Free Course, "Privacy in Cyberspace"

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A new course at Harvard Law School, entitled "Privacy in Cyberspace"
is a first for the nation's most famous law school: a free, non-credit
law course open to the public that exists completely online.

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You'll have to move quickly on this one. Course is limited to the first
500 applicants.

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Also in this issue:

- Seven-Step Y2K Plan
    Current estimates are that 60 percent of the small- to
    midsize-business community (your customers, vendors and competitors)
    has done nothing about the year-2000 computer crisis (Y2K), either
    because they don't know about the problem, or because they believe
    it's a COBOL-mainframe problem that won't affect them. No matter
    their reasons, the reality is that they will suffer the consequences
    of Y2K.
- Java Lobby says Microsoft official tried to 'pull a fast one'
    SAN FRANCISCO -- A Microsoft official tried to infiltrate a meeting
    of the Java Lobby at the JavaOne conference here this week, in which
    the organization was due to discuss the software giant's attempts to
    fragment the Java language -- or so claims the Java Lobby.
- Israelis consider job for hacker
    JERUSALEM - He is under house arrest and his computer has been
    confiscated, but the 18-year-old Israeli suspected of hacking into
    the Pentagon's computers has become something of a local hero.
- E-Money Expected To Wipe Out Cash In Europe
    HANNOVER, Germany -- Cash will be wiped out in Europe and replaced
    with electronic cash cards within the next three years, according to
    a senior executive at German technology company Siemens-Nixdorf.
- Domain Name Plan Gathers Criticism
    As the comment period for the U.S. government's proposal to privatize
    the Net's domain name system closes, responses to the plan show
    considerable disagreement exists.
- Future Browsers Will Render Windows Obsolete
    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The two men who developed the TCP/IP protocol
    said Monday that browsers will eventually move beyond the operating
    system to become smarter, simpler, and more flexible.
- US Domain Plan Rotten, Rival Says
    An international group set up last year to revamp the way Internet
    domain names are administered issued a formal response today to the
    Clinton administration's rival plan.
- New Lists and Journals
    * Tatra-L - Discussion of Czech built TATRA motor cars
    * PROACTIVIDAD - Foro sobre Proactividad
    * RELO-PRO - Relocation Industry Professionals


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