Spell cheats with a z, and you get there much faster. Eventually even with your search, you'll get to the bottom of the barrel with the pokemon romz, all sponsored by the generous folks at 'barely legal anal sluts'.
Oh, and if you'd searched for N'Sync mp3z, same story.
It's not only possible to hit porn by accident, it's extremely likely, and has happened to my kid more than a few times.
The only real way to handle it is to whitelist a handful of sites like gamefaqs and whatnot.
Personally, I think that there's no need for the internet in elementary schools at all. By the time a kid needs internet access, he doesnt need to be censored.
It wouldnt make much of a difference. I know all to well that each agency wants everything done their own way, and I've yet to meet a computer literate cop.
We sell our software for a certain price, but end up collecting 2 or 3 times that price in modifications. In effect, each installation is a virtual rewrite.
Whether the source were open or closed would make no difference in the end, not until the agency could write it itself.
And, btw, I'm waist deep in a couple of Illinois sites right now. They're about as close to writing a DB frontend as they are to landing a man on the moon.
A couple years ago my kid came home from kindergarten asking what 'ho' and 'skank' means. It's disgusting that parents and teachers are so afraid to discipline their children that they allow them to behave like this.
I took it up with the teacher, and she started in on the whole "well its part of the culture they grow up in" liberal shmeal.
I'm against censorship on paper, but people push things too far.
No, there's too much of a movement to rob children of their childhoods entirely.
Life should be nothing but minivans and soccer games at this point. They're children, let them be children.
Some social worker showed up in my daughters 2nd grade class talking about homosexuality and how it should be accepted and all of that crap. It's all way above their heads and not something they need to be concerned about.
I agree with you to a point, but if you dont place limits, you wind up with kindergarten teachers indoctrinating children to their world views. I have no problem discussing anything with my kids when they ask. I do have a problem with some stranger forcing them into discussions that they dont need to have, or want to have.
The *parents* should be the ones who decide what a child is exposed to. And I think its unfair that we're dumping the weight of the world onto 7 year old shoulders. Let them just be kids. There'll plenty of time to learn about war, sex, violence, and so on.
Well, it actually isnt really a reasonable requirement. While our particular dispatching and records systems are linked, it's limited to calls for service data being transferred from the cad, which basically works like a light viewer for the dispatching data.
For all intents and purposes, they're two completely seperate applications with little data to realistically share.
I mean a cop filling out an arrest report has nothing to do with a dispatcher sitting answering the 911 line, save him writing "This officer was dispatched to...." in the narrative.
This is especially true in government applications where the code is 99% custom anyways.
Eg; I work for a company that writes and sells computer dispatching and records systems to cops and firemen. I see no CAD systems on sourceforge. They simply dont exist, and wont because much of the code required is very site specific and customized. It's a niche market that open source, for all its virtues, cannot fill.
Now if they want to run Red Hat Advanced Server on the backend instead of HP-UX or WinNT (which is what we offer now), more power to 'em, but it's still a few hundred bucks in a half-million dollar contract. A bit like pissing into niagra falls to warm it up.
And its worth noting that there was never a law that said they cant consider open source solutions, and they have in the past. I've seen plenty of linux and samba in the wild.
This means nothing. This is a no-tooth bill that has nothing to do with increasing open source usage, but merely placating a bunch of lobbyists.
Here's how it goes when an agency is looking to buy software:
- They decide what they want, and which vendor to get it from. They seek a budget for it.
- The rules say they must let contractors compete on the bid, so they put out an RFP (request for proposals).
- They word the questions in the RFP in such a way as to make sure that the only product that will be acceptable is the one they originally planned on.
I see this day in and day out. Just this morning I read an RFP. They were looking for an RMS system to complement their police dispatching system.
The first requirement was: Must work with the existing dispatching system.
Well, the only RMS out there that works with the dispatching system is the one from the vendor of the 20 year old dispatching system. The whole RFP process is a beurocratic circle jerk.
Now if all the systems were 'open source', would it make a difference? Not really, since we'd be unlikely to rewrite our RMS for each and every bid. An open format for data transmission would be nice, but a pipe dream, since every agency in the country has their own way of managing the data.
So while this is a nice warm and fuzzy bit of legislation, it wont affect how the system works at all. If they put out a contract for a bunch of OS's, it'd read "Must support DirectX 9" or some such to pigeonhole it into what they already decided on.
I get tired of hearing that phrase. Do you really think the government is going to mandate TCPA technology? Yeah I know some crackpot sponsored a bill, but it was long since blown out of the water.
That is, however, something that's very likely in China.
As for Intel/AMD/VIA/Transmeta/IBM/Motorola, you think they'll all conspire together against you to make sure you use TCPA? They're competitors. If Intel made TCPA platforms that couldnt be disabled, AMD would pick up 100% of the market that doesnt want it.
It just doesnt make any sense why people are so eager trust the Chinese govermnent as if they're some kind of savior for freedom of thought. I'd be very wary of what the Red Chinese would like to force into everyones desktop box.
"Reasoning declined to disclose which operating systems it compared with Linux, but said two of the three general-purpose operating systems were versions of Unix"
So did you go cherry picking to find OS's that had more bugs than linux, or was it random or what?
Too often the Open vs Closed argument turns into linux vs windows, and then criteria is arbitrarily picked. Since the two OS's are designed largely for very different purposes, the comparison is by definition never fair, no matter who conducts it.
Saying that one product is better doesnt necessarily mean that the way it was created is inherently superior.
Implementing properly documented standards is something the OS community is great at, since they're all on the same page. Creating from scratch is different.
Hence, TCP/IP is rock solid in linux, yet development on the desktop crawls along in 100 different directions at once, gaining little ground.
>> they may be relying on binary distributions for fast machines for which the optimization doesn't matter that much.
Many people have 'fast machines' where the optimizations dont matter much.
By fast machine, I've found that pretty much any Intel proc with 600mhz or higher has the juice to run the chunkiest Divx files.
So really, whats the deal? Let the few with older/less standard procs do the optimizing and recompiling, and make the media players, image viewers, sound managers standard.
I've used slackware forever, but sometimes the install and setup makes me feel like I'm in the stone ages.
In a lot of cases, what we *thought* was aerodynamic turned out to not be so once we had the computer capability to model airflow more accurately, under more realistic conditions.
What works in a windtunnel doesnt always work on the road where there may be a tailwind, side winds, etc.
Your computer would be smaller, prettier looking (and decidedly effeminate), would use less power, but have about half the horsepower of it's american counterparts.
>> We should be giving the brightest of them research fellowships working for the Department Homeland Security
Doing what? Working in the cafeteria, or driving the shuttle bus?
You cant get TS clearance if you aren't a citizen. I live in the DC area and practically every government or contractor job worth looking at requires citizenship and/or TS clearance.
Plumbers in india will work a lot cheaper than the ones here. But when your pipes burst, or you want a whirlpool installed, do you call New Delhi Plumbing?
My point is, not everything can be outsourced to india. And the DOD is still the largest employer of programmers out there, and much of that cannot leave the country.
Times change. Change with them, or become obsolete.
Run a mobile celeron at 1.2 gig, you get 5 hours of battery life there, too. Or maybe 10 with fuel cells.
Being able to change batteries in your laptop the same way you would a gameboy is a vast improvement over the norm, no matter what hardware you run.
Enough with the elitist apple crap, already. Or go sit somewhere all alone with your Mac and tell yourself you have all the innovation you'll ever need.
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Spell cheats with a z, and you get there much faster. Eventually even with your search, you'll get to the bottom of the barrel with the pokemon romz, all sponsored by the generous folks at 'barely legal anal sluts'.
Oh, and if you'd searched for N'Sync mp3z, same story.
It's not only possible to hit porn by accident, it's extremely likely, and has happened to my kid more than a few times.
The only real way to handle it is to whitelist a handful of sites like gamefaqs and whatnot.
Personally, I think that there's no need for the internet in elementary schools at all. By the time a kid needs internet access, he doesnt need to be censored.
It wouldnt make much of a difference. I know all to well that each agency wants everything done their own way, and I've yet to meet a computer literate cop.
We sell our software for a certain price, but end up collecting 2 or 3 times that price in modifications. In effect, each installation is a virtual rewrite.
Whether the source were open or closed would make no difference in the end, not until the agency could write it itself.
And, btw, I'm waist deep in a couple of Illinois sites right now. They're about as close to writing a DB frontend as they are to landing a man on the moon.
>> The simple fact is porn is only easy to come by when you look for it
Really? Type in the name of any popular video game, as if you were looking for cheats or walkthroughs. Pretend you're 8 and searching for Pokemon.
Or pretend you're a little girl searching for songs from her favorite boy band.
How many clicks does it take until you see the first pornographic banner?
Uh, there are about a million laws that say that.
Hence the term, "legal guardian".
This is a law that says (or tries to say) you cant give children ready access to pornography.
And becoming a mass murderer/cult wacko generally has absolutely nothing to do with upbringing. Sociopaths are born sociopaths.
A couple years ago my kid came home from kindergarten asking what 'ho' and 'skank' means. It's disgusting that parents and teachers are so afraid to discipline their children that they allow them to behave like this.
I took it up with the teacher, and she started in on the whole "well its part of the culture they grow up in" liberal shmeal.
I'm against censorship on paper, but people push things too far.
No, there's too much of a movement to rob children of their childhoods entirely.
Life should be nothing but minivans and soccer games at this point. They're children, let them be children.
Some social worker showed up in my daughters 2nd grade class talking about homosexuality and how it should be accepted and all of that crap. It's all way above their heads and not something they need to be concerned about.
I agree with you to a point, but if you dont place limits, you wind up with kindergarten teachers indoctrinating children to their world views. I have no problem discussing anything with my kids when they ask. I do have a problem with some stranger forcing them into discussions that they dont need to have, or want to have.
The *parents* should be the ones who decide what a child is exposed to. And I think its unfair that we're dumping the weight of the world onto 7 year old shoulders. Let them just be kids. There'll plenty of time to learn about war, sex, violence, and so on.
Well, it actually isnt really a reasonable requirement. While our particular dispatching and records systems are linked, it's limited to calls for service data being transferred from the cad, which basically works like a light viewer for the dispatching data.
...." in the narrative.
For all intents and purposes, they're two completely seperate applications with little data to realistically share.
I mean a cop filling out an arrest report has nothing to do with a dispatcher sitting answering the 911 line, save him writing "This officer was dispatched to
This is especially true in government applications where the code is 99% custom anyways.
Eg; I work for a company that writes and sells computer dispatching and records systems to cops and firemen. I see no CAD systems on sourceforge. They simply dont exist, and wont because much of the code required is very site specific and customized. It's a niche market that open source, for all its virtues, cannot fill.
Now if they want to run Red Hat Advanced Server on the backend instead of HP-UX or WinNT (which is what we offer now), more power to 'em, but it's still a few hundred bucks in a half-million dollar contract. A bit like pissing into niagra falls to warm it up.
The site in my example was in Oregon, btw.
And its worth noting that there was never a law that said they cant consider open source solutions, and they have in the past. I've seen plenty of linux and samba in the wild.
This means nothing. This is a no-tooth bill that has nothing to do with increasing open source usage, but merely placating a bunch of lobbyists.
Here's how it goes when an agency is looking to buy software:
- They decide what they want, and which vendor to get it from. They seek a budget for it.
- The rules say they must let contractors compete on the bid, so they put out an RFP (request for proposals).
- They word the questions in the RFP in such a way as to make sure that the only product that will be acceptable is the one they originally planned on.
I see this day in and day out. Just this morning I read an RFP. They were looking for an RMS system to complement their police dispatching system.
The first requirement was: Must work with the existing dispatching system.
Well, the only RMS out there that works with the dispatching system is the one from the vendor of the 20 year old dispatching system. The whole RFP process is a beurocratic circle jerk.
Now if all the systems were 'open source', would it make a difference? Not really, since we'd be unlikely to rewrite our RMS for each and every bid. An open format for data transmission would be nice, but a pipe dream, since every agency in the country has their own way of managing the data.
So while this is a nice warm and fuzzy bit of legislation, it wont affect how the system works at all. If they put out a contract for a bunch of OS's, it'd read "Must support DirectX 9" or some such to pigeonhole it into what they already decided on.
>> They will be when DRM becomes mandatory.
I get tired of hearing that phrase. Do you really think the government is going to mandate TCPA technology? Yeah I know some crackpot sponsored a bill, but it was long since blown out of the water.
That is, however, something that's very likely in China.
As for Intel/AMD/VIA/Transmeta/IBM/Motorola, you think they'll all conspire together against you to make sure you use TCPA? They're competitors. If Intel made TCPA platforms that couldnt be disabled, AMD would pick up 100% of the market that doesnt want it.
It just doesnt make any sense why people are so eager trust the Chinese govermnent as if they're some kind of savior for freedom of thought. I'd be very wary of what the Red Chinese would like to force into everyones desktop box.
They compile it like a MIPS CPU, and just workaround the handful of opcodes that are missing.
This isnt so much a 'new' CPU as it is a chinese clone of a fairly old one.
Of course, I assume you're using the DRM buzzword to describe TCPA, which is something different entirely.
But how would a chinese chip with no DRM be any different from an Intel chip with DRM disabled?
"Reasoning declined to disclose which operating systems it compared with Linux, but said two of the three general-purpose operating systems were versions of Unix"
So did you go cherry picking to find OS's that had more bugs than linux, or was it random or what?
Too often the Open vs Closed argument turns into linux vs windows, and then criteria is arbitrarily picked. Since the two OS's are designed largely for very different purposes, the comparison is by definition never fair, no matter who conducts it.
Saying that one product is better doesnt necessarily mean that the way it was created is inherently superior.
Implementing properly documented standards is something the OS community is great at, since they're all on the same page. Creating from scratch is different.
Hence, TCP/IP is rock solid in linux, yet development on the desktop crawls along in 100 different directions at once, gaining little ground.
I dont think yer average /. subscriber has the leeway to be calling the masses "unwashed".
You know, kettles and pots and glass houses and all that.
>> they may be relying on binary distributions for fast machines for which the optimization doesn't matter that much.
Many people have 'fast machines' where the optimizations dont matter much.
By fast machine, I've found that pretty much any Intel proc with 600mhz or higher has the juice to run the chunkiest Divx files.
So really, whats the deal? Let the few with older/less standard procs do the optimizing and recompiling, and make the media players, image viewers, sound managers standard.
I've used slackware forever, but sometimes the install and setup makes me feel like I'm in the stone ages.
You want something like this, not a gamers card.
Theres a good article here.
It could be that noone gives a shit about some he-said, she-said article from some british tabloid.
I mean whoopty-do.
Meeting had, everyone went "robble robble robble"!
In a lot of cases, what we *thought* was aerodynamic turned out to not be so once we had the computer capability to model airflow more accurately, under more realistic conditions.
What works in a windtunnel doesnt always work on the road where there may be a tailwind, side winds, etc.
I disagree.
Your computer would be smaller, prettier looking (and decidedly effeminate), would use less power, but have about half the horsepower of it's american counterparts.
But, Apple has already done that.
>> We should be giving the brightest of them research fellowships working for the Department Homeland Security
Doing what? Working in the cafeteria, or driving the shuttle bus?
You cant get TS clearance if you aren't a citizen. I live in the DC area and practically every government or contractor job worth looking at requires citizenship and/or TS clearance.
Plumbers in india will work a lot cheaper than the ones here. But when your pipes burst, or you want a whirlpool installed, do you call New Delhi Plumbing?
My point is, not everything can be outsourced to india. And the DOD is still the largest employer of programmers out there, and much of that cannot leave the country.
Times change. Change with them, or become obsolete.
Probably not enormous, mutant, cybernetically-enhanced mega-fruit that dominate the landscape and roam the earth as the megafauna of a new age.
Nope. Not without research dollars. Just plain old boring apples and oranges and crap.
The DOT has already approved small quantities of methanol for fuel cells, IIRC. You dont have to register the butane in your cigarette lighter.
Run a mobile celeron at 1.2 gig, you get 5 hours of battery life there, too. Or maybe 10 with fuel cells.
Being able to change batteries in your laptop the same way you would a gameboy is a vast improvement over the norm, no matter what hardware you run.
Enough with the elitist apple crap, already. Or go sit somewhere all alone with your Mac and tell yourself you have all the innovation you'll ever need.