We have the DNS filter in Norway too, implemented by every single commercial ISP as well as our national university and college network provider (which has prompted outrage in at least two of the professors I have discussed it with). Keep in mind that in Norway, child pornography is defined as not only actual photos and video, but also fiction stories and drawings which depict somone under 18 in sexual situations. So the filters can potentially block so much more. However, we haven't had any high-profile snafus the likes of Sweden and Finland, yet.
As a Java coder I may not know what I'm doing, but FindBugs for Java is tremendously helpful. Java is not not a foolproof language, nor is any other language as far as I know. The compiler will warn you to a certain degree, but FindBugs will go much further, and also spot anti-pattern usage and advise you about best practice. It will spot potential race conditions, see potential for resource waste (database connections not being closed, etc), and much more.
In my experience, real child porn is damned hard to find.
You can't be looking closely. Wikipedia says:
According to The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and other sources, child pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry and among the fastest growing business segments on the Internet;[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Do we really need specific legislation to outlaw webcam broadcasts of baby rape? Seriously? How often does that happen
Through the use of digital and web cameras, child pornography has become easier and less expensive to produce. Distribution on the Internet has facilitated instant access by thousands and possibly millions of individuals throughout the world.
In the Seventies, homosexuals were recruiting kids, but that seems to have stopped. In the Nineties, ritual satanic abuse of toddlers was very widespread, but thank goodness, that seems to have stopped too. In this decade, millions are watching babies being raped on webcam. If we just make more laws, I'm sure we can make this completely horrifying decay of morals stop too!
There's a clear difference between finding life too difficult and being actively driven to suicide as Turing was. It is the former that is "sad but real", the latter is extremely changeable and it is the responsibility of all of us to change it.
Now, if NS was acting in their capacity as a registrar/root DNS provider, then it can rightly be called censorship.
Why? It's their name servers, they are a private company and they can choose what they want or don't want on their name servers and any other servers, and they are not bound by law to provide service to anyone or everyone. The fact is, the US constiution only protect against censorship from the government ("Congress shall make no law..."). Privately held companies cannot be accused of censorship in the legal sense.
>Personally I think the Pirate Bay should go into website hosting.
They did this a long time ago, as the company PRQ.se. They host some very controversial sites and have come under a lot of fire for it, but always stand up for free speech.
PRQ is not cheap, since they only offer server co-location, but nothing aside from a Swedish court order will take your site down.
Turns you into a social pariah. Because few people will want to hang out with you, even if the drone is going to prevent any harm to them. Thus provides a visible, tangible element of punishment.
But the "punishment" is supposed to be the jail time, not the post-release monitoring.
I thought RMS was not a fan of the Creative Commons license.
That's a funny way to state it. What he dislikes is the tendency of people to look at CC as one license, when it's really just a bunch of separate licenses. Your saying "the Create Commons license" indicates that he has a good point. So when people talk about a work being under "Creative Commons", they're not saying anything at all about how free or unfree it is.
Well, he also dislikes Creative Commons because some of their licenses does not grant the four freedoms, so he has to disassociate himself from Creative Commons at large. (Which is fine, and consistent of him)
Ok, someone said you needed math to get a filesystem going. I'm sorry, but you really don't need to know how to use a Fourrier Series, or to know the Achilles Numbers by heart to open a file, save some stuff in it, and then close it eh...
Yes, because that's how you design and implement a file system.
All Scandinavian, and many other European, countries have implemented the "child porn filter". Some electronic rights organizations have been carefully sceptic about it, but mostly the filters have been received with thunderous applause.
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You seem to have misread the article. It says Pirate Party, not The Pirate Bay. It has some overlap in membership, but they are not the same.
I think you mixed up your presidents, but yes.
We have the DNS filter in Norway too, implemented by every single commercial ISP as well as our national university and college network provider (which has prompted outrage in at least two of the professors I have discussed it with). Keep in mind that in Norway, child pornography is defined as not only actual photos and video, but also fiction stories and drawings which depict somone under 18 in sexual situations. So the filters can potentially block so much more. However, we haven't had any high-profile snafus the likes of Sweden and Finland, yet.
It would have been, not would of been.
Correction: "Java is not not a foolproof language" should have just a single negation, not a double :-)
As a Java coder I may not know what I'm doing, but FindBugs for Java is tremendously helpful. Java is not not a foolproof language, nor is any other language as far as I know. The compiler will warn you to a certain degree, but FindBugs will go much further, and also spot anti-pattern usage and advise you about best practice. It will spot potential race conditions, see potential for resource waste (database connections not being closed, etc), and much more.
You can't be looking closely. Wikipedia says:
Do we really need specific legislation to outlaw webcam broadcasts of baby rape? Seriously? How often does that happen
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
In the Seventies, homosexuals were recruiting kids, but that seems to have stopped. In the Nineties, ritual satanic abuse of toddlers was very widespread, but thank goodness, that seems to have stopped too. In this decade, millions are watching babies being raped on webcam. If we just make more laws, I'm sure we can make this completely horrifying decay of morals stop too!
Baywords, however, is.
Baywords is hosted in Sweden (according to 'whois 212.63.222.12').
And RHEL 5 works even better :-)
There's a clear difference between finding life too difficult and being actively driven to suicide as Turing was. It is the former that is "sad but real", the latter is extremely changeable and it is the responsibility of all of us to change it.
The latest Search Engine podcast (direct download) has an interview with the car dealership guy. Interesting story.
Now, if NS was acting in their capacity as a registrar/root DNS provider, then it can rightly be called censorship.
..."). Privately held companies cannot be accused of censorship in the legal sense.
Why? It's their name servers, they are a private company and they can choose what they want or don't want on their name servers and any other servers, and they are not bound by law to provide service to anyone or everyone. The fact is, the US constiution only protect against censorship from the government ("Congress shall make no law
What about \lambda calculus?
Pick up on of the purely functional languages, like Haskell.
Also, I haven't heard anybody say, "Ruby? pshaw. Use django instead." Is there a consensus that Ruby is "more valuable" than django?
Ruby is a general-purpose programming language. Django is a web application framework. Where is the comparison?
Squatter domains typically don't have unique IPs.
>Personally I think the Pirate Bay should go into website hosting.
They did this a long time ago, as the company PRQ.se. They host some very controversial sites and have come under a lot of fire for it, but always stand up for free speech.
PRQ is not cheap, since they only offer server co-location, but nothing aside from a Swedish court order will take your site down.
I suspect they believe it was intelligently designed.
"Questionable"? It's a highly regarded publication for the gay community.
Turns you into a social pariah. Because few people will want to hang out with you, even if the drone is going to prevent any harm to them. Thus provides a visible, tangible element of punishment.
But the "punishment" is supposed to be the jail time, not the post-release monitoring.
I thought RMS was not a fan of the Creative Commons license.
That's a funny way to state it. What he dislikes is the tendency of people to look at CC as one license, when it's really just a bunch of separate licenses. Your saying "the Create Commons license" indicates that he has a good point. So when people talk about a work being under "Creative Commons", they're not saying anything at all about how free or unfree it is.
Well, he also dislikes Creative Commons because some of their licenses does not grant the four freedoms, so he has to disassociate himself from Creative Commons at large. (Which is fine, and consistent of him)
He is (or was) running both as a Republican and a Democrat.
The problem with this, of course, is that when today's minors become adults, they still cannot tell "your" from "you're".
He's in year 10 at school, which doesn't mean he's 10 years old.
Yes, because that's how you design and implement a file system.
All Scandinavian, and many other European, countries have implemented the "child porn filter". Some electronic rights organizations have been carefully sceptic about it, but mostly the filters have been received with thunderous applause.