I am thinking that creating 'imitation' child pornography is not any better. Somewhat like robbing a store with a fake gun.
Nope, it is like pretending to rob a mock store with a fake gun.
I wont garner a lot of support on this...
"I know I'm a dumb hick, but I don't care."
...as I can already here replies to the above...
"See, told ya."
...but people who like to look at child pornography become people who want to act out on what they have been taking in.
And you base this conclusion on... what? Personal experience?
Fortunately here in AZ there are a couple situations where it is legal to shoot someone w/out them directly putting you in harms way. One of them is to stop the rape of a child.
Then draw a bead on the windows of your local rectory. See if you get off scot-free for plinking a priest.
Really! What good does it do to post threats on Slashdot? Do you think this is a den of pederasts? If so, why do you frequent this site? If not, then what is the purpose of your murderous bluster? Are we supposed to applaud your vigilantism?
This is a glorious socialist point of view where we the "haves" subsidize those who are the "have-nots."
In no way does that statement even come close to describing - or even criticizing - socialism. Most USians seem to think that anything to the left of Rush Limbaugh must be socialism. Well it ain't so.
But I agree that Africans aren't entitled to subsidies on telecomm. We can grant them if we wish, for whatever reasons, but I see no moral imperative to do so.
How do you pronounce iHotelier? According to dictionary.com, and given the French etymology and the silent H, the correct pronunciation of hotelier with an i prepended would seem to be approximately "Yotle-yay". Nice one!
Oh, and by the time the Flash had loaded, my travel dates had passed.
Looks like any other sucky Flash site. The whole GUI is littered with "click below" instructions, and ooooooo, it makes sounds when I click. Yep, looks like programmers designed it alright.
Well, if this was a site oriented towards talk about guns and rifles, and someone posted a question asing how best to use a 30.06 to hunt quail, I think people would be justified in answering him with "Why the hell would you want to do that? Use a shotgun, you idiot."
Reading the Washington, Jefferson, Franklin link was an eye-opener. The only thing that bothers me about Dr. Seeley is the way he constantly thanks God for the things that dedicated people are doing.
Thank God defenders of American tradition were not asleep...
We should indeed thank God for Cardinale and Pennachio...
We should also thank God that Cardinale and Pennachio are not alone. Their compatriots have been at work improving history standards in states like Texas, Florida, Ohio and California...
Now, I realize the guy's with a Catholic organization of some sort, but really: don't Cardinale and Pennachio and all "their compatriots" deserve some of the credit?
Here's a model that is implemented and attempting to gain adopters. It supports:
User authentication and authorization across multiple trust domains
Automated exchange, management, and auditing of consumer information, based on permissions and in compliance with government regulations
Automated customer registration and updating
Automated management of public key infrastructure security solutions
Synchronization of permissions, entitlements, and other context-based user information
They were fairly actively seeking clients during the Bubble Years, but understandably things are not rolling along so well these days. Anyone care to comment on what is available at their site? It seems to implement everything people say they want in a single-signon solution. That's probably why it hasn't been widely adopted, too much control is given to the owner of the information (that'd be YOU).:)
Sorry about all the replies to myself, but after seeing this page I am definitely convinced the naked pictures must be simulated. No one should be exposed to the real thing.
I don't know which post you're referring to as a "100% correct assessment", mine or his. But I find it rather amusing that his post - the parent to my comment, the guy making threats - is modded as +5 Funny. I mean, it's obvious he's full of shit since his ass'd be in jail if what he posted were true. Didn't seem to me like he was trying to crack a joke though.
Eh, whatever... Now I got an "incentive" to post something of "quality" to get my karma back to 50.
Any scientologist worth his salt would have called the police the moment you threatened to shoot them. It's one thing to brandish a firearm to eject an intruder from your premises. It's quite another to threaten to come to their offices and shoot them. If you actually did that, you'd be in the pokey for assault right now, instead of making stupid threats AGAIN on Slashdot. And rightly so, regardless of what anyone thinks the merits of scientology are (or are not).
I tried that trick (searching for "xenu.net scientology" in google). The link to xenu.net is up and there was no message about the DMCA.
That's because there is plenty of material at Xenu.net about Scientology that doesn't infringe and wasn't taken down. That, and you did the query wrong. It's "site:xenu.net scientology" to find all pages mentioning Scientology at Xenu.net. Your query turns up mostly other sites and Usenet posts where people are writing ABOUT the Xenu/Scientology battles.
Now that you've got the query right, look at the bottom of the search results list. There's the DMCA takedown notice, with links to the complaints.
"We value our customers' privacy," said Brian Gluth, a senior product manager at MSN, "and we have never changed a customer's preference of opt-in or opt-out, like some of our competitors have done."
Well, I'd have to agree that this statement is strictly true. They never gave users the opportunity to opt-out and assumed opt-in, and never gave the users operable means to change their preferences. With users' recorded preferences agreeing with what Microsoft prefers, there was no need to make changes to users' preferences. QED.
There is a completely proper word that should be used instead of piracy: bootlegging. It has a negative connotation, but with the gravity of a traffic violation, rather than rape, murder, and pillaging. That is a far more appropriate term, IMO.
Microsoft is a monopoly, that has been convicted of illegally leveraging that monopoly to expand it further. Just like any other convict, Microsoft must forfeit some of their rights as part of the penalty.
So there is no contradiction, no need to "pick one position or the other."
As far as I can tell, only one DLL is required by Office and other apps that want to render HTML, and that is mshtml.dll. You can remove all of the rest of IE, and leave mshtml.dll, and your Office apps will all still work. This is exactly what 98lite.net does with IEradicator.
You are correct that removing IE gets rid of the web integration in the shell. That's a good thing AFAIAC. Much mischief is avoided if you divorce the desktop from the web.
But in a general purpose computer, as the name implies, the OS is expected to do a huge variety of things. Hence losing some of those features would cripple a general purpose OS, but not cripple an embedded OS.
So if I cannot remove Media Player or Internet Explorer, to replace them with something else that I prefer, something which a versatile general purpose computer should be expected to be capable of doing, is the OS crippled by not being modular?
I say yes. If it cannot do what I want it to do, it is crippled. Therefore, not making it modular has crippled it. Uncrippling it requires that it be made modular.
If my company has a huge MP3 library why would I ever need to buy a legitimate CD when I can just take the MP3's home or burn them to a CD so I can play them in the car?
You don't have to worry about that. Because you're such a lamer and a snitch, no one would give you access to it in the first place, so you'd never have the opportunity.
Yeah, and computer programmers are the reason computer programs cannot be used without going to professional training courses on how to use the program.:)
I totally agree. I am constantly amazed at how unobvious and frustrating most computer interfaces still are, after all this time. Have you ever tried using Microsoft's online troubleshooting wizards? Absolutely pathetic. Gnome and KDE are no better, Aqua is merely shinier, but they are all the same clumsy drag-drop windowing paradigm. Bleh.
So yeah, the law is bloatware. But what isn't these days?
I was going to make a crack about your Mom, but decided not to.
You can win, in fact if the spammer fails to show you will win by default. That's usually the outcome you will be hoping for.
So now you have a judgement for $5.00. What do you think will happen next? Think the court will enforce the judgment? Think again. Think the court will garnish the spammer's wages? Think again. Small claims court has not the time nor the resources to enforce the judgments they render. You still have to run around with your piece of paper signed by the judge and try to get the system to enforce it. Eventually, after many months of trying, you might be able to get an arrest warrant for your spammer. Then you can begin trying to get the police to arrest him. How high on the list of priorities do you think warrants for delinquent $5 judgments stand?
Not very.
On the bright side, in states with anti-spam laws, you do not have to prove that spam has damaged you in order to prevail in court. The anti-spam laws generally make it easy to win your case, but they do nothing to help you enforce the judgment.
But lawyers are the reason why the law is so complicated that people cannot defend themselves adequately without professional help from the lawyers.
How about doing some real community service and take on a case here and there that might get bad laws struck down? How about getting your bar association to support tort reform? Why not do something useful, instead of all this self-aggrandizement lawyers are famous for?
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I am thinking that creating 'imitation' child pornography is not any better. Somewhat like robbing a store with a fake gun.
...
...as I can already here replies to the above...
...but people who like to look at child pornography become people who want to act out on what they have been taking in.
Nope, it is like pretending to rob a mock store with a fake gun.
I wont garner a lot of support on this
"I know I'm a dumb hick, but I don't care."
"See, told ya."
And you base this conclusion on... what? Personal experience?
Fortunately here in AZ there are a couple situations where it is legal to shoot someone w/out them directly putting you in harms way. One of them is to stop the rape of a child.
Then draw a bead on the windows of your local rectory. See if you get off scot-free for plinking a priest.
Really! What good does it do to post threats on Slashdot? Do you think this is a den of pederasts? If so, why do you frequent this site? If not, then what is the purpose of your murderous bluster? Are we supposed to applaud your vigilantism?
This is a glorious socialist point of view where we the "haves" subsidize those who are the "have-nots."
In no way does that statement even come close to describing - or even criticizing - socialism. Most USians seem to think that anything to the left of Rush Limbaugh must be socialism. Well it ain't so.
But I agree that Africans aren't entitled to subsidies on telecomm. We can grant them if we wish, for whatever reasons, but I see no moral imperative to do so.
How do you pronounce iHotelier? According to dictionary.com, and given the French etymology and the silent H, the correct pronunciation of hotelier with an i prepended would seem to be approximately "Yotle-yay". Nice one!
Oh, and by the time the Flash had loaded, my travel dates had passed.
Looks like any other sucky Flash site. The whole GUI is littered with "click below" instructions, and ooooooo, it makes sounds when I click. Yep, looks like programmers designed it alright.
Yawn.
Well, if this was a site oriented towards talk about guns and rifles, and someone posted a question asing how best to use a 30.06 to hunt quail, I think people would be justified in answering him with "Why the hell would you want to do that? Use a shotgun, you idiot."
Ummm... what other great anime has been turned into live-action films?
I said great anime.
Though I do like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Michelangelo is my favorite. "Pizza Dude!!" Simply awesome.
Why bother? Just watch Babylon 5 again. Same theme, more accessible presentation.
Reading the Washington, Jefferson, Franklin link was an eye-opener. The only thing that bothers me about Dr. Seeley is the way he constantly thanks God for the things that dedicated people are doing.
Thank God defenders of American tradition were not asleep...
We should indeed thank God for Cardinale and Pennachio...
We should also thank God that Cardinale and Pennachio are not alone. Their compatriots have been at work improving history standards in states like Texas, Florida, Ohio and California...
Now, I realize the guy's with a Catholic organization of some sort, but really: don't Cardinale and Pennachio and all "their compatriots" deserve some of the credit?
- User authentication and authorization across multiple trust domains
- Automated exchange, management, and auditing of consumer information, based on permissions and in compliance with government regulations
- Automated customer registration and updating
- Automated management of public key infrastructure security solutions
- Synchronization of permissions, entitlements, and other context-based user information
They were fairly actively seeking clients during the Bubble Years, but understandably things are not rolling along so well these days. Anyone care to comment on what is available at their site? It seems to implement everything people say they want in a single-signon solution. That's probably why it hasn't been widely adopted, too much control is given to the owner of the information (that'd be YOU).Sorry about all the replies to myself, but after seeing this page I am definitely convinced the naked pictures must be simulated. No one should be exposed to the real thing.
After seeing this page I am just about convinced that this someone ought to be me... Geez, a Fundie Virus Researcher... What is this world coming to?
I have concluded that people need to stop thinking they can do whatever they want simply because it's not illegal.
I have been thinking that someone ought to post simulated naked pictures of Sarah on reallybadguys.org just to prove her wrong.
I don't know which post you're referring to as a "100% correct assessment", mine or his. But I find it rather amusing that his post - the parent to my comment, the guy making threats - is modded as +5 Funny. I mean, it's obvious he's full of shit since his ass'd be in jail if what he posted were true. Didn't seem to me like he was trying to crack a joke though.
Eh, whatever... Now I got an "incentive" to post something of "quality" to get my karma back to 50.
You are so full of shit, your eyes are brown.
Any scientologist worth his salt would have called the police the moment you threatened to shoot them. It's one thing to brandish a firearm to eject an intruder from your premises. It's quite another to threaten to come to their offices and shoot them. If you actually did that, you'd be in the pokey for assault right now, instead of making stupid threats AGAIN on Slashdot. And rightly so, regardless of what anyone thinks the merits of scientology are (or are not).
I tried that trick (searching for "xenu.net scientology" in google). The link to xenu.net is up and there was no message about the DMCA.
That's because there is plenty of material at Xenu.net about Scientology that doesn't infringe and wasn't taken down. That, and you did the query wrong. It's "site:xenu.net scientology" to find all pages mentioning Scientology at Xenu.net. Your query turns up mostly other sites and Usenet posts where people are writing ABOUT the Xenu/Scientology battles.
Now that you've got the query right, look at the bottom of the search results list. There's the DMCA takedown notice, with links to the complaints.
No! You don't say! What an obscure piece of historical trivia. Wherever did you discover that?
I suppose next you're going to bust out with the news that Milton Berle was hung like a horse.
"We value our customers' privacy," said Brian Gluth, a senior product manager at MSN, "and we have never changed a customer's preference of opt-in or opt-out, like some of our competitors have done."
Well, I'd have to agree that this statement is strictly true. They never gave users the opportunity to opt-out and assumed opt-in, and never gave the users operable means to change their preferences. With users' recorded preferences agreeing with what Microsoft prefers, there was no need to make changes to users' preferences. QED.
There is a completely proper word that should be used instead of piracy: bootlegging. It has a negative connotation, but with the gravity of a traffic violation, rather than rape, murder, and pillaging. That is a far more appropriate term, IMO.
Wont is the word you wanted, not want. Look it up!
Microsoft is a monopoly, that has been convicted of illegally leveraging that monopoly to expand it further. Just like any other convict, Microsoft must forfeit some of their rights as part of the penalty.
So there is no contradiction, no need to "pick one position or the other."
As far as I can tell, only one DLL is required by Office and other apps that want to render HTML, and that is mshtml.dll. You can remove all of the rest of IE, and leave mshtml.dll, and your Office apps will all still work. This is exactly what 98lite.net does with IEradicator.
You are correct that removing IE gets rid of the web integration in the shell. That's a good thing AFAIAC. Much mischief is avoided if you divorce the desktop from the web.
But in a general purpose computer, as the name implies, the OS is expected to do a huge variety of things. Hence losing some of those features would cripple a general purpose OS, but not cripple an embedded OS.
So if I cannot remove Media Player or Internet Explorer, to replace them with something else that I prefer, something which a versatile general purpose computer should be expected to be capable of doing, is the OS crippled by not being modular?
I say yes. If it cannot do what I want it to do, it is crippled. Therefore, not making it modular has crippled it. Uncrippling it requires that it be made modular.
If my company has a huge MP3 library why would I ever need to buy a legitimate CD when I can just take the MP3's home or burn them to a CD so I can play them in the car?
You don't have to worry about that. Because you're such a lamer and a snitch, no one would give you access to it in the first place, so you'd never have the opportunity.
Yeah, and computer programmers are the reason computer programs cannot be used without going to professional training courses on how to use the program. :)
I totally agree. I am constantly amazed at how unobvious and frustrating most computer interfaces still are, after all this time. Have you ever tried using Microsoft's online troubleshooting wizards? Absolutely pathetic. Gnome and KDE are no better, Aqua is merely shinier, but they are all the same clumsy drag-drop windowing paradigm. Bleh.
So yeah, the law is bloatware. But what isn't these days?
I was going to make a crack about your Mom, but decided not to.
You can sue in small claims, that is true.
You can win, in fact if the spammer fails to show you will win by default. That's usually the outcome you will be hoping for.
So now you have a judgement for $5.00. What do you think will happen next? Think the court will enforce the judgment? Think again. Think the court will garnish the spammer's wages? Think again. Small claims court has not the time nor the resources to enforce the judgments they render. You still have to run around with your piece of paper signed by the judge and try to get the system to enforce it. Eventually, after many months of trying, you might be able to get an arrest warrant for your spammer. Then you can begin trying to get the police to arrest him. How high on the list of priorities do you think warrants for delinquent $5 judgments stand?
Not very.
On the bright side, in states with anti-spam laws, you do not have to prove that spam has damaged you in order to prevail in court. The anti-spam laws generally make it easy to win your case, but they do nothing to help you enforce the judgment.
But lawyers are the reason why the law is so complicated that people cannot defend themselves adequately without professional help from the lawyers.
How about doing some real community service and take on a case here and there that might get bad laws struck down? How about getting your bar association to support tort reform? Why not do something useful, instead of all this self-aggrandizement lawyers are famous for?