(1) Given: Sex is a natural and good human behavior.
If (1), then why is it bad for children to know about sex? Because if they do, adult sexual perverts can take advantage of them.
What is a sexual pervert? A person who seeks out sex in ways that are against society standards.
If these people found it easier to have sex with people their own age, would they seek out children? Probably not for the most part.
So if everyone accepted (1) there probably would be very few child molesters? yea.
So if everyone accepted (1), people could have more sex, not be afraid of having or asking for sex, and we wouldn't (for the most part) have to worry about our children being victimized? Um, yea.
So how can we make this happen? Well, we could make information about sex more widely known so that everyone can realize that it isn't evil.
But you will have to tell the children this stuff also in order for this to work, right? um, yea...
But in the current state, that is considered dangerous, so how do we move from here to there? Oh, dammit, I don't know! ------------------------------ Or try this one:
If (1), then why is it bad for children to know about sex? Because the easiest and most common way to be exposed to sex is pornography, and most pornography promotes a negitive view of women and/or encourages unsafe sexual behavior.
But the reason that they portray women this way is because porn is a half-way underground industry and needs to protray them this way in order to survive. If they didn't, they wouldn't appear as exciting, right? I guess so.
So if there was nothing really covert and exciting about pictures of naked people, they could be shown just like pictures of everything else, and not as "see the dirty whores" and whatnot. In other words, if porn weren't hidden, it wouldn't need to be dirty? Yea, I think so.
So if we make porn readily avalaible, it will not only cease to be demeaning and dangerous, but it will probably become higher quality too (I don't want to see dirty, I want to see beautiful, you know)? Yea!
Alright! How do we bring this about? Well... If we make all porn easily avalaible now, it will still be mostly the dirty stuff, so that isn't good, so if we find the good stuff and show that to people... but those people will still assume it is dirty because "porn" and "dirty" are synonomous to most people... and we would have to hire lots of people to find the good stuff in any case, but there'd be no one who'd pay people to do this and --- dammit again! --------------------------------- Now, I have made one very large assumption here (that child molesters exist because of sexual repression) and ignored a few other things, but the discussion could easily be expanded to include these and still come to the same conclusion of "I don't know how to change the system!" Even if everyone agrees to (1), it can't change, because according to the rules, you can't tell people (that you don't know really well) that you agree to (1), and you have to act in many situations as tho you don't. The anonimity (pardon spelling) on the Internet has helped a little, but so many people aren't Internet capable or have had the "sex is dirty" idea driven so deeply into them that they actually believe it, rather than just pretending to, as many of us do.
I don't suppose I have actually given any information here that people didn't already know (and if fact much of what I have said may have been incoherant), but I felt a need to say this, thanks for listening.
He suffers from motor neurone disease, a rare condition which degenerates the central nervous system and leads to a wasting of the muscles. It does not affect the brain or the senses. Hawking was first diagnosed with it when he was 21, at which age he was told he had a life expectancy of two to three years. He is now 57.
At 128*128*32bpp, each icon would be half a meg. Assuming they do nothing more clever than just loading them all into memory without compression, a quite full dock would take up no more than 20MB. The machines that are expected to use them probably all come with at least 256MB, so we are talking under 10% here.
Which is not to say I wouldn't rather have small, low color, icons and use my memory for something more useful, but it certainly won't bring the system down.
So he blast userfriendly for portraying callers as stupid idiots, but the example cell we get is from a strip in which the caller outsmarts (essentailly) the tech.
Not to be picky, but adding a picture to your rant that is a counter-argument to the rant just doesn't make me want to agree with you.
First, those of us who have not been spoiled by cable-modem || T3 at college know how to deal with long pages. You start loading, go play a game or get food or something and then come back and read it. I have had a 33.6 for a long time and last month upgraded to 56k. At college, I share a partial T1 with 1600 other students. I find slashdot to be just fine at this speed.
If it is still too slow, log in and use the "light" mode, disable sigs and set "Limit only display this many comments" to 1 or 2 (A comment in this case refers to a parent comment and all its replies). Doing any or all of these will speed things up considerably.
I do not propose a system to twart potential abuse, I propose one to prevent actual abuse from increasing.
If you know what a user interface is, why don't you write one and submit it to the slashdot community? It needs to (1) do everything the current one does, (2) do some things that the current one does significantly better (3) still be viewable by people without access to a graphical browser (4) not cause any new problems. Good Luck!
To see one comment: use cid links. For example: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/01/02/111 4212&cid=22
If you don't know the cid number of the post you want, then you should be reading the whole discussion anyway.
Wanting to have a constantly updating discussion is frankly stupid. Here is why. The reason that we almost never see intelligent posts numbered in the single digits is because everyone rushes to post without reading the article or putting any thought into what they are saying. If everytime someone posts, everyone else sees it instantly, then the "gotta reply before someone else does"/"gotta post before there are so many posts that no one will get down to mine" manner of posting will become even more rampant and the incentive to write intelligent, thought out posts will drop even farther than it is now. Additionally, I wouldn't mind to be able to read the posts using lynx...
again, if you are just trolling and you don't actually belive what you are saying, ignore this post.
yes, you are right. The major effect of y2k is bogus dates on web pages. There are pages that have screen shots of a lot of them, but i forgot where they are, so i will summarize, the date testerday was, depending on what they did wrong:
So, while this seems really dumb to me, i am interested in wheather he is actually going to make it, or if he will quit in the middle. It sounds sorta like thirty-days.com, which was interesting to look at for a little while, but i am sure most of their hits came from the few days after they were featured on slashdot. Wierd things like this just aren't captivating for that long. Once he realizes that few people are still paying attn to his show, i wonder if he will decide that it is no longer worth it. The article doesnt give much insight into his personality, except that he IS crazy enough to actually change his name to something that nobody wants to say everytime they talk to him (and with internal capitalization, joy!).
Hrm, i suppose we can't blame everything on y2k, but uh, there seems to be a lot of this going on today. (There was a comment moderated up to 6 elsewhere...)
So, here are your options: a)Ignore articles you don't feel fulfill the mission of slashdot. b)Ignore article posters that you don't like (You have to be logged in to do this, but hey... that has a lot of other benifits too) c)petition rob to change the title of the main page to "Slashdot:News for Nerds And Other Stuff that Matters."
Whoa, ya... erm, I'd better start writing a script right now to try to get this one. er, ah, get a friend who knows how to do that to write a script for it...
I predict a very large spike in posts surrounding midnight that day, assuming of course that all the necessary computers continue running over the date change. Naturally, the more people that respond to this post, the more people will attempt to get first post of the new millenium (first post of the first year in which the first digit in a four digit year is '2').
Can't you get a basically free listing in the World Almanac? I mean, I guess it is not searchable, being on paper, but it is there, all you would need to do is either (1) get a lot of people to each copy a column into the comptuer and send it somewhere or (2) scan it in and use (very good probably to the point of non-existant) software to translate bitmap to text. I don't know what USPS sells it for, but it seems that it could be worth it to "open source" the data this way. (Oh and I understand that the World Almanac is not free, but the zip code part of it is like.5% of the total, so...)
All you will need is the time to download (for a price) a one-view copy of the movie to your home computer (the amount of time will vary by your bandwidth, obviously).
Yes, just like everyone uses Divx now. ANY kind of attempt to create a one-time viewable movie will fail. Any format can be cracked, any file can be copied and saved. This is not an exageration.
Also, I do not want to watch movies in my house. First, no matter how big my TV is, it will not be as big as a movie screen because there are no walls in my house as big as a movie screen. No matter how big my TV is, it will always be projected from behind the screen, not sent over my head from a projector (or if it would, not only would the system be even more ungainly, but any move I made would get in the way of the projection, again because there is not enough room in my house for it). Both of these would detract from the quality side of the expirience. Looking at another way, going to a theatre with crouds of people around you also seeing the movie is an important part of movie viewing. Star Wars (special edition that is) would have not been an exciting expirience if we were just isolated small groups watching it on the "big" screen for the first time in 20 years (ie the first time ever for us youngens). And then there is the problem of having to invite a girl over to your house to sit in a dark room alone for the first date...
So basically, no, theatres are not going to go out of style.
I like how you bash Ebert's argument, calling him "unbelievably myopic when it comes to technology" and then give exactly (hmmm, let me read it over a few more times to make sure) zero reasons why you are right and he is wrong. Why not tell us about these "laughable technical errors" and about how "The digital projection system of the future will blow today's technology away" instead of simply skaking off analog technology and a respected film critic with a wave of your hand.
I think analog will always be an alternative that people will chose. Here is why: if i have analog film, I can hold it up to the light and see what is on it. If my projector breaks or the film has a flaw in it, i can rig up a new projector from basic parts or use tape to mend the film. Digital will always be higher tech than analog and therefore harder to access directly, this is why it is superior.
Oh, fuck sex. And stop with the "regards," with sigs disabled, it looks horrible. I feel justified saying this after your recent sig rant. [oh where oh where has my hyperlink gone, oh where oh where can she be?]
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Whop! And all this time I had been pronouncing it as tho it had an 'a'. Oh well...
An Athalon is an AMD K7 x86 processor. It competes with the pentium and Intel. The two routinely switch off for which is faster.
What drives me nuts is this line of thought.
(1) Given: Sex is a natural and good human behavior.
If (1), then why is it bad for children to know about sex? Because if they do, adult sexual perverts can take advantage of them.
What is a sexual pervert? A person who seeks out sex in ways that are against society standards.
If these people found it easier to have sex with people their own age, would they seek out children? Probably not for the most part.
So if everyone accepted (1) there probably would be very few child molesters? yea.
So if everyone accepted (1), people could have more sex, not be afraid of having or asking for sex, and we wouldn't (for the most part) have to worry about our children being victimized? Um, yea.
So how can we make this happen? Well, we could make information about sex more widely known so that everyone can realize that it isn't evil.
But you will have to tell the children this stuff also in order for this to work, right? um, yea...
But in the current state, that is considered dangerous, so how do we move from here to there? Oh, dammit, I don't know!
------------------------------
Or try this one:
If (1), then why is it bad for children to know about sex? Because the easiest and most common way to be exposed to sex is pornography, and most pornography promotes a negitive view of women and/or encourages unsafe sexual behavior.
But the reason that they portray women this way is because porn is a half-way underground industry and needs to protray them this way in order to survive. If they didn't, they wouldn't appear as exciting, right? I guess so.
So if there was nothing really covert and exciting about pictures of naked people, they could be shown just like pictures of everything else, and not as "see the dirty whores" and whatnot. In other words, if porn weren't hidden, it wouldn't need to be dirty? Yea, I think so.
So if we make porn readily avalaible, it will not only cease to be demeaning and dangerous, but it will probably become higher quality too (I don't want to see dirty, I want to see beautiful, you know)? Yea!
Alright! How do we bring this about? Well... If we make all porn easily avalaible now, it will still be mostly the dirty stuff, so that isn't good, so if we find the good stuff and show that to people... but those people will still assume it is dirty because "porn" and "dirty" are synonomous to most people... and we would have to hire lots of people to find the good stuff in any case, but there'd be no one who'd pay people to do this and --- dammit again!
---------------------------------
Now, I have made one very large assumption here (that child molesters exist because of sexual repression) and ignored a few other things, but the discussion could easily be expanded to include these and still come to the same conclusion of "I don't know how to change the system!" Even if everyone agrees to (1), it can't change, because according to the rules, you can't tell people (that you don't know really well) that you agree to (1), and you have to act in many situations as tho you don't. The anonimity (pardon spelling) on the Internet has helped a little, but so many people aren't Internet capable or have had the "sex is dirty" idea driven so deeply into them that they actually believe it, rather than just pretending to, as many of us do.
I don't suppose I have actually given any information here that people didn't already know (and if fact much of what I have said may have been incoherant), but I felt a need to say this, thanks for listening.
Before anyone else responds to this, I would like to point out that the writer either:
a. Is trying to make people yell at him by emmulating a common (but slightly less blatent) type of slashdotter.
b. Really is that kind of slashdotter and a very bad one at that.
In either case, I wouldn't recommend responing to him, since if(a), that is exactly what he wants and if(b), it won't get you anywhere.
He suffers from motor neurone disease, a rare condition which degenerates the central nervous system and leads to a wasting of the muscles. It does not affect the brain or the senses. Hawking was first diagnosed with it when he was 21, at which age he was told he had a life expectancy of two to three years. He is now 57.
Read the article.
Er, yes, ok everyone, I goofed and forgot to divide by eight you can stop yelling at me now. (I was just waking up at the time.)
But it just helps prove my point that the icons would not be detrimental to system heath anyway.
At 128*128*32bpp, each icon would be half a meg. Assuming they do nothing more clever than just loading them all into memory without compression, a quite full dock would take up no more than 20MB. The machines that are expected to use them probably all come with at least 256MB, so we are talking under 10% here.
Which is not to say I wouldn't rather have small, low color, icons and use my memory for something more useful, but it certainly won't bring the system down.
So he blast userfriendly for portraying callers as stupid idiots, but the example cell we get is from a strip in which the caller outsmarts (essentailly) the tech.
Not to be picky, but adding a picture to your rant that is a counter-argument to the rant just doesn't make me want to agree with you.
First, those of us who have not been spoiled by cable-modem || T3 at college know how to deal with long pages. You start loading, go play a game or get food or something and then come back and read it. I have had a 33.6 for a long time and last month upgraded to 56k. At college, I share a partial T1 with 1600 other students. I find slashdot to be just fine at this speed.
If it is still too slow, log in and use the "light" mode, disable sigs and set "Limit only display this many comments" to 1 or 2 (A comment in this case refers to a parent comment and all its replies). Doing any or all of these will speed things up considerably.
I do not propose a system to twart potential abuse, I propose one to prevent actual abuse from increasing.
If you know what a user interface is, why don't you write one and submit it to the slashdot community? It needs to (1) do everything the current one does, (2) do some things that the current one does significantly better (3) still be viewable by people without access to a graphical browser (4) not cause any new problems. Good Luck!
To see one comment: use cid links. For example:1 4212&cid=22
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/01/02/11
If you don't know the cid number of the post you want, then you should be reading the whole discussion anyway.
Wanting to have a constantly updating discussion is frankly stupid. Here is why. The reason that we almost never see intelligent posts numbered in the single digits is because everyone rushes to post without reading the article or putting any thought into what they are saying. If everytime someone posts, everyone else sees it instantly, then the "gotta reply before someone else does"/"gotta post before there are so many posts that no one will get down to mine" manner of posting will become even more rampant and the incentive to write intelligent, thought out posts will drop even farther than it is now.
Additionally, I wouldn't mind to be able to read the posts using lynx...
again, if you are just trolling and you don't actually belive what you are saying, ignore this post.
go.to/y2kmistakes as well.
yes, you are right. The major effect of y2k is bogus dates on web pages. There are pages that have screen shots of a lot of them, but i forgot where they are, so i will summarize, the date testerday was, depending on what they did wrong:
0, 100,1900,1999 (jan 1), 1999 (dec 32), 19100, 192000 or 202000
There were also a number of millenium countdown sites that are either now counting up or counting down from a very large negitive number.
So, while this seems really dumb to me, i am interested in wheather he is actually going to make it, or if he will quit in the middle. It sounds sorta like thirty-days.com, which was interesting to look at for a little while, but i am sure most of their hits came from the few days after they were featured on slashdot. Wierd things like this just aren't captivating for that long. Once he realizes that few people are still paying attn to his show, i wonder if he will decide that it is no longer worth it.
The article doesnt give much insight into his personality, except that he IS crazy enough to actually change his name to something that nobody wants to say everytime they talk to him (and with internal capitalization, joy!).
it is ROT-13
jryy vg ybbxf yvxr gur l2x oht qvqa'g erne vg'f htyl urnq.
well it looks like the y2k bug didn't rear it's unly head.
lrc. gur qbbzfnlref unir orra cebira jebat lrg ntnva.
yep. the doomsayers have been proven wrong yet again.
qvq lbh frr gung gbb?
did you see that too?
ubhfgba. jr unir n ceboyrz
houston. we have a problem.
Just for fun... (Score:-1, Funny)
Moderation Totals:Offtopic=1, Total=1.
Hrm, i suppose we can't blame everything on y2k, but uh, there seems to be a lot of this going on today. (There was a comment moderated up to 6 elsewhere...)
So, here are your options:
a)Ignore articles you don't feel fulfill the mission of slashdot.
b)Ignore article posters that you don't like (You have to be logged in to do this, but hey... that has a lot of other benifits too)
c)petition rob to change the title of the main page to "Slashdot:News for Nerds And Other Stuff that Matters."
Whoa, ya... erm, I'd better start writing a script right now to try to get this one. er, ah, get a friend who knows how to do that to write a script for it...
I predict a very large spike in posts surrounding midnight that day, assuming of course that all the necessary computers continue running over the date change. Naturally, the more people that respond to this post, the more people will attempt to get first post of the new millenium (first post of the first year in which the first digit in a four digit year is '2').
Happy posting!
and for that matter, why was the reply marked flamebait?
um, yes, that is a good question....
Can't you get a basically free listing in the World Almanac? I mean, I guess it is not searchable, being on paper, but it is there, all you would need to do is either (1) get a lot of people to each copy a column into the comptuer and send it somewhere or (2) scan it in and use (very good probably to the point of non-existant) software to translate bitmap to text. I don't know what USPS sells it for, but it seems that it could be worth it to "open source" the data this way. (Oh and I understand that the World Almanac is not free, but the zip code part of it is like .5% of the total, so...)
Maybe the World Almanac is not complete? I dunno.
All you will need is the time to download (for a price) a one-view copy of the movie to your home computer (the amount of time will vary by your bandwidth, obviously).
Yes, just like everyone uses Divx now. ANY kind of attempt to create a one-time viewable movie will fail. Any format can be cracked, any file can be copied and saved. This is not an exageration.
Also, I do not want to watch movies in my house. First, no matter how big my TV is, it will not be as big as a movie screen because there are no walls in my house as big as a movie screen. No matter how big my TV is, it will always be projected from behind the screen, not sent over my head from a projector (or if it would, not only would the system be even more ungainly, but any move I made would get in the way of the projection, again because there is not enough room in my house for it). Both of these would detract from the quality side of the expirience. Looking at another way, going to a theatre with crouds of people around you also seeing the movie is an important part of movie viewing. Star Wars (special edition that is) would have not been an exciting expirience if we were just isolated small groups watching it on the "big" screen for the first time in 20 years (ie the first time ever for us youngens). And then there is the problem of having to invite a girl over to your house to sit in a dark room alone for the first date...
So basically, no, theatres are not going to go out of style.
I like how you bash Ebert's argument, calling him "unbelievably myopic when it comes to technology" and then give exactly (hmmm, let me read it over a few more times to make sure) zero reasons why you are right and he is wrong. Why not tell us about these "laughable technical errors" and about how "The digital projection system of the future will blow today's technology away" instead of simply skaking off analog technology and a respected film critic with a wave of your hand.
I think analog will always be an alternative that people will chose. Here is why: if i have analog film, I can hold it up to the light and see what is on it. If my projector breaks or the film has a flaw in it, i can rig up a new projector from basic parts or use tape to mend the film. Digital will always be higher tech than analog and therefore harder to access directly, this is why it is superior.
Oh, fuck sex. And stop with the "regards," with sigs disabled, it looks horrible. I feel justified saying this after your recent sig rant. [oh where oh where has my hyperlink gone, oh where oh where can she be?]
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