What the? Where did I say iTunes was the first video player to have a single window? I mentioned iTunes because the Mac version now has a shaded source list on the left filled with media sources, like iTunes.
Gone is the two window design! Now it's got an iTunes-like single window, but with its own VLC stylings (e.g., the playback controls on the bottom). I dig!
There's no evidence at all, because I'm not employed by a "public relations firm", and I doubt anyone else on that list is either. But note that the post been getting modded up to +5 all day regardless of that fact. This is how absurd the comments section has become on Slashdot--you can just list a bunch of accounts you don't like, call them shills, and people will mindlessly mod you up because they think, "OH HEY IT'S A HYPERLINKED LIST THEREFORE IT MUST HAVE BEEN RESEARCHED".
But I'm sure you're right, I'm sure keeping AMD out of all of the major OEMs(except to some extent HP) had nothing to do with it.
You're reciting Intel's tactics to me as if I don't know about them. The article also mentions that Intel paid AMD a settlement over the issue. None of it changes AMD's poor decision-making and product releases since the release of the Core Duo. You can't blame it all on some evil Intel monopoly.
It isn't your kooky troll post accusing me of being like 15 different people without any evidence at all that astonishes me. It's that you got modded up +5 Interesting and that my original, legitimate post is getting modded down now. If anyone's subverting the moderation process, it's you.
It's really simple--Intel made better products. Once Intel abandoned the dead end of the Pentium 4 and changed tacts with the first low-power Core chip, AMD never had a valid response. The article details some predatory behavior on the part of Intel which was eventually settled, but I don't think the outcome would be different today had that not occurred.
Of course, Intel better watch its back with ARM around.
To be honest, your post comes off as over-the-top and fantastical. What are you talking about that they risk imprisonment or death if they speak out against Foxconn? Employees have been interviewed before. Their biggest gripes were the low pay and pressure to work overtime.
The Fair Labor Association found that Apple's plant...
It's not Apple's plant. They're the biggest electronics factory in the world and make products for Dell, HP, Nintendo, Microsoft, Google, and more. Seems like a Greenpeace situation where Apple gets singled out because it generates more media coverage. Apple has actually been cited as the most proactive when it comes to monitoring work conditions in the factories they contract with.
Asus are easily wiping the floor with Apple in the tablet market right now.
That's ridiculous. Apple is selling so many iPads that they could buy Greece. Like it or not, they're the #1 tablet vendor by an enormous margin. Your post is just shilling for Asus for some reason.
Apple has a huge parts supply advantage here (many seem to forget what Tim Cook was responsible for before becoming CEO). It's why they seem to be able to come out with technology that others aren't selling yet and sell it at a lower price than what others can sell. Remember when everyone expected the iPad to be $1000? They sold at $500, and it took like a year before competitors offered any halfway decent tablets for less than $800.
If you think this wasn't an avenue for pedophilia, I leave you with this post from a self-admitted pedophile on Reddit, admitting that he masturbated to pictures on/r/jailbait and other "outlets" on Reddit that are now banned.
Kids? Sorry. 17 is not a "Kid". In almost every century of human's existence this was considered an adult. You think the "Virgin Mary" was 23? She was most likely 14/15.
Did you RTFA?! The name of the first subreddit was/r/preteen_girls!
I can't believe I'm getting modbombed for this. Some of the moderators are sickos.
Let's play a game. It's called, "Read every line in your post and remember that this is about child porn."
Ready? Here goes.
So, in other words we should ban things because you don't like them?
This is about child porn.
Your logic is no different than the logic used to ban all sorts of things.
This is about child porn.
Protection from what? Protection against someone looking lustfully at a picture? A picture that, in most cases, you took and posted on the internet?
This is about child porn.
If you want to talk about slippery slopes look at what you are saying, that a PICTURE is the same thing as actual harm. Laws against such things border on the absurd, for example the man who was convicted of photoshopping "pornographic" pictures that looked underage. Where was the crime there?
This is about child porn.
There is a pretty huge difference between the rape of a child to suggestive pictures (most likely) posted by a minor.
This is about child porn.
Possession of a picture should not constitute a crime.
This is about child porn.
Okay, so your post is obviously completely off the deep end. But that's not what's shocking. What's shocking is that at the time of this reply, your post is +5 Insightful. +5 Insightful for claiming that possession of child porn is no problem, that there's a huge difference between raping a child and distributing child pornography (hint--you're still participating in the exploitation and victimization of that child), and that some random case you don't even give a link to about someone photoshopping underage girls somehow justifies letting child porn get traded on Reddit.
Your post is disgusting, and the people who modded you up are disgusting.
You sound like all the other creeps who were ranting and raving about this on Reddit. Naked pictures of a 14 year old girl are illegal. Sexual imagery of preteen girls is child porn. The main subreddit in question was called/r/preteen_girls for god's sake. One of the subreddits was devoted to encouraging underage girls to submit photos of themselves to the site--you okay with that?
Hell, you're creepy just for using the word "jailbait" to describe underage girls.
I don't think you realize what was getting posted to these subreddits. The reason/r/jailbait was shut down last year was because someone posted sexually explicit pictures of a 14-year-old girl. That is most certainly "against the law technically." The admin of jailbait was Violentacrez, the Reddit poster with friendly ties to the admins of Reddit as detailed in the SomethingAwful post. There's been a lax attitude about this on Reddit for years.
Dubya has nominated another caveman for a federal appeals court. Refreshingly, the Democratic Party is organizing opposition.
The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.
DR: So is child pornography not a good enough reason to censor the Internet?
RS: Certainly not, certainly not a good enough reason. There are videos I’ve seen that shocked and disgusted me, but I don’t want to censor them. I do not advocate censorship just because I or you find them disgusting....
But those who simply redistribute [child pornography] are in the same position of people who redistribute the collateral murder video. They’re not participating in the crime and there are a lot of films that depict murders except nobody really got killed. And there are a lot of films that depict the harm of animals except none really got harmed so if somebody was really torturing an animal, we would stop it. But depicting that without actually doing it we consider okaybut there’s no need to censor depictions of that.
I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.
Children can't legally or emotionally consent to sex; there's no such thing as "voluntary pedophilia."
To be honest, it's surprising that more people don't know about Stallman's positions on these issues. You'd think such controversial positions would be more widely reported.
Probably a lot of normal people's reaction to Reddit's policy change is "You mean sexual imagery of children wasn't already against the rules? How is that not firmly established from day one?" Unfortumately, the Reddit admins' bizarre six-year acceptance of child porn on its site is reflective of an overall lax attitude in online geek communities. Rather than seeing themselves as what they actually are--just nerds running computers--they like to perceive themselves as freedom fighters battling all forms of censorship in the world. This lack of practically toward obviously illegal stuff leads to a lot of eye-opening attitudes toward issues of sex and gender. For crying out loud, Reddit's statement actually refers to this new rule as a "slippery slope," as if it's somehow more difficult for them not to censor legitimate information if they can't have a subreddit named/r/preeteen_girls devoted to underage photos submitted by creepy Facebook stalkers.
The lax attitude toward this sort of thing even comes from community leaders like Richard Stallman, who wrote on his blog that "[P]rostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia... should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness." And he told an interviewer that people who redistribute child pornography are "not participating in the crime" and so shouldn't be censored. Hell, even bringing this up on Slashdot risks copious downmods from Stallman fans (it's happened in the past).
There has to be a line drawn between OMG-FREEDOM-AT-ALL-COSTS and posting sexual pictures of children. Living in a civil society requires some level of protection of the innocent. Reddit should shut the hell up about slippery slopes and do what it should have done six freaking years ago.
I made this point in the last article: Foxconn is the world's largest electronic producer and is outsourced by Dell, HP, Microsoft, Google, Sony, Nintendo and more. Not only is it completely ineffective to hand a signed petitions to some Apple store manager in an attempt to influence the working conditions of an internationally traded public company in China, it also gives a pass to every other computer company who uses Foxconn. Remember that the last article said that Apple was the best about being proactive about labor conditions...so where are the protests against the companies that aren't? Where are the demonstrations against the Chinese government? It's not like Tim Cook can make a phone call and change the entire Chinese business model. There are all kinds of factors at play between the Taiwanese management of Foxconn and the Chinese labor it employs that foreign companies have no power to change.
On a related note, the NY Times published an interesting article on why the U.S. lost out on iPhone work. For most big electronics companies, it's simply not economically viable to manufacture here in the States.
You couldn't be more incorrect. Being skeptical means to be not easily convinced. To not take things at face value and to demand solid evidence for extraordinary claims.
It does NOT mean "disbelieving things by default."
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What the? Where did I say iTunes was the first video player to have a single window? I mentioned iTunes because the Mac version now has a shaded source list on the left filled with media sources, like iTunes.
Gone is the two window design! Now it's got an iTunes-like single window, but with its own VLC stylings (e.g., the playback controls on the bottom). I dig!
There's no evidence at all, because I'm not employed by a "public relations firm", and I doubt anyone else on that list is either. But note that the post been getting modded up to +5 all day regardless of that fact. This is how absurd the comments section has become on Slashdot--you can just list a bunch of accounts you don't like, call them shills, and people will mindlessly mod you up because they think, "OH HEY IT'S A HYPERLINKED LIST THEREFORE IT MUST HAVE BEEN RESEARCHED".
You're reciting Intel's tactics to me as if I don't know about them. The article also mentions that Intel paid AMD a settlement over the issue. None of it changes AMD's poor decision-making and product releases since the release of the Core Duo. You can't blame it all on some evil Intel monopoly.
It isn't your kooky troll post accusing me of being like 15 different people without any evidence at all that astonishes me. It's that you got modded up +5 Interesting and that my original, legitimate post is getting modded down now. If anyone's subverting the moderation process, it's you.
Yes, that was covered in the article. But it doesn't excuse AMD's numerous bad decisions since 2006.
The article is pretty explicit about how AMD dug its own grave. I don't think blaming an Intel monopoly is all that convincing.
It's really simple--Intel made better products. Once Intel abandoned the dead end of the Pentium 4 and changed tacts with the first low-power Core chip, AMD never had a valid response. The article details some predatory behavior on the part of Intel which was eventually settled, but I don't think the outcome would be different today had that not occurred.
Of course, Intel better watch its back with ARM around.
To be honest, your post comes off as over-the-top and fantastical. What are you talking about that they risk imprisonment or death if they speak out against Foxconn? Employees have been interviewed before. Their biggest gripes were the low pay and pressure to work overtime.
It's not Apple's plant. They're the biggest electronics factory in the world and make products for Dell, HP, Nintendo, Microsoft, Google, and more. Seems like a Greenpeace situation where Apple gets singled out because it generates more media coverage. Apple has actually been cited as the most proactive when it comes to monitoring work conditions in the factories they contract with.
That's ridiculous. Apple is selling so many iPads that they could buy Greece. Like it or not, they're the #1 tablet vendor by an enormous margin. Your post is just shilling for Asus for some reason.
Apple has a huge parts supply advantage here (many seem to forget what Tim Cook was responsible for before becoming CEO). It's why they seem to be able to come out with technology that others aren't selling yet and sell it at a lower price than what others can sell. Remember when everyone expected the iPad to be $1000? They sold at $500, and it took like a year before competitors offered any halfway decent tablets for less than $800.
See subject.
The subreddit was called /r/preteen_girls.
If you think this wasn't an avenue for pedophilia, I leave you with this post from a self-admitted pedophile on Reddit, admitting that he masturbated to pictures on /r/jailbait and other "outlets" on Reddit that are now banned.
Did you RTFA?! The name of the first subreddit was /r/preteen_girls!
I can't believe I'm getting modbombed for this. Some of the moderators are sickos.
Let's play a game. It's called, "Read every line in your post and remember that this is about child porn."
Ready? Here goes.
This is about child porn.
This is about child porn.
This is about child porn.
This is about child porn.
This is about child porn.
This is about child porn.
Okay, so your post is obviously completely off the deep end. But that's not what's shocking. What's shocking is that at the time of this reply, your post is +5 Insightful. +5 Insightful for claiming that possession of child porn is no problem, that there's a huge difference between raping a child and distributing child pornography (hint--you're still participating in the exploitation and victimization of that child), and that some random case you don't even give a link to about someone photoshopping underage girls somehow justifies letting child porn get traded on Reddit.
Your post is disgusting, and the people who modded you up are disgusting.
You sound like all the other creeps who were ranting and raving about this on Reddit. Naked pictures of a 14 year old girl are illegal. Sexual imagery of preteen girls is child porn. The main subreddit in question was called /r/preteen_girls for god's sake. One of the subreddits was devoted to encouraging underage girls to submit photos of themselves to the site--you okay with that?
Hell, you're creepy just for using the word "jailbait" to describe underage girls.
Consider it making up for giving the world /b (which began as an offshoot of the FYAD subforum).
I don't think you realize what was getting posted to these subreddits. The reason /r/jailbait was shut down last year was because someone posted sexually explicit pictures of a 14-year-old girl. That is most certainly "against the law technically." The admin of jailbait was Violentacrez, the Reddit poster with friendly ties to the admins of Reddit as detailed in the SomethingAwful post. There's been a lax attitude about this on Reddit for years.
Give me a break. He has stated multiple times that he doesn't believe in censoring child pornography or preventing its distribution (see links here).
Trying to dismiss his writing as sarcasm is absurd when he has repeated his views on so-called "voluntary pedophilia" and child porn elsewhere.
I gave links to both. First he wrote on his blog in 2003:
He also said this in an interview:
And finally, he wrote on his blog in 2006:
Children can't legally or emotionally consent to sex; there's no such thing as "voluntary pedophilia."
To be honest, it's surprising that more people don't know about Stallman's positions on these issues. You'd think such controversial positions would be more widely reported.
Yes, banning the posting of sexual pictures of kids is a moral panic. Sorry you can't have /r/3DBabyWieners anymore.
Probably a lot of normal people's reaction to Reddit's policy change is "You mean sexual imagery of children wasn't already against the rules? How is that not firmly established from day one?" Unfortumately, the Reddit admins' bizarre six-year acceptance of child porn on its site is reflective of an overall lax attitude in online geek communities. Rather than seeing themselves as what they actually are--just nerds running computers--they like to perceive themselves as freedom fighters battling all forms of censorship in the world. This lack of practically toward obviously illegal stuff leads to a lot of eye-opening attitudes toward issues of sex and gender. For crying out loud, Reddit's statement actually refers to this new rule as a "slippery slope," as if it's somehow more difficult for them not to censor legitimate information if they can't have a subreddit named /r/preeteen_girls devoted to underage photos submitted by creepy Facebook stalkers.
The lax attitude toward this sort of thing even comes from community leaders like Richard Stallman, who wrote on his blog that "[P]rostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia ... should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness." And he told an interviewer that people who redistribute child pornography are "not participating in the crime" and so shouldn't be censored. Hell, even bringing this up on Slashdot risks copious downmods from Stallman fans (it's happened in the past).
There has to be a line drawn between OMG-FREEDOM-AT-ALL-COSTS and posting sexual pictures of children. Living in a civil society requires some level of protection of the innocent. Reddit should shut the hell up about slippery slopes and do what it should have done six freaking years ago.
I made this point in the last article: Foxconn is the world's largest electronic producer and is outsourced by Dell, HP, Microsoft, Google, Sony, Nintendo and more. Not only is it completely ineffective to hand a signed petitions to some Apple store manager in an attempt to influence the working conditions of an internationally traded public company in China, it also gives a pass to every other computer company who uses Foxconn. Remember that the last article said that Apple was the best about being proactive about labor conditions...so where are the protests against the companies that aren't? Where are the demonstrations against the Chinese government? It's not like Tim Cook can make a phone call and change the entire Chinese business model. There are all kinds of factors at play between the Taiwanese management of Foxconn and the Chinese labor it employs that foreign companies have no power to change.
On a related note, the NY Times published an interesting article on why the U.S. lost out on iPhone work. For most big electronics companies, it's simply not economically viable to manufacture here in the States.
You couldn't be more incorrect. Being skeptical means to be not easily convinced. To not take things at face value and to demand solid evidence for extraordinary claims.
It does NOT mean "disbelieving things by default."
Wait, fellow poster! Please reconsider before you write that joke!