All online sites are supported by ads, etc. If they did not gain any revenue from having webpages, they wouldn't go to the bother of having them. Notice that I do not propose that no one should be able to go to sites like Playboy; only that I don't approve of them. I don't agree with censorship in that matter; however, do I not have the right to believe that such sites are damaging to all involved? Pornography can only create one image of women for its viewers - that women are sexual objects only to be looked at or played with. Studies have linked pornography habits with such crimes as stalking, domestic violence, and rape. I cannot support a cause of these tragedies of society, even if it is only in giving them one more hit on their web page. -Qirien -- Qirien, Academy of Defenestration
I refuse to support a magazine that demeans women (and men) in such a way, even if they may have an informative computer article. It's not worth it. -- Qirien, Academy of Defenestration
Maybe I'm just a female who could care less about playboy . . . but this article seems rather incongruous when compared to the rest of the informative articles here at slashdot. -Qirien -- Qirien, Academy of Defenestration
My university already has a policy similar to this one. No members of the opposite sex in dorm rooms except during visiting hours, proxy enforced, etc.
You know what? We still have fun. There are still fun parties, people get an education, fall in love and get married, etc.
If you need alcohol/sex/porn to be happy, then you have some serious problems. Life is too short to waste on momentary pleasures. (and no, I'm not just some "chick" who can't "get some")
That said, I still must agree with the majority of slashdot readers in that such regulation is NOT under the jurisdiction of the government. While I think that our nation could use a stronger moral background, rules and regulations from the government are not the answer.
The section on restricting internet use to purely educational material is ridiculous. Not only could any material be construed as educational, but there is more to an education than simple calculus, physics, and literature.
"Optimization" such as using shifts and manual assembly editing is certainly not worth a patent. Should his algorithm use merely these techniques, there would be no way to even consider a patent. Obviously the algorithm is not very obvious or something that your average programmer would come up with, since no one has yet. (unlike Amazon.com's patenting of the so-called "one-click" process . . . ridiculous)
I wonder, if the creators of quicksort or Radix sort had applied for a patent, would it have been granted? -Qirien
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All online sites are supported by ads, etc. If they did not gain any revenue from having webpages, they wouldn't go to the bother of having them. Notice that I do not propose that no one should be able to go to sites like Playboy; only that I don't approve of them. I don't agree with censorship in that matter; however, do I not have the right to believe that such sites are damaging to all involved? Pornography can only create one image of women for its viewers - that women are sexual objects only to be looked at or played with. Studies have linked pornography habits with such crimes as stalking, domestic violence, and rape. I cannot support a cause of these tragedies of society, even if it is only in giving them one more hit on their web page. -Qirien
-- Qirien, Academy of Defenestration
I refuse to support a magazine that demeans women (and men) in such a way, even if they may have an informative computer article. It's not worth it.
-- Qirien, Academy of Defenestration
Maybe I'm just a female who could care less about playboy . . . but this article seems rather incongruous when compared to the rest of the informative articles here at slashdot. -Qirien
-- Qirien, Academy of Defenestration
You know what? We still have fun. There are still fun parties, people get an education, fall in love and get married, etc.
If you need alcohol/sex/porn to be happy, then you have some serious problems. Life is too short to waste on momentary pleasures. (and no, I'm not just some "chick" who can't "get some")
That said, I still must agree with the majority of slashdot readers in that such regulation is NOT under the jurisdiction of the government. While I think that our nation could use a stronger moral background, rules and regulations from the government are not the answer.
The section on restricting internet use to purely educational material is ridiculous. Not only could any material be construed as educational, but there is more to an education than simple calculus, physics, and literature.
-Qirien
I wonder, if the creators of quicksort or Radix sort had applied for a patent, would it have been granted?
-Qirien