And let us not forget the amount of bestiality that Zeus was party to - I never quite got why he found it easier to seduce women while disguised as a swan than as a man.
1. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds. 2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
censor - verb
7. to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.
censorship - noun
1. the act or practice of censoring
And no, an "Official" does not have to have anything to do with government.
If they choose not to carry something (or stop carrying it) because they don't think it'll sell, that's fine, but if they choose not to carry something because they don't think that the content is "appropriate" then it's censorship.
If you want to do a "The following book contains all kinds of nasty stuff, are you sure you want to view it?" and/or parental control settings for accounts then that's fine, but if I want to buy (legal) filthy literature, I should be able to.
The spammers don't care who their mail goes to. Email spam isn't a carefully targeted marketing strategy, it's a fire-and-forget statistical return strategy because it's so cheap to do that it's not worth the hassle to work our who's worth spamming and who isn't.
It's the same with "personalised" phishing; automation technology has advanced to the point where it's no longer necessary to specifically target your attacks for the best returns, you just let your software target *everyone* for no additional cost (money or time-wise).
I hate to admit that Facebook has a use, but it really could do here.
Phase 1: Facebook puts up notices warning users that after date X (Say, 3-6 months in the future) if they cannot access the site it's the fault of their ISP and they should complain. Make vague statements about network upgrades to improve your user experience or somesuch nonsense.
Phase 2: On date X, take Facebook IPv6 only
Phase 3: 1 month after date X, everyone and their mother has an IPv6 address allocated by their ISP
In reference to point 8, this is something I wrote I while ago after dealing with several Windows apps that either horribly abused the Eventlog or refused to use it entirely:
DO create your own event message DLL(s) where appropriate to avoid your events looking like this
DO log important errors and warnings. Application failures, communication issues, invalid configuration data and the like. Things that will help administrators to troubleshoot issues that may occur.
DO make your logs intelligible to someone other than you. Not having developed the application myself, I have no way of knowing if “Invalid foo in bar. More cheese needed at 0×8003387 means that someone’s made a typo in a config file somewhere, a firewall rule needs changing or that the application doesn’t support running during the vernal equinox.
DO throttle your logging. Don’t log the same error every second, it’s pointless, generates a lot of “noise” and – much worse – forces other, potentially useful events out of the log’s retention.
DO make your logging level easily configurable by the user and DO set a sensible default.
DON’T log every single informational or debug event that your application generates. Nobody gives a shit that you successfully checked a message queue and found it was empty; either use a Custom Event Log or a log file in the application directory if you want to record that kind of information.
There are lots of grammar checkers and they're almost universally terrible because English is a horrible language to work with as a computer. We ignore half of our own grammatical rules and an awful lot of things that you write or say are dependent entirely on context for their meaning.
How about we take the traditional approach and make everyone do everything the hard way while they're at school? Once they're in the real world they can use all the cheats and short-cuts they want, but they should at least know how to do it properly if they need to.
AFAIK it's on their 3G connections; I had to get it switched off on my phone because it's not a porn blocker but an "Adult content" blocker, so it was denying access to all kinds of sites that didn't have anything to do with porn.
Once Sweden extradites him, in all likelihood, he can't be extradited *from* Sweden by another country (say, US)
He can, but only with the approval of the UK authorities. If he's extradited to Sweden under the European Arrest Warrant legislation then he's essentially "on loan" from the UK, so while Sweden can charge and imprison him, they can't move him to another jurisdiction unless the UK says it's OK (not that that's a great deal of comfort considering how readily we allow the extradition of our citizens to the US on the flimsiest of evidence).
Thing is, reality is not a movie. Rarely do the well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels overthrow the evil world government and usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity.
Of course you can regulate the internet - you can regulate anything in principle - but enforcing that regulation is something else altogether.
You can't get most countries to co-operate when they're dealing with the big issues; do you really think you're going to be able to get them to co-operate over that guy from country X who posted something objectionable about someone from country Y on that message board hosted in country Z?
About 2 weeks ago I got an email from the Humble Bundle guys because they were sending out Steam keys for the 1st Humble Bundle pack to those who bought it, which is really handy for me. I wonder if they'll be doing the same for the 2nd one?
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And let us not forget the amount of bestiality that Zeus was party to - I never quite got why he found it easier to seduce women while disguised as a swan than as a man.
Which, rather obviously, is not the same as its definition.
censor - noun
1. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
censor - verb
7. to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.
censorship - noun
1. the act or practice of censoring
And no, an "Official" does not have to have anything to do with government.
That would depend entirely on why they did it.
If they choose not to carry something (or stop carrying it) because they don't think it'll sell, that's fine, but if they choose not to carry something because they don't think that the content is "appropriate" then it's censorship.
If you want to do a "The following book contains all kinds of nasty stuff, are you sure you want to view it?" and/or parental control settings for accounts then that's fine, but if I want to buy (legal) filthy literature, I should be able to.
The spammers don't care who their mail goes to. Email spam isn't a carefully targeted marketing strategy, it's a fire-and-forget statistical return strategy because it's so cheap to do that it's not worth the hassle to work our who's worth spamming and who isn't.
It's the same with "personalised" phishing; automation technology has advanced to the point where it's no longer necessary to specifically target your attacks for the best returns, you just let your software target *everyone* for no additional cost (money or time-wise).
I hate to admit that Facebook has a use, but it really could do here.
Phase 1: Facebook puts up notices warning users that after date X (Say, 3-6 months in the future) if they cannot access the site it's the fault of their ISP and they should complain. Make vague statements about network upgrades to improve your user experience or somesuch nonsense.
Phase 2: On date X, take Facebook IPv6 only
Phase 3: 1 month after date X, everyone and their mother has an IPv6 address allocated by their ISP
It's a good thing those terrorists are stupid enough to document all of their pre-attack planning on Youtube, otherwise we'd never catch them...
Security through absurdity, America's greatest weapon again terrorism!
In reference to point 8, this is something I wrote I while ago after dealing with several Windows apps that either horribly abused the Eventlog or refused to use it entirely:
There are lots of grammar checkers and they're almost universally terrible because English is a horrible language to work with as a computer. We ignore half of our own grammatical rules and an awful lot of things that you write or say are dependent entirely on context for their meaning.
How about we take the traditional approach and make everyone do everything the hard way while they're at school? Once they're in the real world they can use all the cheats and short-cuts they want, but they should at least know how to do it properly if they need to.
Why else would the TSA be carrying out all those testicular cancer screenings at airports?
Hooray, more Software That Doesn't Need To Be As A Service As A Service.
They can be on the same server; a single KMS server can activate Vista, Win 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010 quite happily.
AFAIK it's on their 3G connections; I had to get it switched off on my phone because it's not a porn blocker but an "Adult content" blocker, so it was denying access to all kinds of sites that didn't have anything to do with porn.
If Federal regulators even SUSPECT you have been allowing terrorists to receive payment...
Best not operate a bank then.
Once Sweden extradites him, in all likelihood, he can't be extradited *from* Sweden by another country (say, US)
He can, but only with the approval of the UK authorities. If he's extradited to Sweden under the European Arrest Warrant legislation then he's essentially "on loan" from the UK, so while Sweden can charge and imprison him, they can't move him to another jurisdiction unless the UK says it's OK (not that that's a great deal of comfort considering how readily we allow the extradition of our citizens to the US on the flimsiest of evidence).
There are already over 2000 Wikileaks mirrors, so it's going to next to impossible to shut it down in the first place.
Thing is, reality is not a movie. Rarely do the well-intentioned, rag-tag band of rebels overthrow the evil world government and usher in a new era of freedom and prosperity.
Of course you can regulate the internet - you can regulate anything in principle - but enforcing that regulation is something else altogether.
You can't get most countries to co-operate when they're dealing with the big issues; do you really think you're going to be able to get them to co-operate over that guy from country X who posted something objectionable about someone from country Y on that message board hosted in country Z?
About 2 weeks ago I got an email from the Humble Bundle guys because they were sending out Steam keys for the 1st Humble Bundle pack to those who bought it, which is really handy for me. I wonder if they'll be doing the same for the 2nd one?
Time to install XP (from slipstreamed SP3 CD), half a fucking day
That's odd, it took me less than 20 minutes to install it into a VM this morning.
Cue.
We must also do something about the quantum of damages that is being sought. In a civil procedure on a technical matter, it amounts to blackmail
He was clearly just quoting Lord Lucas
And yet, still better than Starforce :)
My pint doesn't have DRM.
Their internal docs that were leaked after the DDoS on their website showed clearly that they were well aware of what they were doing.