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...position to be a censor--that responsibility should be at the parents' level, or whoever controls the terminal," says Gordon Ross, chief executive officer of Canada's Vancouver-based Net Nanny, a program that allows a parent or guardian to monitor everything passing through the computer. Net Nanny users, for example, can enter such phrases as "What's your name?" and "What's your phone number?" in a phrase book. When the software detects one of the targeted phrases printing across the terminal--say, in a chat room of a commercial online service--Net Nanny harrumphs and pulls the plug...
Thanks, Kristy. The Only problem is that desensitization doesn't always work in such a dramatic (or obvious), way. We aren't always aware of how it is affecting us, for a variety of reasons, Desensitization functions in a gradual, incrementalist way, making it difficult to monitor how we're being affected. More fundamentally, none of us are capable of fully escaping from our own subject position. In other words, we can't step outside of ourselves and say, "Ah ha! I see that I have been negatively affected by watching `Pulp Fiction.' I must now watch two hours...
Caplan says Monitor Company in Cambridge alsotested applicants' mental skills...
...computer to load only its most essential programs. Then, I add the one I need, hoping it won't crash my system. I've found that rapping my machine smartly on its side never cures the problem. It does, however, precipitate a brief but gratifying starburst pattern on the monitor, much as if it had been punched in the nose...
...looking for efficient ways to monitor communication,:" Wrinn said...