.xxx won't work, unless you can persuage every country with a TLD of their own to force their pornographers to move out of.co.uk,.co.jp, or whatever and into.xxx.
I don't want to sound uncaring, as I am sympathetic, but really - you posted articles to public servers for world-wide distribution, and didn't expect them to pop up from time to time in the future? What were you thinking?
I believe the point being made was that the First Ammendment prevents the government from restricting free speech and not private citizens or corporations, who are free to censor whoever and whatever they wish in whatever way that they can effect (providing, of course, that they don't break some other law in so doing).
That is, you're reading it as "only the government has a guaranteed right to free speech", while the meaning was "only the government has to abide by the public's right to free speech".
I don't think it's a cut-off date; I've not been able to moderate for years (and for quite a while I couldn't even meta-mod), and while I do remember seeing some kind of tag-like things a few weeks ago, they're not there now.
If it's got anything to do with account creation date, then it's not as simple as "too new and you don't get it"...
There's one potential flaw in that - card clearing companies generally charge a per transaction fee (they have to make money somehow, after all). I can't imagine too many shops being happy to use cards for all transactions, when a good number of those transactions may be at or below the charge rate (eg newspapers, sweets, etc)
I can well imagine a "only terrorists and criminals need to use cash" campaign, though.
How do I update it? Do I have to buy/obtain a new CD/DVD/EEPROM? Do I have to boot off the CD/DVD all the time (*slow*)? If it's on an EEPROM, how do novice users update it? How do I add (or remove) my own features?
apps in their own hardware lockable (switch or key) area
Ok, so to install an app you have to physically flick a switch. How does that prevent me from intentionally installing an app that turns out to be a trojan, and adds my PC to a spam botnet?
a separate noexe area for data files
I'm a programmer, most of my data files either are executable or are compiled into executables. Where do they go? Do I have to install them every time I make a change I want to test (complete with physical switch flipping above)?
Your scheme, while a good idea in theory, fails to account for two things:
1) it seriously inconveniences people who wish to develop software, and those who wish to update their OS 2) it provides nothing more than an extra second or two's thought when installing an app, and does not prevent malicious software from being installed.
It seems to me that you have to draw the line someplace.
Yes you do, but it seems to me that right now it's drawn far too far this side of anywhere that's useful for disabled people.
If somebody wants to put forth the effort then great but honestly why don't we concentrate on getting the documentation so that a reasonably intelligent non disabled person can use it first. Then we can worry about the blind.
You do realise that it most cases, getting documentation usable for a blind person will automatically make it usable for your "normal" person too, don't you?
But it is very unlikely, probably unfeasible for a Windows release to be spyware-free, even with (or despite having) Microsoft security tools being part of the OS.
There's nothing that Windows (or Linux, or OS X, *BSD, Solaris, etc) can do to prevent me from installing stuff if I have the admin (or root) password. All it can do is try to prevent things from installing without my say so; if I choose to install CometBonziCursorBuddy, it can't stop me.
As long as people write crap, other people will install crap. All we can hope to do is educate people to stop installing crap.
The XP firewall works fine for blocking incoming connections and server processes, all it really lacks is egress filtering.
Besides, I thought that the argument was that if something is bundled with/in Windows, no-one will bother to seek out an alternative? That's got to be the case, right, I mean, IE is still the most commonly-used browser...
2x? I upgraded my home PC a month ago, and bought 500GB worth of disks for about £120. Taking an exchange rate of approx 1.76 (from x-rates.com), that works out as a touch over $68, or $6.8 per 50GB.
I appreciate that any new technology starts out expensive then drops in price, but that's ridiculous.
Even foreign sites can be forced to comply by simply removing them from the top-level domains, and threatening to remove sites from top-level domains that host adult content.
That would certainly work for.com domains, but what of.co.uk,.co.jp, etc? If I recall correctly, (most of?) the various ccTLD root servers are hosted in their own countries. Assuming I do and they are, that would mean that the only way to remove the offending site would be to ask the host country nicely, or remove the entire ccTLD from the DNS system. I can't see that being stood for for very long.
No matter how hard you try, there will be some things that don't make it into.xxx that someone will complain about.
You mean like every single porn site (or similar) that uses a country-specific tld? Even assuming that the US could force foreign porn sites out of.com, they can't force them out of.co.uk or.it or whatever.
The Internet is a global medium, and no one country can control more than a small part of it, no matter how much they may wish otherwise.
If you have a closed system in thermal equilibrum and you wait long enough, you will get any possible configuration of energy despite the laws of thermodynamics.
No, not despite the laws of thermodynamics, because of them, because they're statistical in nature.
However, that's rather the point; the number of states that lead to a decrease of entropy is so infinitesimally small compared to the number of "normal" states that the chances are essentially zero.
When you go to Windows Update or Microsoft Update for the first time, Microsoft has a nice little picture explaining how to say "yes" to the warning dialogs that come up when it tries to install the update ActiveX control.
To be fair, they also explain how to check if the control is signed, who it's signed by, to consider whether or not you trust the publisher of the control, etc. It's a little more than just "If you get a prompt, just click yes!".
For me, there's one thing that keeps me away from iTunes and on WMP - WMP's toolbar mode. I love the way that I can minimise the interface to the taskbar, so I can still access the controls while doing something else.
The real killer features that iTunes brings, namely tight integration with iTMS and the iPod, are of little interest to me, as I don't *have* an iPod.
I suspect that were it ever to come to court, with someone trying to sue say Earthlink for copyright infringement because of their "unauthorised" redistribution of a usenet post via their NNTP servers, it would be thrown out on the grounds that the poster gave their implicit permission based on the fact that that's just how usenet works.
The law is not always clear, and does not always keep up with the changing world in which it is applied, but that's part of the reason we have courts.
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.xxx won't work, unless you can persuage every country with a TLD of their own to force their pornographers to move out of .co.uk, .co.jp, or whatever and into .xxx.
Yes, because a blurry, out of date photo is much more effective than just taking a walk/ride past it in person...
I don't want to sound uncaring, as I am sympathetic, but really - you posted articles to public servers for world-wide distribution, and didn't expect them to pop up from time to time in the future? What were you thinking?
I believe the point being made was that the First Ammendment prevents the government from restricting free speech and not private citizens or corporations, who are free to censor whoever and whatever they wish in whatever way that they can effect (providing, of course, that they don't break some other law in so doing).
That is, you're reading it as "only the government has a guaranteed right to free speech", while the meaning was "only the government has to abide by the public's right to free speech".
I don't think it's a cut-off date; I've not been able to moderate for years (and for quite a while I couldn't even meta-mod), and while I do remember seeing some kind of tag-like things a few weeks ago, they're not there now.
If it's got anything to do with account creation date, then it's not as simple as "too new and you don't get it"...
Exactly what I was thinking - "Never mind how much the headset cost, how much was this ad?"
There's one potential flaw in that - card clearing companies generally charge a per transaction fee (they have to make money somehow, after all). I can't imagine too many shops being happy to use cards for all transactions, when a good number of those transactions may be at or below the charge rate (eg newspapers, sweets, etc)
I can well imagine a "only terrorists and criminals need to use cash" campaign, though.
You have your core OS on RO media
How do I update it? Do I have to buy/obtain a new CD/DVD/EEPROM? Do I have to boot off the CD/DVD all the time (*slow*)? If it's on an EEPROM, how do novice users update it? How do I add (or remove) my own features?
apps in their own hardware lockable (switch or key) area
Ok, so to install an app you have to physically flick a switch. How does that prevent me from intentionally installing an app that turns out to be a trojan, and adds my PC to a spam botnet?
a separate noexe area for data files
I'm a programmer, most of my data files either are executable or are compiled into executables. Where do they go? Do I have to install them every time I make a change I want to test (complete with physical switch flipping above)?
Your scheme, while a good idea in theory, fails to account for two things:
1) it seriously inconveniences people who wish to develop software, and those who wish to update their OS
2) it provides nothing more than an extra second or two's thought when installing an app, and does not prevent malicious software from being installed.
It seems to me that you have to draw the line someplace.
Yes you do, but it seems to me that right now it's drawn far too far this side of anywhere that's useful for disabled people.
If somebody wants to put forth the effort then great but honestly why don't we concentrate on getting the documentation so that a reasonably intelligent non disabled person can use it first. Then we can worry about the blind.
You do realise that it most cases, getting documentation usable for a blind person will automatically make it usable for your "normal" person too, don't you?
Tell me something - if it's that bad, why did any country sign up to it?
Or could it be that it's not as bad as you're making it out to be, and actually is worthwhile?
But it is very unlikely, probably unfeasible for a Windows release to be spyware-free, even with (or despite having) Microsoft security tools being part of the OS.
There's nothing that Windows (or Linux, or OS X, *BSD, Solaris, etc) can do to prevent me from installing stuff if I have the admin (or root) password. All it can do is try to prevent things from installing without my say so; if I choose to install CometBonziCursorBuddy, it can't stop me.
As long as people write crap, other people will install crap. All we can hope to do is educate people to stop installing crap.
The XP firewall works fine for blocking incoming connections and server processes, all it really lacks is egress filtering.
Besides, I thought that the argument was that if something is bundled with/in Windows, no-one will bother to seek out an alternative? That's got to be the case, right, I mean, IE is still the most commonly-used browser...
My daughter is 6. If her grammar is that bad at 14, I'm going to be having some pretty strong words with her, and with her teachers...
Yeah, my bad - I divided when I should've multiplied. Guess I really hadn't had enough coffee after all...
Well, the DoJ isn't likely to send in armed police rather than take the matter to court...
2x? I upgraded my home PC a month ago, and bought 500GB worth of disks for about £120. Taking an exchange rate of approx 1.76 (from x-rates.com), that works out as a touch over $68, or $6.8 per 50GB.
I appreciate that any new technology starts out expensive then drops in price, but that's ridiculous.
Even foreign sites can be forced to comply by simply removing them from the top-level domains, and threatening to remove sites from top-level domains that host adult content.
.com domains, but what of .co.uk, .co.jp, etc? If I recall correctly, (most of?) the various ccTLD root servers are hosted in their own countries. Assuming I do and they are, that would mean that the only way to remove the offending site would be to ask the host country nicely, or remove the entire ccTLD from the DNS system. I can't see that being stood for for very long.
That would certainly work for
No matter how hard you try, there will be some things that don't make it into .xxx that someone will complain about.
.com, they can't force them out of .co.uk or .it or whatever.
You mean like every single porn site (or similar) that uses a country-specific tld? Even assuming that the US could force foreign porn sites out of
The Internet is a global medium, and no one country can control more than a small part of it, no matter how much they may wish otherwise.
If you have a closed system in thermal equilibrum and you wait long enough, you will get any possible configuration of energy despite the laws of thermodynamics.
No, not despite the laws of thermodynamics, because of them, because they're statistical in nature.
However, that's rather the point; the number of states that lead to a decrease of entropy is so infinitesimally small compared to the number of "normal" states that the chances are essentially zero.
Well, I'm not really up on this sort of thing, but could not France then take its case to the EU, and petition the EU to bring a similar case?
Pulling out of France might not be too painful, but pulling out of the EU altogether? They're bound to feel that...
When you go to Windows Update or Microsoft Update for the first time, Microsoft has a nice little picture explaining how to say "yes" to the warning dialogs that come up when it tries to install the update ActiveX control.
To be fair, they also explain how to check if the control is signed, who it's signed by, to consider whether or not you trust the publisher of the control, etc. It's a little more than just "If you get a prompt, just click yes!".
For me, there's one thing that keeps me away from iTunes and on WMP - WMP's toolbar mode. I love the way that I can minimise the interface to the taskbar, so I can still access the controls while doing something else.
The real killer features that iTunes brings, namely tight integration with iTMS and the iPod, are of little interest to me, as I don't *have* an iPod.
For example, when I watch video on my Mac, the screensaver doesn't kick in if I've not touched the keyboard and mouse.
Tools -> Options -> Uncheck "Allow screensaver during playback". Been there since at least WMP 8 if memory serves, which is when I started using it.
I suspect that were it ever to come to court, with someone trying to sue say Earthlink for copyright infringement because of their "unauthorised" redistribution of a usenet post via their NNTP servers, it would be thrown out on the grounds that the poster gave their implicit permission based on the fact that that's just how usenet works.
The law is not always clear, and does not always keep up with the changing world in which it is applied, but that's part of the reason we have courts.
And for those who don't know who that is
I'd just like to say how lucky you are.