An undressed 17 years old in a non-sexual pose tends to count as child pornography. So does photographing your 1 years old.
Even a dressed 17 year old in a non-sexual pose could count as child pornography, in the UK. In fact even a dressed 40 year old in a non-sexual pose could count, if they were dressed in school uniform.
Like other laws, that law is utterly toothless if the police don't feel like laying charges. I live in BC, and I had someone push their way into my house after ringing the doorbell. They refused to leave until the police arrived. Despite evidence from the 911 recording, and police finding the person on my property, charges were never laid despite my insistence. RCMP in Canada are a joke.
Hey, they always get THEIR man, but that doesn't mean they always get YOURS!
Another backside to the current scanner-fixated system is that it creates some awfully attractive long queues filled with people outside the secure area where even a small nail bomb easily could kill hundreds. If you are going to assemble a lot of people in a confined space at the airport it should be inside the secured areas where they are less of a target.
The fact that nothing remotely like this has happened speaks volumes about the threat faced
Wait, you wanted TIRES with that car? Sorry, not supported. You locks jam on the car doors? No that's not a fix, the product is complete as sold. Stop claiming it's a lemon.
You want a car that has tires and a door lock that doesn't jam? Those are newly invented features in our new Car 8.0 which you can purchase soon!
If cars were OS's that'd be Debian right there; if the locks jam the doors and thats not a security problem ("because a jammed lock is still locked") don't expect it to be fixed until the next release.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run..
Unfortunately the UK is a good (bad) example of government appeasing media as in Daily Mail hysteria campaigns. Media is corporation control of the masses
You will find that this is true in most democracies. In a democracy the people who hold true power are the ones who shape voting behavior. Since advertising works the end result of a democracy is that the people who control the advertising control the government. There is nothing that a democratically elected figure fears more than the media. Therefore the people who are elected are not the ones with real power but are figureheads. Democracy ends up being a cover, a sham, theater.
They are a corporation, profits are never high enough...
Whatever, Che.
If the board corporation ever 'thought their profits were high enough' they'd be in BIG trouble with their shareholders and get hauled over the coals. Its called 'fiduciary responsibility'.
I tought there are some real arguments against the law in TFA, but there's only whining how it's too late. Well it certainly won't help data exposures before the passing of the law, but I don't know of any event that made such a regulation obsolete. It is in fact still very common for corporations to lose loads of personal data because they are too lazy to protect it. A law like this may not be effective enough to change that, but definitely not because it's 'too late'. It's as actual as ever.
You know how children can be sometimes. They want something, mum and dad don't give it to them, they throw a temper tantrum and get all worked up. Finally mum and dad give it to them. Kids response; "don't want it now".
Any Slashdotters know anything about manufacturing engineering, and would like to fill us in on why Apple can construct such a sophisticated thing as an iPhone 5, that still needs to be assembled largely by hand?
Surely a mass-marketed consumer device like that, they'd design for manufacturability, and/or design the tools required to assemble it efficiently?
Maybe, with (Chinese) labour costs being such an insignificant part of the sticker price, it's simply not worth the trouble?
The Chinese will just release a slightly redesigned pirate copy that'll be (almost) as good as the real thing and so easy to mass produce that it'll swamp the market even more than pirate copys usually do.
I doubt it's a problem. An Asteroid is not a Meteorite.
"A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth's surface" - Wikipedia - Meteorite
So unless someone plans on mining an asteroid by slamming it into the planet, they probably don't have to deal with laws pertaining to meteorites. There is also the fact that US law does not extend to the Asteroid Belt.
Unless you plan to use the mined material on the Moon, you are eventually going to take it down on Earth, and maybe inside the US. Then the federal laws would apply and your rocks/metals would fit the definition of "surviving impact with the Earth's surface", wouldn't they?
If people do start asteroid mining the amount of materials available on Earth could increase tremendously providing a massive boost to the economies which permit the import and use of these materials.
If the USA declines to participate then they will be putting themselves into the new third world group of nations as virtually every other nation on earth grows and prospers beyond the dreams of avarice.
More likely an attempt to reverse engineer experimental craft or designs for such captured by the allies near the end of WWII. Long range guided missiles, line-of-site remote controlled bombs, helicopter gunships, CCTV, the assault rifle, jet fighters and the Uranium used in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were all conceived, designed, built and with the exception of nuclear weapons, deployed by the Germans. This technology and the scientists who ended up on the western half of the iron curtain were employed to develop America's nuclear deterrent of ICBMs and the space program.
If Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor and if Hitler had not attacked Russia, Germany would probably still occupy most of Europe and would have placed a NAZI flag on the moon in 1959.
On the assault rifle, if Hitler had his way it would never have been invented at all; thats why it was the MP44; 'MP' for 'machine pistol'. Cos good old Hitler wanted focus on machine pistol development and specifically didn't want machine rifles. For whatever whacky reason.
I can understand the American education system wanting to limit the things that kids learn.
The objective is so that the present generation can rest assured that their kids will not surpass them. You see they are terrified that one day their children will be better than them and show them up to be weak and idiotic.
It comes directly from their religion. It works like this:
In Christianity, Judaism and Islam the 'God' created the human race. This 'God' created the human race to be fundamentally flawed; human beings would NEVER be equal to or greater than their creator. The 'God' of these religions created the human race to be perpetually inferior. 'He' did NOT want to end up like the Titans of Greek mythology; defeated by and ousted by 'His' creations. So 'He' made Man, forever inferior to 'Him', weak, kept in its place, forever fearing and submissive to the will of their 'God'.
In *my* religion it doesn't work like this; my gods created the human race SO THAT one day they would come to fear us; so that one day we might defeat and dethrone them. My gods created us, their 'children', because they were trying to create something greater than themselves, not lesser.
So as the American Christians want their children to be forever inferior to them, I want my children to one day surpass me. I want my children to terrify me with their strength and boldness. I want my children to make me look like a foolish, uneducated idiot, to show me up and make me look bad. And one day my descendants will do the same for the gods themselves.
And the human race of that age will be to us today as we are to the animals.
That is what MY gods created us FOR. Not to be inferior beings.
And that is why the Christians running things in America want the very opposite and why they are fucking their education system so badly. Their 'God' sets their example; as 'He' keeps 'His' children in their place and they will keep their children subdued, submissive, fearing and dull.
My guess is that, in the case of Mongolia, and perhaps a few other countries, "strong ally" means they don't dare do other than what China wants. This may not be a fervent ally, but it's a strong one, whether the populace likes it or not.
Not in the case of Mongolia. Mongol people know no fear. Seriously. ESPECIALLY where China is involved.
The Chinese would LOVE to get a bigger slice of Mongolian mineral wealth; the Mongol government very deliberately crafted the laws concerning mining contracts to make it harder for the Chinese. The Mongol government could have made a very nice deal with China; but they'd rather be poorer than give the Chinese a good deal.
If China ever tried to annex Mongolia or anything like that the place would be completely ungovernable and would drag China into an intractable war of civil disobedience and constant rebellion. I can't stress this enough; Mongol people hate and distrust China.
Strong PRC Allies: Mongolia, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea
You obviously know NOTHING about Mongolia.
Mongolians are can be pretty racist about Chinese; Mongol politicians can lose votes for 'looking too Chinese'. If you actually do have Chinese blood you can forget about politics.
Mongol people hate and distrust China immensely. I don't know how you can put them in the 'Strong PRC allies' category. Its just nonsense.
We are not a democracy, we are a republic. Democracies are doomed to near immediate failure quickly.
For democracy to not be subverted requires that the majority of voters are not easily manipulated.
Although there are some people who are not easily manipulated they don't form a large enough proportion of the population for democracy to work.
And, of course, when democracy is being subverted its against the interest of the subverters to encourage the good education which good democracy would require.
Except you wouldn't get any work done without men. Especially not any work that involves manual labor or operating machinery, such as building a colony.
Come to Mongolia where even the cute shiny girls you see walking down the street with oh such nice asses could wrestle you to the ground.
Good point, now it's soundbites. Although I think there's been a general decline in eloquence among speakers as well.
Its the attention span of the listeners; a sound byte is all they can take in. Long eloquent speeches send them to sleep.
Its interesting to compare with the likes of Castro, Chavez and indeed many other Latin American leaders (some in actual democracies), who deliver speeches lasting SEVERAL HOURS. Wow.
... and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and you've fed him for a life time (or until the fish run out).
Same applies to poverty. Give a bunch of poor people aid and they'll be forever dependent on you. Give them all jobs and they'll forever be a source of tax revenue.
Alternatively, give a man a fish; he owes you a fish. Teach a man to fish; you lose your monopoly on fisheries.
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An undressed 17 years old in a non-sexual pose tends to count as child pornography. So does photographing your 1 years old.
Even a dressed 17 year old in a non-sexual pose could count as child pornography, in the UK. In fact even a dressed 40 year old in a non-sexual pose could count, if they were dressed in school uniform.
Like other laws, that law is utterly toothless if the police don't feel like laying charges. I live in BC, and I had someone push their way into my house after ringing the doorbell. They refused to leave until the police arrived. Despite evidence from the 911 recording, and police finding the person on my property, charges were never laid despite my insistence. RCMP in Canada are a joke.
Hey, they always get THEIR man, but that doesn't mean they always get YOURS!
Another backside to the current scanner-fixated system is that it creates some awfully attractive long queues filled with people outside the secure area where even a small nail bomb easily could kill hundreds. If you are going to assemble a lot of people in a confined space at the airport it should be inside the secured areas where they are less of a target.
The fact that nothing remotely like this has happened speaks volumes about the threat faced
Wait, you wanted TIRES with that car? Sorry, not supported.
You locks jam on the car doors? No that's not a fix, the product is complete as sold. Stop claiming it's a lemon.
You want a car that has tires and a door lock that doesn't jam? Those are newly invented features in our new Car 8.0 which you can purchase soon!
If cars were OS's that'd be Debian right there; if the locks jam the doors and thats not a security problem ("because a jammed lock is still locked") don't expect it to be fixed until the next release.
Off topic I know. Not sure how to pm
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run..
Unfortunately the UK is a good (bad) example of government appeasing media as in Daily Mail hysteria campaigns. Media is corporation control of the masses
You will find that this is true in most democracies. In a democracy the people who hold true power are the ones who shape voting behavior. Since advertising works the end result of a democracy is that the people who control the advertising control the government. There is nothing that a democratically elected figure fears more than the media. Therefore the people who are elected are not the ones with real power but are figureheads. Democracy ends up being a cover, a sham, theater.
They are a corporation, profits are never high enough...
Whatever, Che.
If the board corporation ever 'thought their profits were high enough' they'd be in BIG trouble with their shareholders and get hauled over the coals. Its called 'fiduciary responsibility'.
I tought there are some real arguments against the law in TFA, but there's only whining how it's too late. Well it certainly won't help data exposures before the passing of the law, but I don't know of any event that made such a regulation obsolete. It is in fact still very common for corporations to lose loads of personal data because they are too lazy to protect it. A law like this may not be effective enough to change that, but definitely not because it's 'too late'. It's as actual as ever.
You know how children can be sometimes. They want something, mum and dad don't give it to them, they throw a temper tantrum and get all worked up. Finally mum and dad give it to them. Kids response; "don't want it now".
Any Slashdotters know anything about manufacturing engineering, and would like to fill us in on why Apple can construct such a sophisticated thing as an iPhone 5, that still needs to be assembled largely by hand?
Surely a mass-marketed consumer device like that, they'd design for manufacturability, and/or design the tools required to assemble it efficiently?
Maybe, with (Chinese) labour costs being such an insignificant part of the sticker price, it's simply not worth the trouble?
The Chinese will just release a slightly redesigned pirate copy that'll be (almost) as good as the real thing and so easy to mass produce that it'll swamp the market even more than pirate copys usually do.
Unless you plan to use the mined material on the Moon, you are eventually going to take it down on Earth, and maybe inside the US. Then the federal laws would apply and your rocks/metals would fit the definition of "surviving impact with the Earth's surface", wouldn't they?
If people do start asteroid mining the amount of materials available on Earth could increase tremendously providing a massive boost to the economies which permit the import and use of these materials.
If the USA declines to participate then they will be putting themselves into the new third world group of nations as virtually every other nation on earth grows and prospers beyond the dreams of avarice.
Dear Taiwan,
if you tell us where all your secret bases are we'll make sure they are blurred. Send us an email with coordinates.
Apple
More likely an attempt to reverse engineer experimental craft or designs for such captured by the allies near the end of WWII. Long range guided missiles, line-of-site remote controlled bombs, helicopter gunships, CCTV, the assault rifle, jet fighters and the Uranium used in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were all conceived, designed, built and with the exception of nuclear weapons, deployed by the Germans. This technology and the scientists who ended up on the western half of the iron curtain were employed to develop America's nuclear deterrent of ICBMs and the space program.
If Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor and if Hitler had not attacked Russia, Germany would probably still occupy most of Europe and would have placed a NAZI flag on the moon in 1959.
On the assault rifle, if Hitler had his way it would never have been invented at all; thats why it was the MP44; 'MP' for 'machine pistol'. Cos good old Hitler wanted focus on machine pistol development and specifically didn't want machine rifles. For whatever whacky reason.
Man can make the phone smart, but the phone cannot make the man ... I forget the rest.
Isn't the objective to make something smarter than ourselves? Isn't that why we have kids? Or make robots or genetically engineered supermen...?
That's not a game, that's a job, a very shitty one.
Thats the point; its a job. But unlike ones job in the real world, in your fantasy job you can actually feel important!
I can understand the American education system wanting to limit the things that kids learn.
The objective is so that the present generation can rest assured that their kids will not surpass them. You see they are terrified that one day their children will be better than them and show them up to be weak and idiotic.
It comes directly from their religion. It works like this:
In Christianity, Judaism and Islam the 'God' created the human race. This 'God' created the human race to be fundamentally flawed; human beings would NEVER be equal to or greater than their creator. The 'God' of these religions created the human race to be perpetually inferior. 'He' did NOT want to end up like the Titans of Greek mythology; defeated by and ousted by 'His' creations. So 'He' made Man, forever inferior to 'Him', weak, kept in its place, forever fearing and submissive to the will of their 'God'.
In *my* religion it doesn't work like this; my gods created the human race SO THAT one day they would come to fear us; so that one day we might defeat and dethrone them. My gods created us, their 'children', because they were trying to create something greater than themselves, not lesser.
So as the American Christians want their children to be forever inferior to them, I want my children to one day surpass me. I want my children to terrify me with their strength and boldness. I want my children to make me look like a foolish, uneducated idiot, to show me up and make me look bad. And one day my descendants will do the same for the gods themselves.
And the human race of that age will be to us today as we are to the animals.
That is what MY gods created us FOR. Not to be inferior beings.
And that is why the Christians running things in America want the very opposite and why they are fucking their education system so badly. Their 'God' sets their example; as 'He' keeps 'His' children in their place and they will keep their children subdued, submissive, fearing and dull.
Why would the CIA, with a $50 billion budget, use public forums rather than some sort of secure satellite link or a VPN?
Because its more secure.
Seriously.
Hiding in plain sight. Secure satellite link, VPN or other encryption screams "I'm hiding something!!!"
My guess is that, in the case of Mongolia, and perhaps a few other countries, "strong ally" means they don't dare do other than what China wants. This may not be a fervent ally, but it's a strong one, whether the populace likes it or not.
Not in the case of Mongolia. Mongol people know no fear. Seriously. ESPECIALLY where China is involved.
The Chinese would LOVE to get a bigger slice of Mongolian mineral wealth; the Mongol government very deliberately crafted the laws concerning mining contracts to make it harder for the Chinese. The Mongol government could have made a very nice deal with China; but they'd rather be poorer than give the Chinese a good deal.
If China ever tried to annex Mongolia or anything like that the place would be completely ungovernable and would drag China into an intractable war of civil disobedience and constant rebellion. I can't stress this enough; Mongol people hate and distrust China.
"Go West young man, let the evil go east" could be the new China motto
Thats kind of part of the premise of Diamond Age. China 'went West' and stirred up the hornets nest of Central Asian Muslim states.
Strong PRC Allies: Mongolia, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea
You obviously know NOTHING about Mongolia.
Mongolians are can be pretty racist about Chinese; Mongol politicians can lose votes for 'looking too Chinese'. If you actually do have Chinese blood you can forget about politics.
Mongol people hate and distrust China immensely. I don't know how you can put them in the 'Strong PRC allies' category. Its just nonsense.
We are not a democracy, we are a republic. Democracies are doomed to near immediate failure quickly.
For democracy to not be subverted requires that the majority of voters are not easily manipulated.
Although there are some people who are not easily manipulated they don't form a large enough proportion of the population for democracy to work.
And, of course, when democracy is being subverted its against the interest of the subverters to encourage the good education which good democracy would require.
Too bad they didn't test Nuka Cola as well.
This is how you MAKE Nuka Cola.
Except you wouldn't get any work done without men. Especially not any work that involves manual labor or operating machinery, such as building a colony.
Come to Mongolia where even the cute shiny girls you see walking down the street with oh such nice asses could wrestle you to the ground.
It would be interesting to see how long they last in a war between evenly matched sides where the carriers are vulnerable to air/missile attack.
No military leader worth half a shit would fight such a battle. Those are horrifically unacceptable odds.
Horrifically unacceptable odds has failed to stop a lot of battles. And wars.
You can't make an omelette without killing a few people.
But that's the point of how warp drive works - you bend space so that you don't travel faster than light.
You locally don't. The warp ship doesn't actually accelerate at all. This is how you get around the relativistic energy equation.
However, someone will observe you traveling faster than light.
So you use stealth technology. Duh.
Good point, now it's soundbites. Although I think there's been a general decline in eloquence among speakers as well.
Its the attention span of the listeners; a sound byte is all they can take in. Long eloquent speeches send them to sleep.
Its interesting to compare with the likes of Castro, Chavez and indeed many other Latin American leaders (some in actual democracies), who deliver speeches lasting SEVERAL HOURS. Wow.
... and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and you've fed him for a life time (or until the fish run out).
Same applies to poverty. Give a bunch of poor people aid and they'll be forever dependent on you. Give them all jobs and they'll forever be a source of tax revenue.
Alternatively, give a man a fish; he owes you a fish.
Teach a man to fish; you lose your monopoly on fisheries.