Word: spank
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Every parent needs to make up his or her own mind, of course, and in turn they need to be able to live with themselves. But in a country where everyone moans about the violence saturating our television and movie screens, it seems awfully hypocritical for spank-happy parents to introduce their children to violence at such a young...
...issued by Zero to Three, a nonprofit child development organization, in conjunction with the nonprofit Civitas, and Brio, the toy maker, is based on interviews with 3,000 adults, including 1,066 parents of children under the age of six. Sixty-one percent of all respondents felt regular spanking was an acceptable form of punishment. Even more surprising, thirty-seven percent of parents of young children believe it?s acceptable to spank children younger than two. And as a corollary befitting the old adage "spare the rod, spoil the child," fifty-six percent believe a 6-month old baby...
...attack is practically public property. You can download it in the form of programs, or scripts, like Trin00, Tribal Flood Network or the nightmarish-sounding Stacheldraht (German for barbed wire). Each program can accept a kind of plug-in to make it even more adaptable, with names like Stream, Spank or Raped. "These tools have been out there for years," says Emmanuel Goldstein, editor of the hacker journal 2600. "Hackers have known about these for years. They haven't done anything about it. To me, that shows great respect and restraint...