This points out the mistake to the reader while indicating that the poster recognized it.
I think it's clear that neither the submitter or editor recognized it. Also, as the summary text, though verbatim from CBS, wasn't an explicit quote, "sic" would be needlessly pedantic; they should just have silently fixed it.
That said, this is a completely ludicrious proposal by the labor party and needless to say they've lost my vote for the next federal election.
Well, the ALP have been out of power so long that they are grasping at straws. Any "initiative" to get some publicity. But I'd rather vote for a slightly wacky Labor Party, and let them get back to earth when they took office, than the alternative.
That whole article is full of typos. It's really pathetic coming from a professional news organization.
I guess this is actually a raw, hastily typed transcript, which is an explanation, not an excuse. They probably just spellchecked it, which is why they missed weird stuff like "being" for "begin".
I thought that this was down to the semi-literate submitter abetted by the carefree editors, but actually this malapropism was cribbed from the CBS article. Seems like no one gives a shit these days.
As for the how... well people aren't gonna like it, but its gonna have to happen
Actually, if not for immigration, most of the first world would already be in population decline. When people get reasonably comfortable, and childhood mortality is negligible, children are deferred and one or two are sufficent for most to satisfy their need for procreation. We've got one and that was enough for us.
Visiting geekpunk.cm, one finds it was cancelled OVER A YEAR AGO.
"February 23, 2005 - GeekPunk, the independent comic book publishers of the critically acclaimed and fan favorite superhero comedy comic book Hero Happy Hour, regrets to announce that the title is now on a temporary hiatus for an undetermined amount of time."
WTF? A "news" site generally deals with current events. Or at the very least, mentions the rather relvant fact that this is history, not news. Of course, that would be assuming that the Slashdot editors actually RTFA.
RTFA. "It didn't block department-store lingerie ads but covered up a few scantily clad models at the Victoria's Secret site. A Google Images search on "breast self-examination" was correctly allowed."
But they also say: "your tech-savvy teenager may attempt to evade this monitoring by terminating iShield....Without the password, you just can't turn it off." Right. Unless he reboots to a Knoppix CD, for instance. But basically if you don't want porn, this seems like a good way to manage that.
I make sure that any comments of mine end up archived under a pseudonym. Considering HR people are looking for applicants with 15 years of experience in Windows XP
Might as well use this rather than hiding from it. Put up a forum (undr a pseudonym, of course), scrape a lot of posts from a real one (with a similar name) in a field you're looking for work in. Put your name on the most "insightful" posts (predate them or change them slightlky to avoid the original being found). Link it from your blog, wait till Google indexes it. Instant job karma. To be safe, take it offline after you get the job, put up a no-index command in robots.txt and in a few weeks it'll be gone from Google's cache.
My point was that to get anything substantially "better" than open source applications, at least in useability, you have to spend serious money.
s/sucks/difficult to get help with/
True, online help or manuals in general for open source are incomplete and incomprehensible. But there is usually an O'Reilly, and lots of forums and newsgroups. For professional use you may be well advised to use one of the big name commerical apps, just so people take you seriously, but we were talking about people who can't afford an old computer, let alone a cutting edge one loaded with Adobe Creative Suite. Free software + Internet can get you started at least.
giving them a headstart on the way to getting useable computer knowledge
All my friends have Windows PCs, most of them use it for 1) Email 2) Word processing 3) Web browsing 4) P2P. All of which can be done on Linux, OSX, or WinXP with the only discernible difference being the symbol and location of the button to start each application. The only computer skill that will stand people in good stead is learning to touch type, and that's also OS-agnostic. If you can use Linux, you can use anything, just because it exposes you to the idea that there is more than one way.
Sure, kid, GIMP sucks for painting, but at least you'll learn about computers!
"Sucks"? It's got a paintbrush tool, a palette, an eraser, lots of filters. It's more than adequate for a beginner. If someone absolutely postively must have PhotoShop they can save up for a month and buy it, and get a MacMini thrown in.
This is donated hardware. It may not have CD-ROM drives
I've got a shelf full of old but working CDR drives, which I should throw away as I'll never use them. They've been standard for at least 10 years, you can buy used ones for $1 -- no kidding, I see piles of them at PC junk shops. People upgrade to a faster one, or a CDRW, or a DVD and throw the CDR. That all said, I'd install to hard disk myself and give the CDR as backup.
Frankly, the availability and compatibility with most off the shelf hardware and software is squarely in the Windows camp and is a compelling
Compelling unless you have to buy this software, including OS. Good luck finding donors for licences for equivalents for all the stuff that you'd get free with Ubuntu, (not to mention Automatix). Any donated hardware is likely to be a year or tow old, and very likely to be supported by Linux (except perhaps for a few pathological devices like Winmodems, which can be cheaply replaced)
the porn sites/industry have been a huge nuisance in the past and have abused the general public. I have nothing but scorn for them now. I think they should be punished far beyond forced to do a domain change for the crap they've done.
Which is a completely different motive than simply demarcating them. It's also self-defeating and, I must say, stupid, as the sites that offend you by annoying, spamming, etc are already renegades and move sites frequently; or are on "bulletproof" servers and will ignore any restrictions. You'd only punish the more ethical and sedate porn providers.
I don't know where you browse, but neither site (and no similar one) has ever popped anything up for me
The parent post specifically mentioned sleazy popups, and his hope that this new domain would somehow make them easy to block. I was simply using dramatic licence to illustrate why I thought this unlikely.
So don't confuse people with weird sexual desires and sleazy spammers.
That would be the next entry into my local DNS hosts file.
And that's exactly why the worst, sleaziest porn sites will never move there. The relatively sedate Playboy site will move to.xxx; FarmSex.com, SluttyLolitas.com, AnalMasochist,com... will not and will keep popping up in your browser.
Now people can quickly know which food has ingredients they want to avoid. Why would this idea be bad when applied to websites?
While chemists can analyse food, how do you analyse a website? How do you resolve disputes? Do you relegate an entire domain to.xxx the moment they have one photo with a nipple? How many millions of domains are ther in the world?
There are plenty of nanny filters you can install if you want to filter your own or your kids' access.
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I think it's clear that neither the submitter or editor recognized it. Also, as the summary text, though verbatim from CBS, wasn't an explicit quote, "sic" would be needlessly pedantic; they should just have silently fixed it.
Well, the ALP have been out of power so long that they are grasping at straws. Any "initiative" to get some publicity. But I'd rather vote for a slightly wacky Labor Party, and let them get back to earth when they took office, than the alternative.
I guess this is actually a raw, hastily typed transcript, which is an explanation, not an excuse. They probably just spellchecked it, which is why they missed weird stuff like "being" for "begin".
I'm sure he was sincere, but Ted Kaczynski isn't really representative of any mainstream, and very few lunatic, environmentalists.
I thought that this was down to the semi-literate submitter abetted by the carefree editors, but actually this malapropism was cribbed from the CBS article. Seems like no one gives a shit these days.
Actually, if not for immigration, most of the first world would already be in population decline. When people get reasonably comfortable, and childhood mortality is negligible, children are deferred and one or two are sufficent for most to satisfy their need for procreation. We've got one and that was enough for us.
I sent the guy an email; he came right back and said he'll fix it tomorrow...
And following up;
"ongoing series."
Right.
Visiting geekpunk.cm, one finds it was cancelled OVER A YEAR AGO.
"February 23, 2005 - GeekPunk, the independent comic book publishers of the critically acclaimed and fan favorite superhero comedy comic book Hero Happy Hour, regrets to announce that the title is now on a temporary hiatus for an undetermined amount of time."
"News"?
WTF? A "news" site generally deals with current events. Or at the very least, mentions the rather relvant fact that this is history, not news. Of course, that would be assuming that the Slashdot editors actually RTFA.
They're right. If you think otherwise, be explicit. You, on the other hand, can't spell "grammar".
RTFA. "It didn't block department-store lingerie ads but covered up a few scantily clad models at the Victoria's Secret site. A Google Images search on "breast self-examination" was correctly allowed."
But they also say: "your tech-savvy teenager may attempt to evade this monitoring by terminating iShield....Without the password, you just can't turn it off." Right. Unless he reboots to a Knoppix CD, for instance. But basically if you don't want porn, this seems like a good way to manage that.
Might as well use this rather than hiding from it. Put up a forum (undr a pseudonym, of course), scrape a lot of posts from a real one (with a similar name) in a field you're looking for work in. Put your name on the most "insightful" posts (predate them or change them slightlky to avoid the original being found). Link it from your blog, wait till Google indexes it. Instant job karma. To be safe, take it offline after you get the job, put up a no-index command in robots.txt and in a few weeks it'll be gone from Google's cache.
My point was that to get anything substantially "better" than open source applications, at least in useability, you have to spend serious money. s/sucks/difficult to get help with/
True, online help or manuals in general for open source are incomplete and incomprehensible. But there is usually an O'Reilly, and lots of forums and newsgroups. For professional use you may be well advised to use one of the big name commerical apps, just so people take you seriously, but we were talking about people who can't afford an old computer, let alone a cutting edge one loaded with Adobe Creative Suite. Free software + Internet can get you started at least.
Yes you are.
Not hilarious, but rather than respond to your insulting non sequitar in kind, I thought I'd make a joke. Sorry if it went over your head.
All my friends have Windows PCs, most of them use it for 1) Email 2) Word processing 3) Web browsing 4) P2P. All of which can be done on Linux, OSX, or WinXP with the only discernible difference being the symbol and location of the button to start each application. The only computer skill that will stand people in good stead is learning to touch type, and that's also OS-agnostic. If you can use Linux, you can use anything, just because it exposes you to the idea that there is more than one way.
"Sucks"? It's got a paintbrush tool, a palette, an eraser, lots of filters. It's more than adequate for a beginner. If someone absolutely postively must have PhotoShop they can save up for a month and buy it, and get a MacMini thrown in.
I've got a shelf full of old but working CDR drives, which I should throw away as I'll never use them. They've been standard for at least 10 years, you can buy used ones for $1 -- no kidding, I see piles of them at PC junk shops. People upgrade to a faster one, or a CDRW, or a DVD and throw the CDR. That all said, I'd install to hard disk myself and give the CDR as backup.
Compelling unless you have to buy this software, including OS. Good luck finding donors for licences for equivalents for all the stuff that you'd get free with Ubuntu, (not to mention Automatix). Any donated hardware is likely to be a year or tow old, and very likely to be supported by Linux (except perhaps for a few pathological devices like Winmodems, which can be cheaply replaced)
Which is a completely different motive than simply demarcating them. It's also self-defeating and, I must say, stupid, as the sites that offend you by annoying, spamming, etc are already renegades and move sites frequently; or are on "bulletproof" servers and will ignore any restrictions. You'd only punish the more ethical and sedate porn providers.
The parent post specifically mentioned sleazy popups, and his hope that this new domain would somehow make them easy to block. I was simply using dramatic licence to illustrate why I thought this unlikely.
So don't confuse people with weird sexual desires and sleazy spammers.
Both groups can be confused for all I care.
And that's exactly why the worst, sleaziest porn sites will never move there. The relatively sedate Playboy site will move to .xxx; FarmSex.com, SluttyLolitas.com, AnalMasochist,com... will not and will keep popping up in your browser.
While chemists can analyse food, how do you analyse a website? How do you resolve disputes? Do you relegate an entire domain to .xxx the moment they have one photo with a nipple? How many millions of domains are ther in the world?
There are plenty of nanny filters you can install if you want to filter your own or your kids' access.
As soon as you explain what "inconstitutional" means I'll be happy to.
Is this from the Onion? Does anyone take these twats seriously?
I know it's easy to fake the IP. Harder to get a credit card in a foreign country.