No... I think havoc, or rather, panic, would result in any case. I understand what you're getting at: the Bible states that '666', the number of the Beast, is to be written on the forehead or the back of the palm, and anyone who didn't have the number on them couldn't purchase things or make transactions, etc. (I'll have to check on that; haven't read the Bible in some time). However, the implications of such a device, whether implanted or not, are enough to make most Christians quiver in fear, or perhaps joy (I'm not fanatically Christian, but this still frightens me a bit). Similar devices have been mentioned on Slashdot before; there's always much talk of tracking individuals and using the devices as 'smart cards' and tags of sort so that anyone without the device couldn't make transactions and whatnot. It would be kinda like being the only kid in school without the brand new Pokemon-Pikachu-Jigglypuff Orgy lunchbox that everyone else seems to suddenly have; everyone would "hate" you:)
Of course all that's just an extreme projection; it assumes that the old money system would be suddenly phased out (so everyone would need the device), secret trades and old money would be made illegal, the rivers would turn to blood, the stars would fall from the sky, the Jews would convert en masse to Christianity, blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada...
You know what's funny? Some guys who call themselves Temple ov thee Lemur did just about that: using some bottled alcohol and a fridge, they overclocked a 486SX/25 to over 200 megahertz (albeit accidentally) before the chip cooked itself. An article about this may have appeared on Slashdot some time ago: see the project at http://totl.net/Eunuch.
Ummmm... www.fairtunes.com/dev.jsp states that Fairtunes is looking for developers "to help with development of a plugin for Winamp, XMMS and whatever other players/platforms interest you." Yes, the fact that they're looking for coders doesn't fix the problem, but the fact that they're looking for coders does mean they're aware of the inconvenience of looking up each artist from their website and paying them individually. They even go so far as to say this:
"This kind of software would have to be open-source so everyone could see that it isn't secretly sending information about the users listening habits to us or any other company."
Even though I'm not an open-source fanatic myself, I do think that Fairtunes is being quite noble in asking for outside help. There you have it, people: get down and dirty and make open-source work. Easier said than done, of course, but hey...:p~~~
Hmmmmm... quite admirable, if the stats are accurate. However, my hypothesis is that such laws are much easier to enforce in Australia due to the fact that
1) It's essentially a gigantic island; in other words, no people smuggling things (drugs and whatnot) across the "border."
2) The population -is- smaller.
3) Does Australia have any organization equivalent to the NRA? Or for that matter, anything in legalese that's equivalent to the US Second Amendment "right to bear arms"?
Actually, I'm interested in hearing what the stats for drug use are in Australia. I'm not saying gun ownership and drug use go hand in hand (they may... I dunno), but I am curious. Perhaps I should go find out...:)
I think this is an important idea, if not a good one, and here's why (this is also in response to comment #31, "Handwriting Recognition"): having handwriting recognition assumes one has a penlike thing to write with, right? Of course; it's usually called a stylus. The important thing about this is that not only does the stylus allow one to write "naturally", but it also allows one to do away with a mouse or trackball.
One of the cumbersome things about GUIs, for me personally, is the fact that I often have to switch from the keyboard to the mouse to change focus or click a button or whatnot. This may be a bigger issue for some than others, but I'm sure it's not good on the wrists:) However, I could use a stylus to change focus, click buttons, and "type" into text fields or windows or whatever. And if this particular computer does come with a keyboard, I could use the keyboard when I want to type quickly. It's the best of both worlds: fast typing when necessary, convienience and "wrist health" when not.
Of course there's the issue of mouse buttons; since the MacOS was designed for one-button mice anyway, it's not really an issue, but for multiple-button mice, perhaps they could put tiny buttons on the stylus that send different signals or change the magnetic field or somethin'... eh?
Bolo was quite a nifty game, although I don't know if it's being developed anymore. One could also program different AI into the tanks and bots, if I remember, and anyone with a copy of ResEdit on hand could have megafun:) I often wondered if anyone had successfully managed to port Bolo to other platforms, but I did a few searches and never managed to find anything. Maybe I'll come up with a Bolo clone for UNIX one day:p
Perhaps a little offtopic, but what amazes me most are the shadows. For example, take a look at the Tr anquility Arena shot 3 and the Ba sic silicon shot 4. From an OpenGL standpoint, shadows such as these would be difficult to generate in realtime, especially since they are "soft shadows". Now I know about the technique of rendering shadow volumes using the stencil buffer, but shadow volumes are still hard shadows, and some cards, like the Voodoo 3, aren't even gifted with a hardware stencil buffer.
They have a prerendered shadow texture that goes with each level, and then is projected, somehow, into place (I don't know anything about projective textures)
Those are just my guesses; I still don't remember if the shadows are cast onto actual moving objects or not. If any of you have played the car game Revolt, you may know a little bit of what I'm talking about. In that game, shadows -are- cast onto the cars, but I don't know if that game was written using OpenGL or not. If any of you OpenGL coders or Quake3 level builders have any ideas or links, I'd be glad to hear about them. Any theories?
If you're curious, Alacron sells coprocessor boards based on a few different processors including the i860. I'm not exactly sure what they could do, and no mention of price, either (although both are probably mentioned in the PDF on the site).
The reason is that graphics cards are designed to do just that: graphics. According to NVIDIA's developer website (check the FAQ for the GeForce), transformed data cannot be read back from the GeForce system. Even with lower systems, like the Voodoo I, there's no practical way to read data back from the card, even if you did come up with someway to encode your finished data into an image and process it later. Graphics cards are designed to go from main CPU to monitor incredibly fast; they can't go very fast in the other direction, if they can go in the other direction at all. With OpenGL one can use glReadPixels() and glReadBuffer() to read the values from any available buffer (or at least the Z-buffer and color buffer), but that's usually slow because, as I said, graphics cards weren't really designed to go the other way.
I'm sure most of us remember the days of math coprocessors like the 487 (since the 486 SX had no FPU) and even earlier ones like the 8087; it seems the hardware industry is beginning to regress to the math coprocessor days of yore with fancy names like GPU to make itself sound 31337:) I can't say it's a bad idea; it's a very good idea, but until someone markets a graphics card that can be programmed to perform general-purpose algorithms, we're probably better off with an actual coprocessor or coprocessor board. Though, I can't really say that there are lots of coprocessor boards either; maybe a graphics-card builder can beat the coprocessor builders to the punch?
Yes... I did this before in a Mac lab where we used a Powermac 6100 running MkLinux (not very stable) to teach C++ programming. The students would fire up MI/X to get access to xterms and text editors stored on the MKLinux machine. MI/X will even let you use other window managers (it has twm built in, I think), but the main issue is that more than likely you will have to download fonts (luckily, standard X fonts) and add their descriptions, by hand, to the MI/X text file. MI/X cannot access font servers. However, my MI/X experience was a good one.
I hope you don't mind if I speak from a personal perspective for a moment here: my first program was on my friend's Apple IIE in the fourth grade. In my library I found a set of tiny (45-page) books with simple BASIC programs in them and decided to try a few out one day. Now not everyone at such a young age is able to write a program, but things have changed since I was in the fourth grade (about 7 years ago). Today's children are hopefully much more eager about technology, and should be able to handle something like BASIC.
C or C++ would definitely be too complicated for most, so I guess an interpreted language like QBASIC would be appropriate. QBASIC is more "structured" than older versions of BASIC (like GW-BASIC) and supports separate functions and subroutines (besides the GOSUB kind). And best of all, one doesn't need line numbers and GOTOs in QBASIC programs (and is encouraged to go without them).
So to answer your question, 5th and 6th graders of today are probably more than willing to learn to write programs, and should be able to handle the task if it is introduced in the right way. They aren't too young.
> Faith is a funny thing though... Ask a non-religious person if they'd buy into what I just described, and > they'd probably say "Yeah, that would make sense." Ask a religious person what they think of the > idea and they usually freak out. It works. I've tried it.
Well, it's not really faith that's funny... it's just human nature. Humans have a natural "uncomfortability" with ideas that are different, and it saddens me to see Christians who think that any idea that conflicts with theirs is an idea from the "dark side."
> It's just sad though... The kind of Christians that get freaked out by that concept are really missing > out on a much deeper and more profound view of the world and universe around them.
It is kinda sad, isn't it? Well, as I grow in my faith, I hope that I will continue to be open-minded and keep an eye out for how God works in the world. And hopefully my faith will become even stronger when I observe!
I didn't know that such a viewpoint could be summed up in such a short comment! I agree with you completely. I am Christian, but I do realize that no one knows exactly how God works or on what level He chooses to work. I've heard that God works in natural ways, and I don't believe he just "poofed" the world and all of its life into existence about 6,000 years ago. He could have, but then again, He very well may have decided to be a little more "sneaky". We humans will never truly know how God works, but we do need to acknowledge the fact that He doesn't always just go around "shoving and poofing".
Hrmmmm.... perhaps I should read that book, "Darwin's Black Box." I usually don't like to poke around with theology because I don't like being offended (and I get offended easily!), but perhaps it's worth a read.
I am also a Christian, and I believe God was responsible for at least part of the creation of the universe. I believe He "ignited" the Big Bang. I also believe in macroevolution, but not "Godless" evolution; I think He tweaked things to His liking. My beliefs sound strange (and I admit that I'm young and have a lot to learn), but I don't think that the world is only 6,000 years old and was literally created in 7 twenty-four hour days. I just keep in mind that the Bible was not written by God, but was written by God-inspired humans; back about 2000 years ago, the number "1 million" hadn't even been invented yet, so of course the Bible won't ever say that the world could be 4.5 billion years old!
Anyway, that's just my two cents. Perhaps you're right about schools not being forced to teach Darwinian evolution anymore, but I still believe it should be taught, if only to give the students a different perspective. I do not agree that it should be taught as proven fact, though.
It also saddens me to see Christians who want to turn America into a theocracy. I don't believe that is our purpose as Christians; I believe our main purpose as Christians is to be helpful and to be a friend to all... to be "selfless", in other words. It would be very sad if America became a theocracy and forced out Atheists and Jews and homosexuals and whatnot... Did you ever learn about 13th and 14th century Spain? If I remember correctly, Isabella and Ferdinand cast out all of the Jews and Muslims in the country. The result: the Spanish economy collapsed! The Jews were the merchants and artisans and comprised the middle class.
What I'm trying to get at is that America does have problems due to its diversity... but diversity (of culture and of opinion) is why America thrives. We need that kind of diversity to keep America running.
As for evolution, I don't think that believing in evolution means that one has to give up God. Now I'm young and I have a lot to learn, but I believe it is possible that God "ignited" the big bang (that removes the issue of the first law of thermodynamics) and then God guided macroevolution which resulted in today's lifeforms. Each of his seven days represented different portions of geological time.
Well anyway, those are my beliefs at the moment, and I'm sure there are quite a few people who would call me crazy (Christians and non-Christians alike)!. Oh well... Thanks for your post, and if you want to email me, just remove the "nopidgeons." from my email address.
These people you speak of (your examples of European "Christians" and "celibate" priests) are not real Christians. Real Christians don't go around killing people and exploiting children, and it's unfortunate that the many fake Christians out there have given real Christians a bad image.
I am a Christian and I believe in God and in Jesus, but the stuff many of today's "Christians" are doing, supposedly in the name of God, is just wrong. I'd never go up to a Jew or an Atheist and say, "Hey, you better change or you're going to Hell." I'd never up to a homosexual and say, "I will not let you sodomize my family." I have friends who are Atheist and Jewish and I don't believe in pushing my beliefs on them. The meaning of faith is to believe in something (or the lack thereof) regardless of what other people say; if other people have true faith in their Judaism or Atheism, what makes people think that they can change that? We're supposed to be friends to all, without judging others; the only true judge is God Himself, and I feel that there are some of today's Christians who need to get their heads out of the sand and remember this!
You might call me a "conservative Christian liberal"; I believe there's much evil in the world today, but I believe that parents need to actually raise their children instead of letting the media do so. I believe it is good to believe in God, but I don't believe we are supposed to turn America into a theocracy. I don't believe every word said out there is good, but we have rights to say those words nevertheless.
There were four Crusades and the first was the only righteous one. All the other three involved "Christians" looting Constantinople and other lands. I'm ashamed of so-called "Christians" who are still running around smacking up people in the name of "gold, God, and glory" even in these modern days, and I'm sorry that this has given you and other people a bad opinion of real Christians.
It's unfortunate that a situation like this is happening. It only goes to show that today's "child-protection software" has a long way to go in the matter of "intelligence". As for the solution to your problem, perhaps the best thing to do for now would be to move your resume and other important stuff to one of those free places like GeoCities. The advertising would annoy some people, but at least your content would still be accessible... or does Cyber Patrol block GeoCities too? *sigh*
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No... I think havoc, or rather, panic, would result in any case. I understand what you're getting at: the Bible states that '666', the number of the Beast, is to be written on the forehead or the back of the palm, and anyone who didn't have the number on them couldn't purchase things or make transactions, etc. (I'll have to check on that; haven't read the Bible in some time). However, the implications of such a device, whether implanted or not, are enough to make most Christians quiver in fear, or perhaps joy (I'm not fanatically Christian, but this still frightens me a bit). Similar devices have been mentioned on Slashdot before; there's always much talk of tracking individuals and using the devices as 'smart cards' and tags of sort so that anyone without the device couldn't make transactions and whatnot. It would be kinda like being the only kid in school without the brand new Pokemon-Pikachu-Jigglypuff Orgy lunchbox that everyone else seems to suddenly have; everyone would "hate" you :)
Of course all that's just an extreme projection; it assumes that the old money system would be suddenly phased out (so everyone would need the device), secret trades and old money would be made illegal, the rivers would turn to blood, the stars would fall from the sky, the Jews would convert en masse to Christianity, blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada...
You know what's funny? Some guys who call themselves Temple ov thee Lemur did just about that: using some bottled alcohol and a fridge, they overclocked a 486SX/25 to over 200 megahertz (albeit accidentally) before the chip cooked itself. An article about this may have appeared on Slashdot some time ago: see the project at http://totl.net/Eunuch.
Ummmm... www.fairtunes.com/dev.jsp states that Fairtunes is looking for developers "to help with development of a plugin for Winamp, XMMS and whatever other players/platforms interest you." Yes, the fact that they're looking for coders doesn't fix the problem, but the fact that they're looking for coders does mean they're aware of the inconvenience of looking up each artist from their website and paying them individually. They even go so far as to say this:
:p~~~
"This kind of software would have to be open-source so everyone could see that it isn't secretly sending information about the users listening habits to us or any other company."
Even though I'm not an open-source fanatic myself, I do think that Fairtunes is being quite noble in asking for outside help. There you have it, people: get down and dirty and make open-source work. Easier said than done, of course, but hey...
Hmmmmm... quite admirable, if the stats are accurate. However, my hypothesis is that such laws are much easier to enforce in Australia due to the fact that
:)
1) It's essentially a gigantic island; in other words, no people smuggling things (drugs and whatnot) across the "border."
2) The population -is- smaller.
3) Does Australia have any organization equivalent to the NRA? Or for that matter, anything in legalese that's equivalent to the US Second Amendment "right to bear arms"?
Actually, I'm interested in hearing what the stats for drug use are in Australia. I'm not saying gun ownership and drug use go hand in hand (they may... I dunno), but I am curious. Perhaps I should go find out...
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HEY... I can stop peeing midstream, and probably many other guys can as well :) It's the male equivalent of Kegel exercises, if I'm correct.
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I think this is an important idea, if not a good one, and here's why (this is also in response to comment #31, "Handwriting Recognition"): having handwriting recognition assumes one has a penlike thing to write with, right? Of course; it's usually called a stylus. The important thing about this is that not only does the stylus allow one to write "naturally", but it also allows one to do away with a mouse or trackball.
:) However, I could use a stylus to change focus, click buttons, and "type" into text fields or windows or whatever. And if this particular computer does come with a keyboard, I could use the keyboard when I want to type quickly. It's the best of both worlds: fast typing when necessary, convienience and "wrist health" when not.
One of the cumbersome things about GUIs, for me personally, is the fact that I often have to switch from the keyboard to the mouse to change focus or click a button or whatnot. This may be a bigger issue for some than others, but I'm sure it's not good on the wrists
Of course there's the issue of mouse buttons; since the MacOS was designed for one-button mice anyway, it's not really an issue, but for multiple-button mice, perhaps they could put tiny buttons on the stylus that send different signals or change the magnetic field or somethin'... eh?
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Bolo was quite a nifty game, although I don't know if it's being developed anymore. One could also program different AI into the tanks and bots, if I remember, and anyone with a copy of ResEdit on hand could have megafun :) I often wondered if anyone had successfully managed to port Bolo to other platforms, but I did a few searches and never managed to find anything. Maybe I'll come up with a Bolo clone for UNIX one day :p
I'm guessing that either:
- They use shadow maps.
- They have a prerendered shadow texture that goes with each level, and then is projected, somehow, into place (I don't know anything about projective textures)
Those are just my guesses; I still don't remember if the shadows are cast onto actual moving objects or not. If any of you have played the car game Revolt, you may know a little bit of what I'm talking about. In that game, shadows -are- cast onto the cars, but I don't know if that game was written using OpenGL or not. If any of you OpenGL coders or Quake3 level builders have any ideas or links, I'd be glad to hear about them. Any theories?If you're curious, Alacron sells coprocessor boards based on a few different processors including the i860. I'm not exactly sure what they could do, and no mention of price, either (although both are probably mentioned in the PDF on the site).
The reason is that graphics cards are designed to do just that: graphics. According to NVIDIA's developer website (check the FAQ for the GeForce), transformed data cannot be read back from the GeForce system. Even with lower systems, like the Voodoo I, there's no practical way to read data back from the card, even if you did come up with someway to encode your finished data into an image and process it later. Graphics cards are designed to go from main CPU to monitor incredibly fast; they can't go very fast in the other direction, if they can go in the other direction at all. With OpenGL one can use glReadPixels() and glReadBuffer() to read the values from any available buffer (or at least the Z-buffer and color buffer), but that's usually slow because, as I said, graphics cards weren't really designed to go the other way.
:) I can't say it's a bad idea; it's a very good idea, but until someone markets a graphics card that can be programmed to perform general-purpose algorithms, we're probably better off with an actual coprocessor or coprocessor board. Though, I can't really say that there are lots of coprocessor boards either; maybe a graphics-card builder can beat the coprocessor builders to the punch?
I'm sure most of us remember the days of math coprocessors like the 487 (since the 486 SX had no FPU) and even earlier ones like the 8087; it seems the hardware industry is beginning to regress to the math coprocessor days of yore with fancy names like GPU to make itself sound 31337
Yes... I did this before in a Mac lab where we used a Powermac 6100 running MkLinux (not very stable) to teach C++ programming. The students would fire up MI/X to get access to xterms and text editors stored on the MKLinux machine. MI/X will even let you use other window managers (it has twm built in, I think), but the main issue is that more than likely you will have to download fonts (luckily, standard X fonts) and add their descriptions, by hand, to the MI/X text file. MI/X cannot access font servers. However, my MI/X experience was a good one.
I hope you don't mind if I speak from a personal perspective for a moment here: my first program was on my friend's Apple IIE in the fourth grade. In my library I found a set of tiny (45-page) books with simple BASIC programs in them and decided to try a few out one day. Now not everyone at such a young age is able to write a program, but things have changed since I was in the fourth grade (about 7 years ago). Today's children are hopefully much more eager about technology, and should be able to handle something like BASIC.
C or C++ would definitely be too complicated for most, so I guess an interpreted language like QBASIC would be appropriate. QBASIC is more "structured" than older versions of BASIC (like GW-BASIC) and supports separate functions and subroutines (besides the GOSUB kind). And best of all, one doesn't need line numbers and GOTOs in QBASIC programs (and is encouraged to go without them).
So to answer your question, 5th and 6th graders of today are probably more than willing to learn to write programs, and should be able to handle the task if it is introduced in the right way. They aren't too young.
> Faith is a funny thing though... Ask a non-religious person if they'd buy into what I just described, and > they'd probably say "Yeah, that would make sense." Ask a religious person what they think of the
> idea and they usually freak out. It works. I've tried it.
Well, it's not really faith that's funny... it's just human nature. Humans have a natural "uncomfortability" with ideas that are different, and it saddens me to see Christians who think that any idea that conflicts with theirs is an idea from the "dark side."
> It's just sad though... The kind of Christians that get freaked out by that concept are really missing
> out on a much deeper and more profound view of the world and universe around them.
It is kinda sad, isn't it? Well, as I grow in my faith, I hope that I will continue to be open-minded and keep an eye out for how God works in the world. And hopefully my faith will become even stronger when I observe!
I didn't know that such a viewpoint could be summed up in such a short comment! I agree with you completely. I am Christian, but I do realize that no one knows exactly how God works or on what level He chooses to work. I've heard that God works in natural ways, and I don't believe he just "poofed" the world and all of its life into existence about 6,000 years ago. He could have, but then again, He very well may have decided to be a little more "sneaky". We humans will never truly know how God works, but we do need to acknowledge the fact that He doesn't always just go around "shoving and poofing".
Hrmmmm.... perhaps I should read that book, "Darwin's Black Box." I usually don't like to poke around with theology because I don't like being offended (and I get offended easily!), but perhaps it's worth a read.
I am also a Christian, and I believe God was responsible for at least part of the creation of the universe. I believe He "ignited" the Big Bang. I also believe in macroevolution, but not "Godless" evolution; I think He tweaked things to His liking. My beliefs sound strange (and I admit that I'm young and have a lot to learn), but I don't think that the world is only 6,000 years old and was literally created in 7 twenty-four hour days. I just keep in mind that the Bible was not written by God, but was written by God-inspired humans; back about 2000 years ago, the number "1 million" hadn't even been invented yet, so of course the Bible won't ever say that the world could be 4.5 billion years old!
Anyway, that's just my two cents. Perhaps you're right about schools not being forced to teach Darwinian evolution anymore, but I still believe it should be taught, if only to give the students a different perspective. I do not agree that it should be taught as proven fact, though.
It also saddens me to see Christians who want to turn America into a theocracy. I don't believe that is our purpose as Christians; I believe our main purpose as Christians is to be helpful and to be a friend to all... to be "selfless", in other words. It would be very sad if America became a theocracy and forced out Atheists and Jews and homosexuals and whatnot... Did you ever learn about 13th and 14th century Spain? If I remember correctly, Isabella and Ferdinand cast out all of the Jews and Muslims in the country. The result: the Spanish economy collapsed! The Jews were the merchants and artisans and comprised the middle class.
What I'm trying to get at is that America does have problems due to its diversity... but diversity (of culture and of opinion) is why America thrives. We need that kind of diversity to keep America running.
As for evolution, I don't think that believing in evolution means that one has to give up God. Now I'm young and I have a lot to learn, but I believe it is possible that God "ignited" the big bang (that removes the issue of the first law of thermodynamics) and then God guided macroevolution which resulted in today's lifeforms. Each of his seven days represented different portions of geological time.
Well anyway, those are my beliefs at the moment, and I'm sure there are quite a few people who would call me crazy (Christians and non-Christians alike)!. Oh well... Thanks for your post, and if you want to email me, just remove the "nopidgeons." from my email address.
These people you speak of (your examples of European "Christians" and "celibate" priests) are not real Christians. Real Christians don't go around killing people and exploiting children, and it's unfortunate that the many fake Christians out there have given real Christians a bad image.
I am a Christian and I believe in God and in Jesus, but the stuff many of today's "Christians" are doing, supposedly in the name of God, is just wrong. I'd never go up to a Jew or an Atheist and say, "Hey, you better change or you're going to Hell." I'd never up to a homosexual and say, "I will not let you sodomize my family." I have friends who are Atheist and Jewish and I don't believe in pushing my beliefs on them. The meaning of faith is to believe in something (or the lack thereof) regardless of what other people say; if other people have true faith in their Judaism or Atheism, what makes people think that they can change that? We're supposed to be friends to all, without judging others; the only true judge is God Himself, and I feel that there are some of today's Christians who need to get their heads out of the sand and remember this!
You might call me a "conservative Christian liberal"; I believe there's much evil in the world today, but I believe that parents need to actually raise their children instead of letting the media do so. I believe it is good to believe in God, but I don't believe we are supposed to turn America into a theocracy. I don't believe every word said out there is good, but we have rights to say those words nevertheless.
There were four Crusades and the first was the only righteous one. All the other three involved "Christians" looting Constantinople and other lands. I'm ashamed of so-called "Christians" who are still running around smacking up people in the name of "gold, God, and glory" even in these modern days, and I'm sorry that this has given you and other people a bad opinion of real Christians.
It's unfortunate that a situation like this is happening. It only goes to show that today's "child-protection software" has a long way to go in the matter of "intelligence". As for the solution to your problem, perhaps the best thing to do for now would be to move your resume and other important stuff to one of those free places like GeoCities. The advertising would annoy some people, but at least your content would still be accessible... or does Cyber Patrol block GeoCities too? *sigh*