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To: DMaA who wrote (19791)	12/3/1999 2:52:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

LOL!!

To: DMaA who wrote (19791)	12/3/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

A sol is one Martian day, or, 24 hours 37 minutes, 23 seconds. We don't want any timing screw ups either. Do we need to convert that to metric time?

To: DMaA who wrote (19791)	12/3/1999 3:52:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

"Speaking of news from outer space," Whoops! Where'd it go, it's 10 minutes late on phoning home.

To: DMaA who wrote (19791)	12/3/1999 4:01:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Picture and construction of a Mars Bar: bradkent.com o~~~ O

To: DMaA who wrote (19791)	12/6/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

Newsweek: National Security Agency Drafts 'Memoranda of Understanding' To Work With FBI in the U.S.; May Be Falling Behind the Techno-Curve in Surveillance Techniques NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Security Agency is now drafting ''memoranda of understanding'' to clarify ways in which it can help the FBI track terrorists and criminals in the United States, territory in which it is generally off-limits, Newsweek has learned. The FBI, never known for its technical know-how, welcomes the help from the high-tech NSA, but some senators are uneasy about letting the NSA eavesdrop more in the United States, report Washington Correspondent Gregory Vistica and Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in the current issue of Newsweek. (Photo: newscom.com ) While a secret court must approve any national-security wiretaps on U.S. citizens, there is still the risk of abuse. Under pressure to perform better, the NSA and CIA could overreach. Under the existing rules, the NSA and CIA are supposed to spy on foreign threats while the FBI tends to crime at home. But the Internet has blurred boundaries, and as the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 demonstrated, foreign terrorists have targeted the United States. But the NSA may be losing its grip on the technology front. ''The agency has got to make some changes,'' because ''by standing still, we are going to fall behind very quickly,'' concedes Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Hayden, the new chief of the NSA, in an interview with Newsweek. The old tools, such as spy satellites and global-listening stations to pick up broadcast transmissions and massive computers to sort and decipher them, are relatively ineffective on the new Info Highway. The agency's problems have already been costly. The intelligence community's failure to predict that India would test a nuclear weapon in 1998 suggests that the NSA is becoming hard of hearing. Some intelligence experts speculate that Washington has had difficulty finding its most-wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, because Islamic extremists use European-made encrypted mobile phones, reports Newsweek in the December 13 issue (on newsstands Monday, December 6).