At Linux Expo Milan last week there was the Linux-Mandrake CEO delivering a keynote speech, and in that he stated that Linux Mandrake is very close to profitability.
A few weeks ago it was reported here that Red Hat is very close too.
If that is correct, I don't think either is going belly-up any time soon.
I know you won't believe me, but I was trying to make a point.
The point was, IMO it's easy to lose sight of the high goals for something more tangible, especially if the latter will get the officier air-time and the former won't.
Given this, it's human to desire to do one's job well, and this means trying to acquire the best available tools and freedom to act to carry out that job. Unfortunately, in the case of police bodies, this means high survelliance, or as somebody calls it, a police state.
About the Amnesty International thing, it's just my anti-death penalty beliefs seeping in. THAT was offtopic, the rest of the message wasn't.
And no, I don't think that taking all the guns would solve the problem. But (sorry for the OT) I think that doing that would help solve other problems. But I'm no USA citizen, so it's not my place to tell those who are what to do and what not to do. I'm just happy that in old Europe access to firearms is restricted.
Because they're people trying to do the best of their job, just like any corporation's CEOs[1].
The problem is in their understanding of what their objectives are.
A simplicistic approach might be that a police force's job is arrest criminals. And if it stops at this, the more criminals they get, the more they're successful at their job.
The problem is that there should be more to being a police force: in the end the real job of a police force should be something like "ensure the public safety". But that's a very elusive goal, so it's easier to fall back to the simpler one (arrest as many criminals as possible [2]).
And to do this, they must stomp over the most elementary civil rights: if you (policeman) shoot in the crowd, you have some chances of hitting somebody you should, while all the innocent bystanders are "collateral damage" that doesn't appear in your curriculum, or on news outlets for that matter (think about the last time you heard a story about some innocent that has been arrested, or murdered [3]).[4]
[1] insert obligatory anti-corporations, anti-microsoft rant here
[2] after all, if everybody is in jail, there will be nobody out there that can endanger public safety
[3] somebody would use the word "executed" here. Those who do, please visit the Amnesty International website.
[4] of course I'm not suggesting that any policeman would shoot in the crowd just for the random chance to find a criminal. But I think that it can be agreed upon that the US government is undiscriminately screening children in schools, and this ruling implies that at least up to some point in time the police was undiscriminately using thermal imagin to spy in citizens' houses. This could lead to arresting people randomly.
RDRAM sucks lots when coupled with the P4 because it has high latency. Coupled with the very deep pipeline the P4 has, this means that a branch misprediction will cost LOTS. Rembmber that the P4 fares well in very predictable environments such as multimedia.
From this point of view, SDRAM could help improve the P4's figures, since it has lower latency, thus branch mispredictions and random RAM accesses will be less penalized.
I didn't write they should act differently:)
Microsoft Excel doesn't still have the Lotus 1-2-3 menu compatibility mode because it's fun to have it.
The point is, sometimes Microsoft _is_ making the de-facto standards for interfaces, as ugly as they may be. It's not criminal to follow them, it depends on what developers think to be most important: providing better functionality (gnus is the prime example) or better helping users cross over (evolution). I'm just saying that sometimes, somewhere, Microsoft is leading the pack, and it doesn't matter why it is so.
EU privacy directives state that no data should be sent to sites which do not comply to the EU's privacy policies[1]. So Amazon is illegal to use for anybody in the EU.
[1]Such policies state basically that every entity which has a database of personal informations must allow the persons registered there to view, modify and delete any information stored in such databases. Furthermore, prior to inserting any personal data in any database, the person whose data are being inserted is to be notified of the fact, and any use of the data has to be authorized (most italian sites for instance have a double checkbox which has to be checked, one allowing use of the data for the transaction the data is being isnerted for, and another for "extra" uses such as SPAM^H^H^H^Htargeted email advertising, etc. ALL uses have to be notified.)
I can make the example of the company where I work (no, I won't mention the name).
They buy mostly dual-proc machines since, given processor obsolescence, they will last longer: it's the same reason why I bought a dual-proc at my home, and after three years it's not yet ready to be dumped.
Back to the matter at hand. Those computers (most running NT) sit idle 95% of the time, because the limitations are not CPU power, but ADMINISTRATIVE (what belongs to whom), ADMINISTRATION-related, what kind of setup is needed, whether it's to be high-availability), assorted problems with the OS (load a host more than X and NT - or Win2k - will go BANG), and general reliability problems (if you listened to Microsoft's specification, you'd have one site hosted on each server, no more.
Still, the double CPU thing somewhat limits obsolescence, and so it persists.
Napster will be still able to download large amounts of audio files if this strategy is going where I've taken it. However, they will not be file you can play. You will have to use the Passport infrastructure to pay for these files to listen to them.
Integrating Hailstorm and.NET will allow Napster to still have file sharing, but adds complete authentication services that the RIAA likes (note that I did not say couldn't be broken. I'd be stupid to think anything is uncrackable), and adds
micropayments through Microsoft Billing Services.
I think there is a weak point in the whole scheme, and it's just here under our noses.
Everybody is treating Napster as if it were a big FTP server where everybody can download whatever she wants. But Napster, as any other P2P system, is nothing like that. It's mr. Joe Average who offers mrs. Jane Allthesame his hard drive's contents to share.
However, what is the incentive in sharing something that can't be used unless paid by the recipient (thus destroying the "community feeling")? Sharing has a cost, because it lowers mr. Joe Average's browsing capabilities. If what's shared can't be freely (as in beer) exchanged, (because it's encrypted and has to be paid extra for) there is very little reward for the "wasted" resources. Result: the sharing system would crumble for lack of offer.
This is not to say that the bleak scenario you're showing won't happen. Just that this piece (p2p networks) would not work under these conditions.
As I said, I had forgotten something (for the sake of semplicity mostly). My point was: TCP is not simple, and parallelizing it is not pointless, nor everybody does it. For instance AFAIK FreeBSD has one of the most efficient TCP/IP stacks around, but it is not completely deserialized, and thus doesn't scale as well as it could on MP systems.
About serializing: sure. Bot you can also tell that to the Java guys (in Java-ese, "serializing" means "transforming an object's internal status into a bytestream that can be transferred over the network to some peer where, given the object's class code and the serialized data, an identical instance of the object can be created").
The same way as the CygWin guys ported over BASH.
Win32 has a posix subsystem after all, and even if it requires help from an userlevel C library like cygwin32.dll, it can work just as any other POSIX (including Linux) OS.
Let's recap how a single packet is to be handled (and probably I forgot something):
you get the ethernet interrupt, you have to DMA the frame off the board, check to what protocols it belongs (if it's not IP, drop), checksum, check if you have to do any reassembly, check what protocol it is (it might not be TCP after all), check that the packet makes sense given the connection's history (i.e. sequence numbers and various other bits here and there), identify the process waiting for the packet, copy to userspace, signal process.
A multithreaded TCP/IP stack means that more than one packet can be in the pipeline at the same time. It makes no difference on an UP system really, but on Nproc it can multiply your throughput by N (at least theoretically), just as a multithreaded app could increase throughput on a multiproc system.
Of course, to be feasible, as many parts of the stack as possible must be reentrant, or you'll have to do locking and thus (in MS-ese) "serialize".
Or you could try Roxen.
It can be extended and scripted in many ways, INCLUDING servlets and JSP's. It has its own XML interpreter, can embed Perl, Pike (it's written in Pike, there have been articles on Pike here on/., look at the history), which is also OO. Roxen allows to define new XML tags in C, Pike, and XML, runs in a single process (with helper threads created as necessary and pooled for efficiency), has an extensive runtime library.
PLUS it has bandwidth management capabilites (very fine-tuneable and extendable), can do on-the-fly graphics generation and blah blah blah.
There's a (commercial) package for it that does extensive template-ization and presentation/application separation and kicks ass as a web content management solution.
There's no need of a third party to undermine the respect in the news-feeds. They do an awesome job themselves.
Most of the traditional news sources are biased, be it towards the interests of an owner (most often than not a corporation) or a political party. And they are covert about this, as if this were a secret.
Comedy-type news outlets may be biased, but at least they don't make a secret out of it. People know the bias and adjust the news according to the explicit goal.
The mechanisms traditional news outlets and comedy-type news broadcasts use to convey a meaning are very different. While the former convey facts and influence the public (or at least try to) by only showing part of the facts, comedy-type news rely on outrage: they show the news in a way that causes at the same time humor and anger at the facts being shown. Or, maybe better put, they use comedy to show outrageous things.
In Italy there are three news programs that usually make a difference: and of those, two are satyric. "Striscia la notizia" is daily, and has the usual complement of nice girls and leit-motifs, and it's been one of the most popular TV shows in the last 10 years. Often their actions have had a significant political impact. "Le iene" is weekly, and for instance in the past weeks they did a campaign against a Vatican radio station which doesn't respect the italian regulations on EMF emissions (the Vatican is extra-territorial, and so is their radio station. BUT the antennas are close to houses, and it seems that there has been an awful lot of cancer cases in those places in the past years). Guess what? It did make a difference, and it almost caused a diplomatic accident.
The third one is called "Reporter" and uses no comedy. But it shows hard facts, the kind that hurts.
Here in Milan, Italy, we're getting something similar. It's only 10 Mbps actually, and it costs about 50 Euro/month, and it includes phone (VoIP, including free calls to other subscribers and a few hours of "bonus" calls/month) and Pay Per View (available, but not yet used).
They're laying the cables down near my place right now. I can't wait...
"
Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 download
Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 continues to be offered as a free, unsupported release for development as well as deployment. Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 is available from the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 download web page.
"
Sure, it's not very recent (latest version is 12.0, but there's a 12.5 beta available for testing), but as I said, it's free as in beer.
That there's another database out there, which is free (as in beer) for both development and deployment on Linux, and it's named Sybase.
I've heard that MS-SQLserver is a rip-off of Sybase, but I can't of course confirm this. They are so similar though, that you can use Sybase's client libraries (which are somewhat a brain-fart IMO, but they work somehow) to access MS-SQLserver's data...
Sybase is somewhat a big monolith if compared to the baredness and nimbleness of MySQL. But it will do the job nicely, I'm sure..
Mine wasn't really just a (sad) joke. I remember there has been a couple of years ago some debate whether some fairy tales were well-suited for children, or whether they should be banned in children schools.
You can see the same old tale being told endless times here and in other places: banning something is oh so much easier than trying to understand it. It is easier to forbid kids to watch anime or some other show (or cause a ruckus so that TV networks don't air them anymore) than talk to the kids and discuss with them what they have said, where the heroes erred and where they didn't and so forth.
Think about Road Runner. Wile E. Coyote is victim of explosions, is trampled by rolling boulders, ran over by cars, and walks away from that. He tries to fly by means of caped costumes, and that plot fails because he catches fire not because flying with a caped costume is not that simple.
Think about Porky in the Bugs Bunny cartoons, when he goes around hunting and more often than not ends victim of his carabine and the worst he gets is a blackened face.
It is sure caricaturized violence, but still, if we admit that kids are so easily impressed (and I believe that they are not as much as we "grown-ups" think they are), then I find it just as likely for a kid to grow violent from watching Anime as it is for that same kid to try and fly wearing a cape, or he could be conned into a feeling of invulnerability from - say - guns ("I'll just get a blackened face"), or falls from high places, or just about anything else you see in those funny cartoons.
About being exposed to violence: think about the structure of most popular fairy tales. You'll find that there is plenty of violence and cruelty in those. Are we to conclude that fairy tales could transform kids in violent monsters?
In other words, there would be oh so much more to think and discuss about the matter than 99.99% of all journalists did, do or will ever think of doing. Also, in the end, the sanest thing coming to mind is that parents should really spend more time with their children, and talk to them.
"South Park - bigger longer and uncut" is (unsurprisingly) a very well-thought story about exactly these sort of things.
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You would love some of the scriptlets mentioned in this article over at Roxen Community.
They work fine at least with Netscape 4.X.
At Linux Expo Milan last week there was the Linux-Mandrake CEO delivering a keynote speech, and in that he stated that Linux Mandrake is very close to profitability.
A few weeks ago it was reported here that Red Hat is very close too.
If that is correct, I don't think either is going belly-up any time soon.
I know you won't believe me, but I was trying to make a point.
The point was, IMO it's easy to lose sight of the high goals for something more tangible, especially if the latter will get the officier air-time and the former won't.
Given this, it's human to desire to do one's job well, and this means trying to acquire the best available tools and freedom to act to carry out that job. Unfortunately, in the case of police bodies, this means high survelliance, or as somebody calls it, a police state.
About the Amnesty International thing, it's just my anti-death penalty beliefs seeping in. THAT was offtopic, the rest of the message wasn't.
And no, I don't think that taking all the guns would solve the problem. But (sorry for the OT) I think that doing that would help solve other problems. But I'm no USA citizen, so it's not my place to tell those who are what to do and what not to do. I'm just happy that in old Europe access to firearms is restricted.
Because they're people trying to do the best of their job, just like any corporation's CEOs[1].
The problem is in their understanding of what their objectives are.
A simplicistic approach might be that a police force's job is arrest criminals. And if it stops at this, the more criminals they get, the more they're successful at their job.
The problem is that there should be more to being a police force: in the end the real job of a police force should be something like "ensure the public safety". But that's a very elusive goal, so it's easier to fall back to the simpler one (arrest as many criminals as possible [2]).
And to do this, they must stomp over the most elementary civil rights: if you (policeman) shoot in the crowd, you have some chances of hitting somebody you should, while all the innocent bystanders are "collateral damage" that doesn't appear in your curriculum, or on news outlets for that matter (think about the last time you heard a story about some innocent that has been arrested, or murdered [3]).[4]
[1] insert obligatory anti-corporations, anti-microsoft rant here
[2] after all, if everybody is in jail, there will be nobody out there that can endanger public safety
[3] somebody would use the word "executed" here. Those who do, please visit the Amnesty International website.
[4] of course I'm not suggesting that any policeman would shoot in the crowd just for the random chance to find a criminal. But I think that it can be agreed upon that the US government is undiscriminately screening children in schools, and this ruling implies that at least up to some point in time the police was undiscriminately using thermal imagin to spy in citizens' houses. This could lead to arresting people randomly.
RDRAM sucks lots when coupled with the P4 because it has high latency. Coupled with the very deep pipeline the P4 has, this means that a branch misprediction will cost LOTS. Rembmber that the P4 fares well in very predictable environments such as multimedia.
From this point of view, SDRAM could help improve the P4's figures, since it has lower latency, thus branch mispredictions and random RAM accesses will be less penalized.
I'll wait and see.
I didn't write they should act differently :)
Microsoft Excel doesn't still have the Lotus 1-2-3 menu compatibility mode because it's fun to have it.
The point is, sometimes Microsoft _is_ making the de-facto standards for interfaces, as ugly as they may be. It's not criminal to follow them, it depends on what developers think to be most important: providing better functionality (gnus is the prime example) or better helping users cross over (evolution). I'm just saying that sometimes, somewhere, Microsoft is leading the pack, and it doesn't matter why it is so.
Tell this to the Gnome's Evolution designers: its interface is a blatant rip-off of Microsoft Outlook.
Not that there's anything bad in that, except the fact that Outlook's interface is as bad as an interface can be. No, make it worse.
Interesting...
EU privacy directives state that no data should be sent to sites which do not comply to the EU's privacy policies[1]. So Amazon is illegal to use for anybody in the EU.
[1]Such policies state basically that every entity which has a database of personal informations must allow the persons registered there to view, modify and delete any information stored in such databases. Furthermore, prior to inserting any personal data in any database, the person whose data are being inserted is to be notified of the fact, and any use of the data has to be authorized (most italian sites for instance have a double checkbox which has to be checked, one allowing use of the data for the transaction the data is being isnerted for, and another for "extra" uses such as SPAM^H^H^H^Htargeted email advertising, etc. ALL uses have to be notified.)
> However, if you'd like to use the GPL'd code in a program of your own
Wrong. You can do that, as long as you don't distribute the resulting software to anybody, unless also your code is under the GPL.
The GPL is not about use, it's about distribution.
I can make the example of the company where I work (no, I won't mention the name).
They buy mostly dual-proc machines since, given processor obsolescence, they will last longer: it's the same reason why I bought a dual-proc at my home, and after three years it's not yet ready to be dumped.
Back to the matter at hand. Those computers (most running NT) sit idle 95% of the time, because the limitations are not CPU power, but ADMINISTRATIVE (what belongs to whom), ADMINISTRATION-related, what kind of setup is needed, whether it's to be high-availability), assorted problems with the OS (load a host more than X and NT - or Win2k - will go BANG), and general reliability problems (if you listened to Microsoft's specification, you'd have one site hosted on each server, no more.
Still, the double CPU thing somewhat limits obsolescence, and so it persists.
And who would get the money paid by the highest bidder? .com namespace).
Department of Commerce, I believe (since they're the ones who regulate the
But I also believe that Europeans and Japanese (and just about everybody else in the world) would not like that much.
Sure, it could go in funding for standards-promoting agencies such as IETF and W3C, but I fear that it would just be wistful thinking...
This would most definitely kill Stallman's favourite motto:
"Free as in Freedom, not as in Free Beer. No, not that Free Beer, the other Free Beer, the one wher you don't pay"
Or the other way around, imagine the Free Food Foundation guys:
"Free as in Free Software, not as in Free Beer".
Napster will be still able to download large amounts of audio files if this strategy is going where I've taken it. However, they will not be file you can play. You will have to use the Passport infrastructure to pay for these files to listen to them.
Integrating Hailstorm and
micropayments through Microsoft Billing Services.
I think there is a weak point in the whole scheme, and it's just here under our noses.
Everybody is treating Napster as if it were a big FTP server where everybody can download whatever she wants. But Napster, as any other P2P system, is nothing like that. It's mr. Joe Average who offers mrs. Jane Allthesame his hard drive's contents to share.
However, what is the incentive in sharing something that can't be used unless paid by the recipient (thus destroying the "community feeling")? Sharing has a cost, because it lowers mr. Joe Average's browsing capabilities. If what's shared can't be freely (as in beer) exchanged, (because it's encrypted and has to be paid extra for) there is very little reward for the "wasted" resources. Result: the sharing system would crumble for lack of offer.
This is not to say that the bleak scenario you're showing won't happen. Just that this piece (p2p networks) would not work under these conditions.
As I said, I had forgotten something (for the sake of semplicity mostly). My point was: TCP is not simple, and parallelizing it is not pointless, nor everybody does it. For instance AFAIK FreeBSD has one of the most efficient TCP/IP stacks around, but it is not completely deserialized, and thus doesn't scale as well as it could on MP systems.
About serializing: sure. Bot you can also tell that to the Java guys (in Java-ese, "serializing" means "transforming an object's internal status into a bytestream that can be transferred over the network to some peer where, given the object's class code and the serialized data, an identical instance of the object can be created").
The same way as the CygWin guys ported over BASH.
Win32 has a posix subsystem after all, and even if it requires help from an userlevel C library like cygwin32.dll, it can work just as any other POSIX (including Linux) OS.
Let's recap how a single packet is to be handled (and probably I forgot something):
you get the ethernet interrupt, you have to DMA the frame off the board, check to what protocols it belongs (if it's not IP, drop), checksum, check if you have to do any reassembly, check what protocol it is (it might not be TCP after all), check that the packet makes sense given the connection's history (i.e. sequence numbers and various other bits here and there), identify the process waiting for the packet, copy to userspace, signal process.
A multithreaded TCP/IP stack means that more than one packet can be in the pipeline at the same time. It makes no difference on an UP system really, but on Nproc it can multiply your throughput by N (at least theoretically), just as a multithreaded app could increase throughput on a multiproc system.
Of course, to be feasible, as many parts of the stack as possible must be reentrant, or you'll have to do locking and thus (in MS-ese) "serialize".
Or you could try Roxen. /., look at the history), which is also OO. Roxen allows to define new XML tags in C, Pike, and XML, runs in a single process (with helper threads created as necessary and pooled for efficiency), has an extensive runtime library.
It can be extended and scripted in many ways, INCLUDING servlets and JSP's. It has its own XML interpreter, can embed Perl, Pike (it's written in Pike, there have been articles on Pike here on
PLUS it has bandwidth management capabilites (very fine-tuneable and extendable), can do on-the-fly graphics generation and blah blah blah.
There's a (commercial) package for it that does extensive template-ization and presentation/application separation and kicks ass as a web content management solution.
Just try it, it's only a download/compile away.
With Office 2k and a careful installation, you can just avoid to install the sucker [1] at all.
[1] Oh. Did I write that? What I meant was... Sugar! Yeah, right. Sugar.
There's no need of a third party to undermine the respect in the news-feeds. They do an awesome job themselves.
Most of the traditional news sources are biased, be it towards the interests of an owner (most often than not a corporation) or a political party. And they are covert about this, as if this were a secret.
Comedy-type news outlets may be biased, but at least they don't make a secret out of it. People know the bias and adjust the news according to the explicit goal.
The mechanisms traditional news outlets and comedy-type news broadcasts use to convey a meaning are very different. While the former convey facts and influence the public (or at least try to) by only showing part of the facts, comedy-type news rely on outrage: they show the news in a way that causes at the same time humor and anger at the facts being shown. Or, maybe better put, they use comedy to show outrageous things.
In Italy there are three news programs that usually make a difference: and of those, two are satyric. "Striscia la notizia" is daily, and has the usual complement of nice girls and leit-motifs, and it's been one of the most popular TV shows in the last 10 years. Often their actions have had a significant political impact. "Le iene" is weekly, and for instance in the past weeks they did a campaign against a Vatican radio station which doesn't respect the italian regulations on EMF emissions (the Vatican is extra-territorial, and so is their radio station. BUT the antennas are close to houses, and it seems that there has been an awful lot of cancer cases in those places in the past years). Guess what? It did make a difference, and it almost caused a diplomatic accident.
The third one is called "Reporter" and uses no comedy. But it shows hard facts, the kind that hurts.
Here in Milan, Italy, we're getting something similar. It's only 10 Mbps actually, and it costs about 50 Euro/month, and it includes phone (VoIP, including free calls to other subscribers and a few hours of "bonus" calls/month) and Pay Per View (available, but not yet used).
They're laying the cables down near my place right now. I can't wait...
BIND supports the DNS "SRV" extension and Dynamic DNS, has done so for quite some time.
For sure BIND 9, probably also recent versions of BIND 8.
From this page on Sybase.com:
"
Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 download
Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 continues to be offered as a free, unsupported release for development as well as deployment. Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 is available from the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux version 11.0.3.3 download web page.
"
Sure, it's not very recent (latest version is 12.0, but there's a 12.5 beta available for testing), but as I said, it's free as in beer.
About ODBC support, sorry but I have no idea.
That there's another database out there, which is free (as in beer) for both development and deployment on Linux, and it's named Sybase.
I've heard that MS-SQLserver is a rip-off of Sybase, but I can't of course confirm this. They are so similar though, that you can use Sybase's client libraries (which are somewhat a brain-fart IMO, but they work somehow) to access MS-SQLserver's data...
Sybase is somewhat a big monolith if compared to the baredness and nimbleness of MySQL. But it will do the job nicely, I'm sure..
Mine wasn't really just a (sad) joke. I remember there has been a couple of years ago some debate whether some fairy tales were well-suited for children, or whether they should be banned in children schools.
You can see the same old tale being told endless times here and in other places: banning something is oh so much easier than trying to understand it. It is easier to forbid kids to watch anime or some other show (or cause a ruckus so that TV networks don't air them anymore) than talk to the kids and discuss with them what they have said, where the heroes erred and where they didn't and so forth.
Think about Road Runner. Wile E. Coyote is victim of explosions, is trampled by rolling boulders, ran over by cars, and walks away from that. He tries to fly by means of caped costumes, and that plot fails because he catches fire not because flying with a caped costume is not that simple.
Think about Porky in the Bugs Bunny cartoons, when he goes around hunting and more often than not ends victim of his carabine and the worst he gets is a blackened face.
It is sure caricaturized violence, but still, if we admit that kids are so easily impressed (and I believe that they are not as much as we "grown-ups" think they are), then I find it just as likely for a kid to grow violent from watching Anime as it is for that same kid to try and fly wearing a cape, or he could be conned into a feeling of invulnerability from - say - guns ("I'll just get a blackened face"), or falls from high places, or just about anything else you see in those funny cartoons.
About being exposed to violence: think about the structure of most popular fairy tales. You'll find that there is plenty of violence and cruelty in those. Are we to conclude that fairy tales could transform kids in violent monsters?
In other words, there would be oh so much more to think and discuss about the matter than 99.99% of all journalists did, do or will ever think of doing. Also, in the end, the sanest thing coming to mind is that parents should really spend more time with their children, and talk to them.
"South Park - bigger longer and uncut" is (unsurprisingly) a very well-thought story about exactly these sort of things.