I've been using the interweb since 1998 when I was 13, and I have been exposed to child pornography since day one. I remember logging in to Microsoft Chat (which was bundled with Windows) and all the rooms were devoted to kid porn... I also remember the channel listings on DALnet just being filled with stuff like, "!!!!!!!!!!!!11LolIta-_OMG-filesrvr" although these channels tended to be pure smoke.
OK, to enlighten the ignorant here. What specifically and to what extent did you find child porn?
Were there pay sites with previews just like normal porn? Were these by invite only? Were these just pictures of young kids? Were these pictures of young kids trying to have sex with each other? Were these pictures of older people having sex with young kids?
Don't get me wrong, I like all kinds of sex, but this is one thing that I have no knowledge of. Actually, I've heard of a guy at where I work being raided by the FBI or somebody and getting busted for kiddie porn. But I'm curious about what content is out there (what is in demand) and what kind of supply there is? Also, with the extreme international taboo against the thing, how does it not stay all but pretty underground?
I'm very curious here, and I would guess that others are as well...
I hope they apply a strong hash - I certainly wouldn't want to be the victim of a collision. Which also makes me wonder - though some hashes havn't been broken yet they likely will be in the future - does this mean pedos will get off scott free because it might have just been a collision?
I set up my own "porn" server one time by using MD5 hashes. I used a program called suck to, err, suck down all new pics from certain alt.binaries groups, stored the md5s in an MySQL database, and if the md5 existed, I just deleted the picture, then put the pics up on a website. Sorry, it wasn't kiddie porn though.
What I want to know, is how prevalent is kid porn or what the hell it is? To me, I'm only interested in girls once they get signs of being able to breed. You know those things like boobies and hips. To me kiddie porn happens all the time on diaper commercials. How common, and what exactly is the fascination with pre-pubescent kids? I just don't get it. I don't think they are "hot", I don't think most teenage girls are hot, but I certainly have been guilty of "premeditating" statutory rape, but I just don't get the obsession by the "criminals" or those trying to stop them of doing whatever they do with kiddie porn.
- Commerce didn't cause feminization - Commerce didn't cause people in government to favor handouts in place of families - Commerce didn't cause people to forget the difference between right and wrong - Commerce didn't cause peace (though it does support peace once you have it)
But the thing is that females have lost their "purpose". They try so hard to be men, and frankly they suck at it.
- Commerce didn't cause feminization
But much of commerce is due to women. Men are simple. They (used) to like to do things, they buy "boring" things like tools, non-sensational books, and sure some like their toys like cars, and boats. But the BIG expensive house thing that nobody except for illegal aliens that want to take care of it thing is due mostly due to women. A piece of anecdotal evidence, a guy I know is building a 1.2 million dollar house and he clearly says "Its her house" meaning his wife's.
- Commerce didn't cause people in government to favor handouts in place of families
No, but it used to be men that did not raise children, but now that women are men now too, nobody raises children, so its put up for legislation. See the recent MySpace lawsuit (by the parents!)
- Commerce didn't cause people to forget the difference between right and wrong
The _love_ of money is the root of all evil. Your spam inbox should be sufficient here. All of the scam and bullshit websites that get top hits when you do a search for anything should be evidence here as well.
- Commerce didn't cause peace (though it does support peace once you have it)
War == money. Without the government lies that we are chronically on the verge of being attacked physically or economically, there would be no ideology for waging the chronic wars we have waged since WWII. Until WWII, we were in a depression. After WWII, the "middle class" was born (which is going away now). After WWII, we had the "Red Scare", the bad commies, Korea, domino theory, Vietnam, the "War on Drugs", the nebulous "Cold War", Iran-Contra, now the best BS war that one could imagine, the "War on Terror". Think for a second how much commerce would simply halt if we stopped "needing" these wars?
I'm getting sick and tired of hearing parents, school counselors, child psychologists, etc blaming MySpace for virtually everything bad that could occur in a teens life.
Me too. The ironic thing is that those are the parents that simply should not have kids either.
I mean, since when will the old standby of waiting at a school bus or going to a shopping mall and pulling the "I'm sorry Johnny, your parents were just in an accident, and I was asked to take you to the hospital to see them" or similar trick stop working?
Yet again, more evidence that logic and reason go out the window when "computers" or "online" is involved. Every week I see kids missing on milkboxes or on those token mailers with the "Have you seen me?" on them. And you know what? I'm pulling this number out of the air, but its probably pretty close, over 90% of those missing kids were taken by most likely a parent or someone else they know. The others simply had such shitty parents that they just decided to fend for themselves.
Lets just put all kids and their parents in prisons and call it even.
yep, the default font size for monospaced text in firefox is too small (12, while proportional font is 14, IIRC)
Flamebait and troll warning!
Maybe slashdot should have reported this story _before_ screwing up the site with their CSS overhaul.
Is it just me? Or are the default sans-serifed fonts difficult to read? Is it just me, or does the blockquoted text seem unimportant and again difficult to read because its a light grey color? Is it just me, or does the fixed font in this article look like crap? Is it just me, or does the previous standard of quoting the parent's post in italics make it impossible to read/difficult to tell its even in italics.
No, I'm not interested in downloading and dealing with firefox plus tons of extensions and hacks just to view one website. I don't know what the sans-serifed font is that they use, but its much more difficult to read than any other san-serifed font page I've read (see Wikipedia or CNN for example).
Its sad, but as it stands today, slashdot is one of the best things in my life, and I'm about to ban the site if it does not become easier to read soon. Kudos for fixing the WAYYYY to the right score, and the "read more" link, but all in all I really dislike the redesign. I liked it at first glance, but after a few minutes it just does not appeal to me anymore.
Hopefully the two or three people that read this before this post lands at -1 will get something to change....
And neither is due process it appears. How long will it be before we bring Saddam's methods of running prisons home after giving them a try in Iraq and Cuba?
Yeah, but at least Saddam is allowed a lawyer, or two, or three! Too bad they accidentally keep falling dead.
These rules about requiring subpoenas are a result of data theft in earlier times. It is supposed to prevent a police officer from abusing his position to collect sensitive information.
Yeah, since the constitution is just as valuable as used toilet paper, I guess we have to make sure police don't go after their sister's boyfriend or anything.
Its those few really important things that are left that are so valuable.
I understand what you're saying, but is it too much to ask that our police be interested in protecting our rights?
In a fascist state, the police work for the state.
I was illegally stopped by a state police officer while driving down a road via a police road block. There were at first 3 state police cars, then they lowered the number to 2. I was not a suspect of a crime. I was not informed why I was "supposed to stop". I contemplated going on my business, but I didn't feel like wrestling with a state policeman at the time. He asked me the usual bullshit questions:
Him: Are you coming from work?
Me: No. (no followup on where I was coming from)
Him: Can I see your license?
Me: (I gave it to him)
Him: Are you on any kind of medication? Your eyes look glassy.
Me: No, I'm tired.
Him: Is this address on your license correct?
Me: Yes.
Him: Is that where you are going?
Me: Yes.
Him: OK, go ahead.
I was NOT in the mood for any bullshit, and if it were any other time than the usual 99% of the time when I'm drunk or stoned when driving I probably would have gone to jail again instead of driving home. Yeah, I know that last sentence got me zero sympathy or credibility, but facts are facts.
One of my concealed weapon carrying nutcase friends would have probably dropped him without question, and drove home.
For those that simply like to play the odds. Here are the odds of dying in one's lifetime so one in:
(For the impatient, lightning is 92 on the list, other gems are accidents, self-harm, assault, accidental poisoning, falling down, drugs, walking down the street, cars, bikes and things, fire, #28 is getting medical care, etc. Fun list!)
64 Nontransport Unintentional (Accidental) Injuries [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 118 Intentional self-harm [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 211 Assault [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 212 Accidental poisoning by and exposure to noxious substances [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 218 Intentional self-harm by firearm [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 228 Car occupant [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 229 Falls [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 247 Other and unspecified land transport accidents [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 264 Other and unspecified person [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 315 Assault by firearm [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 451 Narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens] n.e.c. [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 472 Other and unspecified fall [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 490 Accidental exposure to other and unspecified factors and sequelae [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 541 Other and unspecified drugs, medicaments, and biologicals [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 576 Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 612 Pedestrian [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 675 Other accidental threats to breathing [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 679 Intentional self-poisoning [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 771 Event of undetermined intent [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 869 Occupant of pick-up truck or van [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 997 Other and unspecified means and sequelae [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1032 Other fall on same level [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1081 Accidental drowning and submersion [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1117 Poisoning [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1159 Motorcycle rider [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1179 Exposure to smoke, fire and flames [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1267 Inhalation and ingestion of other objects causing obstruction of respiratory tract [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1310 Complications of medical and surgical care and sequelae [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1366 Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1433 Other and unspecified means and sequelae [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1471 Uncontrolled fire in building or structure [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 1796 Assault by sharp object [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 2331 Fall on and from stairs and steps [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 2811 Drowning and submersion while in or falling into natural water [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 3056 Exposure to forces of nature [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 3285 Other and unspecified drowning and submersion [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]] 3638 Antiepileptic, sedative-hy
We're all going to die while the people who've been listening to Rush Limbaugh for the past fifteen years just keep repeating "prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it"
OxyContin has chilled him out since then. We're all OK now.
In the end software companies will have to become service companies.
The problem is that even if you pay your hard earned cash for "support", you get some bozo who knows less than I do, and usually the "solution" is for them to blame the hardware or anybody else they can blame.
I find that OSS mailing lists are better in that you are in contact with the actual developers who know the guts of the code in question. AND!! Its free!
Once you pay for "support", the best thing I've ever received is a person who is good at calming me down so I don't kill somebody (possibly them:)
A real desk holds a lot of information just by "being" a desk that a desktop computer doesn't hold. People remember that that stack in the corner was from last thursday, that the extra thick document with two staples is the TPS report the boss required after-hours, that they hate the bottom drawer because it sticks.. so they remember perfectly what's in it....
Yeah, and to ease the pain of driving a car, car designers first tried using reigns like horses instead of pedals and steering wheels.
Sounded good at the time, but we got smarter. People still look at me funny when I poke the side of my car with my stirrups and say "gitteup!"
...because I can scrawl all over a paper document with my handy ballpoint pen much more easily than I can annotate an electronic document using my mouse and keyboard.
It kills me what "metaphors" make it and the ones that don't.
The whole WYSIWY_M_G (_M_ == may) thing is inferior to WISIWIG (what I say is what I get). Also, things like stickies, notes, scribbles in margins are required for both within documents as well as to be appended to their icons, but we don't get that. We get a pen that, like the mouse, is really convenient for people to use once they have left their hands from the main UI component -- the keyboard. I predict the next UI genius will come out with voice recognition, and I would love to see what my computer does when I tell it to "Fuck off!"
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Don't be silly. They didn't win. They hated us for our freedom, and we showed 'em good by doing away with it. Problem solved!
But they still "won" (certainly they can't hate us anymore since we have no freedom, right?).
Its one of those lovely "win-win" situations, now isn't it?
I vote for liberalism.
I vote libertarian.
Oh, and for the record to the current regime:
FUCK YOU!
And yes, I do bear arms, am very well trained in gorilla combat, AND I'm willing to die for my freedoms.
----------------------
Cross that line sukka!
I don't see how he premeditates on statutory rape is informative...
Like I'm the only male/female that has sexual thoughts after checking one's ID and verifying that it is real.
I've been using the interweb since 1998 when I was 13, and I have been exposed to child pornography since day one. I remember logging in to Microsoft Chat (which was bundled with Windows) and all the rooms were devoted to kid porn... I also remember the channel listings on DALnet just being filled with stuff like, "!!!!!!!!!!!!11LolIta-_OMG-filesrvr" although these channels tended to be pure smoke.
OK, to enlighten the ignorant here. What specifically and to what extent did you find child porn?
Were there pay sites with previews just like normal porn? Were these by invite only? Were these just pictures of young kids? Were these pictures of young kids trying to have sex with each other? Were these pictures of older people having sex with young kids?
Don't get me wrong, I like all kinds of sex, but this is one thing that I have no knowledge of. Actually, I've heard of a guy at where I work being raided by the FBI or somebody and getting busted for kiddie porn. But I'm curious about what content is out there (what is in demand) and what kind of supply there is? Also, with the extreme international taboo against the thing, how does it not stay all but pretty underground?
I'm very curious here, and I would guess that others are as well...
I hope they apply a strong hash - I certainly wouldn't want to be the victim of a collision. Which also makes me wonder - though some hashes havn't been broken yet they likely will be in the future - does this mean pedos will get off scott free because it might have just been a collision?
I set up my own "porn" server one time by using MD5 hashes. I used a program called suck to, err, suck down all new pics from certain alt.binaries groups, stored the md5s in an MySQL database, and if the md5 existed, I just deleted the picture, then put the pics up on a website. Sorry, it wasn't kiddie porn though.
What I want to know, is how prevalent is kid porn or what the hell it is? To me, I'm only interested in girls once they get signs of being able to breed. You know those things like boobies and hips. To me kiddie porn happens all the time on diaper commercials. How common, and what exactly is the fascination with pre-pubescent kids? I just don't get it. I don't think they are "hot", I don't think most teenage girls are hot, but I certainly have been guilty of "premeditating" statutory rape, but I just don't get the obsession by the "criminals" or those trying to stop them of doing whatever they do with kiddie porn.
Simply makes animal sex seem normal to me.
They worked well in the past, especially at Kent State!
WTF is this list about?
Is this just a frail attempt at a flamebait or something?
I mean, there are millions of tech people that don't matter, yours truly included.
For those that were not morbidly curious enought to RTFA, Rob Malda is #6, Jonathan Schwartz is #8, and Linus Torvalds is #9.
BTW, Linus' picture is pretty scary. I haven't seen a picture of him in a while, kinda looking Stephen Hawking-like.
If this Business 2.0 article makes no sense to you either, simply mod my post as "underrated". Nothing more, nothing less.
WTF????
Hell, my Slashdot password is more important than the one I use on IRC and the one I use here isn't even that secure...
How secure is any password transmitted over the wire in plaintext?
rampant consumerism, stagnant education, and blame-tossing
Classic signs of an alcoholic or addict.
- Commerce didn't cause feminization
- Commerce didn't cause people in government to favor handouts in place of families
- Commerce didn't cause people to forget the difference between right and wrong
- Commerce didn't cause peace (though it does support peace once you have it)
But the thing is that females have lost their "purpose". They try so hard to be men, and frankly they suck at it.
- Commerce didn't cause feminization
But much of commerce is due to women. Men are simple. They (used) to like to do things, they buy "boring" things like tools, non-sensational books, and sure some like their toys like cars, and boats. But the BIG expensive house thing that nobody except for illegal aliens that want to take care of it thing is due mostly due to women. A piece of anecdotal evidence, a guy I know is building a 1.2 million dollar house and he clearly says "Its her house" meaning his wife's.
- Commerce didn't cause people in government to favor handouts in place of families
No, but it used to be men that did not raise children, but now that women are men now too, nobody raises children, so its put up for legislation. See the recent MySpace lawsuit (by the parents!)
- Commerce didn't cause people to forget the difference between right and wrong
The _love_ of money is the root of all evil. Your spam inbox should be sufficient here. All of the scam and bullshit websites that get top hits when you do a search for anything should be evidence here as well.
- Commerce didn't cause peace (though it does support peace once you have it)
War == money. Without the government lies that we are chronically on the verge of being attacked physically or economically, there would be no ideology for waging the chronic wars we have waged since WWII. Until WWII, we were in a depression. After WWII, the "middle class" was born (which is going away now). After WWII, we had the "Red Scare", the bad commies, Korea, domino theory, Vietnam, the "War on Drugs", the nebulous "Cold War", Iran-Contra, now the best BS war that one could imagine, the "War on Terror". Think for a second how much commerce would simply halt if we stopped "needing" these wars?
I'm getting sick and tired of hearing parents, school counselors, child psychologists, etc blaming MySpace for virtually everything bad that could occur in a teens life.
Me too. The ironic thing is that those are the parents that simply should not have kids either.
I mean, since when will the old standby of waiting at a school bus or going to a shopping mall and pulling the "I'm sorry Johnny, your parents were just in an accident, and I was asked to take you to the hospital to see them" or similar trick stop working?
Yet again, more evidence that logic and reason go out the window when "computers" or "online" is involved. Every week I see kids missing on milkboxes or on those token mailers with the "Have you seen me?" on them. And you know what? I'm pulling this number out of the air, but its probably pretty close, over 90% of those missing kids were taken by most likely a parent or someone else they know. The others simply had such shitty parents that they just decided to fend for themselves.
Lets just put all kids and their parents in prisons and call it even.
yep, the default font size for monospaced text in firefox is too small (12, while proportional font is 14, IIRC)
Flamebait and troll warning!
Maybe slashdot should have reported this story _before_ screwing up the site with their CSS overhaul.
Is it just me? Or are the default sans-serifed fonts difficult to read? Is it just me, or does the blockquoted text seem unimportant and again difficult to read because its a light grey color? Is it just me, or does the fixed font in this article look like crap? Is it just me, or does the previous standard of quoting the parent's post in italics make it impossible to read/difficult to tell its even in italics.
No, I'm not interested in downloading and dealing with firefox plus tons of extensions and hacks just to view one website. I don't know what the sans-serifed font is that they use, but its much more difficult to read than any other san-serifed font page I've read (see Wikipedia or CNN for example).
Its sad, but as it stands today, slashdot is one of the best things in my life, and I'm about to ban the site if it does not become easier to read soon. Kudos for fixing the WAYYYY to the right score, and the "read more" link, but all in all I really dislike the redesign. I liked it at first glance, but after a few minutes it just does not appeal to me anymore.
Hopefully the two or three people that read this before this post lands at -1 will get something to change....
And neither is due process it appears. How long will it be before we bring Saddam's methods of running prisons home after giving them a try in Iraq and Cuba?
Yeah, but at least Saddam is allowed a lawyer, or two, or three! Too bad they accidentally keep falling dead.
These rules about requiring subpoenas are a result of data theft in earlier times. It is supposed to prevent a police officer from abusing his position to collect sensitive information.
Yeah, since the constitution is just as valuable as used toilet paper, I guess we have to make sure police don't go after their sister's boyfriend or anything.
Its those few really important things that are left that are so valuable.
I understand what you're saying, but is it too much to ask that our police be interested in protecting our rights?
In a fascist state, the police work for the state.
I was illegally stopped by a state police officer while driving down a road via a police road block. There were at first 3 state police cars, then they lowered the number to 2. I was not a suspect of a crime. I was not informed why I was "supposed to stop". I contemplated going on my business, but I didn't feel like wrestling with a state policeman at the time. He asked me the usual bullshit questions:
Him: Are you coming from work?
Me: No. (no followup on where I was coming from)
Him: Can I see your license?
Me: (I gave it to him)
Him: Are you on any kind of medication? Your eyes look glassy.
Me: No, I'm tired.
Him: Is this address on your license correct?
Me: Yes.
Him: Is that where you are going?
Me: Yes.
Him: OK, go ahead.
I was NOT in the mood for any bullshit, and if it were any other time than the usual 99% of the time when I'm drunk or stoned when driving I probably would have gone to jail again instead of driving home. Yeah, I know that last sentence got me zero sympathy or credibility, but facts are facts.
One of my concealed weapon carrying nutcase friends would have probably dropped him without question, and drove home.
For those that simply like to play the odds. Here are the odds of dying in one's lifetime so one in :
(For the impatient, lightning is 92 on the list, other gems are accidents, self-harm, assault, accidental poisoning, falling down, drugs, walking down the street, cars, bikes and things, fire, #28 is getting medical care, etc. Fun list!)
64 Nontransport Unintentional (Accidental) Injuries [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
118 Intentional self-harm [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
211 Assault [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
212 Accidental poisoning by and exposure to noxious substances [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
218 Intentional self-harm by firearm [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
228 Car occupant [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
229 Falls [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
247 Other and unspecified land transport accidents [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
264 Other and unspecified person [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
315 Assault by firearm [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
451 Narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens] n.e.c. [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
472 Other and unspecified fall [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
490 Accidental exposure to other and unspecified factors and sequelae [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
541 Other and unspecified drugs, medicaments, and biologicals [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
576 Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
612 Pedestrian [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
675 Other accidental threats to breathing [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
679 Intentional self-poisoning [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
771 Event of undetermined intent [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
869 Occupant of pick-up truck or van [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
997 Other and unspecified means and sequelae [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1032 Other fall on same level [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1081 Accidental drowning and submersion [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1117 Poisoning [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1159 Motorcycle rider [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1179 Exposure to smoke, fire and flames [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1267 Inhalation and ingestion of other objects causing obstruction of respiratory tract [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1310 Complications of medical and surgical care and sequelae [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1366 Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1433 Other and unspecified means and sequelae [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1471 Uncontrolled fire in building or structure [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
1796 Assault by sharp object [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
2331 Fall on and from stairs and steps [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
2811 Drowning and submersion while in or falling into natural water [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
3056 Exposure to forces of nature [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
3285 Other and unspecified drowning and submersion [[ more characters to get past the lame lameness filter ]]
3638 Antiepileptic, sedative-hy
We're all going to die while the people who've been listening to Rush Limbaugh for the past fifteen years just keep repeating "prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it prove it"
OxyContin has chilled him out since then. We're all OK now.
How many times do we have to tell you? Don't buy first-gen Apple hardware!
Shh. Be quiet. How do you think the errors get found for the 2nd+ gens?
In the end software companies will have to become service companies.
:)
The problem is that even if you pay your hard earned cash for "support", you get some bozo who knows less than I do, and usually the "solution" is for them to blame the hardware or anybody else they can blame.
I find that OSS mailing lists are better in that you are in contact with the actual developers who know the guts of the code in question. AND!! Its free!
Once you pay for "support", the best thing I've ever received is a person who is good at calming me down so I don't kill somebody (possibly them
This is a big step forward for IPv6 adoption, but I think the next major step will be by the cable companies.
Its funny. I remember when the US government/military _made_ the standards instead of being years behind adopting them.
I guess they are too busy spying on people and killing them to actually do any real innovation.
At least it's obvious that the folks who know what they're doing, know that MS products aren't the best solution.
Am I the only one who finds it to be an oxymoron to use MS products AND worry about security?
And, yes, I practice what I preach.
when the get 'serious' about spam coming _outside_ of China!
About 50% of my spam has url's resolving back to China or Korea.
internet isn't one-way, so he was intruding by sending his packets into their system.
From the Legal Encyclopedia
Trespass -- An unlawful intrusion that interferes with one's person or property.
As I said, there are existing laws that cover this stuff.
A real desk holds a lot of information just by "being" a desk that a desktop computer doesn't hold. People remember that that stack in the corner was from last thursday, that the extra thick document with two staples is the TPS report the boss required after-hours, that they hate the bottom drawer because it sticks.. so they remember perfectly what's in it....
Yeah, and to ease the pain of driving a car, car designers first tried using reigns like horses instead of pedals and steering wheels.
Sounded good at the time, but we got smarter. People still look at me funny when I poke the side of my car with my stirrups and say "gitteup!"
...because I can scrawl all over a paper document with my handy ballpoint pen much more easily than I can annotate an electronic document using my mouse and keyboard.
It kills me what "metaphors" make it and the ones that don't.
The whole WYSIWY_M_G (_M_ == may) thing is inferior to WISIWIG (what I say is what I get). Also, things like stickies, notes, scribbles in margins are required for both within documents as well as to be appended to their icons, but we don't get that. We get a pen that, like the mouse, is really convenient for people to use once they have left their hands from the main UI component -- the keyboard. I predict the next UI genius will come out with voice recognition, and I would love to see what my computer does when I tell it to "Fuck off!"