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Mirsky Makes "Open Business Plans"
Mirsky, the guy who brought you "Worst of the Web" until 1996, has returned to the Web. He e-mailed me about this "new open business plans." I do have to say I think that the Valueporn is a great idea - and Mirsky has the ultimate sticky EULA *grin*. That, and multiple online weddings.
Each "open source business plan" is free for the taking as long as your first $5 million in profit is split with Mirsky. By reading this paragraph, you automatically agree to these terms.
I like this. Simple, to the point. No difficult legalese to scroll through. No tricky clauses hidden three pages in "by clicking OK, you automaticaly grant the company access to your internal organs"
By reading this posting you automatically agree to visit PopeAlien.Com and spread peanut butter in your hair.
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air and light and time and space
Why should we allow .com to be squatted by pornographs perverting kids?
Why is this flamebait? This guy has a real point.
The internet does corrupt kids. We got the internet in our house 3 months ago and now my two teenage sons are constantly talking about girls. It's like they're obsessed. I know the internet is to blame because it is totally unnatural for teenage boys to be obsessed with sex. It's part of a slippery slope. First the health teacher tells them that girls don't have cooties, then they start looking at pictures of breasts on the net. Next stop is blindness, insanity and hairy palms -- or worse -- dating, marriage, child rearing and 401k's.
We must stop the net!
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
I would moderate this up, but I'd rather reply to it. Whats wrong with that proposal and why is it flamebait? I have to agree that maybe forcing pornography to its own TLD would help out. Easy to filter if you so desire, Easy to find, if you so desire. No more stupid re-directed urls, maybe even filter content (graphics, banners, etc) coming from a .sex domain and therefore block stupid banners and popups.
I'm the type of parent that actually sits with the kids when they are on the internet, but its still far too easy to unintionally come across porn... especially those sites that have the confusing names (www.whitehouse.com anybody?) My 8 year old daughter was browsing about looking for Poke'mon pictures and stuff (yea, yea, I know... lets move on now) A few clicks later, shes looking at popup adverts for henti and manga. And not just a couple, it was like a pop up widow explosion, at least 10-15 windows opened with ranchy ads and links. I was with her and didn't even see it coming, and I've got several clues as to what to look for. I'm a big proponent of privacy/anti-censorship etc. on the net, but its somewhat rediculous on how easy it is to mistakenly click through to a porn site. The porn advocates/webmasters/etc may say "But its free speech! Its just like a magazine, if you don't like it, don't buy/look at it!" Thats all well and good, but what if some guy went around pasting pornographic ads in random books at the library, or started throwing penthouse mags at crowds of people in the park.. "I wasn't aiming for kids, I was aiming for parents, its not my fault the magazine fell in the kids stroller"
Its not free speech if we don't have the freedom not to listen. (this applies equally well to UCE, but thats a rant for another day)
Run. I like water. Push My rutabaga.
That, and the fact that it's labeling a group of people independent of what label they would choose for themselves. Labeling, branding, whatever, when it's MANDATORY is WRONG. If I choose to call myself a pornographer, that's one thing. But if I'm an artist who deals in nudes and someone else labels me as a pornographer, what am I to do?
The idea is well intentioned but fatally flawed. This strikes me as yet another well intentioned effort to pave that superhighway to hell.
--Joe--
Program Intellivision!
Wow, it's great to see one of the masters (and pioneers!) of web-satire return. I used to check out Mirsky's Worst of the Web every day. In fact, I think Slashdot owes a little something to Mirsky. Not only did thousands of web designers learn how NOT to build a site by reading Mirsky, but he was there in the early days of content-gathering websites. Three cheers!
Oh yeah, and I still think porn is bad.
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I'll bet / with my Net / I can get / those things yet.
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I'll bet / with my Net / I can get / those things yet.
--Dr. Seuss
I was so proud a few years back when a site I nominated for Mirsky's Worst of the Web got accepted, albiet in a different form. It was http://www.netcenter.com , home of this incredibly cheesy fellow who claimed to be "the center of the Internet". Netcenter then symbolized all that is tawdry in the world of the net, those odd entrupeneurs who would create a concept without any regard as to whether it was in any way useful or well done, filled with BLINK tags and bad writing.
It's quite ironic that netcenter.com was eventually bought by Netscape for its portal. Shed a tear for someone's dreams -- or don't, since I'm sure he held up Netscape for more than he could have ever made from the name himself.
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I read the main body text, then wondered why /. had mentioned an EULA. So I looked for it. Now I'm bound by it dammit!
It would have been his fault for making it look like a banner ad...
-Yarn - Rio Karma: Excellent
Sure, thats why 90% of the websites out there run on it?
Oracle is an expensive and non-interoperable path.
Oracle in "non-interoperable"? What does that mean? Its the most widely supported product in its class - it has more hardware and third-party software support than any RDBMS. It has good programming libraries in almost any language.
worked around the stupid way ext2fs caches disk writes
Or maybe you bite the bullet and realize linux is not the way to go to run your company database, at least not yet.