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...your queries, it recognizes audio and video only by file name. Microsoft's desktop-search program, on the other hand - part of a new MSN Toolbar Suite (beta.toolbar.msn.com) - examines the metadata embedded in multimedia files as well. The MSN program also allows you to create different indexes for separate user accounts. So if you share a computer with, say, your kids and want to maintain some privacy, you can still keep them away from any files you have hidden. (With Google, you'd have to exclude those files from the index altogether.) A special feature of the Ask Jeeves desktop...
...banning them to halt cheating, since students have been nabbed shooting test questions and e-mailing them to others. Many courthouses ban the phones to prevent witness or juror intimidation. (At a superior court hearing in Los Angeles three months ago, a witness was photographed by a cam-phone user who threatened to post the photo on the Web.) Most gyms have set limits, especially in locker rooms, fearing members could take pictures of people in various states of undress...
...University disabled one website contributing to the problem, iCommons poll tool, on Thursday after the The Crimson demonstrated that it had allowed any internet user to look up the ID numbers of all Harvard students and employees. The tool had permitted poll authors to add anyone to a list of respondents to their poll, and then download a spreadsheet of those people’s e-mails, ID numbers and names...
...sites or other applications with anything other than HUID and PIN is not appropriate,” Wrinn wrote in an e-mail. “Whether a site contains confidential data or not, the login process should entail a secret password that is under the control of the user...
Websites accessible with a Harvard ID and birthday include the eRecruiting site, which would allow an unauthorized user to download or post a resume on someone else’s account or to submit and withdraw job applications. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences e-mail registration page also verifies identity through ID and birthday, while setting up campus mail to forward to a different physical address requires the ID and the last four digits of a student’s social security number...