Amen! Of course the difficulty may be in whether a sites participation is voluntary or required. If required by law then a regulatory commission seems like an almost automatic next step. That could take us down the path to censorship as well. I am for voluntary registration which I think the porn industry has heartily supported.
I didn't know there were any children producing pR0n but hey, people are getting into things younger and younger these days. At this rate we'll have baby truck drivers soon.
Any other objection that Michael has to this switch has to do with OS X not being able to run on commodity PC hardware. Well,.......yeah. As we used to say when we were kids, "No Duh". Why would Apple want to get into the game of supporting literally millions of combinations of hardware compatibility issues and troubleshooting? Why? Where is the income from that going to come from?
I'm no M$ apologist but they seem to have found some profit in there somewhere.
Someone at nist may want to check up on giving money to making flexible organic display devices. The people who are supposed to develop the materials at Lucent were recently highlighted in another story... for falsifying and fabricating results (About the worst thing a scientist can do professionally). Yes, that's Hendrick Schon and Zenan Bao we are talking about. I'm not saying I don't want this stuff to work, but so far you can't make an organic LED that isn't subject to change in its electronic properties from ambient gases or vapors. (H20 for instance). So watch those screen colors change with humidity... or bad breath. Or passing gas (ew!) Not good.
A wireless network will not make any difference to whether people cheat or not, and it isn't likely to make them significantly more successful in their classwork. Georgia Tech has an honesty policy in which students are implicity trusted and in return profs give them copies of old exams, old problem set, etc from which to study. We aren't in a courtroom, but innocent before proven guilty is still a good maxim.
You wrote "This law still gives the parents the right to raise their child[ren] as they see fit."
As far as I know, parents currently have the right to raise their kids as they see fit. And those parents that are interested in monitoring their children's use of video games are already doing so. I suppose you might make the argument that this gives law gives parents an easy way to make sure their kids aren't buying games that they might not approve. However, perhaps a labeling system that requires 'parental advisory' on the packaging and game box gives the parent's the same abilities without restricting kids rights, and when we get down to it, this restriction or censoring is probably worse than any violence the games might portray.
This response is not intentionally argumenative.
I believe this is the best comment posted so far:-) Someone else (can't find the post now) wrote that we should post the info on msn's server and wait for it to be removed. Perhaps I can add an additional thought that in order for to be an even better analogy we should post some other proprietary info not from microsoft on msn and wait for the msn admins to remove it. I'm from Seattle and ordinarily I'm proud to say so. However, there is one blight in the Seattle area and it's not the rain. Microsoft needs to be spanked. Don't budge an inch, slashdot!
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Yes, you make a good point. What would Microsoft do? To make an abbreviation of it:
WWM$D? (for a Klondike Bar (TM))
Amen! Of course the difficulty may be in whether a sites participation is voluntary or required. If required by law then a regulatory commission seems like an almost automatic next step. That could take us down the path to censorship as well. I am for voluntary registration which I think the porn industry has heartily supported.
I didn't know there were any children producing pR0n but hey, people are getting into things younger and younger these days. At this rate we'll have baby truck drivers soon.
Argh!
Recent surveys show that American chimps are falling behind those of other industrialized nations.
Must remember to edit comments; The grammar/spelling/thought police are everywhere.
I'm no M$ apologist but they seem to have found some profit in there somewhere.
Amen to that, but 88.5 isn't half bad and 90.1 is pretty good too.
Someone at nist may want to check up on giving money to making flexible organic display devices. The people who are supposed to develop the materials at Lucent were recently highlighted in another story... for falsifying and fabricating results (About the worst thing a scientist can do professionally). Yes, that's Hendrick Schon and Zenan Bao we are talking about. I'm not saying I don't want this stuff to work, but so far you can't make an organic LED that isn't subject to change in its electronic properties from ambient gases or vapors. (H20 for instance). So watch those screen colors change with humidity... or bad breath. Or passing gas (ew!) Not good.
According to Jones' logic what Enron and Anderson Accounting did was to find innovative ways to use the accounting.
A wireless network will not make any difference to whether people cheat or not, and it isn't likely to make them significantly more successful in their classwork. Georgia Tech has an honesty policy in which students are implicity trusted and in return profs give them copies of old exams, old problem set, etc from which to study. We aren't in a courtroom, but innocent before proven guilty is still a good maxim.
You wrote "This law still gives the parents the right to raise their child[ren] as they see fit." As far as I know, parents currently have the right to raise their kids as they see fit. And those parents that are interested in monitoring their children's use of video games are already doing so. I suppose you might make the argument that this gives law gives parents an easy way to make sure their kids aren't buying games that they might not approve. However, perhaps a labeling system that requires 'parental advisory' on the packaging and game box gives the parent's the same abilities without restricting kids rights, and when we get down to it, this restriction or censoring is probably worse than any violence the games might portray. This response is not intentionally argumenative.
I believe this is the best comment posted so far :-) Someone else (can't find the post now) wrote that we should post the info on msn's server and wait for it to be removed. Perhaps I can add an additional thought that in order for to be an even better analogy we should post some other proprietary info not from microsoft on msn and wait for the msn admins to remove it. I'm from Seattle and ordinarily I'm proud to say so. However, there is one blight in the Seattle area and it's not the rain. Microsoft needs to be spanked. Don't budge an inch, slashdot!
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