PULLING WORDS OUT OF THE AIR -- SCAN YOU DIG IT?
If you thought America Online chat rooms were a shameful waste of human potential, just think about the folks who monitor the public airwaves with radio spectrum scanners. There may be as many as 20 million of them in the United States -- more than, say, regularly navigate the World Wide Web.Take, for instance, that Florida couple, the Martins, who (somehow!) intercepted and (somehow!) tape recorded a revealing cellular phone conversation among Newt Gingrich and fellow Republicans. Others...
National Briefing Northwest: Washington: New Accusations Against Mayor
New accusations of misconduct have surfaced against Mayor James West of Spokane, left, who has rejected demands for his resignation amid accusations that he offered city jobs to men he met in gay online chat rooms. According to The Spokesman-Review, State Senator Pam Roach, Republican of Auburn, said that when Mr. West served in the Legislature, he made an inappropriate sexual comment to her about her teenage son. The newspaper also said a man claimed he was inappropriately touched in a...
SCAN YOU DIG IT?
If you thought America Online chat rooms were a shameful waste of human potential, just think about the folks who monitor the public airwaves with radio spectrum scanners. There may be as many as 20 million of them in the U.S. -- more than, say, regularly navigate the World Wide Web. Take, for instance, that Florida couple, the Martins, who (somehow!) intercepted and (somehow!) tape recorded a revealing cellular phone conversation among Newt Gingrich and fellow Republicans. Others will divine...
Microsoft to shut down online chat rooms in Australia
COMPUTER giant Microsoft will shut its online chat rooms in Australia because of concerns they are being used by paedophiles to target children. The company yesterday announced it would close its chat rooms in all but five countries across the globe in an effort to protect children from unknown users and cut down on unsolicited emails, or spam.In the United States, Japan and Canada, the chat rooms will continue as a subscription service, making users easily traceable by their credit card...