One of the funnest things on April Fools Day is trying to pick out the one or two legit stories on the Slashdot front page. I'm really not sure whether this is one of them. The website is SCiAM.com though, so maybe it's trying to tell us something.
Not the same thing. Each elephant tusk required an elephant to die to obtain it. Child porn in a digital form can be copied ad infinitum. If no children were ever raped again, a large library of child porn would continue to exist and could be used. So that is not a valid comparison.
Am I the only person on Slashdot who hates clicky keyboards? Good fucking riddance. Seriously, anyone who thinks they're a good idea needs to spend a day sitting in an office where everyone has one. Get ready to change your mind.
As far as I know, Windows doesn't even have an OS for netbooks
I don't know if I'm missing something obvious here, but... Windows 7? The guy next to me at work runs that on his netbook (as an aside, sitting next to the world's biggest MS fanboi really is a drag).
Choice my foot. If Silverlight becomes entrenched enough that it dominates the web so you'll need it to view any kind of rich media (and it's looking that way), you'll have to use Windows or OSX if you want to view anything more than text and images (Moonlight's desperate attempts to catch up with official MS releases notwithstanding).
Nothing to see here. Move on. Stop whining, and yes, Daily Mail editors, I mean you.
OK, I'm *SICK* of people ignorantly blaming this shit on the Daily Mail.
Sure, the Daily Mail surely talks about knife crime a lot, but EVERY NEWS ORGANIZATION in the UK is fucking doing it, OK? I amsureIcouldgiveafewexamples of this. Knife crime 'epidemic', for fuck's sake?? That was the BBC!
What's needed is an equivalent to the ACLU. Where's the British Civil Liberties Union? I'd be a paying, card-carrying member if we had anything like that. I know we don't have a US-style constitution in this country, but they could still put pressure on the government not to 'crack down' on everything. We need a serious counterweight to the illiberal pricks who are taking over this country without any real resistance.
This hysteria and panic is caused by, well, nothing. Except the fact that for some unknown reason over the last 5 years the media has become much more likely to report each and every incident of violence with a knife that they get to hear about.
Nail on head.
A few kids got killed in tragic knife incidents. Guns had already been all but banned, and that had genuinely resulted in so little gun crime that, even though EVERY single gun crime makes headline news, there were still only 1 or 2 per year. So tabloids turned their sensationalist, scaremongering headlines to knife crime, which is a bit more common (though insignificant in the scheme of things).
At the same time, the BBC has apparently had a change of management and has begun to repeat, parrot-fashion, tabloid newspaper headlines in their own headlines. All this has resulted in a clusterfuck of major UK news organizations reporting knife crimes on a weekly basis, leading rather stupid people (probably over 50% of the population) to believe that the UK is a very dangerous place.
There are also reports of schools installing CCTV cameras in UK classrooms to monitor both teachers and pupils. Very depressing stuff, that this is even considered, let alone allowed to go on.
All I can say is, I'm glad I went to school 10+ years ago. I wouldn't want to learn in such an invasive environment. It's disgusting, and those who think it's appropriate should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
And don't give me bullshit about "international stamps, etc". That's not what this is about. True, bandwidth corresponds to charging by weight, but on the internet, there are no foreign countries. Every computer is a local one. If you want to separate sites in Europe from one in the States then you may as well just shut the whole network down altogether, because you will have irreparably broken it.
In all seriousness, this argument is AS logical as the anti-abortionist argument (at least the one against early abortions). If it turns out we can get stem cells from skin, having a shower will be 'murder' on a much larger scale than abortion.
This is why I hope people that are considering voting Lib Dem do so
But only in constituencies where they have a reasonable chance of overturning the incumbent. Because of our shitty electoral system, many places don't have that luxury.
You get what you pay for though, and the service and support are the best I've ever seen from an ISP. Beware though, of fairly low download allowances unless you spend a lot of money.
You don't really get what you pay for with Zen anymore. They became bad value for money in my opinion when they introduced stupid, onerous monthly download caps. They lost me as a customer for that.
Advertising revenues continue to plunge for many sites these days, a trend I've felt myself for the few small sites I run that are ad-supported. I'm going to be deploying a "paid content" option myself for my main site in the near future, although I'm still planning on offering everything for free as long as people are willing to deal with the ads.
It's a difficult position to be in. Offering and maintaining content costs real money in time and resources.
What are you talking about? Don't you realise that, on Slashdot, nothing requires time and resources? AdBlock is the best thing ever invented and nobody could ever have a problem with it. Why would you ever need to receive money for your work? Madness.
They did that to a pub in my town (UK) once. Granted it was a really dodgy pub that most people avoided.
The result though was not only did the known nasty types stop going there, no-one else wnet there either, because we knew there were cameras in it.
Its since closed and reoppened under new ownership, a gay bar I beleive, sans cameras. I suspect the change in customer focus is because even though its almost ten years later, its still remembered by most as the pub that had cctv everywhere.
You don't happen to live in Royston Vasey, do you?
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Crap. Shit. Stupid. Boring. Onanistic. Take your pick.
One of the funnest things on April Fools Day is trying to pick out the one or two legit stories on the Slashdot front page. I'm really not sure whether this is one of them. The website is SCiAM.com though, so maybe it's trying to tell us something.
Not the same thing. Each elephant tusk required an elephant to die to obtain it. Child porn in a digital form can be copied ad infinitum. If no children were ever raped again, a large library of child porn would continue to exist and could be used. So that is not a valid comparison.
As one attendee stated "You have to be open to having your data shared..."
I believe the term is, 'squirted'.
Am I the only person on Slashdot who hates clicky keyboards? Good fucking riddance. Seriously, anyone who thinks they're a good idea needs to spend a day sitting in an office where everyone has one. Get ready to change your mind.
As far as I know, Windows doesn't even have an OS for netbooks
I don't know if I'm missing something obvious here, but... Windows 7? The guy next to me at work runs that on his netbook (as an aside, sitting next to the world's biggest MS fanboi really is a drag).
Thank God we have a choice.
Choice my foot. If Silverlight becomes entrenched enough that it dominates the web so you'll need it to view any kind of rich media (and it's looking that way), you'll have to use Windows or OSX if you want to view anything more than text and images (Moonlight's desperate attempts to catch up with official MS releases notwithstanding).
Nothing to see here. Move on. Stop whining, and yes, Daily Mail editors, I mean you.
OK, I'm *SICK* of people ignorantly blaming this shit on the Daily Mail.
Sure, the Daily Mail surely talks about knife crime a lot, but EVERY NEWS ORGANIZATION in the UK is fucking doing it, OK? I am sure I could give a few examples of this. Knife crime 'epidemic', for fuck's sake?? That was the BBC!
BBC et al: I mean YOU.
Just cut to the quick. Tax atoms.
I would, but I'm not allowed a knife.
Have to agree with you.
What's needed is an equivalent to the ACLU. Where's the British Civil Liberties Union? I'd be a paying, card-carrying member if we had anything like that. I know we don't have a US-style constitution in this country, but they could still put pressure on the government not to 'crack down' on everything. We need a serious counterweight to the illiberal pricks who are taking over this country without any real resistance.
This hysteria and panic is caused by, well, nothing. Except the fact that for some unknown reason over the last 5 years the media has become much more likely to report each and every incident of violence with a knife that they get to hear about.
Nail on head.
A few kids got killed in tragic knife incidents. Guns had already been all but banned, and that had genuinely resulted in so little gun crime that, even though EVERY single gun crime makes headline news, there were still only 1 or 2 per year. So tabloids turned their sensationalist, scaremongering headlines to knife crime, which is a bit more common (though insignificant in the scheme of things).
At the same time, the BBC has apparently had a change of management and has begun to repeat, parrot-fashion, tabloid newspaper headlines in their own headlines. All this has resulted in a clusterfuck of major UK news organizations reporting knife crimes on a weekly basis, leading rather stupid people (probably over 50% of the population) to believe that the UK is a very dangerous place.
It is. If you value liberty.
Then every day, a cronjob that searches the Apache logs. If it finds no successful connections, it logs:
Excellent, Tubbs! We haven't served a single visitor!
There are also reports of schools installing CCTV cameras in UK classrooms to monitor both teachers and pupils. Very depressing stuff, that this is even considered, let alone allowed to go on.
All I can say is, I'm glad I went to school 10+ years ago. I wouldn't want to learn in such an invasive environment. It's disgusting, and those who think it's appropriate should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
The question is, why are they measuring bandwidth levels in Internet Explorer versions? :-)
And don't give me bullshit about "international stamps, etc". That's not what this is about. True, bandwidth corresponds to charging by weight, but on the internet, there are no foreign countries. Every computer is a local one. If you want to separate sites in Europe from one in the States then you may as well just shut the whole network down altogether, because you will have irreparably broken it.
This disagrees with you.
In all seriousness, this argument is AS logical as the anti-abortionist argument (at least the one against early abortions). If it turns out we can get stem cells from skin, having a shower will be 'murder' on a much larger scale than abortion.
Meh. Daemon Tools is free, and extremely reliable. Download it.
This is why I hope people that are considering voting Lib Dem do so
But only in constituencies where they have a reasonable chance of overturning the incumbent. Because of our shitty electoral system, many places don't have that luxury.
Wait; back up.
How do I have sex with a PDF again?
Not sure about that, we say degrees Farenheit/Celsius so it would seem an appropriate noun to use with Kelvin too.
Nor did I and I am with Be, who were supposedly blocking based on the IWF list.
You get what you pay for though, and the service and support are the best I've ever seen from an ISP. Beware though, of fairly low download allowances unless you spend a lot of money.
You don't really get what you pay for with Zen anymore. They became bad value for money in my opinion when they introduced stupid, onerous monthly download caps. They lost me as a customer for that.
Advertising revenues continue to plunge for many sites these days, a trend I've felt myself for the few small sites I run that are ad-supported. I'm going to be deploying a "paid content" option myself for my main site in the near future, although I'm still planning on offering everything for free as long as people are willing to deal with the ads.
It's a difficult position to be in. Offering and maintaining content costs real money in time and resources.
What are you talking about? Don't you realise that, on Slashdot, nothing requires time and resources? AdBlock is the best thing ever invented and nobody could ever have a problem with it. Why would you ever need to receive money for your work? Madness.
They did that to a pub in my town (UK) once. Granted it was a really dodgy pub that most people avoided.
The result though was not only did the known nasty types stop going there, no-one else wnet there either, because we knew there were cameras in it.
Its since closed and reoppened under new ownership, a gay bar I beleive, sans cameras. I suspect the change in customer focus is because even though its almost ten years later, its still remembered by most as the pub that had cctv everywhere.
You don't happen to live in Royston Vasey, do you?
Almost as annoying as having an AC pointlessly commenting on it thereby clogging up the thread?