The only duty they should have is to enforce the accurate and complete labeling of what a show contains (Adult Language, Nudity, Violence, R X, PG etc) and keep those ratings honest.
then:
All because someone couldn't handle the site of a nipple on TV.
The nipple thing was inappropriate for the halftime show of the superbowl. I seriously doubt that this was the first time anyone has seen a nipple, but the whole thing was simply tacky and only done for its shock value. I have heard noone comment on the beauty of the shot. It would have been entirely different if it were someone seen as more sexy or if it had anything to do with the event.
I can expect to see someone topless at a topless bar, or even public events like marti gras or a biker convention or something, but I don't expect to see someone topless on a public bus or a 4th of july parade. No more or less than I would expect to see someone doig their taxes at such public places.
Shouldn't this parent's tv society or whatever be reponsible for what tv shows they let their children watch, instead of attempting to censor tv for all of us.
Much of this is due to the Jackson booby incindent during the Superbowl, a tv show that probably most parents would think is OK for kids to watch, and these people that are outraged were probably watching this show with their children.
I have no strong opinions on the matter. But I do believe that there is a time and place for everything, and those parents that are responsible fot the tv shows that their children watch expect some kind of consistancy within programs so that they can advise/supervise their children.
From what I understand, THX is decent at best. It's only gained esteem due to his other titles out there.
I've seen it. It was one of the best movies that I hated to watch. It is depressing, but insightful. I highly recommend anyone remotely interested in scifi to watch it. This is a real scifi flick, not a fantasy story like the Star Wars saga. It may have gained esteem from Lucas' other titles, but everyone who knows the movie puts it in its own category.
It's like he knows one of the guys who makes up the trivia. It's really incredible.
OK, this is probably just paranoid thoughts going through my head, but give me a chance.
Think about this. The Jeopardy people approach some guy. Say, hey we can fix you up with the answers for the questions and you will be the all time Jeopardy champ of champs. You will win about $1 mil on the show, and loose to somebody. We will give you $250,000 upfront and $250,000 when its over.
So, the ratings go through the roof for Jeopardy (more $$$). The Jeopardy people are actually paying out 1/2 of their prize money, and the nerdy guy comes out with a cool 1/2 mil, and people enjoy seeing him win and talking about it.
Sounds like a win-win situation for everybody.
Are there any ethics to game shows? I mean most everything else is fiction on TV, do game shows have to be real?
Once upon a time, coffee shops sold coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and other drinkables
Another youngun. I remember when gas stations sold gas and drug stores sold drugs. Walmart was some kind of mart you bought walls from and "Starbuck's" was of or relating to the dude from Battlestar Galactica.
Or maybe the music industry should provide a range of quality products. MP3's would be the cheapest and lowest quality and 24bit @ 96khz raw at the "high end".
It works with clothes, cars, houses, electronics, etc.
Right now we have the high cost of a mediocre quality standard (CD) or the cheaper (ie, free, stole, shared, whateveryoucallit) MP3.
Starbucks, with their deployment of wireless APs in their stores, and now with the music concept, is really working hard to keep customers sitting down longer in their stores, consuming their products.
Bars should learn from their lead. Soon we will have bands, djs, comedians, etc to lead us to eat, drink, and have a good time.
The FCC would never tolerate an old-line phone company selling a service that lets people lie to caller ID... why are they letting VoIP companies do it?
The last time I set up a personal land line, the phone company asked me what text to display with caller ID. They didn't say anything about the information having to do with my name, or the info had to be factual, or anything.
Actually, I was going to put something amusing like "Your moma", or "Prank Call", or "Guess who" the next time I was going to set up a land line, but I quit using their "service" years ago, and I doubt I will be a returning customer.
You know those idiots (read: bill collectors) who call with "OUT OF AREA" tags on their Caller ID data? Yeah. I wonder if you can reset those to figure out who those are. The possibilities are good here. =^_^=
First, its much less stressful to just pay your bills.
Also, I dispise the fact that there can be either "OUT OF AREA", or "Unavailable", or the worst, "Private Name/Private Number". The only reason I answer these on my phone, is because I do sometimes get legitimate business call from people hiding behind these things. I do not answer politely, and I'm ready to start bitching at someone.
I am required to have a license plate on my car, I have to show ID to do most anything. I certainly would never walk into a store or bank disguising my face, why is this acceptable with a phone call?
would like a distro which booted from hard drive (or CD-rom, or floppy) and after loading what it wanted, and mounting network filesystems, shut down the noisy boot device for good, or at least until some unusual activity called for it.
So long as your distro comes with hdparm. Read the manpage. Especially the -S option.
I've been wondering this as well. I think it would be cool for all of the internet/browsers to like a big p2p setup. Where the originial webserver is the canonical source for info, and it keeps history of its visitors with ways to figure out the best "route" or network neighbor.
However, in practice, I'm not sure how useful somehting like this would be. Most websites today have so much dynamic info, that it simply would not work. For example,/. would only be able to cache its graphics.
This would be cool for sourceforge downloads, so I wouldn't have to pick a mirror each time.
I don't have any kids, but if I did, I wouldn't filter a thing. I would install squid, write a perl script to parse out the domain names and report to me a count of each domainname reached.
I would tell the child that I had records of every site they visit, and step on them if they kept "making mistakes".
If this could be completed quickly, this would be a huge boon to consumers everywhere, making life much simpler for Joe Sixpack.
First off, its good to see people on/. still care about Joe Sixpack. Noone has really mentioned him lately, and I thought noone cared:)
OK, now for the meat here. Joe Sixpack, odds are he will buy a Dell computer with Windows [0-9A-Z]{2,4} that has an internet icon on the desktop that loads Internet Explorer which at worst will have a slightly older version of the flash plugin installed, where the hip web developer can detect the version and say "Click here to get the latest version", and since its too easy to install software on Windows, a click away, and he's off and running.
Let me say this about plugins. I HATE THEM. Some of it is because I've been through too much with them, that even if they work now, I'm still scared.
Back in the day, there was the plugin craze. This was probably the first instance of spyware for some of the plugins. Then you could not go to a website that did not require a laundry list of exotic plugins so that you could look at the text and pictures on their site. Being a Linux user, these plugins were few and far between, and the ones that did exist were very sucessful in crashing Netscape (something it didn't need much help with as it was). Recently, I had a conflict with flash on linux and it was blocking my soundcard and would just hang. In my web experience, plugins have not been a feature, but a problem. I've never found them useful, eyecandy at most.
My personal opinion is that plugins should not exist for the web. They are unnecessary. If you want me to download something and run it with a helper app, thats fine, but I do not need this junk inlined with the html. I don't like the old versions of the embeded acrobat reader that didn't allow you to save the document, and did 202 requests or whatever to get partial content, so the 1st page loaded fast, and every other may be slow. Same with movies, let me download and double click on them, I don't need them in my browser window. Currently, I have 10 windows open, plus 4 webpages in tabs. I can manage an 11th window to get some "featurerich" content. Odds are, you are using a mutitasking OS as well. Also, its really annoying when I'm navigating a website via the keyboard and my mouse pointer goes overtop of an obnoxious flash advertisement and it siezes the keyboard input. Thanks.
Now that I think about it, standardizing plugins could be the revamping of the plugin craze (read spyware). Maybe I'm too simleminded, but I still cannot think of a need to have 3rd party code running inline with my webbrowser.
If you're a writer for a technical magazine, shouldn't you at least have the intelligence to spot a scam/hoax email like that within about two seconds?
I've seen worse. I met a guy that was head of some kind of security division at Symantec. It was previously a standalone company that was acquired by Symantec.
Anyway, he told me that he had to get someone in his office from his staff to verify an email that came from "Admin" telling him to open some kind of spam malware.
That only makes the problem worse. I'm new to multiple displays, and I find it annoying that they are a treated by my Mac as a continuous display, when I think of them as two discrete displays (as I would guess most people do as well). I would never span an app across 2 displays. OK maybe, maybe something like Photoshop where I can put tools, other images on the other display, but I don't think anyone would have one window across 2 or more displays.
I would like to have an option to right click (hard with one mouse button) on a title bar and have it shoot to the other display like in virtual desktops, etc. I would like to have a key command to change focus to the other desktop. And I would really, really, like to have the menu system follow me as well.
Being that I don't know the competency of every coder that writes every line of code of all the software that I use, a little sandboxing is nice every now and then. For example, protected memory by an OS is a good thing(tm).
Oh, and I applaud OpenBSD's continuous code auditing, but when is going to make any kind of presence anywhere? I've never seen or heard of anyone running OpenBSD. It seems as though there are other things besides code review and security that gets products in use.
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First you say:
The only duty they should have is to enforce the accurate and complete labeling of what a show contains (Adult Language, Nudity, Violence, R X, PG etc) and keep those ratings honest.
then:
All because someone couldn't handle the site of a nipple on TV.
The nipple thing was inappropriate for the halftime show of the superbowl. I seriously doubt that this was the first time anyone has seen a nipple, but the whole thing was simply tacky and only done for its shock value. I have heard noone comment on the beauty of the shot. It would have been entirely different if it were someone seen as more sexy or if it had anything to do with the event.
I can expect to see someone topless at a topless bar, or even public events like marti gras or a biker convention or something, but I don't expect to see someone topless on a public bus or a 4th of july parade. No more or less than I would expect to see someone doig their taxes at such public places.
Shouldn't this parent's tv society or whatever be reponsible for what tv shows they let their children watch, instead of attempting to censor tv for all of us.
Much of this is due to the Jackson booby incindent during the Superbowl, a tv show that probably most parents would think is OK for kids to watch, and these people that are outraged were probably watching this show with their children.
I have no strong opinions on the matter. But I do believe that there is a time and place for everything, and those parents that are responsible fot the tv shows that their children watch expect some kind of consistancy within programs so that they can advise/supervise their children.
Nothing is not worth knowing.
:)
Try to not think about that 3 times fast
From what I understand, THX is decent at best. It's only gained esteem due to his other titles out there.
I've seen it. It was one of the best movies that I hated to watch. It is depressing, but insightful. I highly recommend anyone remotely interested in scifi to watch it. This is a real scifi flick, not a fantasy story like the Star Wars saga. It may have gained esteem from Lucas' other titles, but everyone who knows the movie puts it in its own category.
It's like he knows one of the guys who makes up the trivia. It's really incredible.
OK, this is probably just paranoid thoughts going through my head, but give me a chance.
Think about this. The Jeopardy people approach some guy. Say, hey we can fix you up with the answers for the questions and you will be the all time Jeopardy champ of champs. You will win about $1 mil on the show, and loose to somebody. We will give you $250,000 upfront and $250,000 when its over.
So, the ratings go through the roof for Jeopardy (more $$$). The Jeopardy people are actually paying out 1/2 of their prize money, and the nerdy guy comes out with a cool 1/2 mil, and people enjoy seeing him win and talking about it.
Sounds like a win-win situation for everybody.
Are there any ethics to game shows? I mean most everything else is fiction on TV, do game shows have to be real?
Once upon a time, coffee shops sold coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and other drinkables
Another youngun. I remember when gas stations sold gas and drug stores sold drugs. Walmart was some kind of mart you bought walls from and "Starbuck's" was of or relating to the dude from Battlestar Galactica.
I don't see each Starbucks having a half-terabyte RAID array to hold losslessly compressed originals.
A 0.5TB RAID array costs less than a candybar or soda vending machine.
Or maybe the music industry should provide a range of quality products. MP3's would be the cheapest and lowest quality and 24bit @ 96khz raw at the "high end".
It works with clothes, cars, houses, electronics, etc.
Right now we have the high cost of a mediocre quality standard (CD) or the cheaper (ie, free, stole, shared, whateveryoucallit) MP3.
Starbucks, with their deployment of wireless APs in their stores, and now with the music concept, is really working hard to keep customers sitting down longer in their stores, consuming their products.
Bars should learn from their lead. Soon we will have bands, djs, comedians, etc to lead us to eat, drink, and have a good time.
This is just a simple case of someone not having any patience and rushing everything.
A motto that I follow is that its easier and cheaper to do it right the first time then two or more times half asked.
The FCC would never tolerate an old-line phone company selling a service that lets people lie to caller ID... why are they letting VoIP companies do it?
The last time I set up a personal land line, the phone company asked me what text to display with caller ID. They didn't say anything about the information having to do with my name, or the info had to be factual, or anything.
Actually, I was going to put something amusing like "Your moma", or "Prank Call", or "Guess who" the next time I was going to set up a land line, but I quit using their "service" years ago, and I doubt I will be a returning customer.
You know those idiots (read: bill collectors) who call with "OUT OF AREA" tags on their Caller ID data? Yeah. I wonder if you can reset those to figure out who those are. The possibilities are good here. =^_^=
First, its much less stressful to just pay your bills.
Also, I dispise the fact that there can be either "OUT OF AREA", or "Unavailable", or the worst, "Private Name/Private Number". The only reason I answer these on my phone, is because I do sometimes get legitimate business call from people hiding behind these things. I do not answer politely, and I'm ready to start bitching at someone.
I am required to have a license plate on my car, I have to show ID to do most anything. I certainly would never walk into a store or bank disguising my face, why is this acceptable with a phone call?
cell phones in the future may have the ability to stream video to a nifty little screen, or audio files, or who knows what
Dude. Who gives a rat's ass about cell phones with broadband access?
My laptop with a pcmcia card at broadband speeds that I can use almost anywhere. Yeah, that kicks ass.
Having it at 100mb/s or 1gb/s would especially kick ass.
Cellphones, they are for talking to people.
would like a distro which booted from hard drive (or CD-rom, or floppy) and after loading what it wanted, and mounting network filesystems, shut down the noisy boot device for good, or at least until some unusual activity called for it.
So long as your distro comes with hdparm. Read the manpage. Especially the -S option.
I've been wondering this as well. I think it would be cool for all of the internet/browsers to like a big p2p setup. Where the originial webserver is the canonical source for info, and it keeps history of its visitors with ways to figure out the best "route" or network neighbor.
/. would only be able to cache its graphics.
However, in practice, I'm not sure how useful somehting like this would be. Most websites today have so much dynamic info, that it simply would not work. For example,
This would be cool for sourceforge downloads, so I wouldn't have to pick a mirror each time.
Compression only works on some (albeit, most) data. It doesn't get you a thing with most scientific numerical data.
I don't have any kids, but if I did, I wouldn't filter a thing. I would install squid, write a perl script to parse out the domain names and report to me a count of each domainname reached.
I would tell the child that I had records of every site they visit, and step on them if they kept "making mistakes".
Stupid Ashcroft
Its not stupid to cut off the hand that feeds you.
grep -i -n -A 3 username * > password_list
thanks for that
Do you think that a law would prevent someone from doing this?
If there were a law, and in the unlikely event that someone got caught doing this, do you think they would even go to court?
I'm an admin, I can read anyones mail at any time. Hell, I could fork a copy of everybody's incoming mail to me if I want and noone would know.
Do I do it? No. Why? I respect people's privacy, and I expect others to do the same.
Now, for important stuff (money, etc), I use more secure means of communication than plaintext.
If this could be completed quickly, this would be a huge boon to consumers everywhere, making life much simpler for Joe Sixpack.
/. still care about Joe Sixpack. Noone has really mentioned him lately, and I thought noone cared :)
First off, its good to see people on
OK, now for the meat here. Joe Sixpack, odds are he will buy a Dell computer with Windows [0-9A-Z]{2,4} that has an internet icon on the desktop that loads Internet Explorer which at worst will have a slightly older version of the flash plugin installed, where the hip web developer can detect the version and say "Click here to get the latest version", and since its too easy to install software on Windows, a click away, and he's off and running.
Let me say this about plugins. I HATE THEM. Some of it is because I've been through too much with them, that even if they work now, I'm still scared.
Back in the day, there was the plugin craze. This was probably the first instance of spyware for some of the plugins. Then you could not go to a website that did not require a laundry list of exotic plugins so that you could look at the text and pictures on their site. Being a Linux user, these plugins were few and far between, and the ones that did exist were very sucessful in crashing Netscape (something it didn't need much help with as it was). Recently, I had a conflict with flash on linux and it was blocking my soundcard and would just hang. In my web experience, plugins have not been a feature, but a problem. I've never found them useful, eyecandy at most.
My personal opinion is that plugins should not exist for the web. They are unnecessary. If you want me to download something and run it with a helper app, thats fine, but I do not need this junk inlined with the html. I don't like the old versions of the embeded acrobat reader that didn't allow you to save the document, and did 202 requests or whatever to get partial content, so the 1st page loaded fast, and every other may be slow. Same with movies, let me download and double click on them, I don't need them in my browser window. Currently, I have 10 windows open, plus 4 webpages in tabs. I can manage an 11th window to get some "featurerich" content. Odds are, you are using a mutitasking OS as well. Also, its really annoying when I'm navigating a website via the keyboard and my mouse pointer goes overtop of an obnoxious flash advertisement and it siezes the keyboard input. Thanks.
Now that I think about it, standardizing plugins could be the revamping of the plugin craze (read spyware). Maybe I'm too simleminded, but I still cannot think of a need to have 3rd party code running inline with my webbrowser.
If you're a writer for a technical magazine, shouldn't you at least have the intelligence to spot a scam/hoax email like that within about two seconds?
I've seen worse. I met a guy that was head of some kind of security division at Symantec. It was previously a standalone company that was acquired by Symantec.
Anyway, he told me that he had to get someone in his office from his staff to verify an email that came from "Admin" telling him to open some kind of spam malware.
But hey, he drives a Porsche...
Just get two 30" displays. :)
That only makes the problem worse. I'm new to multiple displays, and I find it annoying that they are a treated by my Mac as a continuous display, when I think of them as two discrete displays (as I would guess most people do as well). I would never span an app across 2 displays. OK maybe, maybe something like Photoshop where I can put tools, other images on the other display, but I don't think anyone would have one window across 2 or more displays.
I would like to have an option to right click (hard with one mouse button) on a title bar and have it shoot to the other display like in virtual desktops, etc. I would like to have a key command to change focus to the other desktop. And I would really, really, like to have the menu system follow me as well.
Food for thought.
Or anywhere else as a way to bypass the problems/issues getting other launching devices.
I think the i-line of products or e-line of products might be more what your looking for. Or you could just settle for something else.
Being that I don't know the competency of every coder that writes every line of code of all the software that I use, a little sandboxing is nice every now and then. For example, protected memory by an OS is a good thing(tm).
Oh, and I applaud OpenBSD's continuous code auditing, but when is going to make any kind of presence anywhere? I've never seen or heard of anyone running OpenBSD. It seems as though there are other things besides code review and security that gets products in use.