99% accurate? HAHAHAHA, I'll belive that when I see it. I'm sure I could get a porn site through it in 5 minutes buddy. There is absolutely NO WAY a filter can accurately distinguish between what is porn and what is not 100% of the time, or even this "99%" statistic you've pulled out of thin air.
Not only does it not effectively block porn, I'm sure it overblocks on many, many sites. That is the big reason why filters suck.
Has your head been buried in the sand? Filtering *does not work*. Not only does it fail to block most porn, it will also overblock on ligitimate content. There is no technology available today that can accurately filter the internet.
The judicial branch of the US government made a ruling that ICraveTV was performing illegal acts even though it had no jurisdiction to say so and was completely legal in Canada.
There is no system available to date which will reliably filter out unwanted porn while allowing all "legitimate" content to be available. Thats just the risk you run when running this kind of business. But you really have to ask yourself "Is someone going to come into my laundromat, pay to do their laundry, pay to use the internet, and surf for porn infront of everyone else?" That, my friend, is social-pressure, and that is what will keep people from viewing porn.
Well the deal here is that because the US thinks it controls the world, it also thinks its laws apply to the entire world, so the judicial branch of the US government thinks it applies to the entire world, regardless of reality.
To be fair to Suck, their piece was humor. Its a shame to see Slashdot report this like everything they said was well-grounded factual reporting. Even Suck didn't pretend that.
Yes, I suppose thats why the humor icon was used to denote the article. Those sneaky slashdot bastards!
But then that leaves open the opprotunity for an organized effort to vote out legitimate content, I say don't impliment the voting system, make people work harder to kill the system, I mean, which is harder? Simply wasting little bandwidth to vote down legitimate information, or wasting a lot uploading bogus stuff? Not to mention if you allow people to vote off legitimate information then you have the possibility of no legitimate information remaining, with the organized effort to insert bogus information you still have both legitimate and bogus, so that raises the chances of finding actual legitimate info, when you know this kind of abuse will go on.
/bin - SYMLINKS to individual user-executable binaries.
[...]
/lib - SYMLINKS to dynamic run-time libraries
BAD!
Most people have a separate/usr filesystem, lets say you're upgrading your hard drive, resizing your partition, or otherwise need to unmount/usr and mount a different one. Where do all these symlinks lead? You umount/usr, then try to mount another and one of 2 things happens.
1. You have no more mount binary, unless you expect to keep it in/sbin
2. You have no dynamic C library, its in/usr remember? You're fucked.
Not to mention, how are you going to mount anything a boot time? The kernel self mounts/, but then your startup scripts call mount -a, oops cant do it, no C library, your system is hosed, nice filesystem setup there big guy.
More to the point: if a company rents out equipment with GPL-modified equipment (rather than sells it), would they need to release the code modifications?
Yes, read the GPL, it says it in plain black and white that if you distribute GPL derrived works you must also offer source. Renting is a form of distribution for a set amount of time.
Playing devil's advocate here (I agree with the sentiment), I doubt language like this would find its way into a court opinion. Your television and cable services cost you money. Your telephone services cost you money. Indeed, your mailbox cost you money to maintain.
TV is different, if you don't pay for cable you're not paying for programming and without advertising you'd get no content. When you do pay for cable you're paying for a service which gives you more and clearer channels, you're not paying for the actual content (some "PayTV" stations excluded) but the service of getting them clearer and more of them.
Your telephone does cost you money, and telemarketers are illegal in many places and during "supper hour" in many more, but regardless if you get one more telemarketing call or not, unless its a cell phone (where you pay for airtime) you're going to pay the same amount anyways, all you've lost is time.
Mailboxes cost money to maintain regardless of how much "junk mail" flyers you get.
The point with spam is that it costs the recipiant to receive it, it costs the ISP to receive it (bandwidth charges), etc, and if you didn't receive the spam it wouldn't have cost you.
And even if federal legislation is passed, there remains the outstanding First Amendment questions. Soon to be seen at an appellate court near you . ..
The whole point of hating spam is not because it's annoying, sure it's annoying, but the bigger picture is someone is paying, usually the email account holder, for these guys to advertise to you. You pay for your internet account, or you pay by seeing banner ads, the ISP pays by using their bandwidth, hard drive space, etc. Spam costs the recipiants money, there is no First Amendment protection which allows you to advertise to someone while costing them money at the same time.
Right, and people are going to go out and buy a separate monitor for their cube, which they're already overpaying for so they have no clue at all, and risk incompatibility, than just pick from the ones listed on the "build to order" cube page, of which the 15" is $500...
The cube is a peice of overpriced junk. You'd think that a small, lightweight, underpowered, unupgradable "throwaway" machine such as the cube would cost less than one of their G4 towers, right?
WRONG
The cube, for a 450mhz G4 and 64 megs of RAM, which is barely enough to get by these days, costs $1799, without a monitor. The cheapest monitor you can buy for it is another $500, so for a working cube you're going to pay $2300! What an absolute rip off.
Apple should be glad they're getting ANY attention about the cube at all, they'll need it to sell any of these things.
Macromedia's Shockwave plug-in for Linux is also extraordinarily sloppy (a plug-in which seizes the audio device when it loads, and locks up your browser if it can't get it, is just not good enough; I don't want to shut down my MP3 player whenever a Flash ad loads on a web site). Which is not to mention the utter lack of a Shockwave plug-in.
Not only this, but the Flash Linux plugin isn't even OSS (Open Sound System) compliant. It sets the fragsize to 8192, and instead of using a GETBLKSIZE call to see if the soundcard allowed the fragsize change, it just assumes that it went through. End result: Soundcards which have a 4096 fragsize limit because of hardware limitation (Aureal cards, other high end pro soundcards) play only half of each frag, so its at double speed and loses half of the sound.
-- iCEBaLM
Re:Code as free speech? It won't hold up....
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If law is written in code, then law is a specific subset of code (code > law && code != law). While the actual code of a law may be first amendment protected, it may not violate the first amendment itself (or any other part of the constitution) to become law. ie: You can scream it from the hilltops, you can say it over and over again, but it cannot become law because it violates the first amendment.
Nothing nintendo can do about it. They can't force people into a license if you're not using anything of nintendo's actually make the part/addon/rom. You can go out, buy a gameboy, use it to develop your stuff on, and thats it. Nintendo has no authority to make you pay licensing fees, except to use their trademarks and "IP" which you wouldn't need if you did it all on your own.
... do they get this sexual activity information? Do they employ people to go around and sleep with as many people as possible to find out useful sexual marketing information? If so I'd like to surrender my sexual activity information post-haste, wheres the phone number?
I'm sick of people using the name of "progress" to try to justify dictating what you can and can't do. Did we really need a GUI for DOS? Did we really need high-speed Internet access? No, and we don't need handwriting recognition either.
Yeah I need a GUI to view and high-speed internet access to get my massive fix of asian bondage goat porn. Without either the would would be a rough place to live...
I'm in favor of space exploration as much as the next guy, but I can't believe that we're wasting so many resources on this useless thing.
How can you be for space exploration but against the ISS? This station could provide for an orbiting spacecraft manufacturing dock for possibly, *gasp* a manned mission to Mars.
Why are we wasting thousands of Russian minds on this inane task with absolutely no benefits to the Russian people or even to the state of human knowlege?
I'm looking at your mit.edu email address and shaking my head. While Russia isn't exactly one of the most ideal partners economically in this venture they have a lot of space program infrastructure, experience and knowledge that other countries simply do not. Thousands of experiemtns will be conducted on this ISS, are you going to tell me that every one of them will be useless and not bring us any valuable information about space at all? Also the afore-mentioned manufacturing capability, especially with the robotic arms the station will be equipt with. These will facillitate exploration (and I may be optimistic here, but even colonization) of the moon, mars, and other planets. With a viable orbiting space station these things just aren't possible.
I've been studying the maps here, specifically the submarine fibreoptic cable maps. If you look at them and study them you can see that there is enough connectivity already to route around the US completely from any connected point on the globe to another. The reason why most traffic is routed through the US today is because:
1. There are more links to/from the US 2. The links to/from the US are the fastest route 3. The links to/from the US are the shortest route
In a pinch the global internet would survive without the US, it would just get slower.
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99% accurate? HAHAHAHA, I'll belive that when I see it. I'm sure I could get a porn site through it in 5 minutes buddy. There is absolutely NO WAY a filter can accurately distinguish between what is porn and what is not 100% of the time, or even this "99%" statistic you've pulled out of thin air.
Not only does it not effectively block porn, I'm sure it overblocks on many, many sites. That is the big reason why filters suck.
-- iCEBaLM
Has your head been buried in the sand? Filtering *does not work*. Not only does it fail to block most porn, it will also overblock on ligitimate content. There is no technology available today that can accurately filter the internet.
-- iCEBaLM
The judicial branch of the US government made a ruling that ICraveTV was performing illegal acts even though it had no jurisdiction to say so and was completely legal in Canada.
-- iCEBaLM
There is no system available to date which will reliably filter out unwanted porn while allowing all "legitimate" content to be available. Thats just the risk you run when running this kind of business. But you really have to ask yourself "Is someone going to come into my laundromat, pay to do their laundry, pay to use the internet, and surf for porn infront of everyone else?" That, my friend, is social-pressure, and that is what will keep people from viewing porn.
-- iCEBaLM
Well the deal here is that because the US thinks it controls the world, it also thinks its laws apply to the entire world, so the judicial branch of the US government thinks it applies to the entire world, regardless of reality.
Case in point: ICraveTV, Jon Johansen.
-- iCEBaLM
To be fair to Suck, their piece was humor. Its a shame to see Slashdot report this like everything they said was well-grounded factual reporting. Even Suck didn't pretend that.
Yes, I suppose thats why the humor icon was used to denote the article. Those sneaky slashdot bastards!
-- iCEBaLM
I'm not sure you really can, in a totally anonymous system you must allow everything or nothing because you can't filter it reliably.
-- iCEBaLM
But you don't know who voted, this is a completely anonymous system, thats the point.
-- iCEBaLM
But then that leaves open the opprotunity for an organized effort to vote out legitimate content, I say don't impliment the voting system, make people work harder to kill the system, I mean, which is harder? Simply wasting little bandwidth to vote down legitimate information, or wasting a lot uploading bogus stuff? Not to mention if you allow people to vote off legitimate information then you have the possibility of no legitimate information remaining, with the organized effort to insert bogus information you still have both legitimate and bogus, so that raises the chances of finding actual legitimate info, when you know this kind of abuse will go on.
-- iCEBaLM
/bin - SYMLINKS to individual user-executable binaries.
/usr filesystem, lets say you're upgrading your hard drive, resizing your partition, or otherwise need to unmount /usr and mount a different one. Where do all these symlinks lead? You umount /usr, then try to mount another and one of 2 things happens.
/sbin
/usr remember? You're fucked.
/, but then your startup scripts call mount -a, oops cant do it, no C library, your system is hosed, nice filesystem setup there big guy.
[...]
/lib - SYMLINKS to dynamic run-time libraries
BAD!
Most people have a separate
1. You have no more mount binary, unless you expect to keep it in
2. You have no dynamic C library, its in
Not to mention, how are you going to mount anything a boot time? The kernel self mounts
-- iCEBaLM
More to the point: if a company rents out equipment with GPL-modified equipment (rather than sells it), would they need to release the code modifications?
Yes, read the GPL, it says it in plain black and white that if you distribute GPL derrived works you must also offer source. Renting is a form of distribution for a set amount of time.
-- iCEBaLM
Playing devil's advocate here (I agree with the sentiment), I doubt language like this would find its way into a court opinion. Your television and cable services cost you money. Your telephone services cost you money. Indeed, your mailbox cost you money to maintain.
TV is different, if you don't pay for cable you're not paying for programming and without advertising you'd get no content. When you do pay for cable you're paying for a service which gives you more and clearer channels, you're not paying for the actual content (some "PayTV" stations excluded) but the service of getting them clearer and more of them.
Your telephone does cost you money, and telemarketers are illegal in many places and during "supper hour" in many more, but regardless if you get one more telemarketing call or not, unless its a cell phone (where you pay for airtime) you're going to pay the same amount anyways, all you've lost is time.
Mailboxes cost money to maintain regardless of how much "junk mail" flyers you get.
The point with spam is that it costs the recipiant to receive it, it costs the ISP to receive it (bandwidth charges), etc, and if you didn't receive the spam it wouldn't have cost you.
-- iCEBaLM
And even if federal legislation is passed, there remains the outstanding First Amendment questions. Soon to be seen at an appellate court near you . . .
The whole point of hating spam is not because it's annoying, sure it's annoying, but the bigger picture is someone is paying, usually the email account holder, for these guys to advertise to you. You pay for your internet account, or you pay by seeing banner ads, the ISP pays by using their bandwidth, hard drive space, etc. Spam costs the recipiants money, there is no First Amendment protection which allows you to advertise to someone while costing them money at the same time.
-- iCEBaLM
Nope, I don't go to defcon's.
... I also would win
-- iCEBaLM
Moderated down? Check that score again B1 :)
-- iCEBaLM
Right, and people are going to go out and buy a separate monitor for their cube, which they're already overpaying for so they have no clue at all, and risk incompatibility, than just pick from the ones listed on the "build to order" cube page, of which the 15" is $500...
-- iCEBaLM
The cube is a peice of overpriced junk. You'd think that a small, lightweight, underpowered, unupgradable "throwaway" machine such as the cube would cost less than one of their G4 towers, right?
WRONG
The cube, for a 450mhz G4 and 64 megs of RAM, which is barely enough to get by these days, costs $1799, without a monitor. The cheapest monitor you can buy for it is another $500, so for a working cube you're going to pay $2300! What an absolute rip off.
Apple should be glad they're getting ANY attention about the cube at all, they'll need it to sell any of these things.
-- iCEBaLM
... For Fred Moody's article:
Score: -1 (Troll)
-- iCEBaLM
Macromedia's Shockwave plug-in for Linux is also extraordinarily sloppy (a plug-in which seizes the audio device when it loads, and locks up your browser if it can't get it, is just not good enough; I don't want to shut down my MP3 player whenever a Flash ad loads on a web site). Which is not to mention the utter lack of a Shockwave plug-in.
Not only this, but the Flash Linux plugin isn't even OSS (Open Sound System) compliant. It sets the fragsize to 8192, and instead of using a GETBLKSIZE call to see if the soundcard allowed the fragsize change, it just assumes that it went through. End result: Soundcards which have a 4096 fragsize limit because of hardware limitation (Aureal cards, other high end pro soundcards) play only half of each frag, so its at double speed and loses half of the sound.
-- iCEBaLM
If law is written in code, then law is a specific subset of code (code > law && code != law). While the actual code of a law may be first amendment protected, it may not violate the first amendment itself (or any other part of the constitution) to become law. ie: You can scream it from the hilltops, you can say it over and over again, but it cannot become law because it violates the first amendment.
-- iCEBaLM
Nothing nintendo can do about it. They can't force people into a license if you're not using anything of nintendo's actually make the part/addon/rom. You can go out, buy a gameboy, use it to develop your stuff on, and thats it. Nintendo has no authority to make you pay licensing fees, except to use their trademarks and "IP" which you wouldn't need if you did it all on your own.
-- iCEBaLM
... do they get this sexual activity information? Do they employ people to go around and sleep with as many people as possible to find out useful sexual marketing information? If so I'd like to surrender my sexual activity information post-haste, wheres the phone number?
-- iCEBaLM
I'm sick of people using the name of "progress" to try to justify dictating what you can and can't do. Did we really need a GUI for DOS? Did we really need high-speed Internet access? No, and we don't need handwriting recognition either.
Yeah I need a GUI to view and high-speed internet access to get my massive fix of asian bondage goat porn. Without either the would would be a rough place to live...
-- iCEBaLM
I'm in favor of space exploration as much as the next guy, but I can't believe that we're wasting so many resources on this useless thing.
How can you be for space exploration but against the ISS? This station could provide for an orbiting spacecraft manufacturing dock for possibly, *gasp* a manned mission to Mars.
Why are we wasting thousands of Russian minds on this inane task with absolutely no benefits to the Russian people or even to the state of human knowlege?
I'm looking at your mit.edu email address and shaking my head. While Russia isn't exactly one of the most ideal partners economically in this venture they have a lot of space program infrastructure, experience and knowledge that other countries simply do not. Thousands of experiemtns will be conducted on this ISS, are you going to tell me that every one of them will be useless and not bring us any valuable information about space at all? Also the afore-mentioned manufacturing capability, especially with the robotic arms the station will be equipt with. These will facillitate exploration (and I may be optimistic here, but even colonization) of the moon, mars, and other planets. With a viable orbiting space station these things just aren't possible.
-- iCEBaLM
I've been studying the maps here, specifically the submarine fibreoptic cable maps. If you look at them and study them you can see that there is enough connectivity already to route around the US completely from any connected point on the globe to another. The reason why most traffic is routed through the US today is because:
1. There are more links to/from the US
2. The links to/from the US are the fastest route
3. The links to/from the US are the shortest route
In a pinch the global internet would survive without the US, it would just get slower.
-- iCEBaLM