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To: pat mudge who wrote (30012)	12/16/1997 11:20:00 PM
From: John K. Pollard Jr.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31386

Somewhat off line: I note Silicon Investor now charges a membership fee ($125) for those who wish to post. The fee rises to $200 on Jan 1, 1998. I guess we're grandfathered in . . . . Seems like de facto censorship to me. John in Del Mar

To: pat mudge who wrote (30012)	12/17/1997 12:06:00 AM
From: Chemsync	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31386

[Landmines and Manholes] Hi Pat, Re: <<Is there any warranty? A way to get your money back? I couldn't handle having to reconfigure each time I signed on>> There probably is a warranty yet but I have become so proficient at the configuration protocol I could do it in my sleep. The current modem is my 3rd. The first two could not be installed with the help of Motorola's Huntsville engineers. I was urged to get their just released Bitsurfr 'Pro'. 'We' couldn't install the Pro either until an engineer sent me his own configuration program on a floppy. This worked fine until I installed Explorer 4.0. Now I go through my routine. I think of this current dilemma as an additional layer of security. No one can sign on unless they know just where to click, slap and spit. Your article on how the internet is altering the nature of social conflict is cause for thought. "Peace through knowledge" sounds so pretty. This is probably because I think I'm pretty knowledgable and peaceful. In actuality I'm probably neither but I conceal my violent ignorance pretty well. For example, I think the damage land mines have inflicted upon innocents is horrendous--it would be far more "compassinate" to just drop the "big one". Actually, I think we're all much too intertwined to be mining our neighborhoods OR dropping the big one. Guess we'll just have to learn to get along. And, here's a novel use of a long neglected appliance......... Mitsubishi Exhibits Manhole Cover Antenna December 16, 1997 (TOKYO) -- Mitsubishi Electric Corp. exhibited a manhole cover-shaped antenna for personal handyphone system (PHS) base stations at the 1997 Microwave Workshops and Exhibition held Dec. 9-11 in Yokohama. The show was held under the auspices of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. The antenna is built in a manhole cover and connected to a center station via optical fibers stretched through the sewer system. The company said using manholes works well in midtown areas, where sites for establishing base stations cannot be easily obtained. The company intends to establish a mass-production system and supply the antenna at a price of about one million yen (US$7,690) per unit for base stations, if it is accepted by PHS business operators. Moreover, at the exhibition, Matsushita Electronics Corp., Fujitsu Quantum Devices Ltd., Mitsubishi and NEC Corp. displayed ICs for realizing the downsizing and low power consumption of mobile phones, reflecting the boom of mobile phone services. (Nikkei New Media) Cheers! :-)

To: pat mudge who wrote (30012)	12/17/1997 9:13:00 AM
From: Charlie Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

pat: Re the LA Times piece, particularly : <<These developments suggest that old ideas about "peace through strength" may give way to new notions of "peace through knowledge.">> Walter Wriston said back in the late 1970s that an expanding worldwide network would create an "information standard" which would police central banks and eliminate the ability of governments to inflate. He predicted the demise of gold as a standard of value, to be replaced by information. So now we not only have "peace through knowledge" but more sound worldwide economics as well. Best regards, Charlie P.S. Did you see the news out of AT&T re their "strategic investments"?