen comes to Ireland they all claim to
| be Irish -- and in a certain way they all are -- but one of the members
| of the delegation here, Congressman Hoyer, who has been a great friend
| of the peace process, is in fact of Viking heritage, descent.
| (Laughter.) Stand up, Steny. (Applause.)
|
| Now, all the rest of us come here and pander to you and tell you
| we love Ireland because there is so much Irish blood running in our
| veins. He comes here and says he loves Ireland because there is so much
| of his blood running in your veins. (Laughter and applause.)
|
| Let me get back to what I was saying about the Internet -- because
| your position vis-a-vis telecommunication can be seen through that.
| When I came here just three years ago -- had one of the great days of my
| life, there was so much hope about the peace process then -- only 3
| million people worldwide were connected to the Internet, three years
| ago. Today there are over 120 million people, a 40-fold increase in
| three years. In the next decade sometime it will be over a billion.
| Already, if you travel, you can see the impact of this in Russia or in
| China or other far-flung places around the globe.
|
| I had an incredible experience in one of these Internet cafes in
| Shanghai, where I met with young high school students in China working
| the Internet. Even if they didn't have computers at home, they could
| come to the cafe, buy a cup of coffee, rent a little time and access the
| Internet. This is going to change dramatically the way we work and
| live. It is going to democratize opportunity in the world in a way that
| has never been the case in all of human history. And if we are wise and
| decent about it, we can not only generate more wealth, we can reduce
| future wars and conflicts.
|
| The agreement that we signed today does some important things. It
| commits us to reduce unnecessary regulatory barriers, to refrain from
| imposing customs duties, to keep taxes to a minimum, to create a stable
| and predictable environment for doing business electronically. It helps
| us, in other words, to create an architecture for one of the most
| important areas of business activity in the century ahead.
|
| There are already 470 companies in Ireland that are American, and
| many of them are in the information sector. The number is growing
| quickly. So I say to you that I think this agreement we have signed
| today, and the way we have signed it, will not only be helpful in and of
| themselves, but will stand for what I hope will be the future direction
| of your economy and America's, the future direction of our relationship,
| and will open a massive amount of opportunity to ordinary people who
| never would have had it before.
|
| A strong modern economy thrives on education, innovation, respect
| for the interests of workers and customers and a respect for the earth's
| environment. An enlightened population is our best investment in a good
| future. Prosperity reinforces peace as well. The Irish have long
| championed prosperity, peace, and human decency, and for all that I am
| very grateful.
|
| I would like to just say, because I can't leave Ireland without
| acknowledging this, that there are few nations that have contributed
| more than Ireland, even in times which were difficult for this country,
| to the cause of peace and human rights around the world. You have given
| us now Mary Robinson to serve internationally in that cause. But since
| peacekeeping began for the United Nations 40 years ago, 75 Irish
| soldiers have given their lives.
|
| Today we work shoulder to shoulder in Bosnia and the Middle East.
| But I think you should know, that as nearly as I can determine, in the
| 40 years in which the world has been working together on peacekeeping,
| the only country in the world which has never taken a single, solitary
| day off from the cause of world peace to the United Nations peacekeeping
| operations is Ireland. And I thank you. (Applause.)
|
| In 1914, on the verge of the First World War, which would change
| Europe and Ireland forever, William Butler Yeats wrote his famous line,
| "In dreams begin responsibility." Ireland has moved from nightmares to
| dreams. Ireland has assumed great responsibility. As a result, you are
| moving toward permanent peace, remarkable prosperity, unparalleled
| influence, and a brighter tomorrow for your children. May the
| nightmares stay gone, the dreams stay bright, and the responsibility
| wear easily on your shoulder, because the future is yours.
|
| Thank you, and God bless you.
|
| END 4:28 P.M. (L)