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VNS COMPUTER NEWS ................................. 119 "
VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH .............................. 106 "
VNS VOGONBALLS .................................... 71 "
VNS UK SPORTS REPORT .............................. 69 "
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VNS MAIN NEWS: [Tom Povey, VNS UK News Desk]
============== [Reading, England ]
Here is the News at 07:00 BST on Monday 22-June-1992
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UK News
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Exchange Rate 1 UK pound = $ 1.8560 = Dm 2.9235
= Yn 235.97 = SFr 2.6293 = FFr 9.8414
A new survey suggest that directors of large UK companies gave themselves
pay rises well above the rate of inflation. Those running smaller
companies have been showing more restraint.
Only 1 in 10 of last summers schools leavers (aged 16) have found jobs
according to a major survey carried out. This is half the number of two
years ago. 6 in 10 stayed in further education, an increase.
Two of the BBC officials who organised the general election coverage have
said that the representation of the people act which controls the
election coverage was mis-used during the recent election campaign. The
act seeks to ensure fair coverage on local issues by a rule that says all
candidates must either agree to appear or waive their right to appear in
a discussion on local issues before it can go ahead. Some candidates
refused to appear, thus preventing their opponents from putting their
views forward.
European News
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The Bosnian capital Sarajevo saw another attack last night from Serbian
forces that surround it.
International News
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The South African government has appealed for the ANC not to pull out of
discussions on the reform process. This follows a significant increase in
township violance.
There are reports from Russia that 2000 allied prisoners were held in a
camp in the soviet union after the 2nd world war.
{News courtesy of the BBC}
Local Weather
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Mainly dry but cloudier than yesterday. High 21C/70F.
VNS COMPUTER NEWS: [Tracy Talcott, VNS Computer Desk]
================== [Nashua, NH, USA ]
Friday's Market Digital Fair Market Value
Quote Change 2-Dec-1991 $60.6875
IBM 95 + 1/2 29-May-1992 $42.4375
85% of lower $36.250
Friday's Market Dow Jones Change 1-Jun-1992 $40.750
DEC 36 1/8 unch. 3285.35 +11.23
Digital - Company veteran picked for chief financial officer post
{The Boston Globe, 20-Jun-92, p. 11}
William M. Steul, a 20-year Digital veteran, will be a vice president and
serve on Digital's executive committee. He will report to Ken Olsen. "It is a
bit of a surprise that they didn't name an outsider, but if Steul does his job
well, then Olsen will have proved that he didn't need to go outside the
company," said Charles Casale, president of Aberdeen Group, a Boston market
research and consulting firm. "But if he doesn't do well and the deigned pack
on Wall Street calls for his head, Digital will get an outsider. After all, no
job at Digital is assured any more," he said. The choice of Steul, say
analysts, comes as the company is expected to cut costs further, starting next
month, when Digital's new fiscal year begins. Earlier this month, the company
announced that 3,700 employees, including some senior managers, left the
company as part of an early retirement program. "Hiring a guy to cut costs
just isn't going to solve Digital's problems," said John McCarthy, the
research chief at Forrester Research Inc. of Cambridge. "The loss of key
people at Digital has some at Digital unsure who they report to. You've also
got this reorganization-of-the-month scenario, so there is still a lot of
confusion out there.
Digital - NAS Advertisement
{Forbes, 11-May-92, pp. 2-3}
" Digital opens new fields for John Deere
Engine works expands in overseas markets
"For over 150 years, the John Deere name has stood for the world's highest
quality farm equipment. When Engine Works looked for new growth areas to
offset the U.S. farm recession of the 80's, we focused on component sales and
new markets, both domestic and overseas. For example, we recently started
producing a marinized diesel engine for use in workboats and fishing vessels.
Digital has played a major role, helping us maintain our quality level while
expanding our markets.
"Digital's expandable line of VAX computers were a natural choice for
growth. And, with their networking expertise and their Network Application
Support (NAS) open software, we had the key elements for gathering and
sharing information from the shop floor to engine testing facilities to all
parts of the corporate network. All of which makes it easier and quicker for
our people to make critical business decisions that ensure product quality.
Likewise, the ability to automate factory-floor functions gives us greater
control over product tracking and inventory control.
"And with Digital's COHESION software development environment, we can create
customized applications faster and at a lower cost than ever before.
"Combine all that with Digital's flexible support and service programs for
whatever vendor's equipment we have, and it's easy to see how Digital helps us
make good on the promise hat 'Nothing runs like a Deere.'"
- Carlo E. Pensyl, Manager Computer Systems
John Deere Engine Works
Deere Power Systems Group
For more information on how Digital's total solutions approach to
manufacturing and our NAS open computing products can benefit your business,
call 1-800-DEC-INFO, ext. 92. Or contact your local Digital sales office.
d i g i t a l
DIGITAL. THE OPEN ADVANTAGE"
Cabletron - 1st quarter profit estimates
{The Boston Globe, 20-Jun-92, p. 11}
Cabletron system will report sharply higher net on a 45% jump in sales for
the quarter ended May 30, according to Craig Benson, chairman and chief
operating officer. Benson pegged first quarter net at about $17.5 million on
sales of about $88 million. In the year-ago quarter, Cabletron reported profit
of $12.2 million on sales of $60.6 million.
Intermetrics - Expects to report 1st quarter profits down 15% on flat sales
{The Wall Street Journal, 19-Jun-92, p. 74}
Intermetrics, boosting investments in commercial and civilian government
markets, expects to report lower profits for the 1st quarter ended May 31,
according to president and CEO Joseph A. Saponaro. In the year ago 1st
quarter, the software maker reported a new profit of $566,000 on revenue of
$14.9 million. Saponaro said results for the year should be roughly in line
with the 1st quarter, with profit down 10% to 15% on revenue of about $60
million. Intermetrics specializes in software tools and software services for
the Air Force, Army, Navy, Department of Transportation, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration and other government agencies.
Fiscal News - Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems - 2nd quarter earnings $15.2 million vs. year-ago $13.2 million
{The Wall Street Journal, 18-Jun-92, p. C6}
Digital - Bill Steul elected chief financial officer for Digital
{Livewire, Worldwide News, 19-Jun-92}
Digital today announced the election of Bill Steul as vice president and
chief financial officer. In this position, he will be a member of the
Executive Committee reporting to Ken Olsen.
In his twenty years with Digital, Bill has held a number of Finance and
Operations management positions. Most recently he was vice president, Services
Cluster Applications and Industry Business Units with responsibility for
Banking, Health Care, Insurance, Media, Retail/Wholesale, Travel and
Transportation, Utilities, and Professional Services. Previously, he was vice
president Corporate Systems Group; group manager, Engineering Systems; finance
manager for the Technical Group; finance manager for the Components Group and
finance manager for Europe.
Commenting on the appointment, Ken Olsen said, "As Digital continues its
efforts to restore profitability, we need a chief financial officer with
knowledge of our operations and our strategy in addition to a strong financial
background. Bill offers a unique blend of operating and financial experience.
His career includes international finance, as well as market development and
product line experience. He understands where Digital is going in our industry
and knows how to get things done inside the company. He will be a strong link
between the operating and financial disciplines and will be able to quickly
implement our business strategies."
"I'm pleased and excited about this new opportunity," Bill said. "I intend
to take an aggressive role in the CFO function as a partner to Ken Olsen, the
operating committees and the business units as they work on the strategy of
the company for the 1990s and beyond to help the company to return to
profitability."
Bill holds both a BSBA and an MBA from the State University of New York. He
has also completed the MIT Sloan School Senior Executive Program. Prior to
joining Digital, Bill was with the Carborundum Company for eight years where
he held positions in finance, manufacturing management and information
systems.
VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH: [Mike Taylor, VNS Correspondent]
===================== [Littleton, MA, USA ]
{RISKS-FORUM Digest Thursday 18 June 1992 V13:59}
From: nkraft@bkhouse.cts.com (Norman Kraft)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Privacy alert:San Diego voters on CD
Date: 8 Jun 92 18:31:33 GMT
Organization: Argus Computing, San Diego, CA
An article that made the front page of the San Diego Union on Sunday,
June 7, 1992 bore the title: "Technology pits privacy vs. Information
Age". The article starts with these paragraphs:
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The morning after Bill Turner voted in last week's election, he picked up a
copy of a local computer magazine and his jaw dropped. "This ad just jumped
out and hit me in the face," said the 35-year old La Mesa computer programmer.
"It was a severe shock." There, for sale, were Turner's name, address,
unlisted telephone number, occupation, birthplace, birthdate and political
affiliation.
A list of San Diego County's 1.25 million registered voters containing the
information is available for $99 in a relatively new format [CD-ROM] that
virtually anyone with a personal computer can use. It is the first known such
use of voter registration data in the nation.
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The CD-ROM is marketed by a San Diego company call Sole Source Systems, a local
computer store.
Lists of voter information have always been available, and political campaigns
have had access to the information on data tapes for years. This is, however,
the first time that such information has been made available to the public at
large, in an easily accessible format (dBase, from what I can gather).
Sole Source says that use of the CD is limited to "election purposes,
...election, scholarly or political research, or government purposes." Sole
Source says that they require ID and the completion of a form before selling
the CD. Turner responds to this with "What is there to prevent me from going
up there and telling him I'm with the Little Old Ladies Auxilliary 97, and I
want this list to call people up and help arrange transportation to the polls
on Election Day? It would be a bald-faced lie, but I would get it [the CD]."
He may be right, as Conny McCormack, the San Diego County Registrar of Voters
says that the registrar's office does not check to make sure the list is being
used within the law, primarily because "we have no authority in that area."
David Banisar, a policy analyst with Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibilities in Washington, DC, said in all likelihood the CD would end up
in the hands of direct marketers. "This is really an unanticipated use of the
data," he said, "You register to vote because you want to feel patriotic and do
your citizen's duty and try to get some good government. You don't register to
vote so that you can be solicited by every bozo out there with a widget that he
feels he should hock to you."
The article goes on to discuss the problems of privacy in the computer age, and
mentions two other CD-ROM databases that are publicly available: PhoneDisc USA,
from a corporation of the same name in Marblehead, Mass., lists 90 million
names, addresses and phone numbers nation wide. MetroScan CD, from
Transamerica Information Management in Sacramento, is a database containing
housing ownership information, from deed filings, and for a given address
provides the owner's name, address, when the building was purchased, how many
bedrooms and bathrooms it has, how many square feet it has, and it's property
tax assessment.
In the article, Ken Smith, from Transamerica Information Magagement,
is quoted as saying:
"I'm very much in favor of making the information, if it's in the
public domain, available to a very wide audience, rather than just
major corporations and government agencies. It's a very, very
powerful tool for the little guy."
and further:
"I don't think the privace issue has been a concern yet. I can
see where it might be in the future, but it's not a problem now."
Finally the article goes back to Dante Tuccero, from PhoneDisc USA Corp.,
listing such PhoneDisc customers as "the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration, the Navy, the Air Force, the Social Security
Administration, as well as local libraries and law enforcement, public
investigators, geneologists, and even high school and college reunions."
Quoting Tuccero, "There's a company in Langley, Va,. that uses it, I
believe, but wouldn't say so."
The last paragraphs of the article point out that "the direct-mail company
that provides PhoneDisc with most of it's data prefers to remain off other
people's lists."
"We're not at liberty to share that," Tuccero said, "A lot of data
providers like to be low key."
The saddest part of the whole article, in my opinion, is this statement
from Turner: "I have voted in every election since I was 18, and I think
(this) was the last election I'll ever vote in."
[For those concerned about the PhoneDisc listings, they will remove your
name from the next release of their CD if you call. They claim that only
two people have called so far. I imagine we can change that! Their
number in Marblehead, Mass. as given by directory assistance, is
617-639-2900.]
Norman R. Kraft, Senior Partner, Argus Computing, San Diego, CA
UUCP : ucsd!crash!bkhouse!nkraft INET : nkraft@bkhouse.cts.com
VNS VOGONBALLS: [Dick Binder, VNS Humour Editor]
=============== [Nashua, NH, USA ]
*** Within the past four weeks 7 people have submitted this item: ***
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*** "If you are sitting in an exit row and can not read this card... ***
*** please tell a crew member." ***
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*** How quickly they forget... This gem was published in VOGONballs ***
*** on 30th August, 1991. ***
"It's all perfectly innocent," Barry Cole '93 said. "In fact I
tucked in a girl, her boyfriend, and her roommate all together on
Monday night."
- Dartmouth College campus newspaper
- from Andy J. Williams (Hanover, NH, USA)
"There is nothing better than the traditional glow of a radiator."
- Australian electric utility advertisement
- from Mark Kingaby (Sydney, Australia)
"Government alone cannot do what needs to be done by itself..."
- U.S. President George Bush
- from nina Eppes (Nashua, NH, USA)
"This smaller design is capable of flying faster than the speed of
sound at speeds exceeding Mach 1."
- Announcer on PBS show
- from Brian Wibecan (Nashua, NH, USA)
*** And of course a crop of Private Eye Colemanballs, from Nick Hill ***
*** (Paris, France) ***
"We're not the sort of party that does deals behind smoke-filled
doors."
- BRian Gould, ITN
"The Conservatives fear they may be side-tracked by a storm in an
egg-cup."
- John Cole, BBC1
Questioner: "Which of these words do you think best sums up your
character?"
Paddy Ashdown: "Er... perhaps 'decisive'?"
- Channel 4
"...and now the declaration from Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Britain's most
northerly constituency."
- David Dimbleby, BBC1
"We said zero, and I think any statistician will tell you that, when
you're dealing with very big numbers, zero must mean plus or minus a
few."
- William Waldegrave
"Let me explain, Nick - it is the key which turns the door in the
lock."
- Paddy Ashdown, Radio 4
"I was polled on the amount of radio I watched..."
- Emma Freud, GLR
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VNS UK SPORTS REPORT: [Ken Merrick, VNS Sports Desk]
===================== [Valbonne, France ]
::: ATHLETICS
Carl Lewis failed to qualify for this years Olympics 100m event after
finishing 6th at the USA olympic trials.
::: BOXING
Evander Holyfield successfully defended his undisputed world heavyweight
title with a points win over Larry Holmes.
The British Boxing Board of Control have refused a licence for actor-turned
boxer Micky Rourke to meet Karel Bernise in London.
::: CRICKET
2nd test, Lord's
Pakistan beat England on the fourth day of the 2nd test. Wasim Akram was
man of the match. (I'll try and give full details tomorrow - km).
::: CYCLING
Olaf Ludwig won the 5th stage of the Tour of Switzerland in a sprint finish
ahead of Michael Zanoli and Jean-Paul Van Poppel.
Tony Rominger will not compete in this years Tour of France.
::: FOOTBALL
European Championships
Semi-Final : Sweden ......... 2 Germany ....... 3
Brolin 65' (pen) Haessler 12'
Andersson 90' Riedle 59' 89'
::: GOLF
Tom Kite won the US Open.
::: MOTOR SPORT
Le Mans 24-Hour
Fourteen of the twenty-eight starters were classified at the end of the
60th Le Mans 24-hour race. Victory went to the favourites, Peugeot, with
the winning team of Yannick Dalmas, Derick Warwick and Mark Blundell
finishing 6 laps ahead the Toyota of Sekiya, Raphanel and Acheson.
Full result
1. Warwick, Dalmas, Blundell (Peugeot 905) completed 352 laps
2. Sekiya, Raphanel, Acheson (Toyota TS 010) - 6
3. Baldi, Alliot, Jabouille (Peugeot 905) - 7
4. Herbert, Weidler, Gachot (Mazda) - 16
5. Johannson, Andskar, Fouche (Toyota) - 16
6. Wollek, Pescaraolo, Ricci (Cougar Porsche) - 17
Championship table:
Driver - 1. Dalmas 55pts Teams - 1. Peugeot 55pts
Warwick 2. Toyota Team Tom's 35
3. Ogawa 20 3. Mazdaspeed 23
Lees 4. Euro Racing 18
5. Sandro Sala 15 5. Chamberlin 15
Herbert
Acheson
Raphanel
F3000
Andrea Montermini (Baron Rampante Reynard-Judd) won the latest round of
the world F3000 championships, the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona.
Montermini finished 12" ahead of team-mate Rubens Barrichello with
Jordi Gene (Pacific Racing Reyard-Mugen) 21" behind in third.
::: RUGBY UNION
2nd Test: Australia .............. 37 Scotland ............ 13
5 tries: Horan (2) 2 tries: Lineen
Carozza (2) Sole
Eales 1 conversion and
1 conversion and 1 penalty : Chalmers
5 penalties : Lynagh
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