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Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives
After news of the conviction of a substitute teacher for endangering minors — because porn popups, possibly initiated by adware, had appeared on her computer during class — comes the even sadder story of 16-year-old Matt Bandy. His family's life was turned upside-down when he was charged in Arizona with possession of child pornography, even though the family computer was riddled with spyware and Trojans. After the intervention of ABC's 20/20, Matt finally was allowed to plead to a lesser charge (namely, sharing a Playboy magazine with friends) and just barely escaped being labeled a sex offender for the rest of his life.
This zealot has an agenda and ambition that will stop at nothing. I only hope that Andrew Thomas, Maricopa County district attorney, won't seek any higher public office or any office for that matter.
Someone hates these cans.
Yes, but they are the biggest rape artist! They rape people of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness any time any way. Now that's an artist.
For a second there I thought I got Bel-Air'd on /.
Game... blouses.
The problem with WebTV wasn't the concept, the problems was they didn't release new enhanced boxes fast enough and the original hardware design wasn't imaginative enough.
They couldn't figure out a way to do mouse pointing remotely so they used the hospot system., and turned frames into tables. they didn't want horizontal scrolling so they reformmated pages badly. There was no local storage that was user accesible so users couldn't do certain things. The proprietary software also made it impossible to have reasonable access to certain file formats, like say PDF for government forms. Problem is those design decisions as hur the machine's quality of use.
They never thought of doing some kind of wireless mouse, or of using USB. They never thought about using flash cards for storage, or even of implementing certani requested features, like BCC in e-mail. WebTV was easy to use, yes, but too restricted in functionality. WebTV users were constantly complaining about that. Turns out, what most of them really wanted was a simple $200 computer.
And worse, computers dropped in price, so even if they weren't as simple, they had the functionality
What WebTV should have done was offer their software to Sony, Nintendo, so they could sell a "WebTV" disc for use with their PS2's and Gamecubes. They did that with the Dreamcast, but only in Japan, probably because even at that time, Microsoft was planning the Xbox and some WebTV team members were shifted to the Xbox division
Microsoft does sell the new enhanced MSNTV units that are broadband capable and are based on Windows CE IIRC.
Nowadays a PS3's or Wii's built in browsers are better than the WebTV one and the PS3's (and PS2's) ability to run Linux make them far better "internet on TV" devices than the old WebTV units.
Why am I not surprised?
This is where that idiot "toughest sheriff in America" operates, isn't it?
The moron who lets prisoners in his jail live in sewage?
Is he still alive or did somebody put a bullet in his head as he deserves?
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Man could face 30-year prison term for murder. http://www.ky3.com/news/5123006.html
It's better to die then see naked people.