Word: errors
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Despite the promises, the technology for filtering simply isn't there. All of the currently available Internet filtering programs block perfectly legitimate information. Error rates have ranged as high as 60 percent as filters prohibit access to information on breast cancer or sexually transmitted diseases. The American Family Association, a conservative religious group, was once blocked as as promoting anti-gay hate speech, and the American Civil Liberties Union, CNN and Time magazine have all been blocked by various filters for discussing the issue of Internet pornography. Many programs have blocked the websites of their competitors. Sometimes the blocks seem...
...home; parents who have not prepared their children to face such influences without letting their hearts be "turned dark" cannot expect society to shield their virgin ears. The federal government does not need to interfere, especially because serious constitutional issues can arise when public libraries try to use such error-filled software to block materials that minors have the right to see--a practice a federal judge in Virginia compared to buying an encyclopedia and then blacking out everything deemed inappropriate. One need only remember how the American Family Association was categorized as hate speech to realize the implications...
...Bush benefited from a double standard. Residual disdain for the teacher's pet makes it satisfying to catch a smarty pants like Gore in an error, while it's no fun to go after the class cutup. This is not meant to excuse Gore's earlier performance in Boston or withhold credit from Bush for passing an exam on world affairs. But had the standard of accuracy operating in the first debate been applied in the second, Bush would not have fared as well. For instance, Bush said we should pull our troops out of Haiti, but there...
DIED. LESLIE KISH, 90, statistician who formulated, among other things, the "margin of error," an assessment of the accuracy of opinion polls; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Kish used his new population sampling techniques in 1948 to predict a narrow Truman victory over Dewey--when almost everyone had forecast a Dewey landslide...
What VIA has discovered by trial and error is a balance between open and closed spaces, between individual work and collaborative effort. It is the compromise Brill is currently suggesting to his clients, adding to the mix the crucial element of choice. "We're recommending team spaces in the middle of a cluster of small private offices," he says. "If you open the door, you're in the team space. If it's shut...