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HotJava is designed such that instead of reading only specific types of graphics, sound and text files, the browser can also read entire programs called applets which run automatically on the user's machine...
...years, the Senate Commerce Committee proposed a ban on pornography in cyberspace. The plan, known as the Communications Decency Act of 1995, would make it a crime, punishable by up to $100,000 and two years in jail, to transmit "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" images, E-mail, text files and any other form of communication online...
...their computers. On the multimedia portion of the Internet known as the Web, Penthouse and others serve up free, frontally nude cyber-pinups. Those sites are frequently jammed beyond capacity. (Last year a Carnegie Mellon graduate student surveying sex on the Internet determined that 450,620 pornographic images and text files had been downloaded 6,432,297 times in six months. And that's just in America...
...conveniently stops after the reference to several declined and reiterated dinner invitations from a teacher. Then Lat purposefully omits the crucial part of the example: "and I'm concerned it could jeopardize my course evaluation" and replaces it with an ellipsis. This is a transparently dishonest manipulation of the text in order to make his (questionable) point, as anyone who reads the brochure will understand immediately...
Heidegger, Heidegger, and more Heidegger drones on, while video images flash by in lively contrast to the deadpan textual underpinning. Philosophical discourse takes such an incredible amount of concentration and linear, logical thinking, that the flashing images and spatial nature of the cinematic form disrupts Heidegger's text more than they complement it. This brings one of the exhibit's main conflicts to light. We are a society torn between discourses, one written and one visual, and our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our guilt-laden tendency...