Idaho's Department of Education is about ready to say, "Teachers, heal thyselves" – the agency is said to be worried about a growing number of educators hunting and viewing porn on the office computers. Eight out of eighteen state investigations have concerned Internet porn, according to state investigator Keith Potter, including one teacher who also had porn films in a school locker and another seeing computer porn while in the classroom.
There's nothing petty about British Navy Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Pepper's apparent taste for trying to set up meetings online for sex with girls as young as 11 – and he was bagged by undercover American officers who joined British counterparts posing as child sex tour operators. In one e-mail Pepper was said to have asked for "an experienced child" with whom he could be left alone, according to authorities in the case. Pepper was also known to have posed online as a bisexual woman asking for girls as young as eight to pose for explicit photographs. But he's also said to have stopped correspondence to one of the officers, saying for all he knew "you could be part of a law enforcement agency."
Oh, Mamma! Mamma.com, the Internet search engine, plans to buy back up to 600,000 of its outstanding shares over the next year, with 10.5 million shares outstanding. "We are committed to maximizing the return to our shareholders," said executive chairman David Goldman, "and our current financial strength will permit us to conclude mergers and acquisitions to enhance the company's profitability."
Britain seems to have enhanced its image as a nation of computer lovers. A new survey by the British Computer Society says about three quarters of Her Majesty's home subjects have experience using computers and 80 percent believe computers make a positive contribution to their lives. The survey, performed for the BCS by market researchers TNS< said 73 percent of respondents used computers for Web surfing and 57 percent to buy goods and services, an indicator that not even spam and scam is cutting British e-shopping confidence.
Edge Interactive's flagship lease gallery, The PictIcon, passed 110,000 images in the gallery this month – to be specific, it now has 112,071 images, 992 videos, 2,860 story scenes, and 473,077 searchable words. The PictIcon, as we reported to you in mid-July, features a six-way access: via any of 134 categories, via 112 collections, via four video libraries, via New each month, via a google-like search engine, or via XML; and, the 134 categories include all body parts and fluids, costumes, locations, solo and hardcore sexual situations, fetish and bondage themes, real people, porn stars, models from 18 to 80, and images from antiquity through today. Customers include TopBucks, PornKings, Geekteck, Mirage, Wasteland, Netspot Online, Niteline, Hardcore Money, and Whitehouse.
