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Friday, May 31, 2002

'Are We There Yet?' Becomes 'Where's the Barney Tape?'. The car has become a mobile theater, where back-seat passengers can watch movies, listen to music or play video games, all without disturbing the driver. By Stacy Kravetz. [New York Times: Technology]
4:46:10 PM

TiVo adds subscribers, pares loss. The digital recording company cuts its loss for the first quarter nearly in half, compared with a year ago, as revenue and subscribers numbers grow sharply. [CNET News.com]
4:45:54 PM

ACLU and ALA Victorious in CIPA Challenge

ACLU and ALA Victorious in CIPA Challenge
Posted by michael on Friday May 31, @11:15AM
from the dancing-and-singing-in-the-streets dept.
Several people have submitted this news blurb about a victory in the CIPA case. If CIPA doesn't ring a bell, my earlier summary should help, or see this article from last month when the suit was heard in court. The ALA's CIPA page has more information, or read the lengthy decision. This is a rather surprising bit of good news; while the government often has great discretion in deciding how funds are spent (read my summary above for how the law worked), the judges in this case accepted the argument that requiring censoring software automatically lead to censoring things that weren't obscene, or child pornography, or "harmful to minors", and that that wasn't acceptable. I've reproduced the first part of the decision below. The government may choose to (and probably will) appeal to the Supreme Court.

[Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

4:31:16 PM

Google takes top prize in its own contest. The search site awards a New York programmer $10,000 in its first programming competition, but the company itself may be the real winner as it retains broad rights to all entries. [CNET News.com]
4:21:32 PM