All you have is rhetoric, my friend. Sure, not ALL kids grow up to be EXACTLY like what they see in videogames. But many of them are affected in bad, subtle ways, which might not lead them to kill prostitutes, but do small bad things which brings down the collective morality of the society. And SOME of them are, indeed, affected in not so subtle ways, and they do commit violent crimes, which could have been PREVENTED if it was not for video games. And these things make *gradual* changes, and they make kids more insensitive towards violence and immorality. Gradually. Subtly. Yeah, the politicians might be overly cautious, have vested interests and might be supporting wrong solutions. But don't completely rule out the possibility of violent, very real looking games having negative effects on kids. Impressionable kids who listen to music because MTV told them to and wear clothes because that's the 'thing'.
You apparently have never raised a kid. Just because your brother's kids are 'angels' doesn't mean parents can magically keep their kids in line. What if there was organisation which would molest children, but ONLY if the kids agree voluntarily. Would you ask the parent to be more careful in raising their kids, or, along with asking the parents, would you also want the organisation to be banned? Sure, this issue is not as black-and-white as the analogy, but you get my point.
Just because grandparent didn't say whether it was 16 year olds or 5-6 year olds doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't 16 year olds. It was probably 15-16 year olds since that's the issue at hand and that would be more 'relevant'. But still, increased violence among 5-6 can be bad - both at the time and when they grow up.
If there were, slashdotters would probably claim that the study is incorrect and point out the alleged ubiquity of such studies which would apparently make such studies less valuable.
Dumbass. It's not fucking getting government controlled. ITU will look after the fucking technical aspects. Just like ICANN is doing now. It will be 'government controlled' by UNO as much as it is being 'goverment controlled' now by USA. Quit reading your fucking biased American media and read some non-biased shit. American media just loves to say it's being handed over to UNO. It' not. It's being handed over to the I-fucking-TUnion. Only the technical aspects. And it's not looking like it's going to happen any time soon. (ITU is an organisation of UNO. ITU is more credible than Gregory Peck holding a bible standing next to a dog wagging its tail.) The chances of your fucking US goverment fucking up the Internet right now is more than the UNO fucking it up if it's handed over to ITU. US goverment can do nasty shit and people won't be able to stop it. But UNO can't, UNO has to ANSWER to people. Of course, anyone who's not an idiot knows that the Internet being 'damaged', either by USA or UNO, is not going to happen and is total bullshit.
TFA is about ITU looking after the internet, not UNO. ITU is an organisation of UNO. Saying UNO is taking the Internet is like saying the US government currently owns the Internet.
Most people here who say "the Internet" shouldn't be looked after by the ITU are Americans. And none of them are giving a solid reason why. It is, after all, under US control now.
So they're placing ads in other companies' TV programs. In fact they're skipping the TV channels' ads (in a way) and showing their own ads. Not only is this of questionable legality, this is just dirty. A wicked way of making money.
Sure, developing countries should completely alienate themselve from technology or any other 'frivolous' things and simply concentrate on it's people, all of whom are dying with malaria in the sewers. Only our overlords in the developed countries, who are living in heaven, should worry about technology. Smartass, what the fuck is a comment about Brazil's "poor" doing in reply to an article about Brazil and OSS? Get out of your mom's basement - it's worse than our sewers.
It's attitude like this that's keeping Windows, MS and all non-free software alive and hindering the development of free software. Oh, and BTW, nice karma-whoring.
Adobe sued Sklyarov. Adobe are supposed to 'evil'. Now let's see if they sue the people who leaked the information. Like this another company that we know.
What is TSA, what does it do, what was it supposed to protect, why was it supposed to protect it, did it fail in protecting it, if so how did it fail in protecting it and why should we care? Or are we all supposed to move to USA now?
The American wing (or branch or whatever) of a Japanese company. Microsoft's branch here says "Microsoft India", but it's still an American company. Now what kind of idiot modded parent as Informative?
Slashdot Mirror
...will someone please post TFA?
...take a look at this. [In Internet time it's kinda old, March 16.]
You're asking about 'alternative's to Google on slashdot? That's like asking about alternatives to God in your local Church.
Books aren't life like. Books aren't interactive. You don't get to 'do' things with books. Ah fuck, why am I even posting this...
- The Sopranos is not interactive.
All you have is rhetoric, my friend. Sure, not ALL kids grow up to be EXACTLY like what they see in videogames. But many of them are affected in bad, subtle ways, which might not lead them to kill prostitutes, but do small bad things which brings down the collective morality of the society. And SOME of them are, indeed, affected in not so subtle ways, and they do commit violent crimes, which could have been PREVENTED if it was not for video games. And these things make *gradual* changes, and they make kids more insensitive towards violence and immorality. Gradually. Subtly. Yeah, the politicians might be overly cautious, have vested interests and might be supporting wrong solutions. But don't completely rule out the possibility of violent, very real looking games having negative effects on kids. Impressionable kids who listen to music because MTV told them to and wear clothes because that's the 'thing'.
Aww, looks like you hurt the ego of some skinny, maternal-basement dwelling 'nerds'. Bad, bad Tarcastil.
You apparently have never raised a kid. Just because your brother's kids are 'angels' doesn't mean parents can magically keep their kids in line. What if there was organisation which would molest children, but ONLY if the kids agree voluntarily. Would you ask the parent to be more careful in raising their kids, or, along with asking the parents, would you also want the organisation to be banned? Sure, this issue is not as black-and-white as the analogy, but you get my point.
Just because grandparent didn't say whether it was 16 year olds or 5-6 year olds doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't 16 year olds. It was probably 15-16 year olds since that's the issue at hand and that would be more 'relevant'. But still, increased violence among 5-6 can be bad - both at the time and when they grow up.
If there were, slashdotters would probably claim that the study is incorrect and point out the alleged ubiquity of such studies which would apparently make such studies less valuable.
Dumbass. It's not fucking getting government controlled. ITU will look after the fucking technical aspects. Just like ICANN is doing now. It will be 'government controlled' by UNO as much as it is being 'goverment controlled' now by USA. Quit reading your fucking biased American media and read some non-biased shit. American media just loves to say it's being handed over to UNO. It' not. It's being handed over to the I-fucking-TUnion. Only the technical aspects. And it's not looking like it's going to happen any time soon. (ITU is an organisation of UNO. ITU is more credible than Gregory Peck holding a bible standing next to a dog wagging its tail.) The chances of your fucking US goverment fucking up the Internet right now is more than the UNO fucking it up if it's handed over to ITU. US goverment can do nasty shit and people won't be able to stop it. But UNO can't, UNO has to ANSWER to people. Of course, anyone who's not an idiot knows that the Internet being 'damaged', either by USA or UNO, is not going to happen and is total bullshit.
Of course, it is, after all, Americans getting pissed off because the everyone else wants the Internet to be fair.
TFA is about ITU looking after the internet, not UNO. ITU is an organisation of UNO. Saying UNO is taking the Internet is like saying the US government currently owns the Internet.
What does this have to do with patents?
Most people here who say "the Internet" shouldn't be looked after by the ITU are Americans. And none of them are giving a solid reason why. It is, after all, under US control now.
So they're placing ads in other companies' TV programs. In fact they're skipping the TV channels' ads (in a way) and showing their own ads. Not only is this of questionable legality, this is just dirty. A wicked way of making money.
And what's your point? You're not saying anything new, other than what you said in your prevous post. What, trying to whore someone else's karma away?
Sure, developing countries should completely alienate themselve from technology or any other 'frivolous' things and simply concentrate on it's people, all of whom are dying with malaria in the sewers. Only our overlords in the developed countries, who are living in heaven, should worry about technology. Smartass, what the fuck is a comment about Brazil's "poor" doing in reply to an article about Brazil and OSS? Get out of your mom's basement - it's worse than our sewers.
It's attitude like this that's keeping Windows, MS and all non-free software alive and hindering the development of free software. Oh, and BTW, nice karma-whoring.
And don't you think the emphasis is wrong? It's an article about the sound, don't you think it's origin should be mentioned?
These things still get modded as funny?
Adobe sued Sklyarov. Adobe are supposed to 'evil'. Now let's see if they sue the people who leaked the information. Like this another company that we know.
What is TSA, what does it do, what was it supposed to protect, why was it supposed to protect it, did it fail in protecting it, if so how did it fail in protecting it and why should we care? Or are we all supposed to move to USA now?
The American wing (or branch or whatever) of a Japanese company. Microsoft's branch here says "Microsoft India", but it's still an American company. Now what kind of idiot modded parent as Informative?