Thank you for your lovely replies. It's been really nice to engage with somebody who is interested in other points of view. *Really* listening to stuff you disagree with is one of the most difficult skills to master, I think. It's not something I'm as good at as I'd like to be but you seem to have the knack!
I'm sure your daughter will continue to learn fast, especially if she's as open minded as you. 14 is a fairly long time ago for me and there were a lot of changes to get used to all at once - not an easy age to be. It took me a lot longer than that to really start looking hard at the world and trying to think through my viewpoints; it's still something I'm working on doing really properly!
It's fun being a geek:-) Take care, maybe I will see you posting here again some time.
Dear LemmingMark,
I have added you as friend. I do make some radicle posts, but it is good to be a non-conformist, I do feel there is some mileage for teenagers to go through nowaday's as they are a digitalised generation and have no concept of real human interaction.
Maybe this is a post for another day. In the meantime keep up the good work.
Please explain how manual coordinates are more reliable than GPS and/or laser. I fully appreciate that value of being able to do it manually just in case, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about here.
Manual co-ordinates is done by triangulation. This is why ordnance survey maps are the best in the World. http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite and they supply Military "relief maps" not available to the public. I could call in a map reference grid and a target can be hit to within a maximum of Three Feet over a distance of 900 miles.
This is why one's mathematical skills are are paramount in the Navy and Airforce and you cannot rely on automatic systems to just do the job.
Laser's and GPS have underlying problems are not accurate enough. There were some CIA agents on the ground that tried to kill Saddam in OP Telic, but got the co-ordinates completely wrong and missed by nearly 800 metres.
I cannot really say much more MrResistor, but I hope that gives you a small insight. It is akin to shooting a robber but you shoot the wrong person instead.
American cops do it all the time! *giggle*
Damages for patching systems is as corrupt as bankers bonuses in the USA or the damage to inncocent citizens when Enron went bust. This guy just wanted to find out the truth. He should be left alone and the sooner America understands that dictating to other Countries whereby they have no juradisction, the terrorism threat will reduce immensely.
War is Gods way of teaching American's Geogphraphy.
I love you camperdave. Are you sure you are not Ray Mears in disguise?
If I am, I can't find the zipper to the costume I see when I look in the mirror.
That is so funny, but what about the one who farts instead camperdave when on recon? You could always launch him/her as a gas powered missile in a kevlar sleeping bag. Surface to air missile which brings a new meaning to firing a Stinger. Ouch!
I know many Redhat devs that also work for M$. It does not make redhat any more appealing than windows nor is Gentoo more appealing as they steal code from BSD ports. Ubuntu is a debian clone also.
Maybe I am disillusioned, but as I understand, graduating to BSD from Linux is the only way to go. IMHO the only honest Linux distro's left are Debian and Slackware, but your average person on the street is not that intelligent anymore.
Not sure if you're trolling, but sounds like you've gotten the idea of FOSS somewhat wrong. There's no "stealng code" in FOSS world. The code is free, it can't be stolen. Free code is meant to be used and modified by others. Various derived distributions are not only honest to FOSS ideals, they crystallize what FOSS is all about:
take it if it's great,
improve it if it's not quite good or suitable enough,
roll your own if it's bad.
If code is freely available it can be used. Call me a troll if you like, but if you even care to look up the definition of troll here http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/troll you will realise your definition of Troll and mine are completely different.
You are probably American and have a sense of humour bypass. that would be humor to you as your English is broken.
Military use of cursive tends to be in signatures, not text that actually conveys content.
For example, USAF aircraft forms use manual block printing to document maintenance, not cursive. The advantage of manual paper forms is portability and ease of use. Adding cursive would be damaging to the maintenance documentation process which is vital to aircraft safety. The content is later used to type data into a computer which is the most efficient way to share and track maintenance info. Use of cursive would be flagged as a discrepancy during a forms review.
Cursive is pretty when done well, otherwise it's illegible crap. Be glad the (Yank, I can't speak for the RAF) aircraft you call in don't have their maintenance and weapons load documented that way, because some poor airman reading it at night in the rain has enough to deal with.
Military systems are a mix of automation and manual controls. Using them as an example of "doing things manually" isn't the best choice. Human cross-checking before permitting action/= manually putting a bomb on target, especially a bomb delivered by aircraft that cannot even fly (A-10 in manual reversion excepted) without flight control computers.:)
You are quite on the mark couchslug. But in your own words "Some poor airman reading it at night in the rain has enough to deal with".
Actually in the RAF, these pilots do not make the grade, nor are used. For combat ops. They are a very special bunch of people. To Whom I owe my life too.
You have struck a chord and I feel slightly emotional about this as my NCO. Told me of incredible bravery and was given a D.S.O in the Faulkland's War.
He called over AWACS and a pilot responded and despite almost out of fuel, slapped on the after burners in a Tornado with it's wings clipped in. Flew 274 miles in bad weather and slammed the Argentinians' with a few "Sea Wolf" Missiles after which we took back Port Stanley and this pilot flew back to HMS illustrious with no fuel.
These acts of bravery make Special Operations work.
Pilots (in the UK at least) still use them (technically they just have to be able to use them), albeit the circular variety.
This is why we call in air strikes with manual co-ordinates and when on HMS Ocean, we get things right. If you think for a moment you can point an click and hope shit sticks you are highly mistaken.
That is why Americans are renouned for "friendly fire".
Nothing is friendly about it so shut your festering slit.
I know many Redhat devs that also work for M$. It does not make redhat any more appealing than windows nor is Gentoo more appealing as they steal code from BSD ports. Ubuntu is a debian clone also.
Maybe I am disillusioned, but as I understand, graduating to BSD from Linux is the only way to go. IMHO the only honest Linux distro's left are Debian and Slackware, but your average person on the street is not that intelligent anymore.
Not sure if you're trolling, but sounds like you've gotten the idea of FOSS somewhat wrong. There's no "stealng code" in FOSS world. The code is free, it can't be stolen. Free code is meant to be used and modified by others. Various derived distributions are not only honest to FOSS ideals, they crystallize what FOSS is all about:
take it if it's great,
improve it if it's not quite good or suitable enough,
roll your own if it's bad.
You have just contradicted yourself without changing your mind. Here is the example There's no "stealng code" in FOSS world. The code is free, it can't be stolen.
If code is free, it is open to being used. You can vote me as a troll Mr, nonetheless you will never escape the truth.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to reply earlier as I was traveling over the weekend. I'm going to have be brief right now as it's been a long day and have only just got back into town.
Thank you for your pleasant and reasonable reply. There's a lot of emotion around these topics and it's often difficult or impossible to find people who are willing to really *talk* about the issues involved.
I wouldn't necessarily say, despite my belief in my own nature, that I am exactly immune to images of violence. It's something I remain wary of and if I thought it was affecting me negatively then I would probably have to quit. So far I've been happy to observe that my reactions to real life violence have not been reduced, despite my acceptance of video game violence. I am in agreement with you that others may be more easily influence. Despite my opposition to banning most imagery, I'm certainly in favour of careful regulation of it, within certain boundaries. I do approve of the age regulation schemes used for movies and games. I think that games (and movies) showing particularly graphic violence ought to be restricted to legal adults. It's also worth the government and industry making sure to educate parents about computer games, since I'm sure some don't realise that they are not all suitable for minors. I don't believe in over-protecting children but I think it's pretty important not to expose them to inappropriate material at a critical time in their moral and intellectual development.
By around the age of 18 (give or take - there's certainly room for argument on the specific age) I consider that core moral development of a person has mostly occurred, so it reduces the chance of their perceptions being warped or their blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Also, once you're a legal adult you are able to indulge in a wide variety of media and behaviour - a freedom we grant to adults since we believe they are able to make informed choices and take responsibility for real-world actions. My - uninformed by science or psychology, so this is *mere idle gossip* from a public policy point of view - belief is that those who are unhealthily interested in violence are liable to look for outlets in whatever is available. If video games were not available, there would be other ways to indulge this - movies, books, art even. Moreover there are extremely violent and *real* images that we actually wish to permit access to, for instance through normal television news, so that would always be available. So we can never completely deny access to this imagery to those who thirst for or would be warped by violence.
Actually, though, to a certain extent I've come round to agreeing with your original support of the ban in this instance. Why? Assuming other comments here are correct (yes, yes, it's Slashdot, I must be new here, etc!) it would appear to be the case that the Aussie classifiers don't have the option of rating the game for 18+ only. They can do that for films, it seems, but not for games. The first Left 4 Dead game was available at an 18 rating here in the UK. The sequel discussed here looks significantly more violent - violent enough for me to find it disturbing, despite having enjoyed the original. Although I wouldn't approve of preventing sale of the game to legal adults I definitely wouldn't want to see it sold to ages 15+, which appears to be the only other option they could realistically have taken. My favourite solution would really be for the game not to be banned but for the 18+ classification to be available to the classification board so that games - like movies - can be restricted to adults-only where appropriate.
Dear LemmingMark,, You have been dreadfully positive in your response and I wish my 14 year old daughter had the same views as you. She is quite incredible though and is learning fast.
I just wish she has your comprehension of life. She is getting there. Having been in Special Ops support, you Perfect totally "fit the criteria". Perfect vision is the way to unlock life and be a geek.
You have to love http://www.icecast.org/ and I am Sir Audiophile E-MU 0404 geek. I know more about open source radio than the poster. I also own http://www.fluxradio.org/ The Linux word is for brave people. You can advance and go commando BSD!
It will take a very intelligent individual even to get to grips but in the words of Brenda Russell. "I cry just a little, caught up in the middle, when he plays piano in the dark".
I suppose music is music is power. Music and lyrics makes one elite 31337.
Having lived through poverty and desperation, Literacy skills are based upon your ability, mentally to accept certain things.
If you fail you fail, I cannot stress this enough, however some people will look at this post who have never picked up a dictionary.
My ex-wife graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Language & Literature. I have a better IQ than her, but my IQ is exceptionally better than her's hence ex-wife.
She was a very challenging individual and good in bed, but I was better. I have spoken to her since our split a number of years ago and she wants to initiate a relationship again as she is unhappy.
I tell you what, I am happy on my own without her baggage.
I have an O.B.E and earned it honestly. I might get a K.C.B eventually, but it is not high up on my agenda. Prince Charles gave it to me and I was really pleased to meet Philip Mountbatten as well at Buckingham Palace.
Becoming a Knight is like a Jedi. You have to understand wisdom and excel where others cannot. You have to stand up and be counted, you need to keep integrity alive, you need to love people, but most of all you need to believe in yourself and the fact you can have a positive impact on other people's lives.
Being unselfish is how I earned my O.B.E.
You do realise that google has to comply with terror-laws don't you? gmail has been used for years. Inteliigence suggests students are most likely to be the ones who will be recruited for terrorism or do school shootings or become a suicide bomber.
No it was me that had an "ask slashdot" article published regarding "is typing ruining my ability to spell" Many people responded to which I am very thankful for and I it was quite enlightening. As with the publisher of this post, it is an issue that is not going to go away. I have been taking personal steps to undue or reverse engineer these issues.
I started to practice my hand-writing skills all over again. Wrote some letters to some people on Conqueror Paper with watermarks and posted them in hand-written envelopes.
The reaction has been incredible instead of typed words. A hand written letter makes a person feel special. Interestingly enough I also found out that people switch off mentally with a printed or electronic communication.
Where am I going with this? Well SAS Special Air Service and SBS Special Boat Service, call in "Air Strikes" manually with manual co-ordinates to get things right. We never trust GPS or lasers. There are only a few pilots who we call in over after ISTAR on AWACS following radio silence, that can override on board weapons systems to hit the right target without electronic intervention.
Therefore, doing everything manually has a place in society. We all need some downtime from digital lives we lead. They have benefits, but digital can be a curse.
So/MOTD is re-explore your life, go out and enjoy your life and teach your kids you can be creative with manual hand-writing or anything manual.
I know many Redhat devs that also work for M$. It does not make redhat any more appealing than windows nor is Gentoo more appealing as they steal code from BSD ports. Ubuntu is a debian clone also.
Maybe I am disillusioned, but as I understand, graduating to BSD from Linux is the only way to go. IMHO the only honest Linux distro's left are Debian and Slackware, but your average person on the street is not that intelligent anymore.
Society has changed whereby people just want to plug things in and work automatically without any use of intelligence whatsoever. The educational process people have to go through takes many years of experience and although I support FOSS, it is going to take a total rethink of how to get people changing their ways.
The biggest problem for OpenSource is getting people away from M$ as software developers use "dirty tricks" whereby programs are created to organise a persons life and they end up like possessed people and will not let go because they feel threatened coming out of their "comfort zone". A prime example is doing a Bungee Jump or Parachute jump. For some the "fear of change is immense".
The best way I can help people change is show them the software map on sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/index.php for them to understand whatever can be done on windows can be done on Linux or BSD.
I did not mean to upset some people with this post, it was never my intention, but hopefully you can see things from a different point of view now.
Regards,
NSN
Can you imagine the Brazillian government IT department doing all the firewall and IP tables to stop this.
As a backbone network administrator, yes I can imagine that: Implementing a few ACLs on a few international choke points can be done in a matter of minutes (isn't IOS wonderful?). Forcing autonomous systems to block all kind of ports at their boundaries is also quite trivial, and enforcing a non-P2P mode inside those AS is also just a matter of reconfiguring their access routers. Since backbone and access routers config files are generated dynamically nowadays, that too would be just a matter of minutes. It would break some stuff, but Joe Sixpack won't notice anything as long as his web browsing and e-mail checking aren't blocked.
cpghost you are a true scholar and you should be paid by the Brazillian Gov on NOT how to screw things up! If I had mod points, I would mod you up!
Kind Regards,
NSN
There is a huge problem banning P2P and this comes about through port blocking. Once these idiot geniuses realise that port blocking to stop P2P means that they are going to inadvertently block their needed communication lines.
Can you imagine the Brazillian government IT department doing all the firewall and IP tables to stop this. I say good luck shutting down p2p.
There is a lot of poverty on the Planet which you cannot ignore. I can tell you that I came from a very poor family indeed, I wore second hand clothes and shoes as a child and life was very tough and learned respect for other people's property, however Music was the only thing that kept me alive and inspired me to work hard and be successful.
The notion of the RIAA trying to teach kids that getting some music over p2p is a crime is "lower than a snakes belly". When people some children and families are living in dire conditions and music is the only thing they have.
Music does wonderful things to people, it breaks down barriers of communication regardless of race, religion or any other circumstance including war! The RIAA could do something very positive and have their own p2p credit system for disadvantaged families/children so they do not have to pay for music.
I do not know of any Artist/Musician who would deny disadvantaged children access to music.
Tune of the day is by Al Jarreau "Boogie Down" also a family friend, I cannot link the ch00n without his permission but what I can do is link Hugh Masekela "don't go lose it baby" here who I met in New York http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tih7wwc31lo
Be inspirational!
Sorry I don't really need EOD, I'm a Nuclear Biological and Chemical warfare specialist. I declined to join tech escort because I thought the concept of babysitting nukes cross country was boring.
I should put on my charcoal suit and S10. But seriously with you being a Nuclear and Biological/Chemical warfare specialist, do you think I am concerned?
Can you smell "apricots" in the air. If you are genuine you will understand exactly what I am talking about.
Somebody pass me another roll of tinfoil, this one has a hole in it...
I suppose the straw man got peppered with a shotgun blast. As for your tin foil hat, being slotted in your head is not ideal, but I want to know if you can put a Green Lemon under your helmet. Do not even ask the EOD to help you.
*chuckle*
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Thank you for your lovely replies. It's been really nice to engage with somebody who is interested in other points of view. *Really* listening to stuff you disagree with is one of the most difficult skills to master, I think. It's not something I'm as good at as I'd like to be but you seem to have the knack!
I'm sure your daughter will continue to learn fast, especially if she's as open minded as you. 14 is a fairly long time ago for me and there were a lot of changes to get used to all at once - not an easy age to be. It took me a lot longer than that to really start looking hard at the world and trying to think through my viewpoints; it's still something I'm working on doing really properly!
It's fun being a geek :-) Take care, maybe I will see you posting here again some time.
Dear LemmingMark, I have added you as friend. I do make some radicle posts, but it is good to be a non-conformist, I do feel there is some mileage for teenagers to go through nowaday's as they are a digitalised generation and have no concept of real human interaction. Maybe this is a post for another day. In the meantime keep up the good work.
Please explain how manual coordinates are more reliable than GPS and/or laser. I fully appreciate that value of being able to do it manually just in case, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about here.
Manual co-ordinates is done by triangulation. This is why ordnance survey maps are the best in the World. http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite and they supply Military "relief maps" not available to the public. I could call in a map reference grid and a target can be hit to within a maximum of Three Feet over a distance of 900 miles. This is why one's mathematical skills are are paramount in the Navy and Airforce and you cannot rely on automatic systems to just do the job. Laser's and GPS have underlying problems are not accurate enough. There were some CIA agents on the ground that tried to kill Saddam in OP Telic, but got the co-ordinates completely wrong and missed by nearly 800 metres. I cannot really say much more MrResistor, but I hope that gives you a small insight. It is akin to shooting a robber but you shoot the wrong person instead. American cops do it all the time! *giggle*
Damages for patching systems is as corrupt as bankers bonuses in the USA or the damage to inncocent citizens when Enron went bust. This guy just wanted to find out the truth. He should be left alone and the sooner America understands that dictating to other Countries whereby they have no juradisction, the terrorism threat will reduce immensely. War is Gods way of teaching American's Geogphraphy.
I love you camperdave. Are you sure you are not Ray Mears in disguise? If I am, I can't find the zipper to the costume I see when I look in the mirror.
That is so funny, but what about the one who farts instead camperdave when on recon? You could always launch him/her as a gas powered missile in a kevlar sleeping bag. Surface to air missile which brings a new meaning to firing a Stinger. Ouch!
She is rather egg-cellent to comment on e-coli.
Your spelling still sucks.
Yes it does, I concur, but my ability to use a compass and ordnance survey map proves I will never get lost.
I'd be more worried about fresh cut grass.
Fresh cut grass ah the smell of chemical weapons.
I know many Redhat devs that also work for M$. It does not make redhat any more appealing than windows nor is Gentoo more appealing as they steal code from BSD ports. Ubuntu is a debian clone also.
Maybe I am disillusioned, but as I understand, graduating to BSD from Linux is the only way to go. IMHO the only honest Linux distro's left are Debian and Slackware, but your average person on the street is not that intelligent anymore.
Not sure if you're trolling, but sounds like you've gotten the idea of FOSS somewhat wrong. There's no "stealng code" in FOSS world. The code is free, it can't be stolen. Free code is meant to be used and modified by others. Various derived distributions are not only honest to FOSS ideals, they crystallize what FOSS is all about: take it if it's great, improve it if it's not quite good or suitable enough, roll your own if it's bad.
If code is freely available it can be used. Call me a troll if you like, but if you even care to look up the definition of troll here http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/troll you will realise your definition of Troll and mine are completely different. You are probably American and have a sense of humour bypass. that would be humor to you as your English is broken.
Since you use the military as an example....
Military use of cursive tends to be in signatures, not text that actually conveys content.
For example, USAF aircraft forms use manual block printing to document maintenance, not cursive. The advantage of manual paper forms is portability and ease of use. Adding cursive would be damaging to the maintenance documentation process which is vital to aircraft safety. The content is later used to type data into a computer which is the most efficient way to share and track maintenance info. Use of cursive would be flagged as a discrepancy during a forms review.
Cursive is pretty when done well, otherwise it's illegible crap. Be glad the (Yank, I can't speak for the RAF) aircraft you call in don't have their maintenance and weapons load documented that way, because some poor airman reading it at night in the rain has enough to deal with.
Military systems are a mix of automation and manual controls. Using them as an example of "doing things manually" isn't the best choice. Human cross-checking before permitting action /= manually putting a bomb on target, especially a bomb delivered by aircraft that cannot even fly (A-10 in manual reversion excepted) without flight control computers. :)
You are quite on the mark couchslug. But in your own words "Some poor airman reading it at night in the rain has enough to deal with". Actually in the RAF, these pilots do not make the grade, nor are used. For combat ops. They are a very special bunch of people. To Whom I owe my life too. You have struck a chord and I feel slightly emotional about this as my NCO. Told me of incredible bravery and was given a D.S.O in the Faulkland's War. He called over AWACS and a pilot responded and despite almost out of fuel, slapped on the after burners in a Tornado with it's wings clipped in. Flew 274 miles in bad weather and slammed the Argentinians' with a few "Sea Wolf" Missiles after which we took back Port Stanley and this pilot flew back to HMS illustrious with no fuel. These acts of bravery make Special Operations work.
Pilots (in the UK at least) still use them (technically they just have to be able to use them), albeit the circular variety.
This is why we call in air strikes with manual co-ordinates and when on HMS Ocean, we get things right. If you think for a moment you can point an click and hope shit sticks you are highly mistaken. That is why Americans are renouned for "friendly fire". Nothing is friendly about it so shut your festering slit.
The warning lights on the dashboard of cars used to be English, Check Oil, Door Ajar, etc. Now it's all icons.
I love you camperdave. Are you sure you are not Ray Mears in disguise?
I know many Redhat devs that also work for M$. It does not make redhat any more appealing than windows nor is Gentoo more appealing as they steal code from BSD ports. Ubuntu is a debian clone also.
Maybe I am disillusioned, but as I understand, graduating to BSD from Linux is the only way to go. IMHO the only honest Linux distro's left are Debian and Slackware, but your average person on the street is not that intelligent anymore.
Not sure if you're trolling, but sounds like you've gotten the idea of FOSS somewhat wrong. There's no "stealng code" in FOSS world. The code is free, it can't be stolen. Free code is meant to be used and modified by others. Various derived distributions are not only honest to FOSS ideals, they crystallize what FOSS is all about: take it if it's great, improve it if it's not quite good or suitable enough, roll your own if it's bad.
You have just contradicted yourself without changing your mind. Here is the example There's no "stealng code" in FOSS world. The code is free, it can't be stolen. If code is free, it is open to being used. You can vote me as a troll Mr, nonetheless you will never escape the truth.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to reply earlier as I was traveling over the weekend. I'm going to have be brief right now as it's been a long day and have only just got back into town.
Thank you for your pleasant and reasonable reply. There's a lot of emotion around these topics and it's often difficult or impossible to find people who are willing to really *talk* about the issues involved.
I wouldn't necessarily say, despite my belief in my own nature, that I am exactly immune to images of violence. It's something I remain wary of and if I thought it was affecting me negatively then I would probably have to quit. So far I've been happy to observe that my reactions to real life violence have not been reduced, despite my acceptance of video game violence. I am in agreement with you that others may be more easily influence. Despite my opposition to banning most imagery, I'm certainly in favour of careful regulation of it, within certain boundaries. I do approve of the age regulation schemes used for movies and games. I think that games (and movies) showing particularly graphic violence ought to be restricted to legal adults. It's also worth the government and industry making sure to educate parents about computer games, since I'm sure some don't realise that they are not all suitable for minors. I don't believe in over-protecting children but I think it's pretty important not to expose them to inappropriate material at a critical time in their moral and intellectual development.
By around the age of 18 (give or take - there's certainly room for argument on the specific age) I consider that core moral development of a person has mostly occurred, so it reduces the chance of their perceptions being warped or their blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Also, once you're a legal adult you are able to indulge in a wide variety of media and behaviour - a freedom we grant to adults since we believe they are able to make informed choices and take responsibility for real-world actions. My - uninformed by science or psychology, so this is *mere idle gossip* from a public policy point of view - belief is that those who are unhealthily interested in violence are liable to look for outlets in whatever is available. If video games were not available, there would be other ways to indulge this - movies, books, art even. Moreover there are extremely violent and *real* images that we actually wish to permit access to, for instance through normal television news, so that would always be available. So we can never completely deny access to this imagery to those who thirst for or would be warped by violence.
Actually, though, to a certain extent I've come round to agreeing with your original support of the ban in this instance. Why? Assuming other comments here are correct (yes, yes, it's Slashdot, I must be new here, etc!) it would appear to be the case that the Aussie classifiers don't have the option of rating the game for 18+ only. They can do that for films, it seems, but not for games. The first Left 4 Dead game was available at an 18 rating here in the UK. The sequel discussed here looks significantly more violent - violent enough for me to find it disturbing, despite having enjoyed the original. Although I wouldn't approve of preventing sale of the game to legal adults I definitely wouldn't want to see it sold to ages 15+, which appears to be the only other option they could realistically have taken. My favourite solution would really be for the game not to be banned but for the 18+ classification to be available to the classification board so that games - like movies - can be restricted to adults-only where appropriate.
Dear LemmingMark,, You have been dreadfully positive in your response and I wish my 14 year old daughter had the same views as you. She is quite incredible though and is learning fast. I just wish she has your comprehension of life. She is getting there. Having been in Special Ops support, you Perfect totally "fit the criteria". Perfect vision is the way to unlock life and be a geek.
You have to love http://www.icecast.org/ and I am Sir Audiophile E-MU 0404 geek. I know more about open source radio than the poster. I also own http://www.fluxradio.org/ The Linux word is for brave people. You can advance and go commando BSD! It will take a very intelligent individual even to get to grips but in the words of Brenda Russell. "I cry just a little, caught up in the middle, when he plays piano in the dark". I suppose music is music is power. Music and lyrics makes one elite 31337.
Having lived through poverty and desperation, Literacy skills are based upon your ability, mentally to accept certain things. If you fail you fail, I cannot stress this enough, however some people will look at this post who have never picked up a dictionary. My ex-wife graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Language & Literature. I have a better IQ than her, but my IQ is exceptionally better than her's hence ex-wife. She was a very challenging individual and good in bed, but I was better. I have spoken to her since our split a number of years ago and she wants to initiate a relationship again as she is unhappy. I tell you what, I am happy on my own without her baggage.
I have an O.B.E and earned it honestly. I might get a K.C.B eventually, but it is not high up on my agenda. Prince Charles gave it to me and I was really pleased to meet Philip Mountbatten as well at Buckingham Palace. Becoming a Knight is like a Jedi. You have to understand wisdom and excel where others cannot. You have to stand up and be counted, you need to keep integrity alive, you need to love people, but most of all you need to believe in yourself and the fact you can have a positive impact on other people's lives. Being unselfish is how I earned my O.B.E.
You do realise that google has to comply with terror-laws don't you? gmail has been used for years. Inteliigence suggests students are most likely to be the ones who will be recruited for terrorism or do school shootings or become a suicide bomber.
No it was me that had an "ask slashdot" article published regarding "is typing ruining my ability to spell" Many people responded to which I am very thankful for and I it was quite enlightening. As with the publisher of this post, it is an issue that is not going to go away. I have been taking personal steps to undue or reverse engineer these issues. I started to practice my hand-writing skills all over again. Wrote some letters to some people on Conqueror Paper with watermarks and posted them in hand-written envelopes. The reaction has been incredible instead of typed words. A hand written letter makes a person feel special. Interestingly enough I also found out that people switch off mentally with a printed or electronic communication. Where am I going with this? Well SAS Special Air Service and SBS Special Boat Service, call in "Air Strikes" manually with manual co-ordinates to get things right. We never trust GPS or lasers. There are only a few pilots who we call in over after ISTAR on AWACS following radio silence, that can override on board weapons systems to hit the right target without electronic intervention. Therefore, doing everything manually has a place in society. We all need some downtime from digital lives we lead. They have benefits, but digital can be a curse. So /MOTD is re-explore your life, go out and enjoy your life and teach your kids you can be creative with manual hand-writing or anything manual.
I know many Redhat devs that also work for M$. It does not make redhat any more appealing than windows nor is Gentoo more appealing as they steal code from BSD ports. Ubuntu is a debian clone also. Maybe I am disillusioned, but as I understand, graduating to BSD from Linux is the only way to go. IMHO the only honest Linux distro's left are Debian and Slackware, but your average person on the street is not that intelligent anymore. Society has changed whereby people just want to plug things in and work automatically without any use of intelligence whatsoever. The educational process people have to go through takes many years of experience and although I support FOSS, it is going to take a total rethink of how to get people changing their ways. The biggest problem for OpenSource is getting people away from M$ as software developers use "dirty tricks" whereby programs are created to organise a persons life and they end up like possessed people and will not let go because they feel threatened coming out of their "comfort zone". A prime example is doing a Bungee Jump or Parachute jump. For some the "fear of change is immense". The best way I can help people change is show them the software map on sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/index.php for them to understand whatever can be done on windows can be done on Linux or BSD. I did not mean to upset some people with this post, it was never my intention, but hopefully you can see things from a different point of view now. Regards, NSN
As a backbone network administrator, yes I can imagine that: Implementing a few ACLs on a few international choke points can be done in a matter of minutes (isn't IOS wonderful?). Forcing autonomous systems to block all kind of ports at their boundaries is also quite trivial, and enforcing a non-P2P mode inside those AS is also just a matter of reconfiguring their access routers. Since backbone and access routers config files are generated dynamically nowadays, that too would be just a matter of minutes. It would break some stuff, but Joe Sixpack won't notice anything as long as his web browsing and e-mail checking aren't blocked.
cpghost you are a true scholar and you should be paid by the Brazillian Gov on NOT how to screw things up! If I had mod points, I would mod you up! Kind Regards, NSN
There is a huge problem banning P2P and this comes about through port blocking. Once these idiot geniuses realise that port blocking to stop P2P means that they are going to inadvertently block their needed communication lines. Can you imagine the Brazillian government IT department doing all the firewall and IP tables to stop this. I say good luck shutting down p2p.
There is a lot of poverty on the Planet which you cannot ignore. I can tell you that I came from a very poor family indeed, I wore second hand clothes and shoes as a child and life was very tough and learned respect for other people's property, however Music was the only thing that kept me alive and inspired me to work hard and be successful. The notion of the RIAA trying to teach kids that getting some music over p2p is a crime is "lower than a snakes belly". When people some children and families are living in dire conditions and music is the only thing they have. Music does wonderful things to people, it breaks down barriers of communication regardless of race, religion or any other circumstance including war! The RIAA could do something very positive and have their own p2p credit system for disadvantaged families/children so they do not have to pay for music. I do not know of any Artist/Musician who would deny disadvantaged children access to music. Tune of the day is by Al Jarreau "Boogie Down" also a family friend, I cannot link the ch00n without his permission but what I can do is link Hugh Masekela "don't go lose it baby" here who I met in New York http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tih7wwc31lo Be inspirational!
Awesome Yellow BSD is the latest OS!
Sorry I don't really need EOD, I'm a Nuclear Biological and Chemical warfare specialist. I declined to join tech escort because I thought the concept of babysitting nukes cross country was boring.
I should put on my charcoal suit and S10. But seriously with you being a Nuclear and Biological/Chemical warfare specialist, do you think I am concerned? Can you smell "apricots" in the air. If you are genuine you will understand exactly what I am talking about.
Somebody pass me another roll of tinfoil, this one has a hole in it...
I suppose the straw man got peppered with a shotgun blast. As for your tin foil hat, being slotted in your head is not ideal, but I want to know if you can put a Green Lemon under your helmet. Do not even ask the EOD to help you. *chuckle*