I was at a discussion the other day, where a guy who is a professor from Berkeley (and a scientist there as well...I just wish I could remember his name) mentioned that someone at Argonne National Labs was interested in setting themselves up with a large Beowolf cluster of Playstation2's to simulate large-scale scientific applications.
The Playstation2's have 2 vector units which set the price-performance curve much lower than large, expensive and power consuming supercomputers.
He also mentioned that they would probably set themselves up as a Sony Game developer, just to ease importation issues.
Yeah, in our society we don't need kids to work the fields...could you imaging people in technology centers needing extra hands for coding? or data entry? Not really.
Imagine this situation: "so why did you have so many kids mister Jones?" "I needed them to work on the web site."
Does anyone happen to know if there was ever any research done which points towards an atrophy in brain cells caused by Alzheimers as opposed to it simply destroying brain cells?
Ratings may not censor anything, so how about a solution that doesn't censor, it just protects the site in a way that protects them from lawsuits.
There are other solutions that make everyone happy:
Any intelligent Adult site operator doesn't WANT their site to be viewed by kiddies surfing for porn in their elementary school classroom. Things like this lead to lawsuits. If kids start seeing these sites, then their teachers get angry and the site gets sued, and no one is happy except the lawyers.
What should be done is a VOLUNTARY system which allows an embedded HTML tag which sets a permission status as "adults only." Then, the browser can be defined to allow for "over 18" access only.
This would make: 1) educators/business owners/parents happy because the student/employee/child no longer can look at porn with their free time 2) The Adult site themselves would be happy because now they put in their effort to stop children from viewing porn before they are 18 (or until they are smart enough to get a browser and their parent's credit card #).
I agree that censorship is wrong, but setting up access tags for themselves protects the sites becuase if some kid sees the site, then they are going around the obstacle the site put up for the kids.
We should quit whining about this and do something. I know there aren't enough women to go around and what's worse we don't get out enough to meet them. Not only that, but I know a lot of us want to meet geek girls, we don't necessarily want to throw ourselves into the meat market of normal clubs. Well people, the geek girls probably want to meet geek guys as well.
So what SHOULD we do? I propose we find a spot to claim for geeks in the Bay Area...a geek hangout if you will. I was thinking somewhere in San Jose or Palo Alto. I'd *LOVE* to hear some ideas.
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I was at a discussion the other day, where a guy who is a professor from Berkeley (and a scientist there as well...I just wish I could remember his name) mentioned that someone at Argonne National Labs was interested in setting themselves up with a large Beowolf cluster of Playstation2's to simulate large-scale scientific applications.
The Playstation2's have 2 vector units which set the price-performance curve much lower than large, expensive and power consuming supercomputers.
He also mentioned that they would probably set themselves up as a Sony Game developer, just to ease importation issues.
Imagine this situation:
"so why did you have so many kids mister Jones?"
"I needed them to work on the web site."
;)
Does anyone happen to know if there was ever any research done which points towards an atrophy in brain cells caused by Alzheimers as opposed to it simply destroying brain cells?
Ratings may not censor anything, so how about a solution that doesn't censor, it just protects the site in a way that protects them from lawsuits.
There are other solutions that make everyone happy:
Any intelligent Adult site operator doesn't WANT their site to be viewed by kiddies surfing for porn in their elementary school classroom. Things like this lead to lawsuits. If kids start seeing these sites, then their teachers get angry and the site gets sued, and no one is happy except the lawyers.
What should be done is a VOLUNTARY system which allows an embedded HTML tag which sets a permission status as "adults only." Then, the browser can be defined to allow for "over 18" access only.
This would make:
1) educators/business owners/parents happy because the student/employee/child no longer can look at porn with their free time
2) The Adult site themselves would be happy because now they put in their effort to stop children from viewing porn before they are 18 (or until they are smart enough to get a browser and their parent's credit card #).
I agree that censorship is wrong, but setting up access tags for themselves protects the sites becuase if some kid sees the site, then they are going around the obstacle the site put up for the kids.
We should quit whining about this and do something. I know there aren't enough women to go around and what's worse we don't get out enough to meet them. Not only that, but I know a lot of us want to meet geek girls, we don't necessarily want to throw ourselves into the meat market of normal clubs. Well people, the geek girls probably want to meet geek guys as well.
So what SHOULD we do? I propose we find a spot to claim for geeks in the Bay Area...a geek hangout if you will. I was thinking somewhere in San Jose or Palo Alto. I'd *LOVE* to hear some ideas.