all the staff in filtering companies are PAID to look for PORN and other illegal stuff all day, I wonder if public opinion about them would be changed?
We can send a swarm of these into a building armed with tear gas to take out the humans, then they could logon to computers within the building and steal some trade secrets!
If subscription fees are ever to become a significant portion of its overall revenues, Yahoo may
be forced to invest in content creation, something it has said it does not want to do.
OK, so they want to charge money, but not deliver content? Why would I pay Yahoo to 'aggregate' content, if I could do the aggregation myself and maybe even pay the content CREATORS.
Yahoo just wants to be a paid middle man? We're getting rid of those from the real world. Why do we want to create them on the internet?
I consider myself familiar with the web. I can sorta guess what.info and.biz are for. But I cannot work out what kind of domains are supposed to go under.pro.aero and.coop. Are our dairy farmers cooperative going to buy a.coop domain? Is.pro for providers or professionals?
Now, the biggest problem is, how am I going to explain these concepts to my grandmother?
What? Now you want them to print MORE paper? When you vote on paper you don't need a receipt, why would you need one here? And what's the point for you to submit paper for them to scan? Unless you have some super special printer, it won't stop fraud.
Don't you hate working at a company that wants you to submit 1 electronic and 2-3 paper copies of every piece of documentation you do?
Now if you have to wait for every voter's vote to be printed out, paper refills, toner refills.......
If someone registered ibm.xxx, would that constitute cybersquatting or whatever? Since everyone knows that the company that owns ibm.net ibm.com ibm.shop ibm.banc etc doesn't sell porn, there should be no ambiguity here. But if guinesssux.com can be confused with guiness.com, then would the kid of an ibm employee be allowed to host their personal webpage on ibm.kid?
Why does it take so long to consider new TLDs? Send me your shortlist of 24 TLDs and I'll give you my decision in 2min. Do you really need to have a business lunch to discuss whether.biz is a cool sounding TLD or whether it'll just teach your kids how NOT to spell correctly? Does it take long to imagine what geocities will do to the people that buy.geo domains? What does.geo mean anyway? TLDs for geostationary satellite companies? What on earth is.web for? Sites what only host http? Cuz I guess ftp isn't really the web eh?
What would ibm.info contain? Info on the company IBM's credit worthiness, or does ibm put info for their products there? Since many companies also have support.mycompany.com and download.mycompany.com, maybe we should sell them.support and.download domains too?
I hope that when I establish my own country I won't have to wait so long to get a country TLD.
Ebay is allowed to sell pirated music in order to relieve Ebay of the task of checking every single auction they host to make sure the
products are legitimate.
Ebay is not allowed to sell ANY MS Software, also in order to relieve Ebay of the task of checking every single auction they host to make sure the
products are legitimate.
What would happen when MS goes into the music business?
Imagine holding out your arm horizontally with a small weight in your hand all day. Not possible. Therefore, I propose that dinosaurs slithered on the ground like snakes ^_^;;
Anime is the Japanese short way of saying 'animation', which is an English word. Manga is a Japanese word meaning comics.
In other words, those 2 words represent cartoons in motion form and in still paper form. You can get the said cartoons aimed at audiences ranging from children to adults.
You sound like that woman that tried to sue South Park because her 10 yr old kid was named Kenny and had trouble with cartoon characters killing him every episode.
Just because Japanese pornographic cartoons are available doesn't mean the whole genre is a big conspiracy to degrade women all over the world. You may also like to know that there are manga targeted at teen girls which depict the male body too.
Historically, anime and manga draw lots of inspiration from Disney. Note the large eyes and giant heads (in proportion to the rest of the body) are all drawn from early Disney cartoons.
So in conclusion, it would be good if you looked at all that is available, instead of a small portion you don't like and tagging the whole genre as evil.
OK, firstly assume that such a law was passed internationally, and that every site complied and also had access to a perfect list of school IPs.
The kid can still browse newsgroups archives for the same content, or simply use a surf anonymizer proxy thingy.
In the end, every great idea anyone thinks of can still be circumvented by smart kids. Perhaps you could put encryption on it and make circumvention illegal.
But the only sure way is to have an adult stand behind them in the library. Not too much to ask, since the same adult could also fix printer jams and reboot machines and stop kids hacking into the windows registry for fun.
Given that parents are too lazy to spend time looking after their children on the internet, as shown by desire to use magical filters to babysit for them, what makes them think the same parents would spend any time going thru a list of URLs to check whether their children have been bad?
Seeing as humans have been using plastic coverings for things ranging from book covers to plastic pockets in folders, how is it an invention that the thing you're covering happens to be electronic?
If he can patent this, then I want a patent for the same plastic covering which protects a quantum machine. While we're at it I would like to also patent the concept of using coverings to protect an object.
I think the point is whoever did the crack wanted to be/known/ as the person who/first/ cracked it. It's really good for the ego if you can go around telling everyone you're the guy that cracked it first.
What we need is a place where people can register their cracks. The cracks would be kept secret until the product is released and after that the first person who submitted a working crack can be given credit.
Why is it whenever there's an incident which involves banning something, a bunch of ppl on/. start ranting on how it has free speech issues and how the corporate work is sleeping with the gov't to destroy the common working man?
If I was a lecturer giving a lecture, I wouldn't want people selling my lecture notes for a profit. For those of you who think everyone should have a right to sell lecture notes, would you say they had the same right to videotape the said lecture and sell those too?
You're free to agree or disagree with the ban, but don't drag poor old free speech into it when it's not an issue. Everyone is still free to share notes around without selling them.
I don't need you sig to reset your bank acct pin. I just need your name, addy, b'date, and mother's maiden name. If it's a credit card, I'll also have to tell the bank your credit limit.
How often do you use your sig in real life anyway? And in the cases you do, how often do you think it'd make any difference if you signed a different way?
There are certain terms that have to be met for a contract to be legally binding. (in my country at least) One is that both parties must receive benefit. Thus, if I signed a note saying I'd give you my house, I can't be bound to do it.
Also, contracts don't need signatures. Many contracts are verbal.
So you see, legalising digital sigs don't cause silly dangers like the ones mentioned here, but it may help acceptance if more legit e-contracts.
Slashdot Mirror
for over a year.
well, i'm not sure if they've been selling it b4, but it has been available for a while.
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Actually, some studies suggest that banner ads are effective whether you pay attention to them or not.
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I have copyrighted material which is capable of being copied on CDR. How do I go about collecting my part of the fee?
That's why they're collecting the fee right? To distribute it to artists no? Wait. Where's the money going??
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Knowing slashdot, it could just be a misinterpretation of an article that wasn't read fully before posting.
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How exactly does folding the cables differ from splitting the wires?
Both ways, the wires will no longer be flat with each other, and all wires will still be the same length.
Unless you're trying to say there's some magical magnetic/electrical properties which have to be maintained for IDE cables.
SCSI, otoh, may be a different story
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all the staff in filtering companies are PAID to look for PORN and other illegal stuff all day, I wonder if public opinion about them would be changed?
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We can send a swarm of these into a building armed with tear gas to take out the humans, then they could logon to computers within the building and steal some trade secrets!
Wouldn't that make a great movie?
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OK, so they want to charge money, but not deliver content? Why would I pay Yahoo to 'aggregate' content, if I could do the aggregation myself and maybe even pay the content CREATORS.
Yahoo just wants to be a paid middle man? We're getting rid of those from the real world. Why do we want to create them on the internet?
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Why does Mir get ditched all the time, then saved at the last minute with some million $s of funds, only to be ditched again next month?
Where exactly has all those $$$$ gone??
Maybe they should have crashed the iridium sats into it instead.
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I consider myself familiar with the web. I can sorta guess what .info and .biz are for. But I cannot work out what kind of domains are supposed to go under .pro .aero and .coop. Are our dairy farmers cooperative going to buy a .coop domain? Is .pro for providers or professionals?
Now, the biggest problem is, how am I going to explain these concepts to my grandmother?
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What? Now you want them to print MORE paper? When you vote on paper you don't need a receipt, why would you need one here? And what's the point for you to submit paper for them to scan? Unless you have some super special printer, it won't stop fraud.
Don't you hate working at a company that wants you to submit 1 electronic and 2-3 paper copies of every piece of documentation you do?
Now if you have to wait for every voter's vote to be printed out, paper refills, toner refills.......
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If someone registered ibm.xxx, would that constitute cybersquatting or whatever? Since everyone knows that the company that owns ibm.net ibm.com ibm.shop ibm.banc etc doesn't sell porn, there should be no ambiguity here. But if guinesssux.com can be confused with guiness.com, then would the kid of an ibm employee be allowed to host their personal webpage on ibm.kid?
.biz is a cool sounding TLD or whether it'll just teach your kids how NOT to spell correctly? Does it take long to imagine what geocities will do to the people that buy .geo domains? What does .geo mean anyway? TLDs for geostationary satellite companies? What on earth is .web for? Sites what only host http? Cuz I guess ftp isn't really the web eh?
.support and .download domains too?
Why does it take so long to consider new TLDs? Send me your shortlist of 24 TLDs and I'll give you my decision in 2min. Do you really need to have a business lunch to discuss whether
What would ibm.info contain? Info on the company IBM's credit worthiness, or does ibm put info for their products there? Since many companies also have support.mycompany.com and download.mycompany.com, maybe we should sell them
I hope that when I establish my own country I won't have to wait so long to get a country TLD.
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Ebay is allowed to sell pirated music in order to relieve Ebay of the task of checking every single auction they host to make sure the
products are legitimate.
Ebay is not allowed to sell ANY MS Software, also in order to relieve Ebay of the task of checking every single auction they host to make sure the
products are legitimate.
What would happen when MS goes into the music business?
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Imagine holding out your arm horizontally with a small weight in your hand all day. Not possible. Therefore, I propose that dinosaurs slithered on the ground like snakes ^_^;;
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Anime is the Japanese short way of saying 'animation', which is an English word. Manga is a Japanese word meaning comics.
In other words, those 2 words represent cartoons in motion form and in still paper form. You can get the said cartoons aimed at audiences ranging from children to adults.
You sound like that woman that tried to sue South Park because her 10 yr old kid was named Kenny and had trouble with cartoon characters killing him every episode.
Just because Japanese pornographic cartoons are available doesn't mean the whole genre is a big conspiracy to degrade women all over the world. You may also like to know that there are manga targeted at teen girls which depict the male body too.
Historically, anime and manga draw lots of inspiration from Disney. Note the large eyes and giant heads (in proportion to the rest of the body) are all drawn from early Disney cartoons.
So in conclusion, it would be good if you looked at all that is available, instead of a small portion you don't like and tagging the whole genre as evil.
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an idiot flying one of these above you then spitting out their window...
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OK, firstly assume that such a law was passed internationally, and that every site complied and also had access to a perfect list of school IPs.
The kid can still browse newsgroups archives for the same content, or simply use a surf anonymizer proxy thingy.
In the end, every great idea anyone thinks of can still be circumvented by smart kids. Perhaps you could put encryption on it and make circumvention illegal.
But the only sure way is to have an adult stand behind them in the library. Not too much to ask, since the same adult could also fix printer jams and reboot machines and stop kids hacking into the windows registry for fun.
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Given that parents are too lazy to spend time looking after their children on the internet, as shown by desire to use magical filters to babysit for them, what makes them think the same parents would spend any time going thru a list of URLs to check whether their children have been bad?
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Seeing as humans have been using plastic coverings for things ranging from book covers to plastic pockets in folders, how is it an invention that the thing you're covering happens to be electronic?
If he can patent this, then I want a patent for the same plastic covering which protects a quantum machine. While we're at it I would like to also patent the concept of using coverings to protect an object.
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I find it very difficult, even with '3d sound', to feel immersed into a world that I look at thru a 15 inch window...
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I think the point is whoever did the crack wanted to be /known/ as the person who /first/ cracked it. It's really good for the ego if you can go around telling everyone you're the guy that cracked it first.
What we need is a place where people can register their cracks. The cracks would be kept secret until the product is released and after that the first person who submitted a working crack can be given credit.
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Why is it whenever there's an incident which involves banning something, a bunch of ppl on /. start ranting on how it has free speech issues and how the corporate work is sleeping with the gov't to destroy the common working man?
If I was a lecturer giving a lecture, I wouldn't want people selling my lecture notes for a profit. For those of you who think everyone should have a right to sell lecture notes, would you say they had the same right to videotape the said lecture and sell those too?
You're free to agree or disagree with the ban, but don't drag poor old free speech into it when it's not an issue. Everyone is still free to share notes around without selling them.
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SHaddup or I'll set my pet roo on ya!
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I don't need you sig to reset your bank acct pin. I just need your name, addy, b'date, and mother's maiden name. If it's a credit card, I'll also have to tell the bank your credit limit.
How often do you use your sig in real life anyway? And in the cases you do, how often do you think it'd make any difference if you signed a different way?
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There are certain terms that have to be met for a contract to be legally binding. (in my country at least) One is that both parties must receive benefit. Thus, if I signed a note saying I'd give you my house, I can't be bound to do it.
Also, contracts don't need signatures. Many contracts are verbal.
So you see, legalising digital sigs don't cause silly dangers like the ones mentioned here, but it may help acceptance if more legit e-contracts.
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