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 <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
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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Received on Fri Feb 11 2000 - 15:15:23 GMT