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Greetings, to my NetHappenings Buds:

I am going to be in NY Nov. 6th to see author Daniel Cassidy perform at the Donaghy Theatre.
Please come over and say hi to me if you are there.

<Karen>


1)
Professor Daniel Cassidy 2007 American Books Award Winner
HOW THE IRISH INVENTED SLANG The Secret Language of the Crossroads
by author DANIEL CASSIDY
Tuesday, November 6th 7:30 PM.
The Donaghy Theatre at the Irish Arts Center Performance
http://www.irishartscenter.org/language.htm
553 West 51 Street, New York, NY 10019
phone 212-757-3318
MORE Reviews:
"Cassidy's book is wonderful! Congrats to him on winning an American Book Award.
~ John Rickford and Martin Luther King Junior Centennial Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, where he has been a faculty member since 1980. Author of "Spoken Soul" American Book Award.
Reviews:



2)
Comcast Admits Interfering with Internet Traffic
NEW YORK -- Comcast Corp. on Tuesday acknowledged "delaying" some subscriber Internet traffic, but said any roadblocks it puts up are temporary and intended to improve surfing for other users.
The statement was a response to an Associated Press report last week that detailed how the nation's largest cable company was interfering with file sharing by some of its Internet subscribers. The AP also found that Comcast's computers masqueraded as those of its users to interrupt file-sharing connections.
Internet watchdog groups denounced Comcast's actions, calling it an example of the kind of abuse that could be curbed with so-called "Net Neutrality" legislation. It would require Internet providers to treat all traffic equally -- as has largely been the case historically.
Philadelphia-based Comcast has repeatedly denied blocking any Internet application, including "peer-to-peer" file-sharing programs like BitTorrent, which the AP used in its nationwide tests.
"Comcast is making arbitrary bandwidth allocation decisions slowing use of basic (programs) without being clear to consumers what they really get when they buy a broadband connection."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation confirmed the AP's findings with its own tests -- including spotting forged messages sent by Comcast's computers to shut down connections.


Caught with their pants down by Associated Press traffic - Lauren Weinstein
http://lauren.vortex.com
Comcast has now admitted to what they call "delaying"
traffic -- in this case a euphemism for what network engineers would
call the spoofing or forging of traffic to disrupt the expected normal
communications protocol sequences.
For those of us who have long been concerned about assuring Network
Neutrality, this case represents but the tip of the iceberg in terms
of the sorts of potential likely abuses that we can expect from the
unfettered ISPs.
If ISPs have problems with the traffic generated by a particular
class of applications, the correct approach would be to work with
the network community toward solutions, not acting like an
incompetent hacker who could care less about disrupting network
protocols designed with considerable effort over decades.
This case isn't just a Network Neutrality smoking gun, it's a
veritable bazooka -- and it's aimed right at ISP customers -- that's
you and me.


Blogging from the 2007 MW conference: AT&T says there is no duopoly,
net neutrality is bad
It's Day 2 of the Muniwireless Silicon Valley Conference and they
have an executive from AT&T talking about municipal wireless networks.
AT&T has not changed its tune. It is still against cities using
public funds to compete with private enterprise and believes that
communications should be left up to private firms like AT&T.
James Cicconi, Senior Executive VP Legislative and External Affairs
for AT&T claims that there is no duopoly and there is enough
competition in the market for telecommunications services, so cities
should stay out.
What is AT&T's position on net neutrality? <snip>

Assuring Scarcity
NN is a great meme for feeding the rage. We can't risk legislation
that legitimizes compromises like ATT's promises in the last merger.
We can't risk structural separation either because it replaces a
marketplace with more rules.
The problem is fundamental and inherent -- as long as the service
providers control the transport there cannot be a marketplace. We
must learn the lessons of the CLEC debacle and settle for nothing less.
The rage is on our side and will build because there the carriers
have a fiduciary responsibility to misbehave given they must fund the
transport out of service revenue but the more transport we have the
more service revenue.


3)
Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General for the State of New York, has gotten
Verizon to pay up $1 million to customers who were promised unlimited
access and terminated for too much usage.
This settlement sends a message to companies large and small
answering the growing consumer demand for wireless services. When consumers are
promised an unlimited service, they do not expect the promise
to be broken by hidden limitations,” said Attorney General Andrew
Cuomo. “Consumers must be treated fairly and honestly. Delivering
a product is simply not enough ­ the promises must be delivered
as well.


4)
FISA wiretaps carry a $1K pricetag
Although the scope of surveillance conducted under the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act remains shrouded in secrecy, newly
disclosed documents show the costs one company charges the government
to eavesdrop on customers.
Comcast, which is among the nation's largest telecommunication
companies, charges $1,000 to install a FISA wiretap and $750 for each
additional month authorities want to keep an eye on suspects,
according to the company's Handbook for Law Enforcement. Secrecy News
obtained the document and published it Monday.

Telecom Regulation & the Internet
For those who want to know a bit more about the cases in question,
EFF just published a snapshot summary of the technical issue at:


UNREDACTED declaration as an expert witness in Hepting et. al. versus
AT&T Corp. ("EFF's Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T for
Collaboration with Illegal Domestic Spying Program"), available at:
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/SER_marcus_decl.pdf


MONDAY OCTOBER 15, 2007 09:45 EST
Telecom Amnesty would forever foreclose investigation of vital issues
The documents that were released as part of the criminal prosecution
of Joseph Nacchio, the former Qwest CEO who refused to participate in
what he believed to be illegal government surveillance programs (and
was then prosecuted for insider trading by the Bush administration),
are revealing in numerous important respects.


5)
World Premiere radio broadcast of Michigan Opera Theater's opera Cyrano
You can listen live on wrcj909fm.org
Sunday October 28th , 2PM EST
Based on the play by Edmund Rostand.
The music is very lovely, romantic, and accessible - not your typical modern dissonant noise.

6)
World Usability Day
November 8th 2007 - World Usability Day
“Making life easy!”
World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products
important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.
<I think the site has some usability issues - KE>



7)
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and New York University's
Department of Performance Studies
Presents The Yiddish Dance Research Symposium
"Defining Yiddish Dance: Secular, Sacred, Borrowed and Transformed"
Sunday, December 9, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Edgar M. Bronfman Center (between 5th Avenue and University Place).
New York University
7 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003
Admission: $10 general public, $5 students/seniors
Scholars wishing to register should RSVP to Center for Traditional Music
and Dance's Pete Rushefsky, 212-571-1555 ext. 36, prushefsky@ctmd.org
A special additional session focused on strategies for revitalizing the
Yiddish Dance tradition will be held on the morning of Monday, December
10th (call/email Pete Rushefsky for details).
The Yiddish Dance Research Symposium is a historic first-ever gathering
of leading researchers, teachers and practitioners of the Yiddish
(Ashkenazic) Dance tradition along with scholars specializing in dance
ethnography, Jewish culture and other Central and East European
cultures. The goals of the Dance Research Symposium are for researchers
to share fieldwork, discuss research into the dance tradition and its
place within Yiddish culture, and identify goals/strategies for future
fieldwork and dissemination of educational resources.

RESOURCES for DANCE
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Dance.html


8)
Eduational CyberPlayGround Halloween Holiday Resources
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/halloween.html
Songs, Scary Spooky Sounds,Safety, Ghosts Goblins and Monsters
Celtic History, Werewolf Protection and Dracula


9)
What are we going to celebrate next month?
Educational CyberPlayground Monthly Curricula Calendar of supplemental conceptual groupings and classroom activities.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/zcullinks.html


10)
Educational CyberPlayground WeQuest Explained
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/Stars/webquest.html
Teachers can facilitate learning environments and learning events that lead to the eventual use of higher order thinking and the very important assimilation and ability to transfer those skills out of the initial learning environment, but knowledge must precede application which precedes all important higher level thinking skills.


11)
Educational CyberPlayGround Admins, Parents & Teachers Learn How to Keep Your Child Safe on the Internet
Trouble Areas for Kids
Find out what your kids have put up online, their names,
address, pictures, what they think. This needs to be
supervised and you won't be able to keep up with
what is going on here. Chat Rooms, Blogs, Instant
Messaging, IRC, Newsgroups - they don't understand
that they have gone public and have lost their privacy.


12)
TJX breach was twice as big as admitted, banks say
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/tjx_breach_estimate_grows/


13)
New rules on computer security systems
http://www.china.org.cn/english/government/229460.htm
Legislators in Guangdong Province are planning to amend a draft
regulation on the security of computer-based information systems.
The key amendments include ensuring website operators "establish a sound
security system" and the introduction of "serious punishments for
violators of computer information systems".

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