You can't count on technology to enforce discipline for you.
If you depend on this you've already failed. As other posters have pointed out any sufficiently determined kid will get around this. And as you have pointed out, the kids are pobably going to be sufficeintly determined.
You can't shield them from violent culture without stifling their curiosity, but you can influence how they respond to that culture.
Is that unproffesionalism on his part? Or on the part of the idiotic journalists picking up a story before it was ready?
Science works because scientists communicate.
"Hey I plan on attacking this problem using this two part method. I'll let you know how it goes!"
"Here is what I've done so far. That's part one. It looks like it's going well, but it might not work. I'll let you know how it goes!"
Is this really the "right" decision?
This is not what we should want. We don't want courts or legislation dictating how we provide our content. Just like we don't want courts and legislation dictating how we should consume our content.
Organizations should be free to encumber their products with encrypted copy protected nonsense. Just as we should be free to circumvent that nonsense.
CSS is not the problem. It's laws like the DMCA that are the problem.
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Unless some idiot mods the anonymous trolls up, don't respond to them. You're defeating the way the moderation system is supposed to work.
Why won't you flame me or mod me redundant?
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This doesn't deserve an intelligent replay.
does it run linux?
Mod this guy down. Or mod him funny. It's funny. But it's a sad funny that I can't bring myself to laugh at.
They don't want to end up being shackled.
Not to mention being tormented by an eagle as it tore at their immortal flesh and tried to devour their livers.
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You can't count on technology to enforce discipline for you. If you depend on this you've already failed. As other posters have pointed out any sufficiently determined kid will get around this. And as you have pointed out, the kids are pobably going to be sufficeintly determined. You can't shield them from violent culture without stifling their curiosity, but you can influence how they respond to that culture.
Is that unproffesionalism on his part? Or on the part of the idiotic journalists picking up a story before it was ready? Science works because scientists communicate. "Hey I plan on attacking this problem using this two part method. I'll let you know how it goes!" "Here is what I've done so far. That's part one. It looks like it's going well, but it might not work. I'll let you know how it goes!"
Is this really the "right" decision? This is not what we should want. We don't want courts or legislation dictating how we provide our content. Just like we don't want courts and legislation dictating how we should consume our content. Organizations should be free to encumber their products with encrypted copy protected nonsense. Just as we should be free to circumvent that nonsense. CSS is not the problem. It's laws like the DMCA that are the problem.