European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 a the stars and stripes saturday june 13, 1992rules would take byte out of digital crime Washington apr snooping in someone Al Sci a computer files would constitute a keyboard sin under a proposed set of Quot ten commandments of computer  the commandments were drawn up by the 6-month-old computer ethics Institute and Are being circulated within the Industry for comment and refinement. The Institute grew out of a 1985 Brookings institution conference on proper and improper use of computers and the information they amass. Among its members arc ethicist theologians businessmen educators technologists and Public policy experts. More than 50 million computers Are in use in this country and 100 million around the world and their use has already generated computer crimes by hackers the creators of computer viruses and the theft of confidential data. A we Are clearly in need of ethical guidelines a says Institute chairman Ramon c. Barquin a former ism executive who runs his own consulting firm. A whenever you have a new technology you find there Are some unforeseen and undesirable consequences. No one thought of traffic jams or Drunken Drivers when the automobile was first  the proposed commandments i. Thou Shalt not use a computer to harm other people. Ii. Thou Shalt not interfere with other Peoples computer work. Iii. Thou Shalt not Snoop around in other Peoples computer files. In. Thou Shalt not use a computer to steal. V. Thou Shalt not use a computer to Bear false witness. I. Thou Shalt not copy or use proprietary software for which you have not paid. Vii. Thou Shalt not use other Peoples computer resources without authorization or proper compensation. Viii. Thou Shalt not appropriate other Peoples intellectual output. In. Thou Shalt think about the social consequences of the program you Are writing or the system you Are designing. X. Thou Shalt always use a computer in ways that ensure consideration and respect for your fellow humans. Barquin said Subtle ethical questions arc arising. He said computers used by courts to gather information in child custody cases could be programmed to make the decision about which Parent gets custody. But that would be an improper use of the machine he said. A let us think about these things before we do them a he said. A a that a what this is  whoop it up Elizabeth Taylor imitates Arsenio Halls fist pump during a taping of his to talk show thursday in los Angeles. Taylor talked with Hall right about movies marriage and the Elizabeth Taylor aids  ordered to pay inventor in lawsuit Over Windshield wipers Detroit apr a Federal court jury thursday ordered Chrysler corp. To pay $11.3 million for infringing on a Houston Many a Patent for intermittent Windshield wipers. The jury said the automaker did no to deliberately infringe on the Patent held by Robert Kearns. But it said Chrysler must pay him about 90 cents for each of the 12.6 million cars it equipped with the wipers Between 1977 and 1998. A . District court jury ruled in favor of Kearns in december a separate trial to determine damages began april 27. Kearns representing himself sought at least $33 million. Had the jury decided Chrysler acted wilfully Chrysler would have had to pay triple damages. Kearns had argued for $29.19 in damages for each of the wiper devices Chrysler said he deserved about 5 cents each. A disappointed Kearns said he expected to receive a easily above $3�?� a unit. The award a Means the Patent system is not doing Well at All. Chrysler the infringer walked away with $354  Kearns 65, won a similar claim against Ford motor co. In january 1990 and later settled out of court for $10.2 million. In both cases juries ruled the automakers stole his invention of a device now used on nearly every car and truck in the world. Judge Avern Kohn has indicated he will Combine the remaining 18 lawsuits Kearns has filed against general motors corp. And 17 other car makers into a single trial tentatively scheduled for october. Chrysler attorney Robert Taylor said he was disappointed with the award. A we done to think now and we did no to think then that we infringed a Taylor said. Taylor said he did no to know if the automaker would Appeal the award. Kearns said he would Appeal parts of the earlier jury a decision but Hadnot decided if he would Appeal the award. Milwaukee police Force recruits homosexuals asians Milwaukee up1 homosexuals Are actively being recruited by the City a police and fire commission As police officer candidates a published report said thursday. A recruitment team met with Gay and lesbian groups during the weekend of May 30-31, commission chairman m. Nichol Padway and a Gay Community Leader told the Milwaukee journal. In a copyright Story the journal quoted Padway As saying homosexual groups requested the recruitment meeting be done without publicity to make sure that the sexual orientation of some potential recruits would not be revealed. It is estimated that nearly 200 Gay or lesbian officers Are currently in the Milwaukee police department. The department has More than 1,900 officers. Commission members also have met with members of the Southeast asian Community in the City about the Entrance exam for potential recruits the journal reported. The Issue of police diversity and sensitivity to minority Community concerns arose last year in the Wake of the Jeffrey l. Dahmer serial murders. Of particular concern was police officers handling of a laotian boy Koserak Sintha Somphone. Police who had been summoned by Dahmer a neighbors found the 14-year-old boy who was naked and bleeding staggering Down a Street. But the officers returned the boy to Dahmer after Dahmer told them Sintha Somphone was his adult Lover who had gotten drunk. After the police left Dahmer killed the boy. Several minority groups including Gay and lesbian groups have called for police reforms and have worked on police advisory panels. Padway said efforts by the commission reflect the departments commitment to Community oriented policing. Catch an extra Wink june 30 Boulder Colo. A summer this year will be one second longer than last years. One second will be added to the worlds time at precisely 23 hours 59 minutes 60 seconds get on june 30 in order to keep super accurate atomic clocks in step with the Earth a rotation. In the United states the correction will be made in atomic timekeeping systems at the National Institute of standards and technology in Boulder and at the . Naval Observatory in Washington . The difference be tween Earth time and atomic time is monitored by the International Earth rotation service in Paris. The correction Marks the 17th a leap second that has been added in atomic clocks since 1972. The last time a leap second was added on june 30 was in 1985. The corrections Are usually made . 31. The corrections must be made because the Earth a rotation has a tendency to Speed up or slow Down. By contrast atomic clocks have an accuracy of one billionth of a second per Day. On sunday night s big screen a partial eclipse of the Moon new York up Moon watchers will be in for a spectacle beginning sunday night when the object of their curiosity is partially eclipsed perhaps causing darkened skies instead of the usual reds that accompany such events. The eclipse will be visible from almost anywhere in North or South America and its beginning will be visible in southwestern Europe and most of Africa. The eclipse which will Block More than two thirds of the top of the Moon at its High Point May cause Earth a Shadow to appear Black or Gray due to a giant Cloud of volcanic Ash and dust hovering in the stratosphere Joe Rao senior meteorologist with comp weather inc., said thursday. Usually lunar eclipses make the sky appear red and Brown he said. A a it a almost As though the face of the Moon is a huge projection screen on which we re All watching the same movie Quot Rao said. The eclipse will be observable for about three hours he said