'Might we not have had an article today reflecting on the damage to freedom of speech and the threat to democracy of a situation where the state could dictate what is available on the Internet, irrespective of whether it is legal or not?' said Kerr."

Damned if you do, damned if you don't: Demon 'uncensored Internet' harms child porn clampdown: "But in a strongly worded letter to The Observer, David Kerr, CE of the IWF, said: ...'What if the UK industry had accepted the original position of shutting down newsgroups nominated by the police?

Get this thing while you can! These features will not be available again!

"The player also has the ability to remove the DVD Content Scrambling System (CSS). Doing so enables users to copy DVDs, similar to the functionality of the much-maligned DeCSS utility. "

I think John's right. I'm in my senior year of computer science, taking the bare minimum credits to be considered a full-time student, and I am totally swamped with work. We're horribly over-specialized; the best computer people are well-rounded, but most computer workers are too busy to look around them and see what's going on.

View from an Iowa Homestead: Computers, the Internet & the Abdication of Consciousness: 'I'm grateful for my liberal arts education, with a heavy emphasis on philosophy. Is it the case that people with strictly technical educations, say straight computer science undergrad work or engineering, cannot step back like philosophy allows one to do? I can't imagine living such a life, but perhaps people don't know what they're missing. Or don't care. Perhaps, like the retirees feeding nickels to the slot machines in Vegas, they are trying to reach the abdication of consciousness Talbott refers to.'

What happened once can happen again. Is Jupiter Communications looking to hire somebody with a sense of history? I'll be graduating soon enough...

News Flash, 1996: "The browser was is over, and Netscape has won. Why does Microsoft bother with their 'Internet Explorer'?"

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  • Slightly tongue in cheek, I would say that the occasional episode of the [Royal Canadian Air] Farce would actually give you a fairly good understanding of Canadian government. ;-) - Bradley Peters (a wee bit out o' context)