Petapixel is reporting on her copyright infringement. As such they have a thumbnail screen shot of her site as proof. That thumbnail includes her logo, just barely readable. This woman needs to go back to law school and look up "fair use" and the difference between copyrights and trademarks. Next thing you know, she will be claiming copyright infringement for publishing her DMCA letter. If she really is practicing law then she ought to be disbarred for her behavior.

More information here: GoDaddy took down the entire account because she was a repeat offender, and this is their policy. Evidenced by the comment by Troy Heagy in the petapixel discussion.

There is an easy reliable technological solution to this that has been around for 10 years, but no one uses it. There is a W3C standard for labeling pages as containing porn, violence, etc. Internet Explorer had support for blocking pages based on this as far back as IE5. But no one put the meta tags in and so the filters never worked. All Wikipedia should do is have contributors properly label the media, and allow the browsers to handle it based on the user's preferences.

That doesn't work if there is socialized medicine. It becomes part of your business because you are paying a portion of their health care. The problem is that we have some people who want social safety nets like socialized medicine or an uninsured driver fund, or free public hospitals; and some people who want individual rights. The two systems collide. So long as we have social safety nets, we will have "nanny state" regulation to go with it.

Since we now have a national health-care program, this type of legislation is just beginning. Maybe we just need an "opt-out" option.

No, that isn't dithering. LCDs can vary the brightness of those individual pixels. So the red pixel can be at 50% power for example. Whereas a printer cannot vary the intensity of a drop of ink - it is either there, or not there. So to get 50% intensity it must use at least two pixels, which is dithering.

Today, radiation is a scary mystical thing, partially because people don't realize how common it is. Perhaps by having these detectors everywhere people will learn that radiation isn't the frighteningly scary thing that the media tells them it is. They will start measuring radiation everywhere: their friends, them selves, their electronics, the air, the soil, the rain, their mom's Fiestaware, their Grandma's Depression Glass. And they will start to see statistics and patterns. When they don't suddenly combust they might start looking at the numbers their detector gives them and start thinking: "Okay, the phone made lots of beeps and displayed a frowny-face: so what does that *really mean*?"

I imagine lots of people were scared by A/C power when Thomas Edison was electrocuting animals with it. But today it is all around us, and people are not scared of walking under power lines or going into their own homes. This may have the same effect.

Actually, printers are 1200 dpi because they need to dither. You can print a perfect photo at 150 - 300 dpi if you don't dither. (Like dye-sub printers do).

In their defense, I must point out that the Queen of England writes terrible VBScript code. It probably is still being reviewed. If she wants to postpone a national holiday, she needs to get her changes committed at least 2 weeks prior to the hotfix release date.

Be careful with that line of thinking. Shorter people also make less money for the same work. But affirmative action doesn't protect short people. Don't oversimplify the issue: affirmative action does not exist to make sure that everyone gets the same pay no matter what.

The whole system of "veteran-owned" and "women-owned" businesses getting special privileges is a farce. I know of some companies that appoint veterans to certain positions just so they can be veteran owned. Or the veteran may have nothing to do with the company any longer. I know a company that is "woman-owned" because the owner put his wife on the board so he could get special privileges when bidding on government contracts.