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Cahen says an industry group called the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection has worked to promote industry-wide adherence to standards preventing youth access to porn. Problems may still arise, says Holden. "If the Janet Jackson episode led to a fine for a quick breast flash," he says, "can you imagine what could happen to an American carrier if a child gets hold of some of the hard-core materials that are easily available? The FCC will have a field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

...same ethos now extends to urban landscapes across the world's most populous nation. Basketball may not yet be China's most popular sport, but it's getting there. The public courts in Shanghai and Beijing are more crowded than ever now. Show up at a court on a fine Saturday morning in the spring and you can wait for an hour or more to get in a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoop City | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

Mine wasn't a particularly sociable apartment building, but wi-fi transcends urban alienation. You can draw your blinds and grunt at me on the stairs all you want, No. 7, but I can see your network just fine. Some people thought of creative names for their networks: ParisBrooklyn, MessageInaBottle. Some were boring: linksys, NETGEAR, default. I was always happy to see the boring ones, because the people who don't bother thinking of clever names for their home networks are the same people who don't bother to password-protect them. Anybody who calls his hot spot WebOfDarkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...Roast 200 calories 740 mg of sodium 2.5 g of fat FACT: Meat is fine, but keep portions modest and trim the fat. Drop the gravy too--that's where the sodium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School Cuisine | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...things that confuse human beings, perhaps nothing trips us up so much as what it means for something to be simple or complex. A houseplant, with its microhydraulics, fine-tuned metabolism and dense schematic of nucleic acids, may be more complex than a manufacturing plant. A modern army, with its thicket of bureaucracy and static encampments, may be simpler than a nimble guerrilla group. A guppy, with its symphony of biological systems and subsystems, is vastly more complicated than a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Simplexity | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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