OTOH, if your cruise line gets more bookings because you can advertise your ISO 9001 certified life jackets, it's quite possibly a business win. And if a passenger complains about the weight, you can make up some crap about shielding ("for your health") and cosmic rays.
In other words "add value" actually means "add perceived value". The difference? Marketing.
A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."
The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"
One: Real kids really are harmed in the making of this stuff. Granted, the kid was harmed yesterday, last week, last year, or whatever, and most likely the person with the clip did not do the harming; but at some point some real kid was harmed to make it.
I know it's a wall of text, and "tl;dr" is the Slashdot Way, but you missed a critical word in my original response: "simulated". You know, adult models morphed to look underage, or drawings/paintings etc. made up completely out of imagination with no model at all, that kind of thing. It happens, and kiddy pr0n laws were extended to cover them. When no actual harm has occurred. So, either it's (a) prophylactic: "we'll tamp it down before someone real gets hurt"; (b) lazy: "we can't tell the difference between real and pseudo, so we'll ban it all"; or (c) blue-nosed prudery finding the easy wedge for the slippery slope. As you can tell, I think (a) is the argument used most often in public discourse.
And as to your second major point: yeah, an arrest is not conviction-based, but the modern hysteria makes a public accusation of Offenses Against Children a peremptory conviction in the court of public opinion, from which there is never an acquittal. So the argument you're indirectly posing, "an arrest causes no actual harm", is demonstrably incorrect.
Which goes to show you, your life and good name are always one malicious thought away from complete destruction, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Investigation wise, they didn't find the hard drive with the man or trace any wrong goings online directly back to him, yet they still charged him with the crime. This seems out of whack to me.
You're not THINKING OF THE CHILDREN! Why haven't you turned off your critical thinking abilities yet, we're talking about kiddy pr0n here! KIDDY PR0N!
Now, less hyperbolically, it's a bad situation. If there's really child abuse involved, most sane commentators want the situation dealt with as soon as possible. That's what drives the impulse for a snap arrest, just to freeze the situation and "save the kids". But the urgency works against "innocent until proven guilty", and spills over in a policy sense into thinking that prevention is even better than rapid response. (Think "pre-crime".) I think that's the psychological basis for the push against simulated kiddy pr0n. "No real children are harmed, but who knows what real children WILL be harmed which Sicky Sickington decides to act on his perverted fantasies."
It's a bad deal, and the only bright spot is that loltard planting kpr0n on an innocent man's PC has earned the special wrath of The System, which really really hates it when you play It for a fool. And maybe someone can start the rumor in prison that he really is a kiddy-fiddler; I hear tell those guys get "extra special" treatment.
I care whether the application manager is a front end for apt-get or yum because when there are 15 pending updates I don't have to click through each one, I can just drop to a terminal, become root and apt-get upgrade.
Go root, "yum update". All done tout de suite.
With yum I don't know how to do this and don't care to learn it.
Ah, belligerent and willfully ignorant. That's a winning personality package you've got going there.
I have been burned too many times by redhat-based distros to want to have anything to do with them.
QQ. So don't use MeeGo. I administer both deb and rpm systems, and have for over five years, and they've screwed me equally in terms of package management. Debian is not the Messiah (yes, it's a very naughty packaging system), and RPM is not the Great Satan. Get over fanboi-ism and at least make credible reality-based arguments if you have to take sides.
If you design a sharp blade into an out-of-the-way spot of a hammer, don't be upset if you get cut while driving nails.
Not every tool is proper for every job. Using PDF as a general-purpose computing language is either mistaken or willfully stupid.
PDF is a document format. It's an output format. It's not a form-entry language. It's not the web. It's not an operating system. It sure as hell shouldn't be able to trigger any open-ended OS action. Its vocabulary of actions and action subjects should be limited...to just PDFs. Interpreted entirely internally.
Any use case that involves running external programs from within the PDF interpreter is a broken use case, caused by misapplying a tool for a purpose it's not properly intended for.
I'm pretty sure a substantial minority of your eukaryotes actually prefer Adobe products.
The "we" you're using is just your corporeal ruling elite talking, Man! It's just another example of your neurons keepin' your connective cells and fat tissue down!
It is likely that Saint George was born to a Christian noble family in Lydda, Palestine during the late third century between about 275 AD and 285 AD, and he died in Nicomedia. His father, Gerontius, was a Roman army official from Cappadocia and his mother was from Palestine.
So, his immediate ancestry was Cappadocian (in modern terms, Turkish) and Palestinian. That would make it so much more amusing to bait Anglo-racists with.
Hell, the surprisingly-predictable faux plot twist/surprise ending practically writes itself: the shocking discovery of the identity of the leader of the insidious, insular, and aggressive alien culture.
Slashdot Mirror
Windows on IA-64 can't be dying until Netcraft confirms it!
OTOH, if your cruise line gets more bookings because you can advertise your ISO 9001 certified life jackets, it's quite possibly a business win. And if a passenger complains about the weight, you can make up some crap about shielding ("for your health") and cosmic rays.
In other words "add value" actually means "add perceived value". The difference? Marketing.
In other words, DO NOT WANT
Company owned property (parking lot, refrigerator, network) which contains non-company-owned property (employee's car, employee's lunch, employee's email). The analogy is perfect.
even if you were born 2500 years ago:
http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheScorpionandtheFrog
What's an "Ip", and why does it need a switch?
One: Real kids really are harmed in the making of this stuff. Granted, the kid was harmed yesterday, last week, last year, or whatever, and most likely the person with the clip did not do the harming; but at some point some real kid was harmed to make it.
I know it's a wall of text, and "tl;dr" is the Slashdot Way, but you missed a critical word in my original response: "simulated". You know, adult models morphed to look underage, or drawings/paintings etc. made up completely out of imagination with no model at all, that kind of thing. It happens, and kiddy pr0n laws were extended to cover them. When no actual harm has occurred. So, either it's (a) prophylactic: "we'll tamp it down before someone real gets hurt"; (b) lazy: "we can't tell the difference between real and pseudo, so we'll ban it all"; or (c) blue-nosed prudery finding the easy wedge for the slippery slope. As you can tell, I think (a) is the argument used most often in public discourse.
And as to your second major point: yeah, an arrest is not conviction-based, but the modern hysteria makes a public accusation of Offenses Against Children a peremptory conviction in the court of public opinion, from which there is never an acquittal. So the argument you're indirectly posing, "an arrest causes no actual harm", is demonstrably incorrect.
Which goes to show you, your life and good name are always one malicious thought away from complete destruction, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Investigation wise, they didn't find the hard drive with the man or trace any wrong goings online directly back to him, yet they still charged him with the crime. This seems out of whack to me.
You're not THINKING OF THE CHILDREN! Why haven't you turned off your critical thinking abilities yet, we're talking about kiddy pr0n here! KIDDY PR0N!
Now, less hyperbolically, it's a bad situation. If there's really child abuse involved, most sane commentators want the situation dealt with as soon as possible. That's what drives the impulse for a snap arrest, just to freeze the situation and "save the kids". But the urgency works against "innocent until proven guilty", and spills over in a policy sense into thinking that prevention is even better than rapid response. (Think "pre-crime".) I think that's the psychological basis for the push against simulated kiddy pr0n. "No real children are harmed, but who knows what real children WILL be harmed which Sicky Sickington decides to act on his perverted fantasies."
It's a bad deal, and the only bright spot is that loltard planting kpr0n on an innocent man's PC has earned the special wrath of The System, which really really hates it when you play It for a fool. And maybe someone can start the rumor in prison that he really is a kiddy-fiddler; I hear tell those guys get "extra special" treatment.
I care whether the application manager is a front end for apt-get or yum because when there are 15 pending updates I don't have to click through each one, I can just drop to a terminal, become root and apt-get upgrade.
Go root, "yum update". All done tout de suite.
With yum I don't know how to do this and don't care to learn it.
Ah, belligerent and willfully ignorant. That's a winning personality package you've got going there.
I have been burned too many times by redhat-based distros to want to have anything to do with them.
QQ. So don't use MeeGo. I administer both deb and rpm systems, and have for over five years, and they've screwed me equally in terms of package management. Debian is not the Messiah (yes, it's a very naughty packaging system), and RPM is not the Great Satan. Get over fanboi-ism and at least make credible reality-based arguments if you have to take sides.
At The Escapist, there was a summary of this year's gaming-related April Foolery. The article had one actually useful tidbit of information.
I now know a good acronym synonym for "gearscore", which is the current fetish on every WoW Looking-For-Group chat channel.
It's "Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number (EPEEN)"
Sinistar says "Beware, I live! And not on some crappy iPad either!"
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
French Republic 1.0
You'd think they'd have learned that lesson.
If you design a sharp blade into an out-of-the-way spot of a hammer, don't be upset if you get cut while driving nails.
Not every tool is proper for every job. Using PDF as a general-purpose computing language is either mistaken or willfully stupid.
PDF is a document format. It's an output format. It's not a form-entry language. It's not the web. It's not an operating system. It sure as hell shouldn't be able to trigger any open-ended OS action. Its vocabulary of actions and action subjects should be limited...to just PDFs. Interpreted entirely internally.
Any use case that involves running external programs from within the PDF interpreter is a broken use case, caused by misapplying a tool for a purpose it's not properly intended for.
I'm pretty sure a substantial minority of your eukaryotes actually prefer Adobe products.
The "we" you're using is just your corporeal ruling elite talking, Man! It's just another example of your neurons keepin' your connective cells and fat tissue down!
Wikipedia says he was Palestinian:
So, his immediate ancestry was Cappadocian (in modern terms, Turkish) and Palestinian. That would make it so much more amusing to bait Anglo-racists with.
I like it.
Hell, the surprisingly-predictable faux plot twist/surprise ending practically writes itself: the shocking discovery of the identity of the leader of the insidious, insular, and aggressive alien culture.
Technically, Mexico and Bolivia are both American.
And as we all know, "technically correct" is the best kind.
Then they'd fire him for mismanaging his virtual city into bankruptcy and chain nuclear reactor accidents.
Mushroom mushroom!
Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not an English teacher!
What position?
Ownership of Unix copyrights?
What happens if they start abusing it? Let's see... who's infringing on the Unix source code copyrights... Oh, yeah, no one.
So, um... nothing happens. No one is trespassing on the sacred Unix Copyrights, so Novell can yell at no one to get off their lawn.
is that you?
I smell an uptick of premature April Foolery. Or a damn fine Ig Nobel candidate.
Here's why
Specifically: "Pseudo-coloring can make some details more visible, by increasing the distance in color space between successive gray levels."
Please surrender you Geek Credentials
Whereas, as every Geek knows, grammar is an optional specialization.