It's functionally the same, except I can't look at a clock and get the wrong information. Also, I don't see how timezones would be any different. Year round DST has the same effect as 'always start work/school an hour earlier.'
The ISO standard is YYYY/MM/DD, and that is used by China, Japan, and anybody who likes files and folders to be properly organized. The US system fucked up on the placement of the year, but is the same when the year is left out.
Seasonal work hours are a replacement for seasonal DST. Coming in an hour earlier all year round is a replacement for DST all year round. Please read more carefully.
Banks being open at an hour when one doesn't work seems generally more convenient to me, and 8-4 and 9-5 have 7 hours of overlap anyway. Also, since governments are the ones that insist upon DST, they could put pressure on an 8-4 workday replacing a 9-5 one.
Adjusting work hours seasonally would be more effective, and then we wouldn't have to worry about confusion from the result of the change. Even better, the changes could be more gradual and could present a change greater than an hour if that is beneficial.
Also, saying that we should stay on DST all year is idiotic. We should just do things an hour earlier.
Why is an innovation inherently going to make use of more computing power?
And yes, there are pretty clearly areas where there is no practical room for improvement. For example, we have digital audio quality that can exceed the perception of even the best humans, so for humans, there is no reason to go further. That's not to say that there isn't room for improvement, but rather, for such an improvement to be useful, we'll need a better human.
That doesn't make sense. 48k and 96K are sampling rates, so the problem wouldn't be in encoding and decoding. If there was a quality problem, it would be analog to digital converters those transferring to digital formats are using and the digital to analog converers a sound system has. You seem to be conflating sampling rate and bitrate. There have been dramatic improvements for the same bitrates in the last 20 years.
Being contraband means the prices are higher. Also, said higher prices mean that the profitability of said markets is higher, which means that the profits are more often high enough to encourage organized violent crime. Furthermore, those drugs being criminalized makes seeking treatment more difficult.
Why? What does that solve, and how is that not going to be worse that the thing it solves?
And that doesn't even solve the "problem". GSM, for example, is a standard that has patents on physical hardware. Why is software so special that it should be exempt from patents altogether?
Software is special because it's purely mathematical, but we should try to eventually rid ourselves of copyright and patents altogether as well. It will not be worse because patents, especially software patents, do not result in a net social benefit, so the elimination of them would result in no longer having a hindrance.
That would make no sense. For something like H.264 or GSM, Google could just pay a one time fee for each standard, and all of a sudden every Chrome user gets H.264 and every Motorola phone gets GSM, for no additional charge in perpetuity?
The various patent holders only invented the invention once, so just getting paid once is fine as well. However, in this scenario, I'm saying that this is one option available. Google might find it better to pay a smaller royalty over time than a one time lump sum.
It works fantastically. If someone wants to write software that says you can't use patented technologies, *THAT PERSON* is the one who's causing the issue. And that is an ideological stance that is counter to reality.
Then practically all people that write software are 'causing issues', because it's quite difficult to write non-trivial software that doesn't infringe on a patent. We're just fortunate in that most of the time, the patent holder is unaware of this fact.
The simple fact is that FRAND works just fine. That's reality. Pretending like it's some sort of assault on freedom, or free software, is ass backwards.
If by works just fine, you mean helps to uphold rent seeking behavior, then sure. It's quite annoying that the standard often used for 'works just fine' is 'hasn't completely halted progress.'
'Reasonable' terms are often quite unreasonable. And the solution is very easy. DON'T allow patents on software. If they won't do that, there's also the solution of not having their standards directive allow for standards that require royalties, just as they don't allow for standards that refuse to grant someone a license. Also, there could be a requirement for an alternative that is FOSS compatible, such as a one time fee that allows for downstream users (which I believe is what happened with SAMBA)
As I've said earlier, I don't think being linear or nonlinear is the key here. There are gameplay focused track rides, and that would seem to be fine by him. He mentions Angry Birds as an example of what he calls success. To me, it seems to be a parallel to the problem improvements in graphics have often brought to games. Stunning graphics, elaborate worlds, and voice acting all take a lot of time and energy, and can distract from the element of gameplay.
I'll agree that Japanese games tend to be more linear, but that doesn't say anything about whether they are more or less guilty of that offense. In fact, I'd say that in many cases, games with branching plots tend to be more guilty of this, since writing multiple plotlines means more resources are put into cutscenes and voice acting. The only thing worse than trying to make a movie is trying to make 3 or 4 movies, and the illusion of an open but still very detailed world seems to me to be often used to compensate for uninspired gameplay, which would be the heart of the problem being discussed.
Explaining good touch, bad touch, and stranger danger would be the key IMO. That would depend upon good parenting, although it might be something to bring up in schools as well.
Picture it being your daughter, and some creepy motherfucker eyeing her up. Put yourself in someone else's shoes.
Or in other words, put yourself in the shoes of a madman. Parents are often crazy in regards to their children, and perhaps the worst case on average is the father in regards to his daughter, which would be what's relevant here.
Or put differently: a mature 14 year old in love with a 20 year old will just have to wait a bit -- big deal! Even 1000 such "tragedies" cannot outweigh one case of abuse.
That's generally the opposite of how our legal system works, at least if the tragedy is the 20 year old and 14 year old having sex, someone reporting it, and the 20 year old being a registered sex offender.
The reddit post says nothing about that, and I don't recall the OP in the SA thread (which now apparently needs an account to view) saying anything conclusive about activity, nor would I consider it a particularly reliable source anyway. The summary says it was the most egregious, not the most active. Even if it is the most active, it doesn't mean it constitutes a majority, and could very well be just a plurality.
What's up with the moderation to this article? Everyone opposed to trading child porn pictures on Reddit is getting modded down, and everyone defending possession of those pictures is getting modded up. Please tell me Slashdot's moral compass isn't that horribly screwed up.
A major reason for that may be that most don't consider much of the content in question to constitute 'child' or 'porn', let alone both. Also, given the amount of bullshit that has been forced upon by the 'think of the children' mentality, many people, especially techies, might want horrible things to happen to children just because of all the trouble they have caused.
It's sort of a gray area, and the PROTECT act depends upon the work being 'obscene', because the Child Pornography Prevention Act was found unconstitional. Really, we need to just get rid of that obscenity nonsense altogether.
The attitude of 'online geek communities' is probably due to the fact that 'child pornography' laws are often quite ridiculous, especially given the degree that they conflict with age of consent laws and the behavior of minors. Teenagers now have easy access to cameras and the internet (often on the same device), and being packed with hormones, often share risque pictures of themselves, which likely makes up a significant amount of the content if not the overwhelming majority on this subreddit. In most of the western world, the age of consent is 16, so anybody above 16 and below 18 can engage in all kinds of crazy sexual acts with just about anybody else above 16, but if someone distributes a nude picture shot by the teen, it's possibly 'child pornography.'
Regarding Stallman's point, I'd say you pretty much have to be nuts to disagree. The question is that with necrophilia, bestiality, and underage sex, it is questionable whether or not one party is capable of truly giving consent, and if that is the case, then they would be considered coerced under all circumstances. Incest raises some questions regarding offspring, but I think Stallman was willing to have a condition that such couples must use birth control. Realistic studies of prostitution seem to suggest that at the very least, decriminalizing it leads to much better means of stopping sex slave trade and other abuse of prostitutes, because the victims are no longer criminals that take big risks in seeking help.
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It's functionally the same, except I can't look at a clock and get the wrong information. Also, I don't see how timezones would be any different. Year round DST has the same effect as 'always start work/school an hour earlier.'
Now I can be sure that my lighting solution can deliver true blacks for better contrast
The ISO standard is YYYY/MM/DD, and that is used by China, Japan, and anybody who likes files and folders to be properly organized. The US system fucked up on the placement of the year, but is the same when the year is left out.
Seasonal work hours are a replacement for seasonal DST. Coming in an hour earlier all year round is a replacement for DST all year round. Please read more carefully.
Banks being open at an hour when one doesn't work seems generally more convenient to me, and 8-4 and 9-5 have 7 hours of overlap anyway. Also, since governments are the ones that insist upon DST, they could put pressure on an 8-4 workday replacing a 9-5 one.
Adjusting work hours seasonally would be more effective, and then we wouldn't have to worry about confusion from the result of the change. Even better, the changes could be more gradual and could present a change greater than an hour if that is beneficial.
Also, saying that we should stay on DST all year is idiotic. We should just do things an hour earlier.
Why is an innovation inherently going to make use of more computing power?
And yes, there are pretty clearly areas where there is no practical room for improvement. For example, we have digital audio quality that can exceed the perception of even the best humans, so for humans, there is no reason to go further. That's not to say that there isn't room for improvement, but rather, for such an improvement to be useful, we'll need a better human.
That doesn't make sense. 48k and 96K are sampling rates, so the problem wouldn't be in encoding and decoding. If there was a quality problem, it would be analog to digital converters those transferring to digital formats are using and the digital to analog converers a sound system has. You seem to be conflating sampling rate and bitrate. There have been dramatic improvements for the same bitrates in the last 20 years.
It's pretty much a purely open source community instead of a free software community.
Being contraband means the prices are higher. Also, said higher prices mean that the profitability of said markets is higher, which means that the profits are more often high enough to encourage organized violent crime. Furthermore, those drugs being criminalized makes seeking treatment more difficult.
or a prepaid credit card that can be picked up just about anywhere.
Software is special because it's purely mathematical, but we should try to eventually rid ourselves of copyright and patents altogether as well. It will not be worse because patents, especially software patents, do not result in a net social benefit, so the elimination of them would result in no longer having a hindrance.
The various patent holders only invented the invention once, so just getting paid once is fine as well. However, in this scenario, I'm saying that this is one option available. Google might find it better to pay a smaller royalty over time than a one time lump sum.
Then practically all people that write software are 'causing issues', because it's quite difficult to write non-trivial software that doesn't infringe on a patent. We're just fortunate in that most of the time, the patent holder is unaware of this fact.
If by works just fine, you mean helps to uphold rent seeking behavior, then sure. It's quite annoying that the standard often used for 'works just fine' is 'hasn't completely halted progress.'
'Reasonable' terms are often quite unreasonable. And the solution is very easy. DON'T allow patents on software. If they won't do that, there's also the solution of not having their standards directive allow for standards that require royalties, just as they don't allow for standards that refuse to grant someone a license. Also, there could be a requirement for an alternative that is FOSS compatible, such as a one time fee that allows for downstream users (which I believe is what happened with SAMBA)
Who said anything about an important regulatory agency? We're talking about the DEA.
well, then we all need to buy 2 shares. Then we'd have 60% ownership.
As I've said earlier, I don't think being linear or nonlinear is the key here. There are gameplay focused track rides, and that would seem to be fine by him. He mentions Angry Birds as an example of what he calls success. To me, it seems to be a parallel to the problem improvements in graphics have often brought to games. Stunning graphics, elaborate worlds, and voice acting all take a lot of time and energy, and can distract from the element of gameplay.
I'll agree that Japanese games tend to be more linear, but that doesn't say anything about whether they are more or less guilty of that offense. In fact, I'd say that in many cases, games with branching plots tend to be more guilty of this, since writing multiple plotlines means more resources are put into cutscenes and voice acting. The only thing worse than trying to make a movie is trying to make 3 or 4 movies, and the illusion of an open but still very detailed world seems to me to be often used to compensate for uninspired gameplay, which would be the heart of the problem being discussed.
No, I don't even visit reddit and never have for any extended period of time, and that portion wasn't entirely serious.
Explaining good touch, bad touch, and stranger danger would be the key IMO. That would depend upon good parenting, although it might be something to bring up in schools as well.
Or in other words, put yourself in the shoes of a madman. Parents are often crazy in regards to their children, and perhaps the worst case on average is the father in regards to his daughter, which would be what's relevant here.
That's generally the opposite of how our legal system works, at least if the tragedy is the 20 year old and 14 year old having sex, someone reporting it, and the 20 year old being a registered sex offender.
A major reason for that may be that most don't consider much of the content in question to constitute 'child' or 'porn', let alone both. Also, given the amount of bullshit that has been forced upon by the 'think of the children' mentality, many people, especially techies, might want horrible things to happen to children just because of all the trouble they have caused.
It's sort of a gray area, and the PROTECT act depends upon the work being 'obscene', because the Child Pornography Prevention Act was found unconstitional. Really, we need to just get rid of that obscenity nonsense altogether.
I would suggest you do the same, preteen_girls was the only subreddit closed that I noticed that specifically mentioned preteens.
So, everyone who was aroused by the music video for '...Baby One More Time", featuring a sixteen year old Britney Spears, is creepy?
The attitude of 'online geek communities' is probably due to the fact that 'child pornography' laws are often quite ridiculous, especially given the degree that they conflict with age of consent laws and the behavior of minors. Teenagers now have easy access to cameras and the internet (often on the same device), and being packed with hormones, often share risque pictures of themselves, which likely makes up a significant amount of the content if not the overwhelming majority on this subreddit. In most of the western world, the age of consent is 16, so anybody above 16 and below 18 can engage in all kinds of crazy sexual acts with just about anybody else above 16, but if someone distributes a nude picture shot by the teen, it's possibly 'child pornography.'
Regarding Stallman's point, I'd say you pretty much have to be nuts to disagree. The question is that with necrophilia, bestiality, and underage sex, it is questionable whether or not one party is capable of truly giving consent, and if that is the case, then they would be considered coerced under all circumstances. Incest raises some questions regarding offspring, but I think Stallman was willing to have a condition that such couples must use birth control. Realistic studies of prostitution seem to suggest that at the very least, decriminalizing it leads to much better means of stopping sex slave trade and other abuse of prostitutes, because the victims are no longer criminals that take big risks in seeking help.