news bits
- NEWS.com.au | 'Pirate' network can block porn: court (December 16, 2004):
[A private company]documented a method of blocking child porn in a report to the FBI, proposing scanning a list of keywords each time the [Kazaa] network was searched.
Keyword-based methods are always a problem. Who decides which keywords are not appropriate? How do you resolve clashes with legitimate searches? Perhaps this will work inside a closed system; but people will go back to thinking it would work for general web searches too. - CNN.com - Doctors: Yushchenko was poisoned - Dec 11, 2004 / Poison level 6000 times higher than normal - World - www.smh.com.au. This is pretty intense.
- NEWS.com.au | Risque adverts running out of control (December 16, 2004). For "out of control" insert "may not fall under enforceable censorship regulations". Interesting question though: does the product being advertised make the difference between an acceptable advert and an offensive advert? The actual photographic content of the billboard is just a girl in a bikini, same as a swimwear ad.
- NEWS.com.au | Police called over HSC website (December 16, 2004):
POLICE have been called in after more than 100 NSW Year 12 students found out their final school results three days before they were officially released.
Not sure why the Police are involved, the site wasn't hacked; just not secured properly. - USATODAY.com - More schools offer cheap music downloads for students. Schools meaning American tertiary institutions. Simple idea - make downloading music cheap and legal, end of problem.
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