 |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, Future Tense brings you the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules. From electronic privacy and digital democracy to spam and computer worms, Future Tense keeps you up to date on the rapidly changing world of technology.
Future Tense is heard in the United States during broadcasts of the CBC's As It Happens.
Sponsors
Back in March, a computer worm called Witty came and went with little notice. Computer security expert Bruce Schneier, author of "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World," says Witty deserves greater fame.
I am an attorney who is married to a public library manager/director. The E-rate program, when used as it should be used, makes rapid access to T-1 lines available to libraries in communities where public access to this service has prohibitive costs without the E-rate discounts. We were living in southern West Virginia when the E-rate program started. Without the E-rate program, the number of public access computer is the library system was 3, with the onset of the Gates grants and e-rate, the number of public access computers increased to 12. For public libraries working to make every available dollar count in ever shrinking budgets, E-rate discounts allow monies which would go to the telecommunications companies for phone service to go for other things like books and programs important to enriching communities.
As a telephone rate payer personally and in my business, the sum total of the e-rate payments I make is insignificant compared to the overall good the program accomplishes. A few thieves in the bunch is not a good reason to throw out an otherwise meaningful program which has limited impact on those who fund it and tremendous impact on those who benefit from it.
Katherine M. Mason
Attorney at Law
P.O. Box 1208
Kingsland, GA 31548
Posted by kate | June 23, 2004 9:23 AM
