So, what's the point of having those ratings in the first place?
Aside from letting people know if a game is gruesome or not, there's no real repercussions of young kids getting a hold of 'mature' games.
Maybe Google needs to make the transition from 'new, up and coming' company to the 'larger, professional' company that it now is. (Or how many experienced workers / investors expect it to be.)
Then again I've never been in the main workforce myself, I need to graduate for that to happen.
I think in general, people that use Firefox are a bit more in touch with what goes on in the computer world, making them aware when an upgrade like this happens.
My non-computer-people friends usually don't know the difference between Firefox and IE...
Just about all of the stuff that I do online wouldn't really fall under the realm of obscene. Slashdot, Google, Wikipedia, other nerdy websites are relatively clean. Even most game sites should be fine.
I guess a lot of it depends how strict the filter becomes, and if that filter is too tight for me.
The internet ate my post. The first one was better. Here's a short version:
With all the poorly protected organizations out there, why do we hardly ever hear about this kind of thing?
Does the public not notice the damage caused? Or are there not many attacks in the first place?
Or is the damaged caused never reported?
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I'd much rather have artificial eye-implants. Kind of like Geordi LaForge.
At first I thought it said XiP Filesystem Pimps For Linux 2.6.28...
So, what's the point of having those ratings in the first place? Aside from letting people know if a game is gruesome or not, there's no real repercussions of young kids getting a hold of 'mature' games.
Maybe Google needs to make the transition from 'new, up and coming' company to the 'larger, professional' company that it now is. (Or how many experienced workers / investors expect it to be.) Then again I've never been in the main workforce myself, I need to graduate for that to happen.
I think in general, people that use Firefox are a bit more in touch with what goes on in the computer world, making them aware when an upgrade like this happens. My non-computer-people friends usually don't know the difference between Firefox and IE...
Just about all of the stuff that I do online wouldn't really fall under the realm of obscene. Slashdot, Google, Wikipedia, other nerdy websites are relatively clean. Even most game sites should be fine. I guess a lot of it depends how strict the filter becomes, and if that filter is too tight for me.
The internet ate my post. The first one was better. Here's a short version: With all the poorly protected organizations out there, why do we hardly ever hear about this kind of thing? Does the public not notice the damage caused? Or are there not many attacks in the first place? Or is the damaged caused never reported?
I'd have to agree with some of the other posts. I think it's more of a copyright issue.