I have seen more cases of sloppy web design, UI design and lack of CPU optimisations in Flash than in other things I have used.
If you think these things are isolated to flash you are either delusional or retarded.
What you describe are the symptoms of bad development, not a bad framework. Take any framework, apply bad development and you'll get a crappy product.
I've used flash on my Android phone and it's fine. It's a little slow loading video over 3G but that's mainly due to a crappy HSPA network and the associated high latency. Once loaded games and video's were quite responsive and didn't drain my battery any faster then using the built in video player.
Rant all you like, but ultimately you're doing nothing to fix the problem, if you kill flash all the bad development will move the next closest thing.
I'm not going to care, as a business owner, if ultra cheapass wants to mooch wifi. I don't care about the wifi.
Wifi would be ridiculously cheap. Even in Australia a coffee shop can easily run on a DSL plan. If you cant recoup A$80 in a month your business model has bigger problems.
I care about the sloth who isn't making me any money taking up a chair or a sofa or a table for hours on end.
Here you make a very good point, rent, power, heating/cooling cost a bit but getting rid of Wifi wont help. This is a social problem so you'll have to deal with it socially. You need to make it clear that they need to purchase more drinks/food or shove off. Give them the subtle hint by sending a waitress over to take their order and if that doesn't work be a manager and kick them out, its not like you're losing a valued customer.
Personally I've been guilty of buying one cup of tea and using a coffee shops wireless for 45 minutes. I've done this a few times but always when I've been 1000's of KM's from home and have no idea where a cyber is and need to access bank, email and so forth. If there is one connections you can count on almost anywhere in the civilised world is that you can get Wifi at any self respecting coffee shop. If this changes it will be at the coffee shops peril.
I've also changed my MAC address to get around the 2 hour limit at KLIA LCCT (airport). The starbucks Wifi was free but they were playing the world cup and I wanted to get as far away from the Vuvuzela as possible.
I don't know about Saudi and UAE, but India is primarily concerned about this because of terrorism. Many of the recent bomb blasts were triggered by cell phones
Bad excuse, bad action.
They aren't going to stop making bombs if it by some miracle becomes impossible to detonate them by phone. If India wants to stop terror attacks it needs to look for the source of the attacks (the leadership and the underlying reason) and neutralise them. Banning phones will just make them use wrist watches as timers or CB/HAM radio's or some guy with a long bit of string. Will India ban the sale of string? Meanwhile India turns into the oppressive state the terrorists complain about, whilst the average Indian suffers more under the state then from the terrorists. In the end, the terrorists win and barely had to lift a finger
And I like Indians, for the most part they are kind, friendly and humble people (obviously not the telemarketers, but they are working under the direction of foreign companies anyway).
You just can't seem to get your story straight with Apple. Is the price fairly fixed or is it non-expandable? Make up your mind.
I'm not the one with this problem. I've stated that the price is not fixed.
I know that if I buy anything from Apple, it's not the final thing I'll end up paying for. The entire system is designed to ensure you keep paying Apple in one way or another (ITMS lock-in, Recessed headphone jacks, no buttons on Ipod Shuffles to lock you into Apple's overpriced earbuds).
Total cost of owning a 16 GB Cowon iAudio7 A$169. Initial cost of buying a 16 GB Ipod A$250, plus I have to pay extra for an additional cord, not that I can use it with my Linux lappy or media centre. Extra costs are what one expects with Apple and no amount of whining will change that.
Further more, labelling people who disagree with you as "haters" only serves to make your own point less valid as this fails to actually contradict any of my point. Please keep it up.
I just have to wonder what was in the conversation between Jobs and Papermaster.
Steve Jobs: Ahhh, Mark, thank you for coming. Mark Papermaster: (gulps) you wanted to see me Steve. SJ: You know about this Antenna issue. MP: I hear they've dubbed it "Antennagate". SJ: (Clenches, Grits teeth) Well we've been working on a solution. MP: If we just put a tiny bit of plastic around it, we'd eliminate the majority of the problem. MP: We'd still have excellent reception and eliminate this whole "death grip" thing SJ: (kicks small kitten) No Mark, I've got a better solution. MP: (backs away slowly) Umm... Sure Steve. SJ: You see Mark, I'll fix the problem by ELIMINATING YOU. MP: You know this wont actually fix the problem. SJ: SILENCE, minions, take him away.
Anyone who "adores" Steve Jobs wasn't around back in the beginning, isn't aware of the arrogance and bungling the man exhibited early on.
Anyone who "adores" Steve Jobs wasn't around back in the beginning, isn't aware of the arrogance and bungling the man exhibits to this day.
Not much has changed in the intervening 25 odd years.
It's pretty clear that Papermaster was thrown under a bus to save face for Apple. More and more parallels between the demise of Apple Computers in the 80's and the current actions of Apple Inc, sacking of engineers, form becoming more important then function, litigation over competition. The HTC suit over spurious patents is the new "look and feel" suit and the Ipad may soon turn out to be the new Lisa.
I dont have many kind things to say about everyone's favourite monopoly but Microsoft has done two things that relate to this situation. When MS's makes a mistake, they fix it and show people that it's been fixed (Vista to 7) rather than sake people and ignore the problem and they've weathered the boom/bust cycle that the IT industry seems to go through quite well. Apple is currently in the middle of a boom, as always this is leading up to a bust of the same magnitude, I just hope we aren't dependent on Apple when the iBust happens.
Or wait, maybe the companies that whine about piracy hurting their sales refuse to admit that their games are crap, and that's what's hurting their sales.
Or that their games aren't worth what they are asking for them.
World of Goo, I will not call crap but is barely above the sophistication of some Flash games. But it sells for $20, which gets translated into A$40 (somehow, with the AUD fetching around 0.9 USD). For comparison I purchased ARMA II Operation Arrowhead for A$45. I regularly buy the $10 special from Impulse which normally comes down to about A$12-14 on the exch rate. For the most part these are old games that get marked down but more than a few are indie games.
Price more then anything else is hurting their sales. Whining about piracy gets you marked off my approved supplier list as well.
And you're an idiot for buying into the "99" bullshit. The cheapest iPad is, for all intents and purposes, $500, and it only goes up from there (hence the "+").
He's not buying into the consumer mindset, he's a particularly tragic fanboy which makes him an idiot for an entirely different set of reasons.
Anyone who has had any exposure to Apple knows that the advertised shelf price is not the final price you'll end up paying. Heck, the same is true for Dell and Lenovo (adding warranties, extra RAM, acessories and so forth) except that they do display the final price before purchasing.
God forbid developers actually target a platform, whose users are likely not to only actually give a shit about apps, but are actually prepared to pay money for them.
Hahahahahahaha.
Nice, you do know that most developers dont even make back the US$99 per year they have to spend just for the chance to get their application listed.
Fewer even actually make a profit after their time is considered.
The only money in it is hiring out services to people who will pay you to make an application no one will buy.
My prediction on the most profitable mobile application, Swype. Why? a good business model, get in at the manufacturer level and get your application pre-installed on several million Samsung Galaxy S's.
A letter written by the grandson of a bodyguard of Churchill. That's all.
It's probably total nonsense.
You must me new here.
Anyway, welcome to SlashSun, the internets favourite tabloid. Next week we'll be having a story from one of the Queens corgi's about how aliens were mind controlling Princess Di's driver on behalf of Camilla so they could breed the worlds ugliest royal/alien hybrid.
The Bible being infallible doesn't mean it is an unabridged compilation of all that is knowable.
the bits that contradict the other bits tend to make it difficult to be an infalible document.
True faith is based on evidence, not opposed to evidence.
Hahahahahaha.
Thanks, I haven't had a laugh like that in ages. True faith is about maintaining a belief no matter what tests it, so if your belief flies in the face of fact, true faith means you choose the belief over the contradicting fact.
If you look at the teachings of the apostles in Acts, for example, their message rested on the fact that there was a man who everyone had seen or heard of
You have some hard evidence of this. Something verifiable?
The Bible was written 300 years after Christ's death and was revised several times to suit the needs of the leadership. We ended up with Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans, Baptists, Russian Orthodox and other churches because they believe in slightly different bibles then each other. A verifiable, incontrovertible fact like the one you describe would not permit this, let alone the other Abrahamic religions which do not view Christ as the saviour.
You may not find this evidence compelling,
Actually I cant make a judgement on that, because you haven't presented any evidence.
This is not to say you should believe one way or the other, but your experience proves nothing, one way or the other.
There is no evidence of an afterlife.
Thinking about it scientifically, lack of evidence is not evidence of lacking so we can conclude that an afterlife is possible but so extremely improbable that saying their is no afterlife is fairly accurate.
Besides, who's afterlife do we believe in. Christian, Jewish, Muslim? What about Hinduism and Buddhism (reincarnation religions)? They cant all be true (my immortal soul cant go to heaven and be reborn into a lesser or greater creature).
I dont know why you consider this absurd. Playing a game of Civ where the Indian civilisation violently conquers North American civilisations is the very definition of "alternate history".
but I think the consensus was that Civ IV was a flop
Source?
Anecdotal, obviously, but I don't know anyone who doesn't think 4 is the best one. I'm still playing it regularly (some single player, some multi with wife + friends) and if 5 isn't great I probably won't stop.
Well 3 Million people including myself agree with you. 3 Million copies sold in 3 years (release 2005, 3 million mark 2008) is far from a failure when most games fail to break 1 million and are considered great successes.
I dont like the idea that stacks are gone. There has to be a better way to deal with the old Stack of Doom then getting rid of them entirely.
Its called number porting and happens all the time. Here in the EU operators are required to service a porting within a month
Silly EU.
In Australia I can have my numbers ported within an afternoon and that's only because the phone co. makes you wait that long for a bloody credit check (I have no debts, why must I be punished), well unless it's converting a Class C (ISDN) line to VOIP, in which case Hellstra will make you wait two weeks.
Look, my experience is the sorts of idiots who cause trouble aren't usually martial arts practitioners. They're silly, ignorant teenage bullies,
Which was my point,
I think these idiots becoming more prevalent for young people today has caused an uptick in the number of people taking martial arts classes. I know this is anecdotal but the gym I go to has seen an increase in enrolment for martial arts (mostly defensive) in the last few years.
Honestly the biggest reason I responded to this post is because I support limited vigilantism.
The problem with limited vigilantism is that it never stays limited.
With Police forces they have (are meant to have) strict limitations on their power. With Vigilantes they often dont know when to stop. A vigilante is just a gang that people agree with, there is no governance or moderation in their actions.
Vigilante patrols? We don't really have that here, sorry. Maybe it's an American thing?
Yep, we also dont have heavily armed gang wars in Australia.
MMA? Ok, now you've just gone off the deep end.
UFC on the TV has lead to an increase in idiots that think they're tough and can fight when they're drinking. More people taking MMA and other martial arts classes has resulted in more of these idiots getting their arse handed to them. We've got a bit of a violence problem in the nightlife area's in Australia (mostly fist fights, the odd glassing but no deaths), I think that is what has prompted more people to take self defence lessons.
In fact, the people at my gym happen to be quite friendly
Same at my gym, but the people who cause problems in nightlife areas dont frequent gyms. When I'm Phuket at the bars in two weeks I always see one Bogan, Chav or Redneck start something with a local, then it's on for young and old. I've never quite seen something like a 6 ft tall white guy get his arse handed to him by 10 5 ft Thai girls and they dont stop kicking when you're on the floor either. There is always some who will get dragged away to hospital because they couldn't handle their booze.
But America has problems with violence we dont. In Australia a fight is something that kids do behind the bike shed for trivial reasons, most grow out of it by the age of 20 (OK 25). However in America violence is often seen as a solution.
First, there are pedophiles who have never actually done anything other than collect photographs of children in both suggestive poses and sexual situations that other pedophiles have made available.
Which was the point of my post. Go after them first.
You dont try to extinguish the flames of a fire, you aim at the base of the fire.
Second, I would highly recomend that you watch "Witch Hunt", its about a flurry of child molestation cases in Bakersfield CA. It is both tragic and interesting when you see how "protect the children" is over used and hurts innocent people.
You didn't read the parts where I said we shouldn't be going on which hunts in my post then.
Did you even bother to read my post, or did you just make up your own conclusions. My post is about how current "Think of the Children" efforts are being wasted on witch hunts over pictures and how no-one wants to stand up to the real problem because of the powerful organisation (the church) they'd have to piss off in the process.
The majority of actual child sex attacks (and I dont mean a 17 yr old having consensual sex with a 15 yr old) are committed by someone close to the victim who has significant power over the victim. But getting a frightened child to testify against a family member or trusted confidant like a priest is very hard thing to do. So it's easier for law enforcement agencies to find pictures and make news statements on how they stopped this dangerous paedophile.
Third, the issues raised by the images that these full body scanners goes way beyond child porn
Hey I agree, but attacking from the CP angle is not the solution.
The thing is that its not the image that matters, its how it is seen and interpreted by the mind of the viewer
Also I couldn't agree more.
Context are far more important then content or medium. A sexual scene used in context in a story is different to one produced entirely for the purpose of titillation.
As soon as one scanner image of a child is found on a pedophiles computer the way those images are interpreted and responded to will alter radically against the scanners, might even be a good thing.
But that wont happen because the scanners are protecting you from the terrorists(TM), in fact they'll spin it into the need for more surveillance or invasion of privacy. Get rid of the fear of terrorists and you'll be half way to fixing the problem.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that patched flaws are harmless.
Where you got that idea from I do not know.
In context, do you expect "two patched flaws show up in foo". The headline insinuated the flaws are new (to "show up"), if they had been patched surely it is a logical conclusion to say that the flaws have previously been discovered. Even if a patch fails to fix a known exploit, is it not reasonable to say the flaws are still unpatched?
Saying the flaw was "unpatched" was done for effect and is entirely redundant.
You may have thousands or millions of vulnerable systems for months, and some people just never patch at all.
But this still does not make a "patched flaw", it makes it a flaw for which a patch exists.
Its just a matter of time before some images of children from these perv-scanners end up on some pedos computer.
Does anyone know just how many convictions there are per year for possession of child porn? I dont want to Google it at work.
I dont think that images like this will end up as child porn mainly because those who do want child porn have other means to access it.
Secondly, going after the users of porn is ineffective as they typically aren't the ones who are paedophiles. Paedophiles need to have three characteristics in order to become dangerous.
1. Access to children - given, I dont need to explain why.
2. Trusted by children - The reason actual paedophilia is so hard to nail a conviction for is because it was coerced rather then forced. This means the child more often then not had a connection to the offender.
3. Position of authority - This is how the paedophile manages to coerces their victims. The victim more often then not feel obliged to do as the attacker says.
Give people who have child porn a fine, give people who distribute it jail but spend most of your time hunting those who actually hurt children but then again this would require going up against a very powerful and moral organisation in the western world and no politician in the world really wants justify that fight. Easier just to blame the teachers (who are actually screened and monitored) or strange man who works at the local council (perceived strange, most of them are just shy/socially handicapped) meanwhile the majority of the issue remains and is ignored.
Bit off topic, but I find the witch hunt over pictures is not helping the actual problem.
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If you think these things are isolated to flash you are either delusional or retarded.
What you describe are the symptoms of bad development, not a bad framework. Take any framework, apply bad development and you'll get a crappy product.
I've used flash on my Android phone and it's fine. It's a little slow loading video over 3G but that's mainly due to a crappy HSPA network and the associated high latency. Once loaded games and video's were quite responsive and didn't drain my battery any faster then using the built in video player.
Rant all you like, but ultimately you're doing nothing to fix the problem, if you kill flash all the bad development will move the next closest thing.
Wifi would be ridiculously cheap. Even in Australia a coffee shop can easily run on a DSL plan. If you cant recoup A$80 in a month your business model has bigger problems.
Here you make a very good point, rent, power, heating/cooling cost a bit but getting rid of Wifi wont help. This is a social problem so you'll have to deal with it socially. You need to make it clear that they need to purchase more drinks/food or shove off. Give them the subtle hint by sending a waitress over to take their order and if that doesn't work be a manager and kick them out, its not like you're losing a valued customer.
Personally I've been guilty of buying one cup of tea and using a coffee shops wireless for 45 minutes. I've done this a few times but always when I've been 1000's of KM's from home and have no idea where a cyber is and need to access bank, email and so forth. If there is one connections you can count on almost anywhere in the civilised world is that you can get Wifi at any self respecting coffee shop. If this changes it will be at the coffee shops peril.
I've also changed my MAC address to get around the 2 hour limit at KLIA LCCT (airport). The starbucks Wifi was free but they were playing the world cup and I wanted to get as far away from the Vuvuzela as possible.
Bad excuse, bad action.
They aren't going to stop making bombs if it by some miracle becomes impossible to detonate them by phone. If India wants to stop terror attacks it needs to look for the source of the attacks (the leadership and the underlying reason) and neutralise them. Banning phones will just make them use wrist watches as timers or CB/HAM radio's or some guy with a long bit of string. Will India ban the sale of string? Meanwhile India turns into the oppressive state the terrorists complain about, whilst the average Indian suffers more under the state then from the terrorists. In the end, the terrorists win and barely had to lift a finger
And I like Indians, for the most part they are kind, friendly and humble people (obviously not the telemarketers, but they are working under the direction of foreign companies anyway).
How unsporting of you good sir,
Build your own drone and send it up there to engage in manly drone to drone combat.
I'm not the one with this problem. I've stated that the price is not fixed.
I know that if I buy anything from Apple, it's not the final thing I'll end up paying for. The entire system is designed to ensure you keep paying Apple in one way or another (ITMS lock-in, Recessed headphone jacks, no buttons on Ipod Shuffles to lock you into Apple's overpriced earbuds).
Total cost of owning a 16 GB Cowon iAudio7 A$169. Initial cost of buying a 16 GB Ipod A$250, plus I have to pay extra for an additional cord, not that I can use it with my Linux lappy or media centre. Extra costs are what one expects with Apple and no amount of whining will change that.
Further more, labelling people who disagree with you as "haters" only serves to make your own point less valid as this fails to actually contradict any of my point. Please keep it up.
Detuning (changing the antenna's electrical length) is completely different from interference (from other sources of EM radiation like your hand).
All phones have a minimal issue with the interference. This is something you plan to mitigate because there is no solution for it.
The Iphone is the only phone that de-tunes, This is something you can completely eliminate by covering the antenna with a non-conductive substance.
Steve Jobs: Ahhh, Mark, thank you for coming.
Mark Papermaster: (gulps) you wanted to see me Steve.
SJ: You know about this Antenna issue.
MP: I hear they've dubbed it "Antennagate".
SJ: (Clenches, Grits teeth) Well we've been working on a solution.
MP: If we just put a tiny bit of plastic around it, we'd eliminate the majority of the problem.
MP: We'd still have excellent reception and eliminate this whole "death grip" thing
SJ: (kicks small kitten) No Mark, I've got a better solution.
MP: (backs away slowly) Umm... Sure Steve.
SJ: You see Mark, I'll fix the problem by ELIMINATING YOU.
MP: You know this wont actually fix the problem.
SJ: SILENCE, minions, take him away.
Anyone who "adores" Steve Jobs wasn't around back in the beginning, isn't aware of the arrogance and bungling the man exhibits to this day.
Not much has changed in the intervening 25 odd years.
It's pretty clear that Papermaster was thrown under a bus to save face for Apple. More and more parallels between the demise of Apple Computers in the 80's and the current actions of Apple Inc, sacking of engineers, form becoming more important then function, litigation over competition. The HTC suit over spurious patents is the new "look and feel" suit and the Ipad may soon turn out to be the new Lisa.
I dont have many kind things to say about everyone's favourite monopoly but Microsoft has done two things that relate to this situation. When MS's makes a mistake, they fix it and show people that it's been fixed (Vista to 7) rather than sake people and ignore the problem and they've weathered the boom/bust cycle that the IT industry seems to go through quite well. Apple is currently in the middle of a boom, as always this is leading up to a bust of the same magnitude, I just hope we aren't dependent on Apple when the iBust happens.
Or that their games aren't worth what they are asking for them. World of Goo, I will not call crap but is barely above the sophistication of some Flash games. But it sells for $20, which gets translated into A$40 (somehow, with the AUD fetching around 0.9 USD). For comparison I purchased ARMA II Operation Arrowhead for A$45. I regularly buy the $10 special from Impulse which normally comes down to about A$12-14 on the exch rate. For the most part these are old games that get marked down but more than a few are indie games.
Price more then anything else is hurting their sales. Whining about piracy gets you marked off my approved supplier list as well.
He's not buying into the consumer mindset, he's a particularly tragic fanboy which makes him an idiot for an entirely different set of reasons.
Anyone who has had any exposure to Apple knows that the advertised shelf price is not the final price you'll end up paying. Heck, the same is true for Dell and Lenovo (adding warranties, extra RAM, acessories and so forth) except that they do display the final price before purchasing.
Hahahahahahaha.
Nice, you do know that most developers dont even make back the US$99 per year they have to spend just for the chance to get their application listed.
Fewer even actually make a profit after their time is considered.
The only money in it is hiring out services to people who will pay you to make an application no one will buy.
My prediction on the most profitable mobile application, Swype. Why? a good business model, get in at the manufacturer level and get your application pre-installed on several million Samsung Galaxy S's.
Are you high today?
You must me new here.
Anyway, welcome to SlashSun, the internets favourite tabloid. Next week we'll be having a story from one of the Queens corgi's about how aliens were mind controlling Princess Di's driver on behalf of Camilla so they could breed the worlds ugliest royal/alien hybrid.
the bits that contradict the other bits tend to make it difficult to be an infalible document.
Hahahahahaha.
Thanks, I haven't had a laugh like that in ages. True faith is about maintaining a belief no matter what tests it, so if your belief flies in the face of fact, true faith means you choose the belief over the contradicting fact.
You have some hard evidence of this. Something verifiable?
The Bible was written 300 years after Christ's death and was revised several times to suit the needs of the leadership. We ended up with Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans, Baptists, Russian Orthodox and other churches because they believe in slightly different bibles then each other. A verifiable, incontrovertible fact like the one you describe would not permit this, let alone the other Abrahamic religions which do not view Christ as the saviour.
Actually I cant make a judgement on that, because you haven't presented any evidence.
There is no evidence of an afterlife.
Thinking about it scientifically, lack of evidence is not evidence of lacking so we can conclude that an afterlife is possible but so extremely improbable that saying their is no afterlife is fairly accurate.
Besides, who's afterlife do we believe in. Christian, Jewish, Muslim? What about Hinduism and Buddhism (reincarnation religions)? They cant all be true (my immortal soul cant go to heaven and be reborn into a lesser or greater creature).
I dont know why you consider this absurd. Playing a game of Civ where the Indian civilisation violently conquers North American civilisations is the very definition of "alternate history".
You've played Civ before, right?
Well 3 Million people including myself agree with you. 3 Million copies sold in 3 years (release 2005, 3 million mark 2008) is far from a failure when most games fail to break 1 million and are considered great successes.
I dont like the idea that stacks are gone. There has to be a better way to deal with the old Stack of Doom then getting rid of them entirely.
Silly EU.
In Australia I can have my numbers ported within an afternoon and that's only because the phone co. makes you wait that long for a bloody credit check (I have no debts, why must I be punished), well unless it's converting a Class C (ISDN) line to VOIP, in which case Hellstra will make you wait two weeks.
Which was my point,
I think these idiots becoming more prevalent for young people today has caused an uptick in the number of people taking martial arts classes. I know this is anecdotal but the gym I go to has seen an increase in enrolment for martial arts (mostly defensive) in the last few years.
The problem with limited vigilantism is that it never stays limited.
With Police forces they have (are meant to have) strict limitations on their power. With Vigilantes they often dont know when to stop. A vigilante is just a gang that people agree with, there is no governance or moderation in their actions.
Yep, we also dont have heavily armed gang wars in Australia.
UFC on the TV has lead to an increase in idiots that think they're tough and can fight when they're drinking. More people taking MMA and other martial arts classes has resulted in more of these idiots getting their arse handed to them. We've got a bit of a violence problem in the nightlife area's in Australia (mostly fist fights, the odd glassing but no deaths), I think that is what has prompted more people to take self defence lessons.
Same at my gym, but the people who cause problems in nightlife areas dont frequent gyms. When I'm Phuket at the bars in two weeks I always see one Bogan, Chav or Redneck start something with a local, then it's on for young and old. I've never quite seen something like a 6 ft tall white guy get his arse handed to him by 10 5 ft Thai girls and they dont stop kicking when you're on the floor either. There is always some who will get dragged away to hospital because they couldn't handle their booze.
But America has problems with violence we dont. In Australia a fight is something that kids do behind the bike shed for trivial reasons, most grow out of it by the age of 20 (OK 25). However in America violence is often seen as a solution.
Which was the point of my post. Go after them first.
You dont try to extinguish the flames of a fire, you aim at the base of the fire.
You didn't read the parts where I said we shouldn't be going on which hunts in my post then.
Did you even bother to read my post, or did you just make up your own conclusions. My post is about how current "Think of the Children" efforts are being wasted on witch hunts over pictures and how no-one wants to stand up to the real problem because of the powerful organisation (the church) they'd have to piss off in the process.
The majority of actual child sex attacks (and I dont mean a 17 yr old having consensual sex with a 15 yr old) are committed by someone close to the victim who has significant power over the victim. But getting a frightened child to testify against a family member or trusted confidant like a priest is very hard thing to do. So it's easier for law enforcement agencies to find pictures and make news statements on how they stopped this dangerous paedophile.
Hey I agree, but attacking from the CP angle is not the solution.
Also I couldn't agree more.
Context are far more important then content or medium. A sexual scene used in context in a story is different to one produced entirely for the purpose of titillation.
But that wont happen because the scanners are protecting you from the terrorists(TM), in fact they'll spin it into the need for more surveillance or invasion of privacy. Get rid of the fear of terrorists and you'll be half way to fixing the problem.
Where you got that idea from I do not know.
In context, do you expect "two patched flaws show up in foo". The headline insinuated the flaws are new (to "show up"), if they had been patched surely it is a logical conclusion to say that the flaws have previously been discovered. Even if a patch fails to fix a known exploit, is it not reasonable to say the flaws are still unpatched?
Saying the flaw was "unpatched" was done for effect and is entirely redundant.
But this still does not make a "patched flaw", it makes it a flaw for which a patch exists.
Does anyone know just how many convictions there are per year for possession of child porn? I dont want to Google it at work.
I dont think that images like this will end up as child porn mainly because those who do want child porn have other means to access it.
Secondly, going after the users of porn is ineffective as they typically aren't the ones who are paedophiles. Paedophiles need to have three characteristics in order to become dangerous.
1. Access to children - given, I dont need to explain why.
2. Trusted by children - The reason actual paedophilia is so hard to nail a conviction for is because it was coerced rather then forced. This means the child more often then not had a connection to the offender.
3. Position of authority - This is how the paedophile manages to coerces their victims. The victim more often then not feel obliged to do as the attacker says.
Give people who have child porn a fine, give people who distribute it jail but spend most of your time hunting those who actually hurt children but then again this would require going up against a very powerful and moral organisation in the western world and no politician in the world really wants justify that fight. Easier just to blame the teachers (who are actually screened and monitored) or strange man who works at the local council (perceived strange, most of them are just shy/socially handicapped) meanwhile the majority of the issue remains and is ignored.
Bit off topic, but I find the witch hunt over pictures is not helping the actual problem.
I initially read that as GOREwell and though, what does Al got to do with this.