(via Wired) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15982.html # # German police in Napster child porn probe By: Linda Harrison # in New York Posted: 10/01/2001 at 21:14 GMT # # German police have launched a probe into whether Napster is being # used to swap child porn on the Net. # # The investigation will also delve into other online file-swapping # services such as Gnutella and MyNapster, and hopes to determine # whether users have stored illegal material on their computers. ---- [ugh, comic relief] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/11/nyregion/11STAT.html # # January 11, 2001 [snipped; NYS sued for more education funds for NYC] # # The New York State will soon require every graduate to pass # college preparatory Regents exams in English, math, social studies # and science. # # The Court of Appeals had earlier defined New York's constitutional # right to a "sound basic education" as learning the competence # to vote and serve on a jury. # # The plaintiffs, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, argued that new # Regents standards do include the cognitive skills to analyze # complex ballot propositions and weigh statistical and other # technical evidence in jury trials. # # But, the Campaign showed, the state does not appropriate enough # money to meet those standards. # # The state's witnesses, paradoxically, denied that the state's # own Regents standards were needed. # # After all, they said, jurors with trouble weighing complex # evidence can always ask other jurors for help. # # Voters with only eighth-grade literacy can make up their minds # by watching television advertisements. # # One state witness implied that New York City voters might be # constitutionally entitled to less education than others, because # the city has so many television outlets to inform the less # literate. Yabba-Dabba-Doo!