- February 13, 2002 in Hart Senate Office Building
- Sponsored by Advisory Committee to the Caucus
- Dignitaries of Note
- Senators Leahy and Burns, Congressmen Goodlatte and Boucher, and FCC Chairman Michael K Powell
- Priorities included Broadband, Wireless, Digital Rights Management
- Vendor Listing
- Vendor Themes
- Digital Rights Management for Audio over the Internet
- Wireless Technology
- Authentication and Security
- Privacy
- Space Data Corporation to use Weather Balloons for ?skysights?
- Weather service to receive "carrying fee" for transponders
- Space Data near launch, after receiving FCC approval
- Build by MIT Media Lab
- Vinyl Spinners Watch Out
- Uses a PC, several micro-controllers, advanced motion control
- Mix, scratch, and search vinyl records sitting on its turntables.
- Launch of Proceeding to Promote Widespread Deployment of Broadband
- Propsed to classify DSL as a data service
- Approval of Commercial Use of Ultra- Wide Band (UWB) Technology
- Initial applications include Public Safety and Broadband Internet Access
- Clark Praises Committee? on Broadband Last Mile Technology
- During last two months of 2001, Match.com membership grew by
- 45% in Germany, 39% in Netherlands, 27% in Spain
- 48% in France, 39% in Italy, 26% in Denmark
- 50% in UK (for January 2002)
- Othersites include uDate.com, Dating.co.uk, Dating.dk
- Research shows most online romances fail
- Slashdot is known as "News for Nerds"
- CmdrTaco, editor and founder of Slashdot posted a marriage proposal to Kathleen Fent on the front page
- Katheleen’s pic from her own website
- Funniest response: If you two get married, will you be all proprietary towards her, or will she be open source??
- Personal robots are in (about $1000)
- Internet Everywhere using 802.11b (Wi-Fi is the marketing name)
- PC Tablets, etc for portability
- 5 year old company that sought to run Fiber Optics to connect the continents
- Paid $4M in lobbying fees to both parties
- Based in Bermuda with offices in CA and NJ
- Contracts with US Government Agencies, NATA, many countries
- Watch out. Assets selling for pennies on the dollar. Chinese are interested.
- Get a Digital Camers
- Analog Cameras with cheap Frame Grabbers have lost frames
- Expensive converters are $250
- 1 Hours of video take 13GB of space
- Step Charger by Aladdin
- Foot Petal Power for your laptop
- 5 minutes of charging will give 20 minutes battery life to labtop
- DOJ Released 47 comments in Microsoft Case
- 5 Pro and 42 Against DOJ/MS proposed settlement
- A Valentine Gift to Bill (Released February 14, 2002)
- Microsoft Sues Lindows
- An Open Source "Windows" OS
- MS expected to lose case
- Doing ?Research Only?
- Now vows to stop all snooping immediately
- May have violated the law
- CERT Advisory CA-2002-03
- Major alert for network administrators
- All vendors affected
- Network managers must patch immediately
- Next Start: March 16th for all programs
- Campuses at both Woodbridge and Falls Church
- Scholarship Days
- Saturday, Feb 16th Falls Church 10 AM
- Saturday, March 9th Woodbridge 10 AM
- Woodbridge Open House
- Thursday Feb. 21st 2002
- Noon to 7:30 PM