Violence censor chip.President Clinton recently approved a controversial new law that may help cut down on the amount of violence kids watch on TV. Within the next two years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time law will require TV makers t6 install a "V" (or "violence") chip in every new TV set. The V-chip is a computer chip that lets your parents zap violent shows from the television screen, says Jim Farrell of Motorola, a company that makes TV circuits. Say, for example, your parents want to block out all violent shows. They'll punch in a set of instructions using the TV remote control. These instructions ten the V-chip to read each TV program's rating, which win probably be similar to the ratings now used for movies. The rating information will be part of the TV program's broadcast signal. That's a pulse of electromagnetic energy See electromagnetic radiation. sent out by a television transmitter tower. Your TV set receives the signal and translates it into pictures If the program's signal contains a "V" rating, the chip will block the electric circuits that normally translate the electromagnetic signals. Result: no TV show. "To 'unblock'a program," Farrell says, "you'd have to key in a special code using your remote control." Chances are your parents will guard that code as closely as they guard the code for their ATM card An ATM card (also known as a bank card, client card, or cash card) is an ISO 7810 card issued by a bank, credit union or building society. Its primary uses are: It may be years before your parents can use their "V" power, though. The new law gives broadcasters one year to come up with a rating system. If they don't meet the deadline, the federal government will finish the job. And who knows how long that could take! SUMMER SCIENCE CALENDAR Summer's almost here. But just because school is Closing doesn't mean your brain has to go on vacation On Vacation was The Robot Ate Me's third album, released in 2004 by the band's frontman, Ryland Bouchard's label Swim Slowly Records, then reissued in 2005 by 5 Rue Christine. . Exercise your gray matter this summer by checking out these scientific happenings. Mid-May: Twister, a heart-pounding film about meteorologists Atmospheric scientists
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