There are a few notable reasons why the.kid domain should not be available.
Encourages disturbed individuals to easily target a youth market for their own purposes leading to violations of privacy, security, and sanctity.
Encourages breakdown of federal law: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/9910/childfinal.htm
How many articles must be covered out there until parents realize that the freedom of the internet is not safe for subteenage children and the security blankets of their homes because of (even a handful of) deranged individuals?
Playful hackers could disrupt the family nucleus and do more harm than good by redirecting timothythe.kid to tims.porn.
Bottom line here is that.kid would be a poor choice and should not be selected as a new TLD.
Pretty serious. I am venting on the lack of recent innovation. I haven't seen a feature released in any recent OS candidates that has made me mutter, "Wow, thats fraggin' cool".
Looking through the changelog for this release, it occurred to me that slackwear is simply another *nix release candidate that clears a few more problems. I didn't see anything in the changelog that made me say, "By god, I have to have that."
These *nix clones are starting to remind me of the hardware store. You walk into your local hardware store and move directly towards the hammer section. As you step down the aisle you salivate at the big hammers, fiddle with the tiny hammers, and practice with the hammers that fit you best.
The concept of the hammer has been around since our earliest days. The concept of the Operating System has equally matured. These two have very similar conceptual models.
Your big hammer is the microsoft OS, dominating the field. The tiny hammers are your experimental operating systems that you keep a keen eye out for on FreshMeat. Those hammers that fit you so well? You know what they are.
These releases of OS are losing momentum, because Microsoft is actually doing something that no other Open Source project seems to be able to pull off. Masked Innovation.
Microsoft is building the powered jackhammer while the unix community debates and flames each other over balsa or oak. You'll always use your trusty hammer-
With this kind of slipup and now a public demonstration that these propietary word formats are highly likely to be exploited, how will the bureaucrats respond? I don't see them releasing more sensitive documents to the public. The response is going to be a very protective one.
While it is possible that because of this blunder these secretive government operations will now procure additional resources to serve public requests, I think my University would first grant me $250 million to work on a VR-MUD chamber.
The result of this news? People who want to access private government documents are going to have to travel to their respective agency and stand in line for a photocopied, protectively marked documents. So much for our digital revolution's freedom to access information.
Now we wait for fifty-something plus years before additional, secretive documents will be released and all because someone thought it would be slick to post a few names.
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Bravo! If only every article had someone providing this kind of supplementary research. -SS
SoulStriker
- Encourages disturbed individuals to easily target a youth market for their own purposes leading to violations of privacy, security, and sanctity.
- Encourages breakdown of federal law: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/9910/childfinal.htm
- How many articles must be covered out there until parents realize that the freedom of the internet is not safe for subteenage children and the security blankets of their homes because of (even a handful of) deranged individuals?
- Playful hackers could disrupt the family nucleus and do more harm than good by redirecting timothythe.kid to tims.porn.
Bottom line here is thatSoulStriker
Pretty serious. I am venting on the lack of recent innovation. I haven't seen a feature released in any recent OS candidates that has made me mutter, "Wow, thats fraggin' cool".
SoulStriker
Looking through the changelog for this release, it occurred to me that slackwear is simply another *nix release candidate that clears a few more problems. I didn't see anything in the changelog that made me say, "By god, I have to have that."
These *nix clones are starting to remind me of the hardware store. You walk into your local hardware store and move directly towards the hammer section. As you step down the aisle you salivate at the big hammers, fiddle with the tiny hammers, and practice with the hammers that fit you best.
The concept of the hammer has been around since our earliest days. The concept of the Operating System has equally matured. These two have very similar conceptual models.
Your big hammer is the microsoft OS, dominating the field. The tiny hammers are your experimental operating systems that you keep a keen eye out for on FreshMeat. Those hammers that fit you so well? You know what they are.
These releases of OS are losing momentum, because Microsoft is actually doing something that no other Open Source project seems to be able to pull off. Masked Innovation.
Microsoft is building the powered jackhammer while the unix community debates and flames each other over balsa or oak. You'll always use your trusty hammer-
-until it breaks.
SoulStriker
With this kind of slipup and now a public demonstration that these propietary word formats are highly likely to be exploited, how will the bureaucrats respond? I don't see them releasing more sensitive documents to the public. The response is going to be a very protective one.
While it is possible that because of this blunder these secretive government operations will now procure additional resources to serve public requests, I think my University would first grant me $250 million to work on a VR-MUD chamber.
The result of this news? People who want to access private government documents are going to have to travel to their respective agency and stand in line for a photocopied, protectively marked documents. So much for our digital revolution's freedom to access information.
Now we wait for fifty-something plus years before additional, secretive documents will be released and all because someone thought it would be slick to post a few names.
SoulStriker