they would then REQUIRE any and all illicit sexual content on the web to use.xxx
and ENFORCE it...school administrator's jobs of content filtering would get a thousand times easier...
Great. Who is "they" that are going to require every website, whether hosted in Kazakhstan, Christmas Island, the Vatican City, Russia, North Korea... to do this?
All for the benefit of school admisitrators. Why not just make a white list for the sites you want kids to have access to, kids can apply to have sites added, if they're trusted they can do it themselves knowing they will be subject to review.
Why not ask all criminals to turn themselves in a police stations. That would make policemen's jobs a thousand times easier!
I believe that's a dictionary, it defines words. (And there's much dispute about those.)
How do you define a photograph? Do you know how much time, effort and paperwork and argument is involved in classifying movies for cinema release? Could that be automated to automatically and reliably classify millions of webpages, tens of thousands of videos?
My prediction (if it goes through) would be that the current owners of porn sites on.com/.net/.org addresses, will (presuming they get the equivalent.xxx domain) put up a redirect to the new page. After a couple months or more of this, the redirect goes away
After a couple of months, half the ISPs have been pressured to block.xxx by default (and how many customers want to go on file as requesting access?) and all the porn sites put a redirect on the.xxx and go back to their.com.
The submitter, or Slashdot editors, say "This means that parents will most likely have an easier time protecting their children..." (this is nowhere in TFA).
This is bullshit. How does creating a NEW domain for porn protect anyone? Only if at the same time porn is made illegal everywhere else, something that is not publicly advocated by the sponsors of.xxx. Though it's suspected that's an objective. However, no one has been able to clean porn out of any TLD and this remains impossible to do except as a symbolic and empty "We're protecting children from porn" statement. The only benefit of this new domain is the registrars who will collect $60 per year for all those existing porn sites who will be blackmailed into buying a corresponding.xxx domain to protect their brand from typosquatters. No one will set up a site solely on.xxx, a formula to be blocked by default from many users; they'll all just redirect to.coms or CC TLDs. No one will be "protected" from porn at all.
They look at the evidence, and struggle to overcome their prejudices regarding what they would like to be true. Sometimes they follow false trails, and have to accomodate new facts by discarding the theory they've built up so far.
I suppose that's one way to look at it. For me, I gave up after the first season. The "false trails" thing just became a cliche; you KNOW that it's never the one or how who it seems to be first; that's always a red herring. And the complete unreality of the CSI geeks going around with guns, interrogating people, being action heroes, made it harder to suspend disbelief. Actually, I think the X-Files got procedure more realistic.
Moral of the story - the squeeky wheel gets greased. Become a thorn in the side of the politicians (or a threat to them), and they'll do something.
Good for you. But in my part of the world, the transport companies have a lot more influence with the politicians than I do. Their money counts more than my vote; and the politicians know they'll never get my vote anyway.
Blurring can be made secure, if the picture is blurred or pixelated) to the maximum. Then no one can see the original numbers any longer, therefore creating the highest possible degree of security.
Please, RTFA. If you know these are numbers and the font (as on a credit card) that means you only have to get 10 levels of grey to have an excellent chance of working each digit out. You can't "see" it, but the information is there. Just use the eyedropper to select one colour, then paint over it.
Whichis why it uses the authentic photpenhance sound effect as the image appears in rows, like dot matrix printer. Us imaging professionals see that every day.
The weird thing is that they must have a whole staff of highly qualified computer geeks who do their effects who could tell them this was bullshit.
Try GMask. This method of mosaic masking is often used to make the images legal for Japanese webpages, yet allow perverts to recover the original image.
Now cue about 50 posts talkng about the "CSI Photoshop enhance plugin".
I had suspected that my Windows 2000 installation may have been compromised in some way so I wanted to reinstall it. Unfortunately, it took me several days to find one of my two original installation CDs. I found both of them, then I remembered that they were both Windows 2000 upgrade disks, so I will also need to find either my Windows 98 disk, my Windows ME disk or one of my two Windows NT 4.0 disks, none of which I could find
If I recall correctly, an upgrade install looks for an existing install on your PC, not the install media. So just try installng on the current system. Of course, back up your Linux files in case they get nuked.
Also, some "upgrades" don't check anytnng at all, it's just the terms of sale.
If that doesn;t work, the best place to ask questions on this topic is the MSFN forum.
but you get the idea. TVs out windows happen, just like other weird sh*t.
At the risk of being tesious, my point is not that things like this don;t happen, but that warning notices and advertisements do nothng to prevent them, and worse thn being usekles, htey allow authorities to say they've addressed the issue.
For instance, locally a narrow country road was often used by speeding delivery trucks. Mentioning this to the authorities, their response was "we'll put up a more speed limit signs". There are already signs, the drivers know full well they are breaking the law. Only actually enforcing it will change their behaviour.
Throwing wastes out the window has been a fact of urban life for thousands of years.
My point is not that this does not happen, but that continual "reminders" not to do so are annoying to the majority who don't do it, and ignored by the selfish or demented ones who do. It serves no purpose other than allowing public servants to claim they are "doing something" about a problem.
The labels are pretty ridiculous but they are for the parents not the kids. Not so ridiculous as you might think: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has received reports of numerous suffocation deaths
Sorry, that is still ridiculous. Yes, it's a real risk, but putting a label on it in no way reduces that risk.
Here in Hong Kong we are inundated with a series of inane "public service announcements" that beggar belief. One classic warned people against throwing waste out the window of apartment buildings... showing a "careless" person throwing a televison out the window on unsuspecitng children.
People do stupid things not because they don't know it's dangerous, but because they don't care. The "tv out the window" ad was probbaly inspired by a real event. But the person who did throw large dangerous objects out his window was mentally ill, not someone who just had forgotten the law of gravity and needed to be reminded.
The labels are pretty rediculous but they are for the parents not the kids.
Because if they hadn't read the label, a mother might have thrown her baby into the washing machine with the nappies?
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Um...why would you learn any of those? At all?
When your GUI is broken, either through driver problems, pathetic network speed or any other reason.
Anyway, I personally learnt vi in 1978, when it was a privilege to be allowed to use a screen editor, as opposed to a line editor (ed). That was after spending a year programming using punch card input. Anyway, you can find a cheat card to remind you of the basic commands, and the real power is in regular expressions, which are useful in many other contexts, perl hacking for a start. Even MS Word has a bastardised form.
I think it would be a GoodIdea to strip all the safety gear from the driver (passenger safety is OK). If drivers didn't have airbags and safety belts and crumple zones perhaps they'd spend a bit more time thinking about driving rather than texting etc.
The whole problem is that alcohol, even a small amount, deinhibits you. You aren't afraid of the things you sould be. You feel more in control and alert than you really are. Have you ever tried to persuade a friend who's obviously drunk not to drive? They just get more and more determined. Often it takes physical force if you want to stop them.
One suggestion I liked though was to put a sharp spike in the middle of the steering wheel. That might get their attention. Linking this with the alcohol detector then if he hits something we have one less drunk on the road.
And that makes a lot of sense until you're the person who just sat down for a couple glasses of wine for dinner and suddenly your kid falls down and cracks their head open. At that point, if your car doesn't start, your kid may die.
Because having a drunk panicking parent driving at high speed with a child in the back seat is obviously something we don't want to prevent. Having you blast through a red light and kill me (and send your kid through the windscreen) would be perfectly understandable.
Put an icepack on the kid's head, call an ambulance, docotr, taxi, police; neighbour who isn't drunk.
What if I'm on the freeway and the car turns itself off?
Do you really think they'd make it work like that? You'd probably have a series of alarms that gradually got more intrusive, finally a speed governor kicking in that gradually brought you to a stop. But it probably isn't a good idea to be drinking while you're driving on the freeway anyway.
because of his consistent "additional details and a picture" links to his blog where he plagiarises the real source.
As for "should not be used for several years"... not sure if this is a sensationalistic warning against disaster, or just clumsy phrasing of someone not writing in his native language. But in either case, it's bullshit.
Word processing is a different story. I feel that every kid should know how to write, and know the basics for writing in at least one word processing package.
It includes Abiword, a very capable word processor.
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Why does this site move?
it does cut down on the number of ways a kid can stumble across porn
The reverse, it will just create a NEW area of porn. A magnet for kids to pass around hacks to access.
Great. Who is "they" that are going to require every website, whether hosted in Kazakhstan, Christmas Island, the Vatican City, Russia, North Korea... to do this?
All for the benefit of school admisitrators. Why not just make a white list for the sites you want kids to have access to, kids can apply to have sites added, if they're trusted they can do it themselves knowing they will be subject to review.
Why not ask all criminals to turn themselves in a police stations. That would make policemen's jobs a thousand times easier!
I believe that's a dictionary, it defines words. (And there's much dispute about those.) How do you define a photograph? Do you know how much time, effort and paperwork and argument is involved in classifying movies for cinema release? Could that be automated to automatically and reliably classify millions of webpages, tens of thousands of videos?
Sounds like a job for Maxwell's Demon.
After a couple of months, half the ISPs have been pressured to block .xxx by default (and how many customers want to go on file as requesting access?) and all the porn sites put a redirect on the .xxx and go back to their .com.
This is bullshit. How does creating a NEW domain for porn protect anyone? Only if at the same time porn is made illegal everywhere else, something that is not publicly advocated by the sponsors of .xxx. Though it's suspected that's an objective. However, no one has been able to clean porn out of any TLD and this remains impossible to do except as a symbolic and empty "We're protecting children from porn" statement. The only benefit of this new domain is the registrars who will collect $60 per year for all those existing porn sites who will be blackmailed into buying a corresponding .xxx domain to protect their brand from typosquatters. No one will set up a site solely on .xxx, a formula to be blocked by default from many users; they'll all just redirect to .coms or CC TLDs. No one will be "protected" from porn at all.
I suppose that's one way to look at it. For me, I gave up after the first season. The "false trails" thing just became a cliche; you KNOW that it's never the one or how who it seems to be first; that's always a red herring. And the complete unreality of the CSI geeks going around with guns, interrogating people, being action heroes, made it harder to suspend disbelief. Actually, I think the X-Files got procedure more realistic.
Good for you. But in my part of the world, the transport companies have a lot more influence with the politicians than I do. Their money counts more than my vote; and the politicians know they'll never get my vote anyway.
Please, RTFA. If you know these are numbers and the font (as on a credit card) that means you only have to get 10 levels of grey to have an excellent chance of working each digit out. You can't "see" it, but the information is there. Just use the eyedropper to select one colour, then paint over it.
Whichis why it uses the authentic photpenhance sound effect as the image appears in rows, like dot matrix printer. Us imaging professionals see that every day.
The weird thing is that they must have a whole staff of highly qualified computer geeks who do their effects who could tell them this was bullshit.
Now cue about 50 posts talkng about the "CSI Photoshop enhance plugin".
If I recall correctly, an upgrade install looks for an existing install on your PC, not the install media. So just try installng on the current system. Of course, back up your Linux files in case they get nuked.
Also, some "upgrades" don't check anytnng at all, it's just the terms of sale.
If that doesn;t work, the best place to ask questions on this topic is the MSFN forum.
At the risk of being tesious, my point is not that things like this don;t happen, but that warning notices and advertisements do nothng to prevent them, and worse thn being usekles, htey allow authorities to say they've addressed the issue.
For instance, locally a narrow country road was often used by speeding delivery trucks. Mentioning this to the authorities, their response was "we'll put up a more speed limit signs". There are already signs, the drivers know full well they are breaking the law. Only actually enforcing it will change their behaviour.
My point is not that this does not happen, but that continual "reminders" not to do so are annoying to the majority who don't do it, and ignored by the selfish or demented ones who do. It serves no purpose other than allowing public servants to claim they are "doing something" about a problem.
Obviously. The person I was replying to seemed to think it was about the risk to the public. It's only about the risk to the company.
The labels are pretty ridiculous but they are for the parents not the kids.
Not so ridiculous as you might think:
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has received reports of numerous suffocation deaths
Sorry, that is still ridiculous. Yes, it's a real risk, but putting a label on it in no way reduces that risk.
Here in Hong Kong we are inundated with a series of inane "public service announcements" that beggar belief. One classic warned people against throwing waste out the window of apartment buildings... showing a "careless" person throwing a televison out the window on unsuspecitng children.
People do stupid things not because they don't know it's dangerous, but because they don't care. The "tv out the window" ad was probbaly inspired by a real event. But the person who did throw large dangerous objects out his window was mentally ill, not someone who just had forgotten the law of gravity and needed to be reminded.
Because if they hadn't read the label, a mother might have thrown her baby into the washing machine with the nappies?
When your GUI is broken, either through driver problems, pathetic network speed or any other reason.
Anyway, I personally learnt vi in 1978, when it was a privilege to be allowed to use a screen editor, as opposed to a line editor (ed). That was after spending a year programming using punch card input. Anyway, you can find a cheat card to remind you of the basic commands, and the real power is in regular expressions, which are useful in many other contexts, perl hacking for a start. Even MS Word has a bastardised form.
That's not really a problem, is it?
In a socal context, maybe advantageous. In control of a vehicle, undesirable.
The whole problem is that alcohol, even a small amount, deinhibits you. You aren't afraid of the things you sould be. You feel more in control and alert than you really are. Have you ever tried to persuade a friend who's obviously drunk not to drive? They just get more and more determined. Often it takes physical force if you want to stop them.
One suggestion I liked though was to put a sharp spike in the middle of the steering wheel. That might get their attention. Linking this with the alcohol detector then if he hits something we have one less drunk on the road.
Because having a drunk panicking parent driving at high speed with a child in the back seat is obviously something we don't want to prevent. Having you blast through a red light and kill me (and send your kid through the windscreen) would be perfectly understandable.
Put an icepack on the kid's head, call an ambulance, docotr, taxi, police; neighbour who isn't drunk.
Do you really think they'd make it work like that? You'd probably have a series of alarms that gradually got more intrusive, finally a speed governor kicking in that gradually brought you to a stop. But it probably isn't a good idea to be drinking while you're driving on the freeway anyway.
As for "should not be used for several years" ... not sure if this is a sensationalistic warning against disaster, or just clumsy phrasing of someone not writing in his native language. But in either case, it's bullshit.
Use RW discs.
It includes Abiword, a very capable word processor.