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While I do not agree with all the assertions below I think some good points are made about how parents should not use filters as a substitute for communicating with their children. The Online Chaperone has been designed to help parents and kids commuicate about Internet media consumption and experiences. -- Walter Borden, Co-Inventor, The OnlineChaperone

It's clearly getting towards election season. Our federal government, rather than getting anything important done, is focused on passing...

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We now have a new version (v0.97) of Online Chaperone, with trial and "real" versions. The trial version is fully functional, and expires after 30 days. The real version needs to be bought.

Please try out the trial version and let us know your thoughts!

Thanks.

You may remember the story of some cheeky MIT students who wrote a computer programme to generate scientific papers. Well, now some researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics have come up with an Inauthentic Paper Detector to foil it.

Mehmet Dalkilic, a data mining expert explains how it works: "We believe that there are subtle, short- and long-range word or even word string repetitions that exist in human texts, but not in many classes of computer-generated texts that can be...

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It really was just three weeks ago that the news came out that Verizon agreed to settle a class action suit brought against the company for being too aggressive in blocking spam. Apparently, what the lawyers agreed to hasn't filtered back to those in charge of handling the spam filters (perhaps it was caught in their own spam filter), as the company is now being accused of turning on (oh yes, once again) an overly aggressive spam filter leading to many problems for users not getting...

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