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UK Teachers Say Censor The Internet 463

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 03, 2007 @10:45PM from the how-can-you-have-any-pudding-if-you-smash-my-window dept.

Marlow the Irelander writes "The BBC is reporting that in response to a YouTube video of a schoolboy breaking his teacher's window (yes, this is a video), NASUWT, one of the teaching unions in the UK, is calling for legislation to control the internet. Could Britain, rather than the US, be the main front of the battle against censorship in 2007?" From the article: "Unfortunately, any yob or vandal can now have their 15 minutes of fame, aided and abetted by readily accessible technology and irresponsible internet sites which enable such behaviour to be glorified. [The general secretary of the union] said the union supported a zero tolerance approach in schools to pupils who used technology to abuse and undermine teachers, and called for more rigorous legislative control of internet sites which gave them license."

Submission + - The science behind the joy of the bubbly

Submitted by isabotage3 on Friday December 29, 2006 @01:50PM

isabotage3 writes: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArchive/dec2006 /champagnescience.php Everything you need to know about champagne in time for New Year's — From how to maximize your bubbles to why bubbles follow certain patterns and then suddenly change to when the time is right to stop studying your bubbly and drink up.

Journal Journal: Nanomaterials to Print Flexible 3-Dimensional Electronics

Journal by PoliTech on Thursday December 28, 2006 @03:55PM

Nanomaterials Produce Heterogeneous Three-Dimensional Electronics
Researchers at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois have developed a new, experimentally simple approach for combining broad classes of dissimilar electronic materials into heterogeneously integrated systems with two or three dimensional layouts on rigid or flexible substrates

Comment Re:Who cares when Sony was warned... (Score 1) 335

by person-0.9a on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:52PM (#14143570) Attached to: Sony Warned Weeks Ahead of Rootkit Flap

Yes, Bruce Schneier called out F-Secure to be praised for it's open criticism of Sony-BMG's rootkit.

However, as I read the article, it seems to me that he was calling all security companies to task for their lack of action in removing Sony's malware.

In that same article.

"... A dangerous and damaging rootkit gets introduced into the wild, and half a million computers get infected before anyone does anything.
Who are the security companies really working for? ... "

And thus the point I was making about Bruce Schneier already tackling this issue. F-Secure knew about this particular rootkit. They decided to work with Sony to hopefully get a well engineer patch out. That is commendable, but while they were talking with Sony it appears they left many people vulnerable to having this malware make it onto their system.

It's a rock and hard place for F-Secure, but not stoping the install seems to be in conflict with protecting it's customers.

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