>It seems NASA would benefit from having publicly funded competition, resembling what Japan's two competing civilian space agencies have.
Perhaps a look at Japan's space agencies is in order. Their home-grown rocket program has been a disaster, and the blame is often placed on lack of a single agency.
Parents are wise to be concerned about what their children have access to, and it is not reasonable to expect a parent to be watching constantly while a child is online.
But there is a fairer solution than forcing everyone else to rate all pages and posts. Why not have a setting in browsers that will require the presence of a certain meta tag (like meta name="rugrat-level" content="kidsafe" or whatever) before displaying the page?
Those who don't want to limit themselves to kiddie content wouldn't have to. Content providers who don't want to exclude kids wouldn't have to. Browser writers wouldn't be forced to modify their browsers, if there is a big enough market for one, someone will write it.
Unless a reasonable alternative is presented we are going to get stuck with an RSACi type system. This is one alternative, let's hear some others.
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>It seems NASA would benefit from having publicly funded competition, resembling what Japan's two competing civilian space agencies have.
Perhaps a look at Japan's space agencies is in order. Their home-grown rocket program has been a disaster, and the blame is often placed on lack of a single agency.
NASA is planning a mission to impact a comet, the mission is called Deep Impact. Here is the URL: http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/deepimpact/
But there is a fairer solution than forcing everyone else to rate all pages and posts. Why not have a setting in browsers that will require the presence of a certain meta tag (like meta name="rugrat-level" content="kidsafe" or whatever) before displaying the page?
Those who don't want to limit themselves to kiddie content wouldn't have to. Content providers who don't want to exclude kids wouldn't have to. Browser writers wouldn't be forced to modify their browsers, if there is a big enough market for one, someone will write it.
Unless a reasonable alternative is presented we are going to get stuck with an RSACi type system. This is one alternative, let's hear some others.