Is This the Holodeck?

WillCodeForRaisins writes "CNET News is reporting that Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is planning to create "virtual reality" High-Definition 3-D TV which will allow you to smell and even touch objects in the 3-D space. This national research project is meant to be part of a larger vision under which Japan aims to promote "universal communication," a concept whereby information is shared smoothly and intelligently regardless of location or language. Imagine watching a football game on a TV that not only shows the players in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the stadium and maybe even pat a goal scorer on the back. How are they planning to do this? Ummm... looks like wait and see."

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Re:Porno

[eobanb]

Your post advocates a

(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante

approach to fighting sex addiction. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea.

( ) Violates amendments to Constitution
(x) Christians would object
(x) Technical limitations
(x) Gives a whole new meaning to sexually-transmitted virus
( ) It will slow hormones and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Prostitutes will not put up with it
(x) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Unsustainable business model
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many brothels cannot afford to lose business
( ) Pornographers want to keep people coming back
( ) Detrimental impact to society as we know it

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority
(x) Mail-order brides
(x) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of local franchises
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new sexual deviancy
(x) Huge existing investment in dildos, lotion and porn videos
( ) Susceptibility of protocols to attack
(x) Unwillingness of users to install birth control patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(x) Eternal virtual-penis-length race involved in all approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of porn
( ) Identify theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with the sex industry
( ) Dishonesty on the part of pornographers themselves
(x) Bandwidth costs
( ) Windows Media Player

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
(x) Malfunctions suck
( ) Forgetting your BSDM safeword sucks
( ) It's bad enough reading Viagra email, now I have to see it around me
(x) Devaluing real relationships
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) One-nighters are cumbersome
(x) I don't want pervs sniffing my connection
( ) Drugs are not the answer

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
(x) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!