Glad you highlighted that context is important. I'm obviously not going to tell alot about the case I mentioned. Today I think I made the "right" decision but one can never be too sure.
Generally people get a bit catagorical in these cases. I heard about a case where father that was seen bathing naked with his son got lifetime in jail because the neighbour saw them. This might be true or not, but it goes to show that there might be a misunderstanding even in cases that have to do with child-abuse. The label child-abuser is probably not so easy to wash away even if you are innocent.
I do understand that people that are watching child pornography are contributing to creation of it. Some are doing it intensionally some by accident and some because they have not been talking to psycologist when they should have. I'm not trying to make excuses for the fact that he was a "offender". But I think one should think twice before throwing somebody to the lions.
About the victim issue, I think nowadays when information is up front and extremely easily accessible, you might be victimizing people without even knowing it. Just like, by watching a tv program you might contribute to the creation of the next without knowing it.
Hey!! Many child abusers are teachers, priest, politicians and business people. I don't really hear about many cases where someone have a real "evil"-intent like selling crack to kids or do Al Qaida bussiness on the side, in fact I don't even think Al Quaida is very tolerant when i comes to child abuse. I'm sorry to hear that a modern teacher is this catagorical. It's in public interest show child porn surfer to a psycologist/psyciatrist instead of to the police and the press. Child molesters are quite a different subject, violent people are those who are habitual. A child porn surfing joe might be a regular guy like you and me who might be in a 'difficult' phase of his life.
Then again, many people have the tendency to go a little bit out of their way to preserve what they think is right and I don't blame you for beeing concerned for your kids. Then again, child porn surfers might be people too. Use your brain.
I've had this case myself once, and I told the porn collector. He quitted collecting porn. Actually telling the police or your boss about the content of your users files puts you in a unetical position as a system administrator, not to mention unprofessional. I'd not be the first to protect people that collect child pornography but they are most likely people too, or atleast they used to be and I belive most of them can change back if you give them a chance. Telling the police will put them in prison, the papers will know and they will be unable to resume a normal life again. If somebody where to run a business out of it or to resemble a complete stereotype in the field I'd probably go way futher.
Well since everybody is out celebrating it's definitly the day for my telecomunication pleassure:) I'm spending all Norways telecommunication on my own!:)
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If this is not for fun, how do you explain the need for ssh while running and shooting enemies? Are you actually that quick on the keyboard that you'll just ssh into the enemy's computer and reverse his keymap so that he will shoot sombebody else? Or are you looking for that old edition of killallquake, or maybe it was something else. Where you will be running around killing processes instead of monsters? Tho many processes resembles daemons it might not be that smart to kill them:) We definitly need a terminal in quake, I don't belive it is that hard to make, it will just be the nigthmare of makeing a keymap that allows you to run around and type at the same time.
the GNU worlds' greatest example of the american dream -realised!
I didn't see much americans on the developer-map when it was up some time ago, tho americans probably like to keep quiet about their efforts. What I mean is that you had to go all the way to central-Europe especially Germany to se some great concentration of developers. This more or less looks like a trend to me, back when I was using Atari ST as my home computer, I realized that the professionalism involved in a program made in germay was very often quite superior too programs made elswhere. The problem, for me, was that I didn't understand much german, so I'd usually stick with the mainstream.
Anyways I agree on every part of your message except the part of gnome, which I also tend to like a bit. I've been 'using' the KDE desktop since the it was a half windowmanager. With every release I see something smart added to it, I've sent some mails when there are things I don't like or think I have a better idea about, the response is virtually allways in my inbox the next day. I'd be surprised to see a user experience like that provided by Microsoft or any other corporate vendors.
Isn't there any efforts going into making an alternative to the soon to be completly propritary web, root-nameservers etc.? Why don't we just reinvet the wheel and make it completly GPL? Please point me to any group/individual interested in starting such an effort, besides myself:)
This sounds strange. If you can't make copies for personal use, then what do you do if the CD breaks? Don't you own the right to listen to the content of the now broken media? Do you just send the CD back and get a new one? Then the guy in the article should have done this until it worked on his computers.
Besides, artists that agree to make broken CD's doesn't deserve any of my CD budget, as these CDs also make poor garbage and take along time for the nature to break down.
While it show that some people may have too much time on their hands, it also raises questions of privacy rights, Internet activism and data integrity.
This is so right! Billions people have the time and imagination to care about religion while they could spend time dealing with facts and fiction. Tho I don't really see how this Jedi religion raises any new questions. On the other hand I'm looking forward to see if they will manage to put up some kind of church in the same scale as most of the Star Wars universe, perhaps something like the death star.
I've been trying this approch since the electricity prices tripled in the beginning of the year. It works except those companies that like to send crappy preprocessed paper, it doesn't burn that well and I don't like those flashy colors it produces. I even got a environment magazine that was made out of this crap, so ofcourse I had to burn it, most of all as a act of protest:)
or even worse, to serve as a diversion for a terrorist act, such as the mailing of a contaminated letter.'"
I've recently had a tumult with the local tax-office, so input like this is more than welcome, I'll be comming back to slasdot for more of this later when I know how my tax application turns out for this year.
My tactic is to refuse any SMTP from any third-world country. I don't know anyone in China or Korea. I accept e-mail from only USA, Canada, UK and Israel. Anything else is a third-world country. This tactic cut my spam over 50%.
If I did this my spam would be untouched since all spam comes from industrial countries and shitholes like the US. I'm from Norway and find it particulary strange that Israel and UK is not a third world country, since apparently the rest of Europe is. Atleast spam comming from other regions than your list of paradise countries, sometimes qualifies for interesting reading material.
If you think this spam is really from some shithole country with some shithole language and some shithole characters, then a turn on the ultimate shithole filter. If you do this please be kind to make it work the other way too, so that the shithole countries don't have to put up with your intellect as well.
My guess is that if you'd really like to get rid of spoofed mail, you should make a filter that checks for american adverticing language in messages comming from 'third world' relays.
But then again, you'll probably filter out most of your relatives.
Ofcourse all telecompanies have higher expenses than income, thats why everybody should pay for atleast twice of what they are promised, then, if they beg, they should be given a quarter of what they were promised. It's all in the nature of telecom monopol. Which is why wireless makes me sleep a whole lot better at night, knowing that I'm getting it all for free from the company that used to have an unlimited bandwidth to my wallet.
How many pepole actually lives in Australia? a cable to Japan cannot be much of what you people pay in phone rates anyways?
The man who said this have no idea how easily closed source software can recruit terrorist. The other day I were using Windows98 for about half an hour. If the package did not contain a picture of drugs againts insanity, al-quaida would have me recruited without much effort.
Doesn't Einstein's theory of relativity go completly nuts if you change the speed of light? It doesn't make sense to me that if light goes slower then a mass will be worth less in terms of energy. Not that it made much sense with lightspeed as a constant factor but anyways I'm far from a scientist so I'm a little bit outside my teretory:)
To my knowledge "engineer" is an unprotected title, and it somtimes amuse me that people will spend up to 7 years extra in school only for that title.:) I'm a self appointed technician and quite proud of it, all tho I don't like westwoods interpretation of a technicians. Programmers are superhero's as I learned in Futurama. Superheros cause alot of collateral damage, thats why they never, for insurance reasons, reveal their true identity (unless it's encrypted):)
Finally Microsoft have started to figure out how to use cut`n`paste, so they could copy the method used in everybodys favorite os. The/lib/ dir have as far as shared objects go always used an unique id for its libraries, this is called a version number. and usually build up the name of the library, like my-incrediblelib.so.9.2.1
I've read a whole book about him and I don't remember the name. Does that qualify for alsheimers (or is that also misspelled:)? Ok I admit that my friday endings might not be childs play:)
As an inhabitant of Norway I'd rather see what Hollywood did pay for this 'appeal'. I really don't like crap like this to appear on my next tax-bill. I know that somebody have to pay these lawyers and I'd hate it to be me.
They have the time it takes to make the public belive that the legal system is good, just like every other country in the world. To tell the truth about norwegian lawyers, there are none without classic cars. That goes for norwegian politicians as well. The only truth that is worth working for is the only one that will make you rich. Sad but, incredible, true.
Is there any particular reason you have not installed mplayer? I remember having trouble with it on RedHat so I changed to Gentoo and it worked like a charm:)
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Glad you highlighted that context is important. I'm obviously not going to tell alot about the case I mentioned. Today I think I made the "right" decision but one can never be too sure.
Generally people get a bit catagorical in these cases. I heard about a case where father that was seen bathing naked with his son got lifetime in jail because the neighbour saw them. This might be true or not, but it goes to show that there might be a misunderstanding even in cases that have to do with child-abuse.
The label child-abuser is probably not so easy to wash away even if you are innocent.
I do understand that people that are watching child pornography are contributing to creation of it. Some are doing it intensionally some by accident and some because they have not been talking to psycologist when they should have. I'm not trying to make excuses for the fact that he was a "offender". But I think one should think twice before throwing somebody to the lions.
About the victim issue, I think nowadays when information is up front and extremely easily accessible, you might be victimizing people without even knowing it. Just like, by watching a tv program you might contribute to the creation of the next without knowing it.
Hey!! Many child abusers are teachers, priest, politicians and business people. I don't really hear about many cases where someone have a real "evil"-intent like selling crack to kids or do Al Qaida bussiness on the side, in fact I don't even think Al Quaida is very tolerant when i comes to child abuse. I'm sorry to hear that a modern teacher is this catagorical. It's in public interest show child porn surfer to a psycologist/psyciatrist instead of to the police and the press. Child molesters are quite a different subject, violent people are those who are habitual. A child porn surfing joe might be a regular guy like you and me who might be in a 'difficult' phase of his life.
Then again, many people have the tendency to go a little bit out of their way to preserve what they think is right and I don't blame you for beeing concerned for your kids. Then again, child porn surfers might be people too. Use your brain.
I've had this case myself once, and I told the porn collector. He quitted collecting porn.
Actually telling the police or your boss about the content of your users files puts you in a unetical position as a system administrator, not to mention unprofessional.
I'd not be the first to protect people that collect child pornography but they are most likely people too, or atleast they used to be and I belive most of them can change back if you give them a chance. Telling the police will put them in prison, the papers will know and they will be unable to resume a normal life again.
If somebody where to run a business out of it or to resemble a complete stereotype in the field I'd probably go way futher.
Well since everybody is out celebrating it's definitly the day for my telecomunication pleassure :) I'm spending all Norways telecommunication on my own! :)
Not even 3.3?
Damn it! no need to upgrade then..
If this is not for fun, how do you explain the need for ssh while running and shooting enemies? Are you actually that quick on the keyboard that you'll just ssh into the enemy's computer and reverse his keymap so that he will shoot sombebody else? :)
Or are you looking for that old edition of killallquake, or maybe it was something else. Where you will be running around killing processes instead of monsters? Tho many processes resembles daemons it might not be that smart to kill them
We definitly need a terminal in quake, I don't belive it is that hard to make, it will just be the nigthmare of makeing a keymap that allows you to run around and type at the same time.
the GNU worlds' greatest example of the american dream -realised!
I didn't see much americans on the developer-map when it was up some time ago, tho americans probably like to keep quiet about their efforts. What I mean is that you had to go all the way to central-Europe especially Germany to se some great concentration of developers. This more or less looks like a trend to me, back when I was using Atari ST as my home computer, I realized that the professionalism involved in a program made in germay was very often quite superior too programs made elswhere. The problem, for me, was that I didn't understand much german, so I'd usually stick with the mainstream.
Anyways I agree on every part of your message except the part of gnome, which I also tend to like a bit.
I've been 'using' the KDE desktop since the it was a half windowmanager. With every release I see something smart added to it, I've sent some mails when there are things I don't like or think I have a better idea about, the response is virtually allways in my inbox the next day. I'd be surprised to see a user experience like that provided by Microsoft or any other corporate vendors.
Isn't there any efforts going into making an alternative to the soon to be completly propritary web, root-nameservers etc.?
Why don't we just reinvet the wheel and make it completly GPL?
Please point me to any group/individual interested in starting such an effort, besides myself:)
This sounds strange. If you can't make copies for personal use, then what do you do if the CD breaks? Don't you own the right to listen to the content of the now broken media? Do you just send the CD back and get a new one? Then the guy in the article should have done this until it worked on his computers.
Besides, artists that agree to make broken CD's doesn't deserve any of my CD budget, as these CDs also make poor garbage and take along time for the nature to break down.
This is so right! Billions people have the time and imagination to care about religion while they could spend time dealing with facts and fiction. Tho I don't really see how this Jedi religion raises any new questions. On the other hand I'm looking forward to see if they will manage to put up some kind of church in the same scale as most of the Star Wars universe, perhaps something like the death star.
I've been trying this approch since the electricity prices tripled in the beginning of the year. It works except those companies that like to send crappy preprocessed paper, it doesn't burn that well and I don't like those flashy colors it produces. I even got a environment magazine that was made out of this crap, so ofcourse I had to burn it, most of all as a act of protest :)
This is NOT terrorism, it IS a crime!
:)
I guess that depends more or less on what country it ends up in and who you send it to and most of all who sent it
or even worse, to serve as a diversion for a terrorist act, such as the mailing of a contaminated letter.'"
I've recently had a tumult with the local tax-office, so input like this is more than welcome, I'll be comming back to slasdot for more of this later when I know how my tax application turns out for this year.
http://www.3dfestival.com/
:)
The 'Syd Mead' rendering seems allmost real, one have to wonder why it was not used instead of Gollum
My tactic is to refuse any SMTP from any third-world country. I don't know anyone in China or Korea. I accept e-mail from only USA, Canada, UK and Israel. Anything else is a third-world country. This tactic cut my spam over 50%. If I did this my spam would be untouched since all spam comes from industrial countries and shitholes like the US. I'm from Norway and find it particulary strange that Israel and UK is not a third world country, since apparently the rest of Europe is. Atleast spam comming from other regions than your list of paradise countries, sometimes qualifies for interesting reading material. If you think this spam is really from some shithole country with some shithole language and some shithole characters, then a turn on the ultimate shithole filter. If you do this please be kind to make it work the other way too, so that the shithole countries don't have to put up with your intellect as well. My guess is that if you'd really like to get rid of spoofed mail, you should make a filter that checks for american adverticing language in messages comming from 'third world' relays. But then again, you'll probably filter out most of your relatives.
Ofcourse all telecompanies have higher expenses than income, thats why everybody should pay for atleast twice of what they are promised, then, if they beg, they should be given a quarter of what they were promised. It's all in the nature of telecom monopol. Which is why wireless makes me sleep a whole lot better at night, knowing that I'm getting it all for free from the company that used to have an unlimited bandwidth to my wallet.
How many pepole actually lives in Australia? a cable to Japan cannot be much of what you people pay in phone rates anyways?
The man who said this have no idea how easily closed source software can recruit terrorist. The other day I were using Windows98 for about half an hour. If the package did not contain a picture of drugs againts insanity, al-quaida would have me recruited without much effort.
Doesn't Einstein's theory of relativity go completly nuts if you change the speed of light? :)
It doesn't make sense to me that if light goes slower then a mass will be worth less in terms of energy. Not that it made much sense with lightspeed as a constant factor but anyways I'm far from a scientist so I'm a little bit outside my teretory
To my knowledge "engineer" is an unprotected title, and it somtimes amuse me that people will spend up to 7 years extra in school only for that title. :) :)
I'm a self appointed technician and quite proud of it, all tho I don't like westwoods interpretation of a technicians.
Programmers are superhero's as I learned in Futurama. Superheros cause alot of collateral damage, thats why they never, for insurance reasons, reveal their true identity (unless it's encrypted)
Finally Microsoft have started to figure out how to use cut`n`paste, so they could copy the method used in everybodys favorite os. The /lib/ dir have as far as shared objects go always used an unique id for its libraries, this is called a version number. and usually build up the name of the library, like my-incrediblelib.so.9.2.1
Thanks a bunch :)
:)
I've read a whole book about him and I don't remember the name. Does that qualify for alsheimers (or is that also misspelled:)? Ok I admit that my friday endings might not be childs play
As an inhabitant of Norway I'd rather see what Hollywood did pay for this 'appeal'. I really don't like crap like this to appear on my next tax-bill. I know that somebody have to pay these lawyers and I'd hate it to be me.
They have the time it takes to make the public belive that the legal system is good, just like every other country in the world. To tell the truth about norwegian lawyers, there are none without classic cars. That goes for norwegian politicians as well. The only truth that is worth working for is the only one that will make you rich. Sad but, incredible, true.
Is there any particular reason you have not installed mplayer? I remember having trouble with it on RedHat so I changed to Gentoo and it worked like a charm :)
Agreed :) I in my poor english understanding thought bogarting were like putting out the joint.. I'm happy to be corrected in such an appropriate way :)