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  1. A Librarian Responds by vaxer · · Score: 3, Insightful · on ACLU and ALA Victorious in CIPA Challenge

    Some of the problem is adults whacking off in libraries looking at porn. We can protect the kids from that by banning porn altogether.

    Or as a saner person might have said, "by having people arrested if they whack off at a public Internet workstation". Filters throw out the baby and keep the bathwater.

    Idiots have been arrested for committing crimes in the library before, and as long as they keep making a nuisance of themselves, we librarians will keep LARTing them.

    What about the millions of Americans (including the poor) that don't want their children subject to pornography?

    They probably shouldn't abdicate their parental authority by treating public libraries as a free babysitting service. Here's a free hint for those bereft of clue: leaving your child unattended in a public place is a Bad Idea.

  2. Links as links. by A+Big+Gnu+Thrush · · Score: 3 · on Declassified Tempest Material Comes Online

    Because I care:

    GUID

    Win98 profiling

    Professor Spokesman

    Astroturf

    Ads as news

    Video

  3. Re:Women in Computing by anirvan · · Score: 1 · on Women in the Open Source/Free Software Communities?

    And her name is.....?

    Kim Polese, current CEO of Marimba, and part of Sun's original Java development team. She had amazing buzz around her circa 1996-97, the era of push and Java.

    There's some more about her here, or just search for "Kim Polese" to find hundreds of articles about her.