Does Music Move Your Kids to Teen Sex?
In yesterday's ZDNet Education IT Blog, the technology folks address the issue of what might be the strongest influence on teens to become involved in early sexual behavior. The conclusion: music.
The Blog cites several reputable studies including one by the Rand Corporation as reported in AP reports. Other sources include "NPR's Talk of the Nation, [where] researcher Carol Pardun emphasized that while kids may occassionally encounter porn online, they are being exposed to sexual content in media almost continually."
The general consensus seems to be that attitudes portrayed in the music early teens listen to tends to create a mind set in which young people see behavior which their parents would readily deem inappropriate as the norm.
Thus, the report concludes, "No wonder, then, that teacher Andrew McNamar was troubled by his teenage students dressing like 'sluts,' while the girls themselves were shocked and hurt by this characterization. To them, they were just dressing in style. To him, their dress presaged nothing good."
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged Windows users to plug a potential worm hole in the Microsoft operating system:
Now even the Dep. of Homeland Security has gotten excited about plugging holes in the Redmond operating system. In a first ever move the HS said, "Users are encouraged to avoid delay in applying this security patch." The fix is addressed by the following Microsoft path: Microsoft's MS06-040. Tuesday, just passed, was this month's "patch Tuesday." This flaw, by the way, does not require any user interaction. In other words, you don't have to open a malicious email attachment or visit a bad Web site in order for your machine to be exploited.
Users whose machines are set up to automatically update (provided those machines are left turned on) are automatically updated. However, the complete installation requires a reboot. Some users seem unaware of this. Others seem to be unaware that their machines need to be turned on in order to receive the updates.
The particular flaw in question could allow someone to gain complete control of a user's computer. The government's concern, of course, is that a particular hacker might gain control of thousands of Windows computers and thus have a super computer that would be very difficult to track.
In yesterday's ZDNet Education IT Blog, the technology folks address the issue of what might be the strongest influence on teens to become involved in early sexual behavior. The conclusion: music.
The Blog cites several reputable studies including one by the Rand Corporation as reported in AP reports. Other sources include "NPR's Talk of the Nation, [where] researcher Carol Pardun emphasized that while kids may occassionally encounter porn online, they are being exposed to sexual content in media almost continually."
The general consensus seems to be that attitudes portrayed in the music early teens listen to tends to create a mind set in which young people see behavior which their parents would readily deem inappropriate as the norm.
Thus, the report concludes, "No wonder, then, that teacher Andrew McNamar was troubled by his teenage students dressing like 'sluts,' while the girls themselves were shocked and hurt by this characterization. To them, they were just dressing in style. To him, their dress presaged nothing good."
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged Windows users to plug a potential worm hole in the Microsoft operating system:
Now even the Dep. of Homeland Security has gotten excited about plugging holes in the Redmond operating system. In a first ever move the HS said, "Users are encouraged to avoid delay in applying this security patch." The fix is addressed by the following Microsoft path: Microsoft's MS06-040. Tuesday, just passed, was this month's "patch Tuesday." This flaw, by the way, does not require any user interaction. In other words, you don't have to open a malicious email attachment or visit a bad Web site in order for your machine to be exploited.
Users whose machines are set up to automatically update (provided those machines are left turned on) are automatically updated. However, the complete installation requires a reboot. Some users seem unaware of this. Others seem to be unaware that their machines need to be turned on in order to receive the updates.
The particular flaw in question could allow someone to gain complete control of a user's computer. The government's concern, of course, is that a particular hacker might gain control of thousands of Windows computers and thus have a super computer that would be very difficult to track.
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