It wasn't Wikipedia blocking people from the UK specifically.
It was Wikipedias' limits on edits from anonymous users from a single IP. A side effect of the filtering was that all traffic from the ISPs being filtered by the IWF was that all of the requests came from the IWF IP, so it looked like everyone in the UK was sharing a few/single IP address.
Ah, right. (Argument is no my strong suit, and don't always pick the best example)
I should have gone for the very similar case where the victim is punished by the law:
Genuine pictures of people engaged in sex, where both are under 18, taken by minors themselves, where punishing the person who took the picture is punishing the "victim" of the picture.
This is especially disturbing where the sex itself is legal, but the creation of pictures of that act by the actors is a felony.
there was no harm to an actual minor, no crime that took place in the creation
Except that really doesn't matter. Just look at some of the child predator stings operated by police. They have a police officer pretending to be a minor, entice someone to go somewhere to have sex with a minor that doesn't exist.
Nowhere is there even a minor, much less one that could get harmed.
Yes, making a law at the federal level to make possessing alcohol anywhere illegal DOES require a constitutional amendment, due to the 10th Amendment. Because alcohol isn't mentioned in the constitution, legislating on it is reserved to the states, or to the people.
Relying on the browser to do this correctly isn't a great idea.
There are 2 main reasons why relying on the browser to scale is bad: 1. Browser image scaling is fast but HORRIBLE quality. Images that are scaled by the browser look horrible since rows are dropped instead of any kind of interpolation, to speed things up and use less memory.
2. it wastes bandwidth, people are downloading a bigger picture than they are seeing, for no gain.
However, it does let you hotlink images from other websites and change the size, but you risk that image being replaced with something inappropriate, like a penis or goatse.
You no doubt have a home router that does a form of NAT, which acts as a firewall for all intents and purposes for incoming connections, so your statement about not running a firewall is false.
Yeah, he would have to patch everything within 4 minutes to not have an infection.
Except calling Obama "black" is inherently racist.
His mother is white.
His father is black.
Shouldn't that make him "half-black" or "half-white"? How about being "Kenyan-European"? Or does the European parts of his mother's heritage need to be broken out, making him "Kenyan-English-Irish-German"?
How about him just being "American", and only mention his heritage when it is relevant, like when asked where his parents were born.
Slacker looks interesting but only offers 8 gigs on the high end model? My old 5g iPod holds 80 gigs. Sigh. It might not be streaming but at least I can easily plug my Pod into my JVC car stereo and let shuffle do its random thing.
True, but your iPod doesn't refresh its songs every day, does it?
That is the point about Slacker, you don't have to mess with it, it just provides new music all the time.
If you want to have more than 8 GiB of songs with you, then the Slacker isn't meant for you. It is meant for people who want an internet radio experience, but a bit better.
if you are listening inside a big building, chances are you're really using WiFi radio, not satellite, which requires line-of-sight to the sky
WiFi radio? Does Statesman mean internet radio?
Sirius has terrestrial repeaters of their signal in large cities, so even in a building in Denver, for example, a Sirius receiver would get full signal strength from their transmitter on the ground. The transition from satellite to terrestrial is seamless, it is the same signal.
My main problem with Sirius is that even on the "commercial free" channels, the DJ would... advertise for stuff going on related to Sirius, on other channels. Also, they would repeat songs at least once per day on more than a few channels, which got aggravating if you listened to it all day long.
I recently got rid of my Sirius radios and went with Slacker, getting their G2 portable as well. Big advantages: they will stream internet radio to a Linux computer, something that Sirius will not do. Also, Slacker's selection is much better, and the "Ban" and "Next" buttons are something that you couldn't even dream of with satellite radio. The G2 will download songs over wifi to the 4 or 8 GiB of storage, and it attempts to create an internet radio experience on the go, and it really does succeed.
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True, being able to see outside while sitting in the classroom can be distracting.
But, wouldn't renovation be expensive? Also, they have a higher electricity bill from having to use more lights.
They didn't compare anything to Linux, so I just have one question:
How easy would it be to modify Windows 2000 to be even better? Replace the file systems, alter the way the kernel writes to the drive, etc?
Sure, it is 127.1.
Have fun with it.
And then you discover that the model used to make the 3d display on the webpage is different from the production model.
It wasn't Wikipedia blocking people from the UK specifically.
It was Wikipedias' limits on edits from anonymous users from a single IP. A side effect of the filtering was that all traffic from the ISPs being filtered by the IWF was that all of the requests came from the IWF IP, so it looked like everyone in the UK was sharing a few/single IP address.
Ah, right. (Argument is no my strong suit, and don't always pick the best example)
I should have gone for the very similar case where the victim is punished by the law:
Genuine pictures of people engaged in sex, where both are under 18, taken by minors themselves, where punishing the person who took the picture is punishing the "victim" of the picture.
This is especially disturbing where the sex itself is legal, but the creation of pictures of that act by the actors is a felony.
Except that really doesn't matter. Just look at some of the child predator stings operated by police.
They have a police officer pretending to be a minor, entice someone to go somewhere to have sex with a minor that doesn't exist.
Nowhere is there even a minor, much less one that could get harmed.
Or the police officers could even pose as a mom.
They use checklists for everything, and flying a plane is much less dangerous than operating on someone in an ICU.
Don't they already have some kinds of checklists for "make sure we don't leave any sponges or scalpels in the patient."
Yes, making a law at the federal level to make possessing alcohol anywhere illegal DOES require a constitutional amendment, due to the 10th Amendment. Because alcohol isn't mentioned in the constitution, legislating on it is reserved to the states, or to the people.
Even better would be to require that all laws have sunset clauses, and can't be re-upped more than 30 days before they are to expire.
David Hamilton's The Age of Innocence would agree with you.
Nudity != Sex
Naked Pictures != Porn
There are 2 main reasons why relying on the browser to scale is bad:
1. Browser image scaling is fast but HORRIBLE quality. Images that are scaled by the browser look horrible since rows are dropped instead of any kind of interpolation, to speed things up and use less memory.
2. it wastes bandwidth, people are downloading a bigger picture than they are seeing, for no gain.
However, it does let you hotlink images from other websites and change the size, but you risk that image being replaced with something inappropriate, like a penis or goatse.
That isn't required in Vermont or Alaska.
Alaska does issue CCW permits, but they are only used for states with CCW license reciprocity, and aren't needed in Alaska.
What, you think getting a refund for a Windows license is new?
Or a bunch of passengers beating the person into submission, no firearms needed.
They are doing research on what the front of that flying car should look like.
It IS the third millennium, I would like my flying car already.
Yeah, he would have to patch everything within 4 minutes to not have an infection.
Harvard isn't a "local technical college"
Easy: DDOS competition.
If you can slashdot /., you obviously have a large botnet.
That is Slacker's old portable player, the G2 is the current one, in 4 and 8 GiB.
The sound quality is inferior to the G2, and the player has a few bugs that aren't going to get fixed because it is "last-gen".
But, that is really cheap if you don't mind buying almost obsolete stuff.
You can say whatever the fuck you want.
You would be describing his skin color if you don't use the phrase "African-American".
Except, if you go by actual color, he isn't black, and I am not white.
"Brown" to "light brown" is much closer to his skin color.
Except calling Obama "black" is inherently racist.
His mother is white.
His father is black.
Shouldn't that make him "half-black" or "half-white"? How about being "Kenyan-European"? Or does the European parts of his mother's heritage need to be broken out, making him "Kenyan-English-Irish-German"?
How about him just being "American", and only mention his heritage when it is relevant, like when asked where his parents were born.
True, but your iPod doesn't refresh its songs every day, does it?
That is the point about Slacker, you don't have to mess with it, it just provides new music all the time.
If you want to have more than 8 GiB of songs with you, then the Slacker isn't meant for you. It is meant for people who want an internet radio experience, but a bit better.
WiFi radio? Does Statesman mean internet radio?
Sirius has terrestrial repeaters of their signal in large cities, so even in a building in Denver, for example, a Sirius receiver would get full signal strength from their transmitter on the ground. The transition from satellite to terrestrial is seamless, it is the same signal.
My main problem with Sirius is that even on the "commercial free" channels, the DJ would ... advertise for stuff going on related to Sirius, on other channels. Also, they would repeat songs at least once per day on more than a few channels, which got aggravating if you listened to it all day long.
I recently got rid of my Sirius radios and went with Slacker, getting their G2 portable as well. Big advantages: they will stream internet radio to a Linux computer, something that Sirius will not do. Also, Slacker's selection is much better, and the "Ban" and "Next" buttons are something that you couldn't even dream of with satellite radio. The G2 will download songs over wifi to the 4 or 8 GiB of storage, and it attempts to create an internet radio experience on the go, and it really does succeed.
Would that be a IBM Doily?