What happens when Mom sends via email or an online album pictures of Baby's first bath to Grandma, and Grandma's ISP's software classifies the email or album as child porn? Does Grandma get a visit from the FBI/CIA/DEA/NSA/IRS/TSA/DHS in the form of a raid looking for more child porn? News gets out that Grandma was investigated for child porn and her reputation is demolished, even if some people know that it was a case of mistaken intent/identity.
Child porn is a terrible thing, but it's virtually impossible to classify something as child porn unless someone has manually classified an known image and corresponding hash as child porn.
There's also the issue of determining ages of the children in the picture if they're not obviously too young. Who took the pictures? Was it taken by a 15-year-old girl's 17-year-old boyfriend, or did she herself take it for him? This is legal in some states/countries, but a felony in others.
I don't want to get into an argument about these specific cases, but the possible cases are simply too wide and a single government authority cannot effectively press its morals onto its people. Romeo and Juliet will deviate from the norm.
The Chris Hansen approach works much better because it shows provable evidence of intent/motive and catches them in the act, perhaps even literally with their pants down.
Multimedia Message Service. It's what's used to send pictures and video phone-to-phone. Without support for it, iPhone users have to send pictures and video to a non-iPhone user's phone's email address, which is longer and a pain in the ass to type or remember (could save it, but that's another bit of information). MMS is essentially email, but it handles the @provider section automatically.
I wonder how many people actually know how MySpace got started. Their original team (the people who also started the company xdrive) HIRED my company to send "tell-a-friend" messages through email to promote them several years ago, and it was actually MY TRAFFIC that helped LAUNCH MySpace. Their partner at the time was "euniverse" who ran the biggest "tell-a-friend" spam network on the Internet.
This guy claims never to have been served with the paperwork for the case. Assuming he's not lying, how can the court go on without him officially acknowledging the suit? I guess, in his case, he did know about it but claims he never received the subpoena, so he simply acted like he'd never heard about it. This begs the question: what if, in complete honesty, I were to be subpoenaed about something and I never receive the the paperwork. Summary judgment goes against me because I didn't show up to the hearing. I'm expected to pay some ridiculous sum because I never knew about the suit. Once I did find out officially in the way of collectors coming, etc., could I counter-sue or appeal?
Classmate: "So what have you been doing these past 10 years?"
Hero: "Well, I'm a space lawyer."
Classmate: "Do you, like, work on lawsuits about zoning or something?"
Hero: "No, I handle laws based on outer space."
Classmates, in unison: "Hahahahahaha."
Hero: "I'm in the employ of several governments. I could buy all of your houses and probably enslave all of you, and by enslave, I mean pay you a living wage to fan me and bring me drinks."
Classmates, in unison: *cricket* *cricket* "So where did you go to school and what's the entry requirements?"
This is deeper than Rickrolls, folks. Microsoft has absolutely no reason to block an entire website because of such a phenomenon. However, there's not much of a way of getting around it other than using a URL shortening service or complaining like mad to MSN.
It's reasons such as this that make me prefer AIM/ICQ and Jabber.
TrueCrypt will encrypt your entire hard drive if you want it to do so, and a recent case decided that the government cannot force you divulge your password, as that's self-incrimination.
Thanks for all your comments on our business model. I wanted to present here the quick facts around this to avoid misunderstandings:
In 6.0 there will be native backup functionality in the server available for anyone and all (Community, Enterprise) under GPL.
Additionally we will develop high-end add-ons (such as encryption, native storage engine-specific drivers) that we will deliver to customers in the MySQL Enterprise product only. We have not yet decided under what licence we will release those add-ons (GPL, some other FOSS licence, and/or commercial).
Because the main backup functionality goes into the main server under GPL, anyone can of course use the api and build their own add-ons or other modifications.
If any payment method is mandatory, the system is broken and no one should use it. Choice is what provides variety and security for both ends of the transaction.
Ron Paul's constitution should be at least 25, if not something like 100.
You know what I mean.
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The artists should be making the most profit. If it's not like that, then the system is broken. The producer of an item should always make more money than any other person involved in the process.
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Pics or it didn't happen.
(Had to, sorry.)
They might talk, but if there are any passwords involved, they are protected by the 5th amendment from having to divulge them.
At least Kucinich can say he tried to do the right thing, just like McKinney tried in January 2007.
Getting paid to deceive child predators and see them arrested doesn't seem sick at all to me.
It proves that the stupid criminals are the ones who get caught.
What happens when Mom sends via email or an online album pictures of Baby's first bath to Grandma, and Grandma's ISP's software classifies the email or album as child porn? Does Grandma get a visit from the FBI/CIA/DEA/NSA/IRS/TSA/DHS in the form of a raid looking for more child porn? News gets out that Grandma was investigated for child porn and her reputation is demolished, even if some people know that it was a case of mistaken intent/identity.
Child porn is a terrible thing, but it's virtually impossible to classify something as child porn unless someone has manually classified an known image and corresponding hash as child porn.
There's also the issue of determining ages of the children in the picture if they're not obviously too young. Who took the pictures? Was it taken by a 15-year-old girl's 17-year-old boyfriend, or did she herself take it for him? This is legal in some states/countries, but a felony in others.
I don't want to get into an argument about these specific cases, but the possible cases are simply too wide and a single government authority cannot effectively press its morals onto its people. Romeo and Juliet will deviate from the norm.
The Chris Hansen approach works much better because it shows provable evidence of intent/motive and catches them in the act, perhaps even literally with their pants down.
Oh, and non-iPhone users can't send pictures and video to iPhone users--they don't even get a link to click to see it or anything.
Multimedia Message Service. It's what's used to send pictures and video phone-to-phone. Without support for it, iPhone users have to send pictures and video to a non-iPhone user's phone's email address, which is longer and a pain in the ass to type or remember (could save it, but that's another bit of information). MMS is essentially email, but it handles the @provider section automatically.
Still no MMS support? Count me out. That's something I gotta have! Sending to email is not sufficient.
The hardware is there, yes, but the software is not. Not many applications are multithreaded/multiprocess.
More storage probably. Windows XP is a beast, at ~3 GB for a full install IIRC. Even shrunk down hardcore, it's probably still at least 1.5 GB.
www.system76.com if you're into Ubuntu...
Classmate: "So what have you been doing these past 10 years?"
Hero: "Well, I'm a space lawyer."
Classmate: "Do you, like, work on lawsuits about zoning or something?"
Hero: "No, I handle laws based on outer space."
Classmates, in unison: "Hahahahahaha."
Hero: "I'm in the employ of several governments. I could buy all of your houses and probably enslave all of you, and by enslave, I mean pay you a living wage to fan me and bring me drinks."
Classmates, in unison: *cricket* *cricket* "So where did you go to school and what's the entry requirements?"
This is deeper than Rickrolls, folks. Microsoft has absolutely no reason to block an entire website because of such a phenomenon. However, there's not much of a way of getting around it other than using a URL shortening service or complaining like mad to MSN.
It's reasons such as this that make me prefer AIM/ICQ and Jabber.
It would be our job as geeks to verbally demolish Verizon's products using the spectrum if it doesn't follow the open access rules.
This is just another reason to use secure protocols and encryption for messages, perhaps Tor, too.
TrueCrypt will encrypt your entire hard drive if you want it to do so, and a recent case decided that the government cannot force you divulge your password, as that's self-incrimination.
Now we just wait for some well-known religious figure to come along and unleash the nam shub of Enki in its purest form and brainwash the masses...
Skyline. Tasty.
Amen. That's all I have to say. That, and it's any regulation of the Internet would be unconstitutional.
If any payment method is mandatory, the system is broken and no one should use it. Choice is what provides variety and security for both ends of the transaction.
Can I have it infused into my DNA? I have too much ruth.
Ron Paul's constitution should be at least 25, if not something like 100. You know what I mean.
The artists should be making the most profit. If it's not like that, then the system is broken. The producer of an item should always make more money than any other person involved in the process.