FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed

Dan writes "Bruce A. Mah from the FreeBSD Release Engineering team announced that due to some late-breaking issues, 4.6 will be released about a week later than originally planned."

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A Story That Shouldn't Have Been Rejected

[Lethyos]

We can have all sorts of stories posted about the latest Linux kernel patch level, but when it comes to important matters of freedom... the Slashdot editors turn the other way ("Oooh! Puppies!"). Sorry for the OT, but this is for those interested in the fight to keep freedom in and censorship out of libraries...


* 2002-06-01 13:41:19 Courts Strike Down Law For Library Filters (yro,news) (rejected) According to this story over at the NewYork Times (free registration automatically generated for you), a "federal court panel struck down a law requiring libraries to filter the Internet for material harmful to minors yesterday, saying that the technology blocks so much unobjectionable material that it would violate the First Amendment rights of library patrons." I think we all know what a great win this is, especially if you've ever had a search struck down when doing research on breast cancer or the Holocaust (such nasty topics children should never be exposed to, appearantly).

Then XP and Mac OS X are dying too !

[Taco Cowboy]

If BSD is dying, then XP and Mac OS X, both of which are either using parts, or mostly based on the BSD technology.

I can see Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs quitely sobbing already.

Re:newbie?

[bsDaemon]

I started on 2.2.2 and i've been reading /. for a couple of years. punk-ass bitch.

Whose looking at porn?

[Lethyos]

There are a plethora of searches that yield perfectly acceptable results (if done right) that censoring software will filter. Search google for "breast cancer" with NetNanny or some other stupid filter, and it will block everything.

Get a clue. It's up to the people, even children, to decide what they do and do not want to look at. Parents should never bitch about kids looking at "objectional material". It's their own damn faults if they failed to instill their morals in their children.

Re:Whose looking at porn?

[Lethyos]

The dumbest statement I have seen here in a while.

Prove it. Perhaps you failed to properly understand it and think things through before replying.

The children should decide?

Absolutely. Contrary to your typical parental opinion, children have brains and they are not stupid. They know what they're doing. Just the same as you giggled with all your friends when you looked up "sex" and "penis" in your school's encyclopaedia.

If parents took some responsibility to spend time with their children and instill their values into their children, they'd have nothing to worry about. Instead, they ship their kids off to day care and work all day. Children can be taught to look out for and stay away from harmful material. Myself and a close friend of mine, even at young ages, knew what was right and wrong.

So when they do a search on Toy Story and a bunch of porn sites pop up, they are supposed to go: Is this morally right for me to look at?

This looks quite innocuous to me. So does this. You're one of those who sides with these panicky, overzealous, hyper soccer moms that have a heart attack at the first sight of reality. Children aren't raised in a pure, crystalline world. There's no sense in pretending that they will never be exposed to sex, violence, or anything else you find "objectionable". It will happen. The only way to prevent this would be to lock them in a box until they're 21 years old. And after that, they'll still be children. It never helps to patronize children. That only frustrates them and defeats the natural development of their intellects. Deal with it rationally, not like a fruit with a mindless agenda that needs no pursuit. I wasn't censored from the Internet when I in my early teens, and neither was anyone else I know. Everyone's turned out fine.

Gimme me a break.

Go out and hang with your right winger friends. Pat each other on the back over how right you are and past "breaks" back and forth. The rest of us prefer to just live life without ridiculous and excessive regulation and other nonsense.