This proposed "filter" promotes exactly the kind of behavior it claims to prevent, and there are already methods in place to reduce the presence of "stupidity" when we need to.
So wait, let's stop and think of what we see as "stupid" on the Internet. From what I've gathered from the consensus of people on Slashdot, stupid is anything you find in the comments on digg.com. In general, these comments tend to have elitist qualities with chauvanistic implications like "my penis is bigger than yours because of arbitrary qualifications x1, x2,..., xn". In other words, they give you the sense you're in a junior high classroom. Now, this filter turns the former statement into "my penis is bigger than yours because i'm more intelligent than you are". It's just as elitist, and just as invalid. There are people you might call stupid, but they happen to be CONSIDERATE and they are at least willing to learn, or to change.
We already have means for dealing with this as well. In closed forums, we ban the offending individual. In open forums, since they're open and all, we ignore them.
I really fail to see the necessity of any sort of filter, unless it's to impose your own, elitist regime on everyone else.
Heh, I use Gmail, and my friend uses Yahoo!. Once he messaged me saying something like, "Let's have sex!" and I said "OK!" and it was weird because I saw the advertisements attached to his messages in the "conversation summary". One of them asked me if I wanted some "mail bonding"; obviously a play on male, but to promote Yahoo!'s email services somehow. You aren't safe no matter where you go!
It's good to see this finally being challenged. Every time I've read about this software patent bullshit I've burnt up inside, even though it doesn't affect me directly.
Heh, I guess we wouldn't be hearing about interesting patent applications from places like Google or Microsoft anymore, but that's really nothing compared to what it could mean for the open source community and for the industry in general.
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Self-destruct.
This proposed "filter" promotes exactly the kind of behavior it claims to prevent, and there are already methods in place to reduce the presence of "stupidity" when we need to.
..., xn". In other words, they give you the sense you're in a junior high classroom. Now, this filter turns the former statement into "my penis is bigger than yours because i'm more intelligent than you are". It's just as elitist, and just as invalid. There are people you might call stupid, but they happen to be CONSIDERATE and they are at least willing to learn, or to change.
So wait, let's stop and think of what we see as "stupid" on the Internet. From what I've gathered from the consensus of people on Slashdot, stupid is anything you find in the comments on digg.com. In general, these comments tend to have elitist qualities with chauvanistic implications like "my penis is bigger than yours because of arbitrary qualifications x1, x2,
We already have means for dealing with this as well. In closed forums, we ban the offending individual. In open forums, since they're open and all, we ignore them.
I really fail to see the necessity of any sort of filter, unless it's to impose your own, elitist regime on everyone else.
Trusted to THEM. In other words, they don't mind spying on consumers (rootkit, WGA, who knows what else).
Heh, I use Gmail, and my friend uses Yahoo!. Once he messaged me saying something like, "Let's have sex!" and I said "OK!" and it was weird because I saw the advertisements attached to his messages in the "conversation summary". One of them asked me if I wanted some "mail bonding"; obviously a play on male, but to promote Yahoo!'s email services somehow. You aren't safe no matter where you go!
It's fair to me if it ensures I can do whatever I want with it.
It's good to see this finally being challenged. Every time I've read about this software patent bullshit I've burnt up inside, even though it doesn't affect me directly.
Heh, I guess we wouldn't be hearing about interesting patent applications from places like Google or Microsoft anymore, but that's really nothing compared to what it could mean for the open source community and for the industry in general.