Going totaly OT (was: Dumpster stories!) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Feb 2000

V-chips are mandatory features built into new TV sets that allow parents to
disable viewing of certain programs.  These were designed before it was
demnostrated that an child over 6 years of age was able to defeat them
before their parents figured out how to use them.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Franke &lt;Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 1:28 PM
Subject: Going totaly OT (was: Dumpster stories!)

...
   On Thu, Feb
10, 2000 at 06:35:26PM -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
 > I suppose people are going to think I'm a jerk for saying such a thing,
 > but IMNSHO the tragedy here isn't that the kids were killed, but that
 > they hadn't been taught not to do such things. 
> I agree...  My parents covered all this stuff -- they told us not to dig
inside
...
 > snowbanks because a plow might come, we all wore
seat belts way before there
...
 > was a law (bicycle helmets too), our parents
strictly enforced what we could
...
 > and couldn't watch on TV so there was no need
for V chips (I can't believe
...
 > they're making us pay for censorship devices
now just because some absentee
...
   parent
religious freaks got upset), 
Please, what are V-Chips - I always associate the NEC CPU series with that.

Gruss
H.

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