Anything that can isolate porn from the youngsters is something that everyone should be interested in.
Why? Why should I even care? What's so wrong with it?
If a child of mine stumbled across images of people getting their heads blown off on rotten.com, images of people being shot on the news, or even an animal rights site showing images of a slaughterhouse, I'd been more concerned than if they saw images of naked people.
I'm going to be terribly blunt. By the age of eight, at the latest, a child should know where babies come from, what sex is and have a reasonable idea of why people do it. Anything less and I question the competance of their guardians.
If they have even the most basic access to the internet, they should know what pornography is, and simply be advised to avoid it where possible. But none of this should discourage them from using the internet to ask questions and gain information.
The absolute worst thing you can do is make anything to do with sex taboo. If you do, you stand a substantial risk of making your child a genuine deviant. It's been proven time and again, when sex is repressed, it becomes a source of mental ill health. My personal opinion is that the red states are chocobloc with closet perverts.
The only way children will be "traumatised" by images of sex is if they had serious mental issues with sex to begin with. Issues more than likely caused by parental actions. If you've actually done your job as a parent, they should just have a good giggle.
Let's take my three sisters. Each has a degree in biology. Each considers me their personal tech support when anything "breaks." It sucks.
Quit your complaining. My grandparents had 14 children, I've got about twenty cousins, two siblings, and ties with the extended families of my parents friends, and I am the only geek ever produced by this warren!
Sometimes, I seriously consider setting up some kind of VNC.
You could say the same thing about television and radio.
At look where they are now. Declining ratings, falling revenues. If Google is superceeded by a better search offering, then their revenues could quickly take a tumble.
My point is that when somebody appears "less intelligent" than you, by which I presume you mean they drive differently, instead of getting angry, you can simply be a bit more patient.
Anyone who hogs the middle lane is automatically less intelligent than the person flashing lights behind them.
Anyone who's majored in Mathematics (I did) must spend one semester carefully defining, understanding, and proving continuity. What's described by today's "etiquette" clearly and egregiously violates the notion of continuous, rendering the euphemism "Continous Partial Attention" nothing more than an oxymoron.
You can have a continuous partial derivative though. But I think what you're getting at is that modern etiquette is not so much discontinuous anymore, as it is completely fractal.
Yes, LinuxWorld is a big thing that he should be making but he doesn't work for Linux. Linux doesn't cut his paychecks, Microsoft does. And if he's got something to do internally, leave it at that.
The IEEE NaN and SQL NULL behaviour are very standard and widely known things. This is *by*design*. Now, you may disagree with the correctness of the design, like C J Date and others...
All very well, but in a weakly typed langage like ASP, NaN and NULL are both the same data type as everything else. It's all very well to say that x!=x should be true if x is an integer, but when x is simply an ASP var, the rules based on numerical evaluation cease to apply. The result should always return true if var comparision is to be a well defined operation.
Especially when said documentation starts with "I don't know exactly why this was included, what it does, or how it does it but the system won't work without it" or simply "Sorry about this..."
Oh, nothing beats this one!
I was working on an asp project a few years back, and did something just like this; except it was far, far worse.
Basically, a variable was coming back from a SQL statement after hitting a NULL value, and I needed to evaluate it. Trouble is, not matter what the logical statement was, the check always evaluated to false. To whit:
variable or not variable
evaluated to false. Regardless. To prevent this, I believe I wrote code along the following lines:
varcheck = "NOT OK" if variable then
varcheck = "OK"
else if not variable then
varcheck = "OK"
end if end if
The comment was essentially a long, intricate writ of apology, pleading with the reader to attempt to understand my hopeless position and to accept the presented obscenity before the gods of computer logic.
Shortly afterwards, I resolved to never program in ASP again as long as I lived. I think that code is still out there somewhere. Here's hoping Microsoft never update the ASP interpreter to pre optimise!
Thing is, the computer technician actually got the sack because he was breaking the Data Protection Act my snooping.
Rightly so. He "helped" catch one pedophile, but so what? We all know that paticular suspect was under surveillance for quite some time anyway. And you're simply naive if you this this paticular tech only snooped once and just happened to stumble over one celebrities hidden cache. Dollars to doughnuts the tech regularly slurped customers hard discs for porn and the like.
To paraphrase: It were better that Ten Suspected Pedophiles should escape, than that the Innocent Person should be subject to warrantless seizure.
I don't understand why people don't like the look of slashdot.
Because it doesn't use AJAX, or XSS stylesheets, or look like OSX, and simply refuses to choose flash, chrome and vapid featuresets over a practical, usable, interface.
However, since a lot of people download CD and DVD ISOs, probably the most useful utility would be to allow people to pick from a web form what they want, then have the server roll the appropriate images for you. Then, you only download what you actually need, not what Red Hat thinks you might need.
Fedora Suggests: If possible, use patent unrestricted formats such as Ogg Vorbis (a lossy audio codec that has better quality than MP3), or FLAC (a lossless audio codec).
Fedora's suggestion sucks. For a start both Ogg and FLAC are encumbered by patents just like every other compression technology out there. Why Ogg and FLAC are exempt when JPEG2000 is not is quite beyond me.
And second, and most obviously, what's the point of excluding mp3. Hundreds of other pieces of software and even the kernel itself are probably "infringing" on hundreds more patents. That's how the computer software industry works.
Mp3 was excluded for one reason. Dogma. It has nothing to do with Fraunhofer being beligerent, because if it did, don't you think Ubuntu or others would have excluded mp3 support by now. No. It has to do with Red Hat, and now the Fedora Project, trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, i.e. trying to get the world to move away from mp3, and towards FOSS alternatives.
Wake up call. Mp3 is here to stay. Lossless formats will superceed it long before Ogg et al stand a chance. Fedora need to learn to live with this and give Fraunhofer and any other parasite who latches onto success the proverbial v-sign.
What I would like to see in 2.x is some MNG support. It's about time people moved away from animated GIFs as the situation is rapidly getting out of hand. On some forums, animated sig images can be up to 500KB in size. There's demand for a better animated standard, and why MNG support was dropped from Firefox 1.5 is beyond me.
Also, Javascript needs an overhaul. If XUL is ever going to take off, it can't rely on a language that doesn't even have a "class" keyword or equivilent.
It would be nice if the Mozilla foundation took it upon itself once more, to drag the rest of teh industry, kicking and screaming, into the future.
What does Tolkien and Lord of the Rings have to do with all that?
If you had bothered to read the book you would know that the 802.11s specification stipulates petabyte data rates for ring members, but at the cost of a gradual, but inevitable, packet loss as all requests are slowly redirected to the master or "One" ring, which then acts as a sort of lower layer domain controller or DNS.
Eventually, any and all dns lookups and ip connections, including localhost, are redirected to baraddur.arpa. Or, if Sauron is in a paticularly sadistic mood; myspace.com.
Think about it. Wouldn't you like to know "as much as possible" about a person you are about to hire?
Not really.
If I was an employer, only two things would really concern me. One, the candidates competance and skill at performing the required labour, and two, the amount of compensation the candidate was willing to perform the labour for.
I really don't care if; you go out every night goofing off with your buddies, have a myspace account with silly pictures, vote for another political party, have an unusual sexual orientation, are religious, have extra curricular activities, can sing or dance, eat parsnips, use black pens, build rockets, watch anime etc, etc, etc....
As long as you can do the job you get paid to do, there isn't a whole lot else that concerns me. Maybe I'd have some limits. Clearly anything untoward done on company time is grounds for dismissal. Probably murdering someone outside office hours would make me think again about having you on company premises. But realistically, I not going to waste my time or money googling you on the internet, and if I found any HR person had done the same, they would quickly find their job vacant.
And a note to employees, if you work, or are looking to work for a company that does this; leave. Walk away now and never look back. You can do a hell of a lot better. Employment isn't bonded labour. It's about you selling your skills to someone who needs them. Anything else is a waste of your time.
Yet the article then jumps from there to "It's America's fault for creating all this global warming!!" No real science. Just politics. Why is this even posted on/.?
Because America accounts for 25% of all the world's energy consumption.
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Anything that can isolate porn from the youngsters is something that everyone should be interested in.
Why? Why should I even care? What's so wrong with it?
If a child of mine stumbled across images of people getting their heads blown off on rotten.com, images of people being shot on the news, or even an animal rights site showing images of a slaughterhouse, I'd been more concerned than if they saw images of naked people.
I'm going to be terribly blunt. By the age of eight, at the latest, a child should know where babies come from, what sex is and have a reasonable idea of why people do it. Anything less and I question the competance of their guardians.
If they have even the most basic access to the internet, they should know what pornography is, and simply be advised to avoid it where possible. But none of this should discourage them from using the internet to ask questions and gain information.
The absolute worst thing you can do is make anything to do with sex taboo. If you do, you stand a substantial risk of making your child a genuine deviant. It's been proven time and again, when sex is repressed, it becomes a source of mental ill health. My personal opinion is that the red states are chocobloc with closet perverts.
The only way children will be "traumatised" by images of sex is if they had serious mental issues with sex to begin with. Issues more than likely caused by parental actions. If you've actually done your job as a parent, they should just have a good giggle.
Let's take my three sisters. Each has a degree in biology. Each considers me their personal tech support when anything "breaks." It sucks.
Quit your complaining. My grandparents had 14 children, I've got about twenty cousins, two siblings, and ties with the extended families of my parents friends, and I am the only geek ever produced by this warren!
Sometimes, I seriously consider setting up some kind of VNC.
You could say the same thing about television and radio.
At look where they are now. Declining ratings, falling revenues. If Google is superceeded by a better search offering, then their revenues could quickly take a tumble.
In the same vein (but totally against any mathematical logic)....
Young man, I tell you now that you simply have not seen, enough mathematics.
My point is that when somebody appears "less intelligent" than you, by which I presume you mean they drive differently, instead of getting angry, you can simply be a bit more patient.
Anyone who hogs the middle lane is automatically less intelligent than the person flashing lights behind them.
Anyone who's majored in Mathematics (I did) must spend one semester carefully defining, understanding, and proving continuity. What's described by today's "etiquette" clearly and egregiously violates the notion of continuous, rendering the euphemism "Continous Partial Attention" nothing more than an oxymoron.
You can have a continuous partial derivative though. But I think what you're getting at is that modern etiquette is not so much discontinuous anymore, as it is completely fractal.
That's a trick question, as "SQL" doesn't stand for anything.
It kind of does stand for Structured Query Language though.
Yes, LinuxWorld is a big thing that he should be making but he doesn't work for Linux. Linux doesn't cut his paychecks, Microsoft does. And if he's got something to do internally, leave it at that.
What was it like? Being born this morning?
There is a reason air traffic control systems don't run Windows XP.
Yes, because they run Windows 2000.
The IEEE NaN and SQL NULL behaviour are very standard and widely known things. This is *by*design*. Now, you may disagree with the correctness of the design, like C J Date and others...
All very well, but in a weakly typed langage like ASP, NaN and NULL are both the same data type as everything else. It's all very well to say that x!=x should be true if x is an integer, but when x is simply an ASP var, the rules based on numerical evaluation cease to apply. The result should always return true if var comparision is to be a well defined operation.
My Kung Fu is Greater Than Yours!
It makes perfect sense (to me) that null is a special case which is neither false nor true.
Then you either must have gone to a very strange school of programming, or have been using VB and ASP for far too long.
In fact VB supplies a two ways to check for null;
Yes I know. Neither worked. If the variable was present in a logical expression, the expression evaluated to false.
I am able to debug programs from large memory dumps over the phone.
How would that even work?!
So the true definition of a 'Hacker', was a Maker of Hoes.
Well now they're simply makers of holes, so everything works out in the end. Hooray for english!
Especially when said documentation starts with "I don't know exactly why this was included, what it does, or how it does it but the system won't work without it" or simply "Sorry about this..."
Oh, nothing beats this one!
I was working on an asp project a few years back, and did something just like this; except it was far, far worse.
Basically, a variable was coming back from a SQL statement after hitting a NULL value, and I needed to evaluate it. Trouble is, not matter what the logical statement was, the check always evaluated to false. To whit:
variable or not variable
evaluated to false. Regardless. To prevent this, I believe I wrote code along the following lines:
varcheck = "NOT OK"
if variable then
varcheck = "OK"
else if not variable then
varcheck = "OK"
end if
end if
The comment was essentially a long, intricate writ of apology, pleading with the reader to attempt to understand my hopeless position and to accept the presented obscenity before the gods of computer logic.
Shortly afterwards, I resolved to never program in ASP again as long as I lived. I think that code is still out there somewhere. Here's hoping Microsoft never update the ASP interpreter to pre optimise!
Thing is, the computer technician actually got the sack because he was breaking the Data Protection Act my snooping.
Rightly so. He "helped" catch one pedophile, but so what? We all know that paticular suspect was under surveillance for quite some time anyway. And you're simply naive if you this this paticular tech only snooped once and just happened to stumble over one celebrities hidden cache. Dollars to doughnuts the tech regularly slurped customers hard discs for porn and the like.
To paraphrase:
It were better that Ten Suspected Pedophiles should escape, than that the Innocent Person should be subject to warrantless seizure.
How do you propose that websites detect the use of an adblocker? (Without seriously degrading the user experience)
That's a concern now?!
I don't understand why people don't like the look of slashdot.
Because it doesn't use AJAX, or XSS stylesheets, or look like OSX, and simply refuses to choose flash, chrome and vapid featuresets over a practical, usable, interface.
However, since a lot of people download CD and DVD ISOs, probably the most useful utility would be to allow people to pick from a web form what they want, then have the server roll the appropriate images for you. Then, you only download what you actually need, not what Red Hat thinks you might need.
It's called apt.
Fedora Suggests: If possible, use patent unrestricted formats such as Ogg Vorbis (a lossy audio codec that has better quality than MP3), or FLAC (a lossless audio codec).
Fedora's suggestion sucks. For a start both Ogg and FLAC are encumbered by patents just like every other compression technology out there. Why Ogg and FLAC are exempt when JPEG2000 is not is quite beyond me.
And second, and most obviously, what's the point of excluding mp3. Hundreds of other pieces of software and even the kernel itself are probably "infringing" on hundreds more patents. That's how the computer software industry works.
Mp3 was excluded for one reason. Dogma. It has nothing to do with Fraunhofer being beligerent, because if it did, don't you think Ubuntu or others would have excluded mp3 support by now. No. It has to do with Red Hat, and now the Fedora Project, trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, i.e. trying to get the world to move away from mp3, and towards FOSS alternatives.
Wake up call. Mp3 is here to stay. Lossless formats will superceed it long before Ogg et al stand a chance. Fedora need to learn to live with this and give Fraunhofer and any other parasite who latches onto success the proverbial v-sign.
@$(*&))@#(
@#)(@$)()@#&(*!*@(!
Interesting perl script.
What I would like to see in 2.x is some MNG support. It's about time people moved away from animated GIFs as the situation is rapidly getting out of hand. On some forums, animated sig images can be up to 500KB in size. There's demand for a better animated standard, and why MNG support was dropped from Firefox 1.5 is beyond me.
Also, Javascript needs an overhaul. If XUL is ever going to take off, it can't rely on a language that doesn't even have a "class" keyword or equivilent.
It would be nice if the Mozilla foundation took it upon itself once more, to drag the rest of teh industry, kicking and screaming, into the future.
What does Tolkien and Lord of the Rings have to do with all that?
If you had bothered to read the book you would know that the 802.11s specification stipulates petabyte data rates for ring members, but at the cost of a gradual, but inevitable, packet loss as all requests are slowly redirected to the master or "One" ring, which then acts as a sort of lower layer domain controller or DNS.
Eventually, any and all dns lookups and ip connections, including localhost, are redirected to baraddur.arpa. Or, if Sauron is in a paticularly sadistic mood; myspace.com.
Think about it. Wouldn't you like to know "as much as possible" about a person you are about to hire?
Not really.
If I was an employer, only two things would really concern me. One, the candidates competance and skill at performing the required labour, and two, the amount of compensation the candidate was willing to perform the labour for.
I really don't care if; you go out every night goofing off with your buddies, have a myspace account with silly pictures, vote for another political party, have an unusual sexual orientation, are religious, have extra curricular activities, can sing or dance, eat parsnips, use black pens, build rockets, watch anime etc, etc, etc....
As long as you can do the job you get paid to do, there isn't a whole lot else that concerns me. Maybe I'd have some limits. Clearly anything untoward done on company time is grounds for dismissal. Probably murdering someone outside office hours would make me think again about having you on company premises. But realistically, I not going to waste my time or money googling you on the internet, and if I found any HR person had done the same, they would quickly find their job vacant.
And a note to employees, if you work, or are looking to work for a company that does this; leave. Walk away now and never look back. You can do a hell of a lot better. Employment isn't bonded labour. It's about you selling your skills to someone who needs them. Anything else is a waste of your time.
Yet the article then jumps from there to "It's America's fault for creating all this global warming!!" No real science. Just politics. Why is this even posted on /.?
Because America accounts for 25% of all the world's energy consumption.