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...early six-touchdown deficit cemented Cornell's fate, however, as even the comeback kids from Ithaca could not pull off the impossible. Brown continued their offensive onslaught in the second half, as Webber added two more touchdown passes in the third quarter to extend the lead...
...Even with Rahne's offensive explosion in the second half, he could not compensate for the huge deficit. The quarterback finished the game with 62 pass attempts, completing 29 for 446 yards...
...addition to blocking too much, the filter programs also generally block too little. The Internet is a rapidly changing environment, in which new sites emerge and disappear on a daily basis. No team of investigators could possibly catalog all the objectionable material to be found there--and even if they could, they'd need to start over in a week. Furthermore, Internet gateways and proxy servers allow for enterprising individuals to evade many filter programs. Until we can develop artificial intelligence more astute than Justice Potter Stewart (who couldn't define pornography, but said, "I know it when...
...equally good product. As a result, the lists are fiercely guarded, meaning that there is no simple way for the purchasers of filter software to verify a manufacturer's claims--or for those whose sites are wrongly labeled as pornography or hate speech to find out and complain. Even if the programs offer some nominal degree of choice, users have no ability whatsoever to select the exact level of filtering. Filter software puts these decisions in the hands of the manufacturers, not those of the schools or the parents...
...flawed culture could be healed by dragging a bunch of network executives up to Capitol Hill and giving them a stern talking-to; through the democratized medium of the Internet, content can be distributed worldwide after it has been reviewed by only one moderator in a newsgroup--or even no one at all. ("The horror! The horror!") To deal with this new development, our irrational fear of the Internet--and our irrational faith in the power of a technological quick fix--must both be discarded. When faced with such a powerful medium, society simply can't afford to let computers...