http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/ Blog OpenACS 5.0 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:43:00 GMT http://www.onlinechaperone.com/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/ 126 48 http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=1903 http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=1903 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 OnlineChaperoneIt's clearly getting towards election season. Our federal government, rather than getting anything important done, is focused on passing al... Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:43:00 GMT http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=1656 http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=1656 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. Sun, 21 May 2006 04:00:12 GMT http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=1585 http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=1585 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 ... Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:13:02 GMT http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=1584 http://www.onlinechaperone.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=1584 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 important,... Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:51:40 GMT