Most anti-porn laws try to have it both ways (and succeed). If the person in the movie looks like an adult and is presented as on, but is really a minor, it's kiddie porn and you're going to jail. If the person is an adult but is presented in a way that suggests he or she is a minor, it's kiddie porn and you're going to jail.
Likewise, as the tech to simulate under-age actors makes its way into the porn industry, I'm sure that "no actual minors were used in the production of this film" will not be a sufficent defense, either for the producer or the buyer. If the RealDoll folks were to produce a seemingly-under-age model - even one that just lies there - the bills criminalizing it would move through the state and federal legislatures so fast you could fly a kite in the breeze.
Movable Type's comment-spam problems stem mostly from its popularity; it has a large enough installed base to make it worth it for spammers to build tools to bulk-submit garbage comments. That installed base has also made it worthwhile to develop plug-ins to protect against that. I've had a little bit of trouble with spam on my blog, but it's been easy enough to deal with.
It was bad enough when legislators just gave their bills doofy Orwellian names like the No Child Left Behind Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or the Defense of Marriage Act. Now we have to put up with nonsense like the Call Responsibly and Stay Healthy (CRASH) Act, the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act, and the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN SPAM) Act, and now this. At least geeks recognise the joke value of acronyms such as these. Do our president and legislators?
Ah, but can you give me one example of another computer storage media that is as widely supported in the computer world, even today? Sure, different operating systems may format the disk differently so one particular floppy-disk may not be directly usable on any machine, but the floppy in general is still everywhere.
Different formats? FAT12 is the only widely-used floppy format I'm aware of, even by Linux boxes. If you're thinking of Apple's diskette format, that's been rendered pretty obsolete by the fact that the vast majority of Macs in use today are from the iMac era, and do not have floppy drives. I don't think OS X even supports them, at least not the default install.
Plus there are the countless rack-mounted servers with limited real estate (both in the front panel and in the box). Not many floppies in those.
I'm a use-it-until-it-won't-power-on kinda guy, and I like to play with antiques (like my Quadra web server), but of the dozen+ functional computers in my shop, less than half have floppy drives. And the only ones that have actually read data from or written data to a diskette in the last year or three are my Linux-on-a-floppy firewall/router, the machine with which I built its boot disk, and the aforementioned Quadra.
Fact is, there's no storage medium that's really common to all currently-used systems. Floppies are still the closest thing to that , but they're becoming less so every month. It won't be very long before CD-RW gets closer to "everywhere" than the floppy.
Check out his web site at that domain. He's aI guess The Wall Street Urinal doesn't do research when the interview subject presents himself as a poster boy for the Holy Church of Mercantilism.
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our office is mostly mac-based (blame the person who's name is on the company for making that decision 15 years ago)
I'd file that under "You all thought I was crazy, but who's laughing now?" I'm at the tail end of a migration of my own business from mostly Windows with one Mac and one Linux box, to a mix of OS X and Linux and a legacy Windows box... and lovin' it.
On the topic of Postfix, I switched from Sendmail (which I'd been tinkering with for a few years) to Postfix when I switched from RedHat to Mandrake, and found it mostly painless. The only problem was that Mandrake's default install of Apache and Postfix apparently left an open proxy (not relay) exploit enabled, and I was briefly sending out spam for some low-life.
It says "mod this up" in tree format. At every fork, process the left branch, then the right, then the node at the fork itself. When you reach a leaf, use that letter. Later, rinse, recurse.
...experts have called for a crackdown on the police, citing overwhelming evidence that most serious offenders have a history of prior exposure to the law enforcement officers.
Meanwhile, a shocking report has just been released indicating that most practising cannibals and necrophiliacs have repeatedly ridden in automobiles, trains, or other methods of high-speed transportation. Detective chief superintendent Len Hynds - who has been witnessed operating an automobile at high speed, and is rumoured to be a frequent passenger on British Rail and the London Underground - could not be reached for comment.
I think he is saying that if a customer is ordering a super-size offering and a Diet coke, the customer is as stupid as ever:)
Not as stupid as the customer ordering a super-size meal and a regular Coke loaded with even more empty calories. Hint: the guy ording the low-cal soda is killing himself more gradually.
So, based on one bad example, you conclude that nearly all of the companies that post jobs on these sites are shady. I got a job working for a company with an unqualified CEO/president who turned a highly profitable outfit into a smoking ruin... and I got the job through family connections. Does that mean all companies where you can get your foot in the door by knowing someone are "absolute shite"?
I'm not questioning that social networking might have gotten you a better job (it really is often great... for those that it works for), but maybe the reason you got stuck with such a lousy job is that your reasoning skills are a bit shaky.
Bottom line: your chances of finding a good job through networking, newspaper ads, job fairs, headhunters, and web sites are better than your chances through just networking, newspaper ads, job fairs, and headhunters.
I'm wholeheartedly behind the free (speech) arguments for this Freenet Project. What troubles me is its Philosophy statement, which goes off into this half-baked anti-copyright manifesto that suggests that it's more about provding a safe haven for those offering free (beer) access to other people's creative work. I don't buy it
When describing why you were out of work, don't say "I got laid off" or "I was made redundant" or anything else that makes you the subject of the story. That makes it sound like it's your fault. Instead say, "The company was forced to eliminate much of my department," which makes you sound more like the victim of a clamity, not some of the "fat" they were happy to trim to improve the balance sheet. If you can avoid making it about the company (where you were a very important part of their success, after all), that's even better. "The widget-making bust eliminated my position." But don't sound bitter about it. It's part of life, and you're OK with it.
If you went back to work for just a short while, I'd feel free to just not mention that job, and just lump that in with the period before and after, when you were "consulting". You could mention it as an example of "projects" you did while you were otherwise-out-of-work, to demonstrate that you weren't just sitting on your ass, but being a self-motivated pro-active kinda guy.
Just a random bit of advice for anyone who (like me) was singled out to be gotten rid of (for personal illegal-in-several-states reasons, for what it's worth): find a way to "launder" your resume without actually lying (which would be just plain stucking fupid). For example, go back to school, and pick up another degree or something. (If you have no income, financial aid is often available.) Sign up for the Peace Corps or something. Then put that on a chronological resume and employers may just assume you did it on purpose.
And nobody seems to be releasing any Symbian based organisers anymore
Your best bet for that would be a phone with organiser features included, like Nokia's 9190/9290. Or in case of a broken unit, leftover stock and used Revo/Makos on eBay.
I tried a PalmOS unit but was disappointed that the third-party spreadsheets available for it couldn't handle the things I was doing (collecting and analysing data) with Psion's Sheet app.
I think you might be missing out on the car references, and the speed implications.
When I think of Firefox, "speed" isn't the first thing to come to mind.
Firebird and Thunderbird were a nice "fast car" pair, but if there's a Firefox car out there, I'd never heard of it, suggesting that the reference a bit pointless in terms of branding. Going with a "fire___" theme from here on out seems like a good idea to me.
I've been tempted to set myself up with some spamware to send out the real secret to penis enlargement: play with it. If that doesn't work: get someone else to play with it.
I've found it works pretty well for me. (Proof available on request.)
governments that clearly don't give a rat's rump about their citizens' opinions or welfare, and go along indefinitely without being held to account.
If a government oppresses its people, it's because they allow it to. Not every government acts "for the people", but except for short-term occupational governments, there's no such thing as a government "of the people" that is not also "by the people".
government has a monopoly on the use of force
Only if the people abide by its rules. Besides, force isn't the deciding factor. Power is. Ask Ghandi or King or Mandela where that comes form.
The question betweeen governmental control (such as the UN) vs. corporate control (such as ICANN) ultimately comes down to their ultimate accountability. Politics and business both attract megalomaniacs and sleazeballs, because both are centers of power. So you have to look at how they operate: who they have to answer to.
There's a lot of ways you can set each of them up, but the only fundamental difference is who those bodies are accountable to. Corporations are accountable to their shareholders. Governments are accountable to their citizens. The latter is based on the principle of one person, one vote; the former is based on the principle of one dollar*, one vote.
I don't trust either kind of body, but I distrust governments less.
Ask him to (select one, as appropriate to your particular geek and your own curiosity)
show you how to install Linux
explain the dis/advantages among IDE, SCSI, and SATA hard drive technologies
teach you the basics of relativity or quantum theory
help you make a web page about something you're both into
explain what the controversy is over copyright, p2p, open source, patents, etc.
etc.
The point being A) to show him that you're interested (to some degree) in whatever geeky stuff he's thrives on (which assumes that you are, of course), and B) to give him a chance to feel good showing off what he knows (which assumes he does). One of the many fond memories I have of the time with my late boyfriend was the evening we spent years ago, drinking a bottle of wine while I explained everything he'd ever wanted to know (and probably a little more) about the intermingled history of DOS/Windows and the Intel CPU line, and the sun went down. Sure, it was probably a ploy to get me drunk and horny, but he learned a bit, I got my ego stoked, and he ended up spending the night.
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Likewise, as the tech to simulate under-age actors makes its way into the porn industry, I'm sure that "no actual minors were used in the production of this film" will not be a sufficent defense, either for the producer or the buyer. If the RealDoll folks were to produce a seemingly-under-age model - even one that just lies there - the bills criminalizing it would move through the state and federal legislatures so fast you could fly a kite in the breeze.
Movable Type's comment-spam problems stem mostly from its popularity; it has a large enough installed base to make it worth it for spammers to build tools to bulk-submit garbage comments. That installed base has also made it worthwhile to develop plug-ins to protect against that. I've had a little bit of trouble with spam on my blog, but it's been easy enough to deal with.
Personally I'd rather fuck the CEOs and get them to pitch their wives.
Does an iPod count?
It was bad enough when legislators just gave their bills doofy Orwellian names like the No Child Left Behind Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or the Defense of Marriage Act. Now we have to put up with nonsense like the Call Responsibly and Stay Healthy (CRASH) Act, the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act, and the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN SPAM) Act, and now this. At least geeks recognise the joke value of acronyms such as these. Do our president and legislators?
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Never mind.
I thought we were talking about computers that people still use. ;)
Different formats? FAT12 is the only widely-used floppy format I'm aware of, even by Linux boxes. If you're thinking of Apple's diskette format, that's been rendered pretty obsolete by the fact that the vast majority of Macs in use today are from the iMac era, and do not have floppy drives. I don't think OS X even supports them, at least not the default install.
Plus there are the countless rack-mounted servers with limited real estate (both in the front panel and in the box). Not many floppies in those.
I'm a use-it-until-it-won't-power-on kinda guy, and I like to play with antiques (like my Quadra web server), but of the dozen+ functional computers in my shop, less than half have floppy drives. And the only ones that have actually read data from or written data to a diskette in the last year or three are my Linux-on-a-floppy firewall/router, the machine with which I built its boot disk, and the aforementioned Quadra.
Fact is, there's no storage medium that's really common to all currently-used systems. Floppies are still the closest thing to that , but they're becoming less so every month. It won't be very long before CD-RW gets closer to "everywhere" than the floppy.
Check out his web site at that domain. He's aI guess The Wall Street Urinal doesn't do research when the interview subject presents himself as a poster boy for the Holy Church of Mercantilism.
I'd file that under "You all thought I was crazy, but who's laughing now?" I'm at the tail end of a migration of my own business from mostly Windows with one Mac and one Linux box, to a mix of OS X and Linux and a legacy Windows box... and lovin' it.
On the topic of Postfix, I switched from Sendmail (which I'd been tinkering with for a few years) to Postfix when I switched from RedHat to Mandrake, and found it mostly painless. The only problem was that Mandrake's default install of Apache and Postfix apparently left an open proxy (not relay) exploit enabled, and I was briefly sending out spam for some low-life.
It says "mod this up" in tree format. At every fork, process the left branch, then the right, then the node at the fork itself. When you reach a leaf, use that letter. Later, rinse, recurse.
Meanwhile, a shocking report has just been released indicating that most practising cannibals and necrophiliacs have repeatedly ridden in automobiles, trains, or other methods of high-speed transportation. Detective chief superintendent Len Hynds - who has been witnessed operating an automobile at high speed, and is rumoured to be a frequent passenger on British Rail and the London Underground - could not be reached for comment.
Not as stupid as the customer ordering a super-size meal and a regular Coke loaded with even more empty calories. Hint: the guy ording the low-cal soda is killing himself more gradually.
I'm not questioning that social networking might have gotten you a better job (it really is often great... for those that it works for), but maybe the reason you got stuck with such a lousy job is that your reasoning skills are a bit shaky.
Bottom line: your chances of finding a good job through networking, newspaper ads, job fairs, headhunters, and web sites are better than your chances through just networking, newspaper ads, job fairs, and headhunters.
At least there's still no code for "!", which should discourage most Morse spam.
I'm wholeheartedly behind the free (speech) arguments for this Freenet Project. What troubles me is its Philosophy statement, which goes off into this half-baked anti-copyright manifesto that suggests that it's more about provding a safe haven for those offering free (beer) access to other people's creative work. I don't buy it
If you went back to work for just a short while, I'd feel free to just not mention that job, and just lump that in with the period before and after, when you were "consulting". You could mention it as an example of "projects" you did while you were otherwise-out-of-work, to demonstrate that you weren't just sitting on your ass, but being a self-motivated pro-active kinda guy.
Just a random bit of advice for anyone who (like me) was singled out to be gotten rid of (for personal illegal-in-several-states reasons, for what it's worth): find a way to "launder" your resume without actually lying (which would be just plain stucking fupid). For example, go back to school, and pick up another degree or something. (If you have no income, financial aid is often available.) Sign up for the Peace Corps or something. Then put that on a chronological resume and employers may just assume you did it on purpose.
Your best bet for that would be a phone with organiser features included, like Nokia's 9190/9290. Or in case of a broken unit, leftover stock and used Revo/Makos on eBay.
I tried a PalmOS unit but was disappointed that the third-party spreadsheets available for it couldn't handle the things I was doing (collecting and analysing data) with Psion's Sheet app.
When I think of Firefox, "speed" isn't the first thing to come to mind.
Firebird and Thunderbird were a nice "fast car" pair, but if there's a Firefox car out there, I'd never heard of it, suggesting that the reference a bit pointless in terms of branding. Going with a "fire___" theme from here on out seems like a good idea to me.
I came home and found an e-mail message offering to sell me something that would do the same thing.
I've found it works pretty well for me. (Proof available on request.)
If a government oppresses its people, it's because they allow it to. Not every government acts "for the people", but except for short-term occupational governments, there's no such thing as a government "of the people" that is not also "by the people".
government has a monopoly on the use of force
Only if the people abide by its rules. Besides, force isn't the deciding factor. Power is. Ask Ghandi or King or Mandela where that comes form.
There's a lot of ways you can set each of them up, but the only fundamental difference is who those bodies are accountable to. Corporations are accountable to their shareholders. Governments are accountable to their citizens. The latter is based on the principle of one person, one vote; the former is based on the principle of one dollar*, one vote.
I don't trust either kind of body, but I distrust governments less.
*or equivalent in local currency
- show you how to install Linux
- explain the dis/advantages among IDE, SCSI, and SATA hard drive technologies
- teach you the basics of relativity or quantum theory
- help you make a web page about something you're both into
- explain what the controversy is over copyright, p2p, open source, patents, etc.
- etc.
The point being A) to show him that you're interested (to some degree) in whatever geeky stuff he's thrives on (which assumes that you are, of course), and B) to give him a chance to feel good showing off what he knows (which assumes he does). One of the many fond memories I have of the time with my late boyfriend was the evening we spent years ago, drinking a bottle of wine while I explained everything he'd ever wanted to know (and probably a little more) about the intermingled history of DOS/Windows and the Intel CPU line, and the sun went down. Sure, it was probably a ploy to get me drunk and horny, but he learned a bit, I got my ego stoked, and he ended up spending the night.You're forgetting "coercion" as another (probably more likely) possible explanation.