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Slashback: Porntrusion, Greenness, Rollercoaster
But what about the nude Russian girls who apparently need me? happyclam writes: "The text of the "hidden camera" bill has been posted at politechbot.com. Although we have already beat this one to death, I found the actual bill worth reading. One thing that had not been mentioned is that it allows for civil and criminal liability for spammers who email sexual advertisements without proper markings. Although I still prefer positive labeling (e.g. "kid-safe(tm)") to negative labeling (e.g. "socially questionable"), this bill does, I think, have a few good points to it. Read it."
DVDs want to be free. An Anonymous Coward writes: "According to this email and the latest news the mplayer source code is finally 100% GPL compliant. Maybe an official Debian package will finally be released as well instead of the marillat release. Work on integrating the open source Xvid MPEG4 codec is coming along nicely as well."
Gravity always wins, but likes to play. mzdial writes: "On March 14 you did a piece on this Southern Indiana's man love of roller coasters and how he created his own in his backyard! The Indianapolis Star has done a wonderful story with video and photos about this wonderful contraption. You can find the article here."
They're greedy for hits. ruvreve writes "A follow-up to the recent article about Google's release of an API. This article talks about the apparent success of releasing the API. It mentions that about 10,000 people have signed up and they have received 25 implementations in the first week. It goes on to talk about how Google needs to capitalize on the ability to provide a 'profitable' web service and maintain its position as the number-one search engine."
Chasing green, wet shadows. young-earth writes "In a disappointing followup to this story, an article on astronomy.com shows that what was thought to be chlorophyll on Mars found in the Pathfinder expedition was most probably artifacts of the processing model used. However future missions will profit from the work being done now: "...developing new methods to enable future rovers to select appropriate targets on the martian surface for further spectroscopic or close-up microscopic examination". So maybe in another mission..."
Wow, I didn't even realize that. One thing we've seem to lost focus on with the recent Supreme Court ruling negating the recent law banning virtual child pornography. The reason child pornography is banned is because it exploits children, and if it is virtual, no exploitation of children occurs. So the law against the virtual images was struck down. But, in the same affect, if a child is sent pornographic spam through email, it is potentially damaging, and I would argue that it is even more damaging than a piece of virtual child porn. So, why not create the same sort of punishments for people who purposefully expose children to pornographic material as there is for people who exploit children to make pornogaphic images? I think being labelled as someone convincted of a sex crime could be a real deterrent for spammers who would otherwise shoot a million pieces of spam shotgun-style to every email address at a particular domain.
I hate that bank! They would break a freggin $10 bill because I wasnt a customer. I mean Im an American and it IS the Bank of America right?????
On my way out I ask one of 'thier' customer if HE could break my bill and he happily abliged.
God I hate that bank.!!!!
We admit all this to insure disbelief