Children ignore net chat dangers

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Children warned of internet dangers

Children warned of internet dangers 12/27/2004 08:51 AM
Irish Examiner Dec 27 2004 11:50AM GMT

Drowning dangers are ever-present for
children (USATODAY.com)

Drowning dangers are ever-present for
children (USATODAY.com) 05/03/2004 06:47 AM
USATODAY.com - Lea Owens took her eyes off her 6-year-old son, Harley, only briefly. But in the three minutes that she was in the bathroom of her home in North Augusta, S.C., Harley slipped out the back door and into the swimming pool, where he drowned.

Study Quantifies Dangers Of Online Chat
Rooms (Sort Of)

Study Quantifies Dangers Of Online Chat
Rooms (Sort Of) 06/01/2004 03:37 PM
Over in the UK, they seem positively obsessed with the dangers of internet chat rooms. We don't deny that there are dangers, but they seem to be blown way out of proportion. A little bit of education from parents and schools could solve an awful lot of the problems associated with chat rooms (and, in fact, that probably does solve many of the risks already for most families). Still, it seems you can't go a day without finding a sensationalistic story about the chatrooms, and now they're pushing a new study that claims to clearly demonstrate the dangers of chatrooms - but it all depends on your interpretation. They claim 7% of kids claim they've met in person with someone they first met online without telling their parents. First off, that's 7%. That means 93% haven't, which seems like a pretty good number. The article doesn't give many more details that will let you know much about those numbers either. What age is covered by "young people?" While it might be a bit scary if your 8-year-old is running off to the park to meet someone he or she doesn't know, there are plenty of teenagers savvy enough to be careful about what they're getting involved with. The other statistic is just as bad: 11% "felt uncomfortable" during an online chat. Again, they don't define the age range and they don't delve into exactly what made them uncomfortable. "Felt uncomfortable" is quite broad. I'm sure if I went into chat rooms with strangers I'd feel uncomfortable at times as well, but it wouldn't mean I'm in "danger."

Children: Stop Us Before We Chat Again!

Children: Stop Us Before We Chat Again! 07/14/2004 11:34 AM
Over in the UK, they simply can't get enough stories about children abducted be people after going into online chat rooms. If you read the news stories, you would think your chances of being abducted about hovering around 50% these days. Are the abductions a problem? Absolutely. But, all these news stories focus on blaming the chatrooms themselves, and not the sick individuals who do the abducting. All the hype about these chat rooms made MSN decide to shut down their chat rooms in the UK in a high profile move last year. Of course, for those who wanted to keep on chatting, they quickly moved onto other chatrooms -- many of which were less carefully watched than the MSN chat rooms. Now, however, comes news of a completely pointless "survey" saying that the kids, themselves, want the chat rooms closed for their own protection. Excuse me if I'm a bit confused, but if the kids are so worried about chatrooms... why do they keep going in them? It's pretty simple to just stay away if you really think it's a problem. The answer may come from the way in which this "study" was conducted. It turns out that it wasn't a study at all, but a discussion in "consultation groups" run by the people putting on this study. Double blind, be damned! Anyone who knows anything about investigator bias would immediately question these findings. Basically, you have someone who wants to get a certain response, and then goes into a bunch of children for a "discussion," and leads them to provide the exact quotes they wanted. It's not to hard. A leading question here or there. A misleading discussion about current events that gets people worried. Leaving out details or nuances of things. Voila, all the quotes needed for a high profile "study" that is completely meaningless.

How Does Blocking A Phone Number Protect
Children In Chat Rooms?

How Does Blocking A Phone Number Protect
Children In Chat Rooms? 06/01/2004 12:01 PM
A British mother has apparently won the "top award" at "the world's largest invention trade show" for her invention to help protect her daughter in online chat rooms. That sounds great, but it's not at all clear how the device she describes does anything to protect children in chat rooms. Perhaps it's the BBC reporting, but it appears the device can be used to prevent a phone from dialing a specific phone number. That's it. What that has to do with stopping a child from using an internet chat room is beyond me. The one (fairly small) benefit I can come up with is the ability to keep a fairly unsophisticated child from dialing up while a parent isn't around to watch them. After all, if the parents aren't home already, can't the kids just unplug the device? Besides once they got online they could just go to any chatroom they wanted. Besides, why use a device when you could just do it in software on the computer itself? Finally, with much of the world rushing rapidly towards broadband, this sort of device becomes even less useful. While the BBC article suggests the woman may make a "fortune" on the device, it's not entirely clear why. It seems this is just another attempt to jump on the fears of parents about what their kids might be doing online, without being at all useful.

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Feral Children (wild children, wolf
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Truffaut, Romulus, Remus, Kamala, Amala,
Mowgli, Tarzan) 12/14/2003 07:32 PM
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Microsoft Chat: Windows XP Smart
Displays Online chat

Microsoft Chat: Windows XP Smart
Displays Online chat 12/04/2003 07:11 PM

Chat Blazer, Cutting a Trail to
Enterprise Chat

Chat Blazer, Cutting a Trail to
Enterprise Chat 04/15/2004 11:36 PM
Internet.com Apr 16 2004 3:07AM GMT

Save The Children calls on release of
Iraqi children from jails.

Save The Children calls on release of
Iraqi children from jails. 07/08/2004 10:09 PM
Save The Children calls on release of Iraqi children from jails. This apparently in response to recent media reports on the abuse of children in Iraqi prisons. And it's not just Save the Children who is concerned, but UNICEF, Amnesty International, and the Red Cross. Infact, Congress has called for a special briefing tomorrow from the Pentagon on "confidential reports" from the Red Cross on prison conditions in Iraq. The Pentagon is closing the briefing to the public, however, and apparently thinks that even Congress shouldn't know the details of how we treat prisoners.
"It's something of a stretch of policy and procedures to give them to the Congress," Rumsfeld spokesman Larry Di Rita said.

Israel Says Children Enlist Children as
Suicide Bombers

Israel Says Children Enlist Children as
Suicide Bombers 06/12/2004 08:36 PM
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict grinds on, with many Palestinian militants now arrested or dead, the ranks are increasingly filled by eager youths, some in their middle to late teens.

Microsoft Chat: MSN Messenger Chat

Microsoft Chat: MSN Messenger Chat 07/13/2004 05:11 PM

Wi-Fi Dangers

Wi-Fi Dangers 11/06/2003 08:51 AM
techtv Nov 6 2003 7:51AM ET

Day-Trading Dangers

Day-Trading Dangers 12/27/2004 12:41 PM
Most day traders are not getting as rich as you might think.

The dangers of PageRank

The dangers of PageRank 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

A well documented side effect of the weblog format is that it brings Google PageRank in almost absurd quantities. I'm now the 5th result for simon on Google, and I've been the top result for simon willison almost since the day I launched. High rankings however are not always a good thing, especially when combined with a comment system. A growing number of bloggers have found themselves at the top position for terms of little or no relevance to the rest of their sites, which in turn can attract truly surreal comments from visitors from search engines who may never have encountered a blog before.

I know of a couple of entries on my own blog that are attracting this kind of traffic. The most interesting is probably this entry on artifical diamonds, which has attracted comments from both buyers and sellers of artificial gems. My entry on MSN messenger usability problems from 2002 has drawn a steady stream of hilarious comments, no doubt caused in part by its top rating on Google for msn messenger sucks. Amusingly, for a long time Microsoft's own search engine was giving my page a high rank for a wide variety of less negative messenger related terms.

My own experiences of this phenomenon pale in to significance to some of the others I've seen. The most impressive example has to be Jason Kottke's brief review of the Matrix Reloaded, which drew over 900 comments from Google strays, developed its own micro-community and resulted in Jason pondering who owns the conversation on my web site? Jason eventually deciding to close and archive the thread after the page grew to more than a megabyte in size.

The problem can take on a far more disturbing twist. I won't link directly to these entries for fear of adding to their predicaments, but searches for crime scene cleanup and suicide chat rooms both return blogs in the first two results. The former thread is mostly crime scene cleanup companies marketing their services, but the latter is quite frankly disturbing. It's certainly lead me to double check the titles of my entries before posting them.

Thankfully, avoiding this kind of unwanted comment traffic is pretty simple. One way is to simply disable comments for entries older than a certain time (generally a couple of weeks), although personally I like to see the occasional comment on old entries. A neater solution proposed by Russell Beattie last year is to simply hide comments from search engine referrals, thus ensuring that random strays won't leave their mark without understanding the nature of your site first.

The many dangers on our computers

The many dangers on our computers 05/16/2004 03:09 PM
Bangkok Post May 16 2004 6:42PM GMT

IGNORE

IGNORE 08/13/2004 07:45 PM

UK Government warns of net dangers

UK Government warns of net dangers 09/15/2004 08:58 PM

More on Gmail's Virtues and Dangers

More on Gmail's Virtues and Dangers 04/17/2004 09:57 AM

Tim O'Reilly finds much to praise in Google's upcoming Gmail service, and is much less concerned about the privacy issues than I am. We agree totally, however on a crucial issue: preventing data lock-in. He says:

"The big question to me isn't privacy, or control over software APIs, it's who will own the data. What's critical is that gmail makes a commitment to data migration capabilities, so the service isn't a one way door to the future. I want to be able to switch to alternate providers if the competition makes a better offer. The critical enabler is going to be the ability to extract my data and connections so that I can work with them on multiple devices, for example, syncing my laptop or phone with my gmail account rather than having to work only in a tethered fashion. I understand why gmail doesn't offer this feature now, but it's going to be essential in the long term."

Amen.

Big wins, hidden dangers

Big wins, hidden dangers 02/08/2004 05:32 PM
John Kerry dominated Michigan and Washington on Saturday. But will it be possible to please both big industrial unions and environmentalists?

Wi-Fi dangers must be tackled by the
board

Wi-Fi dangers must be tackled by the
board 04/28/2004 08:55 AM

Internet dangers exaggerated

Internet dangers exaggerated 06/09/2004 08:52 AM
Web-User Jun 9 2004 1:11PM GMT

Behavior: The Dangers of Yo-Yo Dieting

Behavior: The Dangers of Yo-Yo Dieting 06/07/2004 09:57 PM
Losing weight is good, but losing and regaining weight over and over can damage the immune system, according to a new study.

Government warns of net dangers

Government warns of net dangers 09/15/2004 10:00 AM
A more joined-up approach to net safety is needed if government is to get the message home to citizens.

Internet dangers 'underestimated'

Internet dangers 'underestimated' 09/03/2004 06:18 AM
Thisislondon.com - Fri Sep 3, 05:56 am GMT

Step One: Ignore All

Step One: Ignore All 07/22/2004 11:47 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 23 2004 4:08AM GMT

Operation Ignore

Operation Ignore 09/11/2004 04:24 PM
Lest We Forget
Today we should look back at how a shift in priorities played a critical role in the attacks of 9/11. Whatever your political leanings there are certain facts that should not be ignored. I present these and ask you to present other relevant facts.

Why You Can't Ignore Bloggers

Why You Can't Ignore Bloggers 01/04/2005 08:54 AM
Fortune Jan 4 2005 12:55PM GMT

Ignore Your Lender

Ignore Your Lender 08/13/2004 02:15 PM
Banks let you get away with a lot more than you should.

IM Users Need Better Education About
Phishing Dangers

IM Users Need Better Education About
Phishing Dangers 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:44PM GMT

Internet presents hidden dangers

Internet presents hidden dangers 09/21/2004 06:53 AM
Qctimes.com - Tue Sep 21, 08:26 am GMT

Scots unaware of internet dangers

Scots unaware of internet dangers 09/04/2004 04:40 AM
BBC Sep 4 2004 9:35AM GMT

Dangers of register_globals and remote
includes

Dangers of register_globals and remote
includes 07/10/2004 06:14 AM

Parents underestimate internet dangers

Parents underestimate internet dangers 09/03/2004 02:29 AM
Manchester Online Sep 3 2004 6:59AM GMT

Dangers snags Sharp for Hiptop

Dangers snags Sharp for Hiptop 07/23/2004 06:36 AM
Manufacturing deal

dangers to sponsoring an open
competition

dangers to sponsoring an open
competition 01/07/2004 06:59 PM
But it’s all your fault! .. portrayed this ad .. controversy .. disavowed .. says

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Parents still unaware of internet
dangers

Parents still unaware of internet
dangers 09/07/2004 05:01 AM
inSourced Sep 7 2004 9:06AM GMT

Cockler dangers 'known last year'

Cockler dangers 'known last year' 02/11/2004 01:43 PM
The Home Office was warned last year about illegal cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay but did not act, the BBC learns.

Binge drinking dangers revealed

Binge drinking dangers revealed 03/28/2005 06:01 AM
Death and blighted lives as a result of binge drinking in Wales are highlighted in a week-long BBC campaign.

Please ignore this MT-Blackllist URL
extractor

Please ignore this MT-Blackllist URL
extractor 05/18/2004 10:33 PM
I just received 200 comment spams. They each listed a different URL and came from a different IP address,which means the invaluable MT-Blacklist (thank you, Jay Allen) has to be told to delete each one, one at a time. Instead, I cobbled together an Outlook script — yes, I use OL on my desktop machine, although I've been happy with Thunderbird on my laptop — that looks through the messages you have highlighted in your inbox and builds a list of the URLs that people listed in the URL field of the comment. You then paste these into the text...
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FTC testimony highlights file-sharing
dangers

FTC testimony highlights file-sharing
dangers 05/06/2004 12:52 PM
The FTC tells Congress that peer-to-peer computing can expose consumers, including children, to unsolicited content such as pornography, as well as provide a vehicle for proliferating criminal material such as child pornography.

Children ignore net chat dangers

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