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...evidence that "parental control" button on the America Online and Prodigy dial-up services may more important than some parents thought. The Vienna, Va.-based America Online has announced that the FBI is investigating a "small number of people" who have used the system's E-mail to transmit child pornography, after about a dozen AOL members who received the dirty pictures recently lodged complaints. AOL president Steve Case said that AOL contacted the FBI and terminated the individual accounts as soon as it learned of the abuses.Of special concern is the threat that some users may prey on young...
Whether or not Three Gorges is ever finished, hydropower can never meet the bulk of China's energy needs. Part of the problem is that most of the potential dam sites are in the less populated southwestern part of the country, making it expensive to transmit electricity to the industrial north and east. Experts say hydropower will account for no more than 20% of China's electricity generation...
Arrayed along the pipelines of Enron Oil & Gas in the American Southwest is a series of boxy monitors that transmit data about the flow of the company's precious fossil fuels. The telecommunications devices draw their power not from the fuels they monitor but from shiny panels that capture the energy of the sun. Are these solar-powered invaders of the oil patch the technological portents of a coming era? Or are they merely emblematic of the bit part solar has played thus far in the world's energy equation? No one knows for sure, but corporate investors, who have...
Another indicator is often labeled "TX". This indicator flashes whenever your computer attempts to transmit information out to the network. A third indicator is often labeled "RX". This indicator flashes whenever data ("network traffic") is received from the outside by your computer...
...partitioned data jack is easy to spot. The LINK light remains on, since the entrance ramp is still there. The TX light still flashes whenever the computer tries to transmit data, but such data never makes it to the network due to the "roadblock." The RX light, however, is dead--any network traffic coming into the computer is blocked, so the network adapter never sees...