Some thirty years ago the RAND corporation, Americas first and foremost Cold War think-tank faced a strange strategic problem. The cold war had spawned technologies that allowed countries with nuclear capability to target multiple cities with one missile fired from the other side of the world. Post-nuclear America would need a command and control network, linked from city to city, state to state and base to base. No matter how thoroughly that network was armored or protected, its switches and wiring would always be vulnerable to the impact of atomic bombs. A nuclear bombardment would re

Neither Carnegie Mellon nor the Georgetown Law Journal has officially backed away from the study (although the university is forming a committee to look into it). Rimm's faculty adviser, Marvin Sirbu, a professor of engineering and public policy, continues to support him, saying the research has been deliberately mischaracterized by people with a political agenda. But Sirbu himself has been attacked by Carnegie Mellon colleagues for not properly supervising his student and for helping him secretly gather data about the pornography-viewing habits of the university's students. Meanwhile, some of the researchers listed as part of Rimm's "team" now say their involvement was minimal; at least one of them had asked Rimm to remove his name.

million hits per week. It is run by the "CandyMan" as he calls himself as he does not want to divulge his identity. He was recently interviewed in The Net magazine. His web page has topics like "Getting In" which deals with the art and science of lockpicking. "Cons and Scams" details how to scam free stuff in stores, counterfeit money, rip off change machines and decode scrambled pay TV signals. "Drugs!" tells you how to grow psychedelic mushrooms, cook marijuana and get high off household items."Bombs! All About Those Things That Go Boom!" gives explicit instructions on making bombs using dry ice, bleach, match heads and more.

Networks have not banned Power Rangers or NYPD Blue and have put responsibility in the hands of the parents where it should be. Television is not a baby sitter, and the internet is not a baby sitter either. Concerned parents can have a V-chip installed so the responsibility is on them to raise their children as they seem fit. The same goes for the online community, concerned individuals can install software that is the internet equivalent of the V-chip, something that can be turned on or off, with varying degrees of sensitivity.

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