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FINALE [Editorial].(Editorial)
December 1, 2002... ... And he rode off slowly into the sunset. It seems absolutely incredible that 23 years of writing editorials for the 'Online Newsletter' have passed so quickly, more than 42 years since I first started using 80-column IBM punch cards for processing data, and more than nearly 65 years...

COMPUTER SUPERSNOOP: THE NEW DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.
December 1, 2002... As this article is written, the Homeland Security Act has already been passed by the House and Senate and is awaiting the signature of the President upon his return from Europe. The Act creates the new Department of Homeland Security, a new Cabinet-level department that will employ as many as...

CIPA CASE WILL BE DECIDED BY SUPREME COURT.( Children's Internet Protection Act )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether public libraries be required to censor sexually explicit Web sites from their PCs in exchange for receiving federal funds. On May 31, 2002, the Children's Internet Protection Act was ruled unconstitutional in a unanimous vote by a...

DIALUP: ALL DRESSED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO.
December 1, 2002... It used to be that Americans could boast about their superior telephone service to the rest of the world. -- Not anymore. While half of the world's population does not have access to even a single telephone, basic telephone service in the United States has deteriorated to a point that it...

TDS RELEASES PPDS3 FOR WINDOWS.(Technical Database Services Inc.)
December 1, 2002... Technical Database Services, Inc. (TDS), the North American distributor of PPDS software, has announced the availability of a major program release, PPDS3 for Windows. PPDS3 calculates physical, thermodynamic and transport properties and, the phase equilibrium of pure components and...