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The above text is quoted directly from the safeweb site. The bolding was added by me.... Although, I'm sure people are ignoring this.
Apart from taboos handed down from previous generations, has their been any solid evidence that viewing porn is bad for anyone, even those under 18? Or 12, for that matter? What exactly is expected to happen if some 9 year old comes across "Girls Gone Wild"?
How do you measure or analyze the impact? I think that's the real problem. If I could prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that porn either had a significantly negative impact on kids or that it had pretty much no impact at all, the issue would probably become much less important. Unfortunately, humans are too complex and have too many experiences in their lives to pinpoint exactly what caused them to be the way they are. Does anybody know of any studies that were done in a very scientific manner?
This is going to continue to be a sensitive issue, now matter how hard we try.
If you have children, BE WITH THEM.
Easy enough to say, but when you can't even send your child to the PUBLIC LIBRARY alone, you've got a real problem.
I can spend time with my child at home, making sure they use the internet safely. I can even install censorship software at my disgression if need be. If my child goes to see his friend "Johnny" and I find out that they are viewing inappropriate material, I have a chat with my child, and restrict him from visiting "Johnny." But right now, I wouldn't even be able to let him go to the library alone because there are no controls installed there.
Does anybody know where we draw the line? We don't want to censor in public libraries, yet we don't have any way of allowing the pr0n industry to self-regulate. Is there no happy medium somewhere? Something that gives parents a little help without getting others upset over first amendment rights?
Of course, all of this is probably pointless because we all know that Usenet has far more explicit stuff than any web site....
I think you've hit on it. Users wont' accept the typical Doze instability in a game console. Fuck, I can't REMEMBER my Atari 2600 ever crashing! (though that may be memory distorted from the Good Old Days). I definately never recally my Sega Genesis ever crashing (that was the last game console ever owned).
I managed to crash my Atari 2600. I think it was by flipping the switches all over the place at high speed for about two minutes. I had to power down the unit and start it again. Don't ask me why I did this. Perhaps I was practicing to be a M$ tester. Wait, no, then I would have only flipped the switches once each.
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Whoever told Mike Myers that he could do a Scottish accent should be shot! In fact, No American I know can do a Scottish accent.
Ah, but he doesn't have to do a good Scottish accent. He just has to do an accent that sounds convincingly Scottish to Americans -- at least for the film's debut. Then, Scottish people will see the move too because they want to laught at Myers trying to do a Scottish accent.
Even more bizarely, no Scottish actor when in a American film can do a Scottish accent either.
Perhaps they were playing to the American audience as well. In fact, it's quite possible that the director told them how the accent should be done. Of course, that's just wild speculation on my part.
Our TV shows need redubbed or subtitled, sometimes even for showing in England. Yet the Irish seem to be universally understood.
I've noticed that too. The second time I visited England, I met someone who was from right near the Scottish border. I had to ask him to repeat himself five or six times for every thing he said. The Scottish accent is totally cool, but there's enough difference from the English accent that it's difficult for the uninitiated to understand.
Has anybody considered that this worm may have been a Government-sponsored initiative? Maybe it was launched intentionally in an effort to eliminate vulnerabilities left by "Lion?" Just something to think about.
So Bill Clinton wasn't really accepting campaign contributions from foreign interests. He was just busy selling our encryption technology.... Now I feel better about the whole thing.
Where this is also advantagous is in creating a new route into the internet for loads of people that previously couldn't afford a full on
PC.
Not so much for people who couldn't afford a full PC, as I suspect that low-end internet-capable PC's are available for at about the same cost as a PS2 + all of the equipment and software to make it useable with this service.
However, it's certainly an opening for people who had to choose between buying a computer and a game console for their kids. Add a printer, and they could even turn the controversial electronic babysitter into something that helps them with their homework.
As interesting as all of this is, after reading the "Speculation" at the end, I have reason to doubt the validity. It speculates that Mars was a moon that broke away from an inhabited planet after an explosion, and that many of the features are "moon art" of that civilization. It further speculates that Earth inhabitants were of that same race, and then tries to back it up with the fact that the Mars "day" is almost the same as on Earth. 24.9 hours, actually. That's where I lost confidence. They failed to realize that if this was a moon, the length of its day would have absolutely nothing to do with its home planet, and furthermore its rotational speed would probably have been impacted by an explotion, subsequent escape, and eventual entrapment within the Sun's gravity.
The article talks about parallel worlds and getting the answer from your quantum computer which is turned off because, theoritically, the machine could be turned on and executing the computation in a parallel world...
So what happens if everybody in all the parallel worlds decides to rely on somebody else in another parallel world having their qc turned on? Suddenly, all of the qc's in all the parallel worlds will appear broken?
Mozilla chokes on poorly written HTML. Now I know it's been said before that this is good, that people need to start writing better.
It's definitely NOT good. A browser is a tool for VIEWING HTML pages, not so much for debugging them. Now implementing debugging tools into a browser isn't a bad idea, but for Joe User, you want it to do the best it can with what it gets. Sure, people should write good HTML. But don't punish those viewing the web pages for the sins of the authors.
OK. Well, maybe not. I think before coders can stop understanding business context, those supply the design and other such documents need to improve THEIR skills drastically. I have yet to be on a project where I didn't have to "help" the analyst AND the customer understand their own processes. Argh!
I've got a better idea....
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Training is key, but most of us can just quit and find another job that better supports training (right now, this is subject to change).
But with regards to overtime pay, how about legislation that requires IT workers to be paid 1.5x (or whatever) for overtime like many other laborers.
As a side note, please refrain from trying to make "unskilled" and "union" synonymous. Unions are comprised of skilled and unskilled workers alike. If you're a machinist (one example), you're a skilled laborer.
Hall said honor committee members will treat each case individually, giving priority to those students poised to graduate this month. He predicted it will take until October to handle all the cases.
Officials said diplomas will be taken from any students who have since graduated. (1)
Can they actually take away diplomas they have already awarded? Granted, if the students commited such acts, they deserve it. But since the school was not taking appropriate actions at the time they studied there, can they really legally take away the diplomas they already handed out?
(1) "Technology Exposes Cheating at U-Va"; Amy Argetsinger; Washington Post; May 9, 2001.
Most of the time you CANNOT get a resonable answer out of a calculator without understanding the concept of solving the problem you are working on. The exception to this of course is ripping off programs that just take a few inputs and spit out an answer, but a calculator itself rarely gives you much help, except for not doing the long division incorrectly like I tend to when in a hurry.
This used to be true, but the calculator I used in college more than 10 years ago was powerful enough to solve almost ANY equation for me, and could even perform integration. I can honestly say that even though the teachers allowed it, I REFUSED to use the calculator in my math classes because I literally could solve a problem without understanding anything. I knew that I would need those math skills in later courses, so I wanted to actually learn them. But it was tempting....
Good point, which is exactly what I would do...today. But right now my child is young and still learning to talk. I'm concerned that by the time he reaches the age where he's interested in the 'net, use of it will be required for completing homework. Then you have a whole different battle. What will I do then? (Besides getting counseling for him)
Agreed, but what do you do when you have a child that consistently exercises poor judgement in what they are viewing? You have discussed the situation with the child, but have several times walked in and been surprised by what they were viewing? You can either take the internet away from them altogether, or apply filters.
If you can implement a framework for this solution, I'm sure many communities (churches, schools, etc) would be greatly interested. Even if its just a supplement to existing filters.
quit trying to introduce a 'salt-reduced' internet. what people allow their kids to see is their own business.
Are you interpreting this as mandatory filtering? If so, note that this filtering is by parental choice. It's true that parents should have the ultimate authority on what their kids see, but as a parent, I don't want to be responsible for reviewing over seven million sites a day. Any help I can get is greatly appreciated. The only other choice is not allowing objectional stuff on the internet to begin with... a choice I'm sure many would be downright angry with.
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The above text is quoted directly from the safeweb site. The bolding was added by me.... Although, I'm sure people are ignoring this.
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How do you measure or analyze the impact? I think that's the real problem. If I could prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that porn either had a significantly negative impact on kids or that it had pretty much no impact at all, the issue would probably become much less important. Unfortunately, humans are too complex and have too many experiences in their lives to pinpoint exactly what caused them to be the way they are. Does anybody know of any studies that were done in a very scientific manner?
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If you have children, BE WITH THEM.
Easy enough to say, but when you can't even send your child to the PUBLIC LIBRARY alone, you've got a real problem.
I can spend time with my child at home, making sure they use the internet safely. I can even install censorship software at my disgression if need be. If my child goes to see his friend "Johnny" and I find out that they are viewing inappropriate material, I have a chat with my child, and restrict him from visiting "Johnny." But right now, I wouldn't even be able to let him go to the library alone because there are no controls installed there.
Does anybody know where we draw the line? We don't want to censor in public libraries, yet we don't have any way of allowing the pr0n industry to self-regulate. Is there no happy medium somewhere? Something that gives parents a little help without getting others upset over first amendment rights?
Of course, all of this is probably pointless because we all know that Usenet has far more explicit stuff than any web site....
GreyPoopon
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I managed to crash my Atari 2600. I think it was by flipping the switches all over the place at high speed for about two minutes. I had to power down the unit and start it again. Don't ask me why I did this. Perhaps I was practicing to be a M$ tester. Wait, no, then I would have only flipped the switches once each.
GreyPoopon
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Ah, but he doesn't have to do a good Scottish accent. He just has to do an accent that sounds convincingly Scottish to Americans -- at least for the film's debut. Then, Scottish people will see the move too because they want to laught at Myers trying to do a Scottish accent.
Even more bizarely, no Scottish actor when in a American film can do a Scottish accent either.
Perhaps they were playing to the American audience as well. In fact, it's quite possible that the director told them how the accent should be done. Of course, that's just wild speculation on my part.
Our TV shows need redubbed or subtitled, sometimes even for showing in England. Yet the Irish seem to be universally understood.
I've noticed that too. The second time I visited England, I met someone who was from right near the Scottish border. I had to ask him to repeat himself five or six times for every thing he said. The Scottish accent is totally cool, but there's enough difference from the English accent that it's difficult for the uninitiated to understand.
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Not so much for people who couldn't afford a full PC, as I suspect that low-end internet-capable PC's are available for at about the same cost as a PS2 + all of the equipment and software to make it useable with this service.
However, it's certainly an opening for people who had to choose between buying a computer and a game console for their kids. Add a printer, and they could even turn the controversial electronic babysitter into something that helps them with their homework.
I can't wait to see how all of this unfolds.
Any other opinions?
One zetabyte should be more than anyone will ever use.
Now, when do I get rich like Bill Gates?
Maybe the adjective would be "barrapuntado?"
So what happens if everybody in all the parallel worlds decides to rely on somebody else in another parallel world having their qc turned on? Suddenly, all of the qc's in all the parallel worlds will appear broken?
It's definitely NOT good. A browser is a tool for VIEWING HTML pages, not so much for debugging them. Now implementing debugging tools into a browser isn't a bad idea, but for Joe User, you want it to do the best it can with what it gets. Sure, people should write good HTML. But don't punish those viewing the web pages for the sins of the authors.
OK. Well, maybe not. I think before coders can stop understanding business context, those supply the design and other such documents need to improve THEIR skills drastically. I have yet to be on a project where I didn't have to "help" the analyst AND the customer understand their own processes. Argh!
But with regards to overtime pay, how about legislation that requires IT workers to be paid 1.5x (or whatever) for overtime like many other laborers.
As a side note, please refrain from trying to make "unskilled" and "union" synonymous. Unions are comprised of skilled and unskilled workers alike. If you're a machinist (one example), you're a skilled laborer.
Can they actually take away diplomas they have already awarded? Granted, if the students commited such acts, they deserve it. But since the school was not taking appropriate actions at the time they studied there, can they really legally take away the diplomas they already handed out?
(1) "Technology Exposes Cheating at U-Va"; Amy Argetsinger; Washington Post; May 9, 2001.
This used to be true, but the calculator I used in college more than 10 years ago was powerful enough to solve almost ANY equation for me, and could even perform integration. I can honestly say that even though the teachers allowed it, I REFUSED to use the calculator in my math classes because I literally could solve a problem without understanding anything. I knew that I would need those math skills in later courses, so I wanted to actually learn them. But it was tempting....
Looks like your argument got proved, scurge. :)
Which is better? I don't have the answer either.
Are you interpreting this as mandatory filtering? If so, note that this filtering is by parental choice. It's true that parents should have the ultimate authority on what their kids see, but as a parent, I don't want to be responsible for reviewing over seven million sites a day. Any help I can get is greatly appreciated. The only other choice is not allowing objectional stuff on the internet to begin with... a choice I'm sure many would be downright angry with.