If you take a potato, carve it into the shape of a gun, and paint it black, and point it at someone, even though it's not a gun, you still go down for armed robbery.
hasn't this already been explained?
when you rob somebody, the victim is the owner of the things you rob. your weapon, real or not, is not the victim. child pornography is wrong because the victim is the children (since they are in theory too young to make responsible decisions). as you can see, your analogy falls apart; fake children (or fake sex, whatever) takes the victims out of the equation....your analogy only works if the victims of child pornography are the audience, which clearly is not the case.
And some scumbag - indeed, every scumbag arrested for posession of such videos, whether real or not - is gonna walk free. Because it'll be very difficult to prove beyond that reasonable doubt that the material was "really real" and not "just really sick CGI".
any idiot that doesn't document the creation of their CG porn should be locked away. all the creator needs to do in his/her defense is show documentation such as the raw data: skelleton/pre-textured mockups, scripts, etc. that created the movie.
...I'm astounded that the Supreme Court didn't realize the implications that easily-anticipated advances in technology have in store for their ruling.
I'm astounded that you didn't realize this simple proof of innocence regarding these easily-anticipated advances in technology.
C'mon, Slashdotters - if (as I think most of us are) we're willing to accept that a machine that passes the Turing test (that is, is indistinguishable from a thinking human being) can be said to "think" - ought we not to realize that the same logic applies to pr0n?
he *introduced* that store a few paragraphs above your quote. from this I gather that this is a different location; why would he mention a 'local retail store' then later introduce a 'web store's warehouse and retail store is located only a couple miles from where I work'?...you could be right, though. it's just a slip of mind on the creator's part either way.
anybody know of a good (ie comprehensive) comparison of these three? ... I would LOVE to switch to a GPL mail client over Pine's don't-touch-me OSS license.
A little birdie tells me that this feature [ignoring html] *might* be included in Mozilla 1.0
Mozilla doesn't yet have full MHTML support in mail (and has no MHTML support in the browser). MHTML is/will be the standard in multi-part messages, and once it integrated, there should be an option to view text over html. Here's the feature request for MHTML improvement in Mozilla Mail. Here's the feature request for MHTML support in the Mozilla browser.
If you want an estimate of when it should be done, look towards mid-May for the Mozilla1.1alpha release.
A long while ago (pre-win2k), I used a little program called Becky! (official site here), a shareware Windows email client. It has the best interface I've seen yet....however, it doesn't get updates frequently and it's primary language is Japanese. Oh, and it's not free beer let alone free speech.
I'm currently using Pine for receiving and Mozilla for sending. Once I get an IMAP server up on my linux box, I'll use Mozilla for mail at home and Pine for remote. Personally, I think this is the optimal solution; with your own personal IMAP server, you NEVER have to worry about switching email clients and converting everything....and you can't beat Pine for remote access (unless you're a fan of webmail, and even then you're hard pressed for something free).
In typing my original comment, I told CmdrTaco that he should "never joke about our rights."
I knew that wasn't the best wording and that somebody would respond in the manner you did. However, I didn't forsee being modded down to "0, Insightful"
Moderators need to re-read the moderator guidelines, especially the "What is a Good Comment? A Bad Comment?" section. They should also note that there is a growing number of Meta-Moderators who nearly always judge negative moderations as unfair; your points are better spent promoting than demoting, especially since most sane/. regulars view at a threshold where only promoted comments are visible (3+).
What I meant in saying that was this:
Slashdot is a wonderful community that prides itself in its freedom of thought and expression, including anonymity. Taking away such a "right" (as many/.'ers would like to think of this as a right and not a priveledge) should not be joked about.
Yes, I realize that this is Rob Malda's Web Forum® and that he has ultimate decision as to what will and won't make the site tick.
...I was simply pointing out that this was in bad taste.
i just fell off my chair.
the submit comment page doesn't let my post anonymously, as indicated by this april fool's story. not funny, rob. - never joke about our rights.
I would call disabling your phone completely 'changing settings', but that's just me I guess.
as would i. i don't see how you saw my view as otherwise. the example of General Cinemas does not change any setting on cellphones, it just blatantly reminds you to take it off ring.
I think what we really need is some sort of standard interface to control a phones behavior beyond just "it works, it doesn't". Ferinstance... How about when you walk in the theater, the phone automatically gets set to "vibrate", and the mic/headset ONLY work in the lobby. Maybe a standard message goes out to the caller saying "the user of this phone is in a no-talk environment".
I was thinking along those lines as well, but then realized that I don't want others to be able to change settings on my electronic devices as they see fit....it's an invasion of privacy. better to educate people as to why x is wrong rather than to change that x setting to y.
your specialized response idea is good as well, and as cellphones beome more sophisticated, easily selected 'away messages' will come into fashion.
at General Cinemas in the northeastern US, a large part of the "shut up and throw away your trash" reminder is devoted to turning off your cellphone. It works, too.
according to the roadmap, we can expect the first branches of moz1.0 tomorrow (friday). this is rather unrealistic. based on the fact that the branch on 0.9.9 was 8 days late, I am guessing that we will see the first branches around the 4th of April (although, remember that the entire 0.9.9 build has essentially been a frozen branch towards 1.0, so perhaps they'll be on time).
If you see a release announcement for 1.0 on Monday, April Fools to you! ... no way will it be out that early; releases are scheduled for a week after the branching but have recently been 10-20 days, so expect Mozilla 1.0 sometime around 4/20 (I wonder what a release on that day would mean for the nature of the party?).
actually, if it weren't for a certain multi-year agreement with MS to ship IE with AOL, they'd be using NS long ago. That contract will expire very soon (or be nullified?) and some version of NS will find it's way onto the (*shudder*) #1 ISP in America's main distribution.
i've worked in a single-room office containing about a dozen cubes all lining the wall. each cube had a large opening facing the center of the room. there was be a table in the center of the room with a chair or two, drawers, and a few computers set up as terminals/vnc's.
this made it easy to wheel over and converse with a co-worker or go to another office and work with people there. talk to your neighbor by pushing your chair backwards a few feet. social atmosphere is everything!
this is a completely rediculous loss of rights.
i have a cellphone and have never gone out in public with it on 'ring'... i have it on vibrate. if i go to a movie, i leave it on. if i get a call during the movie, i check the caller and usually just turn off the ringer for the rest of the call. this way i can respond to emergencies or good friends (i would obviously leave the theater before answering).
this is rather similar to the gagging of loud children, or even allowing the shooting of stupid people....sure, it would be nice, but only in third-person!
the biggest problem with vibrating phones for most people (students and women at least) is that the phone is kept in a bag/purse... so vibration isn't noticed. cellphone manufacturers could fix this by introducing a wristband, necklace, or wallet attachment that receives a wireless signal from the phone and vibrates (with the phone) on rings.
not 500mb in 3 minutes.
i used to work for the first company to develop such a technology (Into Networks - they power the Real Networks RealArcade). basically it works like a virtual CD, mounted over the internet. you don't need all the data at once, just whatever your system needs to process at one time. there was normally a pre-load for the times when you would need data faster than your connection could handle (mostly for movies or engines), like the 3 minutes you wait for Steam.
Let me repeat that: you download things as you need them! those resources, textures, sounds all come to you later. the maps come when thay are the one you are playing.
I tested this kind of software and even on first person shooters, so i think i can assure you that this technology works, and i've known for quite some time now that this IS the future of online gaming - think of how hard it is to cheat now!
I can't believe there are two +1 funny moderations to the above post. sure, sending in a $1000 endorsement is a bit far-fetched, but, damnit, Stefan is right. We would see massive changes and FAST.
It appears that even the slashdot community doesn't realize how bad this bill is. I am SO scared by it that I almost (and may still) went out and bought a bleeding-edge computer with maximum everything and a DVD burner with a few hundred-pack dvdrs. Problem is that I can't afford such an undergoing.
this bill will illegalize every computer currently on the market. it will illegalize the GPL and all other OSS. it will illegalize MP3, DivX;-), OGG, PGP, and most SSL. it might even set us back to a level of usable technology equivalent to 1980.
the slashdot community is rather advanced, seeing the internet under more experienced eyes than most. most of us already get more that that 1400spam/yr (4spam/day) mark (i'm at twice that).
what do we do when we find spam? we don't fall for the advertisement, we report the spam, and we revise our filters so that we don't see that message again. by 2006, people less tech-saavy will have adopted these practices too (and we can probably double or triple the 1400 rate).
if laws and isps don't help, people will get so fed up and spams will get so numerous that they will undo themselves; people will simply stop listening, and it won't be profitable to spam.
another possibility is (if things get really out of hand) that spammers will have enough information about victims to target them masquerading as friends, including real name and interest of the victim in a suggestion-like spam....we already see this today, but usually the guesses are wrong; for example, i just deleted a message to Harry from Molly about enlarging my cock. i am not Harry, i don't know a Molly, and i'm large enough already.
is a VERY nice little box. it ran a few of the others out of the game a few years ago. I did tech support (ewww) for a company that used these, although not with usb. if they're as good with usb as they are with standard parallel printer ports they i highly recommend it. the configuration is very well done and the test print command gives you all the id & info you need.
no, no they didn't. I was one of the original pre-MS HoTMaiL subscribers (within their first few months) and would have loved to see that. the whole idea behind it (and its name - take out vowels to get HTML, my case was the original) was that it was a web-based HTML-friendly mail service (the first I think) at a time when there weren't any; Eudora, NS, and others didn't know what HTML was (there was not Outlook).
basically, there are two flexCDs, named 80 and 120 for their sizes in milimeters. The 8cm disk holds 200mb and the 12cm disk holds an unspecified amount (hopefully 702mb). each disk is 1/10th the thickness of a cd. standard minicd is 8cm and standard cd is 12cm. a 3.5" floppy is 9cm x 9.4cm.
the adapter has two parts which sandwich the flexCD and go in the non-supporting cdrom drive.
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If you take a potato, carve it into the shape of a gun, and paint it black, and point it at someone, even though it's not a gun, you still go down for armed robbery.
...your analogy only works if the victims of child pornography are the audience, which clearly is not the case.
...I'm astounded that the Supreme Court didn't realize the implications that easily-anticipated advances in technology have in store for their ruling.
;^)
hasn't this already been explained?
when you rob somebody, the victim is the owner of the things you rob. your weapon, real or not, is not the victim. child pornography is wrong because the victim is the children (since they are in theory too young to make responsible decisions). as you can see, your analogy falls apart; fake children (or fake sex, whatever) takes the victims out of the equation.
And some scumbag - indeed, every scumbag arrested for posession of such videos, whether real or not - is gonna walk free. Because it'll be very difficult to prove beyond that reasonable doubt that the material was "really real" and not "just really sick CGI".
any idiot that doesn't document the creation of their CG porn should be locked away. all the creator needs to do in his/her defense is show documentation such as the raw data: skelleton/pre-textured mockups, scripts, etc. that created the movie.
I'm astounded that you didn't realize this simple proof of innocence regarding these easily-anticipated advances in technology.
C'mon, Slashdotters - if (as I think most of us are) we're willing to accept that a machine that passes the Turing test (that is, is indistinguishable from a thinking human being) can be said to "think" - ought we not to realize that the same logic applies to pr0n?
pr0n can think? cool!
he *introduced* that store a few paragraphs above your quote. from this I gather that this is a different location; why would he mention a 'local retail store' then later introduce a 'web store's warehouse and retail store is located only a couple miles from where I work'? ...you could be right, though. it's just a slip of mind on the creator's part either way.
from the creator's webpage:
A local computer shop gave me a spare backplane for all the ports when I came in looking for one.
The creator could at least have mentioned the name (or a link?) of the generous store... That's the problem with kids nowadays; damn ungrateful rats!
The included PlayStation screenshot of Britney Spears may alone tip the balance in favor of the fantasy folks.
...bigger boobs ceased being magical when silicon implants became possible
Wrong kind of fantasy there...
that's realistic, not magical.
yahoo has a nytimes mirror that contains all the stories with NO REGISTRATION.
t / 0020406/tc_nyt/realism_may_be_taking_the_fun_out_o f_games
Here's the link with no registration required a la Yahoo!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ny
anybody know of a good (ie comprehensive) comparison of these three?
... I would LOVE to switch to a GPL mail client over Pine's don't-touch-me OSS license.
A little birdie tells me that this feature [ignoring html] *might* be included in Mozilla 1.0
Mozilla doesn't yet have full MHTML support in mail (and has no MHTML support in the browser). MHTML is/will be the standard in multi-part messages, and once it integrated, there should be an option to view text over html.
Here's the feature request for MHTML improvement in Mozilla Mail.
Here's the feature request for MHTML support in the Mozilla browser.
If you want an estimate of when it should be done, look towards mid-May for the Mozilla1.1alpha release.
A long while ago (pre-win2k), I used a little program called Becky! (official site here), a shareware Windows email client. It has the best interface I've seen yet. ...however, it doesn't get updates frequently and it's primary language is Japanese. Oh, and it's not free beer let alone free speech.
...and you can't beat Pine for remote access (unless you're a fan of webmail, and even then you're hard pressed for something free).
I'm currently using Pine for receiving and Mozilla for sending. Once I get an IMAP server up on my linux box, I'll use Mozilla for mail at home and Pine for remote. Personally, I think this is the optimal solution; with your own personal IMAP server, you NEVER have to worry about switching email clients and converting everything.
I knew that wasn't the best wording and that somebody would respond in the manner you did.
However, I didn't forsee being modded down to "0, Insightful"
Moderators need to re-read the moderator guidelines, especially the "What is a Good Comment? A Bad Comment?" section. They should also note that there is a growing number of Meta-Moderators who nearly always judge negative moderations as unfair; your points are better spent promoting than demoting, especially since most sane
What I meant in saying that was this:
- Slashdot is a wonderful community that prides itself in its freedom of thought and expression, including anonymity. Taking away such a "right" (as many
/.'ers would like to think of this as a right and not a priveledge) should not be joked about.
Yes, I realize that this is Rob Malda's Web Forum® and that he has ultimate decision as to what will and won't make the site tick....I was simply pointing out that this was in bad taste.
i just fell off my chair.
the submit comment page doesn't let my post anonymously, as indicated by this april fool's story.
not funny, rob. - never joke about our rights.
I would call disabling your phone completely 'changing settings', but that's just me I guess.
as would i. i don't see how you saw my view as otherwise. the example of General Cinemas does not change any setting on cellphones, it just blatantly reminds you to take it off ring.
I'm aware of that, it is the #1 part I shudder about. Yes, indeed mozilla will be impossible to ignore once AOL 8.0 (or whatever) comes out.
I think what we really need is some sort of standard interface to control a phones behavior beyond just "it works, it doesn't". Ferinstance... How about when you walk in the theater, the phone automatically gets set to "vibrate", and the mic/headset ONLY work in the lobby. Maybe a standard message goes out to the caller saying "the user of this phone is in a no-talk environment".
...it's an invasion of privacy. better to educate people as to why x is wrong rather than to change that x setting to y.
I was thinking along those lines as well, but then realized that I don't want others to be able to change settings on my electronic devices as they see fit.
your specialized response idea is good as well, and as cellphones beome more sophisticated, easily selected 'away messages' will come into fashion.
at General Cinemas in the northeastern US, a large part of the "shut up and throw away your trash" reminder is devoted to turning off your cellphone. It works, too.
according to the roadmap, we can expect the first branches of moz1.0 tomorrow (friday). this is rather unrealistic. based on the fact that the branch on 0.9.9 was 8 days late, I am guessing that we will see the first branches around the 4th of April (although, remember that the entire 0.9.9 build has essentially been a frozen branch towards 1.0, so perhaps they'll be on time).
If you see a release announcement for 1.0 on Monday, April Fools to you!
... no way will it be out that early; releases are scheduled for a week after the branching but have recently been 10-20 days, so expect Mozilla 1.0 sometime around 4/20 (I wonder what a release on that day would mean for the nature of the party?).
actually, if it weren't for a certain multi-year agreement with MS to ship IE with AOL, they'd be using NS long ago. That contract will expire very soon (or be nullified?) and some version of NS will find it's way onto the (*shudder*) #1 ISP in America's main distribution.
i've worked in a single-room office containing about a dozen cubes all lining the wall. each cube had a large opening facing the center of the room. there was be a table in the center of the room with a chair or two, drawers, and a few computers set up as terminals/vnc's.
this made it easy to wheel over and converse with a co-worker or go to another office and work with people there. talk to your neighbor by pushing your chair backwards a few feet. social atmosphere is everything!
this is a completely rediculous loss of rights. ... i have it on vibrate. if i go to a movie, i leave it on. if i get a call during the movie, i check the caller and usually just turn off the ringer for the rest of the call. this way i can respond to emergencies or good friends (i would obviously leave the theater before answering).
...sure, it would be nice, but only in third-person!
... so vibration isn't noticed. cellphone manufacturers could fix this by introducing a wristband, necklace, or wallet attachment that receives a wireless signal from the phone and vibrates (with the phone) on rings.
i have a cellphone and have never gone out in public with it on 'ring'
this is rather similar to the gagging of loud children, or even allowing the shooting of stupid people.
the biggest problem with vibrating phones for most people (students and women at least) is that the phone is kept in a bag/purse
can o' air.
it doesn't suck.
it blows.
but it does the trick
not 500mb in 3 minutes.
i used to work for the first company to develop such a technology (Into Networks - they power the Real Networks RealArcade). basically it works like a virtual CD, mounted over the internet. you don't need all the data at once, just whatever your system needs to process at one time. there was normally a pre-load for the times when you would need data faster than your connection could handle (mostly for movies or engines), like the 3 minutes you wait for Steam.
Let me repeat that: you download things as you need them! those resources, textures, sounds all come to you later. the maps come when thay are the one you are playing.
I tested this kind of software and even on first person shooters, so i think i can assure you that this technology works, and i've known for quite some time now that this IS the future of online gaming - think of how hard it is to cheat now!
I can't believe there are two +1 funny moderations to the above post. sure, sending in a $1000 endorsement is a bit far-fetched, but, damnit, Stefan is right. We would see massive changes and FAST.
It appears that even the slashdot community doesn't realize how bad this bill is.
I am SO scared by it that I almost (and may still) went out and bought a bleeding-edge computer with maximum everything and a DVD burner with a few hundred-pack dvdrs.
Problem is that I can't afford such an undergoing.
this bill will illegalize every computer currently on the market. it will illegalize the GPL and all other OSS. it will illegalize MP3, DivX;-), OGG, PGP, and most SSL. it might even set us back to a level of usable technology equivalent to 1980.
the slashdot community is rather advanced, seeing the internet under more experienced eyes than most. most of us already get more that that 1400spam/yr (4spam/day) mark (i'm at twice that).
...we already see this today, but usually the guesses are wrong; for example, i just deleted a message to Harry from Molly about enlarging my cock. i am not Harry, i don't know a Molly, and i'm large enough already.
what do we do when we find spam? we don't fall for the advertisement, we report the spam, and we revise our filters so that we don't see that message again. by 2006, people less tech-saavy will have adopted these practices too (and we can probably double or triple the 1400 rate).
if laws and isps don't help, people will get so fed up and spams will get so numerous that they will undo themselves; people will simply stop listening, and it won't be profitable to spam.
another possibility is (if things get really out of hand) that spammers will have enough information about victims to target them masquerading as friends, including real name and interest of the victim in a suggestion-like spam.
*throws snowshovel out window*
is a VERY nice little box. it ran a few of the others out of the game a few years ago. I did tech support (ewww) for a company that used these, although not with usb. if they're as good with usb as they are with standard parallel printer ports they i highly recommend it. the configuration is very well done and the test print command gives you all the id & info you need.
no, no they didn't. I was one of the original pre-MS HoTMaiL subscribers (within their first few months) and would have loved to see that. the whole idea behind it (and its name - take out vowels to get HTML, my case was the original) was that it was a web-based HTML-friendly mail service (the first I think) at a time when there weren't any; Eudora, NS, and others didn't know what HTML was (there was not Outlook).
in case you hate pdfs that could easily be done in html, adobe has a pdf->html page.
here's the specs in html.
basically, there are two flexCDs, named 80 and 120 for their sizes in milimeters. The 8cm disk holds 200mb and the 12cm disk holds an unspecified amount (hopefully 702mb). each disk is 1/10th the thickness of a cd. standard minicd is 8cm and standard cd is 12cm. a 3.5" floppy is 9cm x 9.4cm.
the adapter has two parts which sandwich the flexCD and go in the non-supporting cdrom drive.