Given that most of what "well meaning" politicians/policy makers are trying to block is photographic pornography it would make sense to try and filter mostly just pictures. But rather than filter sites which may contain pictures of naughty bits, I wonder how feasable it would be to filter the actual images... and by filter I mean alter.
I'm not talking about placing black squares over where some (bad) software determines a teet is showing, but rather doing some horrible dither down to 1 bit black and white images. Site navigation should still be functional provided no horrible color scheme has been chosen, and looking at 1 bit porn has got to be about as satisfying as ASCII porn.
Sure "hate speach" and story based porn are going to still get through, but subjects that cause people that much anger are likely to be the source of great classroom discussions and story porn would lose probably 90% of its accidental or intentional viewers just by its very nature.
It would certainly seem to help situations like this one - interesting/. stories would still be accessable and if an image was required then a teacher could bring it up on a non-filtered browser.
well.EDU and.MIL seem to have a fairly firm grasp on their content. sure some porn will sneak through I'm sure, but not nearly as rampant as.com or certain.cx sites.
I've worked on largeish maps before for quake1 - it apparently has a BSP limit of 4096 brushes total if I remember correctly. Not a big deal for most killing pits, but on a whole building - or complex of buildings - it can run out pretty damn quick.
Yeah I'll concede that the 95% popup windows idea sucks royally and will never be implemented, but the other provision - the one click history (convienently labeled "history" on most browsers) need not be tied to the ISP. Perhaps I'm taking Gore's core idea (parents should control what their kids see) and identifiying with it more over Bush's core idea: Taxpayer dollars should be used to control what kids see - or rather public institutions that don't take money out of thier tight budgets to buy worthless software will lose almost all oftheir funding.
There ought to be filters in public libraries, and filters in public schools...
For instance. Both plans call for filtering, but at least Gore wants the parents to do the filtering and not some faulty bit o' software - which is, in my opinion, where the responsibility belongs.
on a consumer standpoint that is. I mean, I can think of lots of uses for this - most of which have to do with various forms of rapid documentation - but there is no way in hell I'd want one of these for my personal use.
A transmetta laptop as a laptop - oh hell yes, but I'm quite happy with my little Olympus digital camera that fits in my pocket. From a pure vacation standpoint I'm not going to want to lug around that brick (brick by camera standards) of a box just to snap pics or video.
And given that its most likely that audience that would do most of the buying I wonder how successful this will be... especially at $2300 a pop.
.. with my fingers on the arrow kews and the other hand on the mouse, how much can I reach with my pinky?
Join us in the wonderful world of WASD:)
Halflife got it right by having that as the default mapping - E to use, R to reload, X to duck, Shift of Space for jump depending on your prefernce - plus had all of the 1-5 weapon select keys handy right there.
Plus you can much more convincingly fake work with your left hand on the left hand side of the keyboard:) over there on the right its pretty dang obvious you're not on the job.
Obviously, M$ is being very careful to make sure that they get NO competition in the Office arena, however
That depends on how you read it. I read it that Corel is not required to.NET enable WordPerfect. I'd imagine that if they see it as a feature that will help them gain market share they can. This seems more likely correct given the rest of the sentance: "...Products for which Corel chooses to make no new commercial releases...".
But I also play sports, I imagine quite a few of those here do.
I also find things other than computers interesting.
Strangely enough I even believe in God.
So remember, you do not define what a nerd is, nor what necessarily interests them.
You're right, my bad. They didn't use Onyxes, they used Octanes. I can't find the original site I got that info off of, but here is a paragraph from www.thegia.com:
In development at Square Honolulu, dozens of the world's top graphic artists are slaving away on SGI's hottest machines, rendering what may very well be the future of entertainment. Square, in fact, is the world's largest consumer of SGI machines, outclassing even effects shop Industrial Light and Magic. Over a year was spent in research and development before work on the film itself began. Entire floors are filled with artists -- each with the greatest rendering weapon known to man, a Silicon Graphics Octane. Even so, rendering is proceeding at the horrendously slow rate of only a few seconds a day. The end result, however, should be well worth it.
If so you can grab it from my University site: Here
It's a ziped AVI file using the Cinepak codec. Yes I know DivX;-) would have been much better, but I don't have the option available right yet:)
As for hating the embedded quicktime movies (I know the pain) - for $29 you can buy quicktime pro and make use of the little dropdown button that says "Save source as...". Greatest feature of it:)
In reading the bits and scraps I've found about the movie for the past year or so I've only ever managed to find two interesting tidbits.
1) The rendering horsepower was/is supplied by something like 2 full floors of sgi onyx boxes. That even with that it was limited to something like a second of film rendering per day and that they anticipated technological advances to be able to render the entire film in time.
2) Square developed a few new algorithms to help with animation. Namely one for hair blowing in the wind (sort of interesting) and the way cloth folds and bends as a "actor" moves (very interesting).
Anyone else with unsubstantiated rumor/facts?:) Or better yet, a more indepth site for details?:)
Personally I dislike MSN - so don't get me wrong here. But there is a much more benign reason they could be offering $400 back if you sign up for MSN. Namely they give you $400 now on the condition that you pay them $21 a month for the next three years... $756.
hell I'd happily lend money like that for a near 100% return on investment in only 3 years.
I'm late to this whole discussion, I've never seen the "Nuremberg Files" and so consiquently have only read what people discribe the site as... namely "inciting violence". While I'm fairly certian thats what the site did, does anyone have an example of the actual text on the site?
As for the parallels between this and the DeCSS, while both are extremes of the free speech spectrum, it seems this is the only one that would lead to depriving someone of life - as in Life, Liberty, and the persuit of Happiness.
I'd assume the easiest solution is just to put a firewall in front of your windows box. Everyone will obviously suggest an old 486 with two nics in it and your favorite distro of course, but if you've got broadband access there are quite a number of commercial hardware firewall/NAT routers out there for fairly cheap. our house uses one from Linksys that was had for about $150 (cheaper than an old PC).
As for securing windows itself... Don't run any services, run the latest security patches, run Win2k if you can, and bind File and Print sharing to something OTHER than TCP/IP (like NetBUEI). And of course don't store credit card info on it:) That way if your box is Hax0red all you'll lose is save game information;)
I cannot guarantee that all of IE's persistance works like this, however the persistance I've worked with in developing with IE use XML to store data on the user's hard drive and is known as , surprise, "userdata". Its actually quite handy to use, but can be seperately disabled, just like cookies, in the IE security preferences (its under "allow userdata persistance"). If you'd like to take a look at what the userdata has stored on your computer, check out the XML files stored in (under win2k) "\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Userdata\"
One feature of Userdata is that it can - in theory - only be read from the same place that wrote it, much like cookies. it works from different locations on your hard drive as well - different directories cannot read eachothers userdata.
So before it gets flamed too hard, the feature is quite handy, allows for more storage of date (in terms of bytes) than cookies and is in XML.
Personally, my Blue card has 15 digits. Presuming that they have to keep with the same general self-authorizing numbering schemes (numbers so that quick checking schemes can tell right away if the card is bogus) how long could they continue to issue unique "one time use" numbers before overlapping occurs? Couldn't someone just try entering a number at random and more than likely stumble across someone elses current temporary account number?
Don't get me wrong, these are just questions, I think the system is a great step forward. While I don't EVER use my credit card online unless that "little lock" appears in my web browser and don't let companies store my CC info for quick "one click shopping" (shudder) this will ceratinly help bring a little more confidence to newbie online consumers.
Where is a good resource for finding out more about it? According to the linked page:
. Rather, Congress mandated that any company that chooses to give a written warranty on a consumer product must follow some basic ground rules.
It doesn't seem like anyone is being FORCED to warrenty their software, just provide an adiquate one should they decide to warrenty it - which is not what the linked slashdot story implied. Mehr Info Bitte.
Agreed, but some open source companies are beginning to work this angle. Take RedHat for example. As a relative Linux newbie (I still run Win98, Win2k and MacOS) I tend to purchase my distribution CDs. Sure I get a nifty box and an installation manual that has yet to prove too terribly helpful, but their key selling factor is support. buy our CD and you get 3 months of on call support. It isn't lifetime like the windows and mac OSes (which can be argued I'm certain) but its along the same lines.
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Given that most of what "well meaning" politicians/policy makers are trying to block is photographic pornography it would make sense to try and filter mostly just pictures. But rather than filter sites which may contain pictures of naughty bits, I wonder how feasable it would be to filter the actual images... and by filter I mean alter.
/. stories would still be accessable and if an image was required then a teacher could bring it up on a non-filtered browser.
I'm not talking about placing black squares over where some (bad) software determines a teet is showing, but rather doing some horrible dither down to 1 bit black and white images. Site navigation should still be functional provided no horrible color scheme has been chosen, and looking at 1 bit porn has got to be about as satisfying as ASCII porn.
Sure "hate speach" and story based porn are going to still get through, but subjects that cause people that much anger are likely to be the source of great classroom discussions and story porn would lose probably 90% of its accidental or intentional viewers just by its very nature.
It would certainly seem to help situations like this one - interesting
Just a though. any comments?
well .EDU and .MIL seem to have a fairly firm grasp on their content. sure some porn will sneak through I'm sure, but not nearly as rampant as .com or certain .cx sites.
I've worked on largeish maps before for quake1 - it apparently has a BSP limit of 4096 brushes total if I remember correctly. Not a big deal for most killing pits, but on a whole building - or complex of buildings - it can run out pretty damn quick.
Yeah I'll concede that the 95% popup windows idea sucks royally and will never be implemented, but the other provision - the one click history (convienently labeled "history" on most browsers) need not be tied to the ISP. Perhaps I'm taking Gore's core idea (parents should control what their kids see) and identifiying with it more over Bush's core idea: Taxpayer dollars should be used to control what kids see - or rather public institutions that don't take money out of thier tight budgets to buy worthless software will lose almost all oftheir funding.
This:
There ought to be filters in public libraries, and filters in public schools...
For instance. Both plans call for filtering, but at least Gore wants the parents to do the filtering and not some faulty bit o' software - which is, in my opinion, where the responsibility belongs.
on a consumer standpoint that is. I mean, I can think of lots of uses for this - most of which have to do with various forms of rapid documentation - but there is no way in hell I'd want one of these for my personal use.
A transmetta laptop as a laptop - oh hell yes, but I'm quite happy with my little Olympus digital camera that fits in my pocket. From a pure vacation standpoint I'm not going to want to lug around that brick (brick by camera standards) of a box just to snap pics or video.
And given that its most likely that audience that would do most of the buying I wonder how successful this will be... especially at $2300 a pop.
Perhaps a more apropos strip:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/line.shtml
.. with my fingers on the arrow kews and the other hand on the mouse, how much can I reach with my pinky?
:)
:) over there on the right its pretty dang obvious you're not on the job.
Join us in the wonderful world of WASD
Halflife got it right by having that as the default mapping - E to use, R to reload, X to duck, Shift of Space for jump depending on your prefernce - plus had all of the 1-5 weapon select keys handy right there.
Plus you can much more convincingly fake work with your left hand on the left hand side of the keyboard
Obviously, M$ is being very careful to make sure that they get NO competition in the Office arena, however
.NET enable WordPerfect. I'd imagine that if they see it as a feature that will help them gain market share they can. This seems more likely correct given the rest of the sentance: "...Products for which Corel chooses to make no new commercial releases...".
That depends on how you read it. I read it that Corel is not required to
... or rather a geek (my preferred term).
But I also play sports, I imagine quite a few of those here do.
I also find things other than computers interesting.
Strangely enough I even believe in God.
So remember, you do not define what a nerd is, nor what necessarily interests them.
You're right, my bad. They didn't use Onyxes, they used Octanes. I can't find the original site I got that info off of, but here is a paragraph from www.thegia.com:
:)
In development at Square Honolulu, dozens of the world's top graphic artists are slaving away on SGI's hottest machines, rendering what may very well be the future of entertainment. Square, in fact, is the world's largest consumer of SGI machines, outclassing even effects shop Industrial Light and Magic. Over a year was spent in research and development before work on the film itself began. Entire floors are filled with artists -- each with the greatest rendering weapon known to man, a Silicon Graphics Octane. Even so, rendering is proceeding at the horrendously slow rate of only a few seconds a day. The end result, however, should be well worth it.
The second-a-day part was right though
If so you can grab it from my University site: ;-) would have been much better, but I don't have the option available right yet :)
:)
Here It's a ziped AVI file using the Cinepak codec. Yes I know DivX
As for hating the embedded quicktime movies (I know the pain) - for $29 you can buy quicktime pro and make use of the little dropdown button that says "Save source as...". Greatest feature of it
In reading the bits and scraps I've found about the movie for the past year or so I've only ever managed to find two interesting tidbits.
:) Or better yet, a more indepth site for details? :)
1) The rendering horsepower was/is supplied by something like 2 full floors of sgi onyx boxes. That even with that it was limited to something like a second of film rendering per day and that they anticipated technological advances to be able to render the entire film in time.
2) Square developed a few new algorithms to help with animation. Namely one for hair blowing in the wind (sort of interesting) and the way cloth folds and bends as a "actor" moves (very interesting).
Anyone else with unsubstantiated rumor/facts?
Personally I dislike MSN - so don't get me wrong here. But there is a much more benign reason they could be offering $400 back if you sign up for MSN. Namely they give you $400 now on the condition that you pay them $21 a month for the next three years... $756.
hell I'd happily lend money like that for a near 100% return on investment in only 3 years.
Oh, and here's some (warning! Over 18 and over!) Odd Javascript that I can't even begin to describe...
um...
I always wanted to build a parabolic mirror out of AOL CDs with the sole function of melting all future AOL CDs.
:)
Wonder how that would fare in the contest
I'm late to this whole discussion, I've never seen the "Nuremberg Files" and so consiquently have only read what people discribe the site as ... namely "inciting violence". While I'm fairly certian thats what the site did, does anyone have an example of the actual text on the site?
As for the parallels between this and the DeCSS, while both are extremes of the free speech spectrum, it seems this is the only one that would lead to depriving someone of life - as in Life, Liberty, and the persuit of Happiness.
n/t
I'd assume the easiest solution is just to put a firewall in front of your windows box. Everyone will obviously suggest an old 486 with two nics in it and your favorite distro of course, but if you've got broadband access there are quite a number of commercial hardware firewall/NAT routers out there for fairly cheap. our house uses one from Linksys that was had for about $150 (cheaper than an old PC).
:) That way if your box is Hax0red all you'll lose is save game information ;)
As for securing windows itself... Don't run any services, run the latest security patches, run Win2k if you can, and bind File and Print sharing to something OTHER than TCP/IP (like NetBUEI). And of course don't store credit card info on it
I cannot guarantee that all of IE's persistance works like this, however the persistance I've worked with in developing with IE use XML to store data on the user's hard drive and is known as , surprise, "userdata". Its actually quite handy to use, but can be seperately disabled, just like cookies, in the IE security preferences (its under "allow userdata persistance"). If you'd like to take a look at what the userdata has stored on your computer, check out the XML files stored in (under win2k) "\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Userdata\"
One feature of Userdata is that it can - in theory - only be read from the same place that wrote it, much like cookies. it works from different locations on your hard drive as well - different directories cannot read eachothers userdata.
So before it gets flamed too hard, the feature is quite handy, allows for more storage of date (in terms of bytes) than cookies and is in XML.
great googily moogily thats the funnies thing I've heard. and not nearly as painful as the DeCSS song :)
Personally, my Blue card has 15 digits. Presuming that they have to keep with the same general self-authorizing numbering schemes (numbers so that quick checking schemes can tell right away if the card is bogus) how long could they continue to issue unique "one time use" numbers before overlapping occurs? Couldn't someone just try entering a number at random and more than likely stumble across someone elses current temporary account number?
Don't get me wrong, these are just questions, I think the system is a great step forward. While I don't EVER use my credit card online unless that "little lock" appears in my web browser and don't let companies store my CC info for quick "one click shopping" (shudder) this will ceratinly help bring a little more confidence to newbie online consumers.
Where is a good resource for finding out more about it? According to the linked page:
. Rather, Congress mandated that any company that chooses to give a written warranty on a consumer product must follow some basic ground rules.
It doesn't seem like anyone is being FORCED to warrenty their software, just provide an adiquate one should they decide to warrenty it - which is not what the linked slashdot story implied. Mehr Info Bitte.
Quoth the article:
-Researchers may examine only those matters the government wants examined.
Gov't: Please verify that this device has a power switch.
University: check.
Gov't: Thank you, this concludes your exhaustive evaluation.
Agreed, but some open source companies are beginning to work this angle. Take RedHat for example. As a relative Linux newbie (I still run Win98, Win2k and MacOS) I tend to purchase my distribution CDs. Sure I get a nifty box and an installation manual that has yet to prove too terribly helpful, but their key selling factor is support. buy our CD and you get 3 months of on call support. It isn't lifetime like the windows and mac OSes (which can be argued I'm certain) but its along the same lines.