Take a look at the 2012 CEOP report and you can see some of that feel-good in their dubious statistics. http://ceop.police.uk/Documents/ceopdocs/CEOP_TACSEA2013_240613%20FINAL.pdf For example, they claim to have identified 70,000 new 'IIOC' files. Except on closer reading, duplicate detections of the same image count more than once, so that figure may be several times higher than it really should be. And of those, 75% are on their 'least serious' scale, a level which includes things you'd find in the family photo album. And one-fifth of them were classified as 'self generated' - most of which are likely young people taking a naked picture for their boyfriend who then sends it to the wider internet.
My favorite part: 'The commercial distribution of IIOC on the open internet is estimated to account for a very small percentage of the transactions taking place. This low level is likely to be a result of the large volume of IIOC in free circulation.' Yes... piracy is killing commercial child abuse!
"Schoolgirl roleplay is common"
Of course it is. For the majority of people, school was the time of sexual awakening and exploration. That's going to leave an impression, so it's no surprise many people want to re-live it.
Everyone has those socially unaccepted thoughts. I work Helldesk at a school - how many times each day do you imagine I wish I could just knee one of the little buggers in the stomach and kick 'em down the stairs? Most people are just very good at ignoring those impulses, and denying they have any such desire at all.
Similar in the UK. We have a ban on 'extreme pornography' that had to include an exception for BBFC rated movies - otherwise, even by the writer's admission, a lot of the horror films coming out of Hollywood would meet the definition.
These are standardised tests. In order to be fair and standardised, the marking needs to be objective. So it's in the form of a checklist. That way everyone gets marked according to the same rules, not according to which examiner happened to get assigned their paper.
I was one of those who self-studied in secondary school. Caused chaos at the maths and science exams. The problem is that the exam mark scheme doesn't just expect the right answer: If you get the answer wrong, it also gives marks for reaching various 'milestones' and completing vital steps in the process of working it out. This part of the scheme depends upon the student carrying out the calculations using the approved curriculum method. If the student uses an alternate method, their answers become all-or-nothing: Get the answer wrong and get no marks at all.
Because of those 'complex and powerful features.' They can be used to cheat. It's easy to fill a programmable calculator with notes. Exactly how cheat-worthy this is depends on the exam - if it's all math problems then the extent is really down to just noteing any long, complex formulas. If it has non-math questions though - things like the tolerances requires to pass safety certification schemes or the differences between wireing color codes or different eras* - a note function can remove a lot of the rote memorisation element from the course.
* Three-phase in the UK is a nightmare. Different color schemes are in use depending when wireing went in. Get them mixed up and your expensive new industrial equipment goes bang.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK we also have tax-free fuel for some uses - primarily agricultural. To prevent tax evasion, we use a very low-tech approach: It's mixed with a red dye. So anyone who puts it in their car will know they are using dodgy diesel.
There's a small criminal industry of dye-strippers, but they are generally not too hard to catch - the equipment is big and can't be concealed. Barrels of acid, things like that.
This isn't really inconsistant with their guiding principles. The reform doesn't actually socialise medicine - there are still no new government-run hospitals, and no promise that your expenses will be met out of tax money should you suffer illness or injury. The finances of healthcare provision are still being handled by private industry - insurance companies. There are really only three things the reform changes of any note: - Individual mandate: Everyone needs health insurance. - Tightening of industry regulations in some areas, primarily relating to minimum service coverage (the reason some premiums went up) and coverage of preexisting conditions (Previously a major flaw in the system). - Subsidies for those on a low income.
It's not socialism. It's a sort of 'contract socialism' where the government hands out money to the private sector to actually get things one, and if there is one economic ideal that republicans value above all others it is the power of the private sector to get things done.
Compilers can never optimize better than the *best* humans, operating without time constraints. Very few programmers have that level of skill, or the time to spend on the task. That's why optimizing compilers were invented.
Real reason: So they can shut down the internet in the vicinity of major protests, and thus keep people from tweeting and streaming video when the police start firing tear gas into the crowd and breaking a few bones.
That research is so full of biased studies and political experts out to prove a point, I can't figure out what the science actually says. The conclusions are all over the place.
I've seen people argue that porn destroys marriage by causing men to lose interest in sex on the same page that they then argue that porn turns men into sex-crazed rapists.
Child porn is very handy for setting a precedent, because judge and jury alike will usually so loathe the victim they'll do anything to see a strict sentence happen. If you've a defendant you can prove had child porn, you could probably charge them with regicide and conspiracy to blow up Pluto - and still have a chance of a conviction.
The problem there is that a lot of the people who end up in your prisons would actually not be serious offenders, but rather rebellious teenagers doing a little petty shoplifting or smoking pot. Crimes they would cease if just given a slap on the wrist, or just outgrow. Instead your approach throws them in jail to disrupt their education, ruin them socially, give them plenty of new criminal contacts and exposure to a criminal culture that encourages crime, and render them effectively unemployable upon release so their only possible income is harder crime.
You've just invented a way to turn annoying teenagers into home invaders, drug dealers and murderers. Nice plan.
It was a reference to the vast amount the government spends subsidizing corn production - and by proxy, meat - thus ensuring that unhealthy food is available so cheaply that even the poorest need not fear starvation.
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Actually, the CEOP 2012 report states that commercial distribution is almost non-existent.
http://ceop.police.uk/Documents/ceopdocs/CEOP_TACSEA2013_240613%20FINAL.pdf
It's all people swapping collections and images with friends.
Take a look at the 2012 CEOP report and you can see some of that feel-good in their dubious statistics.
http://ceop.police.uk/Documents/ceopdocs/CEOP_TACSEA2013_240613%20FINAL.pdf
For example, they claim to have identified 70,000 new 'IIOC' files. Except on closer reading, duplicate detections of the same image count more than once, so that figure may be several times higher than it really should be. And of those, 75% are on their 'least serious' scale, a level which includes things you'd find in the family photo album. And one-fifth of them were classified as 'self generated' - most of which are likely young people taking a naked picture for their boyfriend who then sends it to the wider internet.
My favorite part:
'The commercial distribution of IIOC on the open internet is estimated to account for a very small percentage of the transactions taking place. This low level is likely to be a result of the large volume of IIOC in free circulation.'
Yes... piracy is killing commercial child abuse!
"Schoolgirl roleplay is common"
Of course it is. For the majority of people, school was the time of sexual awakening and exploration. That's going to leave an impression, so it's no surprise many people want to re-live it.
Everyone has those socially unaccepted thoughts. I work Helldesk at a school - how many times each day do you imagine I wish I could just knee one of the little buggers in the stomach and kick 'em down the stairs? Most people are just very good at ignoring those impulses, and denying they have any such desire at all.
Similar in the UK. We have a ban on 'extreme pornography' that had to include an exception for BBFC rated movies - otherwise, even by the writer's admission, a lot of the horror films coming out of Hollywood would meet the definition.
Can you come up with a better system?
These are standardised tests. In order to be fair and standardised, the marking needs to be objective. So it's in the form of a checklist. That way everyone gets marked according to the same rules, not according to which examiner happened to get assigned their paper.
I was one of those who self-studied in secondary school. Caused chaos at the maths and science exams. The problem is that the exam mark scheme doesn't just expect the right answer: If you get the answer wrong, it also gives marks for reaching various 'milestones' and completing vital steps in the process of working it out. This part of the scheme depends upon the student carrying out the calculations using the approved curriculum method. If the student uses an alternate method, their answers become all-or-nothing: Get the answer wrong and get no marks at all.
Because of those 'complex and powerful features.' They can be used to cheat. It's easy to fill a programmable calculator with notes. Exactly how cheat-worthy this is depends on the exam - if it's all math problems then the extent is really down to just noteing any long, complex formulas. If it has non-math questions though - things like the tolerances requires to pass safety certification schemes or the differences between wireing color codes or different eras* - a note function can remove a lot of the rote memorisation element from the course.
* Three-phase in the UK is a nightmare. Different color schemes are in use depending when wireing went in. Get them mixed up and your expensive new industrial equipment goes bang.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK we also have tax-free fuel for some uses - primarily agricultural. To prevent tax evasion, we use a very low-tech approach: It's mixed with a red dye. So anyone who puts it in their car will know they are using dodgy diesel.
There's a small criminal industry of dye-strippers, but they are generally not too hard to catch - the equipment is big and can't be concealed. Barrels of acid, things like that.
This isn't really inconsistant with their guiding principles. The reform doesn't actually socialise medicine - there are still no new government-run hospitals, and no promise that your expenses will be met out of tax money should you suffer illness or injury. The finances of healthcare provision are still being handled by private industry - insurance companies. There are really only three things the reform changes of any note:
- Individual mandate: Everyone needs health insurance.
- Tightening of industry regulations in some areas, primarily relating to minimum service coverage (the reason some premiums went up) and coverage of preexisting conditions (Previously a major flaw in the system).
- Subsidies for those on a low income.
It's not socialism. It's a sort of 'contract socialism' where the government hands out money to the private sector to actually get things one, and if there is one economic ideal that republicans value above all others it is the power of the private sector to get things done.
But there's a long way to go yet.
But then how would they handle key management?
Embarrassing the creators of all the OSs that take five minutes to reach desktop.
And an ever-growing array of utility software. What OS is complete without a media player, web browser and Minesweeper?
Compilers can never optimize better than the *best* humans, operating without time constraints. Very few programmers have that level of skill, or the time to spend on the task. That's why optimizing compilers were invented.
First rule of AI design: Always include a kill-code.
Couldn't you just put the shutdown-chip in land mines? There would still be a lot of legal issues, but the technology shouldn't be too hard.
The surprise here is that the cutoff is so big.
Real reason: So they can shut down the internet in the vicinity of major protests, and thus keep people from tweeting and streaming video when the police start firing tear gas into the crowd and breaking a few bones.
They don't admit to helping the FBI. Look up 'parallel construction.'
Been looking at porn since I was sixteen. Now twenty-eight.
Still a virgin.
I only like the fiction and artwork though, not the real photos and videos. They are just too close to reality for me.
That research is so full of biased studies and political experts out to prove a point, I can't figure out what the science actually says. The conclusions are all over the place.
I've seen people argue that porn destroys marriage by causing men to lose interest in sex on the same page that they then argue that porn turns men into sex-crazed rapists.
Thanks to the power of precedent, not any more.
Child porn is very handy for setting a precedent, because judge and jury alike will usually so loathe the victim they'll do anything to see a strict sentence happen. If you've a defendant you can prove had child porn, you could probably charge them with regicide and conspiracy to blow up Pluto - and still have a chance of a conviction.
The problem there is that a lot of the people who end up in your prisons would actually not be serious offenders, but rather rebellious teenagers doing a little petty shoplifting or smoking pot. Crimes they would cease if just given a slap on the wrist, or just outgrow. Instead your approach throws them in jail to disrupt their education, ruin them socially, give them plenty of new criminal contacts and exposure to a criminal culture that encourages crime, and render them effectively unemployable upon release so their only possible income is harder crime.
You've just invented a way to turn annoying teenagers into home invaders, drug dealers and murderers. Nice plan.
It was a reference to the vast amount the government spends subsidizing corn production - and by proxy, meat - thus ensuring that unhealthy food is available so cheaply that even the poorest need not fear starvation.