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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Computers

Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?

6:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Now this is one amazing Goodwill find: A vintage pop-up book designed to teach burgeoning nerds about the wonders of the modern computer. Floppy disks, ASCII, and the dot-matrix printer. Oh my. More »
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Online

Pop-Up Porn Teacher Cops a Plea to Escape Jail Time

9:00AM Sean Fallon | You may recall a case last year involving Julie Amero, a substitute junior high school teacher in Connecticut that was arrested and threatened with a 40 year prison sentence after the computer in her classroom began to display pornographic pop-ups in front of her students. Any one with even the slightest knowledge of computers could tell you that this was completely ridiculous—especially after learning that the computer system in the school was woefully ill-equipped to handle spyware and viruses. Still, officials and the police refused to admit that they had made a mistake and pressed on with their case. Now Amero has been forced to cut a plea deal in order to avoid jail. More »
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