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...recommendation is save your money. Use one of the free family-friendly search sites that are popping up all over the Web. Last week the popular search engine Lycos unveiled SafetyNet, an easy-to-use tool. Simply go to lycos.com click on SafetyNet, select a password and activate the filter. Then whenever you or anyone on your computer searches the Web from lycos.com content will be filtered. Be warned though; there are still plenty of bugs: a search of the word sex returned no results. (Sex education, however, was chock-full of advice that most parents would probably tolerate.) Then...
...sitting in my office one morning, going through my e-mail, and I find a bit of spam from an online porn site called DoMeLive.com Live sex, it promises--you on one end, a heavy-breathing nude human being on the other. "Free samples," it says, supplying a password and log-in. No harm in looking, I figure, and I click...
Sure enough, the password gets me through the front door, and suddenly a naked woman lying on a queen-size bed is there on my computer screen, gazing expectantly at me. I've been doing this job so long, all I can think about is how TV-like the frame-rate is--so good, in fact, that I start to suspect a hoax. I mean, how would I know if there really was someone on the other end? It could be recorded. WAVE, IF YOU CAN READ THIS, I type, smug as Alan Turing. She waves. I run screaming from...
...Therefore education is equally important as new desks and chairs. First-years in the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will receive information pamphlets in their registration packets next fall but just as the administration impresses upon new arrivals not to divulge their e-mail password to anyone, it must also impress upon its students the importance of setting up a proper workstation. One pamphlet among many is easy to ignore...
...process is simple on both Macintoshes and IBM-compatible computers. On the Macintosh side, you need to use a program called Fetch. Open it, (it is usually located with Internet software) and connect to fas.harvard.edu, providing it with your username and password (just like telnet...