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Machado" To: "Bits N Bytes Distribution List" Subject: Bits and Bytes Online Edition v3 #2 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 23:28:59 +0000 -------------- Enclosure number 1 ---------------- "Remember: There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace." - Dave Barry ====================================================================== BBB III TTT SSS BBB Y Y TTT EEE SSS ONLINE EDITION: B B I T S B B Y Y T E S =THE ELECTRONIC BBB I T SSS AND BBB YYY T EEE SSS =NEWSLETTER FOR B B I T S B B Y T E S =INFORMATION BBB III T SSS BBB Y T EEE SSS =HUNTER-GATHERERS ====================================================================== Volume 3, Number 2 (January 26, 1995) ====================================================================== PARITY BITS : = ================: Boom Times in Cyberspace; = : The Truth About Version Numbers; = : Ten Ways to Rule the World Through Cyberspace; = : Stepping Back From Divisiveness; = : Empire of the Useless II = ACCESS : = ================: Access to Acronyms; The Internet by Email; = : Internet Lecture Series at the Smithsonian = : = KULTCHER KORNER : = ================: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees = : = B&B BOOKSHELF : = ================: Computer-Related Risks; = : Digital Woes: Why We Should Not Depend on Software = ====================================================================== "Due to the austere level of funding, the light at the end of the tunnel will be extinguished until further notice." Unattributed, from the QUOTATIONS Listserver ====================================================================== BOOM TIMES IN CYBERSPACE (Jay Machado) We open this edition of Bits and Bytes with some excerpts from Win Treese's Internet Index #5. Inspired by "Harper's Index"*, the statistics show that in 1994 the net continued its' amazing growth, albeit at a slightly slower pace than in 1993. Gopher traffic, for instance, merely quadrupled in 1994. An abundance of interesting sociological phenomena will no doubt occur as a 25-year old Internet struggles to integrate the latest wave of immigrants to cyberspace, most of whom are blissfully unaware of the net's longstanding traditions and social mores. These culture clashes already show signs of intensifying as the virtual battle lines are drawn between a longstanding net culture based on the free flow of information and the growing hordes of net entrepreneurs, who are working on various methods of extracting a profit out of the information $uperhighway. Other clashes will occur as the freewheeling, decentralized tendencies of the net meet Mr. and Mrs. America, who'd like to keep things clean and wholesome for the kiddies. Already one company is offering net feeds with all the nasty parts excised. I was bitten when I posted the Microsoft/Catholic church PARODY at work and raised the ire of a few rabid Catholics. It didn't even occur to me that it would offend, as used as I am to seeing far worse in my wanderings through the net. These are exactly the kind of issues B&B is interested in exploring in future editions, located as they are at the intersection of technology and culture. Growth of Gopher traffic in 1993: 1076% Growth of Gopher traffic in 1994: 197% Growth of WWW traffic in 1993: 443,931% Growth of WWW traffic in 1994: 1,713% Number of countries on the Internet in 1993: 60 Number of countries on the Internet in 1994: 81 Number of attendees at Internet World, January, 1992: 272 Number of attendees at Internet World, December, 1994: 10,000 + Percentage increase in weight of the 2nd edition of the Canadian Internet Handbook: 280 Number of Internet messages causing Microsoft to issue a press release denying them: 1 *"Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of Harper's Magazine Foundation. The Internet Index is Copyright 1994 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to treese@OpenMarket.com. A copy of the Index annotated with sources can be found at: http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html To subscribe to future issues of the Internet Index, send a message saying "subscribe internet-index" in the body to internet-index-request@OpenMarket.com. ====================================================================== "Maybe you should telephone the Internet and talk to their tech support people." (Reply from an AOL tech-support rep speaking to a customer complaining about e-mail that failed to go through.) Good dig! Good service too. (SOURCE: Internet World, February 1995, p. 18) ====================================================================== TEN WAYS TO RULE THE WORLD THROUGH CYBERSPACE (Keith Bostic) 1. Killer Client Create an amazing monolithic web client. Get everyone hooked and then augment the standard until you've locked out your competition. 2. Killer Standards The HTTP standards are way too simple now! Any creative little company can get in on the action. Start making those standards FANTASTICALLY complex so just a few big companies can play. An MIT consortium could accomplish this without even meaning to. 3. Killer Fonts Start a trendy magazine with hard-to-read fonts. Take smart drugs. Plan an on-line service of your own while labeling all potential competitors "obsolete" or "tired". 4. Killer Shopping Mall Start an on-line service for people to buy things. Keep an eye on people's email to make sure everyone is shopping and NOT complaining to each other about crummy products. 5. Killer Content If you happen to own the rights to serious amounts of popular Mass Culture (violent action movies, cute cartoon icons, etc), try to leverage that into deals with technology companies. 6. Killer Set-Top Box If you happen to own a telephone or TV cable company, just design a set-top box so you can pump mindless drivel into people's homes. Home Shopping and Top-10 Movies On Demand would make you LOTS of money. Give the consumer enough upstream bandwidth so they can press the "buy" button on their remote, but not enough to actually get on-line and (god forbid!) communicate with each other. 7. Killer Language Invent a little language and call it a "scripting" language or a "mark-up" language, so people will overlook the fact that its' syntax sucks or it has dynamic scoping. Try to insinuate it into the HTTP or MIME standards. 8. Killer Buzzword Pick some industrial graphics standard and rename it as something sexy like "Cyber Space Modeling Language". Hope no one notices that CAD graphics modeling languages have little or nothing to do with interactive presence. 9. Killer Magna Carta If you happen to be a collection of powerful communications corporations who are afraid the national net will be opened up as a common carrier, issue a manifesto in Wired Magazine ranting about how the government should stay out of Cyberspace. Talk about freedom and progress and hope no one notices that you just want to pump Home Shopping and Video Games into the home. 10. Killer Government If you happen to be the US government, then you ALREADY rule the world! Just make sure you can eavesdrop on cyberspace and crush anything that looks like it's getting too big. (SOURCE: Dan Wallach forwarded it to Phil Agre, who sent it to me as part of his admirable Red Rock Eater News Service, of which more later. I'm sending it to you! Who're you going to send it to?) ====================================================================== ATA (ACCESS TO ACRONYMS) The latest revision of BABEL: A GLOSSARY OF COMPUTER ORIENTED ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS, dated January 1995, is now available for your technical edification. Babel is an alphabetical listing of about 3000 terms like ATDT, CASE, SPARC, NNTP, and WYSIWYG (Attention Dial Tone, Computer Aided Software Engineering, Scalable Processor Architecture, Network News Transfer Protocol, and What You See Is What You Get, respectively). Babel is updated regularly, and is quite useful to have on your hard drive. Here's how to get a copy: FTP: ftp.temple.edu At Login : anonymous At Password: your email address cd /pub/info/help-net get babel95a.txt (then remember to quit) GOPHER: gopher.temple.edu From Main Menu select: Computer Resources and Information Internet & Bitnet Information (Help-Net) Glossary of......(BABEL95A.TXT) LISTSERV: Send e-mail to: listserv@vm.temple.edu (for Internet users) listserv@templevm (for Bitnet users) Subject line should be left blank. In body of message put this command: GET BABEL95A TXT HELP-NET Also try looking for it on your local BBS, where it can often be found as BABEL95A.ZIP. Soon you too will be spouting off that high-tech mumbo-jumbo with the best of them. ====================================================================== (NOT SO) STUPID EMAIL TRICKS: ACCESSING THE INTERNET BY EMAIL Let kindly Doctor Bob be your guide to accessing the wonders of the Internet via email. Bits and Bytes just recently came across the latest edition of this wonderful FREE guide. We'll let Dr. Bob himself take it from here: "If your only access to the Internet is via e-mail, you don't have to miss out on all the fun! Maybe you've heard of FTP, Gopher, Archie, Veronica, Finger, Whois, WAIS, World-Wide Web, and Usenet but thought they were out of your reach because your online service does not provide those tools. Not so! And even if you do have full Internet access, using e-mail servers can save you time and money." "This special report will show you how to retrieve files from FTP sites, explore the Internet via Gopher, search for information with Archie, Veronica, or WAIS, tap into the World-Wide Web, and even access Usenet newsgroups using E-MAIL AS YOUR ONLY TOOL." "If you can send a note to an Internet address, you're in the game! This is great news for users of online services where there is partial or no direct Internet access." Yes, Indeed. The guide contains detailed instructions for performing these amazing feats. So if you are currently limited to email-only access to the net, I would urge you to do two things: 1) Pick up Doctor Bob's Guide to Accessing The Internet By E-Mail. Instructions for getting it are listed below. You will be amazed at just how much you can do. 2) Think about upgrading your service. SLIP/PPP hookups, which give you access to the full range of Internet services like FTP and World Wide Web can often be had for $20-30 bucks a month. Look beyond AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve/Delphi/Genie and patronize a local access provider. The net is rapidly becoming commercialized -- Master- Card International and Netscape Communications have just announced that they are developing a secure interface for on-line transactions on the net. Let's not let things get too centralized too fast. Remember how it was when there was only one phone company? The net's great strength is in the diversity of people and resources on it. It's not as difficult to navigate as you might suppose, and besides, finding your way around can be part of the adventure. But I digress... here's how to get the latest version of the guide: This document is now available from several automated mail servers. To get the latest edition, send e-mail to one of the addresses below. To: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (for US/Canada/etc.) Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note: GET INTERNET BY-EMAIL NETTRAIN F=MAIL To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu (for Eastern US) Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email To: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk (for UK/Europe/etc.) Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note: send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites: Site: ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu get NETTRAIN/INTERNET.BY-EMAIL Site: rtfm.mit.edu get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email Site: mailbase.ac.uk get pub/lists/lis-iis/files/e-access-inet.txt ====================================================================== THE TRUTH ABOUT VERSION NUMBERS (Mark Thorson) How should a revision level be interpreted? Here's a quick guide for anyone short of a clue: 0.1 WE GOT A REALLY GREAT NEW WAY TO DO THINGS !!! <0.9 Not ready for prime time. 0.9 We think it works, but we won't bet our lives on it. 1.0 Management is on our case; seems like a low risk. 1.01 Okay, we knew about that. All known bugs are fixed. 1.02 Fixes bugs you won't see in 27,000 years, i.e. more than three times the age of the universe. 1.03 Fixes bugs in the bug fixes. 1.04 All right, this REALLY fixes all known bugs. 1.05 Fixes bugs introduced in rev 1.04. 1.1 A new crew hired to write documentation. 1.11 From now on, no comma after "i.e." or "e.g.". 1.2 Somebody actually changed a functional feature. 2.0 New crew hired to write software. Old crew blamed for bugs. 2.01 New crew sending out resumes to placement agencies. 3.0 Re-write the software in another language, go back ten squares. ... return to line 0.1 Mark Thorson (eee@netcom.com) ====================================================================== STEPPING BACK FROM DIVISIVENESS (Teresa Heinz) Today, we seem to dread politics as a ghoulish thing. We have come to envision Washington as a cave of horrors where zombie-like politicians, mummified by the insular Washington air and chained to demonic special interests, clank their insidious way down Pennsylvania Avenue, perpetually sinking their teeth into our wallets and draining from our veins the lifeblood of democracy. Even politicians and would-be politicians describe each other as nothing short of a monstrous criminal class. Little wonder that fewer than a third of the American people trust government to do what's right even a majority of the time. ... But we must call on our politicians, on our leaders of all kinds, to step back from the divisiveness, to forgo the opportunism, to stop trying to profit from our anxiety and our differences. As a country, we must focus anew on our similarities, on the shared hopes and dreams that made us what we are. The road back to hope, to a new sense of place is not through the hateful swamp where the ideologues dwell; it is through the common spaces of our dreams. (SOURCE: Teresa Heinz, Oct. 27 1994 speech, reprinted in the Philadelphia Inquirer) ====================================================================== ON THE OTHER HAND... ====================================================================== THE EMPIRE OF THE USELESS II (Critical Art Ensemble) "Progress in the 20th century has primarily consisted of bourgeois culture looking for a new master. In the time of bourgeois revolution, the aristocracy was destroyed, as was the church with its spiritual hierarchies, but the primordial desire to serve the useless has never been affected. The 'primitive' ritual of offering goods to an angry or potentially angry God in order to appease it into a state of neutrality continues to replay itself in complex capitalist economy. All things must be subordinated to neutrality - to uselessness. One major difference between the age of the virtual and more primitive times is that the contemporary idols have no metaphysical referent. The ones that have been constructed are not the mediating points between person and spirit, or life and afterlife; rather, they are end-points, empty signs. To this paper master, sacrifice has no limit. The stairs of the temple flow with blood every day. How fitting for progress to come to this end in the empire of the useless." [The Critical Art Ensemble(CAE) is a collective of six artists of different specializations committed to the production of a new genre art that explores the intersections among critical theory, art, and technology.] ====================================================================== KULTCHER KORNER ==> ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. Congratulations to this year's inductees: the Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Martha and the Vandellas, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Billboard publisher Paul Ackerman, and the Orioles. ====================================================================== "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." -- Mitch Ratliffe ====================================================================== Bits and Bytes Bookshelf Computer Related Risks - by Peter G. Neumann [ACM Press/Addison-Wesley 1995. ISBN 0-201-55805-X. 368 pp. $24.50] - Digital Woes (Why We Should Not Depend on Software) - by Lauren Ruth Weiner [Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-40796-5. 252 pp. $14] Every day, modern society becomes more and more dependant on computers to get us through our day. There are tiny microprocessors embedded in our toasters and microwave ovens, and the jets flying overhead are dependant on computer guidance to arrive safely at their destinations. Many of us eschew traditional forms of currency for the ease of use and accountability of digital cash in the form of credit/debit bank cards and other electronic payment schemes. Indeed, it would be hard for anyone to get through a day without some form of interaction with digital technology. Most of us don't give this fact a second thought; we don't stop and think about what would happen if there was a breakdown in the system. Peter G. Neumann is the moderator of one of the most fascinating (and popular) online newsgroups, the Forum on Risks to the Public in the Use of Computers and Related Systems, commonly referred to as the RISKS Forum (see the ACCESS section). The various ongoing threads in the RISKS forum have been skilfully classified and clarified in the book _Computer Related Risks_. This is one heckuva book. I couldn't put it down. I'm here to tell you, Stephen King's got nothing on this book in terms of sheer terror! I was wide-eyed with disbelief when I learned that during one 2-month period (April-May) in 1986 (the same year of the Challenger disaster), NASA lost not one, not two, but THREE separate satellites! All of them were destroyed in mid-air after they were launched. NASA's problems are well-documented elsewhere, and fortunately there was no loss of life in any of these incidents, but we're not always going to be so lucky. Neumann places problems into several major categories: reliability and safety problems, security vulnerabilities, security and integrity problems, and threats to privacy and well-being. Not all problems discussed are life-threatening, some are merely annoying, like if you've ever been refused service or had to do the bureaucratic shuffle because "that's not what the computer says". Other topics covered include financial fraud by computer, annoyances in life, death and taxes, hackers and crackers, and a great chapter on spoofs and pranks. More importantly, the book analyzes the underlying causes of breakdowns in the system and offers various frameworks for analyzing such problems and minimizing the chances of their occurring again. Note that I said minimize, not eliminate the risk. As the book makes clear, computer systems, however well designed, operate in the physical world, and a variety of mishaps can befall them. Assuming the system is well-designed (not always a safe assumption), any number of things can go wrong, from human error, mechanical failure, and natural catastrophe to such imponderables as the dreaded NASDAQ squirrel, who chewed through some wires and brought the stock market to its' knees. That we do relatively little thinking about such matters says much about humanity, about our technological myopia, and about our continuing inability to look down the road at the consequences of our actions. That's how we get nuclear power plants built near earthquake fault lines and other blatantly boneheaded "solutions" to the problems of modern life. _Computer Related Risks_ is written to be accessible by a wide range of people, and should be read by sytems designers, software engineers, savvy managerial types, and interested laymen who would like to make informed decisions about the technologies they choose to employ in their lives. --- In a similar vein, Lauren Ruth Weiner's _Digital Woes_ focuses on the software component of the technological equation. It's no surprise to those of us who write programs for a living that software is inherently unreliable, written, designed and maintained as it is by human beings. The Pentium error making headlines nowadays is a case in point: it was a result of simple human error -- in this case a few transposed numbers incorrectly entered into a hardcoded table on the chip. Computer code is tricky stuff -- something as small as a misplaced period can change the flow of your program and lead to unforeseen results. Writing code is still more of an art than a science. Although progress in this area is being made, and general principles of good coding practice have been identified, these principles are not always followed to the letter. Coding "on the fly", in response to day to day processing requirements, with no regard for future maintainability or overall program design, is not all that unusual in many IS shops. In the shop where I work, the design process involves countless meetings, committees and cross-functional working groups working in politically-charged environments, often at cross purposes with common sense, to produce preliminary designs that are in any case not always followed as rigorously as they could be. (Hi, guys!) Even when the design is good, subtle assumptions in the resulting software can become errors years down the road, when technologies change, as they are wont to do, or processing requirements change. This can bring out undiscovered bugs (sometimes called undocumented features) in a program. Stuff happens. Ms. Weiner's book is a higly readable introduction to the problems, both technological and sociological, inherent in software design. It contains lots of anecdotes that will enlighten even as they bring a chuckle of recognition to many a programmer or project manager. When you finish reading Digital Woes, you'll have a greater appreciation for the amount of effort that's involved in designing and constructing good software. Given how much can go wrong, you will marvel at how much good software there is to be had out there. Interested laymen will find the book an entertaining overview, and those wishing to delve deeper will discover a wealth of resources in the book's extensive footnotes and bibliography. ====================================================================== ACCESS: THE RISKS FORUM The RISKS forum is available in a variety of forms on the net. On Usenet, look for the comp.risks newsgroup. To receive the digest form via email, send a help message to: risks-request@csl.sri.com. An anonymous FTP archive of back issues of the digest can be found at: crvax.sri.com in the /risks subdirectory. In print, highlights from the RISKS forum appear in quarterly issues of the ACM SIGSOFT publication _Software Engineering Notes, available from the Association for Computing Machinery, 1515 Broadway, NYC, NY 10036. A monthly version, _Inside Risks_, can be found in _Communications of the ACM_. ====================================================================== INTERNET LECTURES AT THE SMITHSONIAN (Press Release) The Smithsonian is proud to present "Interacting with the Internet: Its Impact on Society", an eight part lecture series as part of its 1995 Winter/Spring "Campus on the Mall" program. Please excuse me if you've seen this elsewhere, but the lineup for these lectures is quite impressive. The explosive growth of the Internet and much more yet-to-be- realized potential raise important questions for which there are no easy answers. In this extraordinary lecture series, for both potential and actual users, leading experts on the forefront of cyberspace address the most timely and important issues facing the Internet today. Jan 24 - The State of The Internet Exactly what is the Internet and why was it create? How is it enabling 30 million people to communicate literally around the globe? What is the Internet's future? Vint Cerf, President, The Internet Society and Senior Vice President, MCI, Reston, VA Jan 31 - Daily Life on the Internet Discover the how's and what's of the rules, language, and protocols (called "netiquette") used by the thousands who have created "virtual" neighborhoods where people work and sometime play. Ester Dyson, Editor, Release 1.0, New York, NY. Feb 7 - The Internet as a Freedom Forum The Internet has become a critical tool in connecting countries all over the world. At times it is some countries' only link to the outside world. Ferooq Hussain, principal investigator, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Jack Hidary, director, EarthWeb Ltd., Rockville, MD. Feb 14 - Inter-Relating on the Internet How do men and women differ in their approach to using computers and the Internet? Vic Sussman and Amy Bernstein, reporters, US World and News Report. Feb 21 - The Marketplace in Cyberspace Most cybernauts agree that the next major area of significant growth will be buying and selling products on the Internet. Mary Cronin, Author of Doing Business on the Internet and university librarian, Boston College, MA Feb 28 - The Great Human Potential in Cyberspace The Net has opened new opportunities in human communication never before seen or known. Tremendous potential exists for the Internet to be a unifying force in every part of the globe. Jean Houston, director, Foundation for Mind Research, Pomona, NY. Mar 7 The Role of the Government in the Internet What role, if any, should government play in the everyday life of the Internet? Thomas Kalil, advisor to Vice President Gore, National Economic Advisory Council, Washington; Jerry Berman, executive director; Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington. Mar 14 Translating the Real World to Cyberspace Are E-mail contracts legally binding? Is a computer generated signature authentic? Sticky legal issues Internet users wouldn't be aware of. Brook Meeks, reporter, Interactive Week, Washington. Shari Steele, cyber-attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington. This eight part series will be presented every Tues Evening at 6:00 pm. Each session will last approximately 90 minutes. The price for the full series is $100 for Smithsonian members and $140 for non-members. For tickets and location information call 202-357-3030. Tell the operator that you're interested in Series Code 330-702. ====================================================================== "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." Carl Sagan ====================================================================== ### ADMINISTRIVIA ### SUBSCRIBERS: 3,722 THE OPENING QUOTE came from Technology Review, April, 1992. BITS AND BYTES GUARANTEE. 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We use only the finest American electrons here at Bits and Bytes, handpicked by specially trained technicians and beechwood aged for that extra smooth taste you've come to enjoy so very very much. THE LEGAL BITS. Bits and Bytes is copyright (c)1995 Jay Machado. Unaltered, electronic distribution of this file for non-profit purposes is encouraged. Please contact the editor for reprint permission. The editor is solely responsible for the editorial content (or lack thereof). Opinions expressed in Bits and Bytes blah blah blah... Does anybody actually read this crap? ====================================================================== =============== End of Bits and Bytes Online V3, #2 ================= ======================================================================