European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 13,1994 computers the stars and stripes Page 11 protecting kids from x Factor adult materials can find their Way onto your screens by James s. Derk Scripps Howard news service it s 7 30 p,m., your kid is clacking away on the computer in the Den. You figure your son of daughter is playing video pinball doing their Homework or looking up something on the multimedia encyclopedia. But Many parents Are finding their Home pc can be a Portal to information they Don t want in their Homes. A generation ago some kids used to Swap dog eared Playboy magazines for cheap thrills. Now the same Type of Content including High Quality photos is on floppy disks arid cd rooms. If your computer has a Modem you re opening your Home to a wealth of information from on line services to internet. But doing that does carry some responsibilities. Many parents Don t know what s out there. Most on line services such As Compuserve America online and Delphi offer adult Content. The Content ranges from r to a rated. The ease of Access ranges from easy to really easy. I Don t want to spell out How but users of those services can Access adult information. That s Fine for adults it s a free country and All that. But parents do give their children Access to their on line accounts and passwords sometimes. So what s a Parent to do Check out the services your children Access. If you have major services such As Compuserve or America online and you ought to have one for the educational Shah he Don t let your parents know youve broken the stuff you can Send email to the Cus Tomer service department Locking out a Cess to areas with adult Content. If you have Access to internet there s no governing body that controls Content almost anything goes if you know where to look. A solution there is to limit Access to that account unless you re around to see what s Corning into the House. Search your hard disk and floppies. Photos usually Are stored with the if or amp extensions. Use a graphics viewer available on any bulletin Board to View the photos. Video clips some times Are stored with Fli and Avi extensions. Cd rooms full of nude photos Are readily available one advertises that its wares have wife proof labels that Don t reveal the contents some also have Boss keys users who Are looking at something they should t can hit one key and the screen turns into a fake spreadsheet or something. Some games have these too local bulletin boards Are another source of adult material. Generally speaking the larger the Board the bet Ter the Security. Most systems won t give Access to adult stuff unless the user mails in a copy of a photo id and Calls the user to verify the age. Large systems won t risk their Busi Ness by providing stuff to minors. But i would be wary of letting your kids connect to Small boards run by teens. Also be aware that on line services offer Chat rooms where conversations can turn rather adult. America online employs room monitors to make sure things Don t get out of hand in Public channels but again an enterprising youth can get into private rooms there or on Compuserve Delphi and other services. My advice is to be aware of what your children Are doing. The computer world alas in t much different than the real world some times. " hot item pro cd inc., which produces the Best Phon books on cd rom in the country have released macintosh versions of its software. With select phone you now have Dos Mac and windows versions on the same cd set which has 90 million plus names addresses and phones plus businesses by sic code. At $149 for a five disc set it s a steal internet newsgroup of the week  for the latest football news and views. James s. Derk is computer research editor at the courier in Evansville ind his email address is Jerk Del  Rine gets 30 years in com no Tokyo a a . Marine has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing to death another Marine at an air base in Western Japan a military spokesman said monday. Lance Cpl. Mark d. Jimenez of la Mont Calif had been sentenced to life by a military court but the term was reduced under a pretrial agreement whose details were not released spokesman Todd Lyman said. Jimenez was sentenced Friday by i . Military court at Iwakuni Marine corps air station near Hiroshima. He was the first of three marines to be tried in the killing of set. Michael a. Allen of Pittsburg Calif Allen s body was found floating in a ditch May 4 at the Iwakuni base. The trials of Cpl. Kenneth e. Ruiz and Cpl. Michael  have not been scheduled. Lyman did hot comment on a motive for the killing. But the Pacific stars and stripes reported that Jimenez had testified mat the three killed Allen because they thought he was giving investigators information about a hispanic gang called la Familia to which All four marines belonged. Jimenez said the three attackers feared Allen would testify against them at future courts martial about violent incidents i which they were involved the newspaper reported from Iwakuni. Jimenez pleaded guilty to premeditated murder conspiracy to commit murder and assault and obstruction of Justice. He was Given a dishonourable discharge stripped of All pay and allowances and reduced to the lowest enlisted rank. Protestants bomb hurts 2 at Dublin station Dublin Ireland a a bomb apparently placed under a seat on a train exploded at a Central Dublin train station monday and slightly injured two people. A protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland claimed responsibility for the attack the first in the Republic of Ireland since the Irish Republican army declared a cease fire aug. 31. The pro British Ulster Volunteer Force in a coded message to Ulster Tele vision in Belfast Northern Ireland said it had planted bombs at seven locations in Dublin including the City s Airport. The bomb exploded about 11 35 . As a passenger train from Belfast pulled into platform 3 at Connolly station at the end of the 2 /2-hour journey police said. The device was apparently planted under a seat where one of the injured Passen Gers was sitting. On thursday in their first reaction to the Ira s cease fire the uhf and other outlawed loyalist paramilitary groups issued a noncommittal statement. The demanded several reassurances including that the Ira cease fire was Perma nent. The Ira had waged a 24-year Campaign of violence to make British ruled Northern Ireland part of the Irish re Public which is overwhelmingly Roma Catholic. Astronaut team gets to know russian space station Moscow a four . Astro nauts visited a russian space design Cen Ter monday and examined a Model of the Mir orbiting station with which they will Dock their space shuttle next year. The four Are Robert Gibson Charles Precourt Ellen Baker and Gregory har Baugh. They toured Moscow s Kruni Chev state space research and production Center accompanied by. Sergei Kri Kalev the first russian cosmonaut to Fly aboard a . Shuttle the itar Tass news Agency and russian television re ported. . Astronaut Norman Thagard a vet eran of four . Shuttle missions. Is scheduled to travel to the Mir in March aboard a russian rocket. In May the . Space shuttle Atlantis is expected to Dock with the Mir As part of a planned series that would include up to 10 shuttle Mir Docking is. The Mir launched by the former soviet Union in 1986, also will play Host to a German astronaut in october. Therussian-. Space cooperation program also includes another joint shuttle Mission next february. Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Titov will be on that mixed Crew with Kri Kalev As his backup. As planned the shuttle will Man Euver to within 100 Yards of the Mir station but will not Dock with it itar Tass said. Groups individual win German lottery Koblenz Germany a Germany s largest lottery Jackpot Worth 42 million German Marks or some $28 million will be shared by three groups and an individual. Lottery spokesman Hans Joachim Schmitz in Koblenz announced earlier monday that a betting group from the Trier area near Luxembourg had the seven win Ning super numbers in the lottery. But officials later said two additional groups and a single person also had the winning combination. The Jackpot reached a record High because no one had the Cor rect combination for a super win since july. Over the past several weeks germans who had never played the lottery flooded the state sponsored offices to enter. Betting brought in $216 million