When the Internet started out, it was a place for everyone. Now we see what's happening when an "It's for the children" campaign is run on an unscrupulous advertiser who probably got more than the fine back by collecting data on future citizens and selling it.
What I see is that the Internet isn't for everyone and that the "precious" children should be banned from it until they reach an age where they can understand what it is they're getting into.
Unless a separate Internet can be put into place with a small cadre of gatekeepers to ensure that the kiddies aren't abusing it, I really don't see a solution.
How to enforce it? I don't know. Look at how Fecesbook started out: You had to be an adult to sign up, but as time went on, the age of joining decreased. At the height of its celebrity, a large portion of children lied about their age in order to get into the hype.
"I'm finished!" - Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"
Find a big target and litigate. Lose that case and have it reopened at a higher level. Lather, rinse, repeat. Find another target and litigate. Lather, rinse, repeat. Find a backer for a cash injection, find another target and litigate. Lather, rinse, repeat. Find another backer for another cash injection. Lather, rinse, repeat. Hopefully, after much litigation, the result will be that they go out of business permanently.
Just think of the wonderful people behind all those SCO lawsuits and how they tenaciously pursued their "Intellectual Property".
Extreme right, extreme left, liberal view, conservative view and all the colors of the rainbow in-between. When we turn our backs upon history, we forget just what it was that we were supposed to remember, we eventually build up to an atrocity and repeat it.
Since all documentation is available to be amended by the modern agendaists, I propose that we revise the preamble of the constitution to read "We, the white males, not slaves or women, in order to form a more perfect union..."
This would properly reflect what the founding fathers were all about and with our perfect, clearly superior view and understanding of those ignorant colonial backwoods peasants, "we" would better understand their position.
Yes! Nasty horrid treeses, They prevents us from getting the true greenses. Just to touches one burns us! Hsss! Hsss! - From "Are corporations really okay with this ring business?" by Sauron the overseer.
Any bill that attempts to pass both house and senate with that tired mantra should be ripped up, stamped upon and burned to ash with the ash stomped upon again for good measure. While the original premise of passing laws for the children's welfare was an honest endeavour, that principle is now nothing more than a broad brush that permits abuse of the laws to pass a niche minority group's maligned concept of morality.
"Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works."
If you buy an iPhone then Apple is going to do everything in its power to ensure that all repairs (that are under warranty) will be done by authorized Apple repair shops. Why are people surprised when they push an update that invalidates third party repair? You're buying a product that bases its profit on the fact that it'll break just after warranty (or several months, whichever comes first) and you'll have to shell out for a new one. Apple doesn't give a shit whether or not they piss off a few people, they know that what the consumer is buying is their image. The only way they'll release a patch to allow third party screens is if they piss off enough people to affect their bottom line. Same thing happened with the fingerprint sensor.
Of course, Apple will say that they're protecting their "customers" by preventing those inferior third party parts from making their "product" unstable as a coverup, but that's just business right?
tl;dr: If you shell out the cash for the image product, why cheap out on repairs? Go whole hog with your bucks for the full user experience and feel the burn.
Yup. Nothing like a little misdirection to take the "gullible" public's mind off of the real issues while HE sells the very foundations of their rights and privileges from underneath them. I got several calls from telemarketers today, I wonder who it was that enabled them?
And what did king George III think of a bunch of kids over in the "colonies" when they declared their independence, eh? I'm not saying that all jerks are worth listening to, I'm saying that some jerks are. They bucked the system, struck out for their own ideals and the result is... Umm.
So posting a video with girls in wet t-shirts will be okay for most advertising, but posting a video that shows you how to make a nuclear weapon in your basement will be down-voted, ignored and (GASP!) demonetized. Kid videos with vapid Care Bear-like content will be okay for Super Frosted Sugar Bombs cereal but posting a kid video on how to take care of your bicycle will be put in the ignore pile and demonetized because it allows for free thought, independence and prevents the kiddy bicycle companies from profiting on kids demanding that their parents replace their six month old conveyance with a new one. Sounds about right -- I'll take the blue pill, no sense in showing that I'm capable of thought if the corporations can't get a profit from it.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-not-repeal-net-neutrality And while you're there: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/we-people-call-resignation-fcc-chairman-ajit-varadaraj-pai
Don't do this and don't do that. 'Cause we know what's best for you and we're gonna pass laws that make you conform. Nanny,. nanny boo boo! Hell, by the time we're done, you'll serve prison time.
Once upon a time, a family argued over what program they should watch on their TV. The father looked at the argumentative bunch and decided to weigh in with a bit of wisdom. "Let's resolve this democratically" he said. "Junior and Sissy should get one vote each for the show that they wish to watch, Mother should get two votes as her position allows for more power. As for me, I should get five votes as I'm the Pater Familias." At that point, the rich elitist bastard who lived in a mansion on a hill that had been in his rich elitist family for generations, used his master key and walked into the living room and declared: "You'll watch what I want you to watch. You don't get any votes. Fuck you!"
The family stopped their argument and sat down. "What do you want to watch, Uncle Fred?" They asked.
"DES is now considered to be insecure for many applications. This is mainly due to the 56-bit key size being too small; in January, 1999, distributed.net and the Electronic Frontier Foundation collaborated to publicly break a DES key in 22 hours and 15 minutes (see chronology)."
By golly, you're right! We should end all wars and tax the rich and middle-class until they're on the welfare rolls themselves! With the surplus of cash, we can raise the level of living for the 10 percent of Americans that are below the poverty level. What a wonderful world we'll live in with the government in total control of each and everyone's purse strings!
We keep on giving away money to people without the understanding that what we are giving has a price attached to it. Do we even worry about the effect that it's having on the very people that are receiving it?
Should we, (being givers), not teach those that receive our generosity what it means to be a recipient? Why do we have 6 generations of welfare recipients with each generation that's added not caring in the least where the money is coming from?
I walked from Potomac Avenue to the Navy Yard yesterday and came upon an entire community that relies upon government funded housing. They just hang out all day in a small park chatting with one another. They don't look like they're incapable of any sort of work.
I've worked for my living from the age of twelve to the present (decades, I won't say how many). Should I go and join them for awhile and see what it's like to have all my troubles taken care of by the government?
Slashdot Mirror
10 PRINT "POPE FRANCIS IS GREAT"
20 GOTO 10
(It might be a little bit behind the times.)
When the Internet started out, it was a place for everyone. Now we see what's happening when an "It's for the children" campaign is run on an unscrupulous advertiser who probably got more than the fine back by collecting data on future citizens and selling it.
What I see is that the Internet isn't for everyone and that the "precious" children should be banned from it until they reach an age where they can understand what it is they're getting into.
Unless a separate Internet can be put into place with a small cadre of gatekeepers to ensure that the kiddies aren't abusing it, I really don't see a solution.
How to enforce it? I don't know. Look at how Fecesbook started out: You had to be an adult to sign up, but as time went on, the age of joining decreased. At the height of its celebrity, a large portion of children lied about their age in order to get into the hype.
"I'm finished!" - Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"
Find a big target and litigate. Lose that case and have it reopened at a higher level. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Find another target and litigate. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Find a backer for a cash injection, find another target and litigate. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Find another backer for another cash injection. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Hopefully, after much litigation, the result will be that they go out of business permanently.
Just think of the wonderful people behind all those SCO lawsuits and how they tenaciously pursued their "Intellectual Property".
Hahahahaha, Trump. Am I right?
Next up, Ajit Pie-Pie. I believe I got negative karma due to my remarks, but I believe that my predictions are proving accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As8XkJNaHbs
To the millenials: Suck it.
Extreme right, extreme left, liberal view, conservative view and all the colors of the rainbow in-between. When we turn our backs upon history, we forget just what it was that we were supposed to remember, we eventually build up to an atrocity and repeat it.
Since all documentation is available to be amended by the modern agendaists, I propose that we revise the preamble of the constitution to read "We, the white males, not slaves or women, in order to form a more perfect union..."
This would properly reflect what the founding fathers were all about and with our perfect, clearly superior view and understanding of those ignorant colonial backwoods peasants, "we" would better understand their position.
Good luck with that.
Yes! Nasty horrid treeses, They prevents us from getting the true greenses. Just to touches one burns us! Hsss! Hsss! - From "Are corporations really okay with this ring business?" by Sauron the overseer.
Thank you! That solved my problems with WSJT-X, FLDIGI and Audacity.
Any bill that attempts to pass both house and senate with that tired mantra should be ripped up, stamped upon and burned to ash with the ash stomped upon again for good measure. While the original premise of passing laws for the children's welfare was an honest endeavour, that principle is now nothing more than a broad brush that permits abuse of the laws to pass a niche minority group's maligned concept of morality.
"Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works."
If you buy an iPhone then Apple is going to do everything in its power to ensure that all repairs (that are under warranty) will be done by authorized Apple repair shops. Why are people surprised when they push an update that invalidates third party repair? You're buying a product that bases its profit on the fact that it'll break just after warranty (or several months, whichever comes first) and you'll have to shell out for a new one. Apple doesn't give a shit whether or not they piss off a few people, they know that what the consumer is buying is their image. The only way they'll release a patch to allow third party screens is if they piss off enough people to affect their bottom line. Same thing happened with the fingerprint sensor.
Of course, Apple will say that they're protecting their "customers" by preventing those inferior third party parts from making their "product" unstable as a coverup, but that's just business right?
tl;dr: If you shell out the cash for the image product, why cheap out on repairs? Go whole hog with your bucks for the full user experience and feel the burn.
Yup. Nothing like a little misdirection to take the "gullible" public's mind off of the real issues while HE sells the very foundations of their rights and privileges from underneath them. I got several calls from telemarketers today, I wonder who it was that enabled them?
Yep, nothing like those new fangled high priced exploding wireless earbuds, eh? What a cool idea!
And what did king George III think of a bunch of kids over in the "colonies" when they declared their independence, eh? I'm not saying that all jerks are worth listening to, I'm saying that some jerks are. They bucked the system, struck out for their own ideals and the result is... Umm.
Never mind. Moot point. Forget I even commented.
So posting a video with girls in wet t-shirts will be okay for most advertising, but posting a video that shows you how to make a nuclear weapon in your basement will be down-voted, ignored and (GASP!) demonetized. Kid videos with vapid Care Bear-like content will be okay for Super Frosted Sugar Bombs cereal but posting a kid video on how to take care of your bicycle will be put in the ignore pile and demonetized because it allows for free thought, independence and prevents the kiddy bicycle companies from profiting on kids demanding that their parents replace their six month old conveyance with a new one. Sounds about right -- I'll take the blue pill, no sense in showing that I'm capable of thought if the corporations can't get a profit from it.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-not-repeal-net-neutrality
And while you're there:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/we-people-call-resignation-fcc-chairman-ajit-varadaraj-pai
Let's cut the cancer out at the source.
Don't do this and don't do that. 'Cause we know what's best for you and we're gonna pass laws that make you conform. Nanny,. nanny boo boo! Hell, by the time we're done, you'll serve prison time.
Thus sayeth the Nanny State.
>the two services are mutually exclusive, as far as equipment is concerned.
And usually Hams wouldn't touch a CB rig with a 1000000000000000000 foot pole.
"If you ask me that ain't no rose, roll up your windows and hold your nose." Leyton Wainwright III
Once upon a time, a family argued over what program they should watch on their TV. The father looked at the argumentative bunch and decided to weigh in with a bit of wisdom. "Let's resolve this democratically" he said. "Junior and Sissy should get one vote each for the show that they wish to watch, Mother should get two votes as her position allows for more power. As for me, I should get five votes as I'm the Pater Familias." At that point, the rich elitist bastard who lived in a mansion on a hill that had been in his rich elitist family for generations, used his master key and walked into the living room and declared: "You'll watch what I want you to watch. You don't get any votes. Fuck you!"
The family stopped their argument and sat down. "What do you want to watch, Uncle Fred?" They asked.
When a papa galaxy and a mama galaxy love each other very much...
"DES is now considered to be insecure for many applications. This is mainly due to the 56-bit key size being too small; in January, 1999, distributed.net and the Electronic Frontier Foundation collaborated to publicly break a DES key in 22 hours and 15 minutes (see chronology)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard
You need to elucidate on the "lack of education" portion of your ambiguous reply. Also, have you ever heard of the term "sarcasm"?
By golly, you're right! We should end all wars and tax the rich and middle-class until they're on the welfare rolls themselves! With the surplus of cash, we can raise the level of living for the 10 percent of Americans that are below the poverty level. What a wonderful world we'll live in with the government in total control of each and everyone's purse strings!
Oh wait! That's socialism! Never mind...
We keep on giving away money to people without the understanding that what we are giving has a price attached to it. Do we even worry about the effect that it's having on the very people that are receiving it?
Should we, (being givers), not teach those that receive our generosity what it means to be a recipient? Why do we have 6 generations of welfare recipients with each generation that's added not caring in the least where the money is coming from?
I walked from Potomac Avenue to the Navy Yard yesterday and came upon an entire community that relies upon government funded housing. They just hang out all day in a small park chatting with one another. They don't look like they're incapable of any sort of work.
I've worked for my living from the age of twelve to the present (decades, I won't say how many). Should I go and join them for awhile and see what it's like to have all my troubles taken care of by the government?
I'm just confused about all of this.
I'm with you. Consider what happened to Jeffrey Dahmer. All nice and legal, no extreme waiting times on death row...
http://mashable.com/2015/05/11/google-map-maker-disable/
It's a cool hack.