Before anyone goes off on me about censoring content let me just say that it is my children who I deal with and raise so I *will* censor anything even remotely obscene.
I completely agree, they are your children and you have every right to decide what's appropriate and inappropriate for them.
Anyway, I fail to see how profanity/sex is an art form in films. Without those scenes, I don't lose any meaning to the film.
You don't watch too many movies, now do you? Have you seen American Psycho? What would that movie be without sex? Sure you could take the profanity out of that movie with a slight problem, but the sex? I really sugest reading the book, there's alot of stuff that WASN'T in the movie. Also, how do you determine what words to take out of a movie? What happens if you're watching a movie about the KKK? Will you take out the word "nigger" and any other racial slurs you find?
Foul language is much stronger than regular words (otherwise they wouldn't be considered "naughty" and no one would care who said them), it helps show great conflict and hostility. If you heard someone in a movie say "Stop you big jerk! Hey you big jerk why don't you listen to me!" you'd think "well he's asking the guy to stop and he's kinda annoyed at the person." now if you heard the same person say "Hey you fscking a**h*l* I told you to fscking stop! Why the fsck won't you listen to me!" the message becomes MUCH stronger and you think "WOAH he's REALLY pissed!"
Fsck is a hard word to replace, it can be used many times in one sentence to make the sentence much stronger, there aren't many words like that. You could say "Hey you stupid fsck, what the fsck is wrong with you, you stuck the PCI card in the wrong fscking slot and you fried my fscking ram!" which would be way more effective (at showing anger, not saying people will respect you for this language, it's just easier to show an emotion this way) than "Hey you stupid idiot, what the heck's wrong with you, you stuck the PCI card in the wrong darn slot and you fried my stupid ram!" That sentence doesn't sound like you just lost $800 in computer equiptment, it's just terrible.
Then what happens when you've got a movie, and one of the character's is a "bad" person (drug lord, gang leader, theif, pop singer, you get the picture)? They're supposed to use words like "shoot", "darn" and "crap"? That would be WAY out of character.
Sorry for the rant, it's just that you don't seem to understand movies are usually a reflection of the real world, when people in the real world stop using profanity then people in movies will stop using it, when people in the real world stop having sex, there won't be any movies cause we wouldn't be able to continue the species (duh!).
Really? Linux 7.3? Did a wormhole open up somewhere in space and spit out a copy of Linux 7.3? Will people PLEASE stop reffering to Redhat (or mandrake, if there is a 7.3) 7.3 as "Linux 7.3"!!!! I'm in #linuxhelp on efnet alot, helping people, and it's driving me nuts that half the people think they have Linux .
The kernel version is the version of Linux you have, 7.3 is your distro version, things like this make me hate redhat, sure it introduces people to linux but it's mostly the wrong people. Also, you don't seriously belive that because this number is 1.6 and you have redhat 7.3 that redhat 7.3 is newer, do you?
I really hope you were joking but then again some people are trully clueless. Anyway, if you don't belive me get into a shell and type less/proc/version it should say something like Linux version 2.4.whatever. Dunno what redhat comes with.
I was just wondering, what's the difference between OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD? I have FreeBSD on one computer (just wanted to learn a new OS and I already have linux on a bunch of my computers). When I picked which BSD I wanted I just figured I'd go with FreeBSD since I hear about it alot. Now I'm beginning to wonder, what's the difference (really, I don't have a clue.) Sorry that this is a bit off topic I just don't want to be kicked from some #bsd channels for asking such a stupid question.
Reminds me of my friends computer, the case has a nice dent in it (on the top) from when he hit it a few times with a bat. I also hit my computer alot (back in the IBM PS/2 days, and if you had one of these computers you'd understand why I would beat the crap out of it) I dented the case with my fist, very painfull but it relieved alot of stress.
I also have a keyboard missing alot of keys from when I smaked my computer with it. After I started learning alot more about computers I stopped attacking mine. Well it crashes alot less and when it does crash I can actually read the error message and understand it (and fix it). Whenever people call me for help with computers, I always say "Well did you kick it? Good! Now doesn't that feel good?" or "Ok now go to your window, open it. Now stand near the computer, bend your knees slightly and keep your back straight, now lift the computer and carry it to the window. Drop."
Saying you've never gotten angry at a comptuer would just be a flat out lie, I bet there's millions of people who have typed up a term paper in 6 hours right before it's due, go to print, computer freezes and you realized you haven't saved the file since you opened it. Or you could be momemnts away from capturing the flag in your favorite CTF style game when suddenly the game closes for some stupid reason (IM received, accidentally hit windows 95 key, game crashes.) Most of the problems are user related but the computer makes a good outlet for your anger.
Then there's the stupidity errors,
"I was banging my mouse against the desk because the button got stuck and now it doesn't work anymore, why not?"
"My cd-rom drive doesn't work!" (open it up to find an upside down CD)
"My computer turns on for 5 minutes and then it crashes and won't turn on", spent 2 hours looking for a problem with the PSU or something like that then hear "Oh yeah the fan doesn't spin." looked at the fan, was covered in dust and wouldn't even spin if I pushed it with my finger
"I think my motherboard's bad" "why?" "Well the computer keeps freezing, oh here it goes again, don't try the power button just yank the cord from the wall and plug it back in"
"Our printer doesn't work!", opened it up, the ink cartrige was leaking everywhere since someone tried to clear up the nozzle with a pen
Those are all problems I had to fix for people I know.
Probably the worst thing I ever did was fry three athlons. One was a XP 2100+, the next was a t-bird 1.4 ghz, and the last was one of two MP 2000+'s. Two motherboards fried too all because I installed a heatsink with no thermal compound.) Although I turned the XP 2100+ into a nifty 1.73 GHz keychain. The MP 2000+ was replaced free, but the other two I have to pay for myself (although I still haven't gotten a new motherboard so I've been stuck with my 600MHz PIII for a while)
Why? With a 128kbps stream, 3 seconds of audio is larger than most of the games on the C64 and amiga. There's no vocals, complicated guitar riffs, anything else that would need high bitrates, alot of beeps and different pitches, why would you need 128kbps 44KHz stereo?
There's the rub. Micro fuel cells may not be allowed on airplanes because the hydrogen-based devices use a highly flammable gas, while the methanol-based devices include an inflammable liquid.
Ok this doesn't seem to make sense to me. Stick flammable gas in a device that is prone to dropage, electrical, and can reach temperatures of 300F (ever see the fan fail on an athlon? It's not pretty). What happens if you drop your laptop and the gas starts to leak? You turn it on and explode? Wow that's gonna be fun trying to bring it anywhere.
I can't wait to see the first person bring a laptop powered with fuel cells into the white house... "Watch out he's got a bomb!" out of no where 10 secret service agents tackle the unlucky individual, wrestle the laptop away and beat the person into a bloody pulp. Won't it also be possible to bring one of these anywhere, crack open the fuel cell and ignite the fuel with a spark? If there are federal regulations preventing you from bringing the laptop anywhere, what then is the point of having the laptop?
After seeing this I'm really hoping that NO ONE will be drinking while carrying their laptop WHILE hiking! With two hands off your beer you might spill it! You wouldn't want to waste perfectly good 'Holy Penguin Pee' now would you? Plus there's also the risk that in your drunken stagger through the woods you might drop your laptop. So remember, when drinking, keep your laptop as far away as possible and keep your beer in a closeable container (like a water bottle, that may take away from the taste of the beer though.)
Arguing that more and more communications take place in electronic form, Canadian officials say such laws are necessary to fight terrorism and combat even run-of-the-mill crimes.
Isn't it great how taking away basic rights can be justified by "We're doing it to stop terrorism." I don't see how taking away the rights of millions of people (and pissing alot of them off) will STOP terrorism. I do see how it could lead to more terrorism, by people from within the country.
If the discussion draft were to become law, it would outlaw the possession of computer viruses, authorize police to order Internet providers to retain logs of all Web browsing for up to six months, and permit police to obtain a search warrant allowing them to find "hidden electronic and digital devices" that a suspect might be concealing.
How do you even enforce that? How will they know if I poses a virus or not? How do you tell the difference between posessing a virus and being infected by one? If they have logs of all web browsing for up to six months what does that include? I'm pretty sure that the police need to ask the ISP for the logging to start on a particular user (they can't keep 6 months logs for everyone's web usage), but what would count as web usage? Will they be able to log my FTP usage and see all the unencrypted passwords?
Why is this even news? Wireless internet access that you have to pay for? Hasn't that been around for a while. There's also been free wireless internet access in other cities for a while, here's one in NYC http://www.nycwireless.net
I haven't gone down there with my laptop and wireless network card yet but I'm sure it's probably very fast. Although you probably can't do anything fun (like share warez) because they would probably block certain ports (or wonder what this one person is using all the bandwidth for.) The NYC Wireless site has links to other places for free wireless internet access also.
There's also people who just setup there own wireless internet access for the block or neighborhood. Letting everyone share there connection, for free. I guess it's news because it's going to be 100sq km, but I can drive across Manhatten and stay online the whole time, there are some huge wireless networks available already.
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Before anyone goes off on me about censoring content let me just say that it is my children who I deal with and raise so I *will* censor anything even remotely obscene.
I completely agree, they are your children and you have every right to decide what's appropriate and inappropriate for them.
Anyway, I fail to see how profanity/sex is an art form in films. Without those scenes, I don't lose any meaning to the film.
You don't watch too many movies, now do you? Have you seen American Psycho? What would that movie be without sex? Sure you could take the profanity out of that movie with a slight problem, but the sex? I really sugest reading the book, there's alot of stuff that WASN'T in the movie. Also, how do you determine what words to take out of a movie? What happens if you're watching a movie about the KKK? Will you take out the word "nigger" and any other racial slurs you find?
Foul language is much stronger than regular words (otherwise they wouldn't be considered "naughty" and no one would care who said them), it helps show great conflict and hostility. If you heard someone in a movie say "Stop you big jerk! Hey you big jerk why don't you listen to me!" you'd think "well he's asking the guy to stop and he's kinda annoyed at the person." now if you heard the same person say "Hey you fscking a**h*l* I told you to fscking stop! Why the fsck won't you listen to me!" the message becomes MUCH stronger and you think "WOAH he's REALLY pissed!"
Fsck is a hard word to replace, it can be used many times in one sentence to make the sentence much stronger, there aren't many words like that. You could say "Hey you stupid fsck, what the fsck is wrong with you, you stuck the PCI card in the wrong fscking slot and you fried my fscking ram!" which would be way more effective (at showing anger, not saying people will respect you for this language, it's just easier to show an emotion this way) than "Hey you stupid idiot, what the heck's wrong with you, you stuck the PCI card in the wrong darn slot and you fried my stupid ram!" That sentence doesn't sound like you just lost $800 in computer equiptment, it's just terrible.
Then what happens when you've got a movie, and one of the character's is a "bad" person (drug lord, gang leader, theif, pop singer, you get the picture)? They're supposed to use words like "shoot", "darn" and "crap"? That would be WAY out of character.
Sorry for the rant, it's just that you don't seem to understand movies are usually a reflection of the real world, when people in the real world stop using profanity then people in movies will stop using it, when people in the real world stop having sex, there won't be any movies cause we wouldn't be able to continue the species (duh!).
I wonder if they'll find John Romero's head on a stick. They should really just type idclip and walk through the wall.
Really? Linux 7.3? Did a wormhole open up somewhere in space and spit out a copy of Linux 7.3? Will people PLEASE stop reffering to Redhat (or mandrake, if there is a 7.3) 7.3 as "Linux 7.3"!!!! I'm in #linuxhelp on efnet alot, helping people, and it's driving me nuts that half the people think they have Linux .
/proc/version it should say something like Linux version 2.4.whatever. Dunno what redhat comes with.
The kernel version is the version of Linux you have, 7.3 is your distro version, things like this make me hate redhat, sure it introduces people to linux but it's mostly the wrong people. Also, you don't seriously belive that because this number is 1.6 and you have redhat 7.3 that redhat 7.3 is newer, do you? I really hope you were joking but then again some people are trully clueless. Anyway, if you don't belive me get into a shell and type less
I was just wondering, what's the difference between OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD? I have FreeBSD on one computer (just wanted to learn a new OS and I already have linux on a bunch of my computers). When I picked which BSD I wanted I just figured I'd go with FreeBSD since I hear about it alot. Now I'm beginning to wonder, what's the difference (really, I don't have a clue.) Sorry that this is a bit off topic I just don't want to be kicked from some #bsd channels for asking such a stupid question.
Reminds me of my friends computer, the case has a nice dent in it (on the top) from when he hit it a few times with a bat. I also hit my computer alot (back in the IBM PS/2 days, and if you had one of these computers you'd understand why I would beat the crap out of it) I dented the case with my fist, very painfull but it relieved alot of stress.
I also have a keyboard missing alot of keys from when I smaked my computer with it. After I started learning alot more about computers I stopped attacking mine. Well it crashes alot less and when it does crash I can actually read the error message and understand it (and fix it). Whenever people call me for help with computers, I always say "Well did you kick it? Good! Now doesn't that feel good?" or "Ok now go to your window, open it. Now stand near the computer, bend your knees slightly and keep your back straight, now lift the computer and carry it to the window. Drop."
Saying you've never gotten angry at a comptuer would just be a flat out lie, I bet there's millions of people who have typed up a term paper in 6 hours right before it's due, go to print, computer freezes and you realized you haven't saved the file since you opened it. Or you could be momemnts away from capturing the flag in your favorite CTF style game when suddenly the game closes for some stupid reason (IM received, accidentally hit windows 95 key, game crashes.) Most of the problems are user related but the computer makes a good outlet for your anger.
Then there's the stupidity errors,
"I was banging my mouse against the desk because the button got stuck and now it doesn't work anymore, why not?"
"My cd-rom drive doesn't work!" (open it up to find an upside down CD)
"My computer turns on for 5 minutes and then it crashes and won't turn on", spent 2 hours looking for a problem with the PSU or something like that then hear "Oh yeah the fan doesn't spin." looked at the fan, was covered in dust and wouldn't even spin if I pushed it with my finger
"I think my motherboard's bad" "why?" "Well the computer keeps freezing, oh here it goes again, don't try the power button just yank the cord from the wall and plug it back in"
"Our printer doesn't work!", opened it up, the ink cartrige was leaking everywhere since someone tried to clear up the nozzle with a pen
Those are all problems I had to fix for people I know.
Probably the worst thing I ever did was fry three athlons. One was a XP 2100+, the next was a t-bird 1.4 ghz, and the last was one of two MP 2000+'s. Two motherboards fried too all because I installed a heatsink with no thermal compound.) Although I turned the XP 2100+ into a nifty 1.73 GHz keychain. The MP 2000+ was replaced free, but the other two I have to pay for myself (although I still haven't gotten a new motherboard so I've been stuck with my 600MHz PIII for a while)
Why? With a 128kbps stream, 3 seconds of audio is larger than most of the games on the C64 and amiga. There's no vocals, complicated guitar riffs, anything else that would need high bitrates, alot of beeps and different pitches, why would you need 128kbps 44KHz stereo?
There's the rub. Micro fuel cells may not be allowed on airplanes because the hydrogen-based devices use a highly flammable gas, while the methanol-based devices include an inflammable liquid.
Ok this doesn't seem to make sense to me. Stick flammable gas in a device that is prone to dropage, electrical, and can reach temperatures of 300F (ever see the fan fail on an athlon? It's not pretty). What happens if you drop your laptop and the gas starts to leak? You turn it on and explode? Wow that's gonna be fun trying to bring it anywhere.
I can't wait to see the first person bring a laptop powered with fuel cells into the white house... "Watch out he's got a bomb!" out of no where 10 secret service agents tackle the unlucky individual, wrestle the laptop away and beat the person into a bloody pulp. Won't it also be possible to bring one of these anywhere, crack open the fuel cell and ignite the fuel with a spark? If there are federal regulations preventing you from bringing the laptop anywhere, what then is the point of having the laptop?
After seeing this I'm really hoping that NO ONE will be drinking while carrying their laptop WHILE hiking! With two hands off your beer you might spill it! You wouldn't want to waste perfectly good 'Holy Penguin Pee' now would you? Plus there's also the risk that in your drunken stagger through the woods you might drop your laptop. So remember, when drinking, keep your laptop as far away as possible and keep your beer in a closeable container (like a water bottle, that may take away from the taste of the beer though.)
Arguing that more and more communications take place in electronic form, Canadian officials say such laws are necessary to fight terrorism and combat even run-of-the-mill crimes.
Isn't it great how taking away basic rights can be justified by "We're doing it to stop terrorism." I don't see how taking away the rights of millions of people (and pissing alot of them off) will STOP terrorism. I do see how it could lead to more terrorism, by people from within the country.
If the discussion draft were to become law, it would outlaw the possession of computer viruses, authorize police to order Internet providers to retain logs of all Web browsing for up to six months, and permit police to obtain a search warrant allowing them to find "hidden electronic and digital devices" that a suspect might be concealing.
How do you even enforce that? How will they know if I poses a virus or not? How do you tell the difference between posessing a virus and being infected by one? If they have logs of all web browsing for up to six months what does that include? I'm pretty sure that the police need to ask the ISP for the logging to start on a particular user (they can't keep 6 months logs for everyone's web usage), but what would count as web usage? Will they be able to log my FTP usage and see all the unencrypted passwords?
Why is this even news? Wireless internet access that you have to pay for? Hasn't that been around for a while. There's also been free wireless internet access in other cities for a while, here's one in NYC http://www.nycwireless.net I haven't gone down there with my laptop and wireless network card yet but I'm sure it's probably very fast. Although you probably can't do anything fun (like share warez) because they would probably block certain ports (or wonder what this one person is using all the bandwidth for.) The NYC Wireless site has links to other places for free wireless internet access also. There's also people who just setup there own wireless internet access for the block or neighborhood. Letting everyone share there connection, for free. I guess it's news because it's going to be 100sq km, but I can drive across Manhatten and stay online the whole time, there are some huge wireless networks available already.