manifoldronin - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Uhh, yes it does... (Score 2, Insightful) 933

by manifoldronin on Monday December 29, 2008 @04:57PM (#26261491) Attached to: The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn

Nice to see people still miss the point. Whether you care to admit it or not, it's not normal to wank off to pics of underaged people. I personally lost interest in that more or less immediately upon turning 18.

Do you realize that "normal" is a very, very subjective word? There are people in this world who consider it not normal having sex during day time.

(Disclaimer: no, I don't find it normal to wank off to pics of underaged people either, but that's beside the point.)

The argument you're making is that because there isn't direct damage that it isn't causing damage. It's a bad argument, basically it would be OK to view and look at child pr0n as long as you didn't make or produce it. Encouraging it by giving the sites hits or trading other people's images would OK, because of course that person trading the images didn't make them.

What about viewing an online video depicting a man being beheaded or any other act that in and of itself is illegal to commit?

I'm not really sure what about that isn't clear.

What isn't clear is where does it end.

Journal Journal: Gonzales defends Bush's revised domestic spying

Journal by Anonymous McCartneyf on Thursday January 18, 2007 @07:22PM

The Senate interrogated Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over why the warrantless wiretapping program didn't end sooner. Gonzales did his best to avoid giving any answers. He also refused to tell the Senate any details of this just-discontinued (we hope) program because all those details are classified. Ouch! http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070118/pl_nm/surveillance_bush_dc

Submission + - China Tests Anti-Satellite Ballistic Missile

Submitted by Vicissidude on Thursday January 18, 2007 @06:55PM

Vicissidude writes: US intelligence agencies believe China performed a successful anti-satellite weapons test at more than 500 miles altitude January 11th, destroying an aging Chinese weather satellite target with a kinetic kill vehicle launched on board a ballistic missile. The United States, Australia, and Canada have criticised China over the test. Neither the Office of the US Secretary of Defense nor Air Force Space Command would comment on the attack, which followed by several months the alleged illumination of a US military spacecraft by a Chinese ground based laser.

Submission + - Anatomy of pump'n'dump SPAM

Submitted by giorgiofr on Thursday January 18, 2007 @06:54PM

giorgiofr writes: Laura Frieder and Jonathan Zittrain have analized pump'n'dump spam activity in their paper "Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity". Unbelievably, it appears that spammers are able to achieve a 5% gain on pumped stock before dumping it, along with a dramatic increase in transaction volume of the stock. Paper summary, full paper.

Submission + - DIY Airsoft Turret Shoots 1500-rounds Per Minute

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday January 18, 2007 @06:13PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "InventGeek has created a nifty USB or R/C controlled Airsoft Turret gun thats capable of shooting up to 1500 rounds per minute. Instructions."

Submission + - Terror suspect to be trialed by coerced testimony

Submitted by on Thursday January 18, 2007 @05:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: From Sydney Morning Herald, it seems that the "US Defence Department has drafted a manual for trying detainees at the Guantanamo Bay jail that would allow terror suspects to be imprisoned, convicted and executed on the basis of hearsay evidence or coerced testimony". Is this the way democracy should work? Isn't it hypocritical?

Submission + - Dell Loses Market Share and Customer Ratings

Submitted by ack154 on Thursday January 18, 2007 @05:11PM

ack154 writes: Recent articles are showing that Dell has recently lost not only market share to HP but also has fallen in customer satisfaction. ArsTechnica reports that Dell marketshare is down about 2.5% from a year ago to 13.9%, while HP has increased it's position as the #1 PC maker, up about 2.4% from a year ago to 17.4%. Dell is also not looking too good on the customer front, falling from a score of 79 on the ACSI (American Customer Satisfaction Index) a year ago to a 74 for this last year. Apple on the otherhand leads the ACSI with a score of 81, compared to an industry average of 74.

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