You are preventing them from engaging in commerce and public life.
It's basically Amish shunning or Hawthorne's Scarlet letter but without the obvious initial "buy in" of joining an extremist religious cult first.
The sacred cow will ensure the precedent is set in general so that it can be applied to YOU next time.
I believe the intent is to prevent pedophile pedators from clandestinely communicating with potential underage prey. However, since sex-offender status is applied to more than just pedophiles, I would think that this is overly broad.
But since creepy and pervy is so creepy and pervy and decent people don't want to be associated with creepy and pervy and doing so may alert law enforcement, I doubt anybody will actually object to this treatment. They basically adopt the "don't do kiddie porn, don't fark teens and kiddies, don't rape or grope anybody and don't expose yourself in public if you want to play online games" attitude.
This is a binary release, with most components statically-linked. Well, there are some system-level dependencies involving video drivers, and OpenGL support in X, but nothing specific to Debian. I suppose that with some tweaking you could use it on any x86-based linux distro. As I told below : it works well on Gentoo, and others have already reported it working on Arch, Mint (maybe Debian itself ?) Can't see why Suse and Fedora couldn't run this.
Then it would be simple for the devs to release it as a distro-agnostic package and it would not require "tweaking" for anyone. I wonder why they have not done that and still continue to release for Debian/Ubuntu only?
I can't run it on Mageia2 because it doesn't have a current-enough version of glibc. 8(
I imagine it would be technically trivial to simply require that *both* numbers link to emergency services. It would be easy to do, and would make things a lot safer for visitors in either America or Europe who may only be familiar with one or the other.
Easy peasy, and no argument needed.
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Done in one.
My God, both a first post and a reasonable response. What is the world coming to?
But please/.'ers, don't let that stop you from arguing since the world ends in 9 days.
I'll try and make the first useful comment of the discussion (so, it has nothing to do with the article).
I've been using Vagrant to manage development VMs. It automates using VirtualBox. There's an example on that homepage: $ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
Can it handle anything other than Debian-based distros? The web site seems silent on that.
Let me transpose this article to emphasize just how incredibly stupid this submission is:
Hey guys, I'm a game developer and my computer doesn't run things that I need to use to develop games. So I bought a new computer. You see, a computer is a machine that runs software and computes things for you. It has a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor. Some computers are big, but others are small. For instance, the computer I bought has 4GB of memory. That is more memory than other computers that have 2GB. When you buy a computer, it's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need to install the remaining 10% of things that you'll use and change the settings so it runs the way you like it. Computers are so neat.
First, I/don't/ want my mail wherever I am. The quiet of being 'away' from the email and the phone is quite worth having. Puts a nice balance on things. Makes living in the city more placid.
Nothing compels you to open your webmail account or answer your phone wherever you are, unless you lack self-control or suffer from "Internet addicition". If so, get some professional help and don't blame the technology.
Now Google sends ads to your Gmail inbox, and claims you opted into that. You can go to settings and turn it off, but then it displays ads at the top of the screen
Sports builds character. How could it be so bad? These brain damaged players are just slackers. Next your gonna say that vaccinations don't cause autism and Jesus didn't ride dinosaurs.
Please respond using a car analogy so I can understand WTF you are saying.
ISP will work with law enforcement to identify the person who sent the packet. That is why they are not prosecuted. The Tor exit node operator can not do that. The tech is designed to prevent it.
Well then, the Tor exit node operator can cooperate fully.
It increases government revenue by ticketing mostly people who make rolling-right turns on red, a practice that does not result in traffic fatalities for the most part.
Lost in the discussion of legality and ethics is a simple question: what kind of pussy needs pigeons released from a box at short range to score a kill? Why not just shoot them in the box and call yourself an accomplished sportsman?
What kind of pussy posts this kind of comment as AC?
We have a similar law in Virginia. It is unlawful to interfere with someone lawfully hunting or fishing. I have no probem with someone lawfully protesting any activity they object to, but the law should guide and protect us all. If you feel the need to break the law to make your point, please accept the consequences of your actions and try to not be such dicks.
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You are preventing them from engaging in commerce and public life.
It's basically Amish shunning or Hawthorne's Scarlet letter but without the obvious initial "buy in" of joining an extremist religious cult first.
The sacred cow will ensure the precedent is set in general so that it can be applied to YOU next time.
I believe the intent is to prevent pedophile pedators from clandestinely communicating with potential underage prey. However, since sex-offender status is applied to more than just pedophiles, I would think that this is overly broad.
But since creepy and pervy is so creepy and pervy and decent people don't want to be associated with creepy and pervy and doing so may alert law enforcement, I doubt anybody will actually object to this treatment. They basically adopt the "don't do kiddie porn, don't fark teens and kiddies, don't rape or grope anybody and don't expose yourself in public if you want to play online games" attitude.
This is a binary release, with most components statically-linked. Well, there are some system-level dependencies involving video drivers, and OpenGL support in X, but nothing specific to Debian. I suppose that with some tweaking you could use it on any x86-based linux distro. As I told below : it works well on Gentoo, and others have already reported it working on Arch, Mint (maybe Debian itself ?)
Can't see why Suse and Fedora couldn't run this.
Then it would be simple for the devs to release it as a distro-agnostic package and it would not require "tweaking" for anyone. I wonder why they have not done that and still continue to release for Debian/Ubuntu only?
I can't run it on Mageia2 because it doesn't have a current-enough version of glibc. 8(
Debian/Ubuntu are not "Linux", they are several of many distributions of Linux.
Steam will not run on all current major distributions of Lunux, so how can they claim to be "Steam for Linux"?
Are the devs at Steam not skilled enough to develop a distro-agnostic version of their software?
12.04 LTS is the supported version.
But 12.04 LTS is not "Linux", just one Linux distro of many. So why is the story promoting "Steam for Linux" when it is not accurate?
What is your management style?
What are your job priorities?
How do you think I can help you?
Take notes, because none of their answers will be truthful.
I've never heard of this happening to someone buying an Android phone.
Why not 666?
The Mark of the Beast is easy to remember.
Yes, I _am_ an agent of Satan, but the duties are mostly ceremonial.
I imagine it would be technically trivial to simply require that *both* numbers link to emergency services. It would be easy to do, and would make things a lot safer for visitors in either America or Europe who may only be familiar with one or the other.
Easy peasy, and no argument needed.
>
Done in one.
My God, both a first post and a reasonable response. What is the world coming to?
But please /.'ers, don't let that stop you from arguing since the world ends in 9 days.
I'll try and make the first useful comment of the discussion (so, it has nothing to do with the article).
I've been using Vagrant to manage development VMs. It automates using VirtualBox. There's an example on that homepage:
$ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
Can it handle anything other than Debian-based distros? The web site seems silent on that.
What .box choices are available?
Let me transpose this article to emphasize just how incredibly stupid this submission is:
Hey guys, I'm a game developer and my computer doesn't run things that I need to use to develop games. So I bought a new computer. You see, a computer is a machine that runs software and computes things for you. It has a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor. Some computers are big, but others are small. For instance, the computer I bought has 4GB of memory. That is more memory than other computers that have 2GB. When you buy a computer, it's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need to install the remaining 10% of things that you'll use and change the settings so it runs the way you like it. Computers are so neat.
Are you Ric Romero?
Don't bother, they're just "making" news.
If it weren't for the terms vps, ubuntu and windows 7, I could have swore the article is 10 years old.
I've been "bouncing daemons" since before then.
WTF is it with kids nowadays?
Other than "I did someting I think is cool", what does this article contribute? Nothing.
First, I /don't/ want my mail wherever I am. The quiet of being 'away' from the email and the phone is quite worth having. Puts a nice balance on things. Makes living in the city more placid.
Nothing compels you to open your webmail account or answer your phone wherever you are, unless you lack self-control or suffer from "Internet addicition". If so, get some professional help and don't blame the technology.
Now Google sends ads to your Gmail inbox, and claims you opted into that. You can go to settings and turn it off, but then it displays ads at the top of the screen
I never see any of that, but I use Adblock.
Sad to see that they are not being distro-agnostic and standards-compliant. That would solve many, many problems.
And you'll pay the fiddler.
Sports builds character. How could it be so bad? These brain damaged players are just slackers. Next your gonna say that vaccinations don't cause autism and Jesus didn't ride dinosaurs.
Please respond using a car analogy so I can understand WTF you are saying.
They shot down their own drone clone.
ISP will work with law enforcement to identify the person who sent the packet. That is why they are not prosecuted. The Tor exit node operator can not do that. The tech is designed to prevent it.
Well then, the Tor exit node operator can cooperate fully.
If the in-dash computers operate with open standards and a consistent API, they can remain functional for quite a while.
Get up with fleas.
So what effect does a red-light camera have ...
It increases government revenue by ticketing mostly people who make rolling-right turns on red, a practice that does not result in traffic fatalities for the most part.
Why is Homeland Security dealing with counterfeit product sales?
Are sales of fake professional sports jerseys jeopardizing our national security now?
You do not need to ask questions, citizen. Move along. Nothing to see here.
And turn off that camera!
If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear officer.
Lost in the discussion of legality and ethics is a simple question: what kind of pussy needs pigeons released from a box at short range to score a kill? Why not just shoot them in the box and call yourself an accomplished sportsman?
What kind of pussy posts this kind of comment as AC?
Arguably a much bigger pussy.
We have a similar law in Virginia. It is unlawful to interfere with someone lawfully hunting or fishing. I have no probem with someone lawfully protesting any activity they object to, but the law should guide and protect us all. If you feel the need to break the law to make your point, please accept the consequences of your actions and try to not be such dicks.