Decency law for computers hits a glitch
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US District Court Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter issues a temporary restraining order, barring enactment of a provision in the Communications Act of 1996 that governs the Internet-based transmission of inappropriate material to children. Buckwalter rules that the Communications Decency Act's language is excessively vague in its definition of what constitutes offensive material. The law is facing organized opposition from 20 civil libertarian groups, including the ACLU, that claim the law unfairly impedes free-speech rights guaranteed by the US Constitution. Conservative organizations, including the Christian Coalition, argue that pornographic images are too easily transmitted via the Internet. The US Justice Dept has indicated that it will pursue and process those guilty of violating the act if it is ultimately sustained.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1996
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Crystals may hold key to new computers
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Theoretical physicist Premala Chandra of NEC Corp's NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ, is trying to write a new theory for disordered or 'glassy' magnetic fields in crystals of the magnetoplumbite formation. Chandra says that developing a 'glassy' new information code may unleash tremendous processing power in computers. Such systems might need a fundamentally new programming code, perhaps one that uses three or more numbers, as opposed to the binary code of today's computers. Binary code is rooted in the fact that groups of electrons move up and down. Certain crystals, however, have a more complex movement that may make them suitable for vastly improved computer processing.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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