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New top-level domain names, that is. Available soon will be ".info, .biz, .name, .pro, .museum, .aero, and .coop" It is intended that .name be used for personal websites, .pro for professional, and .museum, .aero, and .coop to be used for specialty websites run by museums (natch!), airlines, and businesses, respectively. The .info and .biz would be available for any websites. There are still issues to be worked out, like which registrars gets to offer the names, and whether existing website owners will be given the opportunity to register their same addresses using the new suffixes.

            As we reported previously, that’s the FBI’s digital snoop that’s installed at an Internet Service Providers facility, and designed to capture Internet traffic of suspects under surveillance. A draft review of the "black box" released by the Justice Department (the review was conducted by the Illinois Institute of Technology and Kent Law School under contract to the Justice Department) said Carnivore ":does not over-collect, and that it basically does what it’s represented to do." However, the panel expressed concern on several fronts, including making default settings collect less information, requiring confirmation screens for the more important options and settings, and for the FBI to allow outside review of future versions of the software/hardware. Apparently, the software and configuration screens are overly complicated and easily confused.

Of those persons who have E-mail,

54% have an E-mail group list for family or friends;

40% say E-mail has brought them closer to their families;

31% have started E-mailing a family member whom they did not keep up with very much before; and

25% have learned more about their families because of E-mail.