If someone was filmed being raped then im pretty sure they wouldn't want the video going around. They would legally have all rights to it including copyright. Sure if they actually wanted it to be availiable then thats their right and their free speech but otherwise its their privacy. There would also be the issue of the age of consent so technically they wouldnt have the right to use it as free speech, a 15 year old girl was recently (prosecuted?) for putting pictures of herself online which is totally stupid but thats how the age of consent works.
I wouldnt mind so much if IE was consistently crap accross versions and systems, but after tweeking a css based site to work on IE for mac i found out the hard way. There is absolutely no excuse for the type of rendering screw-ups that microsoft (and afew other browsers) make, the css box model is clearly defined and very simple and if you cant implement it you certainly shouldnt be making mission critical applications (well since microsoft cant even implement paintbrush without a buffer overflow exploit thats pretty much a given). The big problem comes because a browser fucks up so the web-developer specifically designs the site for that bug (im guilty of this) which means now the browser cant be fixed without breaking the site and that builds up until you get total chaos.
I dont want to sound like a facist dictator but you must follow W3C to the exact letter! If they tell you to jump out the window naked then you bloody well do it! that goes for making a browser or a website, if people had made the effort right from the start then we wouldnt be in this mess, websites would all work on all browseres, blind people would be able to use them better, pop-ups would be non-existent (using the idea that the browser is in control of the site) and i would be much much happier. Personally i think microsoft is 80% at fault here, it just seems logical that the same people who neglected to add afew lines of code to stop pop-ups back in the 90's and who stupidly allowed vb-script to have free run of your email, they are most likely the suspects who screwed this up.
You're right they should be targetting the problem at the bottleneck. But the big debate comes between thought-police, and freedom to view anything:
"If someone wants child porn then they are probably not the sort of person you want walking around your neighbourhood [so we should catch people who look at questionable political sites too etc]"
vs
"If we start catching people on what they view on the internet then we are crossing the line into thought-police [so we shouldnt care if someone belongs on the mailing list of a terrorist cell]"
This debate is going to be long and drawn out, there will be people who say we should only do it for pedophiles but nothing else (eg political material) and there are the people that will take one side or another. (and then there are hardline nutcases who say we should embed cameras and monitors with 'flesh detection' chips)
It sounds like the sort of thing that would happen if it was a project at my uni: under-funded, lack of experts, people leaving things to the last minute or having too tight a schedule, that sense of "oh shit this is so much work the deadlines tomorrow, lets just solder all this crap together and get it done" and not enough strict planning and organisation. I don't know who's fault it really was, or why i keep seeing this sort of thing happening, maybe we've lost the knack - we used to rule half the world and now we cant even get mini-sized probe on mars:(
Its actually a technology known to monsanto as "Roundup Ready technology" which comes from the latin "im a fucking poncy shit who needs a slap" and "to fuck a dead pig in the ass". Their press release claims that he did not pay the "required license fee for using the technology". Now i know monsanto doesnt write the law, and they are just like any other compnay - trying to make the highest buck without giving a shit who they trample on so i dont hate them personally, but if a hord of 400 hippies stormed their building and burnt it to the ground i would probably have a smile on my face for the rest of the day. Really what would make me more happy is if the governments and general population would stop selling themselves out and have the slightest moral decency to see how totally fucked up gene-patenting is.
I can certainly see a trend in the future economy: the rich will get richer, the middle-off will get poorer and the poor will get lost. maybe im just pissed off because i didnt think of this first. If i had patented something stupid like "one click sexual gratification" i could have made millions, but i would probably feel guilty knowing how much of a prick i was being (heh)
They cut that shit with fuck-knows what, i've seen instant decaf mixed with 4 week old columbian and pushed as fresh! yeah fucking decaf! do you wanna mess with that? these 'coffee houses' can get reputations, kids go in there and they think they're getting something clean but in reality it could be some half-wit minimum wage barista playing with their lives with some shot they've pulled. Take my advice and STAY AWAY! your life is more important than risking a quick buzz from a bean-lab in peru, if you didnt grind it yourself then dont do it.
If i was lucas i'd be thinking very hard about the last film, do i:
a) stick to the story and make the geeks happy b) make half the movie the torturous death of jar-jar binks (who wears a gag) c) reveal that natalie portman was actually the template for the clones and they have all turned lesbian, release as an 18.
There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I?ll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there?s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity. It?s like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go ?ooh, look at him, he?s not able-bodied. I am, I?m prejudiced.? Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded. Unless he?s not, it?s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.
*clears up flame-war before it starts*
I think the parent post was taken from "The Office" sitcom
Why is this just for Gameboy? more advertising or something? this thing could be used for practically any computer control or games console given the right connection, USB? Unfortunately the only other thing that will come out of this is the japanese oral sex version of dance dance revolution.
Virtually all computing has plausible deniability built in, unless you want to go into highly advanced physics and figure out where each electron must have been then your computer can very plausibly do things without leaving any evidence, unlike physical actions that almost always leave something behind (finger prints, shoe prints, hair, fibers, blood, even just a few cells of your body, ballistics and weapon marks and gun profiles, witnesses, tapes, disturbance of a room etc. even a bit of paper could reveal millions of things under forensics) computers can generally do something and not leave a trace, RAM and CPU at least. Thats why we generally don't use computers for voting. Even with excellent security you could always plausibly say you were 0wN3d. It all depends on where the line gets drawn and who drew the line (which can be determined by the pressure profile on the pencil mark, and chemical analysis of the graphite to match it with the actual pencil and some of the cells that you left on the paper.
Im actually working for 7 governments and 14 large corporations to spy on the slashdot community and try to sway their opinion. also i sometimes spell things wrong to make it look like im just an average person.
Perhaps if web-designers (or the crappy software they use) actually adhered to web-standards and all browsers actually adhered to web-standards then we wouldnt have any problems. but no, everyone thinks they can do it better than the W3C when time and time again the W3C have prooven themselves to be gods of standards. Now look at the absolute total mess we've gotten ourselves into, do you think we will ever get out of it?
Echelon could have already been countered by Microsoft, but just like with VB-script worms and pop-up windows (which could also have been prevented) they didnt. I dont know if its stupidity or something else going on, but given the market share of Outlook if microsoft implemented encryption by default (could even be weak and tied to your current password) Echelon wouldnt have a hope in hell of decrypting everything for a keyword flagging, they might just manage a few choice emails that they were already watching and only if they stuck a good chunk of processing resources on it. You dont need very strong crypto, you just need everyone to be doing it.
You'd think with all the patent laws in their favour no-one would actually need to close-source, just patent everything and sue anyone who so much as uses an 'if' statement.
Slashdot Mirror
In soviet russia jokes are as much a part of slashdot as fantasies of natalie portman naked and petrified in hot grits (whatever the fuck that means)
Is he in soviet russia or something? in the rest of the world, computer screen stares holes in you!
Caffiiineeee yeah yeah yeah! uhuh! im good to go! hey i can quit! i can quit anytime!
If someone was filmed being raped then im pretty sure they wouldn't want the video going around. They would legally have all rights to it including copyright. Sure if they actually wanted it to be availiable then thats their right and their free speech but otherwise its their privacy. There would also be the issue of the age of consent so technically they wouldnt have the right to use it as free speech, a 15 year old girl was recently (prosecuted?) for putting pictures of herself online which is totally stupid but thats how the age of consent works.
I wouldnt mind so much if IE was consistently crap accross versions and systems, but after tweeking a css based site to work on IE for mac i found out the hard way. There is absolutely no excuse for the type of rendering screw-ups that microsoft (and afew other browsers) make, the css box model is clearly defined and very simple and if you cant implement it you certainly shouldnt be making mission critical applications (well since microsoft cant even implement paintbrush without a buffer overflow exploit thats pretty much a given). The big problem comes because a browser fucks up so the web-developer specifically designs the site for that bug (im guilty of this) which means now the browser cant be fixed without breaking the site and that builds up until you get total chaos.
I dont want to sound like a facist dictator but you must follow W3C to the exact letter! If they tell you to jump out the window naked then you bloody well do it! that goes for making a browser or a website, if people had made the effort right from the start then we wouldnt be in this mess, websites would all work on all browseres, blind people would be able to use them better, pop-ups would be non-existent (using the idea that the browser is in control of the site) and i would be much much happier. Personally i think microsoft is 80% at fault here, it just seems logical that the same people who neglected to add afew lines of code to stop pop-ups back in the 90's and who stupidly allowed vb-script to have free run of your email, they are most likely the suspects who screwed this up.
You're right they should be targetting the problem at the bottleneck. But the big debate comes between thought-police, and freedom to view anything:
"If someone wants child porn then they are probably not the sort of person you want walking around your neighbourhood [so we should catch people who look at questionable political sites too etc]"
vs
"If we start catching people on what they view on the internet then we are crossing the line into thought-police [so we shouldnt care if someone belongs on the mailing list of a terrorist cell]"
This debate is going to be long and drawn out, there will be people who say we should only do it for pedophiles but nothing else (eg political material) and there are the people that will take one side or another. (and then there are hardline nutcases who say we should embed cameras and monitors with 'flesh detection' chips)
It sounds like the sort of thing that would happen if it was a project at my uni: under-funded, lack of experts, people leaving things to the last minute or having too tight a schedule, that sense of "oh shit this is so much work the deadlines tomorrow, lets just solder all this crap together and get it done" and not enough strict planning and organisation. I don't know who's fault it really was, or why i keep seeing this sort of thing happening, maybe we've lost the knack - we used to rule half the world and now we cant even get mini-sized probe on mars :(
Its actually a technology known to monsanto as "Roundup Ready technology" which comes from the latin "im a fucking poncy shit who needs a slap" and "to fuck a dead pig in the ass". Their press release claims that he did not pay the "required license fee for using the technology". Now i know monsanto doesnt write the law, and they are just like any other compnay - trying to make the highest buck without giving a shit who they trample on so i dont hate them personally, but if a hord of 400 hippies stormed their building and burnt it to the ground i would probably have a smile on my face for the rest of the day. Really what would make me more happy is if the governments and general population would stop selling themselves out and have the slightest moral decency to see how totally fucked up gene-patenting is.
I can certainly see a trend in the future economy: the rich will get richer, the middle-off will get poorer and the poor will get lost. maybe im just pissed off because i didnt think of this first. If i had patented something stupid like "one click sexual gratification" i could have made millions, but i would probably feel guilty knowing how much of a prick i was being (heh)
ah like my ass? that too has a high overhead on startup, but once it gets going the shit comes out full throttle!
I am now.
;)
Lets see how the feds handle a slashdotting log
Ironic how java the drink speeds you up where as java is so bloody slow.
They cut that shit with fuck-knows what, i've seen instant decaf mixed with 4 week old columbian and pushed as fresh! yeah fucking decaf! do you wanna mess with that? these 'coffee houses' can get reputations, kids go in there and they think they're getting something clean but in reality it could be some half-wit minimum wage barista playing with their lives with some shot they've pulled. Take my advice and STAY AWAY! your life is more important than risking a quick buzz from a bean-lab in peru, if you didnt grind it yourself then dont do it.
go read the definition of capitalism.
If i was lucas i'd be thinking very hard about the last film, do i:
a) stick to the story and make the geeks happy
b) make half the movie the torturous death of jar-jar binks (who wears a gag)
c) reveal that natalie portman was actually the template for the clones and they have all turned lesbian, release as an 18.
There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I?ll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there?s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity. It?s like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go ?ooh, look at him, he?s not able-bodied. I am, I?m prejudiced.? Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded. Unless he?s not, it?s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.
*clears up flame-war before it starts*
I think the parent post was taken from "The Office" sitcom
Why is this just for Gameboy? more advertising or something? this thing could be used for practically any computer control or games console given the right connection, USB? Unfortunately the only other thing that will come out of this is the japanese oral sex version of dance dance revolution.
If you stopped dropping crumbs on the carpet you would still need to vacume.
Virtually all computing has plausible deniability built in, unless you want to go into highly advanced physics and figure out where each electron must have been then your computer can very plausibly do things without leaving any evidence, unlike physical actions that almost always leave something behind (finger prints, shoe prints, hair, fibers, blood, even just a few cells of your body, ballistics and weapon marks and gun profiles, witnesses, tapes, disturbance of a room etc. even a bit of paper could reveal millions of things under forensics) computers can generally do something and not leave a trace, RAM and CPU at least. Thats why we generally don't use computers for voting. Even with excellent security you could always plausibly say you were 0wN3d. It all depends on where the line gets drawn and who drew the line (which can be determined by the pressure profile on the pencil mark, and chemical analysis of the graphite to match it with the actual pencil and some of the cells that you left on the paper.
Im actually working for 7 governments and 14 large corporations to spy on the slashdot community and try to sway their opinion. also i sometimes spell things wrong to make it look like im just an average person.
but when do hoshi and t-pol get it on in the name of science and vulcan-human peace? mmmmmmmm peace :)
Perhaps another good idea would be to STOP USING FUCKING LANDMINES
Perhaps if web-designers (or the crappy software they use) actually adhered to web-standards and all browsers actually adhered to web-standards then we wouldnt have any problems. but no, everyone thinks they can do it better than the W3C when time and time again the W3C have prooven themselves to be gods of standards. Now look at the absolute total mess we've gotten ourselves into, do you think we will ever get out of it?
Just remember that next time you crash and your car spills fuel all over the road, calling for help might blow you up ;)
What and the "great-niece of Kasner" isnt capitalising on someone elses work whos dead now?? 4 years old!? fuck off you greedy bitch.
Echelon could have already been countered by Microsoft, but just like with VB-script worms and pop-up windows (which could also have been prevented) they didnt. I dont know if its stupidity or something else going on, but given the market share of Outlook if microsoft implemented encryption by default (could even be weak and tied to your current password) Echelon wouldnt have a hope in hell of decrypting everything for a keyword flagging, they might just manage a few choice emails that they were already watching and only if they stuck a good chunk of processing resources on it. You dont need very strong crypto, you just need everyone to be doing it.
You'd think with all the patent laws in their favour no-one would actually need to close-source, just patent everything and sue anyone who so much as uses an 'if' statement.