Can we really imprison someone for likely intending to rape a child?
Problem is, there's zero evidence to support the claim that viewing child pornography incites child abuse of any kind. And there's growing evidence that suggests that the actual effect might be the reverse - that viewing child pornography might actually be a substitute for actual sexual contact with children.
It's unlikely that further research will be funded, though, if it seems likely to reach the "wrong" conclusions.
I had a web site selling PDF books for a while, too, quite some time ago. I ended up with the password box on the download page not masking the password either, because an early version of Internet Explorer had a tendency to drop the last letter when you did a copy & paste (or maybe Outlook Express dropped it on copy). Never had a complaint about it, because I explained it in the email with the download instructions.
Sure, it is technically more secure to mask the passwords, but in the case of a $5 PDF file that isn't being pirated anyway, it simply doesn't matter. Security that gets in the way of what you're trying to do will, inevitably, either be bypassed, or keep you from doing what you're trying to do. That's not security, that's a bug.
If it weren't a trade secret, then other manufacturers could meet those standards, and Panasonic's profits would be in danger. This is all about safety, dammit! What's wrong with you people! Panasonic execs have boat payments to make!
It won't hit the legal system until another battery manufacturer figures out how to crack the system, and makes their batteries work anyway. At which point, Panasonic will probably file a DMCA lawsuit, which will get them a lot of bad publicity, and which, in the end, they will lose (as Lexmark did on their toner cartridges).
The first credit report I had (for a car loan) had literally nothing on it. Except a credit score. Zero credit history. No utilities had ever been in my name. No collection actions against me, ever. The system may not always work right, but that's how it is supposed to work. Otherwise, nobody could ever get credit for the first time.
While you may not have any credit history, everybody has a credit score. There's some kind of default value that means "pays for everything in cash," but the credit score also factors in stuff like utility bills (do you pay those with cash) and, if they can figure it out, and they likely can, your annual income.
50 miles of country road (I'm guessing the pictures have nothing whatsoever to do with the roads actually converted) changed from paved to gravel, out of thousands in the state. Yawn. Gravel is actually better in little used roads, because it doesn't require nearly as much active maintenance, as in, driving over it with snowploughs when it snows, to be able to drive on it at all. These are, almost certainly, roads that didn't need to be paved in the first place.
2. Learn to communicate effectively with people who do not know as much about the subject as you do.
3. Don't be an asshole.
4. When you explain something, and the other person clearly does not understand, do not simply repeat the explanation again word for word, only louder.
5. Don't be an asshole.
6. Document everything. Openly label that manilla folder "CYA."
7. Don't be an asshole.
8. Don't make promises you can't keep. Don't try to keep promises you didn't make (that's why you CYA).
9. Don't be an asshole.
10. Don't assume that decisions are made solely on a technical basis. Money does matter, and sometimes, good enough is good enough. "Because I want this kewl new toy" is a bad reason to spend ten times as much money.
Or, when they tell you it's rude to say no, point out that's it's equally rude for them to ask in the first place.
Either way, really, it's the same choice: Grow up, and stop believing that like what other people want you to do matters more than what you want to do.
And psychiatrists have boat payments to make, dammit!
At the rate things are going, this will soon become so serious that it can only be treated with a brand new, expensive drug just invented. It's a derivative of the drug they use for Restless Leg Syndrome, only it costs a lot more.
Of course it's a joke, just like the "ball and chain with a time" joke. It's a felony for anyone to administer any kind of general anesthetic other than a licensed anesthetologist, mostly because generals are moderately dangerous. Last I heard, the most like reason you'd die on the operating table was a problem with the general.
There are a lot of things that can legitimately be described as "adult services" or even "erotic services" that are a) not prostitution, and b) not only legal, but constitutionally protected. Strippers, actual escorts (the kind who go to dinner with you, but not to bed), naked maid services, actual massage services (the kind without a happy ending), even porn actors. All legal, all constitutionally protected, all erotic services.
And all unconstitutional for an attorney general to try to suppress, which is why CL will win this.
It's got to be a hoax, expecially covered in a UK news site.
Either it significantly impedes a child's movements, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, what's the point? If it does, it's prosecutable criminal child abuse. End of story.
We shared quite a few laughs over people misunderstanding technologies that are so elementary today a child can use them.
My father worked in Saudi Arabia in the early 60s, and the oil companies hired a lot of bedouin workers. Said workers were sometimes provided quarters. Electric stoves were provided, but the cooking elements had to be replaced quite frequently, becuase the bedouins would use the electric stove to light camel chips, which they would then cook on. (They had, for the most part, never eaten anything not cooked on burning camel dung, and found food cooked on an electric stove too bland to eat.) The local sheik finally got air conditioning, after complaining long enough that his refrigerator wasn't keep the food cold (because he'd leave the door open to cool the house).
At the first orientation when my father arrived, they were told to never pick up hitchhikers, because someone who has never traveled except on foot or camel-back simply doesn't understand that it's not safe to just open the car door and step out when they get where they're going (at highway speeds).
None of this reflects on the locals being stupid or slow. It all reflects on the fact that they had never seen any of this technology before.
Cuz the accident was clearly an act of God intended to demonstrate his intelligent design skills. Must have been, cuz we all know that it couldn't be a natural evolution in response to a changing environment.
I predict that at least 50% of the people reading this will think I'm serious, despite this disclaimer. This is/., after all. (And another 25% will pretend to think that, just for the troll value.)
What you do on company time is certainly company business. What you do on your own time, that does not identify you as an employee, isn't.
The only law we need is one that says that if the company wants a say in what you do, you're on the clock. Can't post whatever the hell you want (except "I work for XXX and they suck," of course), then you're on the clock 24/7, with appropriate overtime.
Insteaed of annoying ads, we get even more annoying pop-ups asking if we want to see the annoying ads that we installed the plugin specifically to block?
There's only two possibilities here: either the pop-up shows the ad, thus making it "not an ad blocker," and therefore, totally, utterly useless, or it doesn't, in which case there's no way to tell if it's an ad I'm willing to tolerate (since my criteria has to do with whether or not it a) makes noise, b) is animated/flashy shit, or c) tries to install malware, and not, in any way, to do with the content of the ad and certainly not the web site that wants to serve it to me).
No thanks. I don't use any ad blocker plugins. I use a hosts file that blocks 99.9% of the crap far more effectively, and is under my control, not that of some software developer who might or might not sell out to the spammers someday.
So, basically, you're saying that mass transit doesn't work for you unless you also have a car (which means you're saving a small fraction of the cost of driving, since you still have to buy the car, pay for maintenence, if somewhat less of it, and insurance.)
You are correct. The reason to not invest in public transportaion in southern California isn't because it already sucks, it's because it doesn't work, and can't be made to work in less than a generation (and likely more than that). Nearly all of southern California has been built up around the idea of everyone having their own personal vehicles. LA grew out instead of up. That means much lower population densities. And that makes that there aren't concentrations of people living in a relatively small area, who go to places where there are concentrations of jobs in a small area. And that means that public transportation doesn't work very well, because it's damned inconvenient. The other guy who mentioned three hours to make (what would be in a car) a ten minute trip wasn't exaggerating at all. It really is that bad, and will remain so, because public mass transportation is only worthwhile when populations and jobs are fairly concentrated.
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Can we really imprison someone for likely intending to rape a child?
Problem is, there's zero evidence to support the claim that viewing child pornography incites child abuse of any kind. And there's growing evidence that suggests that the actual effect might be the reverse - that viewing child pornography might actually be a substitute for actual sexual contact with children.
It's unlikely that further research will be funded, though, if it seems likely to reach the "wrong" conclusions.
I had a web site selling PDF books for a while, too, quite some time ago. I ended up with the password box on the download page not masking the password either, because an early version of Internet Explorer had a tendency to drop the last letter when you did a copy & paste (or maybe Outlook Express dropped it on copy). Never had a complaint about it, because I explained it in the email with the download instructions.
Sure, it is technically more secure to mask the passwords, but in the case of a $5 PDF file that isn't being pirated anyway, it simply doesn't matter. Security that gets in the way of what you're trying to do will, inevitably, either be bypassed, or keep you from doing what you're trying to do. That's not security, that's a bug.
If it weren't a trade secret, then other manufacturers could meet those standards, and Panasonic's profits would be in danger. This is all about safety, dammit! What's wrong with you people! Panasonic execs have boat payments to make!
It won't hit the legal system until another battery manufacturer figures out how to crack the system, and makes their batteries work anyway. At which point, Panasonic will probably file a DMCA lawsuit, which will get them a lot of bad publicity, and which, in the end, they will lose (as Lexmark did on their toner cartridges).
. . . why these people have not been struck by a meteor. If there were a God in this universe, there would be a meteor.
The first credit report I had (for a car loan) had literally nothing on it. Except a credit score. Zero credit history. No utilities had ever been in my name. No collection actions against me, ever. The system may not always work right, but that's how it is supposed to work. Otherwise, nobody could ever get credit for the first time.
While you may not have any credit history, everybody has a credit score. There's some kind of default value that means "pays for everything in cash," but the credit score also factors in stuff like utility bills (do you pay those with cash) and, if they can figure it out, and they likely can, your annual income.
Racism? Only white people are allowed to have SSNs? Man, that's some mighty fine dope you're smoking there.
Only people who are in the country legally are allowed to have SSNs, but that applies to white people, too.
where do you meet fellow geeks
Somewhere other than your mother's basement. Seriously.
Go out to places where people gather. They're not hard. Go outside. Walk around. Look for people
Then to talk to them.
If you're only interested in meeting other geeks, get used to be alone.
50 miles of country road (I'm guessing the pictures have nothing whatsoever to do with the roads actually converted) changed from paved to gravel, out of thousands in the state. Yawn. Gravel is actually better in little used roads, because it doesn't require nearly as much active maintenance, as in, driving over it with snowploughs when it snows, to be able to drive on it at all. These are, almost certainly, roads that didn't need to be paved in the first place.
This is complete non-news.
There are some simple rules:
1. Don't be an asshole.
2. Learn to communicate effectively with people who do not know as much about the subject as you do.
3. Don't be an asshole.
4. When you explain something, and the other person clearly does not understand, do not simply repeat the explanation again word for word, only louder.
5. Don't be an asshole.
6. Document everything. Openly label that manilla folder "CYA."
7. Don't be an asshole.
8. Don't make promises you can't keep. Don't try to keep promises you didn't make (that's why you CYA).
9. Don't be an asshole.
10. Don't assume that decisions are made solely on a technical basis. Money does matter, and sometimes, good enough is good enough. "Because I want this kewl new toy" is a bad reason to spend ten times as much money.
11. Don't be an asshole.
And most important: Don't be an asshole.
Either don't take the laptop to school.
Or, when they tell you it's rude to say no, point out that's it's equally rude for them to ask in the first place.
Either way, really, it's the same choice: Grow up, and stop believing that like what other people want you to do matters more than what you want to do.
And psychiatrists have boat payments to make, dammit!
At the rate things are going, this will soon become so serious that it can only be treated with a brand new, expensive drug just invented. It's a derivative of the drug they use for Restless Leg Syndrome, only it costs a lot more.
That's the scam. It's not about making ethanol, it's about pork dollars for the corn lobby. There is no switchgrass lobby.
Of course it's a joke, just like the "ball and chain with a time" joke. It's a felony for anyone to administer any kind of general anesthetic other than a licensed anesthetologist, mostly because generals are moderately dangerous. Last I heard, the most like reason you'd die on the operating table was a problem with the general.
There are a lot of things that can legitimately be described as "adult services" or even "erotic services" that are a) not prostitution, and b) not only legal, but constitutionally protected. Strippers, actual escorts (the kind who go to dinner with you, but not to bed), naked maid services, actual massage services (the kind without a happy ending), even porn actors. All legal, all constitutionally protected, all erotic services.
And all unconstitutional for an attorney general to try to suppress, which is why CL will win this.
It's got to be a hoax, expecially covered in a UK news site.
Either it significantly impedes a child's movements, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, what's the point? If it does, it's prosecutable criminal child abuse. End of story.
Gotta be a hoax.
We shared quite a few laughs over people misunderstanding technologies that are so elementary today a child can use them.
My father worked in Saudi Arabia in the early 60s, and the oil companies hired a lot of bedouin workers. Said workers were sometimes provided quarters. Electric stoves were provided, but the cooking elements had to be replaced quite frequently, becuase the bedouins would use the electric stove to light camel chips, which they would then cook on. (They had, for the most part, never eaten anything not cooked on burning camel dung, and found food cooked on an electric stove too bland to eat.) The local sheik finally got air conditioning, after complaining long enough that his refrigerator wasn't keep the food cold (because he'd leave the door open to cool the house).
At the first orientation when my father arrived, they were told to never pick up hitchhikers, because someone who has never traveled except on foot or camel-back simply doesn't understand that it's not safe to just open the car door and step out when they get where they're going (at highway speeds).
None of this reflects on the locals being stupid or slow. It all reflects on the fact that they had never seen any of this technology before.
Cuz the accident was clearly an act of God intended to demonstrate his intelligent design skills. Must have been, cuz we all know that it couldn't be a natural evolution in response to a changing environment.
I predict that at least 50% of the people reading this will think I'm serious, despite this disclaimer. This is /., after all. (And another 25% will pretend to think that, just for the troll value.)
What you do on company time is certainly company business. What you do on your own time, that does not identify you as an employee, isn't.
The only law we need is one that says that if the company wants a say in what you do, you're on the clock. Can't post whatever the hell you want (except "I work for XXX and they suck," of course), then you're on the clock 24/7, with appropriate overtime.
Insteaed of annoying ads, we get even more annoying pop-ups asking if we want to see the annoying ads that we installed the plugin specifically to block?
There's only two possibilities here: either the pop-up shows the ad, thus making it "not an ad blocker," and therefore, totally, utterly useless, or it doesn't, in which case there's no way to tell if it's an ad I'm willing to tolerate (since my criteria has to do with whether or not it a) makes noise, b) is animated/flashy shit, or c) tries to install malware, and not, in any way, to do with the content of the ad and certainly not the web site that wants to serve it to me).
No thanks. I don't use any ad blocker plugins. I use a hosts file that blocks 99.9% of the crap far more effectively, and is under my control, not that of some software developer who might or might not sell out to the spammers someday.
So, basically, you're saying that mass transit doesn't work for you unless you also have a car (which means you're saving a small fraction of the cost of driving, since you still have to buy the car, pay for maintenence, if somewhat less of it, and insurance.)
The buzz phrase around here is "Always take a towel so you can wipe the bum urine off the seat before you sit down."
You are correct. The reason to not invest in public transportaion in southern California isn't because it already sucks, it's because it doesn't work, and can't be made to work in less than a generation (and likely more than that). Nearly all of southern California has been built up around the idea of everyone having their own personal vehicles. LA grew out instead of up. That means much lower population densities. And that makes that there aren't concentrations of people living in a relatively small area, who go to places where there are concentrations of jobs in a small area. And that means that public transportation doesn't work very well, because it's damned inconvenient. The other guy who mentioned three hours to make (what would be in a car) a ten minute trip wasn't exaggerating at all. It really is that bad, and will remain so, because public mass transportation is only worthwhile when populations and jobs are fairly concentrated.
I'll say. Here in southern California, I'd have to drive my car to any form of mass transit, and I'd have to drive farther than it is to work.