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Teenager Aimee Deep was worried. At 13, she'd joined the hordes of her peers chatting with her pals on AOL's Instant Messenger. But she was also smart enough to know how insecure the network was; wily hackers could easily eavesdrop. Couldn't her dad, a technology consultant, do something? What Johnny Deep did back in 1998 was build her a piece of code that made Messenger secure. Last year, he added an extra layer on which CD tracks could be traded in complete privacy and then propagated the whole program on the Web. The next phase...
...Deep's rival swapping service, Aimster (named for Aimee), that threatens the recording industry more. The service is almost identical to Napster in the way that songs can be easily searched for and downloaded, but unlike Napster it has a ready-built market, since 60 million people already use Instant Messenger. In an attempt to forestall any legal action by the music industry, Deep has hired top lawyer David Boies and petitioned a federal judge to issue a declaratory judgment on whether his service is legitimate. "We're just a privacy service that encrypts files for you," Deep says with...
...Brazill didn't at that instant grasp the grim future that awaits him, it probably won't take him long. Next month the judge will mete out a sentence that could mean a lifetime in prison. And if Brazill needs a clearer picture of what's in store for him, the prison life of other school shooters will give him an idea. These young gunmen, at the moment of their wrathful outbursts, were often filled with a sense of potency and triumph or at least relief that whatever or whoever was troubling them had been exorcised. But those sensations generally...
...sure, parental frustrations are running equally high. Moms and dads accustomed to the instant gratification of e-mail can spend dizzying days trying to connect with teachers, many of whom don't have computers or voicemail. For many working parents, meeting a teacher between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. is simply impossible...
...rebel, you might want to heed the advice of Susan McHale, a professor of human development at Penn State University, who says parents can minimize the "handicap" of close spacing by carefully preparing the older child for the birth of the younger (don't promise an instant playmate); by teaching the children to empathize with one another in the preschool years; by helping them play without competing throughout childhood; and by continuing to spend time with the two of them--together--even after they reach adolescence...