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...abortion on the Internet. The ACLU says it will challenge the bill in federal court, contending that the bill's wording is so vague that it would prohibit transmittal of novels like "Catcher in the Rye" and other forms of already-permitted free speech. Acccording to TIME's Joshua Quittner, "The protest shows the solidarity of online providers against a truly Kafkaesque piece of legislation." Quittner is not disappointed by the relative gentleness of the protest. "The online community is not particularly militant. We expect the ACLU will prevail in the courts and the indecency provisions will be struck down...
Microsoft will make its Microsoft Network, until now open only to subscribers, available to anyone over the Internet. "This is a great move for Microsoft," says TIME's Joshua Quittner. "By far the most popular browser is Netscape; what Microsoft wants is for people to use its competing Explorer browser. Not very many people are on the Microsoft Network right now, and they want as many people as possible to see and use their products. What Microsoft hopes will happen is that people will go to their site and see all the cool things that you can do with their...
...charged with distributing indecent materials to minors over the Internet and face as much as a $100,000 fine and up to 5 years in prison." The measure in effect would take many of the standards of broadcasting and apply them to the Internet. But TIME's Joshua Quittner says broadcast rules don't mesh with the online world. "Broadcast standards are there because there is a limited bandwidth. Only a few people could use it, and because of that they have a responsibility to the public. The net is unlimited bandwith -- anybody can access it -- and this measure would...
TIME's Joshua Quittner says a serious security flaw found in Netscape, the most popular World Wide Web browser, probably won't cast a pall over emerging electronic commerce. Two University of California at Berkeley graduate students have found that a knowledgeable computer user could crack the system in less then a minute, potentially giving users access to information such as credit card or bank account numbers. Netscape Communications plans to rush out a secure version of the software next week. "This is an interesting academic exercise, but online transactions are still a relatively minor part of the Internet," Quittner...
...spend money to upgrade to a computer that will run Windows 95, you might as well wait. There's nothing in here that's worth spending an extra $1,100 if you have to upgrade to 8 megabytes of RAM and go out and by a sound card." Quittner recommends waiting two years to buy a more advanced computer "because by then, they'll have Windows 97." For Windows users with the proper equipment now, he says, the new rollout is an improvement. "It comes closer to true multitasking, and it uses 32-bit processing, so your programs will...