There already is a huge amount of legislation regarding porn, even in the US. USC 2257 requires record-keeping of proof of age for any actor visually depicted. Porn media cannot show explicit material on front covers and this extends to the "enter/leave" front pages of websites.
It's always the same story anyway. The kind of people desiring a ban of porn or other "filth" on TV, the Internet or any other medium often do not even have these kind of media in their homes. Their children are completely protected from our influences under current legislation. They are themselves the perfect example of why extending legislation is not required. It's possible to live a porn-free live, so go do it if you so desire. But leave horny lil' me alone.
Besides, Americans should not care about what the rest of the world thinks - and I'm saying that as European.
There are only 61538 ports. That's barely enough to categorise my personal fetishes, let alone everyone else's. Where on earth are we going to leave all the other content?
In Europe this is rarely a problem with more relaxed drinking laws and cleverness to ask ID at the bar and not the door where necessary, but for the US, Canada or Australia I recommend asking bands to make their shows "all ages".
I webmaster for the HorrorPops and due to the large amount of requests to have all ages shows they tried (and succeeded) to have a seven week tour with all but one show without age limit.
Who downloads music on those networks anyway. Seriously, why spend hours on-line, trying to find a proper quality full album plus cover of some chart song that's old and tiresome before the download finishes, while your appliances fill up with spyware and other junk?
Be smart: if you insist on chart crap, a buck/quid/euro easily gets you a legal version of a song with the greatest of ease.
If you actually have a developed taste, a tenner gets you a proper album on any medium you like (including lovely vinyl) of actual bands you'll be able to fancy longer than a day. Delivered to the door, your iPod or available downtown at record stores and gigs where as an extra bonus you get a social life with the purchase because meeting people is more fun than meeting user accounts.
Okay, I'm somewhat cynical, but getting a signed album after a live performance totally beats the crap out of a lifestyle defined by bandwidth.
(Hey.. anyone else here who's 28, parties like 16, but talks like 86?)
For over a year now, i've been using audacity and kandy to make my own ringtones and transfer them via a $11 USB cable to my Motorola V180. Voila, free ring tones from my massive collection of music.
Exactly. Whenever buying something always remember that most telcos/operators/networks/providers make money from services, therefore investing in hardware giving end-user capabilities will always pay off.
My SE K750i comes with a free USB cable and I just select something directly out of my MP3 collection as ringtone. I bought a 2GB memorystick for the phone, just to avoid carrying an iPod around (already ditched my camera for the 2 megapixel camera as well).
Not bragging, it's a great model but there are plenty of phones like these on the market (free with a subscription, at least in Europe).
No, it's no surprise. Why do you think the FSF stopped recommending the LGPL? Because companies like Apple benefit more from it than the original authors, or at least have the dominant say on the matter. Whether that's good or bad I will not get into, but truth it is.
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Been there, done that. There were a fair amount of homeless people in NYC, Buffalo, (Toronto), Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Washington, Houston, San Francisco and San Jose when I visited (1997, 2001, 2002). Not significantly more than here in Rotterdam (pop: 600k, metro: ~2-3M) though.
Small anecdote on personal responsibility: some poor chap asked me for a drink at the local Subway the other day. I told him "they sell drinks at the counter". He inhaled once more and told me he didn't have money and was homeless. I told him "that's why I pay for rent and groceries first and pot later".
I'm not saying there is no poverty at all in the west, but it beats eastern Europe (which also seemed to do better last summer than in 1998) and it definitely beats any time in the past. You don't even have to be middle class in 2005 to be able to purchase wines and beers that would have been luxury even for monarchs just a couple of centuries ago.
If you truly care about the big picture the billions of SCO, Microsoft, ClearChannel, AOL, et cetera don't really matter. Eventually rich brats like Paris Hilton will trickle down such money rapidly while providing some softcore for us geeks at the same time. Is corporate capitalism flawless? Neh. But do free markets work better than anything else we tried? Save for some excesses, yes, they do.
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Why oh why? Maybe democracy is more of a long-term thing than you think. Maybe a bloody war is more of a short-term thing than you think.
And please trade in your illusions for a copy of the constitutional treaty if you get to vote on it, and read it. As EU citizen I am far, far more concerned about the Brussels bohemeth then whether Bush and Cheney make more money on the Iraq war than the UN did on the food-for-oil scandal. At least the former group removed a dictator.
You're right about one thing though: poverty in the western world is virtually non-existant. It's a statistical joke defined as earning less than half the average income, so every generation nearly doubling its wealth is completely left out of the equation.
How you turn that into a sad thing, I do not know.
So relax people, the 21st century is yet another one where life is better than in the one before. Bit off-topic for a SCO discussion but seriously, some people get so pessimistic over nonsense it's frustrating.
It's not relevant for *you*, but if all Internet users managed to show half the responsibility of you, or even the worst troll on Slashdot, spam and virii probably would not be a problem in the first place.
Spam works because
a) people are buying it, and as such, it's profitable
or
b) it's not profitable, but people are buying the notion that it is and as such are sending it
Either way, it means that a lot of people are not well-informed. The same is true for the upcoming elections. I wouldn't let spam or a Fahrenheit 9/11 (which has more doubtful chatter about Bush than by him, frankly) change my political preference. You wouldn't either. But it'd be naive to think that nobody could be influenced, and as such I think the question is a valid one.
Still, I doubt it will happen. If you dislike Bush, you probably have your reasons already. The guy has been mocked and bashed for four years, so if you're still undecided, you'll probably vote for the guy in the White House anyway. So the anti-Bush crowd has no reason to spend money on discrediting Bush with spam.
Any dirt on Kerry however could still make a huge impact, but these kind of grassroots actions are much more likely to come from supporters of the challenger. That's why there weren't so many pro-war protests or pro-Bush rallies: satisfied people don't go out on the street for a protest.
Likewise, I hope noone will change their vote because Bruce Springsteen holds a concert against Bush, or because Britney Spears says she trusts him.
In the end, it comes down to the issues, in which case I'd rather go for the Prez who merely looks and sounds like a chimp than the challenger whose actually political course is about as straight as a banana. But that's my personal opinion, if yours is different, please vote differently.
Recently installed UAE, loaded up my old Amiga disks.. had amazing amounts of fun. Back in the days, video games were video games, not just video.
Sim City Red Alert
Classic games where you can set your own goals, especially Sim City. I hate those predefined narrow missions, games are more fun when there isn't a clear goal and you can set your own demands. Sometimes I want the biggest population, at other times stunning land values.. I still haven't explored all the possibilities in Sim City after all these years, despite the fact that Loki's version runs fine under FreeBSD.
I don't leave a copy of my creditcard at the mall so stores can ask the mall for access to it. No, I keep it with me, and will show it to selected stores when *they* ask *me*.
The first project I'll seriously look into trying to tackle this problem will be a project that has code to download for me to run: either a web service I can run or an XMPP services (presence subscribtion could probably be extended to data ACLs).. whatever.
Any project that requires me to store information on a remote server will be ignored. Obviously most users will actually use the passportd of their company or ISP, but the freedom to run your own - just like httpd/sshd/smtpd/jabberd - that's really a REQUIREMENT.
Instead of pushing my data to centralized databases, I want an interface where third parties can pull it directly from me.
> some might laugh now, but many of the things > we take for granted (like writing this email > right now) would have been deemed ridiculous > 100 years from now...
Posting to Slashdot by e-mail still sounds pretty ridiculous to me..;-)
It's not that our system is good, but when criminals forego conviction because their name was misspelled on the warrant. We barely ever lock up the guilty, what makes you think we have time to pursuit the innocent?;)
How does Microsoft prevent you from doing online music shopping? Is iTunes/Mac somehow affected? Is my Konqueror unable to choose alternative online music plans?
No. If you somehow choose to use Microsoft products, you'll have to accept how those products work. Microsoft could prevent any kind of third-party software to even run on Windows and they would still not be abusing their monopoly. Which doesn't really exist anyway.
That's the first thing I turn off on a PC that doesn't have a Google cookie for me. I want google.com, in English, including the "News" bar. International versions are a subset of what Google offers. Fortunately Google allows me to turn that nonsense redirect off..
And the French? If they're so unhappy let them search on Minitel.;)
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Oops, that was my fetish count. The proposal is already messing me up.
There already is a huge amount of legislation regarding porn, even in the US. USC 2257 requires record-keeping of proof of age for any actor visually depicted. Porn media cannot show explicit material on front covers and this extends to the "enter/leave" front pages of websites.
It's always the same story anyway. The kind of people desiring a ban of porn or other "filth" on TV, the Internet or any other medium often do not even have these kind of media in their homes. Their children are completely protected from our influences under current legislation. They are themselves the perfect example of why extending legislation is not required. It's possible to live a porn-free live, so go do it if you so desire. But leave horny lil' me alone.
Besides, Americans should not care about what the rest of the world thinks - and I'm saying that as European.
There are only 61538 ports. That's barely enough to categorise my personal fetishes, let alone everyone else's. Where on earth are we going to leave all the other content?
In Europe this is rarely a problem with more relaxed drinking laws and cleverness to ask ID at the bar and not the door where necessary, but for the US, Canada or Australia I recommend asking bands to make their shows "all ages".
I webmaster for the HorrorPops and due to the large amount of requests to have all ages shows they tried (and succeeded) to have a seven week tour with all but one show without age limit.
Who downloads music on those networks anyway. Seriously, why spend hours on-line, trying to find a proper quality full album plus cover of some chart song that's old and tiresome before the download finishes, while your appliances fill up with spyware and other junk?
Be smart: if you insist on chart crap, a buck/quid/euro easily gets you a legal version of a song with the greatest of ease.
If you actually have a developed taste, a tenner gets you a proper album on any medium you like (including lovely vinyl) of actual bands you'll be able to fancy longer than a day. Delivered to the door, your iPod or available downtown at record stores and gigs where as an extra bonus you get a social life with the purchase because meeting people is more fun than meeting user accounts.
Okay, I'm somewhat cynical, but getting a signed album after a live performance totally beats the crap out of a lifestyle defined by bandwidth.
(Hey.. anyone else here who's 28, parties like 16, but talks like 86?)
For over a year now, i've been using audacity and kandy to make my own ringtones and transfer them via a $11 USB cable to my Motorola V180. Voila, free ring tones from my massive collection of music.
Exactly. Whenever buying something always remember that most telcos/operators/networks/providers make money from services, therefore investing in hardware giving end-user capabilities will always pay off.
My SE K750i comes with a free USB cable and I just select something directly out of my MP3 collection as ringtone. I bought a 2GB memorystick for the phone, just to avoid carrying an iPod around (already ditched my camera for the 2 megapixel camera as well).
Not bragging, it's a great model but there are plenty of phones like these on the market (free with a subscription, at least in Europe).
So don't blog in public. Most people in high school that I know set up their journals in such a way that private entries are friends-only.
No, it's no surprise. Why do you think the FSF stopped recommending the LGPL? Because companies like Apple benefit more from it than the original authors, or at least have the dominant say on the matter. Whether that's good or bad I will not get into, but truth it is.
Been there, done that. There were a fair amount of homeless people in NYC, Buffalo, (Toronto), Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Washington, Houston, San Francisco and San Jose when I visited (1997, 2001, 2002). Not significantly more than here in Rotterdam (pop: 600k, metro: ~2-3M) though.
Small anecdote on personal responsibility: some poor chap asked me for a drink at the local Subway the other day. I told him "they sell drinks at the counter". He inhaled once more and told me he didn't have money and was homeless. I told him "that's why I pay for rent and groceries first and pot later".
I'm not saying there is no poverty at all in the west, but it beats eastern Europe (which also seemed to do better last summer than in 1998) and it definitely beats any time in the past. You don't even have to be middle class in 2005 to be able to purchase wines and beers that would have been luxury even for monarchs just a couple of centuries ago.
If you truly care about the big picture the billions of SCO, Microsoft, ClearChannel, AOL, et cetera don't really matter. Eventually rich brats like Paris Hilton will trickle down such money rapidly while providing some softcore for us geeks at the same time. Is corporate capitalism flawless? Neh. But do free markets work better than anything else we tried? Save for some excesses, yes, they do.
Why oh why? Maybe democracy is more of a long-term thing than you think. Maybe a bloody war is more of a short-term thing than you think.
And please trade in your illusions for a copy of the constitutional treaty if you get to vote on it, and read it. As EU citizen I am far, far more concerned about the Brussels bohemeth then whether Bush and Cheney make more money on the Iraq war than the UN did on the food-for-oil scandal. At least the former group removed a dictator.
You're right about one thing though: poverty in the western world is virtually non-existant. It's a statistical joke defined as earning less than half the average income, so every generation nearly doubling its wealth is completely left out of the equation.
How you turn that into a sad thing, I do not know.
So relax people, the 21st century is yet another one where life is better than in the one before. Bit off-topic for a SCO discussion but seriously, some people get so pessimistic over nonsense it's frustrating.
If you know about SSH tunneling chances are you won't be disconnected due to virii in the first place.
Dutch ISP Xs4All has been doing this for months/years, blocking all traffic (most notably SMTP) minus SSH and access to their HTTP proxy.
It's not relevant for *you*, but if all Internet users managed to show half the responsibility of you, or even the worst troll on Slashdot, spam and virii probably would not be a problem in the first place.
Spam works because
a) people are buying it, and as such, it's profitable
or
b) it's not profitable, but people are buying the notion that it is and as such are sending it
Either way, it means that a lot of people are not well-informed. The same is true for the upcoming elections. I wouldn't let spam or a Fahrenheit 9/11 (which has more doubtful chatter about Bush than by him, frankly) change my political preference. You wouldn't either. But it'd be naive to think that nobody could be influenced, and as such I think the question is a valid one.
Still, I doubt it will happen. If you dislike Bush, you probably have your reasons already. The guy has been mocked and bashed for four years, so if you're still undecided, you'll probably vote for the guy in the White House anyway. So the anti-Bush crowd has no reason to spend money on discrediting Bush with spam.
Any dirt on Kerry however could still make a huge impact, but these kind of grassroots actions are much more likely to come from supporters of the challenger. That's why there weren't so many pro-war protests or pro-Bush rallies: satisfied people don't go out on the street for a protest.
Likewise, I hope noone will change their vote because Bruce Springsteen holds a concert against Bush, or because Britney Spears says she trusts him.
In the end, it comes down to the issues, in which case I'd rather go for the Prez who merely looks and sounds like a chimp than the challenger whose actually political course is about as straight as a banana. But that's my personal opinion, if yours is different, please vote differently.
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Recently installed UAE, loaded up my old Amiga disks.. had amazing amounts of fun. Back in the days, video games were video games, not just video.
Sim City
Red Alert
Classic games where you can set your own goals, especially Sim City. I hate those predefined narrow missions, games are more fun when there isn't a clear goal and you can set your own demands. Sometimes I want the biggest population, at other times stunning land values.. I still haven't explored all the possibilities in Sim City after all these years, despite the fact that Loki's version runs fine under FreeBSD.
DVD _is_ video on demand.
I don't leave a copy of my creditcard at the mall so stores can ask the mall for access to it. No, I keep it with me, and will show it to selected stores when *they* ask *me*.
The first project I'll seriously look into trying to tackle this problem will be a project that has code to download for me to run: either a web service I can run or an XMPP services (presence subscribtion could probably be extended to data ACLs).. whatever.
Any project that requires me to store information on a remote server will be ignored. Obviously most users will actually use the passportd of their company or ISP, but the freedom to run your own - just like httpd/sshd/smtpd/jabberd - that's really a REQUIREMENT.
Instead of pushing my data to centralized databases, I want an interface where third parties can pull it directly from me.
> some might laugh now, but many of the things
;-)
> we take for granted (like writing this email
> right now) would have been deemed ridiculous
> 100 years from now...
Posting to Slashdot by e-mail still sounds pretty ridiculous to me..
I would, but their line is busy.
It's not that our system is good, but when criminals forego conviction because their name was misspelled on the warrant. We barely ever lock up the guilty, what makes you think we have time to pursuit the innocent? ;)
647 comments and noone noticed Rob Malda contributed the token icons for Atlantik? Shame on you, /. readers!
How does Microsoft prevent you from doing online music shopping? Is iTunes/Mac somehow affected? Is my Konqueror unable to choose alternative online music plans?
No. If you somehow choose to use Microsoft products, you'll have to accept how those products work. Microsoft could prevent any kind of third-party software to even run on Windows and they would still not be abusing their monopoly. Which doesn't really exist anyway.
That's the first thing I turn off on a PC that doesn't have a Google cookie for me. I want google.com, in English, including the "News" bar. International versions are a subset of what Google offers. Fortunately Google allows me to turn that nonsense redirect off..
;)
And the French? If they're so unhappy let them search on Minitel.
Actually I think that when you're serving child pornography it becomes quite irrelevant whether you have a revenue stream or not.
Calling fried potato "freedom fries". Vandalizing graves. Yes, I can see why that's the same.
And a defense line that can be avoided is not a blunder?
:)
"No, I don't have a security problem, my firewall is perfect, it's just that they found a way around it."
Um..