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...survey, which interviewed nearly 30,000 people in 29 states, will be used by community groups as a diagnostic tool in their efforts to revitalize community life...
...ignoring the protections granted to speech, the Ninth Circuit created a dangerous gray area for new Internet protocols. How useful must a piece of information be before it becomes illegal? How effective must a search tool be before it becomes contributory infringement? If I duplicate copyrighted text on my website, could Google be sued for indexing it--or, God forbid, for keeping a cached copy on its own servers? There is no room for gray areas in this body of law. Either an act is contributory infringement or it isn't, and the failure to draw clear lines creates chilling...
...Pence. "If they want to re-create their dead children, so what?" People have always had self-serving reasons for having children, he argues, whether to ensure there's someone to care for them in their old age or to relive their youth vicariously. Cloning is just another reproductive tool; the fact that it is not a perfect tool, in Pence's view, should not mean it should be outlawed altogether. "We know there are millions of girls who smoke and drink during pregnancy, and we know what the risks to the fetus are, but we don't do anything...
...spread of cheap, strong encryption is a powerful new tool for pedophiles. Of 12 Wonderland arrests in Germany, for example, none has gone to trial because police can't decipher all the evidence they've collected. A spokesman for the U.S. Customs Service says, "We have the latest systems ... there is no refuge for pedophiles in cyberspace." But that sounds like studied bravado. "Sure, if every computer on the planet spent three months on one of these codes you might crack it," says John Carr, Internet consultant to the British children's charity nch. "But right now, the seesaw...
...HOLLIS replacement has been in the works since 1994, when a library report called for an update to a system which was described as "a cumbersome tool in a networked world." The report recommended that a new system be put in place by early 1997. Since that report, the project has been repeatedly postponed...