I wonder what country you herald from? Whatâ(TM)s your countryâ(TM)s worst historical figure? How about I compare you to that person?
I'm from the US, and you can't compare me to him as I'm capable of constructing a complete sentence, containing all real words, without dribbling down my own tie or tripping over.
Not necessarily by legal definitions. Some jurisdictions have decided that pornography that shows virtual children is prosecutable, and yet does not require the sexual abuse of children. I guess maybe by "appropriate" definition, you meant your own definition, but even though the US Supreme Court decided that virtual child pornography is protected in some cases, that doesn't mean it isn't (or shouldn't be considered) child pornography.
Absolutely! I should hand myself in to the authorities immediately. All that virtual murder I committed when playing Doom^WGTA^WManhunt^W^Wwatching an action movie makes me a threat to society!
Please, won't someone think of the general public and put me in jail, before it's too late?!
a) Most of the computers in the world are not involved in distribution of indecent images of minors. b) Most of the incidents of sexual indecency with a minor are by members of the family, or close family friends.
Therefore, to have a greater chance of saving more children from sexual predators, we should ignore computers and break up all families. (Liberal use of the "~" marker here, folks).
Child exploitation, of all sorts, is very serious. However, this kind of outright idiocy on the part of policy makers is starting to make me physically ill. There are so many reason why this is an awful, awful idea, and I know I don't need to spell them out.
Why can't we have politicians who can think rationally?
Where's the full disk encryption? I shouldn't have to rely on a 3rd party app like that Whisper Systems product to provide some fundamental data security for the device.
Considering what these devices are connected to (social networking, email, contacts, pictures etc) you'd think that this was a higher priority than a new font for the clock.
Apparently BlackBerry Instant Messaging is more popular than SMS in some parts of the UK and Europe.
That means nothing. Smartphones have brought about (S/M)MS for free in the shape of IM clients and other internet-based messaging (Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, eBuddy which unifies many services). There are folk who use Twitter / Facebook as their IM service. All of these have taken away from SMS. I hardly ever use it now, and I wouldn't touch Blackberry.
This time, through extra car taxes, measuring exactly how many miles you have driven.
I hate to point out the obvious, but this isn't necessarily a bad idea. Let's reverse the analogy; Granny and grandp send emails to their kids and occasionally buy a SlapChop from Amazon. They pay for a broadband connection, £10 per month for 1GB data cap (numbers pulled out of my ar... errr the air). This is the equivalent of "old lady who only goes to the shop once a week" car driver who would pay very little road tax. Then you have the 2x year old who pounds the tubes day in, day out, unlimited data cap and top-tier speeds. He pays £60 per month for that service. This is the rep or professional driver who is constantly on the road, and he pays more tax.
I think it makes more sense than paying for how much CO2 your car puts out, regardless of how often you drive.
You do know that "sexting" is sending someone a lewd photo of yourself using a mobile phone, right? Nothing to do with actual physical contact between two people.
Your comment deals with issues which are not related to the subject at all. Important issues, but totally irrelevant here.
1) It's scientific fact their brians aren't as mature as you seem to think at 16.
I don't think they're mature at all; I've worked in secondary education, and know very well how teens often have very short term ideas regarding consequence. That is why they need education, not prohibition; To prepare them for later life when consequences can take years to manifest.
2) It's up to the parent, not to you, me or anyone else, to determine what constitutes healthy sexual exploration and behavior..
Yes. However, the parent is often, in this day and age, absent. They rely in daycare education to bring up their child, and this kind of technology is just the kind of thing they would grasp with two hands in order to avoid taking some responsibility for bringing up their child.
3) There are plenty of people like you who will not use the software, you can all pat yourselves on the back, somehow liking sex means you're more intelligent than the rest of people... somehow..
This isn't even related to my point.
4) There are plenty of people who will use this software and not bother you at all about what you do, so why do you care what they do?
It doesn't bother me a jott if they do or don't use this software, or what they use it for. I was pointing out the faulty logic of saying that this software will combat "sexting". It will do no such thing. Prohibition doesn't work.
You mean it'll stop them taking pictures of themselves in the bathroom mirror?
Seriously, the prudish "adult" world needs to grow the fuck up and stop treating teens as children. They're exploring their sexuality, and they need guidance showing how their actions have repercussions, not a digital chastity belt. This arbitrary "16 and no younger" is great for protecting teens from predators, but crap for biology; Teens' hormones don't comply to the Whatever The Hell Law Makes "Sexting" a Crime Act.
"Ms Baddeley said mobile phone monitoring, already operating in the UK and US, would help the struggling retail sector develop marketing campaigns and identify the best mix of shops in centres."
I'd love to know where, so I can avoid the places like the fucking plague.
Wouldn't it be very easy for the police to infiltrate this sort of thing? Just respond to a couple of ads on craiglist, then trace the packages to their final destination.
Yes, only the US has no jurisdiction outside of it's borders and can do dick all about it without using diplomatic channels.
Oh, wait, ACTA means they practically do. Forget I said anything.
The difference is that Android updates aren't mandatory; You can choose not to install the OTA updates and you lose no existing functionality. If you don't install iOS updates, you can't sync with iTunes at least. Automatically sync'ing your iTunes library is one of the big selling points of iDevices, isn't it?
Jesus, that looks like a nightmare! Call me a troll if you wish, but I'm posting my anecdotal experience upgrading CyanogenMod 7.0.3 to 7.1.0 two days ago for comparison
1. Ensure phone is charged. 50% should do. 2. Fire up ROM manager and update ClockworkMod from 3.x to 5.x. No app or phone restart necessary 3. Hit the Download ROM option and browse to CyanogenMod 4. Select CyanogenMod 7.1.0 Stable and press Download 5. When prompted, reboot to recovery mode and watch the text on the screen. Or don't, you won't understand it anyway. 6. Return in 20 minutes (for me it was around 5 minutes) to see your phone waiting for your PIN / unlock code and all of your data and apps still there. Check to make sure the update actually happened as nothing looks any different, and you're pretty sure it should have exploded or something
We can only hope that iOS 5's OTA update feature works as well.
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Don't chuck the Eris out. Hit XDA-Developers and root it, put a custom ROM on it (CyanogenMod 7.1 gives you the latest Froyo build and is great on my DesireHD) and see how it performs. If it's crap, put it on eBay. If it's not, you just got a free phone upgrade. Yes, it's not a vendor approved upgrade path, but it's out of warranty anyway. Might as well give it a go.
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I wonder what country you herald from? Whatâ(TM)s your countryâ(TM)s worst historical figure? How about I compare you to that person?
I'm from the US, and you can't compare me to him as I'm capable of constructing a complete sentence, containing all real words, without dribbling down my own tie or tripping over.
I could do this all day!
I wonder what country you herald from? Whatâ(TM)s your countryâ(TM)s worst historical figure? How about I compare you to that person?
I'm Austrian.
This can only reflect badly on you.
Not necessarily by legal definitions. Some jurisdictions have decided that pornography that shows virtual children is prosecutable, and yet does not require the sexual abuse of children. I guess maybe by "appropriate" definition, you meant your own definition, but even though the US Supreme Court decided that virtual child pornography is protected in some cases, that doesn't mean it isn't (or shouldn't be considered) child pornography.
Absolutely! I should hand myself in to the authorities immediately. All that virtual murder I committed when playing Doom^WGTA^WManhunt^W^Wwatching an action movie makes me a threat to society!
Please, won't someone think of the general public and put me in jail, before it's too late?!
I wonder what country you herald from? Whatâ(TM)s your countryâ(TM)s worst historical figure? How about I compare you to that person?
I'm Canadian, and I think we've already apologised enough for Celine Dion.
I still have windows mobile 6.2 :(
xda-developers can help you with that. Upgraded my Orange M1000 (HTC Himalaya) to 6.5, including sim unlock.
Yes, it's not much of an upgrade, but it's something.
Uhhh... It's Hollywood. The place where fiction is turned into reality by people playing dress-up.
It's all lies.
Never mind that, here's some statistics!
a) Most of the computers in the world are not involved in distribution of indecent images of minors.
b) Most of the incidents of sexual indecency with a minor are by members of the family, or close family friends.
Therefore, to have a greater chance of saving more children from sexual predators, we should ignore computers and break up all families. (Liberal use of the "~" marker here, folks).
Child exploitation, of all sorts, is very serious. However, this kind of outright idiocy on the part of policy makers is starting to make me physically ill. There are so many reason why this is an awful, awful idea, and I know I don't need to spell them out.
Why can't we have politicians who can think rationally?
Pretty big thing to fail to mention! It's fundamental to Android being a contender to Blackberry in the corporate world.
Where's the full disk encryption? I shouldn't have to rely on a 3rd party app like that Whisper Systems product to provide some fundamental data security for the device.
Considering what these devices are connected to (social networking, email, contacts, pictures etc) you'd think that this was a higher priority than a new font for the clock.
Read her sig, and wonder how you fell for the troll.
Apparently BlackBerry Instant Messaging is more popular than SMS in some parts of the UK and Europe.
That means nothing. Smartphones have brought about (S/M)MS for free in the shape of IM clients and other internet-based messaging (Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, eBuddy which unifies many services). There are folk who use Twitter / Facebook as their IM service. All of these have taken away from SMS. I hardly ever use it now, and I wouldn't touch Blackberry.
In the future, I guess snipers will have to carry a $ 5 roll of aluminum foil, to block the multimillion dollar real time radar.
Which would shine conspicuously in the radar beam. That's where I'd shoot.
Ok, so $5 foil and $3 blu-tak, so you can put it on the wall you're hiding behind.
This time, through extra car taxes, measuring exactly how many miles you have driven.
I hate to point out the obvious, but this isn't necessarily a bad idea. Let's reverse the analogy; Granny and grandp send emails to their kids and occasionally buy a SlapChop from Amazon. They pay for a broadband connection, £10 per month for 1GB data cap (numbers pulled out of my ar... errr the air). This is the equivalent of "old lady who only goes to the shop once a week" car driver who would pay very little road tax. Then you have the 2x year old who pounds the tubes day in, day out, unlimited data cap and top-tier speeds. He pays £60 per month for that service. This is the rep or professional driver who is constantly on the road, and he pays more tax.
I think it makes more sense than paying for how much CO2 your car puts out, regardless of how often you drive.
You do know that "sexting" is sending someone a lewd photo of yourself using a mobile phone, right? Nothing to do with actual physical contact between two people.
Your comment deals with issues which are not related to the subject at all. Important issues, but totally irrelevant here.
The only way this would work if it was ubiquitous and mandatory. "No pictures here" signal in public bathrooms, changing rooms etc would be grand.
I don't see how this is related to "sexting", though.
1) It's scientific fact their brians aren't as mature as you seem to think at 16.
I don't think they're mature at all; I've worked in secondary education, and know very well how teens often have very short term ideas regarding consequence. That is why they need education, not prohibition; To prepare them for later life when consequences can take years to manifest.
2) It's up to the parent, not to you, me or anyone else, to determine what constitutes healthy sexual exploration and behavior..
Yes. However, the parent is often, in this day and age, absent. They rely in daycare education to bring up their child, and this kind of technology is just the kind of thing they would grasp with two hands in order to avoid taking some responsibility for bringing up their child.
3) There are plenty of people like you who will not use the software, you can all pat yourselves on the back, somehow liking sex means you're more intelligent than the rest of people... somehow..
This isn't even related to my point.
4) There are plenty of people who will use this software and not bother you at all about what you do, so why do you care what they do?
It doesn't bother me a jott if they do or don't use this software, or what they use it for. I was pointing out the faulty logic of saying that this software will combat "sexting". It will do no such thing. Prohibition doesn't work.
You mean it'll stop them taking pictures of themselves in the bathroom mirror?
Seriously, the prudish "adult" world needs to grow the fuck up and stop treating teens as children. They're exploring their sexuality, and they need guidance showing how their actions have repercussions, not a digital chastity belt. This arbitrary "16 and no younger" is great for protecting teens from predators, but crap for biology; Teens' hormones don't comply to the Whatever The Hell Law Makes "Sexting" a Crime Act.
With a dramatic pause after every 2nd or 3rd word.
House would have diagnosed a brain tumor from that.
I don't remember Kirk drinking G&T on the Enterprise bridge, though...
We have the Open Uni in the UK. I understand it does international courses too.
"Ms Baddeley said mobile phone monitoring, already operating in the UK and US, would help the struggling retail sector develop marketing campaigns and identify the best mix of shops in centres."
I'd love to know where, so I can avoid the places like the fucking plague.
I take it your Touch has the latest firmware available for the platform?
QED.
Wouldn't it be very easy for the police to infiltrate this sort of thing? Just respond to a couple of ads on craiglist, then trace the packages to their final destination.
Yes, only the US has no jurisdiction outside of it's borders and can do dick all about it without using diplomatic channels.
Oh, wait, ACTA means they practically do. Forget I said anything.
The difference is that Android updates aren't mandatory; You can choose not to install the OTA updates and you lose no existing functionality. If you don't install iOS updates, you can't sync with iTunes at least. Automatically sync'ing your iTunes library is one of the big selling points of iDevices, isn't it?
Jesus, that looks like a nightmare! Call me a troll if you wish, but I'm posting my anecdotal experience upgrading CyanogenMod 7.0.3 to 7.1.0 two days ago for comparison
1. Ensure phone is charged. 50% should do.
2. Fire up ROM manager and update ClockworkMod from 3.x to 5.x. No app or phone restart necessary
3. Hit the Download ROM option and browse to CyanogenMod
4. Select CyanogenMod 7.1.0 Stable and press Download
5. When prompted, reboot to recovery mode and watch the text on the screen. Or don't, you won't understand it anyway.
6. Return in 20 minutes (for me it was around 5 minutes) to see your phone waiting for your PIN / unlock code and all of your data and apps still there. Check to make sure the update actually happened as nothing looks any different, and you're pretty sure it should have exploded or something
We can only hope that iOS 5's OTA update feature works as well.
Don't chuck the Eris out. Hit XDA-Developers and root it, put a custom ROM on it (CyanogenMod 7.1 gives you the latest Froyo build and is great on my DesireHD) and see how it performs. If it's crap, put it on eBay. If it's not, you just got a free phone upgrade. Yes, it's not a vendor approved upgrade path, but it's out of warranty anyway. Might as well give it a go.