Look, libraries have been using filtering long before the internet was even dreamed of. The librarians (or their supervisors) have a limited budget and have to decide FOR YOU what books/articles/info they will have money for or room for. So their ideologies or morals or ethics color their decisions either subconsciously or consciously.
It is very difficult (not impossible) to find a library where you can walk in and find a Hustler magazine to read or a Debbie Does Dallas video to check out. Why? Because the staff has decided not to allow THAT kind of info on their shelves even though thanks to Larry Flynt it is protected speech!
Internet filtering software, though imperfect, is not much different from the HUMAN filtering brainware (also imperfect) which has been in place since Plato was just a gleam in his father's eye.
All of you are missing the obvious. The stuff doesn't need to be stored for 10K years. I believe that sometime in the next 100-500 years someone will come up with a safe reliable way to USE this stuff, a way that will satisfy the vast majority of people (you will never satisfy the nutcases!).
Considering the advances in technology of the past 50 years, why is it so hard to imagine that in 5-10 times that time we won't have someting like, say a matter-energy converter. It's amazing the stuff that used to be sci-fi that's now all over your house.
This was a reasonable question from someone obviously trying to learn the inner workings of Linux (just like me!).
Maybe this wasn't quite the forum for this question, but don't be such a jackass when answering a newbie question, otherwise you'll turn off a convert from Windows.
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Look, libraries have been using filtering long before the internet was even dreamed of. The librarians (or their supervisors) have a limited budget and have to decide FOR YOU what books/articles/info they will have money for or room for. So their ideologies or morals or ethics color their decisions either subconsciously or consciously.
It is very difficult (not impossible) to find a library where you can walk in and find a Hustler magazine to read or a Debbie Does Dallas video to check out. Why? Because the staff has decided not to allow THAT kind of info on their shelves even though thanks to Larry Flynt it is protected speech!
Internet filtering software, though imperfect, is not much different from the HUMAN filtering brainware (also imperfect) which has been in place since Plato was just a gleam in his father's eye.
All of you are missing the obvious. The stuff doesn't need to be stored for 10K years. I believe that sometime in the next 100-500 years someone will come up with a safe reliable way to USE this stuff, a way that will satisfy the vast majority of people (you will never satisfy the nutcases!).
Considering the advances in technology of the past 50 years, why is it so hard to imagine that in 5-10 times that time we won't have someting like, say a matter-energy converter. It's amazing the stuff that used to be sci-fi that's now all over your house.
Kill ALL extremists!!
This was a reasonable question from someone obviously trying to learn the inner workings of Linux (just like me!).
Maybe this wasn't quite the forum for this question, but don't be such a jackass when answering a newbie question, otherwise you'll turn off a convert from Windows.
And yet, few of you complain when G.W. gets impaled by someone's sigfile......
It seems that the Greens don't want any increase in the standard of living since it kills off various species.
Now it seems that even if we go back to living they way we used to, no matter how far back we regress we still cause extinctions!
The solution is simple.... Humans must undergo a mass extinction in order to save the planet for every other species.
I'm only joking....really....I don't mean it...