The German eBay has more lax rules (for example they don't care about alcohol), but they do go after sex toys - with interesting results. You can go through ebay.de's LARP section and find buttplugs advertised as "sculptures".
You can also tell that they occasionally annoy seller of fetish clothing or at least used to - such articles often contain "KEIN FETISCH" ("NO FETISH") in the title. Curiously, however, other articles have "FETISCH" in the title and go through, others have none of the above and go through. I'd think that they stopped going after sellers of fetish clothing. The fact that they now include "latex" as a fabric choice in some categories would confirm that.
Actually, AJAX is good for very large (have the manpower to deal with its complexitied) and very small (won't encounter its complexities) projects.
I occasionally use it in a very rudimentary way - I use the AJ part and forget about the AX. What I mean with that is that I simply reload part of a page, whatever it may contain. It's a simple GET, no bells and whistles. The XMLHttpRequest part and the connection handling are abstracted away in a drop-in function that handles everything for me. It's not very flexible but usually it's enough.
Of course it does get more complex once you want to do anything that goes past putting the reply to a GET into a <div>, especially if you use JSON to pass around tuples and don't trust the server to send clean code...
Look, we're in the age of the web application. Of course the browser would be run server-side as well, with users connecting to the server to access it. That would also make communication between the browser and other web apps on the same server much faster.
So obviously a browser would have to be massively scalable.
Let's target booze. It is proven to be harmful if abused in humans. It provably DOES change and alter behavior, with many cases linked to violent and/or sexual behavior that is illegal. Yet...do we ban booze? No...we make the person responsible for their actions, whether under the influence or not.
Note that current laws regarding alcohol are influenced by the experience of the period where the USA actually did outlaw alcohol. It was shown to be thoroughly counterproductive with the money that formerly went to reputable businessess now going to criminals. And it didn't do much to stem consumption; people simply didn't care much about having to pay crime bosses for the booze.
There are some very clear effects to total prohibition of something people really want:
The state loses control. Quality controls and background checks on the working ethic of producers is no longer possible when said producers do their best to hide from you.
Money flows to criminals. Most people would rather violate a law they don't agree with than forego obtaining what they want - cf. filesharers and music. This and the lack of governmental oversight provides the ideal environment for criminal organizations to provide people with the goods they want.
Applied to the matter of child porngraphy it follows that it's impossible to enforce standards that protect chldren such as "no actual children may be involved with the production"; criminals who produce child porn don't care much about filming actual children and the effects on the children's psyche. And I would wager that where children are forced to have sex, slavery operations are bound to be involved - after all, the producers have to somehow acquire their "actors".
I'm doing armchair science here, but I do think that we can extrapolate from our experience with prohibition and the War on Drugs(TM) that a strict ban on anything resembling child pornography will do squat to hinder the production and dissemination of child pornography. It will just push the whole thing underground and make it impossible to protect children from being involved with it in any way.
I don't expect things to change, however. With emotionally loaded topics like that it's hard to find relevant people to actually think things through. The knee-jerk is almost as powerful and influential in politics as the lobbyist.
Please that is the old line that a bunch of hippies came up with when trying to say pot didn't doesn't lead to other drugs.
Doesn't much of cannabis' status as an entry drug come from the fact that you buy it from the very same persons who will happily sell you harder stuff? I doubt that the connection would be as strong were cannabis a heavily regulated but legal drug like tobacco. For starters, knowing a store that sells it wouldn't mean knowing a place to buy opiates etc.
A hack can be beautiful or ugly. A hack that uses a property of the programming language in a clever way to achieve a speedup is beautiful, but a hack that relies on the processor violating its own spec in a certain way is ugly, especially if the programmer who wrote it didn't bother documenting what or why he did. Not only is the latter incredibly fragile, you can also not just take the specs and understand it - you have to know what's not in the spec to be able to fully grok it.
Also note how "quickly hacked together" usually implies that conceptional and code-level cleanliness were forgone in favor of development time savings. A dynamic webpage that consists of PHP and HTML happily mixed together with constructs like <?php if($d = $$q2) { ?> <30-lines-of-html/>* is as unreadable as the worst spaghetti code, but a web dev who needs to deliver a prototype within hours might actually do that. He quickly hacks things together, (ab)using PHP's proprocessor nature in order to deliver quickly, even though not even himself will be abe to maintain the document afterwards.
The human brain consists of patch after randomly applied patch. I'd think that it would be the equivalent of a byzantine system with twenty different coding styles, three different OOP implementations and a dependency tree that includes four versions of the same compiler because parts of the code require a specific version. The code works, it's reasonably fast but it's miles from being clean and readable.
* Yes, it is supposed to have an assignment and a variable variable in the if block.
That's why I never want to be at the helm of a publicly traded company or have one undergo an IPO. You can be nice all you want, once you have shareholders you're obliged to do whatever is neccessary to increase their stock's value. I can't think of a more dreadful thing to happen to a company.
Meh. In Germany we get blazing fast internet - in the big cities. 40 kilometers out (which admittedly is considered backwater in Germany) you can be happy if they have the technical capabilities of giving you DSL 3000, if at all. At the same time they have big news stories about all the new DSLAMs they deploy - replacing the old ones while the rural areas see little development.
Yeah, I'm complainng about only having a DSL 3000 flatrate, but hey - I could have DSL 15000, VoIP and VoD. If only the telcos would care about their rural customers more...
On the other hand, goosh's substitution algorithm tries to be too helpful - if you search for one thng and then you make a new search that includes a one-digit number (eg. warcraft 3) you will instead search for nonsense (eg. warcraft http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl). Yes, you can use quotes to excape, but it is somewhat annoying.
Well, I have a WRT45G v4.0, that means a MIPS at 200 MHz and 16 MiB of RAM. It handles two users doing heavy filesharing plus regular browsing/mail usage gracefuly, but the question is whether it's going to be able to do QoS without issue.
Building an orphanage into the server room was unforgivable as well. All those children who were burnt crisp when the entire datacenter erupted in a huge mushroom cloud...
They still have backup power; the fire department just told them not to use it. They will probably patch things up until the backup power is safe to use again and then use that while repairing the main system.
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Unless you move to Germany, where you get 220V @ 16 A.
I would assume it means that he has sex with every person on the planet except for her. Now that's an insult.
The German eBay has more lax rules (for example they don't care about alcohol), but they do go after sex toys - with interesting results. You can go through ebay.de's LARP section and find buttplugs advertised as "sculptures".
You can also tell that they occasionally annoy seller of fetish clothing or at least used to - such articles often contain "KEIN FETISCH" ("NO FETISH") in the title. Curiously, however, other articles have "FETISCH" in the title and go through, others have none of the above and go through. I'd think that they stopped going after sellers of fetish clothing. The fact that they now include "latex" as a fabric choice in some categories would confirm that.
Not to forget rubber tires because you have to cut trees to make those.
Will I be able to sell the song on eBay if I bleep out the "ivory" part?
Actually, AJAX is good for very large (have the manpower to deal with its complexitied) and very small (won't encounter its complexities) projects.
I occasionally use it in a very rudimentary way - I use the AJ part and forget about the AX. What I mean with that is that I simply reload part of a page, whatever it may contain. It's a simple GET, no bells and whistles. The XMLHttpRequest part and the connection handling are abstracted away in a drop-in function that handles everything for me. It's not very flexible but usually it's enough.
Of course it does get more complex once you want to do anything that goes past putting the reply to a GET into a <div>, especially if you use JSON to pass around tuples and don't trust the server to send clean code...
Small talk? Of course!
What's everyone's favourite Smalltalk-influenced language? Right, Objective-C! We need AOAC - Asynchronous Objective-C and Cocoa! Genius!
Who needs Lisp? PROLOG! APAX is the wave of the future!
Or we define the web as a meta-processor and write wasm (web assembler) to interpret assembly code for this processor. Then we can have AAAX!
Even worse, it's VBScript 2.
Look, we're in the age of the web application. Of course the browser would be run server-side as well, with users connecting to the server to access it. That would also make communication between the browser and other web apps on the same server much faster.
So obviously a browser would have to be massively scalable.
There are some very clear effects to total prohibition of something people really want:
- The state loses control. Quality controls and background checks on the working ethic of producers is no longer possible when said producers do their best to hide from you.
- Money flows to criminals. Most people would rather violate a law they don't agree with than forego obtaining what they want - cf. filesharers and music. This and the lack of governmental oversight provides the ideal environment for criminal organizations to provide people with the goods they want.
Applied to the matter of child porngraphy it follows that it's impossible to enforce standards that protect chldren such as "no actual children may be involved with the production"; criminals who produce child porn don't care much about filming actual children and the effects on the children's psyche. And I would wager that where children are forced to have sex, slavery operations are bound to be involved - after all, the producers have to somehow acquire their "actors".I'm doing armchair science here, but I do think that we can extrapolate from our experience with prohibition and the War on Drugs(TM) that a strict ban on anything resembling child pornography will do squat to hinder the production and dissemination of child pornography. It will just push the whole thing underground and make it impossible to protect children from being involved with it in any way.
I don't expect things to change, however. With emotionally loaded topics like that it's hard to find relevant people to actually think things through. The knee-jerk is almost as powerful and influential in politics as the lobbyist.
The same movies where everyone who gets hit by a shotgun is propelled toward the nearest window with ridiculous force?
A hack can be beautiful or ugly. A hack that uses a property of the programming language in a clever way to achieve a speedup is beautiful, but a hack that relies on the processor violating its own spec in a certain way is ugly, especially if the programmer who wrote it didn't bother documenting what or why he did. Not only is the latter incredibly fragile, you can also not just take the specs and understand it - you have to know what's not in the spec to be able to fully grok it.
/>* is as unreadable as the worst spaghetti code, but a web dev who needs to deliver a prototype within hours might actually do that. He quickly hacks things together, (ab)using PHP's proprocessor nature in order to deliver quickly, even though not even himself will be abe to maintain the document afterwards.
Also note how "quickly hacked together" usually implies that conceptional and code-level cleanliness were forgone in favor of development time savings. A dynamic webpage that consists of PHP and HTML happily mixed together with constructs like <?php if($d = $$q2) { ?> <30-lines-of-html
The human brain consists of patch after randomly applied patch. I'd think that it would be the equivalent of a byzantine system with twenty different coding styles, three different OOP implementations and a dependency tree that includes four versions of the same compiler because parts of the code require a specific version. The code works, it's reasonably fast but it's miles from being clean and readable.
* Yes, it is supposed to have an assignment and a variable variable in the if block.
I knew that introversion is the only right way!
Three words: Biodegradable space suits.
Quite simeple: The ice was already there before Earth was made. The same goes for the dinosaurs.
That's why I never want to be at the helm of a publicly traded company or have one undergo an IPO. You can be nice all you want, once you have shareholders you're obliged to do whatever is neccessary to increase their stock's value. I can't think of a more dreadful thing to happen to a company.
Meh. In Germany we get blazing fast internet - in the big cities. 40 kilometers out (which admittedly is considered backwater in Germany) you can be happy if they have the technical capabilities of giving you DSL 3000, if at all. At the same time they have big news stories about all the new DSLAMs they deploy - replacing the old ones while the rural areas see little development.
Yeah, I'm complainng about only having a DSL 3000 flatrate, but hey - I could have DSL 15000, VoIP and VoD. If only the telcos would care about their rural customers more...
On the other hand, goosh's substitution algorithm tries to be too helpful - if you search for one thng and then you make a new search that includes a one-digit number (eg. warcraft 3) you will instead search for nonsense (eg. warcraft http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl ). Yes, you can use quotes to excape, but it is somewhat annoying.
Well, I have a WRT45G v4.0, that means a MIPS at 200 MHz and 16 MiB of RAM. It handles two users doing heavy filesharing plus regular browsing/mail usage gracefuly, but the question is whether it's going to be able to do QoS without issue.
How fast is your router? I want to know beforehand whether or not turning on QoS would make sense on my device.
Building an orphanage into the server room was unforgivable as well. All those children who were burnt crisp when the entire datacenter erupted in a huge mushroom cloud...
They still have backup power; the fire department just told them not to use it. They will probably patch things up until the backup power is safe to use again and then use that while repairing the main system.