So I recommend those annoyed by this game to play those instead.

The sad part is that this is actually not protecting the children, but doing the opposite. It adds drama and makes sex taboo, for children in the early teens that (especially them!) need to learn that sex is supposed to be fun, playful, but responsible. Not dramatic and scary.

Shit like this serves to make sex something big and horrible and doesn't exactly help against a healthy and relaxed stance about it. We today face numerous problems exactly because of this. Wouldn't it be amazing if we let kids see sex in their early teens for what it was, right there in school, where the teacher taught about how silicon implants and various acts in common porn wasn't connected to reality? Because today -- they still see that. From the same age and all. Just without the commentary from adults. Because we think making it forbidden is better, and will lead to less child pregnancies and angst over their bodies. We couldn't be more wrong...

How do this hurt Microsoft? Because parents regularly play some sort of "guilt by association" game with them? "Oh, there's a porn game out for this console -- well I refuse to buy little Timmy a PORN CONSOLE!!!" Are we that stupid as a species? Or is it because Microsoft want to preserve an untainted image because Internet Explorer has all these times not been a PORN BROWSER where we can get to porn sites, and which is helping daily to fund the porn indus... Oh wait.

Or is it kind of like this: "OK, we're adults here. And we don't think other adults should be allowed to use this console how they want. That's not why we built this thing. We want content that children can play, and we refuse to license stuff that can be used after their bedtime. Why? Well, we have absolute no fucking clue why this is so ridiculously important, but we have to play by society's rules."

In any case, something is stupid here. We can't get away from the fact that we're stupid. Private companies parenting children. Jeez.

I'm not whining just because this is Microsoft. Most of what I've said above can be applied to Apple and iOS too.

This is so ingrained in society that typing a sentence like this: "Let's just pretend that those 13+ kids don't want to cum, and won't find ways to cum anyway" makes me feel dirty and like a horrible pedophile. Despite myself being exactly like that in that approximate age. And all friends I have talked about this with. I'm going off on a tangent here, but that doesn't help our kids either. Better make sex not be something dirty and forbidden. It'll help against child pregnancies because we take out the drama.

Sex isn't supposed to be dangerous and dramatic. Quite the opposite.

Since this is about porn, I guess amateur porn will keep killing the industry. And I'm not complaining.

I agree! *Precisely* because this is so impressive, will it also see many complaints about bad translations and so on. The better an application is, and the more hyped it is as a consequence, the more complaints will it see due to expectations so high that they are even impossible to meet given today's technology.

I also agree that the translations offered will probably not be the best, but so aren't the Google Translations either, with their online huge database of statistics on how to translate words. And this app isn't even online. But... It can definitely be useful on especially signs. Perhaps restaurant menus too, although that could start to make it unreliable.

And let's admit it -- most of us here wouldn't be able to write an as immediate and accurate image processing algorithm like this.

I had great success in finding her mammaries and vagina via the search box!

Her vagina is there - check!

Liberties are *always* taken away if not constantly fought for! Regardless country.

Guess what the French revolution was all about?

This reminds me of one thing: Why are posts tagged? Can we include posts based on tags? Exclude posts based on tags?
I never actually realized why we have them, but posts keep getting tagged. *shrug*

If we can exclude posts on tags, I'm pretty sure filtering out everything "wikileaks" would work here.

First taking down hosting for Wikileaks despite not being charged with anything just because they feel like it'd be fun, and then this, also just because they feel like doing it. Like Wikileaks, the books are again not illegal, and I suspect many readers thought we were over book burning. This is even worse - taking the books out of the hand of their readers having purchased them, and *then* burning them. It's getting pretty hard here to not fall into that Godwin hole.

Was Amazon seeing a lot of bad press over openly offering books to read, or what?

Why haven't MS developed a touch-based shell for Windows 7? They could sell it as Windows 7 Tablet Edition. Yay, they'd get a new product to sell, too!

I've used Windows 7 as a touch OS, and I can tell you it's no pleasant experience. You know the virtual keyboard that iOS and Android pops up as you give a text box focus? Yeah. Windows 7 doesn't support that. It has a virtual keyboard, but you can only click to open it manually. Click to open it. Every time you want to type. Oh, and the dpi setting support to make things easier to point and click at? Well, Windows applications don't use to have good dpi setting support. Their GUI's will break, or simply ignore the setting, and keep using small fonts. And what about window management? Clicking at window borders to resize them, to give room for... Wait a minute -- why do you have to window manage at all? That was taken out of iOS and Android, for a reason.

There are a dozen more reasons it'll make your skin crawl. It's an as poor OS for tablets, as Windows Mobile 6.5 is for mobile devices. It's as if Microsoft didn't learn! Why hasn't Ballmer learnt? Why is he so stubborn. It's his job to understand these things, and lead his company in the right direction! Windows 7 Tablet Edition should have been developed *along with Windows 7* itself! Because even back then, after Windows Vista, did visionaries in the tech industry see this as becoming huge in the future. But no -- MS seem to be willing to repeat their Windows Mobile mistake again. Trying to shoe-horn an OS design in a form factor and a human/computer interface it was never intended for.

I agree that "Wikileaks defectors" isn't very precise.
There's an interview with a named Wikileaks ex-member here though:

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/12/09/how-openleaks-the-first-wikileaks-spinoff-will-work/

Will it have USB support? I'm not sure if Google told anything about that? Even if I won't store anything on my computer (I know that's not something this OS is aimed for), I still need to store photos on Flickr and docs on Google Docs. I sure hope you can plug in an USB stick, or an external hard drive via USB, and get access to its files in some sort of file manager? Otherwise it's horrible -- you'd need to use another computer just to get stuff from your mobile phone, etc.

Also, I doubt Apple will ever support iPhone syncing with this thing, since it doesn't have iTunes for the web. I know Google don't care much for Apple, but that could be a bad thing for Google. Remember that purchases on iTunes would then be out too, and this is a hugely popular store. And Spotify is super-popular in Europe as a music service, and they don't have any web client, or any announced plans to release one. It's things like these, Google...

He claims that Android is for the smaller formats, and Chrome OS for the netbooks. It's funny if this is Google's goal, since the netbooks use to have much more flexibility in offering better hardware and performance, not being tied to a small form factor, and then give it the OS that offer only a subset of Android's functionality. Android offers a full OS running native applications, along with the Chrone web browser -- where the latter is the *only* thing Chrome OS offers.

I always found this aspect of Google's new operating systems weird. If Google were serious about Chrome OS, shouldn't that one have been aimed for the phones and tablets, with Android for the netbooks? Chrome OS is at least the OS that does less, and is more simple to the end user. It can basically only run a web browser (and all underlying stuff that's necessary to run that web browser compiled for Linux, of course).

Since it's already released. It's already been revealed at least in Swedish news, that part of the encrypted "insurance" file that's been distributed via BT, is the *full* cablegate archive -- remember that by far most haven't been released yet, at least not to non-news organizations. And that's part of that file, and then some unknown stuff too. So if anything would happen to these guys that would piss them off enough, they'd just release the keys and boom, thousands of users would have this data.