Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clearly, I am not the only person burned by bad computer-dispensed advice. Map sites are only as good as their data, and roads have a way of changing. Indeed, on Switchboard's mapsonus.com--which I consider the best of the freebie directions sites--users are asked to click on a form and agree not to blame the website for mistakes. "Our routes can be, well, creative," the disclaimer advises...
...CLICK TILL YOU DROP...
...screws up your PC. In desperation, you turned to the supposedly bug-free Eudora from Qualcomm. Now, on Friday, reports emerge that Eudora, too, can be transformed into a Trojan horse -- that hackers can write a nasty little Java Script program and disguise it as an HTML link. You click on the link and, in theory, bang goes your hard drive. What's a self-respecting e-mailer...
...recommendation is save your money. Use one of the free family-friendly search sites that are popping up all over the Web. Last week the popular search engine Lycos unveiled SafetyNet, an easy-to-use tool. Simply go to lycos.com click on SafetyNet, select a password and activate the filter. Then whenever you or anyone on your computer searches the Web from lycos.com content will be filtered. Be warned though; there are still plenty of bugs: a search of the word sex returned no results. (Sex education, however, was chock-full of advice that most parents would probably tolerate.) Then...
...while I was eager to hang out with "the gang," I was also a bit apprehensive. What if they've all changed? What if we don't click anymore? What if we've all matured to the point where we just can't go back? I was trying to sort out two different worlds--and one was in danger of being wiped out by the other...