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From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 02:50:01 -0500
WILL GORE'S PLAN GORE THE ECONOMY? Policy analyst Lewis J. Perelman claims Vice President Gore's call to telecom companies to give "free hookups" to schools and colleges is backwards because "America already has a program for 'universal access' to knowledge--the $400 billion of taxes that go to schools and colleges." He says that instead of further taxing media companies that are vastly more efficient and innovative than academic institutions, government should redistribute those education tax funds directly to the disadvantaged via "microvouchers" to purchase their own telecomputer products and services. (San Jose Mercury News 1/30/94 C1) INFO BUDGET UP. The Clinton Administration's budget calls for increased government-wide spending for computing and communications research by $1.2 billion, an increase of 23% over this year. (New York Times 2/8/94 B6) [One wonders if the sending via email of virus source codes into France is forbidden? .. djf] COMPUTER-VIRUS BOOK/FRANCE: The French translation of Mark A. Ludwig's book "Naissance d'un Virus" by Addison-Wesley France is expected to be forbidden by the Paris' tribunal because it contains virus source codes. The translator of the book and general secretary of the hackers/ phreakers group called Chaos Computer Club France is a computer virus expert (cccf () altern com).
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