Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every parent should also take advantage of the wonderful excuse the Web has given us to keep credit cards from our teenage kids. Entry past the first or second level to most porn sites--and to other beyond-the-pale operations of hustling Web entrepreneurs--is governed by the ability to key in a valid card number...
...beyond random shoulder surfing and convenient-credit-card denial, we parents have a more potent range of options than we may be aware of. "A lot of parents might be somewhat computerphobic," says Ed Donnerstein, co-director of the Center for Communication and Social Policy at the University of California at Santa Barbara, explaining why we seem so undone by the perceived threats of the Web. But it doesn't take a degree in electrical engineering to know, for instance, that your kids should be admonished never to reveal personal information to anyone online without your permission--the digital equivalent...
...COMMERCE GUNS, BEER, DRUGS, GAMBLING--it's all available online if you know where to look or how to search for it. Credit-card requirements will keep most kids out of trouble (unless they carry their own VISA or American Express card). And more than one site offers free bingo and card games (with large cash prizes) to all comers...
...Pokemon product placement--became the highest-rated children's show in the U.S., first in syndication and now on the WB network. Nintendo has sold 2.5 million Pokemon Game Boy cartridges in seven months, making it the fastest-selling product in company history. Since January, 850,000 Pokemon trading-card sets have been sold in the U.S., and kids flock to malls to participate in official trading bazaars. So preoccupied are kids with the trading cards, some schools have banned them...
...with most activities of this complexity, no-method is completely fool-proof. From time to time, even your best efforts will be met only by he stubborn red light on the card reader, blinking insanely, mocking you. The only course of action at this point is swift and violent retribution. Follow a series of "Double-Dips" with a barrage of vicious kicks and off-color remarks. Eventually someone will open the door...