Internet fears bring new guidelines. Chat room operators should provide safety messages for child users. [Guardian Unlimited] this always brings into question the notion of whose responsibility should it be to oversee children…

Falcon's Eye: The Making-Over of Nethack. 3 Jan 2003: On Lamp takes a look atFalcon's Eye.”Most of these interfaces perform a make-over of NetHack with flat, 2D graphics, but some also present a pseudo-3d look. Falcon's Eye aims for a much more sophisticated transformation, visually and otherwise. It overlays the ASCII characters with detailed graphics […]

Life In the Trenches: A Sysadmin Speaks. 2 Jan 2003: The Age talks to aSysadmin.”In 1982, he went into a support/sysadmin role and has stayed in that line ever since. Says he: “I guess this job was inevitable for me since I discovered computers at the age of 11. The only job I've ever had […]

LazyWeb ideas have a home [bOing bOing]

The burdens of empire.. The Burden. In a lengthy piece in tomorrow's NYT magazine (reg. req.), historian Michael Ignatieff explores the costs and benefits of America's shift from republic to empire. [MetaFilter]

Unemployment. “This is getting ridiculous!” complained one veteran programmer on USENET a bit over two years ago… after being out of the workforce for a while, he was having trouble getting back in the door. While there's no way to put yourself in his prospective employers shoes and make a real judgement, it looks like […]

The networker: What Marx can tell us about Bill Gates. Business Over in Seattle a Very Large Company is claiming that it owns the word 'Windows'. Unfortunately, from past experience, we can be sure that Bill Gates & Co will not be deterred by ridicule, says John Naughton. [Guardian Unlimited]

CALL – FRONTIERS OF BUSINESS CHANGE – BUDAPEST – JULY 2003 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CHALLENGING THE FRONTIERS IN GLOBAL BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY: IMPLEMENTATION OF CHANGES IN VALUES, STRATEGY AND POLICY GLOBAL BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION http://www.gbata.com/updatejune4.html Budapest, Hungary July 8-12, 2003 This is going to be a truly global conference sponsored by the Tobin College […]

Dear Colleague, Ê International Twelfth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks will be organized byCanakkaleOnsekizMartUniversitybetween 02 – 04 July, 2003, in Canakkale, TURKIYE. Referred & Submitted Papers will be published in Symposium Proceedings. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer SciencesÊISSN 1300-0632,ÊElectronic […]