Okay - I'd go for a HD adaptor, or ethernet PCMCIA card, but really It'll only take hours, not days over RS232. Even at a paltry 19200 bits per second we're looking at 18.5 hours or so. If it can manage the dizzy heights of 57600 or even 115200, then that will be down to a little over 6 or even 3 hours.

I wonder what the economic cost is of an illegal immigrant. Should probably include the economic benefit in that calculation as well, but even if we ignore it, is it as high as $28,000?

Ignoring your users and doing what you want is not a good way to run a business. Digg tried doing that. Remember Digg?

And why do you keep the 1c coin around?

Good question. But I think that this is about rights other than freedom of speech that also need to be considered. I have the right to freedom of speech, privacy and to not be harassed. Is your freedom of speech more iportant than my privacy or freedom from harassment?

It's not an easy question to answer, and shouldn't be because there are so many factors, and it differens on a case by case basis.

I take my stand on the proposition that the publication of nude and/or sexually explicit photographs without the consent of the subject is a form of rape.

And I take my stand that this is a vile statement that devalues actual rape.

This not art. This is not speech.

Who is to define what is and isn't art and speech? You? Me?

This is humiliation. This is malice. This is revenge. This is greed. This is crime. Revenge porn

Then call it these things. Stop trying to make it something it isn't, and admit you consider stopping these to be much more important than freedom of speech.

Free speech cannot survive in an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Free speech has to mean something more than the adolescent's desire for instant sexual self-gratification.

No it can't. It also can't survive in a world of arbitrary rules about what is and isn't "fee speech". However, the adolescent's desire for instant self gratification is perfectly legitimate.

I am sick and tired of the geek playing the censorship card when anyone asks him to behave like an adult.

But people are advocating censorship, and narrowing what freedom of speech is in order to rationalise it as something other than censorship!

It is a free speech issue!

Free speech is not limited to the first amendment. Reddit offers a degree of freedom of speech. For a discussion forum, this is seen as a good thing. Now they are offering less freedom of speech. Whether this is a good thing or not is (from a users perspective) a question of the importance of freedom of speech in a forum balanced against the importance of privacy, and from a business perspective a question of balance of the expectation of the users for freedom fo speech against the public perception.

Freedom of speech is not limited to government.

But I asked a magic 8-ball if it was a good idea and it said "Without a doubt". Who am I to argue with science?

Those are important roles, but not those of a guru. A guru is a master and a teacher. We don't learn anything except the highly specific from an architect of a scientist. A guru teaches us all we need to know about a domain so that we may teach ourselves.

You'll get an occasional "Guru" - that is an expert in a specific field, who is recognised for their in-depth knowledge an decades of experience, in a very specific field. People like Bruce Schneier and John Carmack.

I do agree that it's still a silly term.

Yes, the US is well behaved, as far as these things go, mapping the mines, making them auto-deactivate and detectable. But the problem is, the US is seen as a beacon of morality. Maybe less so than it used to be, but the rest of the world still has fairly high expectations. If the US is using landmines, other countries can us this as a moral justification to do the same.

The US doesn't need to use them in Korea. They can cede responsibilities for those to South Korea. Pointing to what South Korea does is a far less compelling moral argument.

However, on the matter of Korea, the proposed alternative is autonomous guns. Unlike mines, these things don't hide, so, at the very least, we know if all of them are accounted for. But these could be banned by an overly broad anti-robot rule.

Am a great fan of gesture based navigation. Right click + up for new tab, L-shape for close tab left/right for back and forward.

Yes. If I send a packet of heroin using FedEx then the FedEx driver is innocent unless he has some way of knowing what's in the package.

Your wife is surely not the only parent who has siezures.

Surely there's more comprehensive advice available from organisation that actually know the first thing about this than Slashdot.

It's not that I "don't understand". It's that I think it's bullshit!

I just previously assumed that it was the developer/journalism clique using feminism as a shield. Yes, there's a feminist clique that thinks they're gamers. Yes, there's a chunk of the clique that follows third wave feminism. To most feminists, gaming is a fringe hobby. To most gamers, feminism is an unimportant political position. The majority on both are neutral on the other aspect.

You have accepted their narrative, and conflated them. Youv'e managed to unite your opponents.

Well done, you fucking morons!