"If am I going to be part of sentencing a man (or woman) to prison for "child" porn, it had better damn well be children and not some sexually active 16 year old girl actively seeking sexual partners. If it is a 16 year old boy, actively seeking sexual partners is a given 99.9999% of the time."
The judges are aware of this sentiment, and just remind the jury that they are there to enforce the letter of the law, not to ignore it in favor of their own princibles. They basically order the jury to find guilty.
I'm a school IT tech, and... well, schools are perpetually terrified of sex. Things that to most people would be just a minor embarassment to most are career-enders to anyone who works in a school. If any photos came to light of me in porn, no school would ever hire me again.
If he is fleeing, it's more likely fleeing the jail than fine. Rich or not, a nerd is a nerd... somehow I doubt he would do very well in jail, and he probably agrees. Even a Swedish jail, which I imagine is rather less full of beatings than the US approach of cramming people in like sardines to keep costs down.
Basic intimidation. It's the standard way to enforce a law when there are far too many violators to prosecute even a tiny fraction. Pick a few prominent examples, and then utterly destroy their lives. That will serve to scare many of the others straight.
I imagine mind uploading would have to be by destructive readout. Destroy the brain in order to extract the information from it. Getting the kind of resolution required for scanning is going to take a nanotech revolution too - if you just sliced it up and used conventional microscopes, it would be time-prohibative.
My understanding is that they are overworked. There are too many patent applications to spend even ten minutes reviewing each one, so the task of the examiners is to weed out only the most obviously worthless and rubber-stamp the rest. Then it's down to the courts to clean up their mess.
I wrote a deconvoluter once. Really nasty simple one, using sheer processing power instead of effective math. Worked, but too slow to be of any practical use. Weeks per frame.
Don't forget all the over-eighteens living with parents, and those people who don't want their partner finding out they sometimes want to look at porn. Much subterfuge in the future.
I'm hearing differing claims from what should be reliable sources regarding if it's opt-in or out-out. It's a bit of a mystery right now. To make things worse, people can't even agree on what those terms mean. Does a person 'opt-in' to the filter, or the porn?
I imagine the purpose of the website is to collect complaints which can then be used to justify further acts of censorship. It's a lot easier to ban something if you can create the impression of popular support for the ban.
"Sounds more like a small group of anti-porn people who just can't stand me seeing it so they go to the government in some last effort."
Spot on. There are actually a few such groups, the chief of which is Mothers' Union... unsurprisingly, a Christian organisation. Them, and there seem to be a few people in government of similar view too.
Not the good porn sites. Not the ones with effective age verification, and good security. Not the ones careful about who they might lure in, who run open businesses, accept audits and pay taxes. No, those will all suffer heavily because they lose the lucrative 'Twenty years old and still lives with parents' demographic and the possibly even more lucrative 'Don't want my wife/girlfriend finding out I look' market.
I mean the dodgy sites. The ones that operate out of Elbonia. Here today, gone tomorrow, shifting domains to always be one step ahead of the censors. Advertising with a spam blitz and search engine manipulation to lure in as many viewers as they can, regardless of age, as quick as they can before getting blocked and moving on. All those people hideing from those they live with will still want their porn, and cut off from respectable sources they'll have no option but to move downmarket.
If you've got a wounded veteran too damaged to go into combat, you've wasted the years of training and experience. It'd be cheaper to hook him up and give the quick course in neural interface operation than to train a drone operator from scratch. Besides, if the wounded veteran is going to need an implant to operate his artificial limbs anyway, that's money saved.
I wasn't taking about now. It'd take months to design, build, install and test such a device. If it works though, it'd be a useful thing to have next emergency.
Could you install lights *over* the ice though? Some sort of high-power laser projector on a pole or mounted on a building capable of projecting an image of the landing lights onto the snow.
Not alone. I got a PCIe card for my mac pro to add eSATA. I use a four-drive port-expander bay, and plug drives in and out like removeable media. I like to design video filters. Thus I work with raw HD video a lot. So I need a great deal of storage, most of which sits idle for months until I feel the urge to work on that project. This method seemed like a good way to handle it.
The maglock power connector isn't common because Apple patented it, and won't licence the patent to anyone else now so they can keep it an apple-exclusive feature.
Thunderbolt is designed by Intel (Though they call it Light Peak) - they have an arrangement with Apple for initial release, with Apple getting to be the first to release the technology, but Intel doesn't plan to keep it Apple-exclusive forever.
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"If am I going to be part of sentencing a man (or woman) to prison for "child" porn, it had better damn well be children and not some sexually active 16 year old girl actively seeking sexual partners. If it is a 16 year old boy, actively seeking sexual partners is a given 99.9999% of the time."
The judges are aware of this sentiment, and just remind the jury that they are there to enforce the letter of the law, not to ignore it in favor of their own princibles. They basically order the jury to find guilty.
Superresolution. Doable, with the setup you describe... but 36 cheap cameras probably wouldn't do so well as just one slightly more expensive camera.
I'm a school IT tech, and... well, schools are perpetually terrified of sex. Things that to most people would be just a minor embarassment to most are career-enders to anyone who works in a school. If any photos came to light of me in porn, no school would ever hire me again.
If he is fleeing, it's more likely fleeing the jail than fine. Rich or not, a nerd is a nerd... somehow I doubt he would do very well in jail, and he probably agrees. Even a Swedish jail, which I imagine is rather less full of beatings than the US approach of cramming people in like sardines to keep costs down.
Not their style. They don't break the law - they are just experts in using the law to their own advantage. They won't break their own rules.
Basic intimidation. It's the standard way to enforce a law when there are far too many violators to prosecute even a tiny fraction. Pick a few prominent examples, and then utterly destroy their lives. That will serve to scare many of the others straight.
I imagine mind uploading would have to be by destructive readout. Destroy the brain in order to extract the information from it. Getting the kind of resolution required for scanning is going to take a nanotech revolution too - if you just sliced it up and used conventional microscopes, it would be time-prohibative.
You get that too? I thought the chromatic aberration was just a flaw in my eyes. Does everyone have problems focusing blue?
Think of the themes.
Parents coming round? Call up the boring pattern and pictures of landscapes. Then they leave, and it's back to all those anime screencaps and fan-art.
Prior art.
http://gizmodo.com/5150019/the-joydck-mods-your-penis-into-a-joystick-nsfw
My understanding is that they are overworked. There are too many patent applications to spend even ten minutes reviewing each one, so the task of the examiners is to weed out only the most obviously worthless and rubber-stamp the rest. Then it's down to the courts to clean up their mess.
I wrote a deconvoluter once. Really nasty simple one, using sheer processing power instead of effective math. Worked, but too slow to be of any practical use. Weeks per frame.
Don't forget all the over-eighteens living with parents, and those people who don't want their partner finding out they sometimes want to look at porn. Much subterfuge in the future.
I'm hearing differing claims from what should be reliable sources regarding if it's opt-in or out-out. It's a bit of a mystery right now. To make things worse, people can't even agree on what those terms mean. Does a person 'opt-in' to the filter, or the porn?
I imagine the purpose of the website is to collect complaints which can then be used to justify further acts of censorship. It's a lot easier to ban something if you can create the impression of popular support for the ban.
"Sounds more like a small group of anti-porn people who just can't stand me seeing it so they go to the government in some last effort."
Spot on. There are actually a few such groups, the chief of which is Mothers' Union... unsurprisingly, a Christian organisation. Them, and there seem to be a few people in government of similar view too.
Not the good porn sites. Not the ones with effective age verification, and good security. Not the ones careful about who they might lure in, who run open businesses, accept audits and pay taxes. No, those will all suffer heavily because they lose the lucrative 'Twenty years old and still lives with parents' demographic and the possibly even more lucrative 'Don't want my wife/girlfriend finding out I look' market.
I mean the dodgy sites. The ones that operate out of Elbonia. Here today, gone tomorrow, shifting domains to always be one step ahead of the censors. Advertising with a spam blitz and search engine manipulation to lure in as many viewers as they can, regardless of age, as quick as they can before getting blocked and moving on. All those people hideing from those they live with will still want their porn, and cut off from respectable sources they'll have no option but to move downmarket.
Robot arm beats no arm, or a natural but nonfunctional arm. I'd settle for keyboard and mouse interface.
Training.
If you've got a wounded veteran too damaged to go into combat, you've wasted the years of training and experience. It'd be cheaper to hook him up and give the quick course in neural interface operation than to train a drone operator from scratch. Besides, if the wounded veteran is going to need an implant to operate his artificial limbs anyway, that's money saved.
I wasn't taking about now. It'd take months to design, build, install and test such a device. If it works though, it'd be a useful thing to have next emergency.
That's what Firewire is for.
Could you install lights *over* the ice though? Some sort of high-power laser projector on a pole or mounted on a building capable of projecting an image of the landing lights onto the snow.
See, I'm still getting it wrong!
Not alone. I got a PCIe card for my mac pro to add eSATA. I use a four-drive port-expander bay, and plug drives in and out like removeable media.
I like to design video filters. Thus I work with raw HD video a lot. So I need a great deal of storage, most of which sits idle for months until I feel the urge to work on that project. This method seemed like a good way to handle it.
The maglock power connector isn't common because Apple patented it, and won't licence the patent to anyone else now so they can keep it an apple-exclusive feature.
Thunderbolt is designed by Intel (Though they call it Light Peak) - they have an arrangement with Apple for initial release, with Apple getting to be the first to release the technology, but Intel doesn't plan to keep it Apple-exclusive forever.