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- COPA suffers another blow
- InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...
- Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Web profile no defense to statutory rape
- Honest belief that a female is over 18 is generally a defense to a statutory rap charge, but apparently relying on someone's web profile is not enough. Ars Technica reports that a federal judge threw out a suit by a man who sued SexSearch.com, an X-rated personals service. "John...
- Tags: Web, Minor, Communications Decency Act, SexSearch.com, John Doe, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Good intentions aside, lawmakers are stymied by kids who lie about their ages
- The Web is a lawless country. Try as politicians might, they just cant put regulations that really work to keep pedophiles and other ner-do-wells from contacting minors on MySpace - because they they havent found a way to keep minors from lying about their ages. The New York Times...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Proposal for new Internet laws in MN
- Minnesota Attorney General-elect Lori Swanson wants to update the states criminal code to deal more effectively with Internet offenses. Swanson released a package of proposals, ranging from a new felony for adults who sexually engage minors online to a requirement that school districts have cyber-bullying policies. "Were updating...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Law enforcement, Government technology, minor
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- Police blotter: Florida judges target Net sex
- Police blotter: Florida judges target Net sexI hope the same standards apply to any medium.While no TV show has characters encouraging children to have sex with them, the viewers get the next best thing! Every other word bleeped out with near-graphic detail of two people honkin' their horns. ...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Government, IM, e-mail, minor, Web
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- Banning violent games unconstitutional
- The makers of violent video games such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D or Mortal Kombat must be jumping for their joysticks, as a U.S. District Court ruled that states have no right to bar distribution of materials simply because they show violent behavior, reports Associated Press. U.S. District Judge...
- Tags: game, video, video game
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Yahoo Messenger gets plug-ins
- Yahoo Messenger gets plug-insYahoo is focusing on the wrong thing....Yahoo should focus on its messenger as a whole, to get it BETTER. Not fill it with spamwaretm and crapwaretm. I'm so sick and tired of bulked up messengers. Or better yet, clean out all the fake 'p0rn'...
- Tags: Mac Client, minor, Yahoo! Inc., porn bot, Yahoo IM, plug-in
- Discussion threads 2006-06-19
- From Minor to major...
- We've entered the "practical phase" of Web services, says Halsey Minor, CEO of Grand Central in a recent interview with Business Week. "The first phase was a bunch of people designing a whole bunch of standards -- primarily those were a bunch of computer scientists. Now people are getting practical...
- Tags: Minor, Grand Central, Halsey Minor
- Blog posts 2005-02-16
- Speed wins at Owens and Minor
- "If you want to have more flexible, adaptive business processes, move your IT applications to SOA," says Meta Group analyst Janelle Hill in a new article in Intelligent Enterprise that profiles some SOA success stories.One of the companies profiled in Michael Voelker's excellent piece is Glen Allen, VA-based Owens &...
- Tags: Owens, Minor, Owens & Minor
- Blog posts 2005-02-11
Additional Resources
- Google releases Chrome 0.3.154
- If you are interested in living on the bleeding edge, and always using Google's latest and greatest browser version (the "even more beta" one), you can turn on what is called the "Dev Channel". To use the Dev Channel, download the switcher from here. Run the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Search, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Avanquest System Suite Web Installer (exe)
- Avanquest System Suite Web Installer from Internet Security 2.0 downloads and installs latest version of Avanquest System Suite directly from its site and with maximal speed. Avanquest System Suite Professional, The Ultimate, All-In-One Suite for PC Security, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Maintenance & Privacy. World Class protection against viruses, Trojans, spyware and...
- Tags: Web, Internet Security, Internet, Network Security, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-10-02
- Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole
- A lame-brain lawsuit to stop the Large Hadron Collider is dead. U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor has dismissed the suit because U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over the world's biggest atom-smasher based in Switzerland and France and built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Lawsuit, CERN, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy. From: You.
- The CEO of Circuit City resigned last week after his failed attempt to revitalize the well-known gadget store. Since then, the 'ol City is looking like it's headed the way of CompUSA. The civic-minded Consumerist blog has decided to call on its readers to compile requests into...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Consumerist Blog, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Day 1 with my new Nokia E71
- Day 1 with my new Nokia E71Maybe it's your "bad karma". No problems here with WM.;-)Nokia/Symbian S60 phones are the bestMine: N95. Also have a Nokia Internet Tablet N800.I've written recently about why the N95/N96 is still the best smartphone [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-n95n96-still-the-best-smartphone-of-all.html]here[/url].And it's no small coincidence that Nokia acquired Symbian and...
- Tags: Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Podcast client, Nokia E71, Nokia Corp., RIM BlackBerry, phone, new Nokia E71, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- There is no pony plan for health care
- There is no pony plan for health careUntil the greedy Pharmaceutical Companies are reeled in...There is no hope for fixing health care in the US.It MUST start with the banning of Pharmaceutical Advertising on TV. The billions paid for those ad's are paid by patients needing the meds IF...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, surcharge, pony plan, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Microsoft Arc Mouse (black)
- It took us a few minutes to realize what Microsoft's new Arc Mouse is all about. The collapsible design at first suggested that it's both a full-size mouse and a notebook mouse in one product. We were confused as to who would want such a thing. Upon playing with it,...
- Tags: Mice, Microsoft Corp., mouse, Arc Mouse
- Product reviews 2008-09-30
- Microsoft Arc Mouse (red)
- It took us a few minutes to realize what Microsoft's new Arc Mouse is all about. The collapsible design at first suggested that it's both a full-size mouse and a notebook mouse in one product. We were confused as to who would want such a thing. Upon playing with it,...
- Tags: Mice, MAC setup, Microsoft Corp., Arc Mouse, mouse
- Product reviews 2008-09-30
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Thanks, but no thanks, SASSome good R linkshttp://www.johnmwillis.com/r/are-you-using-r/openIntelTry openIntel, a free data model offered by OSEd ( http://osed.com ). IT is free and it includes documentation explaining it, the tables and the relations. It was designed by Maurice Frank, the original creator of the IBM Insight at...
- Tags: SAS Institute, data model
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Vizio VO32L
- Vizio made its name by charging less than all the big brands, but savvy buyers may have noticed that Vizio doesn't really have the price advantage that it used to. While the 32-inch Vizio VO32L sells for a reasonable $650 as of press time, other entry-level competitors like the Panasonic...
- Tags: Vizio VO32L, Vizio, picture mode
- Product reviews 2008-09-30
- Xohm Unveiled In Baltimore, not BAWA
- This morning Sprint launched its long-awaited commercially-available Xohm service in its Baltimore Market. Xohm is Sprint's brand for its WiMax service, which follows the 802.16e standard. <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5...
- Tags: Sprint Xohm, Price, Sprint Communications, Modems, Hardware, Components, Lisa Pierce
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
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