I was under the impression that the selective and inconsistent nature of law enforcement here in the U.S. was a bad thing. Everyone, be they corporate executives or crackpots, should be held equally accountable when they break the law. Let alone that he violated a UN sanction, not a petty local ordinance.
Ignoring other physics aspects of this that would probably make my ass bleed, wouldn't the curvature of the earth become an issue at some point? How far from his home is he planning on taking his plane?
It seems unlikely that antennas would be sufficient from any significant distances, but it sounds like we're talking satellites here.
What did the Mozilla Foundation do that has made Mozilla such a huge success? Maybe more to the point, why haven't other OSS projects taken off like Mozilla? Any ideas on what can be done on other OSS projects to achieve similar success?
In an election where our choices are a man who believes God is telling him how to run the country and a man who abandoned his fellow soldiers calls himself a war hero, we could gain a lot from a little integrity.
Let me save you the effort of expressing your angst! Just fill in the blanks!
I am ___________ over this article! a. saddened b. outraged c. bleeding from my ass
___________ is once again treading on my rights, and I'm fed up with it! a. Microsoft b. SCO c. The RIAA d. The MPAA e. George W. Bush
I am entitled to ___________ a. free software, b. free music, c. free movies, d. other people's money,
and should not have to risk being ___________ a. thrown in jail!! b. held responsible for my actions!! c. called a terrorist, socialist or communist!!
In this FREE (as in beer, er I mean SPEECH) country, I should be able to take comfort in knowing that ___________ a. society will pay for my personal shortcomings. b. industry exists to provide me with stuff regardless of whether or not I can't afford it. c. the law doesn't apply to me. d. the United States answers to an organization comprised 2/3 of dictatorships.
When will this tyranny end? We need to stand up and fight for a world where our children can ___________ a. treat their parents and teachers as equals. b. learn that Christianity, and all who practice it are better off dead. c. watch clown porn from the comfort of the elementary school library. d. revel in the freedom of moral relativism.
I for one am going to do my part TODAY by ___________ a. writing an angry letter to my congressmen... yeah right! b. doing another J. c. living in my parents' basement in protest! d. post to inconsequential blogs like Slashdot.
I still maintain that it's the parents' right, no, obligation as a parent to regulate the doses of "real life" that their children are exposed to, especially early on. As with all aspects of child-rearing, the matter of judgement comes into play. But I don't think setting limits is inherantly a bad thing.
"Can it be that the MPAA has learnt a lesson from the RIAA's heavy handed tactics or has Microsoft convinced them that Janus will work, despite their recent record of bug free coding, and we're going to have a repeat of the DeCSS fiasco?"
English teachers beware: reading the above may induce orifice hemorrhaging.
"I don't trust them to select enough of the right sites to allow kids to make informed decisions about things like religion, politics, etc (and yes, I think kids are capable of making these decisions if we allow it)."
Can we let kids be kids? I don't think (potentially) controversial information needs to be in a kids' domain.
If a kid needs to research something of a more mature nature, they can ask their parent(s) to use the full Internet (and the parent(s) can supervise the use).
That isn't censoring or restricting information from kids. It keeps control of it where it should be: with the parent(s).
A few weeks ago, the head of the (evil, of course) MPAA learned that there was no legal way for Linux users to watch movies on their computers. Now we have one.
So are Slashdotters going to thank the MPAA for addressing one of the Linux community's concerns? Nope, they're going to piss and moan about what's wrong with this particular piece of software.
I'd submit that this is a big reason why software companies don't want to embrace the Linux market. No matter how good the software they produce is, Linux users aren't going to be happy unless it's free (speech) and free (beer).
How do you steal an idea? Did this person go to AltaVista HQ in the middle of the night in a ninja suit, rappel down from the rooftop, and pilfer this particular idea from the CEO's safe?
It's information, and it wants to be FREEEEE!! This guy didn't steal anything. He liberated this information, and should be celebrated as the freedom fighter he is!
Gah, now they're going to be able to track my luggage, and by proxy, ME!! What is this world of corporate greed and total information awareness coming to??
...oh wait, you mean they can use it to find my luggage when it gets lost or shipped on the wrong flight?
So you're of the ilk that believes anything other than 24/7 monitoring of your child is bad parenting.
Filtering software is a tool, just like a crib, walker, gates, fences, etc. are tools that keep children from wandering into harmful situations. You seem to think that parents will use these tools as a substitute for parenting. IMHO, a parent who takes a proactive approach to their child's safety by using these tools is a better parent.
"b) creates and adversarial relationship between parent and child instead of a collaborative one."
The assumption here, naturally, is that it is bad to have disagreements with your child. That's why kids these days are so fucked up: parents will do just about anything to remove conflicts from parenting.
I'm not saying choice is a bad thing. I'm saying that all of the choices currently out there are lousy. (HINT: That's why most people aren't switching to Linux in droves)
"that you admit to not reading yet feel the need to criticize anyway"
Went back and read it; configuring that clusterfuck is even worse than I suspected.
I thought we were mostly in agreement here. Parenting is good.
Putting limits on material they want their children exposed to is a HUGE part of parenting. So why do you oppose software intended to let parents do just that?
...and it's even worse than I originally thought. If by some miracle that Average Parent User trudged through the installation of the three programs, there is NO WAY IN HELL that they are going to be competant enough (let alone willing) to configure them all without throwing their hands up in frustration.
What "average" users do you know that would be comfortable with modifying.conf files and all that other crap that this forces them to do?
Anyone who calls this process "easy" is completely out of touch with the average PC user.
"The only software you need to set up parental filters under GNU/Linux is iptables, Dan's Guardian, and Squid."
That's two too many, as far as the target audience is concerned. I'm no GNU/Linux programmer or anything, but what's stopping people from putting that all in one single installer?
I'll admit I didn't read on to see (God forbid) what other numerous (supposedly "easy") hoops that parents would have to jump through to get the desired result. Not that it matters; they'd probably already lost most of their target audience.
I can't figure out which is more shameful: that you're basing a scientific theory on Waterworld, or that you publicly admit to seeing the movie in the first place.
"Making us pay taxes restricts our freedom to do what we like with our money, but is a good thing."
Risking a plunge from the Offtopic cliff, I wouldn't call paying taxes a good thing. It's more like a necessary evil that is abused by government at every chance.
"In this particular case it doesn't seem to me to actually be the government doing this anyway."
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I was under the impression that the selective and inconsistent nature of law enforcement here in the U.S. was a bad thing. Everyone, be they corporate executives or crackpots, should be held equally accountable when they break the law. Let alone that he violated a UN sanction, not a petty local ordinance.
You're new here, aren't you?
It seems unlikely that antennas would be sufficient from any significant distances, but it sounds like we're talking satellites here.
He was indicted in 1992. That would be 11 years before the 9/11 attack.
You can take off your tinfoil hat now.
Free advertising on The Guardian and Slashdot can't hurt.
What did the Mozilla Foundation do that has made Mozilla such a huge success? Maybe more to the point, why haven't other OSS projects taken off like Mozilla? Any ideas on what can be done on other OSS projects to achieve similar success?
In an election where our choices are a man who believes God is telling him how to run the country and a man who abandoned his fellow soldiers calls himself a war hero, we could gain a lot from a little integrity.
Let me save you the effort of expressing your angst! Just fill in the blanks!
I am ___________ over this article!
a. saddened
b. outraged
c. bleeding from my ass
___________ is once again treading on my rights, and I'm fed up with it!
a. Microsoft
b. SCO
c. The RIAA
d. The MPAA
e. George W. Bush
I am entitled to ___________
a. free software,
b. free music,
c. free movies,
d. other people's money,
and should not have to risk being ___________
a. thrown in jail!!
b. held responsible for my actions!!
c. called a terrorist, socialist or communist!!
In this FREE (as in beer, er I mean SPEECH) country, I should be able to take comfort in knowing that ___________
a. society will pay for my personal shortcomings.
b. industry exists to provide me with stuff regardless of whether or not I can't afford it.
c. the law doesn't apply to me.
d. the United States answers to an organization comprised 2/3 of dictatorships.
When will this tyranny end? We need to stand up and fight for a world where our children can ___________
a. treat their parents and teachers as equals.
b. learn that Christianity, and all who practice it are better off dead.
c. watch clown porn from the comfort of the elementary school library.
d. revel in the freedom of moral relativism.
I for one am going to do my part TODAY by ___________
a. writing an angry letter to my congressmen... yeah right!
b. doing another J.
c. living in my parents' basement in protest!
d. post to inconsequential blogs like Slashdot.
I still maintain that it's the parents' right, no, obligation as a parent to regulate the doses of "real life" that their children are exposed to, especially early on. As with all aspects of child-rearing, the matter of judgement comes into play. But I don't think setting limits is inherantly a bad thing.
English teachers beware: reading the above may induce orifice hemorrhaging.
Can we let kids be kids? I don't think (potentially) controversial information needs to be in a kids' domain.
If a kid needs to research something of a more mature nature, they can ask their parent(s) to use the full Internet (and the parent(s) can supervise the use).
That isn't censoring or restricting information from kids. It keeps control of it where it should be: with the parent(s).
Then it's not a worm.
IE is by no means perfect, but let's properly assign the blame here. There's more than enough to go around.
So are Slashdotters going to thank the MPAA for addressing one of the Linux community's concerns? Nope, they're going to piss and moan about what's wrong with this particular piece of software.
I'd submit that this is a big reason why software companies don't want to embrace the Linux market. No matter how good the software they produce is, Linux users aren't going to be happy unless it's free (speech) and free (beer).
It's information, and it wants to be FREEEEE!! This guy didn't steal anything. He liberated this information, and should be celebrated as the freedom fighter he is!
...oh wait, you mean they can use it to find my luggage when it gets lost or shipped on the wrong flight?
Filtering software is a tool, just like a crib, walker, gates, fences, etc. are tools that keep children from wandering into harmful situations. You seem to think that parents will use these tools as a substitute for parenting. IMHO, a parent who takes a proactive approach to their child's safety by using these tools is a better parent.
I for one don't see a problem with it. It's not as if Dell is holding guns to people's heads demanding they hand over their iPods.
The assumption here, naturally, is that it is bad to have disagreements with your child. That's why kids these days are so fucked up: parents will do just about anything to remove conflicts from parenting.
I'm not saying choice is a bad thing. I'm saying that all of the choices currently out there are lousy. (HINT: That's why most people aren't switching to Linux in droves)
"that you admit to not reading yet feel the need to criticize anyway"
Went back and read it; configuring that clusterfuck is even worse than I suspected.
Putting limits on material they want their children exposed to is a HUGE part of parenting. So why do you oppose software intended to let parents do just that?
What "average" users do you know that would be comfortable with modifying .conf files and all that other crap that this forces them to do?
Anyone who calls this process "easy" is completely out of touch with the average PC user.
That's two too many, as far as the target audience is concerned. I'm no GNU/Linux programmer or anything, but what's stopping people from putting that all in one single installer?
I'll admit I didn't read on to see (God forbid) what other numerous (supposedly "easy") hoops that parents would have to jump through to get the desired result. Not that it matters; they'd probably already lost most of their target audience.
I can't figure out which is more shameful: that you're basing a scientific theory on Waterworld, or that you publicly admit to seeing the movie in the first place.
Risking a plunge from the Offtopic cliff, I wouldn't call paying taxes a good thing. It's more like a necessary evil that is abused by government at every chance.
"In this particular case it doesn't seem to me to actually be the government doing this anyway."
Indeed, I posted the correction as AC.