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************************************************************ Edupage, 15 September 1996. Edupage, a summary of news about information technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom, a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. ************************************************************
SATELLITE BROADCASTERS MUST PROVIDE EDUCATION, TOO A federal appeals court in Washington has ruled that any company providing direct broadcast satellite (DBS) services must "reserve a portion of its channel capacity, equal to not less than 4 percent nor more than 7 percent, exclusively for noncommercial programming of an educational or information nature," in compliance with regulations drafted by the FCC to enforce laws enacted in 1984 and 1992. The unanimous decision rejected arguments by Time Warner and other broadcasters that the law interfered with their First Amendment rights. "It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount," said the court, quoting a 1969 Supreme Court ruling. (Chronicle of Higher Education 13 Sep 96 A29)
Bloody socialist Supreme Court... sell the _full_ rights, then use the money to reduce taxes.
SYSTEM CRACKER GOT RECIPE FROM HACKER MAGAZINE The person who disabled New York's Panix Internet service probably followed the line-by-line instructions for doing so that appeared in the latest issue of 2600 magazine, the Hacker's Quarterly. "We need to educate the community that it's very, very simple to cause massive mayhem," says 2600's editor, who defended his editorial judgment. "A lot of companies subscribe to us so they can learn before they're victimized." Panix's co-owner says he supports 2600's right to publish such information: "As a matter of principle I don't think they should have been stopped," but adds that unlike most other recipes for breaching security published in the magazine, this one has no known technical defense. (Wall Street Journal 13 Sep 96 B5)
Helpful to quote Panix on it.
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