So you think it will be that each school individually calls up their ISP to tell them what level of filtering they want? I wonder how many schools will even be bothered. And you should know a lot of parents these days will go to the extreme end of the filtering scale in order to "protect" their children.
Utterly ridiculous... First of all, if parents are that worried about it they should use on of the many filtering options available. Schools should be made to use it, but make sure it's DECENT. I remeber the filtering at school was ridiculous I tried looking at the news (yes, seriously) and it filtered it out for gambling and hate speech.
And if content filtering is to be made mandatory, should be OPT IN not OPT OUT. Like was said before, the ISPs are going to have lists of which accounts have opted out of filtering, which weak though it may be can and probably will be used against you.
The REAL problem though, is who gets to decide what "inappropriate content" means? And where is the line drawn?
It starts with porn and then what... Contraception? Abortion advice? Maybe websites for young men and women trying to find a way to deal with their homosexuality?
Dissent? Atheism? Islam, Hinduism, or any other faith not practised by the majority? Flying Spaghetti Monster?
At what point does content become considered violent? You can have your neopets battle each other.... Will that be filtered due to violent content?
The news often has violent stories, wikipedia contains all kinds of material...
And then after all that, maybe they just go and decide that opting out of filtering is all well and good, but they still don't want you looking at pornography, or criticism of the Government, or anything not politically correct.
And don't bother saying it won't go that far, because it so easily could.
Of course it is happening faster. Back in the day before basic hygiene when the average life span was in the 30s... sure some women especially peasants had tons of children (or at least gave birth to them), but also a lot of those same babies died... Nowadays, regardless of the complications during pregnancy a baby can usually be saved... So we have all these children that NATURALLY would have had 0 chance due to deformities or whatever, now we have them surviving and then going on to have children of their own... So there's that side of the rapid increase in genetic MUTATIONS. I fail to see however how hereditary disorders like Down Syndrome (probably? I'm not a geneticist so can someone correct me or not on this one) or 2 extra pairs of limbs could possibly have a positive side. As such some of these genetic changes worry me, as does increased dependence on external medicines for even the slightest ailments.
I scanned the comments hoping for a creationist to flame, or a proponent of the "humans emerged and then stopped evolving because to say otherwise is racist" group, but unfortunately for me none seems to. Just in case the latter does pop up let me preempt them by saying "it might be politically correct to say that humans stopped evolving, but it's scientifically and logically a complete and utter load of crap."
Thankyou.
I renounce the majority of what I said directly above... the main article specifically said "blahblahblah RIAA argues ripping MP3s illegal" so I feel justified in my anger, at the RIAA if it's true and at the article poster if as you say it's not the way he said it was.
You're right I should have read further..... Damn suggestive article titles! The article also said they were for use by him and his wife.... Sorry about that, anything about the RIAA automatically gets me angry:P
Someone needs to go around to the RIAA offices and bringeth down the feareth... If I was of half a mind to buy a CD (which I haven't for 5 years) I'd damn sure be ripping that clunky inconvenient bastard into MP3s, and if the RIAA wants to stop me they can suck various parts of my unmentionable anatomy first.
Dos anyone else think they say things like this SPECIFICALLY so people don't *buy* the music they "represent" just so they can open up more avenues for lining their own greasy disgusting atheist-version-of-satan-since-I'm-atheist spawned pockets?
Ah well, it's all in America anyway got a few years or months til they try their stupidity down here, not that I think it will get very far.
If I've gotten any facts wrong then too bad I'm both tired and angry!
This is what I never understood about this subject.... They say the cat is both dead and alive until we observe it... But what about the cat? Surely when the cat dies it's dead and "observed" itself as such, thus making our observation moot. Or somesuch.
Again, a tree in a forest is not both standing and fallen until we look at it.... When it does/not fall/stand it doesn't make both a sound and no sound at the same time. And just say the universe DOES change due to direct observation... That doesn't mean we have to be the ones to observe it surely? Aliums might have observed it already? Or is the case of the cat saying that the state of an object might be a certain value, but in the realm of our own personal universe the state is not known until observed and... Well getting off track and confused there the point is... Well I'm not sure anymore but this news just seems a little ways off into the realm of fairytales to me.
I'm near-certain I don't need to say this on this website BUT..... This poor fool has no idea does he? ALL p2p traffic? How about legitimate uses?
Quakewars patches are available via bittorrent, the Anarchy Online client, all sorts of people who upload their own content that can't afford server bandwidth on their own service or through download websites. Sorry guy-I've-never-heard of, but who the hell are you and why does your malformed opinion mean something to me.
How long do we think until someone blames google and says "you should have KNOWN this was going to happen, it's your fault! Creds plx!"
Just because it was on their site wouldn't mean they KNEW it was there.... And if it's their fault it's as much everyone else's fault who saw the video and did nothing.
The arrogance of some companies! Maybe it was a mistake and they 'didn't know' but too bad, they're a business and they're supposed to know.
This doesn't help much here in Australia, but maybe you poor Americans will be left alone to eat your dinner in peace/.
Too bad if they code this wrong... Say allow a parent to accidentally set the available time to 60 seconds.... By the time you get in to change the setting to a realistic value... BAM! off goes your XBox...
And you can bet this will be abused by parents anyway, giving poor timmy 1 hour of gametime a week for example. But other than extreme cases, it's a good idea that should have made it in sooner:)
This is a complete and utter no brainer.... Well okay it MIGHT require no thought but really.... If your tax dollars help pay for research, you damn well better be able to see where your money went... Not just see the bits and pieces the government thinks it's safe to let you have a look at
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So if I go to someone's house and they didn't lock their door I should be allowed to wander around inside touching things? Right?
So you think it will be that each school individually calls up their ISP to tell them what level of filtering they want? I wonder how many schools will even be bothered. And you should know a lot of parents these days will go to the extreme end of the filtering scale in order to "protect" their children.
Utterly ridiculous... First of all, if parents are that worried about it they should use on of the many filtering options available. Schools should be made to use it, but make sure it's DECENT. I remeber the filtering at school was ridiculous I tried looking at the news (yes, seriously) and it filtered it out for gambling and hate speech. And if content filtering is to be made mandatory, should be OPT IN not OPT OUT. Like was said before, the ISPs are going to have lists of which accounts have opted out of filtering, which weak though it may be can and probably will be used against you. The REAL problem though, is who gets to decide what "inappropriate content" means? And where is the line drawn? It starts with porn and then what... Contraception? Abortion advice? Maybe websites for young men and women trying to find a way to deal with their homosexuality? Dissent? Atheism? Islam, Hinduism, or any other faith not practised by the majority? Flying Spaghetti Monster? At what point does content become considered violent? You can have your neopets battle each other.... Will that be filtered due to violent content? The news often has violent stories, wikipedia contains all kinds of material... And then after all that, maybe they just go and decide that opting out of filtering is all well and good, but they still don't want you looking at pornography, or criticism of the Government, or anything not politically correct. And don't bother saying it won't go that far, because it so easily could.
Of course it is happening faster. Back in the day before basic hygiene when the average life span was in the 30s... sure some women especially peasants had tons of children (or at least gave birth to them), but also a lot of those same babies died... Nowadays, regardless of the complications during pregnancy a baby can usually be saved... So we have all these children that NATURALLY would have had 0 chance due to deformities or whatever, now we have them surviving and then going on to have children of their own... So there's that side of the rapid increase in genetic MUTATIONS. I fail to see however how hereditary disorders like Down Syndrome (probably? I'm not a geneticist so can someone correct me or not on this one) or 2 extra pairs of limbs could possibly have a positive side. As such some of these genetic changes worry me, as does increased dependence on external medicines for even the slightest ailments. I scanned the comments hoping for a creationist to flame, or a proponent of the "humans emerged and then stopped evolving because to say otherwise is racist" group, but unfortunately for me none seems to. Just in case the latter does pop up let me preempt them by saying "it might be politically correct to say that humans stopped evolving, but it's scientifically and logically a complete and utter load of crap." Thankyou.
I renounce the majority of what I said directly above... the main article specifically said "blahblahblah RIAA argues ripping MP3s illegal" so I feel justified in my anger, at the RIAA if it's true and at the article poster if as you say it's not the way he said it was.
You're right I should have read further..... Damn suggestive article titles! The article also said they were for use by him and his wife.... Sorry about that, anything about the RIAA automatically gets me angry :P
Someone needs to go around to the RIAA offices and bringeth down the feareth... If I was of half a mind to buy a CD (which I haven't for 5 years) I'd damn sure be ripping that clunky inconvenient bastard into MP3s, and if the RIAA wants to stop me they can suck various parts of my unmentionable anatomy first. Dos anyone else think they say things like this SPECIFICALLY so people don't *buy* the music they "represent" just so they can open up more avenues for lining their own greasy disgusting atheist-version-of-satan-since-I'm-atheist spawned pockets? Ah well, it's all in America anyway got a few years or months til they try their stupidity down here, not that I think it will get very far. If I've gotten any facts wrong then too bad I'm both tired and angry!
This is what I never understood about this subject.... They say the cat is both dead and alive until we observe it... But what about the cat? Surely when the cat dies it's dead and "observed" itself as such, thus making our observation moot. Or somesuch. Again, a tree in a forest is not both standing and fallen until we look at it.... When it does/not fall/stand it doesn't make both a sound and no sound at the same time. And just say the universe DOES change due to direct observation... That doesn't mean we have to be the ones to observe it surely? Aliums might have observed it already? Or is the case of the cat saying that the state of an object might be a certain value, but in the realm of our own personal universe the state is not known until observed and... Well getting off track and confused there the point is... Well I'm not sure anymore but this news just seems a little ways off into the realm of fairytales to me.
I'm near-certain I don't need to say this on this website BUT..... This poor fool has no idea does he? ALL p2p traffic? How about legitimate uses? Quakewars patches are available via bittorrent, the Anarchy Online client, all sorts of people who upload their own content that can't afford server bandwidth on their own service or through download websites. Sorry guy-I've-never-heard of, but who the hell are you and why does your malformed opinion mean something to me.
Apparently I did.... Thanks for the headsup though "_)
How long do we think until someone blames google and says "you should have KNOWN this was going to happen, it's your fault! Creds plx!" Just because it was on their site wouldn't mean they KNEW it was there.... And if it's their fault it's as much everyone else's fault who saw the video and did nothing.
The arrogance of some companies! Maybe it was a mistake and they 'didn't know' but too bad, they're a business and they're supposed to know. This doesn't help much here in Australia, but maybe you poor Americans will be left alone to eat your dinner in peace/.
Too bad if they code this wrong... Say allow a parent to accidentally set the available time to 60 seconds.... By the time you get in to change the setting to a realistic value... BAM! off goes your XBox...
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And you can bet this will be abused by parents anyway, giving poor timmy 1 hour of gametime a week for example. But other than extreme cases, it's a good idea that should have made it in sooner
Fable was in fact pretty good... A little too cutesy and simple, but good mind-numbing gameplay. Point is it WORKED.
As to this... Great idea for a good cause
This is a complete and utter no brainer.... Well okay it MIGHT require no thought but really.... If your tax dollars help pay for research, you damn well better be able to see where your money went... Not just see the bits and pieces the government thinks it's safe to let you have a look at