i think you are missing the whole point. they are separate - classifying data is not the same as restricting access to it. they are two separate points.
they use.gov for government web sites and no one complains about that and it doesn't automatically imply censorship.
if someone blocks a domain you are not happy with then change ISP - there are always choices.
do not confuse the issues.
1).xxx is a proposed domain for adult themed websites - not appropriate for children and ppl of a sensitive disposition - there is nothing wrong with this, it makes sense and is NOT censorship.
2) filtering out certain websites at home or work is perfectly acceptable and is NOT censorship.
3) the government or other ruling bodies prohibiting access to any sort of website IS censorship and it depends on your country if this acceptable/legal or not.
whether or not to have a specific domain for specific content is NOT the same issue as web censorship. as many people point out it is already easy enough to filter out what you don't want.
awesome - this is the first step towards automatic identification - soon we will have the RFID chip implanted under your skin so with one wave of your hand anyone can know everything about you!
i knew something like this would happen when immigration moved under the auspices of the Department of Fatherland Security.
and RFID is so much nicer than barcodes or numbers just written straight on the skin...
a lot of people would have no other alternative. like it or not, the majority of Americans are ill-educated and naive in family planning (there is no sex education in most schools) and therefore this is a needed option. whether you agree with it or not, for the people who will actually be affected by this, it is essential. and remember this plan is for everyone - not just you.
so health care reform bill has passed it first step - actually a move forward even if you dont like the bill, everyone (except the fat insurance companies) admitted that things had to change, and so this is a start.
however, the amendment restricting abortion coverage is HUGE step backwards and another reminder just how much the lunatic Religious Right has taken hold in the US. Hopefully this does not force people into coat hangers and whiskey again.
so close, but yet so far still to come.
my first enterprise application was HAND WRITTEN on coding sheets and handed to a data entry operator who typed it in and i had to wait 3-5 days for a compilation report and code listing printouts. Needless to say the first report was mostly syntax errors (bad handwriting, smudges and data entry errors). Then i had to hand in modifications to be made on new sheets - these would only take a day or 2 to come back!
a few years later i worked on a PRIME mini and had to submit all C applications into a queue for compilation - sometimes 30 minutes but on high load days, it could take 8 hours - just to compile the damn code! again i pick up the results in the form of a printout.
but now, even to this day, i still get a huge kick out of compiling, building, linking (including generating and optimizing) 1 million+ lines of code right on my desktop in seconds.
Librarians are "assisting making available copyrighted content" everyday. They actually give the original material to people to make their own copies from! And take their names and address! Incredible! They must be stopped now!
Everyone (under 60) who borrows a music CD (or nowadays a DVD) more than likely is going to rip it and it is fairly obvious to the Library that is what exactly why they are borrowing it, so just like the guys a PB the entire Library system in Sweden is guilty of the same crime.
I got Sirius to try when i bought my new car (which my wife now drives every day - go figure!) but i actually listen to Sirius online.
However, they called me last week and told me that from sometime in March they were going to start charging people EXTRA for the online service! How stupid can you get? Trying to charge people more for Internet radio?
I wonder if the dinosaurs had Sirius/XM's marketing department?
i think you are thinking of abuses of the H1B program.
as with any program there are people who take advantage of the situation and of other people and bend the rules, but that is not he general case that i have come across, or at least wasn't when i was on my H1B (from Scotland).
i knew doctors and physicists and other engineers etc, all of whom were highly skilled and well paid for moving to the US and it was not even close to the situation you describe.
However, i do see the trend to use the H1B to complement or as a an alternative to outsourcing by bringing cheap workers in IT from a specific country (or 2) to the US and treating them as you describe. This must not be taken as a general rule as to how the H1B program works and is handled.
you do realise that America was founded on immigration? probably your great grandfather. and that immigration (a lot of it through H visas to Green Card to Citizenship) is what continues to help build the country?
without it, the US would country would be full of ignorant gits making comments like that. back to your cave.
mass distribution is also changing. no more boxes - pretty blue ones or otherwise. movies on demand - in the store!
you go to the store where there is a vending machine sort of thing - you press the button and out comes your freshly written and packaged movie!
means no expensive environmentally unfriendly transport, no leftovers (no bargain bins though) and movies are instantly available in the store - download media and artwork. special editions with special packaging can be bought online.
ehm, if no one has thought of this before - i thought of it first - right?
people mostly focus on what is now consumer computing - home PCs, mobile phones, etc and forget a lot about workhorse technology and legacy systems.
and 40 is not old you bastards!
i am only 38 and started out with mainframes, punched cards and 7 day compilation times! (there were 150 of us living in a shoe box in middle of road etc etc)
Maybe Microsoft is just pissed at everyone in Europe and the other software comanies are just being prepared?
i mean us Europeans are all a pain in arse - we all hate each other, we still fight each other, we all speak different languages, we still use different currencies, one day we are all for something and the next we are all against it! It's amazing that anyone outside Europe wants anything to do with us at all!
narf. forget it. i should read it better before i post. they took "two similar systems". you are right, it was interference from the readers at the frequencies they were using.
it doesn't matter if it is passive, active or battery assisted passive tags, ctirical medical devices should be protected against this sort of thing.
if you read the link you will see that they tested both passive and active tags and the passive tags scored a higher problem score.
the implication from the limited text is that they were using the same reader (although this is not confirmed) but the difference in tags did change the issue rate, so the tags do share part of the problem.
i work almost exclusively in RFID tracking & technology and have been doing this stuff for years.
In the east they let you monitor employees during the day in the factories/facilites so they wear RFID tags and you can watch them just like the material that moves around the buildings.
know where the breakrooms and bathrooms are? then watch for the tags disappearing out that door and send them a page/text if they are not back withing 5 minutes! the unions would have a field day in the west!
it does work though - only the slackers have a problem with it and only if you have bad managemement would it be abused. so, yeah, you couldn't use it in the US.
i just opted out and it is a load of crap! Got to www.charter.com/onlineprivacy to opt out BUT all it does is place a cookie on the machine so you have to do it for all machines for all browsers for all OS - bunch of BS if you ask me.
if is it a per user/browser/os/machine configuration - what other information are they gathering and using to change the ads on the pages? and obviously they are querying this information on the machine before they modify and feed the page - this has got to impact load times!
i think one of the points that people are trying to make (however stupid or misguided or "mispoken" they may be) is that this game is not for kids - who do have problems with the difference between what is real or not.
most of the people here are mature(!) adults who really do enjoy the game (and games like this) and take it for what it is worth and keep the fun in the game but i know i would not want my 9 year old playing it or some of the kids at the school - some kids in particular!
i know my kid is pretty smart and we are involved with what they do, but the problem is, a lot of parents don't give a crap and leave it to others to raise them (school, daycare, state, church, whatever) and it is these people that just want to ban anything that they think will corrupt their kids - just because they are too damn lazy and stupid to try to raise their kids themselves.
this is why a good idea (MADD) was hijacked, and why on TV we can't see tits but every sunday we can listen to people talk about ghosts pulling giraffes out of thin air.
I installed 8.04 on Friday as a dual boot on my XP box and loved it. Was having a blast setting up my system, learning about the Ubuntu features (first time user), searching and installing new apps, downloading torrents and just loving the differences and speed.
So the ball and chain comes home and sees my new desktop and immediately wants to know what it is and why she can't have it on her notebook. I tell her she can but i want to make sure that she can still do all the stuff she needs to do for work on it. So she has to wait for a bit and my life is hell for a bit longer.
But i might try this approach and let her install a dual boot to see how it goes and how she likes it.
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i think you are missing the whole point. they are separate - classifying data is not the same as restricting access to it. they are two separate points. .gov for government web sites and no one complains about that and it doesn't automatically imply censorship.
they use
if someone blocks a domain you are not happy with then change ISP - there are always choices.
do not confuse the issues. .xxx is a proposed domain for adult themed websites - not appropriate for children and ppl of a sensitive disposition - there is nothing wrong with this, it makes sense and is NOT censorship.
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2) filtering out certain websites at home or work is perfectly acceptable and is NOT censorship.
3) the government or other ruling bodies prohibiting access to any sort of website IS censorship and it depends on your country if this acceptable/legal or not.
whether or not to have a specific domain for specific content is NOT the same issue as web censorship. as many people point out it is already easy enough to filter out what you don't want.
awesome - this is the first step towards automatic identification - soon we will have the RFID chip implanted under your skin so with one wave of your hand anyone can know everything about you!
i knew something like this would happen when immigration moved under the auspices of the Department of Fatherland Security.
and RFID is so much nicer than barcodes or numbers just written straight on the skin...
a lot of people would have no other alternative. like it or not, the majority of Americans are ill-educated and naive in family planning (there is no sex education in most schools) and therefore this is a needed option. whether you agree with it or not, for the people who will actually be affected by this, it is essential. and remember this plan is for everyone - not just you.
many people have "moral misgivings" for blood transfusions - should that not be covered? your argument is redundant.
so health care reform bill has passed it first step - actually a move forward even if you dont like the bill, everyone (except the fat insurance companies) admitted that things had to change, and so this is a start. however, the amendment restricting abortion coverage is HUGE step backwards and another reminder just how much the lunatic Religious Right has taken hold in the US. Hopefully this does not force people into coat hangers and whiskey again. so close, but yet so far still to come.
my first enterprise application was HAND WRITTEN on coding sheets and handed to a data entry operator who typed it in and i had to wait 3-5 days for a compilation report and code listing printouts. Needless to say the first report was mostly syntax errors (bad handwriting, smudges and data entry errors). Then i had to hand in modifications to be made on new sheets - these would only take a day or 2 to come back!
a few years later i worked on a PRIME mini and had to submit all C applications into a queue for compilation - sometimes 30 minutes but on high load days, it could take 8 hours - just to compile the damn code! again i pick up the results in the form of a printout.
but now, even to this day, i still get a huge kick out of compiling, building, linking (including generating and optimizing) 1 million+ lines of code right on my desktop in seconds.
Librarians are "assisting making available copyrighted content" everyday. They actually give the original material to people to make their own copies from! And take their names and address! Incredible! They must be stopped now!
Everyone (under 60) who borrows a music CD (or nowadays a DVD) more than likely is going to rip it and it is fairly obvious to the Library that is what exactly why they are borrowing it, so just like the guys a PB the entire Library system in Sweden is guilty of the same crime.
It's always the quiet ones...
did you see that this is all based around an obesity study? this has to be the BEST reason-why-i'm-fat yet!
"it's not me, it's the entire living eco-system of which i am comprised. and my DNA. and it's glandular. and i'm big boned."
i think most of the people in the study were made of cake.
I got Sirius to try when i bought my new car (which my wife now drives every day - go figure!) but i actually listen to Sirius online.
However, they called me last week and told me that from sometime in March they were going to start charging people EXTRA for the online service! How stupid can you get? Trying to charge people more for Internet radio?
I wonder if the dinosaurs had Sirius/XM's marketing department?
i think you are thinking of abuses of the H1B program.
as with any program there are people who take advantage of the situation and of other people and bend the rules, but that is not he general case that i have come across, or at least wasn't when i was on my H1B (from Scotland).
i knew doctors and physicists and other engineers etc, all of whom were highly skilled and well paid for moving to the US and it was not even close to the situation you describe.
However, i do see the trend to use the H1B to complement or as a an alternative to outsourcing by bringing cheap workers in IT from a specific country (or 2) to the US and treating them as you describe. This must not be taken as a general rule as to how the H1B program works and is handled.
I agree that this has to stop.
Screw the foreigners, send them home.
you do realise that America was founded on immigration? probably your great grandfather. and that immigration (a lot of it through H visas to Green Card to Citizenship) is what continues to help build the country?
without it, the US would country would be full of ignorant gits making comments like that. back to your cave.
This is nothing to do with devolution. Scots law has always been independent from English and Welsh Law. Also for education and healthcare etc etc.
It is also, from what i know, superior in most ways, except for the 3 verdicts and 15 jurors which causes problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_law
mass distribution is also changing. no more boxes - pretty blue ones or otherwise. movies on demand - in the store!
you go to the store where there is a vending machine sort of thing - you press the button and out comes your freshly written and packaged movie!
means no expensive environmentally unfriendly transport, no leftovers (no bargain bins though) and movies are instantly available in the store - download media and artwork. special editions with special packaging can be bought online.
ehm, if no one has thought of this before - i thought of it first - right?
people mostly focus on what is now consumer computing - home PCs, mobile phones, etc and forget a lot about workhorse technology and legacy systems.
and 40 is not old you bastards!
i am only 38 and started out with mainframes, punched cards and 7 day compilation times! (there were 150 of us living in a shoe box in middle of road etc etc)
tomorrow on /. we look at what your mobile phone number says about your future!
pathetic.
Remember when the EU whacked Microsoft with one of the biggest fines EVER http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3563697.stm ?
Maybe Microsoft is just pissed at everyone in Europe and the other software comanies are just being prepared?
i mean us Europeans are all a pain in arse - we all hate each other, we still fight each other, we all speak different languages, we still use different currencies, one day we are all for something and the next we are all against it! It's amazing that anyone outside Europe wants anything to do with us at all!
narf. forget it. i should read it better before i post. they took "two similar systems". you are right, it was interference from the readers at the frequencies they were using.
it doesn't matter if it is passive, active or battery assisted passive tags, ctirical medical devices should be protected against this sort of thing.
if you read the link you will see that they tested both passive and active tags and the passive tags scored a higher problem score.
the implication from the limited text is that they were using the same reader (although this is not confirmed) but the difference in tags did change the issue rate, so the tags do share part of the problem.
It is possible to read a passive implanted RFID tag from 100-200' under the right conditions with some new technology i have been looking at.
locating can be done by phased arrays placed appropriately - GPS is overkill and totally uneccessary.
time to start being paranoid...
i work almost exclusively in RFID tracking & technology and have been doing this stuff for years.
In the east they let you monitor employees during the day in the factories/facilites so they wear RFID tags and you can watch them just like the material that moves around the buildings.
know where the breakrooms and bathrooms are? then watch for the tags disappearing out that door and send them a page/text if they are not back withing 5 minutes! the unions would have a field day in the west!
it does work though - only the slackers have a problem with it and only if you have bad managemement would it be abused. so, yeah, you couldn't use it in the US.
more info...
i just opted out and it is a load of crap! Got to www.charter.com/onlineprivacy to opt out BUT all it does is place a cookie on the machine so you have to do it for all machines for all browsers for all OS - bunch of BS if you ask me.
if is it a per user/browser/os/machine configuration - what other information are they gathering and using to change the ads on the pages? and obviously they are querying this information on the machine before they modify and feed the page - this has got to impact load times!
According to the letter I got you can opt out. The FAQ is here http://connect.charter.com/landing/op1.html
It *seems* to be well dodgy nevertheless. I am still waiting for FiOS then i am gone...
i think one of the points that people are trying to make (however stupid or misguided or "mispoken" they may be) is that this game is not for kids - who do have problems with the difference between what is real or not.
most of the people here are mature(!) adults who really do enjoy the game (and games like this) and take it for what it is worth and keep the fun in the game but i know i would not want my 9 year old playing it or some of the kids at the school - some kids in particular!
i know my kid is pretty smart and we are involved with what they do, but the problem is, a lot of parents don't give a crap and leave it to others to raise them (school, daycare, state, church, whatever) and it is these people that just want to ban anything that they think will corrupt their kids - just because they are too damn lazy and stupid to try to raise their kids themselves.
this is why a good idea (MADD) was hijacked, and why on TV we can't see tits but every sunday we can listen to people talk about ghosts pulling giraffes out of thin air.
I installed 8.04 on Friday as a dual boot on my XP box and loved it. Was having a blast setting up my system, learning about the Ubuntu features (first time user), searching and installing new apps, downloading torrents and just loving the differences and speed.
So the ball and chain comes home and sees my new desktop and immediately wants to know what it is and why she can't have it on her notebook. I tell her she can but i want to make sure that she can still do all the stuff she needs to do for work on it. So she has to wait for a bit and my life is hell for a bit longer.
But i might try this approach and let her install a dual boot to see how it goes and how she likes it.