It is for you defective day of hats, no? Even helpful translation software sometimes weaves a tangled Web

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Computer translation services on the World Wide Web will never score significantly higher than 85% in accuracy, according to many Web observers and translation experts. Alta Vista's Web site, which has offered nearly instantaneous translation since Dec 1997, has attracted personal, student and business users. Translation machines struggle contextually because they do not know their audience, according to Rainer Schulte, director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and the editor of the Translation Review. The process can help first-year foreign language students develop confidence, according to Finley M. Taylor, a professor of German at the University of Central Florida. Foreign language translation and language study will still remain viable career options despite the rise in translation machines.

Software, Quality control, Internet/Web technology, Translation software, Translating machines, Electronic translators, Foreign language translation software

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Filters let users screen out on-line advertising

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A growing number of software filters are allowing users to prevent unsolicited ads from loading on Web pages and avoid cookies. Many filters produce Web pages that replace ad space with little broken window icons. An example is Junkbusters.com's Internet Junkbuster, which allows users to target ad sources to be ignored. Junkbusters says the 200KB filter not only allows customers to reduce loading time and therefore speed Web surfing, they also can prevent ad companies from determining users's online tendencies. Other filters include Intermute's virtual mute button against soundtracks and other annoyances, and WRQ's $29.95 utility, which features a personal firewall. Many of theses filters are free of charge. Internet advertisers and ISPs are undaunted by the technology, saying most Web users do not get bombarded with ads.

Management, Marketing, Privacy issue, Technology development, Web sites (World Wide Web), Web sites, Data security, Web site management software, Data security issue, Spam (Junk email), Internet server software, Unsolicited bulk e-mail

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Behind closed e-mail; politicians grapple with public scrutiny of their electronic communications

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Government officials may have to start saving their e-mail messages because they could be considered part of the public record, and not private correspondence. Legislators are subject to "sunshine laws" which means that the public should be privy to all parts of the government's decision making process. Some legislators get around this by deleting all e-mails as soon as they are read, but eventually this could be construed as circumventing a sunshine law.

United States, Government regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Investigations, Electronic mail systems, E-mail, Email, Email software, Legislators

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