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  1. Re:Well, you gotta hand it to the guy... on 8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000 · · Score: 1

    If the market will bare it, it should be allowed.

    I thought they were trying to limit the amount of porn on the iTubes.

  2. And the *chanboys win in 5...4..3...2... on Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seriously, what happens if a group of people (generally young men found living electronically on one of those lovely chan boards) decide to stage a cp raid? Is the attacked site blocked forever or only as long as the cp stays on the servers? Who decides if it is intentional or accidental? Who even gets to decide what constitutes cp? Is there a job where someone has to sort through all the porn on the internet to see what is legal? Are they accepting resumes? Not that I'm applying.

  3. Second Life on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All that music being played and nary a cent going to the RIAA is just begging for a court intervention. Now they also have the IRS looking into the Electric Sheep Company / CSI:NY promotion and whether or not the 'guides' income should be taxed and there are questions as to whether labour law should be getting involved with all the Slingo hosts and their employers. I give it two years tops.

  4. Re:Collection Development Policies in Play on GPL Edutainment Software · · Score: 0

    Whoops. I meant dragonball z. My bad.

  5. Collection Development Policies in Play on GPL Edutainment Software · · Score: 0

    Well yeah, duh. Excessive and gratuitous violence is fine, as long as there's nothing sex-related. However, even using the word 'sex' will cause the family values of our culture to deteriorate to the point where we're having pedophile orgies in the street. It's not quite that simple. The collection development policies for graphic novels generally get applied to video games because they have been around longer and are easy to steal from another library.
    • G or Family rated stuff for the under 12s which means nothing at all allowed. E.g. Kim Possible, Disney Princesses, Peach Girl (I'm blanking. There's more but its been about 4 years since I made a children's gn collection sorry)
    • Teen -- Items for the 12 to 14 year olds. This is for the older kids still in the children's section or their parents. It generally allows for comic violence (punch upside the head) but absolutely no blood or gunplay. E.g. Innuyasha, Naruto, Bone
    • 16+ -- Items in the teen collection that have one or two of the bad list (blood, violence, boobies) but not all three (depending on the library this could require no nudity which means half of Sandman is in the teen section but the other half is in adult). E.g. Astro City, Essential (Xmen, Superman, fill in the blank), Alan Moore stuff
    • Adult -- For the adult collection. Eg. Transmetropolitan, Preacher.
  6. Re on The Future of Space Sports · · Score: 0

    Anyone else initially read this subject as having the men be juggled? Bonus points if one of them vomits?

  7. Re:show me the money on Recruiting Friendly Botnets To Counter Bad Botnets · · Score: 1

    Psst. Altruism is dead. Didn't you get the memo?

  8. show me the money on Recruiting Friendly Botnets To Counter Bad Botnets · · Score: 0

    If someone was willing to pay me to use my computer processor (not hard drive) for scheduled shifts when I knew I wasn't going to be using it other than downloading torrents compiling gentoo (and my isp didn't mind me actually using their bandwidth) I'd think about it. I'd probably say no but I'd still think about it.

  9. Obviously Norwegian Public Television is to blame on BitTorrent Use Up 24% Since November · · Score: 1

    They released Nordkalotten 365 as a bittorent file, saved oodles of money in the process, and now we hear usage is up. Add the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Canada's Next Great Prime Minister to the mix and of course the numbers will skyrocket. Downloading television shows illegally is so passé.