Gah. You took my joke seriously:( Oh well. I very much appreciate the links. I'm still reading them but wanted to give my pointless moderation (wait, that sounds off) of +1 interesting.
Moderators? I'd recommend modding the AC parent up. Thanks:)
Tell me which OSS projects had the maturity of Word Perfect and Corel Draw in 1999.
Regardless of the state of similar products, releasing their product for Linux made them a competitor in certain software categories. The fact that they had a well known and mature product with an established user base is why it made so much sense at the time.
Hmmm. I wonder how many ACs we'll get commenting on this topic. I hope you all bounced through a couple of proxies first!
I'm also curious if the mainstream news media will pick this article and run with it. If for no other reason, I want to see the Daily Show and Colbert's take on it.
Corel Linux just really seemed like a "me too" product and it never seemed clear why it existed.
I think they were doing it for the same reason everybody else was. If you got decent enough traction started with your distro, you were in a better position to start charging decent rates for support and such. Suse and Redhat had better luck, and there might not be as much room for competition at that level as we might think (at least, not at certain profit ranges). As for the word processor, I think they were hoping to bring a relatively mature software suite to market to compete with the OSS projects that were there. Considering that MS was (and is) likely to never bring Office to linux, it seemed like a good idea. I'm curious how this will pan out in the future. Open Office is improving and is still free. It might not be worth the effort if they're not swift enough or make the feature set a slam dunk over OO.
Boo Attacks Sid for 126 slashing damage
Sid uses [Microwave Oven]
Boo has become trapped!
Sid uses [Portable Goblin Power Supply]
[Microwave Oven] Attacks Boo for 99 fire damage
Boo is still trapped!
[Microwave Oven] Attacks Boo for 99 fire damage
[Microwave Oven] Attacks Boo for 99 fire damage
[Microwave Oven] Attacks Boo for 99 fire damage
Boo uses [Goblin Sapper Charge]
[Goblin Sapper Charge] damages Boo for 200 Fire damage
[Goblin Sapper Charge] damages Sid for 400 fire damage
Boo has died
Sid has died
Kadin, you make some depressingly good points. Still, I might counter that demand for international DVD titles is higher than you might think. There's certainly more demand for titles than what's being allowed to permeate outside of their native market areas. Language students, film genre fans, immigrants and the curious would all enjoy and benefit from being able to legally obtain and play DVDs outside of thier arbitrarily designated zones. It might stay a niche market, but would decriminalize something that shouldn't have been illegal in the first place.
If the French government had their way (remember, these are the people who invent new French words to make sure that nobody is tainting their precious language), there'd be a French Region, French DVD players would only play French Region DVDs, and only the French could release movies with the French Region, any other movie must be translated to France and reviewed before permitted to play. All other regions would be banned by law.
You forgot to mention that there must be a mime interpretation of the video and the DVDs would be stamped onto thin slices of baguette.
I'd like to know if the French will go after the rediculous region-coding restrictions for DVDs next. Or have the commercial distributors actually convinced them that it helps thwart piracy more than legitimate importers?
The best hit google gave me on sol-gel solar power was an article from '02. At least in this case, isn't this something to use to increase the solar conversion efficiency rather than making something into a solar cell? Do you recommend any links for solgel based solar power generation articles?
Would this process also be useful for making silicon based solar cells? Or is it at a step of silicon processing that's too far towards chip specific manufacturing? If solar cells can be made more cheaply, I wonder what this could make the initial $/watt investment.
I really like the Cocoon disaster relief shelters. They sort of remind me of japanese capsule hotels, plus they seem very practical. I went to the company website and couldn't find any references to being an "open source design" as the article indicated, though.
I'd like to know how they verified that none of the data was accessed. Granted, it's highly possible that the thief probably had no idea what was on the laptop or may have been too scared to try selling that data, but I'd like to know that somebody with tech skills did the check. "Last modified" date doesn't mean the files weren't copied, and we never heard about anything else being stolen from the victem. There was a theft of Tricare (military medical provider... of sorts) server hard drives from a server room a few years ago. The geniuses said it wasn't a targeted data theft, but rather the theives had the intent to steal the hard drives themselves.
With your moralistic stance, how do you know that your subconscious is not hiding a pedophile deep inside, because your waking mind could not stand the thought of doing something wrong.
I'm not asserting that there is a way to know every nook and cranny of your own mind. Nor am I asserting that everything you can or will be is within you at any given point. Science's arguement of nurture vs nature hasn't unraveled that mess yet, and I doubt it will ever be. For religion, destiny versus free will might be a good equivalent. For Christians (and only because I was raised that way and know a bit about the religion) I'd ask about the anti-christ. Will that person be a normal person and eventually grow into the prophosized role, or is that baby just plain evil from the moment of conception? If God is almighty and able to control everything, doesn't that mean he specifically cursed that child? Or is this where the all knowing aspect is at play and simply a matter of knowing what's going to happen and won't interfere? The reasoning for why God prevents some things and allows others is "unfathomable", so any debate on it would be academic and certainly not provable. God is nobody's bitch and doesn't perform on demand.
Look at cannibalism. Look at any practice you consider disgusting, and you will probably find that it is your upbringing that is the true factor in you "morals" and not some bullshit objective right or wrong.
That sounds about right to me. I wouldn't say that right and wrong are necessarily bullshit, but that maybe they're used in the place of more appropriate words. Morally judging the actions a culture from the outside can have definate problems, but doing it from within a culture is pretty much required for decision making and conflict resolutions. People are more likely to have enough commonality in learning or experiences to question somebody that did something "good" or "bad" without completely flipping out. Even then, many cultures do have common morals in place. Murder is wrong. Killing in war isn't murder unless a certain line is crossed (The US military goes by it's own laws and the Geneva Convention).
Am I correct in thinking that you were shifting this to a moralism vs religious values or absolutism vs relativism discussion? Or are we drifting? I think we beat the earlier CP discussion to death already.
The default settings of P2P applications share all documents and media files on your machine. Which P2P apps are they talking about?
P2P file exchanges generally violate international copyright laws. - Stop lumping P2P with piracy, DoD!
I'd say part scare tactic and part CYA. More than anything I'd wager the presenter was not interested in the breifing becoming a class on how to securely and ethically utilize P2P programs. Let's be honest, bigwigs usually aren't tech savvy - they have assistants for that.
Do you actually know any cops? These are different kind of people. Typically law abiding, generally moral. Not that there aren't corrupt cops but if someone has to monitor this I think they are more equipped to do so than your average Joe.
I've known cops, religious types and served as a member of the US Armed Forces. Like you, I'm not trying to speak in absolutes. I would hope that there is probably some sort of training for law enforcement members before joining these types of task forces. But prior preparation only takes you so far, it's ultimately up to the individual's character (and their support) that determines what happens afterwards. Some of the cynics (realists?) have already suggested that pedophiles may try to insert themselves into a position to gain access to the child porn by becoming investigators on some level. Unrealistic? I don't think so. Unfortunate? Yes. I'm not trying to specifically doom anyone to failure, but only saying that there shouldn't be any suprise if a pedophile, be they one before or after starting that job, is found to have gotten into the chain of custody for child porn evidence.
But, back to the original issue: most people have no pedophilia tendencies thus few if any would be turned by viewing such images. It would be the equivalent of making people gay, as I mentioned.
I'd agree that most people don't have tendencies towards pedophila and never disputed that. And as before, I'm not saying that people will suddenly change their sexual tastes because of these images. My counter point to you before hand was that some people will never know they could possibly have an inclination to a particular activity without being exposed to it or trying it. Social expectations and preconcieved notions of oneself will usually dictate an how one answers questions regarding a topic. I've had more than a few friends that swore they'd never eat sushi because of the raw fish. After getting them to try it, it turned out they were wrong and they loved it. I'm only asking that you adit the possiblity that the some people will not be 100% aware of what lurks beneath the surface of their own waking minds.
Either way, I think we both agree that the chance of "new" pedophiliacs emerging from this is numerically insignificant, especially compared to those who probably won't. As long as the watchers have some oversight to ensure their mental state (even from just to watch for burnout from the smut), I think they'll be ok.
Regardless of how much gay porn I watched, over whatever period of time, I would not in the end be gay. I assure you.
Now, if there were currently some homosexual tendencies or inclinations within me, certainly such activity would bring me out of the closet. As it is, that is not the case. As it is not the case for most of any group to be a pedophile, particularly those individuals who have set themselves into a career of upholding the law. These officers are more likely to become crackheads simply because they have access to it.
The point you bring up is a good one, but also requires a degree of self-examination that many people may not have had. To be honest, though, some things cannot be verified by proposing a hypothetical situation. It's actually going through an event that truely tests whether or not that self image is entirely accurate. To say that nobody that chose law enforcement as a career could be a pedophile is as flawed as saying that they couldn't be addicted to drugs (oh, and missing crack would be easier to identify than copies of computer files, not to mention the signs of addiction). Law enforcement officials are tested for illegal drug use, are subject to investigations for corruption and any other legal infraction a person can commit. To say that they're immune puts that person on the recieving end of unreasonable expectations, which can be bad for them individually and for society as a whole. Cops are people too.
A different example would be Jimmy Swaggert. He was a "man of God" that had a hard fall because of incidents with prostitutes. A lot of his supporters abandoned him because they weren't willing to accept that even a minister has temptations and failings (and possibly because they followed him more than God, but that's a different debate).
I was careful to not include statements that effects will definately happen or that every person who spends a ton of time verifying the porn would be effected in a specific manner. So not every person that screens the child porn will develope a facination with it, just like not everybody that deals with gay (or straight, for that matter) porn will become interested with it. Still, I don't think it's reasonable to assume it won't happen at some point. I don't think it's a matter of being "above" such things. The mechanisms that work in the subconscious have no obligation to obey the waking mind.
Of course, if you want to expose yourself to tons of gay porn for several hours a day, 5 days a week for several months to prove that gay porn will have no affect on you, go right ahead. I can pretty much guarantee that by the end of that period you'd be able to answer a lot of gay porn trivia that you wouldn't have before. Not that you'd necessarily want to, but you would.
I too encountered child porn once and there is no way that the stuff will magically transform a normal adult into a minching pedophile.
Heheh. It's been a while since I heard "minching".
Anyhow, I wasn't suggesting that it'd magically transform a "normal adult" into a pedophile. Well, not in the sense that a single exposure would do it, or that everybody would succumb to that particular vice. Repeated and prolonged exposure, though, may cause issues. A few of the other posters mentioned that the police in their area have certain checks set up for that sort of thing.
"Malformed instincts". That's an interesting phrase. Just as interesting as bringing instinct into this. Could it be stated that civilized society is to blame for this? After all, the main thing society has done, at least for the US culture (I'm still traveling elsewhere, honest), is teach us that all instinctually based urges are bad unless it involves acts that'd make good human interest stories on the news. Of course, I think it's important to clarify that "child pornography" includes young children and "jailbait". While I might argue about an instinct to protect and nurture young children, "jailbait" is notorious for setting of an adult's reproductive instincts.
Err, that's getting offtopic, sorta. So what's going to happen when somebody sends a private nude pic to a significant other and it's hard to determine their age? I know women in their 30s and older that still get carded going into bars. What about porn sites and their customers? Will every image have to have that "18 at time of modeling" disclaimer have to be imbedded into the photos? What about when high school sweethearts, one just starting college and the other just becoming a senior send naughty pics or cyber via webcam? These are things that need to be considered. Improbable? Maybe, but not impossible. And once the term "child pornography" gets involved, the emotion and assumptions that come with it will overwhelm the truth. More than that, even if the person is declared 100% innocent, that word will be stuck to them for a long time. The media and a town's gossips rarely put as much effort into undoing damage as they do trying to get ratings. The way the government is going, that person might be stuck on a watch list for the rest of their life. That's wasted resources and an assumption of guilt. Bad, bad, bad.
What I really want to know is how prevelent this problem is. It's greater than none and maybe less than the hype being used to pass all of the laws, but who knows?
There is NO way a NORMAL adult will be compromised... really!
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
... besides, who at/. believes in the validity of the term "NORMAL" being used as a moral beacon? Everybody can be corrupted. Thankfully not everybody has the same tastes in vices as pedophiles.
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Gah. You took my joke seriously :( Oh well. I very much appreciate the links. I'm still reading them but wanted to give my pointless moderation (wait, that sounds off) of +1 interesting.
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Moderators? I'd recommend modding the AC parent up. Thanks
Competition? What competition?
Tell me which OSS projects had the maturity of Word Perfect and Corel Draw in 1999.
Regardless of the state of similar products, releasing their product for Linux made them a competitor in certain software categories. The fact that they had a well known and mature product with an established user base is why it made so much sense at the time.
Hmmm. I wonder how many ACs we'll get commenting on this topic. I hope you all bounced through a couple of proxies first!
I'm also curious if the mainstream news media will pick this article and run with it. If for no other reason, I want to see the Daily Show and Colbert's take on it.
The word of the day? Pre-emptive strike.
Corel Linux just really seemed like a "me too" product and it never seemed clear why it existed.
I think they were doing it for the same reason everybody else was. If you got decent enough traction started with your distro, you were in a better position to start charging decent rates for support and such. Suse and Redhat had better luck, and there might not be as much room for competition at that level as we might think (at least, not at certain profit ranges). As for the word processor, I think they were hoping to bring a relatively mature software suite to market to compete with the OSS projects that were there. Considering that MS was (and is) likely to never bring Office to linux, it seemed like a good idea. I'm curious how this will pan out in the future. Open Office is improving and is still free. It might not be worth the effort if they're not swift enough or make the feature set a slam dunk over OO.
Go for the eyes, Boo!
Boo Attacks Sid for 126 slashing damage
Sid uses [Microwave Oven]
Boo has become trapped!
Sid uses [Portable Goblin Power Supply]
[Microwave Oven] Attacks Boo for 99 fire damage
Boo is still trapped!
[Microwave Oven] Attacks Boo for 99 fire damage
[Microwave Oven] Attacks Boo for 99 fire damage
[Microwave Oven] Attacks Boo for 99 fire damage
Boo uses [Goblin Sapper Charge]
[Goblin Sapper Charge] damages Boo for 200 Fire damage
[Goblin Sapper Charge] damages Sid for 400 fire damage
Boo has died
Sid has died
You can get one in the WoW expansion coming up. I think they're going to be a Scourge race.
Kadin, you make some depressingly good points. Still, I might counter that demand for international DVD titles is higher than you might think. There's certainly more demand for titles than what's being allowed to permeate outside of their native market areas. Language students, film genre fans, immigrants and the curious would all enjoy and benefit from being able to legally obtain and play DVDs outside of thier arbitrarily designated zones. It might stay a niche market, but would decriminalize something that shouldn't have been illegal in the first place.
If the French government had their way (remember, these are the people who invent new French words to make sure that nobody is tainting their precious language), there'd be a French Region, French DVD players would only play French Region DVDs, and only the French could release movies with the French Region, any other movie must be translated to France and reviewed before permitted to play. All other regions would be banned by law.
You forgot to mention that there must be a mime interpretation of the video and the DVDs would be stamped onto thin slices of baguette.
I'd like to know if the French will go after the rediculous region-coding restrictions for DVDs next. Or have the commercial distributors actually convinced them that it helps thwart piracy more than legitimate importers?
The controls seem fairly intuitive, but I wonder if the budget is ready for it's upkeep and operational costs.
Awesome. Just the answer I was looking for.
The best hit google gave me on sol-gel solar power was an article from '02. At least in this case, isn't this something to use to increase the solar conversion efficiency rather than making something into a solar cell? Do you recommend any links for solgel based solar power generation articles?
Would this process also be useful for making silicon based solar cells? Or is it at a step of silicon processing that's too far towards chip specific manufacturing? If solar cells can be made more cheaply, I wonder what this could make the initial $/watt investment.
I really like the Cocoon disaster relief shelters. They sort of remind me of japanese capsule hotels, plus they seem very practical. I went to the company website and couldn't find any references to being an "open source design" as the article indicated, though.
I'd like to know how they verified that none of the data was accessed. Granted, it's highly possible that the thief probably had no idea what was on the laptop or may have been too scared to try selling that data, but I'd like to know that somebody with tech skills did the check. "Last modified" date doesn't mean the files weren't copied, and we never heard about anything else being stolen from the victem. There was a theft of Tricare (military medical provider... of sorts) server hard drives from a server room a few years ago. The geniuses said it wasn't a targeted data theft, but rather the theives had the intent to steal the hard drives themselves.
Yeah... sure.
With your moralistic stance, how do you know that your subconscious is not hiding a pedophile deep inside, because your waking mind could not stand the thought of doing something wrong.
I'm not asserting that there is a way to know every nook and cranny of your own mind. Nor am I asserting that everything you can or will be is within you at any given point. Science's arguement of nurture vs nature hasn't unraveled that mess yet, and I doubt it will ever be. For religion, destiny versus free will might be a good equivalent. For Christians (and only because I was raised that way and know a bit about the religion) I'd ask about the anti-christ. Will that person be a normal person and eventually grow into the prophosized role, or is that baby just plain evil from the moment of conception? If God is almighty and able to control everything, doesn't that mean he specifically cursed that child? Or is this where the all knowing aspect is at play and simply a matter of knowing what's going to happen and won't interfere? The reasoning for why God prevents some things and allows others is "unfathomable", so any debate on it would be academic and certainly not provable. God is nobody's bitch and doesn't perform on demand.
Look at cannibalism. Look at any practice you consider disgusting, and you will probably find that it is your upbringing that is the true factor in you "morals" and not some bullshit objective right or wrong.
That sounds about right to me. I wouldn't say that right and wrong are necessarily bullshit, but that maybe they're used in the place of more appropriate words. Morally judging the actions a culture from the outside can have definate problems, but doing it from within a culture is pretty much required for decision making and conflict resolutions. People are more likely to have enough commonality in learning or experiences to question somebody that did something "good" or "bad" without completely flipping out. Even then, many cultures do have common morals in place. Murder is wrong. Killing in war isn't murder unless a certain line is crossed (The US military goes by it's own laws and the Geneva Convention).
Am I correct in thinking that you were shifting this to a moralism vs religious values or absolutism vs relativism discussion? Or are we drifting? I think we beat the earlier CP discussion to death already.
The default settings of P2P applications share all documents and media files on your machine. Which P2P apps are they talking about?
:D (wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinfoil_Hat_Linux
P2P file exchanges generally violate international copyright laws. - Stop lumping P2P with piracy, DoD!
I'd say part scare tactic and part CYA. More than anything I'd wager the presenter was not interested in the breifing becoming a class on how to securely and ethically utilize P2P programs. Let's be honest, bigwigs usually aren't tech savvy - they have assistants for that.
CLASSIFIED CPU's should be at least 3 feet from UNCLASSIFIED CPU's - Cooties?
Google "Computer security TEMPEST". Then you can go download Tempest for Eliza for your own fun. Check out Tinfoil Hat Linux too
Oh, and thank you for keeping the discussion civil. It'd be easy for this part of the thread to go down in non-constructive flames.
Do you actually know any cops? These are different kind of people. Typically law abiding, generally moral. Not that there aren't corrupt cops but if someone has to monitor this I think they are more equipped to do so than your average Joe.
I've known cops, religious types and served as a member of the US Armed Forces. Like you, I'm not trying to speak in absolutes. I would hope that there is probably some sort of training for law enforcement members before joining these types of task forces. But prior preparation only takes you so far, it's ultimately up to the individual's character (and their support) that determines what happens afterwards. Some of the cynics (realists?) have already suggested that pedophiles may try to insert themselves into a position to gain access to the child porn by becoming investigators on some level. Unrealistic? I don't think so. Unfortunate? Yes. I'm not trying to specifically doom anyone to failure, but only saying that there shouldn't be any suprise if a pedophile, be they one before or after starting that job, is found to have gotten into the chain of custody for child porn evidence.
But, back to the original issue: most people have no pedophilia tendencies thus few if any would be turned by viewing such images. It would be the equivalent of making people gay, as I mentioned.
I'd agree that most people don't have tendencies towards pedophila and never disputed that. And as before, I'm not saying that people will suddenly change their sexual tastes because of these images. My counter point to you before hand was that some people will never know they could possibly have an inclination to a particular activity without being exposed to it or trying it. Social expectations and preconcieved notions of oneself will usually dictate an how one answers questions regarding a topic. I've had more than a few friends that swore they'd never eat sushi because of the raw fish. After getting them to try it, it turned out they were wrong and they loved it. I'm only asking that you adit the possiblity that the some people will not be 100% aware of what lurks beneath the surface of their own waking minds.
Either way, I think we both agree that the chance of "new" pedophiliacs emerging from this is numerically insignificant, especially compared to those who probably won't. As long as the watchers have some oversight to ensure their mental state (even from just to watch for burnout from the smut), I think they'll be ok.
Regardless of how much gay porn I watched, over whatever period of time, I would not in the end be gay. I assure you. Now, if there were currently some homosexual tendencies or inclinations within me, certainly such activity would bring me out of the closet. As it is, that is not the case. As it is not the case for most of any group to be a pedophile, particularly those individuals who have set themselves into a career of upholding the law. These officers are more likely to become crackheads simply because they have access to it.
The point you bring up is a good one, but also requires a degree of self-examination that many people may not have had. To be honest, though, some things cannot be verified by proposing a hypothetical situation. It's actually going through an event that truely tests whether or not that self image is entirely accurate. To say that nobody that chose law enforcement as a career could be a pedophile is as flawed as saying that they couldn't be addicted to drugs (oh, and missing crack would be easier to identify than copies of computer files, not to mention the signs of addiction). Law enforcement officials are tested for illegal drug use, are subject to investigations for corruption and any other legal infraction a person can commit. To say that they're immune puts that person on the recieving end of unreasonable expectations, which can be bad for them individually and for society as a whole. Cops are people too.
A different example would be Jimmy Swaggert. He was a "man of God" that had a hard fall because of incidents with prostitutes. A lot of his supporters abandoned him because they weren't willing to accept that even a minister has temptations and failings (and possibly because they followed him more than God, but that's a different debate).
Does this also work with gay porn? I doubt it.
I was careful to not include statements that effects will definately happen or that every person who spends a ton of time verifying the porn would be effected in a specific manner. So not every person that screens the child porn will develope a facination with it, just like not everybody that deals with gay (or straight, for that matter) porn will become interested with it. Still, I don't think it's reasonable to assume it won't happen at some point. I don't think it's a matter of being "above" such things. The mechanisms that work in the subconscious have no obligation to obey the waking mind.
Of course, if you want to expose yourself to tons of gay porn for several hours a day, 5 days a week for several months to prove that gay porn will have no affect on you, go right ahead. I can pretty much guarantee that by the end of that period you'd be able to answer a lot of gay porn trivia that you wouldn't have before. Not that you'd necessarily want to, but you would.
I too encountered child porn once and there is no way that the stuff will magically transform a normal adult into a minching pedophile. Heheh. It's been a while since I heard "minching".
Anyhow, I wasn't suggesting that it'd magically transform a "normal adult" into a pedophile. Well, not in the sense that a single exposure would do it, or that everybody would succumb to that particular vice. Repeated and prolonged exposure, though, may cause issues. A few of the other posters mentioned that the police in their area have certain checks set up for that sort of thing.
"Malformed instincts". That's an interesting phrase. Just as interesting as bringing instinct into this. Could it be stated that civilized society is to blame for this? After all, the main thing society has done, at least for the US culture (I'm still traveling elsewhere, honest), is teach us that all instinctually based urges are bad unless it involves acts that'd make good human interest stories on the news. Of course, I think it's important to clarify that "child pornography" includes young children and "jailbait". While I might argue about an instinct to protect and nurture young children, "jailbait" is notorious for setting of an adult's reproductive instincts.
Err, that's getting offtopic, sorta. So what's going to happen when somebody sends a private nude pic to a significant other and it's hard to determine their age? I know women in their 30s and older that still get carded going into bars. What about porn sites and their customers? Will every image have to have that "18 at time of modeling" disclaimer have to be imbedded into the photos? What about when high school sweethearts, one just starting college and the other just becoming a senior send naughty pics or cyber via webcam? These are things that need to be considered. Improbable? Maybe, but not impossible. And once the term "child pornography" gets involved, the emotion and assumptions that come with it will overwhelm the truth. More than that, even if the person is declared 100% innocent, that word will be stuck to them for a long time. The media and a town's gossips rarely put as much effort into undoing damage as they do trying to get ratings. The way the government is going, that person might be stuck on a watch list for the rest of their life. That's wasted resources and an assumption of guilt. Bad, bad, bad.
What I really want to know is how prevelent this problem is. It's greater than none and maybe less than the hype being used to pass all of the laws, but who knows?
There is NO way a NORMAL adult will be compromised... really!
... besides, who at /. believes in the validity of the term "NORMAL" being used as a moral beacon? Everybody can be corrupted. Thankfully not everybody has the same tastes in vices as pedophiles.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
Hey, if they just threw some hardcore masturbation scenes in Friday the 13th too, we wouldn't have this problem.
Cumming soon to an adult theater near you:
Friday the 18th: Barely Legal